Superman' s Invulnerability

[Permanus]

I remember that: Shrinking Violet had to escape through Superboy's tear ducts (look, they had to find an acceptable orifice), so he thought about Jor-El and Lara to make himself cry. I was about eight when I first read this, and thought it was the most moving passage in Western literature.

That story does seem to establish that Superman is invulnerable, and indeed super, right down to the last molecule. Hey, if Ray Palmer wanted to investigate, he'd probably find out that Superman is super right down to his atomic structure. His body is probably dense enough that his atoms are so close together that even Dr. Palmer couldn't slip between them. Superman is completely solid!

As for why the LSH had kryptonite to hand... Maybe they stockpiled it when they sent Ultraboy to spy on Clark, knowing that it was likely to cheese him off?

[Super Monkey]

They kept it just in case one of those villainous Kryptonians made it to the future.

[nightwing]

As long as we're on the subject of invulnerability and kryptonite, I was wondering...

It seems to me everything and everyone from Krypton is invulnerable except for Kryptonite, which over the years has been pulverized, liquified, atomized into a sprayable gas, cut into jewelry and bullets and all sorts of other things by various Earth-dwellers.

Why is it, then, that Kryptonite doesn't possess the same properties of super-toughness that everything else from Krypton does?

[Super Monkey]

As long as we're on the subject of invulnerability and kryptonite, I was wondering...

It seems to me everything and everyone from Krypton is invulnerable except for Kryptonite, which over the years has been pulverized, liquified, atomized into a sprayable gas, cut into jewelry and bullets and all sorts of other things by various Earth-dwellers.

Why is it, then, that Kryptonite doesn't possess the same properties of super-toughness that everything else from Krypton does?

I believe that whatever made it turn into Kryptonite, changed it's properties so much that it lost its invulnerability. Kryptonite didn't exist on Krypton, it was just rock that was changed into Kryptonite when Krypton exploded and thus changing its properties into deadly Kryptonite, this process also no longer made it invulnerable.

[Just a fan]

point to pomder, would a human be able to eat food or drink water that came from Krypton? if so how would they chew, swallow and digest it?

[Super Monkey]

point to pomder, would a human be able to eat food or drink water that came from Krypton? if so how would they chew, swallow and digest it?

They couldn't unless they took with them to a planet with a non yellow sun.

[nightwing]

Personally I think you'd be nuts to eat or drink things from another planet.

I remember watching Star Trek and every time Kirk accepted a drink from some alien he never met on a planet he just found, I thought, "shouldn't Spock scan that with the tricorder before you ingest it?"  But no, with Kirk it was always, "Hi, nice to meet you, bottoms up!"

The same philosophy applied to all the females he met, too.  :lol:

[Uncle Mxy]

This does raise a disturbing question by itself, though: apparently the Legionnaires keep some small amounts of Kryptonite on hand. Hmmm...?

How else would they have made Mon-El's anti-lead serum?