Jul 2nd, 2006, 07:02 PM
Kryptonite is deadly to him, but you need to use it properly. If you stab him with a knife made of the stuff, well, the knife's going to penetrate, and if you leave the knife near him or in the wound, he's going to die pretty fast. If you take it out and take it away, well, it's gonna be like a regular stab wound is to us. Unless, of course, a somewhat substantial amount of kryptonite remained in his system, which would prevent him from recovering as quickly as he usually does.
Supes is also vulnerable to magic. As in he is just as susceptible to spells as any regular human. Getting hit by Thor's hammer isn't going to do any more damage than any other indestructible blunt weapon swung by someone with Superman-level strength would do. That's because its magic affects properties of itself, not the things it hits, unlike Wonder Woman's sword which magically cuts through anything.
The most interesting things about Superman aren't his powers (which, by the way, aren't as powerful as you think. Or actually they are, but there's plenty of people who can either circumvent them or flat-out challenge them personally, like Darkseid, Orion, Lex Luthor, Brainiac etcetera.) but what he stands for and believes in. Action Comics #775 is a very good example of this. Basically, Supes gets his ass kicked by The elite, an Authority pastiche who don't shy away from using lethal force in order to deal with threats, even though they could just as easily subdue villains without killing them. They also don't really care about collateral damage. Supes gets pissed off at all their shit and uses his superspeed to take most of them out, making it seem to their leader that he killed them. Then he temporarily disables the leader's powers by heat-visioning his brain. The guy breaks down crying at the loss of his powers, but takes comfort in the fact that he made Supes stoop down to his level. Or at least, until Supes reveals that he was just fucking with the guy's mind to make a point, and that the guy was just as bad as the people he fought.
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