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wolfy42 posted...

On the other side it would make sense for the kryptonians to be better fighters in many ways since they actually fought other people their own strength all the time, while superman literally has to pull his punches and not even try for most fights.

Yeah, but they'd have the opposite problem - they're used to fighting without powers, so they have no clue how to compensate for them.

Like, you go to pick up a glass of water and it instantly shatters from the force of your grip. You go to open a door and rip it clean off its hinges. You think you're punching hard enough to knock someone out, but now you've punched clean through their head (and your arm is stuck in the mess). You go to jump over an obstacle, and accidentally leap 400 feet in the air. You constantly feel off-balance from the different gravity, but when you throw your weight to compensate, you flip yourself sidewise into a wall (which then smashes the building and it falls on you).

Basically, imagine playing an FPS until you're really good, and then someone comes in and completely screws with the mouse/controller sensitivity. You'd spend a fair amount of time just panic jerking your gun around and missing pretty much everything because you lack the instincts necessary to know how much physical movement translates into movement in-game. You'd need to readjust. And if you played the game long enough before the change (really locking it in to your muscle memory), you might never be able to fully reach the same level of skill you had before.

For the first few months (if not years) on Earth, Kryptonians should pretty much look like slapstick comedy characters constantly falling over and messing up even the simplest of tasks. Until they adjust, they'd be inept as fuck.

Superman mostly avoids this because he both only develops his powers slowly (in some versions of the character) or learns to adjust right from birth, but also because he's had literal decades to fine-tune his control.