He doesn’t have to worry about being injuries when being thrown by the horse he’s riding.
Yes, straight to hell for that thought.
Pushing on the door marked “Pull” doesn’t slow him down.
It’s not a sin to point out great irony about a man of steel.
It is, however, really bad for the door.
It’s kind of mind boggling how careful he would have to be all of the time; moving through the world for Superman would be like living in a world full of sentient soap bubbles.
Post-Crisis, Clark once used the stone-in-his-shoe trick to fake an injury. It couldn’t cause him physical pain, of course, but he could feel it enough to remember to limp. So he might be very minimally bothered by such a stone–not pained, but annoyed.
I’ve always figured that, as long as he’s powered up, anything he swallows gets pretty much vaporized by his digestive system, and thus food is of no nutritional value. That’s why he instantly gets weak when red sun radiation suppresses his powers: he instantly goes into hypoglycemia.
Given the state of his supersenses (x-ray vision, telescopic vision, microscopic vision, superhearing, etc.), he is most likely able to just close his eyes and surf the Internet without a computer.
He’d have a really weird set of home appliances (except for those kept for show):
- No need for microwave, washing machine, tumble dryer, vacuum cleaner
- Could get benefit from an oven, but not a stovetop
- Dishwasher might save him a fraction of effort
Would he have to replace broken glasses and dishes? On the one hand he’d never drop them, on the other hand, how often does he accidentally crush them? Maybe he keeps as many spare saucepans as he does glasses, since the fracture rate would be similar.
Not Superman himself but all the super-strong heroines: having their body weight be such a trivial percentage of their strength that they can wear four-inch spike heels all day long without discomfort.
It depends which superman we’re going with. The latest one crushed a bullet with his eyeball, implying a stone would not press into his skin at all. But yeah, I guess it could be annoying that his walking surface is not flat.
I presume he can FEEL the parts of his body, even if no pain. I mean, if a sniper shot him in the back, I assume he would feel some pressure and know he had been hit, even if the bullet is flattened causing no harm? So, he’d know there was a rock in his shoe, and he’d know that he was off-balanced with high-heeled shoes.
When he steps on a Lego barefoot in the middle of the night…it doesn’t bother him at all!!
He never has to drink a warm beer.
Does he care, though? Apart from Superman III, which I think we can all agree does not actually exist, I’ve never seen a version of Supes who was affected by alcohol whle his powers were working–and absent a buzz, I can see no reason to start drinking beer in the first place. Though conceivably Kryptonian taste buds are different enough from Terran that he doesn’t mind the horrid taste.
I assumed he controlled the rigidity of his body. Otherwise anyone who touched Clark Kent would think they were touching a statue. Perhaps he spends most of his time in that impenetrably inflexible state, but he could relax enough to seem human to the touch if he has to shake hands for instance, and enough to be annoyed by a stone in his shoe. Otherwise he’d crush the stone or drive it into the sole of the shoe. I don’t know about the bullet to the eye incident, could his super reflexes allow him to harden his eyeball a nano-second before contact, or whatever time frame would be required?
He probably gets annoyed having to clean a hundred bits of plastic off his foot and the floor.
He can watch TV with the volume almost at zero, so he doesn’t wake the neighbors.
I enjoy good beer on its own merits. But okay, amend that to " a warm soda."
Get out of annoying conversations, use super ventriloquism to pretend somebody’s calling him.
You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie, Brother.
A classic essay from 1971 by Larry Niven, on why Clark Kent must be the horniest humanoid sentient on Earth.
Or lukewarm coffee.
Any chick he wants to see naked…he does.