# Who killed Superman? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253 "2010-01-09T05:05:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/41 "2013-02-08T05:43:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Cable. Cable is a Marvel comic character. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/42 "2013-02-08T06:27:30Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Well, if he was really dead, how was his resurrection explained without making him into a beardless Jesus? He came back with a beard, of course. And I think it was more an extended near-death experience, really. Even “only mostly dead” might be overstating how dead he was. He was more like vegetative. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/43 "2013-02-08T15:29:26Z")
> [@HeadNinja](#): > > Base on his first appearance Superman went to High School as early as 1930. At that time Biology consisted of labeling things “rocks” and “not rocks” This is proof that he is Super Smart, as he independently discovered the following subcategories under “Not Rocks”: “Legs” and “No Legs” And yet, he ended up [dating a mermaid](http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/5/51872/1568333-lorilemaris_super.jpg), failing both the “Legs and No Legs” and the “Fish and Not Fish” phyla. > [@foolsguinea](#): > > He came back with a beard, of course. > > And I think it was more an extended near-death experience, really. Even “only mostly dead” might be overstating how dead he was. He was more like vegetative. He couldn’t have been vegatative or else the white Kryptonite would have killed him.😉 Speaking of Kryptonite, does anyone remember[pink Kryptonite](http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kryptonite)? While not deadly, it was to die for! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/44 "2013-02-08T16:07:47Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Superman’s not even the first character to come back from the dead in DC comics, being beaten by Lightning Lad (later retconned as the mind of Proty in his body…said retcon seems to have been ignored in the restoration of that continuity), Hector Hall (who, granted was ‘resurrected’ in a corner of the Dreaming, not coming back truly corporeally until sometime after Superman), and probably others. (I want to say Larry Trainor, but I don’t think his return was explained before the ‘he’s not really Larry’ explanation that currently exists, so it was possible to take it as a ‘fake death’, like the Chief’s or Cliff’s.) > > That’s not including people like El Diablo, or (sort of) the Spectre, who have it as part of their origin. You’re forgetting Donovan Flint of **[Star Hunters](http://www.comics.org/issue/32122/cover/4/)**. Note the title of the story, though the trope was so well established that fans said, “He comes back to life again.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/45 "2013-02-10T00:03:02Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > [The Death of Superman](http://www.studiosanning.shawbiz.ca/superman_family/chronology/superman/sm149/index.htm), from Superman #149, November 1961. > > Notably, and oddly, the Kandorians try and condemn Luthor to the Phantom Zone, while claiming he’s the greatest villian since Adolph Eichmann (!). Eichmann’s trial in Israel was then in the news. How the Kandorians knew about him is unclear. > [@Alessan](#): > > To be fair, he \*is \*Jewish. Oy vey! [insert happy orthodox smiley here] ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/46 "2013-02-10T00:39:03Z")
Superman is a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253/47 "2013-02-11T17:30:06Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Speaking of Kryptonite, does anyone remember[pink Kryptonite](http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kryptonite)? While not deadly, it was to die for! I shall be stealing this joke at the first opportunity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-superman/524253.md?page=2)