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Kage Kisaragi
04-26-2007, 12:02 PM
Okay its been proven that people of considerable super strength can make Superman feel their punches in various degrees of pain, but if Supermans physiology is similiar to humans particularly men, then are his testicals less resistant to various degress of super strength? It doesnt take much force/pressure to generally alarm us guys to a attack down there but would anyone say that the lowest lv super strength in DC could generally hurt Superman by giving him a low blow or a swift kick in the nuts?

This is assuming the Man of Steel is caught off guard or cant use his superspeed/reflexes for a moment to evade the blow.

Has anyone ever hit him in nuts?

Somehow I can see Wonder Woman / Power Girl giving him a swift kick to the junk and taking him out of a fight relatively quickly.

It's to late the change the title now, but I would have called this "other vulnerability."

Joe Acro
04-26-2007, 01:31 PM
I don't know about currently, but for a while it was established that Superman had an invulnerable field around him, akin to just heightened version of the electromagnetic fields humans produce naturally. Therefore, if that description is still the accepted one, his genitals wouldn't any more vulnerable than the rest of his body.

Based on that description, I once theorized that someone might be able to take him out at the back of the neck, as the cape might disrupt the field there. I have since discarded that notion.

trickster
04-26-2007, 02:52 PM
Well, that would definitely not look heroic (that is to say it would look ridiculous). Which is why it'll never happen. People like to have idols. If they only took the time to think how ridiculous Hitler or Stalin looked on the can, we would have been spared Communism and Nazism.

PatrickG
04-26-2007, 03:29 PM
I believe Lobo has kicked Superman in the crotch before.

It would take super-strength to pull off the feat. As-in, you'd have to kick with the force of multiple nuclear warheads.

But yeah, it should still hurt a bit more.

gorosaurus
04-28-2007, 11:33 AM
Ultraman kicked Supe's family jewels in the Superman/Batman Annual.
Part the action was off panel, so it was ultra- obvious; but man does Superman look hurt! In retrospect, it seems like a perfectly natural act for Ultraman to do; I'm surprised more villains don't do it.
"Introducing Batman's deadliest foe yet; The Nutcracker!:

Wenatchee the Hatchet
04-28-2007, 08:30 PM
The place to hurt him most would be the surface of the eye but who on earth would be fast enough to hurt him there? One tiny thing about Superman Returns I thought might have overplayed his invulnerability to physical attack is the bullet bouncing off the eye. If Supes is THAT impervious then brawls in movies shouldn't last more than a few seconds.

Conner_Kent
04-29-2007, 01:28 AM
kicking him in the nuts.....we talking when he's near green K or under a red sun or the use of magic? if none of those 3 apply then a kick to the twing 'n berries would'nt really do anything to him, he'd just stand there and say something like "Ha stupid villian, thinking you could get the upper hand by resorting to dirty tactics, shame shame shame" lmao

David Atkins
04-29-2007, 07:29 PM
In real life, a kick to the balls during a fight is just as (if not more) likely to make a man very, very angry as it is to incapacitate him. I would prefer see it portrayed that way in a Superman comic.

Lobo: *Nut punch!*
Superman: :evilangry
Lobo: :(
Superman: *Brutal, bloody victory.*