In literature, mythology, and comic books, heroes often have a “kryptonite” or “Achilles’s heel”, basically a weakness that makes them vulnerable. I’m curious, what would be considered Superman’s “kryptonite”?
Reminds of when Barney on How I Met Your Mother was trying to remember the holy grail of cups
Childhood trauma
Same
Per Glen Weldon in his book Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, kryptonite representing the destructive force of nostalgia and survivor’s guilt, reminding us that clinging to the past can undermine the present.
Siegel and Shuster had created the Man of Steel as the ultimate immigrant, the personification of the promise America represented to them. His abilities are metaphors for limitless potential and opportunity, for new horizons stretching out before us: the American Way.
It seems fitting, then, that the only thing capable of harming him would be a reminder of the Old World he left behind, a past that is irrevocably gone. Only the past—our past—can hurt us.
To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor’s guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we’ve lost, we can kill what we have.Superman’s Kryptonite is that he can never, ever be fed after midnight!
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Literally kryptonite. Particularly the green kind.
I think you mean “figuratively”
Superman’s kryptonite is the fact that he is popular and everyone thinks the character would make great media, but the character is way too overpowered to write good plots for.
Oh, that and actual Kyrptonite.
Zack Snyder.
he needs a telephone booth to change?
Change?
pretty much take off his glasses and spin, looks like.
https://www.supermanhomepage.com/other/other.php?topic=phonebooth
Isn’t that spider hyphen man
No it’s dr who
Undress.
This isn’t gonewild sorry
Obviously loss of glasses, making him recognizable in civilian life.
Superman doesn’t wear glasses tho
Yeah, what a dumb thing to say. He’s super, he’d never wear glasses.
Running out of hair gel is a big weakness though
Contacts. Super contacts.
Sure, he at least has the contact info of Green Lantern I think, maybe Wonder Woman
I’m like 99% sure that he is afraid of bald people. Whenever the reoccurring token bald guy shows up he gets really scared. He could just be afraid of robots, I remember he was afraid of batman’s robots too, I don’t believe batman is bald, but I’ve never seen batman without his suit. Superman has X-ray vision though, and I’m not sure he can turn that off so maybe he is afraid of batman because he is bald and not because he is afraid of robots.
Robots and bald people, final answer.
His ultimate weakness: bald robots
Dats a shitpost alright
He’s super pee-shy, can we use that against him?
Superpeeshyman
Solid JJ the only real answer to this shit post
I’m pretty sure it’s magic.
Psychic abilities too.
yep, which is why a lot of the magic team ups in DC start with superman getting owned.
Superman’s kryptonite is interesting writing
As a life long Superman fan with like 4 notably good Superman stories to read in his 87 year history. Fuck you… but yes.
I wouldn’t know, I haven’t seen smallville
