What is your favorite kryptonite type or color? And why?

[rowand]

I used to have enough time to run the Great Kryptonite Project and was once merrily attempting to catalogue ALL of the instances of everyone's favorite plot devices, kryptonite, prior to its devolution back in Crisis on Infinite Earths. I was very nitpicky and ended up with over 67 entries. Is there any interest in listing your favorite Super-Powered Kryptonian - Kryptonite interaction? I'll start with my personal favorite: Blue.

It is OK to like Blue Kryptonite the best even if I do so first!

Blue Kryptonite: the destroyer of the animation of non-living but super-powered imperfect Bizarro duplicates of Super-Powered Kryptonians. Converts Bizarro-Supermen, Bizarro-Supergirls, Bizarro-Superman, Jr.s, and Bizarro-Kryptos (and so on) into white non-moving statues or disapating dust clouds. The skin of the effected Bizarro doesn't seem to turn blue at any time during such exposure.

The effects of Blue K can only be blocked by imperfect lead shielding created from the same Professor Dalton created devices that created Bizarros in the first place.

Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen, created by a Professor Potter's more perfect duplicating device, was exposed to Blue K and his mental processes were returned to normal (perfected ?). A later method was used to make Bizarro-Jimmy's physical self into normal Jimmy again.

Blue Kryptonite animated statues unexplicably dug their way out of the center of the cubical (square) Bizarro World and proceeded to conquer the planet while the general Bizarro population cheered them on.

I love Blue Kryptonite because it is so variable and untamed in its existences.

What's your favorite color or type of kryptonite and why?

[Gallinator]

Not to crap on your thread here, but all of the different K colors out there really helped cement my decision to favor Marvel above DC. I know it was necessary in order to introduce some drama in the life of a well-nigh invulnerable main character, but it just got too hokey for my taste.

Oh, what the hell...I can't resist!

GOLD!!

http://supermanica.info/wiki/index.php/Gold_Kryptonite

This rare variety of Kryptonite, to which all surviving natives of Krypton are vulnerable, would permanently rob Superman of his super-powers were he ever top be exposed to its baleful radiations.

Because gold kryptonite has appeared in the chronicles only infrequently, data concerning it is sparse beyond the fact that its radiations can be shielded by lead (S No. 157/1, Nov 1962: “The Super Revenge of the Phantom Zone Prisoner!” S No. 179/2, Aug 1965: “The Menace of Gold Kryptonite!”); and that a Kryptonian’s loss of super-powers due to gold-kryptonite exposure would invariably he inherited by his or her offspring, thereby rendering the offspring incapable of acquiring super-powers in those environments—like that of Earth—where Kryptonian survivors normally acquire them (S No 179/2, Aug ‘65: “The Menace of Gold Kryptonite!”).

Several Kryptonian survivors have lost their super-powers through exposure to gold kryptonite, including the Kryptonian scientist Quex-Ul, released from the Phantom Zone in November 1962 (S No. 157/1: “The Super-Revenge of the Phantom Zone Prisoner!”) and a Kandorian couple (see Kandor) named Jay-Ree and Joenne. Other than loss of their super-powers, the Kandorian couple appear to have experienced no ill effects from their gold-kryptonite exposure (S No. 1 7 2, Aug ‘65: The Menace of Gold kryptonite!”), but Quex-Ul’s loss of super-powers was accompanied by “permanent amnesia” resulting from damage inflicted by the gold kryptonite to “some of his brain’s memory cells” (S No. 157/1, Nov 1962: “The Super-Revenge of the Phantom Zone Prisoner”).

[Gallinator]

...and it's my favorite because when if I have to think about something I don't really like anyway, I'm gonna go with the big guns!

[camper49]

Red Kryptonite.

Every single piece had a different temporary effect on the Big Guy.
As GALLINATOR pointed out, many of the stories were lame but entertaining nonetheless.
Most of them seem to include the proverbial Lois Lane's I-can-prove-Clark-is-Superman yarn while he's under the influence of Red K.

[rowand]

Quex-Ul's loss of memory may have had more to do with his having lost his powers several thousand feet under the sea and rescue was time consuming so that Supes would stay at least 2 feet from the boulder of Gold K. Charlie did however make for good Daily Planet staffing!

Supermanica never mentions that Lesa Lar was exposed to a fragment of Gold Kryptonite shortly before being added to the then local landfill. Lesa was a Kandorian scientist who kept stealing Supergirl's powers while she was kicking it around as Superman's secret weapon,

I get all red and tingly!

Most Red K is one shot per Super Powered Kryptonian. One chunk irradiated Superman while he was shielded by lead. One chunk even stayed active after an exposed SPK lost his powers down in Kandor. One chunk kept on working on Superman time after time as long as he picked a different face to copy every time. Tres weird stuff!

Lois needed fillings made of Amnesium! then she married him!

[camper49]

I can never understand how Superman can be exposed to Red K countless times and even Green K (and other types) but never been exposed to Gold K even once.

Well, okay, I do understand, it's the writers, but you know what I mean....

[fulltimer56]

I like RED also because you just never knew what would happen to Superman when he was exposed to it!! I like how they used it on the show "Smallville" too!

Linda http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/fulltimer56/smiley/ZZZshehulk2.gif

[rowand]

I hear they used "Black Kryptonite on "Smallville." How did that work out?

Gold K was used on Supes at the end of the big goodby story. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel?" Once used, it effectly ends the storyline of the character it is used on. The proverbially painted into corner.

I always waited for a plotline where a SPK fatally exposed to Green K was saved by exposure to Gold K that removes both his powers and the vulnerability having super powers grants Kryptonians.

I always marveled at the Composite Superman not being knocked out of the game by Green K, lead, chunks of Saturn's ring, and so on!

[rowand]

Gallinator! In my opinion, the fault of the Multi-hued Kryptonites story arcs was to be found in the writing not in the self-contained story structure itself. The DC writers were underpaid, given deadlines that required an eggtimer to clock, and generally treated like the slow cousin that nobody wants to sit next to at Thanksgiving dinner. There was plenty of variability and conflict that could be waged against believable enough villains and situations leading to eventual victory.

Marvel had all that but Stan and his brother Larry Leiber were family!

[slucas76]

I didn't know there were so many kinds.

I'm not much of a DC guy. I like green because it's the only one I even knew existed.

[jaeldubyoo]

Found it! I knew I had laying around somewhere. Here's the All-Kryptonite issue special, Superman #227. White? Jewel? Have there been any other form of Kryptonite since 1970?

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/646/supe227ve4.th.jpg (http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=supe227ve4.jpg)

I'm trying out imageshack. Let me know if the thumbnail works.

[rowand]

K-Iron was what all the Terrestrial Green K got transmorphed into back sometimes in the 70's. Smallville, the TV series, brought Red K back in their series but they changed it to Black Kryptonite. Mxyzpltk created Crimson K that did the job magically in the 90's. The Legion of Super-heroes stories contained Kryptonite in various future forms but I think it was all green but was pure light and so on. Technically the Superboy clone that Darkseid created in the Darkness plotlines back in the 80's was a form of artificial Kryptonite since denisons of Krypton were once called Kryptonites..

[Hepcat]

...kryptonite, prior to its devolution back in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

I like rainbow kryptonite myself because it's so pretty. But was not kryptonite eliminated as a plot device around 1970 by editor Julius Schwartz when he took over responsibility for the Superman titles?

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/superman/233-1.jpg

:confused:

[jordanscott]

Any colour that would make Allison Mack notice me.

[custodes]

I think the pre-Julie , Mort Superman titles are the height of DC comics. Jerry Siegel and Otto Binder and Kurt and Curt. Late Silver Age and early to middle Bronze Age was my era. I always preferred The Legion to the JLA (which I thought was a bit dry). Go ask folks 10 years older then me, say born around '49 and they like the "serious" way Julie sci-fi books were written. And they thought the Legion of Super Heroes was for kids.

When Julie took over the Superman family of titles they became a bit dry too. He and Cary Bates weren't really in touch with the super hero now. They were good and it may have been a necessary reboot but, it lacked flavor. The plus side... they had Curt Swan on pencils with Murphy Anderson inks (or pencils in other titles). Both at the height of their drawing powers in the early seventies and unbeatable.

Hated green K but, loved all the "silly" ones.


PS: Jordanscott: I met Allison Mack, outside of (not in) conventions a few times, and she is a very nice young lady.

[Hepcat]

I think the pre-Julie , Mort Superman titles are the height of DC comics.

I agree that the period was the height for the Superman titles, but not necessarily for all of DC.


I always preferred The Legion to the JLA (which I thought was a bit dry). Go ask folks 10 years older then me, say born around '49 and they like the "serious" way Julie sci-fi books were written. And they thought the Legion of Super Heroes was for kids.

I was born in 1952 and to me the Legion wasn't even in the same league as the JLA. I didn't like the Legion being set in the future with Superboy's visits from the past making the situation even more absurd, and too many of the characters had silly minor league powers. They could not have carried their own ongoing features.

#oldie#