Why is superman's weakness cryptonite?

Answer 1

The writer's needed a plot device. Superman was so powerful they simply couldn't find enough bad guys to make the story interesting - hence kryptonite.

I can't say I like it much. If you really think about it, his own world is making him weak and sick. Sometimes it just makes him nuts (red kryptonite). Now they have many different versions of it - even the Green Lantern can produce the frequencies necessary to mimic this piece of rock. And if that isn't bad enough - sometimes it seems that everyone and their mother is carrying a piece.

If you saw Superman Returns - Lex Luthor created an island of it... You know a bunch of it fell in the sea... I think Superman should go on hiatus until they find another plot device:-)

The reasoning behind it is that it effects his cells (which hold the energy of our yellow sun).

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Answer 2

Let's just say they NEEDED a weakness for something as strong as Superman. It's some rule forced on writers and people that design characters v.v;

Then you go into the details and it's like,.. original just because it was a piece of his planet.. it had the effects as if this was his planet. Okay,.. that didn't make enough sense. So they went with Instant Death,.. but then he survives touching it,.. so that doesn't work out. So then,.. how about Radiation,.. sure,.. it takes a while to wear off... but then the effects of being on Earth make him Super again.

So there is an Evoluation to the Kryptonite. In the end though,... there are now many types of Kryptonite to try to make everyone happy.

So this pieces, at this size,.. in this color... could kill him. But this other piece, at this other size,.. of a clearly different color... it just switches his personality,.. sure,.. in the one in the corner there,.. that one talks to him. Your probably laughing at me or mad but this is what they have done.

So I'll just go with,.. it has various effects and was supposed to only effect him because it's from his planet,... and although not all of these he might feel make him weak,.. they alter him like drugs... illegal neurcatics. So the effects,.. no matter what they are,.. are an alternate state to him. And yet,.. this is not true either because some things don't even effect him for some reason but they are so breath takeing your not supposed to notice.

Answer 3

Kryptonite is radioactive. It will hurt anybody, the way it gave Luthor cancer so he had to have his hand amputated when he wore a Kryptonite ring, thinking it would protect him from Superman. But it will hurt Superman a lot faster than anybody
else.

For more details, check the site Superman Through the Ages.

29 NOV 06, 2012 hrs, GMT.

Answer 4

It spelled Kryptonite, because it was once a part of his destroyed home-planet, Krypton. In the comics, when Krypton was destroyed, the fragments of the planet became radioactive on a frequency that affected only Kryptonians, ie Superman, if he is exposed to it, the radiation blocks his cells from absorbing sunlight ( strips his powers ), then sets up radiation poisoning and would prove lethal unless the kryptonite is removed or placed in a lead container, which blocks most any radiation.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

because kryptonite is rock fragments from his planet.........its supposed to neutralize his powers that he gets from the earth's sun.......

nobody who lived on krypton had powers.......they had to come to earth to get them......