Honestly if I were Smallville’s Clark I just wouldn’t go outside. They have so much Kryptonite to the point you’d think Krypton was right next door to earth.
The most unbelievable part of this story for me was when Perry didn't want to run a story because it might cause a panic. Can a imagine a newspaper/news show editor doing that now?
if you start a gang in Metropolis, you need to recruit some goofy bronze age villlains. forgotten relics. catch Superman so off guard that your victory is assured!
Wait, so Golden Age Ma and Pa Kent never thought it necessary to give him the talk about how they found him? Even when he started lifting tractors above his head? Oh and on the topic of Superman's evolving mythos, I'd love to hear the history behind the Fortress of Solitude.
Denny O'Neil's Kryptonite Nevermore was actually really interesting because it not only rendered all kryptonite inert, but also came with the price of reverting Superman back to his Golden Age level of strength, removing most of his powers except super-speed and super-strength. The story also introduced concepts like Cadmus Labs, Intergang, and the New Gods getting involved, long before Crisis. Actually, I'd like the story to be covered on this channel.
Denny O’Neill’s attempts to weaken Superman was only a marketing push, and it didn’t actually make Superman that much weaker. He could still Time Travel, and some of those stories had Superman go faster than Infinity (Superman: War World by Len Wein and Jim Starlin) And Cadmus wasn’t officially a thing until Post-Crisis. Back then it was called The DNA Project and Jack Kirby was the one who made it all happen during his tenure with Superman and Jimmy Olsen.
@@edwinsolis5710 yeah, john bryne's the man of steel was probably the "truest" weakened superman. Personally I've actually liked the idea of superman getting stronger overtime, but I think they should make it so that he's actively training to get stronger, like how in invincible mark actively grows in strength from struggling with street-level villains and jobbing to viltrumites soldiers and generals, to rivalling the strongest viltrumite to ever live, thragg.
@@ProjektTaku Superman training has precedent because his original creators actually had him train himself in his lair pre-Fortress of Solitude. You can even get creative and make Clark Kent train when he doesn’t have powers so he’ll get stronger when he becomes Superman again.
Got one of the old tropes in there about "there are exactly five different kinds of kryptonite, each a different color and each with its own specific effect". Several quick panel flashes of versions of that. But missed out the later one that "nothing can affect Superman except kryptonite and magic" (mostly to make Mxyzptlk a real threat), and here the mystic's hex turns out to be one of those masquerading as the other. Oh, and I see someone below speaking about modifying green K to affect humans. It actually did--shortly pre-Crisis, I think it was--when Lex Luthor took to wearing a signet ring with a kryptonite stone to taunt Superman, and over time developed bone cancer from the radiation.
My true exposure to Kryptonite it was to the '78 movie, then in Smallville, with different colors blowing my mind, like, I didn't know about red's bonkers side effects until later, but I always did like "red makes you lose your inhibitions" in the series, a bit more consistent. Followed by Blue K, that takes your powers while being around it, Silver K, which makes you crazy, Black K, that... splits you into 2 beings? and Gold K (which is the same in comics) takes your powers permanently... which you never see used on the show. It's probably my favorite bit of lore, does every Superman type need one, no, but it's interesting for Superman.
I can just see it now: Superman comes into contact with Green K(ryptonite) and then some guy wearing a spare Superman suit walks in, taking his place while the Man of Steel goes off to take time off while his replacement moans and groans.
Jerry Siegel wrote a story in 1940 called K-Metal From Krypton that weakened Superman. It was not published but I remember reading a text only version in DC Archives Edition Superman Volume 1
I've always paralleled the different colors of kryptonite to the different colors of mist used by Japanese wrestlers. They all seem to do different things based on what you need at the moment.
Remember that magical silver kryptonite that made Superman stoned in '08? Also, how have we not gotten an Elseworlds where Lara Lor-Van comes to Earth with her infant son? Why no Supermilf, DC?
There was an Elseworlds where both Jor-El and Lara made the trip with Kal-El, but I don't think they ever did just Lara. John Byrne did originally plan for her to make the trip but die from Kryptonite poisoning right after they arrived, though, but that plan was scrapped.
I'd love to see you cover "the k metal from krypton," a golden age story from 1940 that has the antecedents to a TON of essential parts of the superman mythos, including proto flight, proto kryptonite, superman exploring his motivations for being superman, and him revealing his identity to Lois! It was rejected because the suits were afraid of all the status quo changes it proposed, but it's insane to think about looking back.
Just a small correction: while Superman #233's transmutation of Kryptonite into iron (a 1971 story) was never reversed as such, Kryptonite resumed being a regular part of Superman's stories starting with 1977's Superman #311. It was a main plot point for most of the next year, until in #323 it was revealed that Krypton-two (created in issue #255) had exploded as well and became the source for a whole new batch of Green Kryptonite. But don't worry about the Kandorians; they never moved into Krypton-Two, but rather into New Krypton aka Rokyn, which was only created in 1979. Yeah... Superman lore can be a bit arcane at times.
There was an unpublished Superman story, circa 1939, by Jerry Siegel, that WOULD have been the first appearance of Kryptonite. It glowed green, and were fragments of Krypton (which was known by that name to Earth scientists, already), and it negated Superman's powers. Though it was called "k-metal". A few pages of the story are reprinted in the "Steranko History of Comics" vol. 1 by Jim Steranko. It was also said to be green on the radio. I don't know why it took the comics so long to catch up.
Swami Riva made a return in Superman Family. It completely exposed Superman's weakness to the public. Alexis Luthor was the reason after sharing a cell with the swami.
Sasha Metropolis gang: "Okay, henchmen, you know what to do. Get in there and do all the usual crime things: Steal! Rob! Plunder! I always appreciate it." * * * "Where are we committing crimes today, boss?" "Wherever our whims take us!"
Time travel through the astral plane...One of my favorite quotes about kryptonite is from an episode of Smallville where Pete Ross is infected by an alien parasite. ' Pete Ross: I figured it out, Clark. In your world, green means "stop", and red... [slipping a sliver of red kryptonite into Clark's pocket] Red means "go" '
5:27 actually, I think it makes sense for him to have let superman alive, if he wanted to sell his services as the guy who can stop superman then it doesn't make sense for him to kill Superman since as soon as the biggest superhero in metropolis bites the dust a big part of the demand for his powers would just disappear (but I am probably overthinking this lol )
It's inconsistent whether kryptonite takes away superman's invulnerability anyway. Alternatively, maybe he thought superman landing and going in brought to much attention
"If that was the one that got through, I really want to know what was the script that got rejected."😂🤣 Sasha, I love your videos and your many, many wigs. 🥰💻💇🏽♀️
Speaking of Superman Lore. Can you do a video on the origin of the Fortress of Solitude? Like where did it come from? How does it ends up on Earth? Why is it in the Artic? Did Superman build it? Did Jor El built it? I can't seem to find a clear answer anywhere.
Originally it was built by Superman as a place to hang out and keep all his Superman stuff and have a super zoo and also make somewhat creepy museum exhibits about his friends, later origins including the '78 movie have it that others like Jor-El or something like the Eradicator built the fortress for him and Superman just adopts it as a base of operations. Also I think it's always in a place like the Artic because it's a remote location that only Superman can really go, hence the "Solitude".
@@CTheng Sometimes, but usually when Jor-El is involved writers have Jor-El just leave his knowledge on a sunstone crystal or something that makes it for Clark.
My favorite stories involving Kryptonite were on the 90's animated series. There Superman and S.T.A.R. Labs develop a lead lined suit to protect Superman from Kryptonite. It inevitably often gets ripped, but the idea was that Superman would take precautions to avoid being harmed by it. Post-Crisis, DC reduced the types of Kryptonite to just green, except for a story where Mr. Mxyzptlk created Red Kryptonite. This ban on other types of Kryptonite lasted almost two decades! Some of the types of Kryptonite make no sense (I'm looking at you Gold Kryptonite), but having three types makes sense. Green Kryptonite would be the default, weakening and killing Superman, Red Kryptonite mutating him for wacky stories, and Blue Kryptonite for Bizarro to not be afraid of.
I actually think the random effects of red kryptonite are superfluous, since magic can do essentially the same thing. Also in one story where superman, ultraman, and the challengers of the unknown team up, the antimatter Mxy reveals a red giant cosmic storm is the reason red kryptonite has mutagenic effects, so you could just use that.
I've also heard of the radio play story was how Kryptonite was introduced. I loved the re-cap. I never read the story where it was introduced into the comics continuity before. One thing you didn't talk about was when Superman went back in time to Krypton about why he was drawn without colour. The Pre-Crisis laws of physics regarding time travel stated something like you can't co-exist with your previous self, so when travelling to an earlier point of your life, you would automatically become a phantom, unable to touch or interact with the world of the past. Of course you would be solid if you went further back before you were born. I'm assuming the same thing would happen if you went forward in time further along your life span. Post Crisis, the time travel rules had changed. Initially they had stated that using the same method to travel through time multiple times would damage your body, so to avoid that you'd have to use different methods each time. That idea did fade over the years, but I appreciate that there needed to be a mechanism to make time travel more difficult. Also Post Crisis, Clark was not able to travel through time unaided, though this wasn't established yet in Booster Gold's origin telling, Superman threatened to take Booster back to his own time. Anyways, back to Kryptonite. Post Crisis, Kryptonite was really rare. I guess when you think about it, when anything in space explodes, it's mass is scattered in all directions. The fact that there was so much to Batman.
I'm so happy to see someone mentioned orange kryptonite I have that Krypto the Superdog Cartoon tie in comic where I'm pretty sure orange Kryptonite made its only appearance and it's always right remember most from those comics it's nice to see someone bring it up. I think the Super pets movie might be bringing in back which would be amazing if it does
At the time this story was written MURDER got you the electric chair; even actual real life mobsters avoided killing high-profile individuals, as this would definitely make them a high-priority/shoot-on-sight individual...
This kinda also feels like a prelude to superman's weakness to magic lol. Cuz our "swami" here is practicing some astral powers or whatever he said and is kinda casting spells
Another thing the radio series did when Bud Collyer would take a vacation would do a couple of weeks worth of stories starring Batman and Robin, who, on radio, also lived in Metropolis instead of Gotham City.
Hey, would you do a Kryptonite Retrospective? I’d love your takes one by one. Plus most of the other TH-cam vids for this are not recent, I want to know more about Orange-K you mention. 😂
Bought a beat-up copy of this issue a couple years ago for a good price. I could never afford Action #1, so why not the first appearance of Kryptonite? Incidentally, if anyone's wondering why Superman appears as a ghost, it's because DC time travel rules at the time said if you went back to a time when you were still alive, you could only exist as an astral presence.
I don't know if they've done this or not, but I think an 'Elseworlds' story where Superman's mom actually decided to go with her son to Earth could be a very interesting tale, indeed.
The classic "Red K" stories were some of the most gonzo moments in Superman's history, and they have their own unique charm, to be honest. Just imagining Clark having to endure all these crazy transformations, lol. Like getting the head of an ant, or going crazy and demanding people treat him as their king, all while wearing a crazy pope hat. Speaking of Super-Accessories, an odd story I'd like to see you tackle (if you haven't already) is The Sword of Superman.
@@emilylike-the-soup2502 "If I ever did marry... it would be to someone super and lovable like... you! We can't marry because we're cousins! Though cousins can marry in certain countries here on Earth... we're both from the planet Krypton, where the marriage of cousins was unlawful!"
Can I say like his other two weakness The phase sorta to well SHAZAM and he is weak magic A jewel that come from space that red, Red Sun radiation light They were hinting to this all along… With bonus of kyropnite….
Feel like they went crazy with the kryptonite stuff. Like how they went crazy with lantern rings. Cause for some reason if anything is colored there has to be many different colors of it. Can't stop at green, gotta do the entire color spectrum.
I had to go back and watch the vid again, as after you said you were going to Metropolis to start a gang. What is your gang name? Would it have the word "Casually" in it? If so what kind of 'talent' would you draw (shooters, robbers, graft, etc.). How would you kill a helpless Superman? So....many....questions!!
If it is still on line, you want to check out "K metal from Krypton". It was a competed version of a story started by Seigel & Schuster but shelved by DC (National at the time) in 1939 and is the first concept of what would be Kryptonite.
Periwinkle Kryptonite In the Tiny Titans continuity, Brainiac hit Superman with a Periwinkle Kryptonite ray. It turned his skin and costume periwinkle and caused him to briefly charm Lois Lane with charm and dance skills. Later that day, Lois used a piece of physical Periwinkle Kryptonite on Clark Kent, achieving the same effect.
I'm surprised they didn't go with the battery route. Just say Superman's powers are fueled by the energy he gets from the sun. When he uses his powers he drains a certain amount of that energy. Once he's out of energy he's significantly, or completely, depowered until he can recharge. Would have given writers a lot more freedom to create dramatic situations. His power could be scaled according to what they needed at the time. The only thing needed to bring him down to a needed level would be a number of events that occurred in the background.
That sounds good in theory. In practice, it might end up like a lot of early Green Lantern stories where his ring runs out of power at the most inconvenient time.
Siegel & Shuster once created a story that involves a form of Kryptonite which predates the radio show's introduction. In it, a comet made of "K-metal" -- yes, a fragment of Krypton-- comes close to Earth. As it neared, Superman got progressively weaker and believed he was about to die from its radiation. However, the comic book editors spiked the story because S&S also had Lois finding out that Clark is Superman and he accepted her as his ongoing partner and confidant. The editors preferred to keep the Clark-Lois-Superman triangle going. And the rest is history.
I imagine that if Darkseid, Doomsday, and Mongul had existed back then there wouldn't have been a need to create Kryptonite. There were no physical threats to Superman at that time, I don't believe even Bizzaro and the Phantom Zone Criminals had been introduced. And without a physical threat Superman was seriously OP! Evan more so than he usually is.
I recall a story about jewel kryptonite from the Jewel mountains of Krypton. The story is centered on phantom zone criminals creating this version for evil stuff. The long forgotten Zone criminal Jax Ur has his back story fleshed out. I'm not sure if Jewel K was used again. It seemed like a convenient throw away plot contrivance. I have not read the story in several years, I think Jimmy Olsen gets hypnotized. He was always a good candidate for mind control. Thank you for the entertaining videos.
I like kryptonite despite nowadays there's a lot of different weaknesses and just natural things that Superman can lose to. But cryptonite works because it's a great way to stop an unstoppable force bubble force and have it both been extremely rare And easy to come by due to just how rocks can travel around the world.
Thanks Sasha for another good vid! My favorite is the standard green 'cause the other ones are just weird, not following any logic, like magic, which is another of his weaknesses. When did that come about? Well the other fave, just for the weirdness, is the pink k. Didn't see that one in the "kryptonite handbook".
8:07 i'm sorry that face doesn't seem like the one you would make after finding out your origins it seems more like an Aside Glance, which condering what that is maybe intentional.
It seems like in this story, he can go back in time whenever he wants but he's a ghostly figure who can't affect anything in the past. (Of course, that raises the question of why he doesn't do this in every single story to investigate crimes. No need for any detective work, just turn into an invisible peeping ghost in the past and have a look around!)
Supes created pseudo-Kryptonite in the form of a watch he tested. When he was near the watch after this, he became weak, and the guy wearing it, strong enough to KO Supes.
Incidentally, did you know that, pre-New 52, at least, kryptonite affected EVERYONE? It was deadly stuff. It technically killed Lex Luthor by giving him terminal cancer, and it could kill ANYONE with enough exposure time. It just affected Superman faster because...Kryptonian...reasons. If you MUST have kryptonite in a story, THAT'S the version I prefer. Make it SO deadly that NO ONE wants to mess with it.
I'd enjoy an episode about Kryptonite-powered villains. Metallo, Conduit, Lex (to some degree), that special unit from the Superman and Batman Kryptonite arc... Would be pretty cool, I think.
1st Luv the Acme Anvil reference 👍🏾, They where correct that Superman needed the Kryptonite to have a weakness, besides if not for It we would not have the Smallville tv series 😎speaking of hilarious effects red kryptonite has on Clark , or I should say unbelievable effect in the Smallville series when he puts on the school ring with the red K , & runs away too Metropolis without inhibition’s, being the good looking guy he is stays a virgin
Kinda funny that Lana like Clark away in France, remains a virgin even though she gets a handsome older boyfriend , who is in love with her enough that he moves with her too Smallville, but second tier star Chloe during her internship in Metropolis at the Daily Planet loses Hers to Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen
When I first heard about pink kryptonite, I thought my friends were lying to see how I would react. Then I found out they were telling the truth... Lol
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Honestly if I were Smallville’s Clark I just wouldn’t go outside. They have so much Kryptonite to the point you’d think Krypton was right next door to earth.
Oh god Smallville was so bad
@@falconeshield Oh boy...
@@AWW8472 I literally watched all 10 season like none stop. There were def some trash parts but it really wasn’t bad at all.
@@AWW8472 That was my favorite one too. Or when they other kid touched Lex and he told Clark "watch out for this dude."
And it gives people superpowers. You'd think Lex Luthor would have taken advantage of that if this was true in the comics.
"Sham... kazam... alakazam..."
Wait, that's a little long, let me fix it for you. Ahem.
SHAZAM!
I was thinking the same thing while listening to the video!
The most unbelievable part of this story for me was when Perry didn't want to run a story because it might cause a panic. Can a imagine a newspaper/news show editor doing that now?
Now days they'd embellish the story.
Or outright demand their readers go out and burn down a city for democracy.
Perry White has integrity.
J. Jonah Jameson on the other hand...
You could totally flip this the other way. Perry suppressed information and misled the public in order to control them based on his personal views.
if you start a gang in Metropolis, you need to recruit some goofy bronze age villlains. forgotten relics. catch Superman so off guard that your victory is assured!
It would also be helpful to get some kryptonite. Sasha should also have a supervillain name.
Sasha: I can’t believe Superman’s dead!
Random civilian: No, he’s just knocked out.
Sasha: Then I will finish the job.
"Love is out there lurking in corners." Is my happy quote of the day lmao
Aromantics: (pull out sidearms).
"Rawr! Manimal!"
Best Sasha being Sasha moment.
Wait, so Golden Age Ma and Pa Kent never thought it necessary to give him the talk about how they found him? Even when he started lifting tractors above his head?
Oh and on the topic of Superman's evolving mythos, I'd love to hear the history behind the Fortress of Solitude.
A place he created as a place to...be alone in his thoughts 😀
Nice to see Superman actually putting in the research to understand what happened to him. Too often he's portrayed as the big dumb boy scout.
Denny O'Neil's Kryptonite Nevermore was actually really interesting because it not only rendered all kryptonite inert, but also came with the price of reverting Superman back to his Golden Age level of strength, removing most of his powers except super-speed and super-strength.
The story also introduced concepts like Cadmus Labs, Intergang, and the New Gods getting involved, long before Crisis.
Actually, I'd like the story to be covered on this channel.
Denny O’Neill’s attempts to weaken Superman was only a marketing push, and it didn’t actually make Superman that much weaker. He could still Time Travel, and some of those stories had Superman go faster than Infinity (Superman: War World by Len Wein and Jim Starlin)
And Cadmus wasn’t officially a thing until Post-Crisis. Back then it was called The DNA Project and Jack Kirby was the one who made it all happen during his tenure with Superman and Jimmy Olsen.
Superman is just wanked
Nothing more
@@edwinsolis5710 yeah, john bryne's the man of steel was probably the "truest" weakened superman. Personally I've actually liked the idea of superman getting stronger overtime, but I think they should make it so that he's actively training to get stronger, like how in invincible mark actively grows in strength from struggling with street-level villains and jobbing to viltrumites soldiers and generals, to rivalling the strongest viltrumite to ever live, thragg.
@@ProjektTaku Superman training has precedent because his original creators actually had him train himself in his lair pre-Fortress of Solitude. You can even get creative and make Clark Kent train when he doesn’t have powers so he’ll get stronger when he becomes Superman again.
Got one of the old tropes in there about "there are exactly five different kinds of kryptonite, each a different color and each with its own specific effect". Several quick panel flashes of versions of that. But missed out the later one that "nothing can affect Superman except kryptonite and magic" (mostly to make Mxyzptlk a real threat), and here the mystic's hex turns out to be one of those masquerading as the other.
Oh, and I see someone below speaking about modifying green K to affect humans. It actually did--shortly pre-Crisis, I think it was--when Lex Luthor took to wearing a signet ring with a kryptonite stone to taunt Superman, and over time developed bone cancer from the radiation.
Myxy can do anything only weakness is a self imposed one. He was always a ligit threat
My true exposure to Kryptonite it was to the '78 movie, then in Smallville, with different colors blowing my mind, like, I didn't know about red's bonkers side effects until later, but I always did like "red makes you lose your inhibitions" in the series, a bit more consistent.
Followed by Blue K, that takes your powers while being around it, Silver K, which makes you crazy, Black K, that... splits you into 2 beings? and Gold K (which is the same in comics) takes your powers permanently... which you never see used on the show.
It's probably my favorite bit of lore, does every Superman type need one, no, but it's interesting for Superman.
Don't forget Pink Kryptonite, that turns... him... gay.....
Uuuuhhh..... Yeah nevermind let's forget Pink Kryptonite.
@@GenericProtagonist118 I was gonna mention it, but then stopped myself, because WOOF lol
Blue also hurts Bizarro in the comics.
Wasn’t his wedding ring gold kryptonite? I could be remembering wrong tho
And don't forget Special K
I can just see it now: Superman comes into contact with Green K(ryptonite) and then some guy wearing a spare Superman suit walks in, taking his place while the Man of Steel goes off to take time off while his replacement moans and groans.
Jerry Siegel wrote a story in 1940 called K-Metal From Krypton that weakened Superman. It was not published but I remember reading a text only version in DC Archives Edition Superman Volume 1
I want to join the Casually Comics gang that you create, we can all wear the approved by Casually Comics shirt.
*at the time of this recording.
Can our main gang activity be spreading the word on random amusing comic covers and panels? :)
Sasha would need a supervillain name.
@@two4328 I would assume The Wig Master
@@fredcampbell4066 That is really good, or perhaps, Hair Mistress, Hairness(like highness) for short.
I've always paralleled the different colors of kryptonite to the different colors of mist used by Japanese wrestlers. They all seem to do different things based on what you need at the moment.
Remember that magical silver kryptonite that made Superman stoned in '08?
Also, how have we not gotten an Elseworlds where Lara Lor-Van comes to Earth with her infant son? Why no Supermilf, DC?
DC: *You Say Another Dark Evil Dictator Superman, ey?*
There was an Elseworlds where both Jor-El and Lara made the trip with Kal-El, but I don't think they ever did just Lara. John Byrne did originally plan for her to make the trip but die from Kryptonite poisoning right after they arrived, though, but that plan was scrapped.
I'd love to see you cover "the k metal from krypton," a golden age story from 1940 that has the antecedents to a TON of essential parts of the superman mythos, including proto flight, proto kryptonite, superman exploring his motivations for being superman, and him revealing his identity to Lois! It was rejected because the suits were afraid of all the status quo changes it proposed, but it's insane to think about looking back.
Can you do a history of Storm’s claustrophobia?
A great idea!
Or just Storm in general.
Could you do a follow-up with all the types of kriptonite and their effects?
Pink K, because Clark 'admiring' Jimmys bow-tie will never not amuse me.
Most people: "Oh no! Superman's weakness! I hope he doesn't die!"
Sasha: "I need to go to Metropolis and start a gang. I'll get it done!" SAAASHAAAAAA
Fun video, I like the Silver Age red kryptonite as it's responsible for various wacky shenanigans.
Just a small correction: while Superman #233's transmutation of Kryptonite into iron (a 1971 story) was never reversed as such, Kryptonite resumed being a regular part of Superman's stories starting with 1977's Superman #311. It was a main plot point for most of the next year, until in #323 it was revealed that Krypton-two (created in issue #255) had exploded as well and became the source for a whole new batch of Green Kryptonite.
But don't worry about the Kandorians; they never moved into Krypton-Two, but rather into New Krypton aka Rokyn, which was only created in 1979.
Yeah... Superman lore can be a bit arcane at times.
There was an unpublished Superman story, circa 1939, by Jerry Siegel, that WOULD have been the first appearance of Kryptonite. It glowed green, and were fragments of Krypton (which was known by that name to Earth scientists, already), and it negated Superman's powers. Though it was called "k-metal". A few pages of the story are reprinted in the "Steranko History of Comics" vol. 1 by Jim Steranko. It was also said to be green on the radio. I don't know why it took the comics so long to catch up.
Swami Riva made a return in Superman Family. It completely exposed Superman's weakness to the public. Alexis Luthor was the reason after sharing a cell with the swami.
90's Supergirl gave us silver aged pink kryptonite.
I love the entire K-rainbow.
😄😄
How did Superman travel back in time... without spinning a planet?
Sasha Metropolis gang:
"Okay, henchmen, you know what to do. Get in there and do all the usual crime things: Steal! Rob! Plunder! I always appreciate it."
* * *
"Where are we committing crimes today, boss?"
"Wherever our whims take us!"
She's be the best boss. :D
I have listened to all the old time radio shows and the time-off thing is taken as gospel. No mention of preferred hair colour though.
We never did get an answer on which Lois Superman preferred. In the tradition of Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, inquiring minds want to know!
Wait. Wait a sec. All of these Kryptonite stones have different colors because Lois had different hair colors on a cover?
Time travel through the astral plane...One of my favorite quotes about kryptonite is from an episode of Smallville where Pete Ross is infected by an alien parasite. ' Pete Ross: I figured it out, Clark. In your world, green means "stop", and red... [slipping a sliver of red kryptonite into Clark's pocket] Red means "go" '
5:27 actually, I think it makes sense for him to have let superman alive, if he wanted to sell his services as the guy who can stop superman then it doesn't make sense for him to kill Superman since as soon as the biggest superhero in metropolis bites the dust a big part of the demand for his powers would just disappear
(but I am probably overthinking this lol )
It's inconsistent whether kryptonite takes away superman's invulnerability anyway.
Alternatively, maybe he thought superman landing and going in brought to much attention
Focusing on the least important part of the video, Mooch is a great name! "MOOOOCH!!, Where's Moochie? Mooch screwed the pooch!", and so on! MOOCH!!
"If that was the one that got through, I really want to know what was the script that got rejected."😂🤣
Sasha, I love your videos and your many, many wigs. 🥰💻💇🏽♀️
I remember reading that the Superman radio VA was sick one day so they created Kryptonite as a way to explain away his absence.
Speaking of Superman Lore. Can you do a video on the origin of the Fortress of Solitude?
Like where did it come from? How does it ends up on Earth? Why is it in the Artic? Did Superman build it? Did Jor El built it? I can't seem to find a clear answer anywhere.
Originally it was built by Superman as a place to hang out and keep all his Superman stuff and have a super zoo and also make somewhat creepy museum exhibits about his friends, later origins including the '78 movie have it that others like Jor-El or something like the Eradicator built the fortress for him and Superman just adopts it as a base of operations. Also I think it's always in a place like the Artic because it's a remote location that only Superman can really go, hence the "Solitude".
@@lindyxmjh4589 What confused me is that, in some version, Superman just stumble upon it already built with Jor-El's message left for him there.
@@CTheng Sometimes, but usually when Jor-El is involved writers have Jor-El just leave his knowledge on a sunstone crystal or something that makes it for Clark.
My favorite stories involving Kryptonite were on the 90's animated series. There Superman and S.T.A.R. Labs develop a lead lined suit to protect Superman from Kryptonite. It inevitably often gets ripped, but the idea was that Superman would take precautions to avoid being harmed by it.
Post-Crisis, DC reduced the types of Kryptonite to just green, except for a story where Mr. Mxyzptlk created Red Kryptonite. This ban on other types of Kryptonite lasted almost two decades! Some of the types of Kryptonite make no sense (I'm looking at you Gold Kryptonite), but having three types makes sense. Green Kryptonite would be the default, weakening and killing Superman, Red Kryptonite mutating him for wacky stories, and Blue Kryptonite for Bizarro to not be afraid of.
I actually think the random effects of red kryptonite are superfluous, since magic can do essentially the same thing. Also in one story where superman, ultraman, and the challengers of the unknown team up, the antimatter Mxy reveals a red giant cosmic storm is the reason red kryptonite has mutagenic effects, so you could just use that.
"No wonder John wants to put them into the bottle." >Coffee spit take< (Gratefully missed my laptop)
I just realized that one of Sasha's superpowers is book balancing! lol
I like how Superman smashes the Klan handles the alien reveal
I've also heard of the radio play story was how Kryptonite was introduced.
I loved the re-cap. I never read the story where it was introduced into the comics continuity before.
One thing you didn't talk about was when Superman went back in time to Krypton about why he was drawn without colour. The Pre-Crisis laws of physics regarding time travel stated something like you can't co-exist with your previous self, so when travelling to an earlier point of your life, you would automatically become a phantom, unable to touch or interact with the world of the past. Of course you would be solid if you went further back before you were born. I'm assuming the same thing would happen if you went forward in time further along your life span.
Post Crisis, the time travel rules had changed. Initially they had stated that using the same method to travel through time multiple times would damage your body, so to avoid that you'd have to use different methods each time. That idea did fade over the years, but I appreciate that there needed to be a mechanism to make time travel more difficult. Also Post Crisis, Clark was not able to travel through time unaided, though this wasn't established yet in Booster Gold's origin telling, Superman threatened to take Booster back to his own time.
Anyways, back to Kryptonite. Post Crisis, Kryptonite was really rare. I guess when you think about it, when anything in space explodes, it's mass is scattered in all directions. The fact that there was so much to Batman.
"Superman's pain double"
Something to include in my list of favorite quotes ever.
I'm so happy to see someone mentioned orange kryptonite I have that Krypto the Superdog Cartoon tie in comic where I'm pretty sure orange Kryptonite made its only appearance and it's always right remember most from those comics it's nice to see someone bring it up.
I think the Super pets movie might be bringing in back which would be amazing if it does
At the time this story was written MURDER got you the electric chair; even actual real life mobsters avoided killing high-profile individuals, as this would definitely make them a high-priority/shoot-on-sight individual...
damn that a good point bud:-)
@@zimmerlicker thanks
Death penalty is bs
Did I hear you say "the filming time" of the radio serials? Le gasp!
PS: Video liked if for no other reason than the "Manimal" joke.
Sasha repeatedly advocating for Swami Riva to kill Superman 😂
“Le gasp!”
BWAHAHAHA….!! 😂😂😂
..I can’t, I just can’t; I’m dying!
This kinda also feels like a prelude to superman's weakness to magic lol. Cuz our "swami" here is practicing some astral powers or whatever he said and is kinda casting spells
Another thing the radio series did when Bud Collyer would take a vacation would do a couple of weeks worth of stories starring Batman and Robin, who, on radio, also lived in Metropolis instead of Gotham City.
Hey, would you do a Kryptonite Retrospective?
I’d love your takes one by one.
Plus most of the other TH-cam vids for this are not recent, I want to know more about Orange-K you mention. 😂
Batman and Robin were on the radio show and, in it, lived in Metropolis. They were added so Bud Collier could take off some time as well.
Ironically this hints at another Superman weakness... Magic.
Bought a beat-up copy of this issue a couple years ago for a good price. I could never afford Action #1, so why not the first appearance of Kryptonite? Incidentally, if anyone's wondering why Superman appears as a ghost, it's because DC time travel rules at the time said if you went back to a time when you were still alive, you could only exist as an astral presence.
I don't know if they've done this or not, but I think an 'Elseworlds' story where Superman's mom actually decided to go with her son to Earth could be a very interesting tale, indeed.
The classic "Red K" stories were some of the most gonzo moments in Superman's history, and they have their own unique charm, to be honest. Just imagining Clark having to endure all these crazy transformations, lol. Like getting the head of an ant, or going crazy and demanding people treat him as their king, all while wearing a crazy pope hat. Speaking of Super-Accessories, an odd story I'd like to see you tackle (if you haven't already) is The Sword of Superman.
You should look up the unpublished story form 1940, The K-Metal From Krypton. A lot of people consider it to be the true origin of Kryptonite.
I too consider that as the true origin.
How do I look up said story?
In regards to what hair color he prefers, I'm sure there's slash fiction somewhere that says he prefers the bald look, for... reasons 😁
As others have said, it's funny how all his love interests have the same intitials: Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor...
Linda Lee ... *gag*
@@emilylike-the-soup2502 "If I ever did marry... it would be to someone super and lovable like... you! We can't marry because we're cousins! Though cousins can marry in certain countries here on Earth... we're both from the planet Krypton, where the marriage of cousins was unlawful!"
"Are you Kryptonite, because you make me feel weak in the knees... and eventually kill me"!
Can I say like his other two weakness
The phase sorta to well SHAZAM and he is weak magic
A jewel that come from space that red, Red Sun radiation light
They were hinting to this all along…
With bonus of kyropnite….
Feel like they went crazy with the kryptonite stuff. Like how they went crazy with lantern rings. Cause for some reason if anything is colored there has to be many different colors of it. Can't stop at green, gotta do the entire color spectrum.
My favorite was always White Kryptonite, the one that killed all plant life - just totally off the wall
I had to go back and watch the vid again, as after you said you were going to Metropolis to start a gang. What is your gang name? Would it have the word "Casually" in it? If so what kind of 'talent' would you draw (shooters, robbers, graft, etc.). How would you kill a helpless Superman? So....many....questions!!
If it is still on line, you want to check out "K metal from Krypton". It was a competed version of a story started by Seigel & Schuster but shelved by DC (National at the time) in 1939 and is the first concept of what would be Kryptonite.
Periwinkle Kryptonite
In the Tiny Titans continuity, Brainiac hit Superman with a Periwinkle Kryptonite ray. It turned his skin and costume periwinkle and caused him to briefly charm Lois Lane with charm and dance skills. Later that day, Lois used a piece of physical Periwinkle Kryptonite on Clark Kent, achieving the same effect.
At last... whims..... at last.
Right up there with "already ready already" which I use in daily speech unironically
Side note: Bill Woolfolk, and Manly Wade Wellman, were writing The Spirit while Will Eisner was in the Army from 1942 to 1945.
Gold K is the scariest since it takes away your powers permanently. Blue K is funny because it only works on Bizarro.
AND SMALLVILLE CLARK
I'm surprised they didn't go with the battery route.
Just say Superman's powers are fueled by the energy he gets from the sun. When he uses his powers he drains a certain amount of that energy. Once he's out of energy he's significantly, or completely, depowered until he can recharge.
Would have given writers a lot more freedom to create dramatic situations. His power could be scaled according to what they needed at the time. The only thing needed to bring him down to a needed level would be a number of events that occurred in the background.
That sounds good in theory. In practice, it might end up like a lot of early Green Lantern stories where his ring runs out of power at the most inconvenient time.
@@Tiggeralt Yeah, you're probably right. We probably don't want another green lantern type character either. We have at least 4 on earth
"OOOHHH!!! le-gasp... that needs to be worked in. Once a quarter, once a month, once a day. We need it.
How about a piece of kryptonite with a little bit of color of each one. Kind of a Neapolitan ice cream style kryptonite. That'd be cool. Maybe not.
I'll never understand people who think Superman's boring.
Siegel & Shuster once created a story that involves a form of Kryptonite which predates the radio show's introduction. In it, a comet made of "K-metal" -- yes, a fragment of Krypton-- comes close to Earth. As it neared, Superman got progressively weaker and believed he was about to die from its radiation. However, the comic book editors spiked the story because S&S also had Lois finding out that Clark is Superman and he accepted her as his ongoing partner and confidant. The editors preferred to keep the Clark-Lois-Superman triangle going. And the rest is history.
I imagine that if Darkseid, Doomsday, and Mongul had existed back then there wouldn't have been a need to create Kryptonite. There were no physical threats to Superman at that time, I don't believe even Bizzaro and the Phantom Zone Criminals had been introduced. And without a physical threat Superman was seriously OP! Evan more so than he usually is.
Back in the day Superman could juggle planets and could use his super freeze breath to extinguish the sun, so yeah... definitely OP.
All those dudes should have a plan and work together like the baddies did in the Old Man Logan comic.
Please do a video on all the ridiculous effects of the colors of kryptonite!
I recall a story about jewel kryptonite from the Jewel mountains of Krypton. The story is centered on phantom zone criminals creating this version for evil stuff. The long forgotten Zone criminal Jax Ur has his back story fleshed out. I'm not sure if Jewel K was used again. It seemed like a convenient throw away plot contrivance. I have not read the story in several years, I think Jimmy Olsen gets hypnotized. He was always a good candidate for mind control. Thank you for the entertaining videos.
GREAT I'm imagining Sasha going to Costrume party dressed as the original Carmen San Diego.
I like kryptonite despite nowadays there's a lot of different weaknesses and just natural things that Superman can lose to.
But cryptonite works because it's a great way to stop an unstoppable force bubble force and have it both been extremely rare And easy to come by due to just how rocks can travel around the world.
Thanks Sasha for another good vid! My favorite is the standard green 'cause the other ones are just weird, not following any logic, like magic, which is another of his weaknesses. When did that come about? Well the other fave, just for the weirdness, is the pink k. Didn't see that one in the "kryptonite handbook".
I love your golden age Superman voice - peak himbo.
Perhaps the rejected storyline was the color of Lois' dress. Also I'd like to join Sasha's Metropolis gang.
Is it black and blue, or white and gold? Turns out Mxy was changing the color when no one was looking.
"Love is out there lurking in corners" made me laugh
0:35 Is it REALLY a Casually Comics video if you don't throw a "Time of Recording" in there? 😂
8:07 i'm sorry that face doesn't seem like the one you would make after finding out your origins it seems more like an Aside Glance, which condering what that is maybe intentional.
you should make videos on first appearances of all kryptonites
I don’t remember what it’s effect was but I always liked the idea of silver kryptonite
Can we talk about Superman casually going back in time and just not saving anything or anyone.
that floored me too
It seems like in this story, he can go back in time whenever he wants but he's a ghostly figure who can't affect anything in the past.
(Of course, that raises the question of why he doesn't do this in every single story to investigate crimes. No need for any detective work, just turn into an invisible peeping ghost in the past and have a look around!)
Superman looks so scared in the cover just 'WHAT THE SHIT IS HAPPENING LOIS WHY ARE THERE TWO MORE OF YOU *AAAAAA-'*
Love is lurking in the corner? Love is on the train to go where I am not. Love is hiding in the bathroom. Love is swimming to Cambodia.
Supes created pseudo-Kryptonite in the form of a watch he tested. When he was near the watch after this, he became weak, and the guy wearing it, strong enough to KO Supes.
I always thought that Jor-L was the Earth 2 Krypton.
The golden age is earth 2 though. Same thing.
I love red kryptonite because of the unpredictability of it, and I love that Smallville's version makes him a "bad boy".
"Lois, you are in direct violation of the restraining order."
You can't just make a Kryptonite video without making a video specifically about Pink Kryptonite. I'll be waiting.
Incidentally, did you know that, pre-New 52, at least, kryptonite affected EVERYONE? It was deadly stuff. It technically killed Lex Luthor by giving him terminal cancer, and it could kill ANYONE with enough exposure time. It just affected Superman faster because...Kryptonian...reasons.
If you MUST have kryptonite in a story, THAT'S the version I prefer. Make it SO deadly that NO ONE wants to mess with it.
I'd enjoy an episode about Kryptonite-powered villains. Metallo, Conduit, Lex (to some degree), that special unit from the Superman and Batman Kryptonite arc... Would be pretty cool, I think.
7:57 Gotta love those super chonkers North and South Americas
1st Luv the Acme Anvil reference 👍🏾, They where correct that Superman needed the Kryptonite to have a weakness, besides if not for It we would not have the Smallville tv series 😎speaking of hilarious effects red kryptonite has on Clark , or I should say unbelievable effect in the Smallville series when he puts on the school ring with the red K , & runs away too Metropolis without inhibition’s, being the good looking guy he is stays a virgin
Kinda funny that Lana like Clark away in France, remains a virgin even though she gets a handsome older boyfriend , who is in love with her enough that he moves with her too Smallville, but second tier star Chloe during her internship in Metropolis at the Daily Planet loses Hers to Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen
When I first heard about pink kryptonite, I thought my friends were lying to see how I would react. Then I found out they were telling the truth... Lol
I figured that's why kryptonite was created great video Sasha as always!