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In the limited comic series Superman/Aliens, Superman battles a colony of chest-burster Xenomorphs from the Alien film and comic series.
Most of the action takes place in deep space without the benefit of direct sunlight and Superman's power fades the longer he stays away from the sun. Eventually he is so weakened that aliens are able to impregnate him ...
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Is Batman's Kryptonite ring enough?
According to this 1991 comic, it is....
Mind you, this is essentially an imaginary tale or "possible" alternate future, where Superman wasn't as strong [Doomsday never existed, he never trained with Batman, Wonder Woman or Mongol],Batman never met Bane, died, found his son and Tim Drake remained Robin for years as an ...
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I concur with most posted answers above. Kalissar especially did a good job.
The only thing I would add is this:
1] If we are dealing with pre-crisis, not all of Superman's powers are solar related; some come from the difference in gravity between Earth and Krypton. Krypton is theorized to be between 33 to 150,000 times heavier in gravity than earth. As ...
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I put an answer out last month to "What actually Happens to Superman when he is exposed to Kryptonite?" question which may address this directly. You can check it out here to get some perspective:
What actually happens to Superman when he is exposed to kryptonite?
The simple answer?
This depends on the amount of Kryptonite in proportion to sunlight ...
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The magic shown in Constantine mostly, although not entirely, derives from real-world beliefs about magic and religion, although some spells, such as the sleep spell, are not clearly tied to any tradition. Although most of it derives from European traditions, some comes from Africa or the Middle East, or occasionally Asia or South America.
Among the ...
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Maybe the original concept of Batman was only marginally influenced by Bela Lugosi's Dracula? I mean there's no way you could say, "Batman flying through the night" in 1939 and someone not say, "Oh you mean like Dracula?". If I remember rightly whoever owned the Dracula copyrights in the 20's/30's were fiercely protective of them and wouldn't allow anyone to ...
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Your interpretation seems unlikely. The name, "Rachel Roth" (no 'a'), comes from the comics, Teen Titans [third series] #20 [2005] when she decides to enroll in high school. "Roth" was last name of her human mother, Angela Roth (albeit going by "Arella", which means the "The Messenger Angel" in Azarathian, until 2004 when her birth name was introduced). "...
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The original Nightwing did! In the Pre-Crisis days of DC when Dick Grayson first became Nightwing, he acknowledged that Superman was a mentor second only to Batman and that the name came from Superman's Kryptonian heritage.
From "Superman" #158 (1963), Nightwing (and Flamebird) with ultility belts!
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Late to this question, but I happened to find the following evidence in idle re-rereading of old comics just the other day. From "Teen Titans" Annual #1 (1982), Robin and the Titans are prisoners of aliens. Here are two of the green chaps discussing Robin's utility belt (and being unimpressed):
Further visual proof that Robin A) sports a gold and black ...
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At the very latest, when he meets the Red Daughter for the first time.
By the time he meets Eve for the first time (chronologically prior to Season 2) he already knows James Olson is friends with Supergirl.
"Jimmy Olson works there. He's been a thorn, but he's connected to the second Kryptonian."
Season 4, Episode 16, The House of L
When he meets ...
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Well, just going off the list you gave, which doesn't include anything about Achilles (Greek legend), Solomon (Hebrew legend), or Pazuzu (Babylonian myth), you've got
Babylonia: capnomancy, exorcism
Christendom: Faust, grail, hand of glory
Egypt: Eye of Horus
Greece:
Neoplatonism: pentagrams
Pythagoreanism: pentagrams
Israel: water of the Jordan
Wales: ...
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There was an episode of Dragnet in which Sgt. Joe Friday gives a presentation in court using pointer and easel to make the case that the defendant knew she was scamming people out of their money using a pyramid scheme.
The clincher to the argument was the observation that in order to deliver on her promises of wealth, a follower of this revival leader's ...
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I found it thanks to a reddit user by the username superschaap81 ! The creature in question was Subjekt-17 and the issue is Superman 654-658.
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Yes.
Supergirl is very clearly making a stand on current political issues, and the showrunners have basically said as much on multiple occasions. I'm not going to list every single relevant interview, but here's one example:
"Superman and Supergirl always were able to speak out for issues and for social justice. In a world where a lot of us are divided ...
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DC published a story that is similar to this, but it is not a Superman story.
In nr 38 of Tales of the Unexpected (1956) the second story was called Dissection of planet Earth. It was about an inventor called Rod, living in the far future of 2026. Rod and his friend Clay had just tested his latest invention, a spray that makes everything super magnetic, ...
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This is my theory. While they say Bruce had a majority before the IPO, they never said how much. So, let’s say hypothetically, Bruce had a 70% majority initially, as well as several hundred million lying around. With the selling of his shares, all 70%, he can easily buy back 51%. Or, if he wasn’t legally owning his assets by then, Alfred could have, and then ...
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During the Silver Age, the answer is "absolutely nothing".
In "Action Comics" #376, the Anti-Superman Gang has a contest of sorts, initiating four attempts on Superman's life. One attempt involved a ultra-sonic attack on his superhearing. Superman's solution was definitely outside-the-box...all the way to a white dwarf star.
I'm certainly not going to ...
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Actually, there is a direct mention of this. In Superman Earth 1 Volume 1, Tyrell, a Dheronian from the same system as Krypton, tells Superman that both Kryptonians and Dheronians obtain "different properties" depending on dwarf stars, white stars, blue stars, and yellow stars. He directly mentions that "pulsars and quasars give power beyond imagining", and ...
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I believe that since joker was so badly abused as a kid, that he only knows one kind "Affection". and because of how messed up joker is and psychotic, there are a lot of reasons as to why he is they way he is towards Harley. that being said, he has probably seen how his father treated his mother and only knows that type of love and doesn't realize how ...
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Even though this question is already answered and has two excellent examples, there is always room for a third.
In Superman 351(1980) Mr Mxyzptlk is up to his usual tricks. This time he stop a circus caravan by turning its wheels square. Among the circusgoers there is an immigrant boy called Juan that practice English by using a tape-recorder.
Unable to ...
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In season 5, I caught a glimpse of what looked like a spreadsheet on screen when Felicity was doing her thing. It stuck out because the current plot didn't support a spreadsheet being the mysterious hacker juice. I briefly looked scanned through the episodes but couldn't find the clip again. It was especially fast; I had to pause and rewind several times ...
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The character is Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is described as a spiritual entity created through an occult
ritual by the Founding Fathers of the United States. This "Spirit of
America" was initially bound to a powerful talisman and would take
physical form by merging with a dying patriot. The Spirit of America
had taken human form as the Minute-Man during ...
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Superlative answers! I should wish to add some notes, too, which weren't discussed.
Now, I have been a Superman fan for well over 20 years, and have seen the effects of Green K on Kryptonians in a variety of media, so I'll be drawing a few examples. As we know, the overall effect of green Kryptonite is high level toxicity to Kryptonians. However, these ...
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In the cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Flash got into a fight with Reverse Flash and defeated him by tripping him. You can see it in this clip.
It looks like the uploader of that video has disabled playing on other sites, and clicking through to YouTube doesn't preserve the timestamp. You can skip to about 5:15 to ...
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He trips in Justice League (2017) on the stairs, he does not fall safely, does not die but there does appear to be some environmental damage and things get sparky. This is where he ends up on the floor and there looks to be some damage around him though I'm not sure if he caused it or if it was already there.
You can watch the scene here:
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Here's a new list of more than 1400 alliterative characters from Marvel and DC
https://github.com/mroughan/AlephZeroHeroesData/blob/master/Comics/alli_data3_names.csv
Description of the source of the list is here:
https://aleph-zero-heroes.netlify.com/posts/alliteration/
Turns out DC uses alliterative names more than Marvel, but not much.
Here's some ...
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She's not describing herself as small, she's describing the protagonist of the classic story (AKA "Little Red Riding Hood") as being small.
Starfire: Oh, oh, oh! Oh, the story of the diminutive female who wore the red cloak of the riding. I am quite familiar with this tale of the folk.
which boils down to
"Ah, the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I ...
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Logic would dictate that without the extra energy tax using their power causes on their body, their metabolic rate and thus consumption would drop way down. A similar effect occurs on the human body in real life; as we age and hit puberty, the rapid development on a cellular level calls for more energy...hence why teenagers eat so much. As we grow older and ...
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You are thinking of Superman #400. (Cover-dated October 1984, so you were right about the mid-1980s. I bought a copy at the time, and perhaps you did too).
It was written as several chapters, each of which was basically a self-contained little story that depicted different characters living in various eras in the future, and somehow being affected by the ...
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