Hair is dead. Hair cut off a person's head 3 years earlier must be even more dead. Superman is only as strong as a human being unless his body is processing yellow sunlight into various surplus types of biological energy to power his fantastical abilities.
There is competing canon about how long it takes Kal-El's solar gas tank to run dry, but in Final Night when a Suneater was eating our Sun, and the Earth was in pitch darkness while it was being eaten out, before Hal Jordan saved the day by...
Less than 5 days. It takes almost 5 days of darkness till he's mostly human.
Although Superman 4 was well after DC Comics made their decisions about Solar Power, hell the earlier movies said that he was solar powered, but even if there's not some secret gland in him that converts solar energy into flight and x-ray vision, and everyone of his trillion trillion cells each individually eats sunlight, you'd think that his severed body parts would stop converting solar energy post mortem, just like his dead hair would stop being super if it's bilogical processes suspended?
That means that his (cut) hair in the museum was still alive, or that it was dying veeeeeery slowly?
Consider the implications?
What would happen if you ate food that Superman had regurgitated, or less gross, if he just spat in your mouth? Fuck it, just eat him. He's not human so it's not cannibalism, but I'm really wondering if acquiring his powerset might not be that easy?
If you can't teach parts of your body to convert solar power into biological energy, by grafting or assimilating parts of his body onto your own?
There is competing canon about how long it takes Kal-El's solar gas tank to run dry, but in Final Night when a Suneater was eating our Sun, and the Earth was in pitch darkness while it was being eaten out, before Hal Jordan saved the day by...
Less than 5 days. It takes almost 5 days of darkness till he's mostly human.
Although Superman 4 was well after DC Comics made their decisions about Solar Power, hell the earlier movies said that he was solar powered, but even if there's not some secret gland in him that converts solar energy into flight and x-ray vision, and everyone of his trillion trillion cells each individually eats sunlight, you'd think that his severed body parts would stop converting solar energy post mortem, just like his dead hair would stop being super if it's bilogical processes suspended?
That means that his (cut) hair in the museum was still alive, or that it was dying veeeeeery slowly?
Consider the implications?
What would happen if you ate food that Superman had regurgitated, or less gross, if he just spat in your mouth? Fuck it, just eat him. He's not human so it's not cannibalism, but I'm really wondering if acquiring his powerset might not be that easy?
If you can't teach parts of your body to convert solar power into biological energy, by grafting or assimilating parts of his body onto your own?
