Maybe he’s a really good actor and can project a totally different aura as Clark Kent (dorkus malorkus), than Superman, mountain crusher. Of course, if he does, it doesn’t show up in the way he’s drawn in the comics.
Clark Kent’s Glasses and dorkus malorkus – two band names in one thread.
All you need is a biological cold fusion reactor built into your body; then any food or drink with hydrogen in it could be a powersource.
I like the 5 alarm chili explanation better.
I always liked the way Christopher Reeve handled that. When he was in Clark-mode, he slumped his shoulders, talked with a higher pitched voice, and used a lot of “golly Ms. Lanes”.
Go get yourself a copy of E.E. “Doc” Smith’s The Skylark of Space.
Therein, you’ll find a fictitious metal called arenak, which is totally transparent yet is 500 times stronger and harder than the strongest and hardest steel.
More than once, I’ve mulled over the implications to technology and society that such a substance would pose if it were real.
Why, yes. It would make transporting humpback whales a breeze!
To be honest, the Kryptonian lamps fantasy my brother and I shared was simply a way for us to avoid taking responsibility for our own actions. “It’s not our fault it broke, it’s Earth’s fault for not being more like Krypton. This wouldn’t have happened if we lived there.”
Yeah, but you’d never again get to have one of those humorous chase scenes in a movie where somebody drives his car through a plate glass window.
BONG!!!
Ow, godDAMN.
Sure it would. Kryptonion crap is only indestructable on Earth - it’s perfectly breakable on Krypton. Yellow Sun radiation works for it, too.
Once again, depends on the version of Krypton we’re talking about.
In the original continuity, as written by Siegel and Shuster, EVERYTHING on Krypton was super, red sun or otherwise. Jor-El routinely entered his home by leaping up to the second floor balcony, and at one point, when Earth enters the discussion, the people of this poor, backward planet are dismissed with the remark, “Why, they do not even possess x-ray vision!”
Later, the situation was retconned into “things from Krypton become super only under a yellow sun, including the people, dogs, and so forth.”
Later, this was further retconned into “only the people. And even then, they have to spend a few years soaking up the sun. And kryptonite causes cancer in Earth humans dumb enough to wear it as jewelry.”
If everyone on Krypton had x-ray vision, why did they wear clothes? Or were they all naked in the early comics?
What is the Crisis mentioned previously, which seems to mark the division between two story lines?
The Crisis on Infinite Earths was the first big Retcon. Removed most of the alternate universes, making a new unified universe, which incorporated or did away with old canon as the new writers saw fit - no more Superboy, for instance. (This had other consequences for one of the titles not actually involved in the Crisis.)
The evolution of the character stable at DC comics is a long and complex one. Starting in 1938, the company created hundreds of characters, almost all of whom died out when comic books declined in popularity around 1949. The only three characters that have been in constant publication under their own titles are Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
When things started picking up again in the late fifties, DC started rebuilding its stable of secondary characters. In many cases, they re-used the names of past characters while changing the secret identities, costumes and in some cases, the super-powers. Two of the most notable updates were that of:
The Flash
Original identity: Jay Garrick
Original first appearance: Flash Comics #1 (January 1940)
Original origin: Inhaled the fumes of “heavy water”
Original powers: Super-speed
Revamped identity: Barry Allen
Revamped first appearance: Showcase #4 (September-October 1956)
Revamped origin: Standing near cabinet of various chemicals, when cabinet was struck by lightning
Revamped powers: Super-speed
The Green Lantern
Original identity: Alan Scott
Original first appearance: All-American Comics #16 (July 1940)
Original origin: Obtained ancient magical lantern
Original powers: Power ring carved from lantern, could produce and manipulate green energy, vulnerable to wood
Revamped identity: Hal Jordan
Revamped first appearance: Showcase #22 (September-October 1959)
Revamped origin: Obtained alien-manufactured lantern from dying extraterrestrial
Revamped powers: Power ring recharged by lantern, could produce and manipulate green energy, vulnerable to the colour yellow
Within the Barry Allen stories, it was established that as a boy, Allen had read comic books about a fiction Flash named Jay Garrick. The temptation to have to the two Flashes meet, though, proved irresistible and Flash #123 (September 1961) carried the story “Flash of Two Worlds!” In that story, it was established that both Flashes were “real”, but they loved in parallel dimensions, on Earths with slightly different histories. The “mainstream” Earth (where DC’s modern stories were taking place) was dubbed “Earth-1” while the “golden age” Earth (containing all the characters that had popped up during World War Two, and thus were about twenty years older than their Earth-1 counterparts) was dubbed “Earth-2”.
Crossovers became common, most notably between the silver-age Justice League and golden-age Justice Society (Justice League of America issues #21 and 22 were titled “Crisis on Earth-One” and “Crisis on Earth-Two” respectively, with the heroes bouncing back and forth, chasing villians who were doing the same - this is the first time the phrase “Crisis” was attached to the parallel-Earth concept). The notion of an infinite number of parallel Earths was now firmly part of the DC continuity.
Since the “Earth-2” stories weren’t mainstream, the writers could play with them a little. The Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane, for example were married.
Along the way, DC bought out smaller comic companies, including Fawcett, who had been publishing “Captain Marvel” (and numerous related characters) since the forties. Rather than integrate them into the “mainstream” universe, DC simply tucked them away on “Earth-S” (“S” for “Shazam”). Something similar happened when DC bought Quality Comics, and tucked their characters away on “Earth-X”.
Parallel Earths became a fairly standard (and objectively, somewhat lazy) plot device. Why is Superboy acting strange? Well, he’s not the “real” Superboy, he’s the evil Superboy from a parallel universe! Other “Crises” popped up, including “Crisis on Earth Prime” and “Crisis on Earth C-Minus!” and getting more and more ludicrous.
In the mid-eighties, DC decided to revamp their highly-twisted and often self-contradictory continuity. The series “Crisis on Infinite Earths” was conceived as a hugely complicated multiverse-spanning in which virtually every DC character past and present would have at least a cameo. At the end, the DC “multiverse” had been squished into one single universe. Trouble was, a lot of the elements that fans had liked had been lost (John Byrne, the artist-writer hired to revamp Superman, did away with the entire “Superboy” career, multi-coloured kryptonite, Krypto the super-dog, the shrunken city of Kandor etc.).
As a side note, and in a rather colossal act of poor planning, DC was also publishing a series called “Who’s Who in the DC Universe”, which was supposed to give a summary of the origin and powers of each major character. The Crisis, though, made many of these origins obsolete as they were being published!
Pre-Crisis elements are popping up, and whole stories are being written as though the Crisis had never happened, because the fans like them.
So the DC universe remains unwieldy and contradictory, but slightly less so. Fans use the term “pre-” and “post-Crisis” (personally, I prefer a three-way split: Post-Crisis, silver-age and golden-age) to specify which version of the characters they are referring to.
He was also about as cordinated as a drunk monkey ina tub of jello.
That whole idea that clark carries him self diffrent then supes is glossed over a bit in rein of the Supermen when lois meets the last son of Krypton, his voices changes when he talks to her. she though it sounded softer, more like clarks voice.
What I want to know is this: if the glasses are made from something from the ship, what were the lenses cut with?
Wow! Thank you for that fantastic response Bryan Ekers. It answered a lot of questions I’d had after reading a few of the comic threads here. 
Maybe Jor-El stashed a Kryptonian Dremmel inside the rocket.