What if Kryptonite didn't kill Kryptonians?

[Kage Kisaragi]

Yeah, read Superman Batman 49, and I got to thinking. "What if the symptoms solar powered Kryptonians experience when exposed to green Kryptonite wasn't life threatening?"
We've all read or seen in some book or another, that Superman can within stand all kinds of damage, even in the animated film, the death of Superman. I believe there was some kind of excuse as to why he appeared dead to human medical examiners but not to Kryptonian based medical knowledge and so on. What if the symptoms solar powered Kryptonians experienced was similar to some kind of false seizure.

We know that Kryptonite robs them of their strength and other super abilities, well what if thats whats really the problem? Their bodies reacting to sudden withdrawal of solar energy and thus super powers. I don't know from any personal experience but I've heard of or seen in other forms of fiction that when a person goes threw withdrawal they have a myriad of different responses depending on the drug usually. So maybe thats whats happening to Superman, maybe that could be a explanation..

What if this does later turnout to be the case. That after all this time, the rocks from his home planet aren't trying to kill him or the other solar irradiated Kryptonians but are rather expunging the solar power they have in them little by little and that its their bodies that are just reacting negatively to it. What if solar power is the drug and the Kryptonians are just so high on it that they don't wanna stop, and that on some level (perhaps subconsciously) their minds are forcing their bodies to react negatively to the lose of solar power and the re-immersion of kryptonite radiation?

Any thoughts? Do you think this could be a possibly story?

(Oh im still reading 49 as of the time I'm writing this, but I was half way through it when this idea came to me.)

[Supermancho]

Any writer could explore this matter. Superman in a psychedelic trip?:wink:

[Kage Kisaragi]

Any writer could explore this matter. Superman in a psychedelic trip?:wink:

Yeah something like that. I mean, wouldn't that be something? Superman was meant to be mortal, but because of yellow sunlight it made him godly, yet the rocks from his planet rob him of that godliness and thus his already dependent body now sickens and convulses while trying to hang on to the power it has grown some accustom to. Yet if the solar radiation was ever removed from the equation and sufficient kryptonite was ever exposed to him, he might return to a normal kryptonian form of normal... of course it would have to be gradually and he'd need to be monitored until his body readjusted to what normal kryptonians experience being surrounded by the stuff go through.

[herogirl]

Superman would lose appeal. A completely invincible hero is only cool for like a blip in time. The coolest thing about Superman is that he CAN be defeated, but he overcomes his weaknesses.

[Leebenhouse]

Well, I wouldnt say that idea would work. Superman has already had a couple of occasions where he was robbed of acquiring solar energy, and his body reacted by becoming weaker. In Final Night and the Superman: Exile TPB, Superman experienced a loss of powers because the lack of yellow solar radiation. And he didn't go through withdrawl symptoms.

Now, when you think about it, green K rips out the solar energy from their cells, and the results are lethal. Now, a weakened green k, diluted, could be used to poison and gradually rob a Kryptonian of their powers.

But, then again, the green k poisoning to remove his powers would give him cancer and eventually kill him, just like what happened to Lex Luthor back in the day.