Things super-powered characters can't do because of their powers

Although in one Silver Age story, Superman grew long hair, a beard, and long fingernails because of exposure to that useful plot device, Red Kryptonite. He was able to get himself barbereed by haviong Supergirl and Krypto simultaneously use their heat vision on him.
This proves two things:

1.) In the Silver Age, Superman and other Kryptonians were totally invulnerable, except when it was inconvenient (otherwise General Kang could’ve used his fingernails on Superman, or the Kandor folk could’ve descended on Superman en mass and torched him)

2.) Superman trusted his dog an awful lot more than I’d trust my cats. (“Here, Midnight – hold the razor HERE. Now stroke gently. GENTLY!”)

Wasn’t it “the heat from his x-ray vision?”

Wolverine’s powers means me makes more money, all else being equal, than other Xmen. He doesn’t need to pay for medical insurance.

It’s not like he’d feel it if anyone else did it. Heh. Gettin his rocks off.

Dr Xavier has a mandatory community-rated plan, surely.

“It’s clobberin’ time!”

Just remembered -

She-Hulk can’t get drunk while she’s in her Hulky form.

However, if she drinks as She-Hulk and then changes back into Jen Walters, she’ll feel all the effects of the alcohol she dranks with the usual side-effects (vomit, etc.).

That’d be useful on a night out, I suppose. Drink all you want in your civilian identity and then when it’s time to drive home: poof! change into a seven-foot-tall atomic monster and you’re good to go.

Yeah, what usually sucks the life out of a man is marriage, not sex.

Thank you, tangentially, for causing me to occupy an entire 30 minutes of should-be-working time reading the (surprisingly long) Wikipedia article on She-Hulk, mostly because I wanted to check my recollection that she didn’t change forms and was stuck in Big Greeny mode.

I was apparently wrong, but in my defense, I haven’t read comics on a regular basis since the late 80s. And I had no idea that she was actually married to J. Jonah Jameson’s kid…

And don’t stand behind Clark Kent after he’s had a few burritos.

Heh. La petite mort, indeed.

But surely unprotected sex would be something to avoid anyway, as it’d probably be even more hazardous in the Marvel universe as it is in ours. Along with all the ordinary terrestrial STDs floating around, there’d no doubt also be freaky mutant viruses, gamma-irradiated pubic lice, Skrull herpes, etc.

Plus, of course, the risk that your partner might suddenly suck the life out of you.

Would Rogue be able to be pregnant? Or would her powers kill any possible child?

Supergirl has the Hymen of Steel. So her only hope might be a Kryptonite-based condom.

Regards,
Shodan

Well, Krypto had human-level intelligence so long as he had super-powers, and clearly he and Superman (and presumably Supergirl) could communicate as if in English. So that’s reasonable (or as close to reasonable as you’ll get in a comic-book universe).

You haven’t met my cat. It’s the intelligence that makes it particularly hard to trust her with sharp instruments. Bad enough she’s got the claws.

Not an issue for her, really. I think the only guy who really got pre-Crisis Kara Z’s motor running was her cousin, who could have dealt with the hymen pretty easily.

Supergirl was also pretty close to Biron the centaur, AKA Comet the Super-Horse.

His powers were magical, and Supergirl is vulnerable to magic…

After her death, her secret marriage was revealed in one of the last pre-Crisis issues of Superman (#415, Jan 1986).

My position on that issue mirrors my position on movies about hobbits.

Meh, just bring her Krypto and a jar of peanut butter…

She married Zan?!