Superman getting a HairCut?

[Bordnlazy]

Okay how the heck does supes cut his hair? we've seen em shave using heat vision, does he do the same thing with his hair? or do his little krypto-servants at the fortress of solitude have special scissors they use to cut his hair? I know its a stupid question but it's been bugging the crap out of me for years? How DOES HE CUT HIS HAIR!!!!!

[Smokey]

i think the same way, using heat vision..yet then he'd have to pull an omega beam type trick..so i dunno..ive seen it stated that his hair or fingernails dont grow while under a yellow sun, but then it doesnt explain how he'd need to shave then, i dunno, maybe he emits red sun radiation on himself before going to supercuts? lol

[Joker2503]

Scissors laced with watered-down Kryptonite?

[comic_lover]

Okay how the heck does supes cut his hair? we've seen em shave using heat vision, does he do the same thing with his hair? or do his little krypto-servants at the fortress of solitude have special scissors they use to cut his hair? I know its a stupid question but it's been bugging the crap out of me for years? How DOES HE CUT HIS HAIR!!!!! well,back in pre-crisis,he'd shave and give himself a haircut with his heat ray vision reflected off a piece of metal from his Kryptonian spacecraft.....

[superlurker]

Back in the Pre-Crisis days, he didn't *need* to shave or cut his hair. It was noted several times in various stories, when he was under a red sun or otherwise powerless, that his hair and beard would then start growing, like that of a normal man.

Contradictions would abound, of course, but that was probably the more commonly-held idea.

Him shaving with a mirror from his spaceship was a Post-Crisis idea.

[davids]

one story had superman coming back from a mission to a world under a red sun with long hair and beard.

What to do?

Get supergirl, and krypto to combine their heat vision to give hm a shave and a hair cut.

Wonder if he tipped them?

[comic_lover]

Back in the Pre-Crisis days, he didn't *need* to shave or cut his hair. It was noted several times in various stories, when he was under a red sun or otherwise powerless, that his hair and beard would then start growing, like that of a normal man.

Contradictions would abound, of course, but that was probably the more commonly-held idea.

Him shaving with a mirror from his spaceship was a Post-Crisis idea.I'd almost forgotten,it wasn't until the 1986 Byrne revamp that his hair grew at all....One thing I never understood.....how could Clark use a piece of reflective metal to shave anyways,the last I checked a mirror doesn't refract heat ? Oh,well,it's just another one of those comic book " problems ".... :cool:

[Bordnlazy]

i'm gonna go with he probably douses himself with red-solar energy then has his robots cut his hair. or hey i never even thought but maybe he has a *magical* pair of scissors :D

[ChrisII]

Didn't Superman IV also state that his hair was super-strong; granted, that's not comic canon (and apparentally might not be movie canon soon either!)...

[Bordnlazy]

Didn't Superman IV also state that his hair was super-strong; granted, that's not comic canon (and apparentally might not be movie canon soon either!)...


yeah in one of the comics (superman for all seasons)when he was still a teenager he went to the local barbershop to get a haircut and the scissors BROKE :eek:

[dancj]

One thing I never understood.....how could Clark use a piece of reflective metal to shave anyways,the last I checked a mirror doesn't refract heat ? Oh,well,it's just another one of those comic book " problems ".... :cool:

I'm pretty sure mirrors do reflect heat. Heat can travel by convection, conduction and radiation. Mirrors would do nothing for convection or conduction, but radiation - also known as infra-red light - would be reflected by mirrors.

That's why the insides of thermos flasks are shiny

[superlurker]

Didn't Superman IV also state that his hair was super-strong; granted, that's not comic canon (and apparentally might not be movie canon soon either!)...

That was definitely comic canon back in the Pre-Crisis days. At a certain point in time, it was one of Lois' favorite ways of trying to bust Clark's secret identity.

One story actually had her break a scissor on his hair and she thought she'd finally exposed him. Later in the same story, he was kidnapped, and then stabbed in the back of his head -- which, of course did nothing. So he came up with a story about how he was wearing a *metal wig* because he was investigating a particularly nasty gang. Just in case they'd shoot him in the head or something.

Of course, that creates a totally new set of problems. His hair should be pretty rigid and unmoving, which would look somewhat disconcerting to most. But his hair was definitely invulnerable.

[Kojiro]

A "metal wig?" Am I the only one that notices how absurd that sounds?

[sikkbones]

superman hair exsists on diffrent planes depending on the comic book issue and will eventually result in the crisis of infinite hairstyles crossover in 2029.

[HartyPotter]

it's another one of his superpowers?

[Typo Lad]

A "metal wig?" Am I the only one that notices how absurd that sounds?

Welcome to the silver age. Here's your Kryptonite fragment. There's so much of it on the earth, we're giving it away! Also, enjoy your handy-dandy TransMat, which will send you to Parallel worlds as needed. Please remember not to run too fast, as you might break the time barrier.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Welcome to the silver age. Here's your Kryptonite fragment. There's so much of it on the earth, we're giving it away! Also, enjoy your handy-dandy TransMat, which will send you to Parallel worlds as needed. Please remember not to run too fast, as you might break the time barrier.

*ROTFL*

The whole Silver Age thing was absurd.

BTW, that question kinda bugs me as well. And Superman shaving his beard with HV is kinda contradictory, since Superman is impervious to Heat and lasers. Another comic books "problem", I guess.

[Typo Lad]

*ROTFL*

Thenk yew.

The whole Silver Age thing was absurd.

Only if you sit and thing about it. If you sort of... let go.. it's still brilliant.

BTW, that question kinda bugs me as well. And Superman shaving his beard with HV is kinda contradictory, since Superman is impervious to Heat and lasers. Another comic books "problem", I guess.

No problem, really. Superman's invulnerable to anything that operates below his power level, basically. So since his heat vision IS on his level, it works. So if you want to kill Superman, trick him into shooting his heat vision full blast at a reflective surface.

[sikkbones]

so supes heat vision is as distructive as darkseids eye beams powers then?
and if he would have that much concentrated heat on his face wouldn't his surroundings go up in flames?

[Rik Levins]

Superman's body generates a force field that protects anything close to him (i.e., his costume). Hair consists of dead cells, so the hairs themselves don't produce any part of the field, but as long as they lay fairly flat they are within it. By holding a lock of hair straight out, the end of it is outside the field and can be cut by ordinary scissors.
This would apply to his beard as well: if he let it grow long enough, he could trim it. Stubble is still within the field, so he has to shave it off with heat vision unless he wants to go for the Don Johnson look. Byrne established early on that his own heat vision can burn him. (Back in Pre-Crisis days it could not, and so took the combined heat vision of Supergirl and Krypto to burn off his beard).

[Kirayoshi]

That was definitely comic canon back in the Pre-Crisis days. At a certain point in time, it was one of Lois' favorite ways of trying to bust Clark's secret identity.
Actually that gambit worked a lot better in a Fortieth Anniversary issue of Action Comics set in Earth 2, in which the Golden Age Superman and Lois finally got married. For vintage Silver-age silliness, it's actually quite decent(for once Clark gets to shine as much as Superman does!). And even better, you can read the whole story (http://http://superman.ws/tales2/wife/) for free (along with quite a few other Silver Age Superman stories) over at Superman Through the Ages, at www.superman.ws (http://www.superman.ws). Story by Cary Bates, art by Curt Swan, and Joe Giella.

[wingsofdamnation]

theres this one cover where lois is cutting supes hair and she says its a pair of magic scissors and then supes says that she took away all his power because she cut his hair or something

[Adrian Tullberg]

If his hair was as tough as the rest of him, all it would take is Lois noticing Clark has something in his hair - a fleck of paint or something similar - her trying to brush it out, and then she's staring at her palm which has just been cut to ribbons ...

[Gernot]

That would only be if his hair was SHARP, Adrian. You don't cut your hand on a spool of fishing line, do you? ;)

I know it's been stated that his hair only grew to a certain length under a yellow sun, then it simply stopped growing.

Gernot...

[dancj]

Superman's body generates a force field that protects anything close to him (i.e., his costume). Hair consists of dead cells, so the hairs themselves don't produce any part of the field, but as long as they lay fairly flat they are within it. By holding a lock of hair straight out, the end of it is outside the field and can be cut by ordinary scissors.

I doubt it could. Even without the forcefield, Supes is super-tough

[Adrian Tullberg]

That would only be if his hair was SHARP, Adrian. You don't cut your hand on a spool of fishing line, do you? ;)

You can cut your hand on wire strands ... I'm guessing Supe's hair is a mite tougher ...

[Rik Levins]

I doubt it could. Even without the forcefield, Supes is super-tough

Is he, though? I don't know about current continuity, since I stopped buying the books several years ago. But in the early Byrne days, it was strongly implied that Supie's invulnerability was entirely due to the forcefield, and could be shut off. When Psi-Phon gave him a mental block against using his powers, he immediately became as vulnerable as anyone else, and even cut his face on a wooden splinter. The same thing happened when he developed amnesia on Apokolips. In both cases, as soon as his mental state returned to normal, so did his invulnerability.
(I might add that in the same story Psi-Phon was NOT able to remove J'onn J'onzz's invulnerability though he took away all of his other powers).
Of course, as I said I haven't kept up with current developments, so that may have been retconned.
In which case, he'd have to use TWO mirrors to cut his hair.

[garbonzo]

theres this one cover where lois is cutting supes hair and she says its a pair of magic scissors and then supes says that she took away all his power because she cut his hair or something
Back in the day, supes was very vulnerable to magic. Now it seems to be used only when the writers run out of ways to take over his mind or have a giant thing beat on him.

[The Mirrorball Man]

If his hair was as tough as the rest of him, all it would take is Lois noticing Clark has something in his hair - a fleck of paint or something similar - her trying to brush it out, and then she's staring at her palm which has just been cut to ribbons ...
In John Byrne's Next Men there was an invulnerable character called Bethany, who used her long hair as a weapon.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Thenk yew.

You're welcome.

Only if you sit and thing about it. If you sort of... let go.. it's still brilliant.

Yeah, you're right. Besides, there were some really great stories back in the time. I really liked it back then, but then you grow up and start thinking "hey, this is not as great as I remember..." Just like what happened with me and Superfriends.

No problem, really. Superman's invulnerable to anything that operates below his power level, basically. So since his heat vision IS on his level, it works. So if you want to kill Superman, trick him into shooting his heat vision full blast at a reflective surface.

Actually, that kinda makes sense. Unless he becomes completely invulnerable to those things. Then we will have a problem. BTW, would that mean that a tiny little HV blast would be enough to instantly vaporize steel, or something harder?

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Is he, though? I don't know about current continuity, since I stopped buying the books several years ago. But in the early Byrne days, it was strongly implied that Supie's invulnerability was entirely due to the forcefield, and could be shut off. When Psi-Phon gave him a mental block against using his powers, he immediately became as vulnerable as anyone else, and even cut his face on a wooden splinter. The same thing happened when he developed amnesia on Apokolips. In both cases, as soon as his mental state returned to normal, so did his invulnerability.
(I might add that in the same story Psi-Phon was NOT able to remove J'onn J'onzz's invulnerability though he took away all of his other powers).
Of course, as I said I haven't kept up with current developments, so that may have been retconned.
In which case, he'd have to use TWO mirrors to cut his hair.

As far as I know, Superman's invulnerability is due to two factors: his aura and his molecular structure.