On the other hand, i never understood the cryptonite thingie with Superman. - Is he super strong because of Earth's atmosphere and becomes weak when he facse crypton's atomosphere ? Then how can he fly everywhere in the cosmos where there's no atmosphere at all ???? Either u breath or u don't, but u can't do both. - Is it just a special stone in crypton that damages him ? So he's just allergic to that stone ? But other people on the planet aren't and they aren't as strong as him either. - It is said that he became super strong (well yeah, strong, invuln, flying, laser eyes, what else...) because of the radiations he took on the way to Earth in his small ass capsule, but every dude from the same planet is as powerful as him, even tho they TP'ed here in a mothership. Well, according to Wikipedia, Superman gets his energy directly from the stars... Solar Energy Absorption – Superman's powers rely on his cells' ability to absorb and metabolize solar energy from local stars like Earth's sun. His Kryptonian body is a living "solar battery" that absorbs solar energies and converts them for fuel for his powers. His cells also store yellow sun energy so he can use his powers under objects, at night, in dark places, and in space. (Pre-Crisis, yellow stars were said to emit "ultra solar rays" which enabled Kryptonians' superpowers; penetrating the Earth itself, said rays also enabled Kryptonians to stay super-powered at night.[1][2]) The more yellow sun rays Superman absorbs the stronger he gets; in some instances he has been shown to enter the sun in order to increase his powers to their highest potentials, as seen in 1998's DC One Million storyline. Superman can also absorb solar energies of other class stars such as when he absorbed the solar energies of a blue star that increased his abilities to a higher degree and gave him additional abilities. The light of dwarf stars, pulsars, and quasars also grants superman different abilities.[3] Impressive list of powers : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_and_abilities_of_Superman
