"Superman, you did not so much destroy the kryptonite rock as turn it into a fine airborne dust. A radioactive dust, which we are all now breathing in. So thanks a lot for that."
Superman's lasers can penetrate black holes, so if we go by physics he can either destroy kryptonite on an atomic level or straight up delete like a black hole does to matter
Superman's laser eyes are energy based, not concussive, so he can very well destroy it to an atomic level, which is in line with the "Nah, I'd win" personality he has in this sketch.
@@akaneriyun4774Not sure how that works. Krypton is an element, but it's a noble gas, so it won't form ionic bonds. I don't know what kryptonite is supposed to be chemically, but what Superman is weak to is the radiation, which seems to be nuclear. Although, it's fantasy, it's not required to make sense.
@@kris-lembelembe It's actually the psychic type. See Alakazam and Delphox and hoopa heck even the fairy types with magic related designs like Hatterene are part psychic. The magician trainer class used psychic types. And off the top of my head there's probably more. Enamorus is a fairy genie I guess so that is one for fairy but not psychic. But magic is overwhelmingly psychic related.
Eh. Yesnt. Some people generally prefer a weaker Superman anyways. And even aside from that, going easy on the likes of wonder woman and Aquaman and not winning (again he's not really trying) isn't exactly a loss
Let’s just summarize that (and arguably his other weaknesses) as: “Writers.” It’s also the biggest weakness of many heroes, The Flash and Spider-Man most famously.
You know what, I also can't see through lead, am not immune to magic, and can be physically harmed by being pelted with space rocks. I'm basically the same as Superman.
Was I the only expecting the conversation to steer towards Batman realizing he might have to get checked for cancer upon realizing how often he's been around exposed kryptonite like Lex?
Oftentimes he usually has it encased in a containter, possibly lined with lead, so I'm sure Batman had considered the possibility of the material having a negative effect. Meanwhile, Lex the genius just had a chunk of it consealed in their coat pockets.
"It has to touch me" meanwhile, Superman every time it's even in the same room as him: "Oh god, my organs, I am immediately weaker than a terminally ill cancer patient on their death bed!"
@@eatingyoshi4403 pretty sure in the cross-over for B:TAS and S:TAS Batman just holds it out like 10 feet away and Superman basically falls over, then he throws it in a glass of water and it stops affecting him as much. Not to mention it was a tiny shard in a plastic baggie, so it really just depends on the writer.
From CBR: I know for Gold K it's two feet (according to Mark Waid's Super-Quiz, hosted on this very site). Obviously Green has a much wider radius of effect; I seem to recall Luthor mentioning 10 meters in the Action Comics Annual #10? Even if it wasn't that, I'm sure he noted an exact distance. Edit: I looked the page up, Luthor said 10 feet, not 10 meters. Regardless, that's an official number, at least for the nebulous (in regards to Superman continuity prior to Secret Origins) and relatively brief post-Infinite Crisis pre-New 52 period. The number may have been different for other versions.
It's a pointless "weakness" anyway. In the majority of cases it just makes him "weak," and yet somehow villains are never able to kill him while he is under the effect. In many cases Superman still takes a punch from a giant monster or Zod or something, which would liquefy a normal human, and he survives. Superman has ALWAYS been the original "Mary Sue." 🙄
I think the major thing that everyone forgets is that it's not like it's these guys' first day on the job as superheroes. They've been active in-universe for years and had to fight people who tried to use their weaknesses against them. After a while through just sheer experience alone they'd start coming up with ways to get around their weaknesses. Think about it. Everyone on the planet knows that Kryptonite is Superman's weakness...and yet he's still standing. That's not just happenstance, he actually had to get good at dealing with Kryptonite.
Pretty much. God knows if I had powers and weaknesses, first thing I’m doing is figuring out how to mitigate/handle them, or never tell a soul about them. If I were a kryptonian, I’m not saying squat about my kryptonite weakness at the start-Lex figuring out and deducing kryptonite could harm him in the movie is still some of the most insane luck I’ve ever seen. Or if I were Spider-Man, nobody is going to learn about spider sense unless they’re psychic.
It’s a bit of an honor system. Superman doesn’t laser people to death from orbit, so when they surprise him with kryptonite they don’t then instantly kill him either
That’s kind of why I’m not a Superman fan; he’s basically invincible to everything but THE strongest stuff. I’m not saying he’s a badly written CHR cuz I like the fact he has this god-like powers but has the willpower to use it for good; it’s just boring if the hero is TOO strong (though in Supe’s defense, I haven’t seen much SM media so there’s probs a lot of things I’m overlooking; correct me if I’m wrong on anything)
@@BR-jw7pmTo be fair, a lot of Superman stories are boring and poorlu written in part because they focus almost exclusively on his overwhelming power that you know he's going to win with even if they don't go the even more boring "cynical and/or evil Superman" route like _Batman v. Superman_ and _Injustice_ did. His better written stories tend to focus more on how kind he is *despite* all of the powers, like _All-Star Superman_ and such. (To be fair to Superman though, you generally know most big-name heroes are going to win in the end, so that's not an issue exclusive to him.)
The thumbnail reminds me of that one cover where Superman became immune to kryptonite and just ate a big chunk of it for no reason other than to show off.
The common sense of Shooting a laser at a radioactive rock... At best it does nothing, The second best option is that he cuts the rock in half, which achieves nothing, worst case the rock shatters into a fine Radioactive mist. Great idea if you want to give everyone in the room lung cancer.
@@kaladinthepaladin7929well that's understandable but what I don't understand is why he kept it on himself for *years.* I mean, the kryptonite, it affects humans too, but only if it's there for years, meaning that Luthor just kept that on himself for goddamn years and after 10 million fights with Superman finally took it off from himself? I feel like DC made a big plot hole in there.
@@TheMastermind7259 It's Lex Luthor. Obsessing over Superman's superiority is a core aspect of his identity. It would be strange for him not to keep Kryptonite on him at all times. Hardly a plot hole.
@@ZeissWorld i don't think something's more likely to happen just because you wrote it in sanskrit also wouldn't you want to get subscribers from people actually liking your content? oh wait, you don't have any lol
"Faster than a speeding bullet" reminded me of the movie where Metallo morhps his hand into a gun and even drops a one liner before shooting Superman with a shard of kryptonite and Supes literally couldn't react in time to dodge or do anything also, you're neglecting Superman's biggest canonical weakness "Robots, but only if they're big enough"
That's the problem with comics, Flash is also canonically trillions of times faster than light, and can react instantly to anything. So for example, if a bullet were to him him, he would react to it, turn around, and see that a bullet was attempting to pierce his skin, all in the time it takes the bullet to move even a milimeter. Yet, he has been taken down with bullets many times; same applies for Superman, he's not THAT fast, but he's still much faster than light, no bullet or arrow should ever be able to catch him offguard in any possible scenario.
In that same movie, Superman survives having a piece of Kryptonite lodged next to his heart and later on he completely overpowers the effects of a large dose of Kryptonite through sheer willpower while fighting Lex Luthor. That movie made Kryptonite look really weak.
@@RafelChipit's been adapted multiple times and for such a stupid way to take him down it's been quite prevalent. They did the kryptonite bullet for the sake of simplifying tower of babbel instead of...whatever the fuck that was that made that really weird looking panel.
I mean after they were pretty much disintegrated by the explosion of their entire planet, what's left of the Kryptonians could probably fit in that grave.
This is great xD and reminds me of that comic of when Superman was enjoying an offday and then a random villain showed up and was like "I made this suit to hurt even you" and Superman said "Many people always say they made somethin to hurt me, Yes I can be hurt its not that hard, but they miss the main problem, the problem isnt hurting me, the problem is surviving me" and that was just a COLD AF line. As Rocky said it don't matter how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep movin forward lol
You aren't wrong. How he was portrayed in his very first appearance was arguably his most realistic: A guy in a weird outfit with purple gloves and a grappling hook, driving around at night in his red car for criminals to fight.
Similar to Captain America (another peak human), he’s usually fine on his own, but has gotten a monstrous power creep simply so he won’t look useless when put with the heavyweights. At this point, I’d honestly be fine if someone just made him a good guy vampire. Guy has enough resources that he should never need to eat somebody, he’d be superhuman physically, AND he’d have a bunch of unique powers that would fit his aesthetic and fighting style.
I liked how kryptonite works in Superman TAS, it made him feel sick but it didnt depowered him- basically it only stalled, you couldnt kill him with it cuz an ill Superman is still Superman.
Eh, it can pass. He was already severely injured/weakened from the Kryptonite shank he took from Luthor, the whole thing showed it was a ton of effort for him and he was very obviously hurtfrom the proximity. After that, if he hadn't gotten lucky in terms of medical care he would have died.
Superman haters: "anyone with kryptonite or magic would kill him" Superman villains trying to kill Superman with kryptonite and magic unsuccessfully for 90 years: "these mfs 🤦🏻"
@spasebar reminds me of texts from superheroes. Metallo finds out Superman is Clark Kent and tries to put a team together only to find out they all knew already. "Every minute he's a journalist is a minute he isn't kicking our asses. You think if we go over to his apartment he'll be less invincible in his jammies?"
@@AgentofLADON To this day, this still is possibly the best excuse as to why nobody knows or revels his identity. I can easily imagine Lex going, “And if we went after his loved ones, we’re as good as dead.”
Meanwhile Doomsday, that actually killed superman: used neither kryptonite nor magic to do it, thus proving that enough brute force can be too much for Superman to handle
“It has to do with the kind of stories that get to be told, and if you lose your eye on the ball, which is character,” continued Gunn. “We love Superman." Zack Synder-I had a buddy who tried getting me into “Normal” comic books, but I was all like “No one is having s*x or killing each other. This isn’t really doing it for me.”
It cracks me up knowing people probably brought their kids to 'the fun Superman movie' just to watch the third act be a 9/11 sequence where Superman ends the fight by snapping the bad guy's neck and crying out in anguish after. Movie ends and you walk out feeling more joyless than you were going in.
I’ll admit I still wish they discussed how Kryptonite comes in so many colors. “So why does pink kryptonite make you gay? What, was it made from the Kryptonians who swung that way?” “Well hard to figure that out when everyone who steals them just tries to use them to kill me somehow.”
Imagine if that’s how gayness worked on Earth too. Like if you use pink Himalayan salt instead of regular salt when eating it literally turns you gay 😂
Not to be a lore asshole, but the only Kryptonite that was on Krypton was Green Kryptonite, Green being the only natural form. Pretty much every other kind, including Pink Kryptonite is man-made by Luthor or someone like that.
@@courier6402 Maybe it was just him trying to create synthetic kryptonite and the different elements it was based from cause the different colors and effects. So basically their is an element on earth that just turns kryptonians gay, or at least attracted to men.
the real question is, how does pink kryptonite work on gay kryptonians? does it turn them straight, or are they just immune to it? and what if they're asexual or bi? so many questions.
Clark grew up on Earth as a baby; why would he even care about Kryptonians? That'd be like caring that your great grandparents were in the Holocaust without having even know that before I told you.
I know I'm nitpicking a comedy sketch but "Has to touch me" Basically it's so dangerous just being in the same room building will start to harm him. If he can see it laser eyes are gone. Because once he's line of sight with it he's basically ad physically capable as a human child.
Fun fact, kryptonite in powder/dust form can still have an effect, from weakness to mind control. So Supes blowing it up just screws himself. Especially if he breaths it in.
Everyone forgets that Kryptonite can be refined into a metal, or ground up and added to the process of making a focusing lens to use in a laser array, increasing the effective range of the kryptonite. Imagine taking out Superman with a laser pointer, that would be the funniest thing on planet Earth
@@redrick8900 ,like the other guy said,this is knowledge you'd have to dig deep and find. For all we know,it could be knowledge that was in a fairly popular comic/TV series that's been way out of print.
Still wouldn't work. He is faster than light but i am sure even normal human speed would be enough. Batman stands, opens the sunlight and boom sups hit them. İt is not like he depowers in a second so he can still shoot laser. Also damn guy sees through everything, you can't expect him to ignore the giant sunlight under the cloth.
Because Batman was a psycho in that movie compared to just hilariously petty and this Superman is similarly actually likeable as a person beyond Henry Cavill's good looks instead of bordering on emo forced Christ analog.
@@LaffyTaffy04 "This is all their version of cheering for rival sports teams, they know they would never come to blows." Clearly you don't watch football.
Truth be told, when you become *so* overconfident about being bulletproof to the point where you go out of your way to *dare* somebody to shoot you, chances are some petty hero/villain is gonna invent a specialized gun and/or bullet which was *custom built* to *cripple* if not *outright kill* people who are on the same playing field as you. Just ask Luke Cage or The Hulk.
Wrap the krptonite in lead, then shoot. Superman's senses show him a normal bullet. He habitually stands there and tanks bullets. When it hits, the lead is stripped away by the impact, exposing the kryptonite, which is then able to penetrate him.
Him melting that cryptonite with his laser vision would just result in some molten cryptonite. And even if the cryptonite does explode for some reason great, you now have a bunch of smaller shards of cryptonite flying everywhere along with a bunch of cryptonite dust you will inhale
1. Red sun 2. Keep in mind that in the DCAU, Lex did get a cancer of some kind of a piece of kryptonite kept in his desk. 3. There is one thing (at least in the DCAU) impervious to metal: nth metal, which is the stuff that Thanagarian weapons (including Hawkgirl's mace) are made of.
1:27 RIGHT!? That's like saying that Flash's weakness is science, I mean sure, but that doesn't narrow it down to what field, what amount, in what context, etc.
Oh no his weakness is still Kryptonite. more specifically: the conversation of what pink kryptonite does to him, not even the rock himself, just the public knowledge. Can't be a hero if you're canceled
Also, they’re usually written to be his most draining of his solar power. It’s a simple way of nerfing him so he doesn’t spam them against non-living threats and win instantly like he’s Homelander with laser eyes. Better to have defense than to put it all into offense.
@@spacevagabond4017 I think in this case Superman could destroy the rock with his heat vision faster than Batman could replace said rock because Batman has to have a small enough quantity to not get superman to notice.
Back in the '60s little me gobbled up every mention of Superman's weaknesses in the comic letter pages (the subject was very popular then). Among other things, the editorial answers included "Q Rays" (never saw a story with them), various colors of Kryptonite, and one interesting fact: Kryptonite was immune to friction. It didn't burn up in the atmosphere, so no mass was lost that way. Which suggests heat-vision wouldn't destroy it -- just break it into smaller bits.
2:15, running out of solar power, and red suns. So unless the fucking sun goes out, or he travels to another part of space with a different sun, he’s pretty much invincible.
They pointed out that it's kryptonite radiation which actually harms Superman. If the supply of kryptonite did run out, there have been lots of versions of synthetic kryptonite. Even the George Reeves Superman went up against that, and kryptonite wasn't used very often there. Also, that grave had enough space for the population of Kandor, which is a majority of the surviving kryptonians (they are shrunk rather small, though).
@@soldier22881 In theory, yes. Most comic writers didn't actually think of that, so I don't think I ever saw a radiation which wasn't kryptonite that had a similar effect. Often, Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes stories had some plot device with 'a bit of kryptonite added to affect Superman/Superboy', but it was legitmate kryptonite. Superman did trick a Kryptonian villain into recreating the same chemical reaction which forms kryptonite (and thus incapacitating himself with the small amount of kryptonite made).
@@calebowens693 there's actually a villain named Conduit who just emited radiation so strong it affects Superman the same as kryptonite. Radiation can definitely affect him in potent enough levels, but you don't even need to go that far, synthetic kryptonite or just copying the frequency of kryptonite should theoretically be enough since all radiation is just energy that moves in a specific wave frequently. Despite the whole kryptonite rarity thing, it should be pretty easy to replicate it in its most basic form.
I agree with the idea that "superman has super hearing and super sight, so like, good luck getting the jump on him, since he's like, super fast and all" but I just have to put it out, bullets are faster than sound, so physically superman can't hear a bullet before it hits him. Don't get me wrong, still "good luck trying to pull that of" since he can still hear you pulling the trigger and what not, but just some food dor thought. (But I do guess the bullet makes a sound while it travels, and he could hear that and dodge? Idk tbh)
great argument except for the fact superman can hear someone call his name from earth while he is in the vacuum of space where sound can't travel or him being able to see when moving faster then light despite light not having the time to bounce off objects and into his eye to see
Superman needs Batman and the Justice League because while he can do nearly anything, do you know what he _can't_ do? _Everything._ He needs a team, he needs friends, he needs good people who've got his back.
A love how they finally address Superman's "Weakness" to Magic, cause every time I heard of it, kinda sounds like BS in some cases, cause it's more like being vulnerable than weak to it, but then again, who won't be vulnerable to magic aside from Magic Users?
Plus there's endless fight scenes where he goes blow to blow with magic-powered bricks like Shazam and Black Adam. So if Superman is ''weak'' to magic then would that means Earth's Gods are weak to alien punches?
Good nature, he takes time to get into superspeed, if not ready then he can be caught off-guard regardless of super hearing. Batman can just straight up out stealth him. Not even an exaggeration, he's straight up disappeared from superman in the early days despite them being feet away from each other. It's not even just him, he can straight just not be seen by Oracle's cameras. He was able to get into somewhere that can detect air pressure low as a thousandth of a pound. If Batman willed it, he could straight up never be seen again.
@@Rengokuo4o6 I'm pretty sure "I Can't save everyone" is a pretty big bummer for superman in pretty much every continuity "I can at this moment hear a number of people suffering whom I could save right now, but I can't save them all" is a often recurring theme with him. For all that he's borderline a god there's still only one of him (at least since he forgot he could make mini supermen pop out of his hands)
Let’s not forget about those scissors that Sups used to cut open his skin to remove the lead ball from his brain, with some work those scissors could be made into a much more powerful weapon to take down Sups.
@@LaffyTaffy04you don't crush a black hole, they were stars and their mass is all compressed, also depending on the model their gravity is infinite after the event horizont
Clouds only block some of the visible spectrum. Radiation (which is ostensibly what gives him his power, since it's the radiation of Kryptonite which de-powers him) cuts right through them without even noticing they're there.
Well he still has a conductive nervous and musculoskeletal system which means being exposed to electricity would still cause nerve misfiring and involuntary muscle contractions including potentially seizures and cardiac arrhythmia. But similar to the Magic example, it's not so much that he's "weak" to electricity but rather it just effects him as one would normally expect.
DCAU went out of its way to make Superman take a lot of hits. IMHO I think it works. Entertainment value aside, they show Superman acting with a consistent power level that can go up the longer the fight goes on. It shows how much he's holding back and always thinks to take hits instead of avoiding them (which is a problem when he should react faster but unfortunately that part is canon. Shame). I can see why Superman in his true OP form can be boring, especially as a brawler superhero who'll never lose a fair fight. As someone who also loves the human side of Superman like most here, I enjoy seeing him fight his way to victory as well.
Think of it like Carbon Monoxide. It's doesn't directly affect you but it takes your ability to respire and use oxygen. That's the Red Sun. It doesn't hurt him, it just takes away his super powers.
@zhanucong4614 if they learned how to change the yellow sun energy to red yes, but he's definitely weak to stands and unless he gets hit by a kryptonite version of the arrow or while beneath a red sun version of uv rays and weaken his immune system enough that he'll be infected by the space virus to be able to precieve then then he's screwed
It's less that red sunlight is effective against him, but that our sun can energise them to a level far beyond their potential. Interestingly, Krypton Society was so backwards they chose not to leave their planet very much. Though I could see how some writers would go "lol red sun" and just call it a day.
reminds me of vampire weaknesses "So a stake through the heart will kill you" "I mean yea, but a stake through the heart will kill just about anything"
Lex Luthor: B-but i've been fueling my huge mech suit with this stuff! Metallo uses it too! It shoots kryptonite lasers and everything! Superman: it's green painted coal Lex, you've effectively been hitting me with strobe lights this whole time, and Metallo is pretty much a walking chimney. Black mask: I went to war with Red hood and spent millions of dollars fo...for c- Superman: For coal, yes
@@inquisitormalleus6435 I think the actual explanation is that it was chunks of his planet that were flying through space directly behind him in his baby space ship and they followed in his wake when his ship made its FTL jump to Earth
This video is extremely cathartic to me because it really sums up my problem with Batman Vs. Superman arguments. Noone wants to talk about what would happen if Superman just backs up and starts fighting like an asshole.
Meh. It was brilliant in B v S. He used Gas and Superman had no idea he was weak to kryptonite. It was perfect opportunity for Batman. Like he lost the moment he inhaled the first gas.
It's cathartic for you until you get caught in a "superman is a mary sue" argument, then all of a sudden superman has weaknesses again That's usually how the superman fan mott and Bailey goes.
Batman vs Superman is more of an ideological conflict than a power conflict, superman will never go all out against a human, and realistically batman can't do anything if superman just grabs him and takes him to the atmosphere or simply decides to do an A-Train, superman is just too fast, whenever they fight is because one of them tries to make a point and has violence as his only option, usually when one of them goes on a power trip
@@juanandresrueda4957 Except thats not how the writers do it in the comics. They always make superman say BS in his head that wanks Batman during fights. If modern comics are to go by, any non-powered hero or any batman-related character can somehow beat Superman anytime and any place without any effort. It's a classic DC script. If they want a character to be popular fast, they will make them beat Superman in a fight or hint it that they can beat him.
I really love the fact that Lex, smart as he is, saw this glowing green rock and just ASSUMED it only hurt Superman. Batman popped it into Lead, but Lex didn't even think twice about it.
What if I get someone who's magic on the other side of the planet? Like, I'm in Europe and Superman is in the USA, and I magically teleport a kryptonite net around him.
Do you know how strict customs have become since 9/11? US Customs and Border Protection are going to be on your ass and you live in a country you can be extradited from. I wouldn't try it, pal. /joke
Superman has broken out of kryptonite traps before. I also think putting magic on someone is harder than summoning it to you because you are most likely standing still, teleporting an object onto someone else especially if they are moving is pretty hard to do.
Really, I always thought Clark was very over-forgiving of Kryptonite being used on him, so after all these years, I'm glad to see that brought up, that's fragments of his home planet, that must hurt
My understanding is that Superman is not exactly weak to magic, it's that magic affects him the same as it affects anyone else. Which is a big deal. You could say it's not REALLY a weakness. But you could make the same argument about a kryptonite hand grenade. "Well. All it really does is kill him by riffling his body with shrapnel, that can penetrate his skin since it's kryptonite, and then he bleeds out and does. So really, the kryptonite grenade isn't a weakness. Anyone will be killed by that the same way"
Same situation with The Flash. He's not really weak to "cold." He's gets stopped by absolute zero, which stops all moving particles and by definition instantly stops anyone and everything. Everything's weak to absolute zero. It is to Flash what Magic is to Superman.
Yeah but he still does have an ice weakness as the lack of friction can make it difficult for him to co troll his speed properly. He also has a weakness to certain types of stick traps that cause him to be unable to move
@@shaden489 Not really. Flash already goes so fast that any friction would cause fusion explosions if you're trying to be realistic about it. He's run in space before. Saying "he could slip" is funny because, well, Batman could also slip on a slippery surface if he's moving. Being forcibly immobilized is not a weakness, either. These are just things that are good against anyone. It's like saying Batman's weakness is aggressive strains of cancer, lol.
@@TwoToneShoes i mean technically a weakness isnt defined as something specific to that person so id say it counts as a weakness even if its a more generalized one. also as far as the ice thing goes flash has been put on ice plenty of times before and lost his footing i believe it happens several times in the justice league animated series alone.
To a similar effect the opening of DC Online shows a clever usage of his friends and loved ones as well as Kryptonite. Superman got worn down by a huge fight and was sun bathing out in space to heal and power up. The Legion of Doom takes that moment to rush the Justice League and pump Wonder Woman with liquid Kryptonite so when he rushes back to save her he gets taken off guard then Lex comes up behind him and stabs him with a Kryptonite Spear. Honestly pretty effective and would have worked if Brainiac didn’t show up seconds later
@@TheGruspastej I just assumed his lasers can do whatever he wants them to do after he kept using them to beam clash and overpower darkseids eye beams which literally erase things from existence, but oh the long list of weird things supermans eyes can do...
It's Kryptonite,not Kryptonium.The molecular structure of the rock is implied to be essential for its effect,so tearing it apart would render it harmless.
There are other entities out there as strong or stronger than Superman. Easy. Shazam for one. And Shazam is a good guy. Not to mention there are a bunch of legitimately insane weapons out there in the DC universe. One of my favorites was something like a Dimensional Sniper Rifle that fired a dimensional bullet with kryptonite in it into Superman’s brain.
A normal rock is also a shard of the planet where Batman's parent's died. Batman is vulnerable to rocks, coincidence? I think not!
Would have been funnier if you said lead, because, lol, bullets.
I guess croc's "I THREW A ROCK AT HIM" really was effective.
"Everyone has a [rock] limit."- The Flash
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@@ravindupadmanath2802 "It was a big rock..."
"Superman, you did not so much destroy the kryptonite rock as turn it into a fine airborne dust. A radioactive dust, which we are all now breathing in. So thanks a lot for that."
Superman's lasers can penetrate black holes, so if we go by physics he can either destroy kryptonite on an atomic level or straight up delete like a black hole does to matter
He didn't destroy it but he did scatter its atoms with his heat vision. It's no longer kryptonite if he broke it down to simpler elements.
Superman's laser eyes are energy based, not concussive, so he can very well destroy it to an atomic level, which is in line with the "Nah, I'd win" personality he has in this sketch.
@@akaneriyun4774Not sure how that works. Krypton is an element, but it's a noble gas, so it won't form ionic bonds. I don't know what kryptonite is supposed to be chemically, but what Superman is weak to is the radiation, which seems to be nuclear. Although, it's fantasy, it's not required to make sense.
@@buzz3248Black holes don't delete matter, they absorb it. The mass becomes part of the black hole.
"Your weakness is magic!"
"Yea everyone's weak to magic, its fucking magic"
Fighting types aren't. (Batman is a Fighting type.)
@@MarvinPowell1 magic is fairy type sooooooo
It's like Martian Manhunter being weak to fire. Yep, just like the rest of us.
@@kris-lembelembe It's actually the psychic type. See Alakazam and Delphox and hoopa heck even the fairy types with magic related designs like Hatterene are part psychic. The magician trainer class used psychic types. And off the top of my head there's probably more.
Enamorus is a fairy genie I guess so that is one for fairy but not psychic. But magic is overwhelmingly psychic related.
@@RD-zx6pyactually Martian manhunter isn’t hurt by fire he’s just afraid of it and for good reason
2:16 Supermans other weakness is being in a comic book that doesn't have his name on it
Eh. Yesnt. Some people generally prefer a weaker Superman anyways. And even aside from that, going easy on the likes of wonder woman and Aquaman and not winning (again he's not really trying) isn't exactly a loss
Like, Batman in Detective Comics?
“The Death Of Superman”
Let’s just summarize that (and arguably his other weaknesses) as: “Writers.”
It’s also the biggest weakness of many heroes, The Flash and Spider-Man most famously.
@@spacevagabond4017 some would say that spider-mans writers are the true villian of his world even
You know what, I also can't see through lead, am not immune to magic, and can be physically harmed by being pelted with space rocks. I'm basically the same as Superman.
Also the thought of dead kryptonians doesn't affect your psyche, seems like you're an upgrade to Superman.
but you can't lift a car with Tactile Telekinesis
or have Superhuman condition , Optic blasts , X-ray Vision and thats just a few
@@SirsasthNigam. no idea what you're talking about
Can you get a job as a mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper!???
@@SirsasthNigam. But do you any proof he can't do any of that?
Was I the only expecting the conversation to steer towards Batman realizing he might have to get checked for cancer upon realizing how often he's been around exposed kryptonite like Lex?
He already did that after the Zarbar reveal.
It's a prequel to Lego Batman's cancer
Someone already did that bit, can't remember if it was solidjj or not
Oftentimes he usually has it encased in a containter, possibly lined with lead, so I'm sure Batman had considered the possibility of the material having a negative effect. Meanwhile, Lex the genius just had a chunk of it consealed in their coat pockets.
Kryptonite only gives you Lego cancer, which is actually very treatable
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading Warhammer books, it’s that everyone has a weakness and it’s the author.
Underrated comment.
Speaking of Henry Cavill...
So what you're saying is, if we kill Jerry Siegel, batman will finally win! Well, let's get to it boys
Phil Kelly is the kryptonite of the Tau Empire and the Tau fans
@@Jordan-ii4ipDang amazon they had a good thing there then ruined it like netflix ruining the witcher :(
"Every kryptonian ever" implies superman is either not a kryptonian or is a ghost
Or both.
he does count as an American, that title could just be a nationality and not a race.
@@Ed_man_talking9 dues citizenship
@@ThrarmI think the papers for the first one were destroyed
"And so at the end of the day, even though my skin, be it made of steel, (...) I still consider myself man"
As a purse-stealer, it's very useful for stealing purses. People tend to be very afraid of glowing green rocks.
Can confirm, I was the three pieces of kryptonite.
Can confirm, I was the purse
Yeah but can you steal enough to afford the cancer treatments?
But u shouldn't steal the pink one
@@abhinandhari7812 I especially steal the pink one
"It has to touch me"
meanwhile, Superman every time it's even in the same room as him: "Oh god, my organs, I am immediately weaker than a terminally ill cancer patient on their death bed!"
I've always thought that was more of a movies thing but Im no DC expert so w/e.
@@eatingyoshi4403 pretty sure in the cross-over for B:TAS and S:TAS Batman just holds it out like 10 feet away and Superman basically falls over, then he throws it in a glass of water and it stops affecting him as much.
Not to mention it was a tiny shard in a plastic baggie, so it really just depends on the writer.
@@fishonmydish7774 Size of the rock isn't determinative. A smaller rock could have a much higher radioactive charge than a larger one.
From CBR:
I know for Gold K it's two feet (according to Mark Waid's Super-Quiz, hosted on this very site). Obviously Green has a much wider radius of effect; I seem to recall Luthor mentioning 10 meters in the Action Comics Annual #10? Even if it wasn't that, I'm sure he noted an exact distance.
Edit: I looked the page up, Luthor said 10 feet, not 10 meters. Regardless, that's an official number, at least for the nebulous (in regards to Superman continuity prior to Secret Origins) and relatively brief post-Infinite Crisis pre-New 52 period. The number may have been different for other versions.
It's a pointless "weakness" anyway. In the majority of cases it just makes him "weak," and yet somehow villains are never able to kill him while he is under the effect. In many cases Superman still takes a punch from a giant monster or Zod or something, which would liquefy a normal human, and he survives. Superman has ALWAYS been the original "Mary Sue." 🙄
3:32 that one second of "BATMAAAAANNN" after he just assumed he could win Superman by affecting him emotionally is killing me
I love winning superman
HE WINS! THIS WAS A BATMAN VICTORY!
I think the major thing that everyone forgets is that it's not like it's these guys' first day on the job as superheroes. They've been active in-universe for years and had to fight people who tried to use their weaknesses against them. After a while through just sheer experience alone they'd start coming up with ways to get around their weaknesses.
Think about it. Everyone on the planet knows that Kryptonite is Superman's weakness...and yet he's still standing.
That's not just happenstance, he actually had to get good at dealing with Kryptonite.
A pretty clever way to see all this. Well done.
Pretty much. God knows if I had powers and weaknesses, first thing I’m doing is figuring out how to mitigate/handle them, or never tell a soul about them.
If I were a kryptonian, I’m not saying squat about my kryptonite weakness at the start-Lex figuring out and deducing kryptonite could harm him in the movie is still some of the most insane luck I’ve ever seen. Or if I were Spider-Man, nobody is going to learn about spider sense unless they’re psychic.
It’s a bit of an honor system. Superman doesn’t laser people to death from orbit, so when they surprise him with kryptonite they don’t then instantly kill him either
I love how they’ve had this weakness conversation way more than once
That's how you know it's a realistic friendship
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent observation, Nathan! 🤝
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु......
@@ZeissWorldokay, I will not
Ah, Superman. If he weren't such a sweetheart, he'd be a universal threat.
That’s kind of why I’m not a Superman fan; he’s basically invincible to everything but THE strongest stuff. I’m not saying he’s a badly written CHR cuz I like the fact he has this god-like powers but has the willpower to use it for good; it’s just boring if the hero is TOO strong (though in Supe’s defense, I haven’t seen much SM media so there’s probs a lot of things I’m overlooking; correct me if I’m wrong on anything)
Injustice in a nutshell. Only reason he continues to do what he does it because Batman won't kill him and vice versa.
And he'd have a dumb name like Superboy Prime.
Just spit balling here, not singling anyone out.
Even worse, Supes himself is FAR more powerful than the infamous superman-but-evil characters (tighten, omniman, brightburn, homelander)
@@BR-jw7pmTo be fair, a lot of Superman stories are boring and poorlu written in part because they focus almost exclusively on his overwhelming power that you know he's going to win with even if they don't go the even more boring "cynical and/or evil Superman" route like _Batman v. Superman_ and _Injustice_ did. His better written stories tend to focus more on how kind he is *despite* all of the powers, like _All-Star Superman_ and such.
(To be fair to Superman though, you generally know most big-name heroes are going to win in the end, so that's not an issue exclusive to him.)
The thumbnail reminds me of that one cover where Superman became immune to kryptonite and just ate a big chunk of it for no reason other than to show off.
mmm yummy radiation
@@gerlofsdonia4522 Kryptonite Nevermore! Love that comic
I remember seeing a comic page Superman just inhale kryptonite gas and say "kryptonite my favourite"
@christopher20206 that was Ultraman
@@christopher20206 Not Superman, Ultraman. Ultraman's weakness is blue kryptonite.
The ultimate superman with common sense and no dumb plot
The common sense of Shooting a laser at a radioactive rock...
At best it does nothing, The second best option is that he cuts the rock in half, which achieves nothing, worst case the rock shatters into a fine Radioactive mist.
Great idea if you want to give everyone in the room lung cancer.
What if i cast perish tho
Red sunlight. Everyone always forgets this one
Not very relevant in a solar system with a yellow sun.
@@carcosian Yeah, but that's how Red Son was defeated. No need to leave the solar system.
He’s flown through Red Suns before and kept going. That one takes time and if he’s got enough Yellow Sun radiation in him, it’s not gonna do much.
@@carcosian Red sunlight lamps. I mean Soviet batman almost killed superman with them
I mean, can anyone really just turn our sun red just like that?
Lex Luthor being negatively impacted by Kryptonite was actually shown in one of the DC animated series.
He then proceeded to blame Superman for making him carry it around.
@@kaladinthepaladin7929well that's understandable but what I don't understand is why he kept it on himself for *years.* I mean, the kryptonite, it affects humans too, but only if it's there for years, meaning that Luthor just kept that on himself for goddamn years and after 10 million fights with Superman finally took it off from himself?
I feel like DC made a big plot hole in there.
The kryptonite has also sometimes given him super powers as a result of cancer. Whether it's from Brianiac or just some freak occurrence
@@TheMastermind7259 It's Lex Luthor. Obsessing over Superman's superiority is a core aspect of his identity. It would be strange for him not to keep Kryptonite on him at all times.
Hardly a plot hole.
Didn't the rock give lex super cancer
these weakness videos are so funny because you know we've been building to this exact video since the start
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु.....
@@ZeissWorld i don't think something's more likely to happen just because you wrote it in sanskrit
also wouldn't you want to get subscribers from people actually liking your content? oh wait, you don't have any lol
Okay, i won't and i won't subscribe either.@@ZeissWorld
@@ZeissWorld नहि।
त्वं मूर्खः असि।
The twist from batman being cheerful being cut off to a grave saying "every kryptonian ever" is a pure masterpiece of comedy
"Faster than a speeding bullet" reminded me of the movie where Metallo morhps his hand into a gun and even drops a one liner before shooting Superman with a shard of kryptonite and Supes literally couldn't react in time to dodge or do anything
also, you're neglecting Superman's biggest canonical weakness "Robots, but only if they're big enough"
That's the problem with comics, Flash is also canonically trillions of times faster than light, and can react instantly to anything. So for example, if a bullet were to him him, he would react to it, turn around, and see that a bullet was attempting to pierce his skin, all in the time it takes the bullet to move even a milimeter. Yet, he has been taken down with bullets many times; same applies for Superman, he's not THAT fast, but he's still much faster than light, no bullet or arrow should ever be able to catch him offguard in any possible scenario.
I think the movie is ‘Batman and Superman public enemy #1”
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु......
In that same movie, Superman survives having a piece of Kryptonite lodged next to his heart and later on he completely overpowers the effects of a large dose of Kryptonite through sheer willpower while fighting Lex Luthor. That movie made Kryptonite look really weak.
@@RafelChipit's been adapted multiple times and for such a stupid way to take him down it's been quite prevalent.
They did the kryptonite bullet for the sake of simplifying tower of babbel instead of...whatever the fuck that was that made that really weird looking panel.
I mean after they were pretty much disintegrated by the explosion of their entire planet, what's left of the Kryptonians could probably fit in that grave.
Eh, widen it a little bit, but more or less yeah
@@hossdelgado626 or maybe he just dug it deeper
I expected Batman to say something to that effect, but maybe that would have been taking it a little too far. 😂
batman might have put the bottled city of Kendor in that grave.
Still can’t believe that an entire planet of Supermen died out.
This is great xD and reminds me of that comic of when Superman was enjoying an offday and then a random villain showed up and was like "I made this suit to hurt even you" and Superman said "Many people always say they made somethin to hurt me, Yes I can be hurt its not that hard, but they miss the main problem, the problem isnt hurting me, the problem is surviving me" and that was just a COLD AF line. As Rocky said it don't matter how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep movin forward lol
You HAVE to drop the name of that comic
Do you remember what comic that was? Sounds like a good read
If you type in Superman surviving me comic on google you'll see the exact panel I'm referring to haha
@@JaxBlade Surviving me?
@@JaxBlade No dice.
DC's biggest joke is making Batman more and more unbelievable
You aren't wrong. How he was portrayed in his very first appearance was arguably his most realistic: A guy in a weird outfit with purple gloves and a grappling hook, driving around at night in his red car for criminals to fight.
Similar to Captain America (another peak human), he’s usually fine on his own, but has gotten a monstrous power creep simply so he won’t look useless when put with the heavyweights.
At this point, I’d honestly be fine if someone just made him a good guy vampire. Guy has enough resources that he should never need to eat somebody, he’d be superhuman physically, AND he’d have a bunch of unique powers that would fit his aesthetic and fighting style.
1:34 Basically the plot of The Boys:
I was thinking this
i heard superman's lasers bounce off kryptonite like a mirror?
@@abdulracmanandamama5676depends on the heat sensitivity
literally😭😭😭😭
those pesky laser eyes they'll get ya
Considering Superman lifted a whole island made of kryptonite in Superman Returns, I’m not surprised.
He must have been wearing gloves.
@@Pillow795 Lead gloves
The island was mostly crystalline, but with some kryptonite growths here and there. But yeah I get the point.
I liked how kryptonite works in Superman TAS, it made him feel sick but it didnt depowered him- basically it only stalled, you couldnt kill him with it cuz an ill Superman is still Superman.
Eh, it can pass. He was already severely injured/weakened from the Kryptonite shank he took from Luthor, the whole thing showed it was a ton of effort for him and he was very obviously hurtfrom the proximity. After that, if he hadn't gotten lucky in terms of medical care he would have died.
"My X-ray vision doesn't work through lead, for some reason."
It's science, Clark. It's basic science.
But do you know what does work through lead?
Laser eyes
Clearly didn’t inherit Zor-El’s brains
@@SorowFame Isn't that Jor-El? Zor-El being his uncle.
@@Qualman701 Exactly.
@@bubbles784 might be, sounds about right
Superman haters: "anyone with kryptonite or magic would kill him"
Superman villains trying to kill Superman with kryptonite and magic unsuccessfully for 90 years: "these mfs 🤦🏻"
@spasebar reminds me of texts from superheroes. Metallo finds out Superman is Clark Kent and tries to put a team together only to find out they all knew already.
"Every minute he's a journalist is a minute he isn't kicking our asses. You think if we go over to his apartment he'll be less invincible in his jammies?"
Superman's real weakness is the same as everyone else's: blunt force trauma. Just ask Doomsday.
@@AgentofLADON To this day, this still is possibly the best excuse as to why nobody knows or revels his identity. I can easily imagine Lex going, “And if we went after his loved ones, we’re as good as dead.”
That is another perk of Superman, his weakness is so well known he has ways around it due to people constantly using it against him.
Meanwhile Doomsday, that actually killed superman: used neither kryptonite nor magic to do it, thus proving that enough brute force can be too much for Superman to handle
Supermans one critical weakness is being portrayed as a gritty worn down superhero movie
Thats like protraying batman as an old disabled man on the verge of being poor.
“It has to do with the kind of stories that get to be told, and if you lose your eye on the ball, which is character,” continued Gunn. “We love Superman."
Zack Synder-I had a buddy who tried getting me into “Normal” comic books, but I was all like “No one is having s*x or killing each other. This isn’t really doing it for me.”
@SirsasthNigam. So zack snyder just does not like comics unless they stray into being edgy?
It cracks me up knowing people probably brought their kids to 'the fun Superman movie' just to watch the third act be a 9/11 sequence where Superman ends the fight by snapping the bad guy's neck and crying out in anguish after. Movie ends and you walk out feeling more joyless than you were going in.
@@thewhitewolf58 just watch Man of Steel Pitch meeting
I’ll admit I still wish they discussed how Kryptonite comes in so many colors.
“So why does pink kryptonite make you gay? What, was it made from the Kryptonians who swung that way?”
“Well hard to figure that out when everyone who steals them just tries to use them to kill me somehow.”
Imagine if that’s how gayness worked on Earth too. Like if you use pink Himalayan salt instead of regular salt when eating it literally turns you gay 😂
Not to be a lore asshole, but the only Kryptonite that was on Krypton was Green Kryptonite, Green being the only natural form. Pretty much every other kind, including Pink Kryptonite is man-made by Luthor or someone like that.
@@ThatScootFanboySo Lex saw the gay bomb and thought I'll just copy that.
@@courier6402 Maybe it was just him trying to create synthetic kryptonite and the different elements it was based from cause the different colors and effects. So basically their is an element on earth that just turns kryptonians gay, or at least attracted to men.
the real question is, how does pink kryptonite work on gay kryptonians? does it turn them straight, or are they just immune to it? and what if they're asexual or bi? so many questions.
I imagine that the grave was actually Snowflame’s, and Batman just removed his tombstone and replaced with “Every Kryptonian Ever” one instead.
Solid JJ canonize this please
Jj ran out of budget
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु....
I mean, he knew he was going to OD on Cocaine. I imagine Batman had this whole thing planned from the beginning. XD
Clark grew up on Earth as a baby; why would he even care about Kryptonians? That'd be like caring that your great grandparents were in the Holocaust without having even know that before I told you.
2:41 Ussop in water 7 be like:
So true… Damn, One Piece is great…
Cap. Usopp locked in on Water 7 specifically. I've never seen bro go that hard. Ever.
@@LynixLegend
Oh yeah, that is true
@@LynixLegenddressrosa 😐
3:08 you know, I thought I had acclimated to Solidjj’s comedy style but that jump cut completely got me. Bravo sir.
That ending was *great*!
0:26 *Baffled sample text* is now my favourite visual joke from this channel
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु....
Ok i wont @@ZeissWorld
2:14 The comments section is the true arbiter of truth.
"(I didn't forget about the Red Sun, you jerks)"
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु......
Pft.
The ideea is, why going somewhere with red sun in the first place unless magically someone that knows this specific thing teleports him there.
@mihaicovaciu6634 Red Sun lamps exist
I know I'm nitpicking a comedy sketch but
"Has to touch me"
Basically it's so dangerous just being in the same room building will start to harm him. If he can see it laser eyes are gone. Because once he's line of sight with it he's basically ad physically capable as a human child.
Fun fact, kryptonite in powder/dust form can still have an effect, from weakness to mind control. So Supes blowing it up just screws himself. Especially if he breaths it in.
I love the idea that the reason for everyone acting so off beat and quirky is low-grade kryptonite poisoning.
Fun *fiction
Thank god superman doesn't have, I don't know, incredibly powerful lungs capable of easily blowing it all quite far away
@timmiller1 Fun Fictional Fact
@@orions2908and he isn't extremely fast and capable of breaking out of any confined space before breathing the stuff
"You couldn't fit every kryptonian.."
"They were vaporised, Clark. They fit."
"I had Brainiac shrink 'em all down. They fit."
Everyone forgets that Kryptonite can be refined into a metal, or ground up and added to the process of making a focusing lens to use in a laser array, increasing the effective range of the kryptonite. Imagine taking out Superman with a laser pointer, that would be the funniest thing on planet Earth
"Everyone forgets" then cites bad writing almost nobody read.
@@redrick8900 all of current dc and marvel
doesn't feel nice being hit by a laser does it, superman?
@@Magnus_Fraus That's not fair. Something is always good.
@@redrick8900 ,like the other guy said,this is knowledge you'd have to dig deep and find.
For all we know,it could be knowledge that was in a fairly popular comic/TV series that's been way out of print.
Doesn't kryptonite just take away superman's powers. As a human he's still pretty jacked and tall, he can probably still win a few fights
Well done Superman you just filled the room with fine particles of exploded Kryptonite and inhaled them.
He probably super heated it to the point that the tiny particles are no longer kryptonite
@@elishafollet5347 Considering the fact that Superman's lasers can penetrate black holes, you are probably correct.
Red sunlight can depower Superman and his heat vision is limited when he’s not exposed to a yellow sun
It's a shame JJ didn't put a subtitle in about this at around 02:18
Granted, it’s not an instant effect and just drains his power over time (at least in comics)
@@peterstoric6560 depends of the author, but it depowering him instally is kind of illogical
Still wouldn't work. He is faster than light but i am sure even normal human speed would be enough. Batman stands, opens the sunlight and boom sups hit them. İt is not like he depowers in a second so he can still shoot laser. Also damn guy sees through everything, you can't expect him to ignore the giant sunlight under the cloth.
@@santiagoteruel4145 to be fair, superheroes as a concept are illogical as well.
2:30, Dude you still fund them, that's the reason why you are here
"Pelting you with your mother's pearls" is a dark, dark line and I'm impressed for whoever came up with that. Bravo.
3:23 Come on Mr. Symbol of Hope on your freaking chest. You’re going to tell me all the sudden you don’t appreciate symbolism?
Superman needs sunlight.
Essentially his weakness is a woman that convinces him to be a gimp.
I'll go now. Tell no one I was here.
I guess it would always be consensual at least.
Until he just got... ok I've overthought this.
Superman's weakness is Louis Lane
So get Lois Lane to convince him to try BDSM in a dark basement and boom! Out of commission, thanks to dommie mommy roleplay.
Why do batman and Superman have a better rivalry in this channel than in dawn of justice
This is actually well-written.
Because they actually know each other. This is all their version of cheering for rival sports teams, they know they would never come to blows.
Because Batman was a psycho in that movie compared to just hilariously petty and this Superman is similarly actually likeable as a person beyond Henry Cavill's good looks instead of bordering on emo forced Christ analog.
@@LaffyTaffy04 "This is all their version of cheering for rival sports teams, they know they would never come to blows."
Clearly you don't watch football.
Because Snyder is a hack
The grave bit should've been batman saying the grave is empty CAUSE THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO BURY
0:44 then why did both Deadshot and Bloodsport put you in the hospital with a KRYPTONITE BULLET?!?
I was gonna say this aswell
The power of irony is greater
Truth be told, when you become *so* overconfident about being bulletproof to the point where you go out of your way to *dare* somebody to shoot you, chances are some petty hero/villain is gonna invent a specialized gun and/or bullet which was *custom built* to *cripple* if not *outright kill* people who are on the same playing field as you. Just ask Luke Cage or The Hulk.
@@antonhanna2423 yeah but they dont usually have the speed and sight to see the usually bright green glowing bullet, but maybe he gets distracted lol
Wrap the krptonite in lead, then shoot. Superman's senses show him a normal bullet. He habitually stands there and tanks bullets. When it hits, the lead is stripped away by the impact, exposing the kryptonite, which is then able to penetrate him.
Him melting that cryptonite with his laser vision would just result in some molten cryptonite. And even if the cryptonite does explode for some reason great, you now have a bunch of smaller shards of cryptonite flying everywhere along with a bunch of cryptonite dust you will inhale
Also heating up radioactive material seems like the last thing you’d want to do.
Turns out, it canonically cancels out the immediate radiation. He would need to personally inhale it at that point
1. Red sun
2. Keep in mind that in the DCAU, Lex did get a cancer of some kind of a piece of kryptonite kept in his desk.
3. There is one thing (at least in the DCAU) impervious to metal: nth metal, which is the stuff that Thanagarian weapons (including Hawkgirl's mace) are made of.
You mean Nth metal is impervious to *magic* which is true (for some continuities anyways).
1:27 RIGHT!? That's like saying that Flash's weakness is science, I mean sure, but that doesn't narrow it down to what field, what amount, in what context, etc.
Haha, your ultimate weakness!! Entomology!!
Oh no his weakness is still Kryptonite.
more specifically: the conversation of what pink kryptonite does to him, not even the rock himself, just the public knowledge.
Can't be a hero if you're canceled
we don't talk about the pink one
@@J4R0D I know superman was standing behind your back with a gun to your head as you typed that.
Let's talk about the pink one.
@@dineez627 ok so wich pink kryptonite do you prefer, the old one that makes superman gay or the new less problematic one that flips his gender?
@@jinglejangle1533 hit em with the hrt stone
1:54 I guess we now know how LEGO Batman got his cancer.
Who says he has cancer?
"The comment section will correct me if I'm wrong"
Yes, yes they will
We will for sure
already did
superman quite literally wouldn't hear what hit him
The comments are not very convincing then
Superman : Laser eyes are infinite, so they can't be stopped.
Mirrors : Hold my beer.
Also, they’re usually written to be his most draining of his solar power. It’s a simple way of nerfing him so he doesn’t spam them against non-living threats and win instantly like he’s Homelander with laser eyes. Better to have defense than to put it all into offense.
@@spacevagabond4017 I think in this case Superman could destroy the rock with his heat vision faster than Batman could replace said rock because Batman has to have a small enough quantity to not get superman to notice.
Back in the '60s little me gobbled up every mention of Superman's weaknesses in the comic letter pages (the subject was very popular then). Among other things, the editorial answers included "Q Rays" (never saw a story with them), various colors of Kryptonite, and one interesting fact: Kryptonite was immune to friction. It didn't burn up in the atmosphere, so no mass was lost that way. Which suggests heat-vision wouldn't destroy it -- just break it into smaller bits.
4:19 There’s a deer with a million Bucks joke around here somewhere.
2:15, running out of solar power, and red suns.
So unless the fucking sun goes out, or he travels to another part of space with a different sun, he’s pretty much invincible.
Also incredible amounts of lightning (livewire) which still isn’t enough usually.
He really essentially has no weaknesses
I mean, if you shrunk down a red sun maybe and attacked him at night I think a Batman did that once
What if we covered him in sunscreen
Well, he did die from Doomsday, but that creature is just another kryptonian with the same strengths.
@@JoseMolina-ij3xx so beating the shit out of him works? interesting
Only the writer can beat Superman. With his powers and speed, noone should actually be able to do anything.
They pointed out that it's kryptonite radiation which actually harms Superman. If the supply of kryptonite did run out, there have been lots of versions of synthetic kryptonite. Even the George Reeves Superman went up against that, and kryptonite wasn't used very often there.
Also, that grave had enough space for the population of Kandor, which is a majority of the surviving kryptonians (they are shrunk rather small, though).
Nukes have almost killed him a few times because of the radiation and also
Being a Nuke.
what about regular radiation? earth has alot of radioactive isotopes, couldn't those have the same effect as kryptonite?
@@soldier22881 In theory, yes. Most comic writers didn't actually think of that, so I don't think I ever saw a radiation which wasn't kryptonite that had a similar effect. Often, Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes stories had some plot device with 'a bit of kryptonite added to affect Superman/Superboy', but it was legitmate kryptonite. Superman did trick a Kryptonian villain into recreating the same chemical reaction which forms kryptonite (and thus incapacitating himself with the small amount of kryptonite made).
@@calebowens693 ah thank you so much dude, wish you the best
@@calebowens693 there's actually a villain named Conduit who just emited radiation so strong it affects Superman the same as kryptonite. Radiation can definitely affect him in potent enough levels, but you don't even need to go that far, synthetic kryptonite or just copying the frequency of kryptonite should theoretically be enough since all radiation is just energy that moves in a specific wave frequently. Despite the whole kryptonite rarity thing, it should be pretty easy to replicate it in its most basic form.
I’m honestly suprised the last punchline wasn’t “oh wait I can buy you”
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@@ZeissWorld gfy
"Slavery is illegal Bruce. We've talked about this."
@@AgentofLADON "I own the building you work at."
"I just bought The Daily Planet, you're fired"
I agree with the idea that "superman has super hearing and super sight, so like, good luck getting the jump on him, since he's like, super fast and all" but I just have to put it out, bullets are faster than sound, so physically superman can't hear a bullet before it hits him.
Don't get me wrong, still "good luck trying to pull that of" since he can still hear you pulling the trigger and what not, but just some food dor thought.
(But I do guess the bullet makes a sound while it travels, and he could hear that and dodge? Idk tbh)
It would be a close dodge though
great argument except for the fact superman can hear someone call his name from earth while he is in the vacuum of space where sound can't travel or him being able to see when moving faster then light despite light not having the time to bounce off objects and into his eye to see
@senpaistreams502 TRUE, COMIC LIGIC FTW!!!
Using logic as for your argument is useless when it comes to Superman. He constantly defies the laws of science.
@@BlondeSancho-qb9hz he also defies his own laws, don't forget he got hit by a kryptonite bullet SOMEHOW.
Superman needs Batman and the Justice League because while he can do nearly anything, do you know what he _can't_ do?
_Everything._ He needs a team, he needs friends, he needs good people who've got his back.
Yeah Superman knows he can't do everything that's what makes him a powerful hero he knows he has limits and weaknesses.
A love how they finally address Superman's "Weakness" to Magic, cause every time I heard of it, kinda sounds like BS in some cases, cause it's more like being vulnerable than weak to it, but then again, who won't be vulnerable to magic aside from Magic Users?
But magic can be learnt. You can learn it and then at least have a deterrent. I never understood why Batman never learnt magic.
i think shazam has some resistance to it actually
Plus there's endless fight scenes where he goes blow to blow with magic-powered bricks like Shazam and Black Adam. So if Superman is ''weak'' to magic then would that means Earth's Gods are weak to alien punches?
@@ecneicsPhD4554 in some comics he di, he just messed it upreally bad
It's not that everyone isn't equally effected. It's that it's something that can also hurt Superman. That's why it's brought up.
03:16 - End : That, my dear Kal-El, is called a _metaphor_ , heheh. 🤭😆😋
Red sunlight, electricity, and extremely loud noises (his superhearing cannot handle it). Those are all of the other ones I can think of.
Good nature, he takes time to get into superspeed, if not ready then he can be caught off-guard regardless of super hearing.
Batman can just straight up out stealth him. Not even an exaggeration, he's straight up disappeared from superman in the early days despite them being feet away from each other. It's not even just him, he can straight just not be seen by Oracle's cameras. He was able to get into somewhere that can detect air pressure low as a thousandth of a pound. If Batman willed it, he could straight up never be seen again.
Are you saying that Superman is weak to gun shots? Not the bullet but the sound?
Supergirl once listed off Kryptonian vulnerabilities, giving the ones you listed and also adding "And robots, but only if the robot is big enough."
@@getthedunkon9347 because Superman's superhearing is a big plot hole in DC universe. If he can hear everything then why isn't he saving everyone?
@@Rengokuo4o6 I'm pretty sure "I Can't save everyone" is a pretty big bummer for superman in pretty much every continuity
"I can at this moment hear a number of people suffering whom I could save right now, but I can't save them all" is a often recurring theme with him.
For all that he's borderline a god there's still only one of him (at least since he forgot he could make mini supermen pop out of his hands)
Teleport him to a red sun, and he’ll begin to lose his powers. This also isn’t a major weakness because he can just fly away to a yellow or blue star.
Let’s not forget about those scissors that Sups used to cut open his skin to remove the lead ball from his brain, with some work those scissors could be made into a much more powerful weapon to take down Sups.
Probably made of kryptonite.
scissors? I thought he just lasered through his skull?
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 Yeah, he used the scisors to take the kryptonite thingy from his brain, but he opened it with his vision,
Having it is one thing using it effectively is another.
If he’s deprived of sunlight for long enough, he becomes super weak. So just, like, make a big cloud?
He could just fly away, the only solution is to BLOW UP THE SUN!
@@futuza He would just fly over and bring in a new sun or crush a black hole into one.
@@LaffyTaffy04you don't crush a black hole, they were stars and their mass is all compressed, also depending on the model their gravity is infinite after the event horizont
Simple, magic cloud that comedically follows him around
Clouds only block some of the visible spectrum. Radiation (which is ostensibly what gives him his power, since it's the radiation of Kryptonite which de-powers him) cuts right through them without even noticing they're there.
Honestly, this video just made my day!
0:52 i am Absolutely using that argument against laplace's demon kinda hypotheticals from now on
Well, if the good ol DCAU has anything to say about this: Electricity, it just... bypasses his imperviousness... somehow.
It's kinda dumb.
Well he still has a conductive nervous and musculoskeletal system which means being exposed to electricity would still cause nerve misfiring and involuntary muscle contractions including potentially seizures and cardiac arrhythmia. But similar to the Magic example, it's not so much that he's "weak" to electricity but rather it just effects him as one would normally expect.
DCAU went out of its way to make Superman take a lot of hits. IMHO I think it works. Entertainment value aside, they show Superman acting with a consistent power level that can go up the longer the fight goes on. It shows how much he's holding back and always thinks to take hits instead of avoiding them (which is a problem when he should react faster but unfortunately that part is canon. Shame).
I can see why Superman in his true OP form can be boring, especially as a brawler superhero who'll never lose a fair fight. As someone who also loves the human side of Superman like most here, I enjoy seeing him fight his way to victory as well.
The red sunlight is pretty effective... for some reason
Think of it like Carbon Monoxide. It's doesn't directly affect you but it takes your ability to respire and use oxygen. That's the Red Sun. It doesn't hurt him, it just takes away his super powers.
so supes is weak to hamon users
@zhanucong4614 if they learned how to change the yellow sun energy to red yes, but he's definitely weak to stands and unless he gets hit by a kryptonite version of the arrow or while beneath a red sun version of uv rays and weaken his immune system enough that he'll be infected by the space virus to be able to precieve then then he's screwed
Communism.
It's less that red sunlight is effective against him, but that our sun can energise them to a level far beyond their potential. Interestingly, Krypton Society was so backwards they chose not to leave their planet very much.
Though I could see how some writers would go "lol red sun" and just call it a day.
(No I didn’t forget about red sun jerks!)
Damn! Solid’s got his bases covered! He’s too clever!
yet not clever enough to think of a way to avoid red sun
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@@apirlfools Yeah, it's not really covering the bases if he doesn't say how Superman gets around it.
reminds me of vampire weaknesses
"So a stake through the heart will kill you"
"I mean yea, but a stake through the heart will kill just about anything"
What if kryptonites are Clarks longest joke ever. They are just painted rocks and so nothing, he is just waiting for the perfect time to say "Gotcha".
That would explain how so much of it ends up in Earth...
Lex Luthor: B-but i've been fueling my huge mech suit with this stuff! Metallo uses it too! It shoots kryptonite lasers and everything!
Superman: it's green painted coal Lex, you've effectively been hitting me with strobe lights this whole time, and Metallo is pretty much a walking chimney.
Black mask: I went to war with Red hood and spent millions of dollars fo...for c-
Superman: For coal, yes
@@inquisitormalleus6435 I think the actual explanation is that it was chunks of his planet that were flying through space directly behind him in his baby space ship and they followed in his wake when his ship made its FTL jump to Earth
This video is extremely cathartic to me because it really sums up my problem with Batman Vs. Superman arguments. Noone wants to talk about what would happen if Superman just backs up and starts fighting like an asshole.
Meh. It was brilliant in B v S. He used Gas and Superman had no idea he was weak to kryptonite. It was perfect opportunity for Batman.
Like he lost the moment he inhaled the first gas.
It's the injustice meta all over again.
It's cathartic for you until you get caught in a "superman is a mary sue" argument, then all of a sudden superman has weaknesses again
That's usually how the superman fan mott and Bailey goes.
Batman vs Superman is more of an ideological conflict than a power conflict, superman will never go all out against a human, and realistically batman can't do anything if superman just grabs him and takes him to the atmosphere or simply decides to do an A-Train, superman is just too fast, whenever they fight is because one of them tries to make a point and has violence as his only option, usually when one of them goes on a power trip
@@juanandresrueda4957 Except thats not how the writers do it in the comics. They always make superman say BS in his head that wanks Batman during fights. If modern comics are to go by, any non-powered hero or any batman-related character can somehow beat Superman anytime and any place without any effort. It's a classic DC script. If they want a character to be popular fast, they will make them beat Superman in a fight or hint it that they can beat him.
I never understood how faster than a speeding bullet Superman could get hit a 30 mph kryptonite softball thrown by middle aged men 😮
I really love the fact that Lex, smart as he is, saw this glowing green rock and just ASSUMED it only hurt Superman. Batman popped it into Lead, but Lex didn't even think twice about it.
Batman having an existential crisis because he can’t kill his friend lmao
When the grave showed up I was half expecting it to be John Kent and Batman to be "If it works on me it would work on you."
What if I get someone who's magic on the other side of the planet?
Like, I'm in Europe and Superman is in the USA, and I magically teleport a kryptonite net around him.
Do you know how strict customs have become since 9/11? US Customs and Border Protection are going to be on your ass and you live in a country you can be extradited from. I wouldn't try it, pal.
/joke
And ghosts can possess him and he can’t see those
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु....... .!
Do it. I would love to see you try that.
- Superman probably
Superman has broken out of kryptonite traps before. I also think putting magic on someone is harder than summoning it to you because you are most likely standing still, teleporting an object onto someone else especially if they are moving is pretty hard to do.
To be fair, the planet blew up. There’s probably enough space to fit what’s left in that grave, right next to SNOWFLAAAAAME
Really, I always thought Clark was very over-forgiving of Kryptonite being used on him, so after all these years, I'm glad to see that brought up, that's fragments of his home planet, that must hurt
It's my headcanon that the glow alone is what affects him the most, like how absorbing the glow of a yellow sun supercharges him
Are you saying he's weak to green light?
Good thing he doesn't need to drive, I guess...
1:14 He's forgetting synthetic Kryptonite exists. Also I'm sure the GL ring can act as Kryptonite.
We've seen the ring replicate the gravitational force of a sun before so there's evidence it can replicate properties of Kryptonite
Firestorm and Atom Man can effectively make kryptonite out of atomic particles.
My understanding is that Superman is not exactly weak to magic, it's that magic affects him the same as it affects anyone else. Which is a big deal. You could say it's not REALLY a weakness. But you could make the same argument about a kryptonite hand grenade. "Well. All it really does is kill him by riffling his body with shrapnel, that can penetrate his skin since it's kryptonite, and then he bleeds out and does. So really, the kryptonite grenade isn't a weakness. Anyone will be killed by that the same way"
“Sample text” will never not be funny
Especially when it's baffled
Updated Superman weakness: *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*
Finally! Another person commenting that… I feel fulfilled in my knowledge someone else thinks of this crippling weakness
He's starting to feel closer to Homelander with the reliance of heat vision
Heat Vision was his thing before Homelander even existed. This is just Clark taking back what's his.
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If that's the case then son wukong would also feel closer to homelander because he also has. Laser eyes
How else would he destroy Kryptonite from range?
To be fair, there aren’t many things and people that can really survive heat vision so don’t fix what ain’t already broken.
Batman will probably use his plot Armor to cover the entire sun!?
Superman's greatest weakness is bad writing making people think he's boring.
And reboots
He is
@@Quezanater0 Superman comics read, just talking purely out of their ass
@@PostCrisisRHrelax
@@Quezanater
debatable. Personally I'm not that interested in him compared to Spider-Man or Captain America, but he isn't necessarily boring.
Wow another visual joke that’s funny 2:00
1:35 *"Oh come on. These fucking laser eyes!"* Bruh I'm DEADER THAN DEAD 💀
There’s this one problem with exploding rocks:
You get more, tiny rocks
Same situation with The Flash. He's not really weak to "cold." He's gets stopped by absolute zero, which stops all moving particles and by definition instantly stops anyone and everything. Everything's weak to absolute zero. It is to Flash what Magic is to Superman.
Yeah but he still does have an ice weakness as the lack of friction can make it difficult for him to co troll his speed properly.
He also has a weakness to certain types of stick traps that cause him to be unable to move
I think a year or two ago Solid jj made a video making fun of Flash slipping on ice in some story though, so that's probably what they're referencing.
@@shaden489 Not really. Flash already goes so fast that any friction would cause fusion explosions if you're trying to be realistic about it. He's run in space before. Saying "he could slip" is funny because, well, Batman could also slip on a slippery surface if he's moving.
Being forcibly immobilized is not a weakness, either. These are just things that are good against anyone. It's like saying Batman's weakness is aggressive strains of cancer, lol.
@@lhfirex Yeah, Batman called Flash a "Seasonal hero" in one of his more classic videos.
@@TwoToneShoes i mean technically a weakness isnt defined as something specific to that person so id say it counts as a weakness even if its a more generalized one.
also as far as the ice thing goes flash has been put on ice plenty of times before and lost his footing i believe it happens several times in the justice league animated series alone.
Joker later found out a weakness for Superman, and let’s just say Supes wasn’t too happy about that .
Nor did Lois, that’s why he called Superman easy mode.
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Joker who was powered by Mr. Myxyzpltlk canonically lost to Superman, let's say he wasn't happy about that.
To a similar effect the opening of DC Online shows a clever usage of his friends and loved ones as well as Kryptonite. Superman got worn down by a huge fight and was sun bathing out in space to heal and power up. The Legion of Doom takes that moment to rush the Justice League and pump Wonder Woman with liquid Kryptonite so when he rushes back to save her he gets taken off guard then Lex comes up behind him and stabs him with a Kryptonite Spear. Honestly pretty effective and would have worked if Brainiac didn’t show up seconds later
@ still won the metaphorical war
Wouldn’t the kryptonite vaporize, making it MORE deadly? Like you can’t destroy matter. It doesn’t just. Go away.
Well. You CAN destroy matter. But probably not with a laser unless supermans eye lasers got some special weird-ass property.
@@TheGruspastej I just assumed his lasers can do whatever he wants them to do after he kept using them to beam clash and overpower darkseids eye beams which literally erase things from existence, but oh the long list of weird things supermans eyes can do...
@ ok fair. Magic does exist.
It's Kryptonite,not Kryptonium.The molecular structure of the rock is implied to be essential for its effect,so tearing it apart would render it harmless.
@@TheGruspastejIn this comment section, we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!
There are other entities out there as strong or stronger than Superman. Easy. Shazam for one. And Shazam is a good guy. Not to mention there are a bunch of legitimately insane weapons out there in the DC universe. One of my favorites was something like a Dimensional Sniper Rifle that fired a dimensional bullet with kryptonite in it into Superman’s brain.