Comments on: To Kill the Man of Steel

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:22:23 +0000

Silver Age continuity was eaten by the Anti-Monitor as part of Crisis on Multiple Earths, so those methods would not work with the post-Infinite Crisis Superman.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sun, 01 May 2005 04:24:26 +0000

It’s always been the case that Superman could be physically injured or even killed by another Kryptonian being – e.g. escaped Phantom Zone villain, or a maddened Krypto or another Kryptonian animal. But it wasn’t going going to be easy, since though Superman wasn’t a top martial artist, pre-Crisis even apart from the powers he was also a very skilled (boxer class) hand-to-hand fighter. Doomsday was a case where the story was written so Superman didn’t win the physical fight.

By: Jer

Jer — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:45:27 +0000

I’ll bet that Kryptonians under a yellow sun are immune to normal Earth cholesterol buildup. But Kryptonian “Cholesterol X” probably builds up in their arteries in mere moments to kill them.

(Probably only comes from special Kryptonian beef too. Those darn Kryptonian Super-Cows.)

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:10:31 +0000

To geek out, you left out “take away his powers” [either with the abovementioned magic or kryptonite, or with exposure to a Red Sun] and then kill him as you would any other man.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:17:46 +0000

There was a short story in a late-90s JLA 80-page giant in which the Atom hitches a ride inside Superman, and almost gets killed by his rampaging immune system.

I think any virus that attacks Superman has to come equipt with lasers.

By: Aine

Aine — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:57:07 +0000

Does that mean that if there existed individuals on this planet who were half chicken, half human then we would have pandemic flu outbreaks more often?

By: John Nowak

John Nowak — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:31:44 +0000

Let’s suppose he was swallowed alive by a sentient dinosaur. He’d suffocate eventually, but he couldn’t tunnel his way out without killing the dinosaur.

Then again, he might be able to escape from either end of the alimentary tract…

So it would have to be a Kryptonian super-dinosaur.