Just wondering if his biting, chewing and digesting powers are powerful enough to take a bite out of a Kryptonian or Daxamite.
Hmm. I don’t think it was ever addressed, but Bismolians are generally said to be able to eat anything - presumably including such things as Inertron or Kryptonian/Daxamite flesh.
Matter Eater Lad could probably cannibalize the post-Crisis Superman or the superpowered cloned Superboy with relative ease, although I also speculate inhabitants of Bismol probably have some millennia-old cultural taboos about eating living flesh, as an evolutionary by-product of their unique digestive systems. Digestion begins with special enzymes in the saliva as well as the jaw strength and teeth enamel integrity to masticate flesh and bone; Bismolians’ teeth and saliva must be exceptionally strong and highly corrosive. Their digestive tracts, stomachs and excretory systems are pure biofission reactors.
All the above is assumed that Superboy and Mon-El would be eaten live and raw, without any special culinary preparations. Were Mon-El laid out on a lead slab, or Superboy allowed to tenderize under a red sun solar lamp, I’m sure Matter Eater Lad could find something about his fellow Legionnaires he could really sink his teeth into. Tongues, perhaps, or maybe the ball sacs. Mmmm-mmm.
Eating the pre-Crisis Superboy would be on the order of one hundred times harder, I’m a lot more dubious unless it involved kryptonite and hellblossom spice. Somebody should toss Superman some Kryptonian grooming products so he can clip a toenail and have Matter Eater Lad chew on that.
… I thnk about this stuff waaaAAaay too much not to be paid for it…
Pre-Crisis, heck naw, unless he’d brushed with kryptonite toothpaste earlier that day. Pre-Crisis, nothing could hurt a kryptonian except kryptonite. (Indeed, I remember a LSH story i read, maybe in the 1st LSH archive, where the foe gives the Legionnaires amnesia or something by taking their picutre with a special camera, and the writer took pains to point out that there was kryptonite as part of the mechanism which is why it could work on Superboy.)
Post-Crisis, I agree with Askia. Matter-Eater Lad’s post-boot analogue (Tenzil Kem) was never a member of the Legion, although according to cmkeller’s Legion Help File he does have the same powers. Who knows if he’ll be part of the new reboot2.
–Cliffy
Let’s rephrase the question in a way that eliminates the distasteful cannibalism aspects of the question while still addressing the issue of whether his system could digest tissue from the two “supers.” Could Matter Eater Lad process the ejaculate after orally “servicing” Superboy or Monel?
Sounds like some slash fanfic.
Well, since the pre-Crisis Matter-Eater Lad consumed the Miracle Machine, the most powerful device in the pre-Crisis 30th Century, I have to think Kryptonian or Daxamite flesh would not have posed much of an obstacle.
First he’d have to solve the “Man of Steel, Legionnaire of Kleenex” problem.
–Cliffy
Well, let’s move it to slash-fanfic-horror:
What if, pre-jaculation, Element Lad walked in and Matter-Eater Lad, in a fit of surprise (gasp!) bit down?!?!!?