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[–] 131 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Doesn't even need to be a magic rock. A regular one thrown at your head also does wonders.

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    [–] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    In Superman The Animated Series Batman (and the Joker) discover that a jade dragon is actually made out of kryptonite because the owners die after a few months.

    And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

    So at least in those universes it's also harmful for humans.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

    In the mainline comics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, wearing a kryptonite ring day after day gave him incurable cancer.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago

    Everybody's weakness is a rock if you hit them with it hard enough.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    Kryptonite lays him out right away even from a reasonable distance.

    Even the plutonium demon core won't kill us right away.

    A little touch of hydrogen cyanide and we're gone though. We're fragile AF

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  • [+] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Bro, I will use my 3 months of bbj to slip behind the bear and put him in a rear naked choke. That's right, I am going bear back.

    This is the moment I wake up from a mix of blood loss and concussion from one swipe of his paw.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm sure I could outrun a koala bear. Which isn't fighting, and koala's aren't bears, but I totally could!

    Also, technically, I can beat any bear in a fistfight, because bears can't make fists and would thus be disqualified immediately upon disemboweling me!

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    If we're talking pure elements at room temperature, people can die from extended contact/eating/breathing beryllium, fluorine, phosphorous, hlorine, chromium, cobalt, arsenic, cadmium, antimony, cesium, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, radium, thorium, uranium, plutonium, and americium. That doesn't even count all of the heavier than air gases that will kill you in a couple of deep breaths. People are very squishy and prone to getting injured by things.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Ah man I've not heard Kryptonite in years

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago* (12 children)

    I have a short playlist of Superman songs.

    • Kryptonite - 3 doors down
    • Jimmy Olsen’s Blues - Spin Doctors
    • Superman (Its not easy) - Five for Fighting
    • Superman’s Dead - Our Lady Peace
    • (Wish i could fly like) Superman - The Kinks
    • Superman - REM

    Always looking for more.

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  • [+] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's all about the joules imparted.

    A small enough rock going fast enough is just as deadly as a large one traveling slower.

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    If you make a piece of dust of about 1microgram fly to someone at about 99% of c, or about 290'000km/s, with Ek=(1/2)mv², we get an energy equivalent to 42'050'000J, or about 10kg of TNT.

    The dust would probably vaporise instantaneously, so it would be the resulting explosion that would be deadly if you fired at point blank range.

    But if you find a dust accelerator that can get enough power for that. It stays technically possible.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "What if I pretend like people are saying something stupid and then cleverly refute it? Yes, that will make an excellent meme."

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Been through two medical fears already, catheter up my dick (3 times) and a broken femur. Kidney stones are still on my bucket list!

    Boss brought his to work one day for show and tell.

    "That came out your urethra?!"

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Yeah but I'm not super. How's he supposed to call himself super if he's weak to the same shit I am.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Yeah but uranium kills you after a bit, kryptonite takes him out instantly.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    If that was the case, Superman would have died more than once.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I've not read the comics but I imagine hr has, a few times?

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I only know of 1 time and kryptonite wasn't even used. Doomsday just beat him to death.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Depending on the writer, there are three consistent kryptonite types:

    Green weakens him, but overall it doesn’t kill him. Strips his powers, makes him faint or just weak and nauseous.

    Blue just takes his powers away either temporarily or permanently

    Red intoxicates him or enhances his impulsiveness/brashness

    There are others, but they kind of shift of just don’t exist in the main canon

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Arsenic and mercury, both commonly occurring metals present in rocks, can kill humans immediately. Especially if vaporized. Uranium can kill and disable quickly in high enough concentrations.

    Also, keep in mind it's a plot device about a fictional flying space alien with laser eyes. It doesn't need to follow the laws of physics.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    But then they’re not rocks. It’s a vapor or a metal. That also actually disqualifies uranium as well since the rock isn’t what’s dangerous, it’s the radiation that destroys your cells. With Superman it’s literally just a rock.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    One big rock from space can wipe out the entire planet.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    You can brain anyone with a rock.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Rock + Isaac Newton = death

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Nice try but I eat Uranium for breakfast.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Most rocks are my weakness, if thrown hard enough

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
    • get near the white house
    • stop time
    • summon a 1lb rock of pure polonium 212
    • resume time
    • profit
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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I mean yes, but so is to much air, to little air, time, gravity, the sun, pointy sticks, our own biology every form of life in existence and failure to poop correctly.

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    plutonium is also poisonous beyond the radiation it emits.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Not only a single type. There is a lot of toxic or radioactive elements in nature

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:

    1. unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and

    2. not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source

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