After scanning the coordinates of Krypton's former location via satellite, results return a small percentage of an unknown component. During Infinite Crisis this ring was destroyed by Kal-L of Earth-2. Effects on Kryptonians Blue Kryptonite strips super-powered Kryptoniansof all their abilities, making them mortal and, thus, susceptible to damage and pain as with any human. He sent a sample of the rock to a local university. It is later revealed that this was a manipulation of Felix Faust and the rock was either regular green Kryptonite or not Kryptonite at all. In the television series Smallville, Green Kryptonite, refined or not, can cause normal humans to mutate special abilities, although an outside catalyst (such as a strong electrical charge) is usually required. He cannot be near green kryptonite without doubling over in nausea and pain, and if he were to hold a fragment of it in his hand, it would burn to the touch and the veins in his hand would become exposed and green. Developed by Gus Gorman (played by Richard Pryor), it was intended to be a copy of Green Kryptonite. He later threw most of the Kryptonite into space, except for one piece which was washed into the sewer. Clark hears the voice of his biological mother, Lara, calling for help from Kara's crystal and decides to release her, despite Jor-El's warnings. Kryptonite is a substance from the Crisis Cluster of Universes. This is Red Kryptonite's only appearance in the series, so it is unknown if the substance would have had other effects on Superboy if it had appeared again. 140 (1960), the radioactive Blue rock began as mere chunk of Green Kryptonite. Recently, Lex Luthor has stated that Gold Kryptonite like its previous pre-crisis version can permanently rob Superman of his powers stating that it completly destroys the ability for Superman's cells to process solar energy. Lex Luthor discovered this inadvertently after acquiring a ring with a green kryptonite fragment set in it to provide protection against Superman—Luthor first lost the hand he wore the ring on to cancer and later had to have his brain transferred into a new, cloned body after the cancer was found to have spread throughout his original body. One form removes his powers and … While physically resembling Green Kryptonite, the "Blood" variant drains a portion of life force from present attendees, intended to direct this energy towards an effigy of the deceased as part of a Kryptonian resurrection ceremony. Kryptonite is the name given to shards of matter cast off from the planet Krypton after its destruction.In Pre-Crisis Continuity, depending on the particular dimension such as Earth-One, there were many forms and shades of Kryptonite, while others showed only one form such as Earth-Two and Earth-Three. You'd think just to be backward, it would make Bizarro stronger and healthier! However, on other separate occasions Clark has held and even ingested kryptonite (albeit in dilluted form) and been merely weakened. It has no effect on Kryptonians, but bestows temporary superpowers on Earth lifeforms, most prominently Supergirl's pet cat, A modified variety of Green Kryptonite produced by a human scientist that affects humans in a manner similar to Green Kryptonite on Kryptonians, appearing in, Artificially created by the villain Nero, "Magno-Kryptonite" is magnetically attracted to all substances originally from Krypton, with such incredible force that not even the strength of Superman or Bizarro can escape it according to, Affects humans the same way Red Kryptonite affects Kryptonians. Effects are typically depicted to last for 1-2 Days, after which the Kryptonian in question is always immune to that specific chunk of red kryptonite. This issue was normally overlooked in the pre Crisis comic books, but a non-canonical game sourcebook did refer to kryptonite as "the common ore of the super-actinide Kryptonium, an unusually stable transuranic element, whose atomic number is believed to be 126." It was assumed for a long time that kryptonite radiation was harmless to non-Kryptonians, but occasional isolated incidents were reported where it had sporadic effects on humans. Kryptonite also appears in an episode of the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon, where it is revealed Brainiac 5 has a piece of it, and that the villain Drax, who, despite being an analogue to Superman, is immune to it. Why it is called "Slow Kryptonite" is because the rays sent out by normal Kryptonite are "fast" (high in frequency) and synced with the accelerated kryptonian body. It strips or rather suppresses Clark's powers, at least for a time. That is … However, the 'real' Kryptonite doesn't appear to have anything in common with the film's version other than the chemical formula. In the third season episode "Bride of Bizarro", Luthor sent Bizarro to a military research base to steal a large amount of Kryptonite, which Luthor was seen using on Superboy in later episodes. Natural varieties of Kryptonite appear in crystalline forms of varying sizes, ranging from dust to large chunks in the case of green, red and even blue Kryptonite. Clark's resurrected mother Lara Lor-Van gave him the victory ring, telling Clark that it was a Kryptonian tradition to pass the victory ring onto the first born son when he came of age. Green Kryptonite made several more appearances throughout the series, used mostly by Lex Luthor and Metallo. The 1970s and 1980s Super Friends animated series featured kryptonite in various episodes, usually green. The length of time of the interference is presently unknown, and its effective range seemss limited to only be within a short distance of a few yards. Blue Kryptonite in Pre-Crisis continuity, Superman once used a Bizarro Duplicator Ray on a piece of Green Kryptonite transforming it into Blue Kryptonite. The second, in the Justice League story "Tower of Babel", was created by Batman as a way of stopping Superman without killing him, should this prove necessary. This came to the attention of Jason Trask. The Jewel Kryptonite appears to not effect Major Zod when Clark tries to influence him. Red Kryptonite effects typically last for 24-48 hours (though sometimes as long as 72), after which the Kryptonian in question is always immune to that specific chunk of Red Kryptonite. Created by pre-crisis Supergirl while experimenting with Green Kryptonite in hopes of finding an antidote. The name "kryptonite" covers a variety of forms of the substance, but usually refers to the most common "green" form. Kryptonite is the name given to shards of matter cast off from the planet Krypton after its destruction. Clark Kent of the Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa, http://www.comicvine.com/kryptonite/18-32213/, https://supermanrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Kryptonite?oldid=25693. This does bring up the question of Batman's habit of also carrying a piece of kryptonite in his own belt; however, since Batman has seen what the kryptonite did to Luthor, the famed methodicality of Batman may mean that he likely has the pouch lined with lead. Induces decay immediately upon exposure, with a range of about 25 yards. It can also purify water. In this form, he normally wears a leather jacket and rides around on a motorcycle. Superman tricked Brainiac with his mutation, however, as he waited for his return (he went into space to monitor the change) and allowed everyone on Earth to believe the k made him go mad, as he would never appear without a hat, and he would act out a hat's properties to solve crime. Kryptonite has appeared in various forms in the various Superman media spinoffs, however. Black kryptonite was formed by heating up green kryptonite. White Kryptonite was apparently harmful to plant-life. Kryptonite is a fictional substance from the Superman comic book series (and subsequent related media). The mineral, to be named Jadarite (after Jadar, the location of the Serbian mine where it was discovered), will go on show at the London Natural History Museum [2]. First appearing in DC Comics’ Superman No. Like Hanna-Barbera's Birdman, Superman in some ways is a living solar battery; his cells absorb electromagnetic radiation from stars (like Earth's sun). Developed by Gus Gorman, it was intended to be a copy of green kryptonite. It was made from what was left of a mountain range on Krypton called the Jewel Mountains (it is shown in one comic story to be used by Zod and Ursa outside the Zone in the "real" world as well, to blow up the piece they had and transport themselves back to the Phantom Zone. Green Kryptonite has no short-term effects on humans (though strictly in post-Crisis continuity, long-term exposure is apparently lethal to humans, due to radiation poisoning) or non-superpowered Kryptonians. Action Comics #591 would formally have Kryptonite as a compound in the Post-Crisis DCU. It appears the green k in red/green kryptonite does nothing, although the mutation did last longer than 24 hours, perhaps indicating the green k amplified the effects. Blue Kryptonite: Blue kryptonite is the Bizarro analogue to green kryptonite. In the 1990s series, Superman: The Animated Series, one explanation offered for the science of kryptonite is that Superman feels the detrimental effects of kryptonite radiation quicker that normal humans because his body absorbs it more readily, as a result of sharing a common point of origin with the element. Appearances Dem … The name "kryptonite" covers a variety of forms of the substance but usually refers to the most common "green" form. Superman III is a 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by David Newman and Leslie Newman based on the DC Comics character Superman. Lex Luthor steals it from a Metropolis museum and uses it in his quest to create a new kryptonite landmass. In Superman Returns, an additional piece of kryptonite is found in a rock fragment, once more in Addis Ababa. The scientific name for the rock was displayed on its case, 'Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine'. The newly discovered mineral was first analyzed by Dr. Chris Stanley, a minerologist at the London Museum of Natural History. Red Kryptonite made an appearance in the second season episode "Super Menace". These changes seem to be linked to the circumstances under which the subject was exposed to kryptonite and the subject's emotional state (similar to how gamma radiation affects people in the Marvel Comics universe). No two chunks of Red Kryptonite have the same effect. In the episode "Rest in Peace", Sinestro refers to a form of kryptonite called "Krypton Steel" as "a harmless form of kryptonite that only Superman can penetrate". This avoids the logical shortcut which would result if a villain could, for instance, simply expose Superman to Kryptonite and then shoot him with a gun. In the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Green Kryptonite acted similarly to movie-continuity Kryptonite. It is speculated that kryptonite may be located in a hypothetical "island of stability" high on the periodic table, beyond the currently known unstable elements, in the vicinity of atomic number 150. The evil Superman and Clark Kent, the embodiment of Superman's remaining good qualities, then engage in an epic battle at a deserted junkyard, where Clark emerges victorious and the evil Superman fades from sight. An imperfect synthesis of artificial kryptonite containing tar appeared in Superman III. Brainiac attacked Superman with a dunce cap, but Superman used the force of all three eyes to use his heat vision to dissolve Brainiac's force field. Both each of the natural variants and one of the synthetic variants glow a bright color in the presence of Kryptoniansor Kryptonian organisms. Superman once encountered Gold Kryptonite when he had to race against the Flash across the endless reaches of the Universe. This variety affects humans the same way red kryptonite affects kryptonians. A non-canonical roleplaying game supplement by comic book writer Roger Stern called the new element "kryptonium" with kryptonite being its common ore. During the 3rd season a new second piece was discovered, which Superman turned over to. During the extraction process, the rock appears to hold a significant amount of green kryptonite. In Adventure Comics (volume 1) #171 (December 1950) the kryptonite shown trapping Superboy was colored purple but acted just like regular Green. In the story, it turned Superman's skin transparent, resulting in his "solar batteries" overloading. In the episode's final scenes, it was revealed that a splinter of the element entered Clark's bloodstream. The material created from the remains of Superman's native planet of Krypton generally has detrimental effects on Superman. The aforementioned atomic number was reinforced by the first season episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman entitled "The Green, Green Glow of Home," where it was stated that kryptonite was "periodic element 126" and that it "emits an extremely high band radiation that does not seem to affect humans". Blue kryptonite: Blue kryptonite is the Bizarro analogue to green kryptonite. Second is Lex Luthor's kryptonite poisoning/cancer as seen in Justice League, attributed to Lex's admitted habit of keeping a fist-sized chunk of kryptonite in his pocket for years. Jewel Kryptonite amplifies the psychic powers of Phantom Zone residents, allowing them to project illusions into the "real world" or perform mind control. In the first comic appearance of kryptonite, the kryptonite seen was red, but had the properties of green k. Luthor's artifical Gold Kryptonite works basically like the Pre-Crisis Gold but the interferring effects are only temporary unlike the Pre-Crisis Gold. Initial exposure does not outright kill … After scanning the coordinates of Krypton's former location via satellite, results return a small percentage of an unknown component. (Except Superman's body according to Smallville can reject it before death as seen in the episode Void when Clark is injected by Kryptonite. He then used the altered Blue Kryptonite to halt an army of advancing Bizarros. Anti-Kryptonite from the first antimatter universe of Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa has no effect on matter based Kryptonians. (a possible conclusion to the story of Superman of Earth-One), an "imaginary story" about what might have happened if someone other than the Kents had found the baby Superman, and the Superman & Batman: Generations stories. In Smallville it suppresses Kryptonians' powers and removes their sensitivity to green kryptonite. Blue Kryptonite is a varietal of Kryptonite. In the mainstream post-Crisis DC universe, it appears that instead of removing Kryptonian super-powers pemanently it causes cellular degeneration and once caused Superman to age at an accelerated rate; however, it is not confirmed if this is true of all Gold Kryptonite because this version was presumably created by the time traveller Gog. It is the third installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman II (1980). :D They were actually Tikron stones. Kryptonite, in the animated series, still has effects on normal humans as well. Subsequently the main fragment of the meteorite was destroyed and Trask was killed by the local Sheriff. Green kryptonite remains the only variety of the substance ever seen in the DCAU. In the film, Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) and his cronies track a large chunk to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they steal it from a museum under the cover of night. Kryptonite is described as radioactive remains of Superman’s home planet of Krypton and has not only detrimental effects on Superman but on other Kryptonians as well.As the Superman mythos developed, kryptonite was discovered to come in many different forms, each having their own unique effect on Superman. Gold Kryptonite has an effective range of two feet, and permanently removes a Kryptonian's super-powers. Also created for the series was black kryptonite (first appearing in the episode "Crusade"), which is capable of separating certain entities within individual organisms, e.g., splitting a person's good and evil sides. —Astra's associate[src] Kryptonite is normally green and Kryptoniansexposed to the element will become weak within close proximity or pierced by w… It has had healing effects on Superman. Superman's first encounter with kryptonite did not take place in his comic. Professor Emil Hamilton used the term "Kryptonite-X" (, Although a hoax in the continuity of the comics, Silver Kryptonite appeared in the television series, In "Panic in the Sky", Superman’s attempt to shift a meteor hurtling toward earth leaves him with amnesia. This makes it impossible for Superman to even touch the substance, as it would be the equivalent of a normal man touching radioactive rods from a nuclear reactor with his bare skin. It was produced during explosion of Krypton. Blue Kryptonite was introduced in the seventh season of Smallville. Welcome to /r/Smallville! The substitution of tar (which Gorman used after glancing at a cigarette carton) for a crucial, but unknown, component resulted in the synthetic kryptonite behaving like Red Kryptonite and Black Kryptonite; in this case, the kryptonite turned Superman evil and eventually split him into two people. Blue - Blue kryptonite is the Bizarro analogue to green kryptonite. They may have only chipped off the outer layer in order to test it. In Post-Crisis continuity, silver Kryptonite demonstrates certain mystical properties that are of great value to the supernatural community. After co-opting and launching two missiles for opposite ends of the United States, Luthor places the kryptonite on a chain around Superman's (Christopher Reeve) neck and drops him into a swimming pool. Long term and high-level exposure to green kryptonite can be fatal to Superman. In "The Deadly Rock", another eccentric scientist finds a meteorite that happens to be from Krypton, and a crime boss tries to use it to destroy Superman, who instead destroys. Superman has transformed into a dragon, a dwarf, a lunatic, a non powered giant, an ant-headed humanoid and a villain when being exposed to Red K on various occasions. In Superman Returns, an additional piece of kryptonite is found in a rock fragment, once more in Addis Ababa. Originally, the DC Universe was home to a variety of minerals collectively called kryptonite. Only the element of lead is able to block the radiation, and is therefore Superman's only protection. It played key roles in the 1982 limited series "The Phantom Zone", as well as in three noncanonical stories, namely the 1986 tale Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? In another episode, "Darkseid's Golden Trap", gold kryptonite appears, which is stated to have an effective range of 20 ft (6.1 m). In the film, Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) and his cronies (Ned Beatty and Valerie Perrine) track a large chunk to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they steal it from a museum under the cover of night. The only case of it ever affecting humans occurred in the episode "Onyx", when an experiment with Green Kryptonite went awry and caused Lex Luthor to split in two. Directed by Glen Winter. Silver kryptonite made an appearance in the fifth season episode entitled "Splinter". In 52, the Cult of Conner - a religious sect dedicated to resurrecting Superboy, employed "Blood Kryptonite" in a preliminary ritual to resurrect Sue Dibny. It was stolen by Ra's al Ghul, who quickly put it to use. Upon the destruction of Krypton, Kryptonite was scattered all throughout the galaxy and some of the meteor fragments drifted to the planet Earth. Interestingly, kryptonite is never once referred to as the term "meteor" as it is in the previous movies and Smallville series, only as "distant remains" or "radioactive pieces of Superman's home-world" and once by its official name. Gold Kryptonite also played key roles in several non-canon stories, including the 1986 tale Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Split the personality of … Amazingly, in April 2007 it was announced that geologists in Serbia had found a mineral identified as having the chemical formula sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide [1]. 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