How come he's able to easily shave his beard, yet his hair can withstand millions of degrees and mach 4?

How come he's able to easily shave his beard, yet his hair can withstand millions of degrees and mach 4?
Does he use a kryptonite razor or something?

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

you could try actually reading the comic and seeing the page where he shaves his beard

He lasers it off with his own heat vision and a mirror and if you actually read a comic or watched a cartoon you would know that, you filthy fucking casual.

Why don't they cover themselves in a reflective subtance to negate his laser vision then?

...

In the comic, he specifically uses a shard of his ship to reflect the laser usually.
The lenses in his Clark Kent glasses come from his ship too, which is why he has to lift them up to heat vision.

it's more about the specific angle of the beam and intent rather than it naturally bouncing off every reflective surface, dumbass

Ironically, the other Superman comic from this same month explains this.

He probably just uses a very low power laser to shave.

How many things in the universe can withstand a full powered superman punch? Not even reality can. So by that logic not many things would be able to reflect a full powered eye laser.

>not because, he doesn't want to ruin his glasses or have to explain why there's molten glass on his face

Do you guys think Superman abuses his super senses and see/hear Lois doing #1/2?

He probably did that to Lana once or twice and lost curiosity.

Yes, but you're asking in a pervy way, not like, he could always tell when people take a shit and it doesn't phase him anymore.

>Yes, but you're asking in a pervy way, not like, he could always tell when people take a shit and it doesn't phase him anymore.
Yeah, it's like being able to see people naked through their clothes. It might be fun the first few weeks, but at some point you would get bored and stop caring. Some things are only interesting because they are forbidden, and once the barriers are gone the thrill goes too.

I prefer the tactile telekinetic explanation.

Basiclly he subconscious turns off his invulnerability at that particular spot and shaves. This reason is also used to explain why buildings don't crumble when he lifts them.

It also gives superboy a leg up on supes since he can actually control how he uses it.

I don't think he can turn them off, dude probably constantly hears the sounds of millions of people all over the world shitting. Just unending poop noises that would drive a lesser hero mad.

Yeah it'd be the pooping that drives you mad. Not the constant death, screaming, murder and rape sounds he hears all day every day.

..and yeah, he doesn't haven an 'off switch', he's just really good at tuning them out.

Pretty sure that's how he beat Brainiac that one time.

>I prefer the tactile telekinetic explanation.
>Basiclly he subconscious turns off his invulnerability at that particular spot and shaves. This reason is also used to explain why buildings don't crumble when he lifts them.
>It also gives superboy a leg up on supes since he can actually control how he uses it.
The tactile TK thing was never used to explain how he shaved, during those comics he used heat vision as well.

I think most people poop more often than they rape.

I have no idea how he continues to even remotely function as a person. But I guess he's the same guy who determines whether to shiver based on how fast he can see air molecules moving so he's pretty beyond human comprehension anyways.

It depends on the part of the world they're in.

There's a seinfeld episode that goes along with this theory. About the nudity.

>subtle joke at india

Wrong board, Sup Forums.

But if his lenses are indestructible, how did he cut the glass into lenses in the first place?

supermans indestructibility trumps the glasses

CHUGA CHUGA

Forget hearing, imagine smelling.

The clothes they're wearing would make the flesh all weird and scrunchy anyway plus he has a very small window to focus on. Too much X-ray vision and he's going to see people without their skin or see internal organs.

I mean with super smelling he's basically got a chemical analysis machine hooked up to his face. I doubt he even perceives smells like a normal person. I'm not even sure he actually breathes except as part of his disguise.

>Ma Kent makes an apple pie
>Superman super-smelling

Found a new Superman weakness.

similar to his taste, he can pull smells/flavours apart and break them down to their base components.

Wouldn't this melt the mirror or am I stupid?

He would just punch them. Also piece of his ship muh angles and all that.

He breathes because he thinks of himself as human due to being raised by humans. He does alot of things he doesnt need to since it would feel weird not to.
See

No wonder most Kryptonians go super evil on getting to earth. Yellow suns basically let them ignore almost all their actual biology and rapidly turns them into physics defying Lovercraftian horrors.

Nah. Most kryptonians were just dicks or the survivors tend to be people put into an eternal jail dimension that probably doesn't do a good job at keeping people mentally stable.

If laser vision can burn off his hair, doesn't that mean it can't withstand millions of degrees?

It's always been a question whether or not superman can do more damage than he can take. It seems to change a lot.

My answer will be a paradoxical 'both'.

More importantly, how does Supergirl shave? Or does she have full blown 70's bush because she doesn't wanna risk lasering her vajayjay

tear them all out one hair at a time at super speed?

Beard Bara porn when

Do Kryptonians grow pubic hair?

Why wouldn't they?

Why would they? Maybe it's just a side effect of the yellow sun. You don't know.

>Superman is able to grow facial hair, yet doesn't grow pubic hair
>when both of them come in during puberty
Honestly, it seems a little weird, even going by Supes's standards for weird, for him not to

But we know he's got body hair everywhere else, it's safe to assume he's got pubes too

I bet superman is uncut

Going by Powergirl, I'm going to assume at least the women don't.

I doubt there are jews on Krypton, so probably true.

Unless the Kents tried to get him done, in which case, good fucking luck with that.

...

>I doubt there are jews on Krypton
r u srs, bruv

...

...

Maybe Krypton hates pubes and slowly phased it out through selective breeding.

Yet they didn't phase out body hair knowing that it'd be a bitch to deal with when you have to wear skin tight clothing all the time? Come on man

their science was so stupidly advanced it was only a name away from being magic, so...magic skin tight clothing?

IT BUILDS CHARACTER

OY VEY MUH SIX SPACE MILLION

>I'm a retard and can't into common sense.

>SIX SPACE MILLION

Someone didn't get the memo that he ha heat vision not laser vision
His heat vision would just melt a hole through the mirror

Same way you shape diamonds. By rubbing them against other diamonds

India rapes and poops at a 1:1 ratio and they do both in the streets.

Remember when he had the electric powers and almost killed himself trying to do that?

He tunes most of it out, so it's more like a low-level buzz, kind of like conversation in a crowded room. There are certain things he always listens for, though. Stuff like Lois' heartbeat, or friends saying his name. There was a good comic somewhere with Ollie holding somebody who'd just been shot, so he shouted for Clark, who heard him from Metropolis and came speeding in to carry the guy to hospital. It's implied, though, that he only heard because Ollie was the one saying it and he knew the voice, if it was somebody he didn't know he might not have been paying enough attention.

It took him a lot of work to develop that degree of control, though.

Well, their solar absorbing stuff literally starts replacing their normal biological functions because it does everything for them, so yeah, kind of. Hell, Superman doesn't even need to sleep, he just does it because it's a habit and he likes to, especially if he's sleeping next to Lois and lets her heartbeat so the him to rest.

That's sounded creepy, now that I think about it.

Sounds creepy from an outside perspective, but then again, a lot of things regular couples do seem strange or creepy as well.

It's actually explains why red sun radiation messes Superman up so bad, it's his whole body suddenly needing his organs to work for the first time in decades.

how can he be sure he isn't going to suddendly move or have a nocturla spams and smash Lois?

super-muscle control.

Seriously, Superman is a fucking god when it comes to it. Even while sleeping.

He sleeps like a log, as it were.

>and smash Lois?
as well as the continental plate they happen to be sleeping on...

How far away is Star City from Metropolis? Even if Supes could still hear it when it arrives, sound only travels so fast. It would take time for it to reach Metropolis

>sound only travels so fast
He can hear things much faster than it would take the sound to reach him. His hearing seems to function completely differently than ours does.

Probably not even by sound at all.

>How far away is Star City from Metropolis?
opposite side of the united stats

this. his hearing is the speedforce of ear powers

Maybe yellow sun also gives him the ability to psychically sense vibrations from people, regardless of distance?

I think it's probably less he hears sounds and more feels the exact location of every molecule in the atmosphere of the planet and can deduce sounds based on their movement.

Yeah I've always assumed there has to be a psychic element to superman's power set, likely something he uses subconsciously.

That would work...but he once heard Green Lantern calling for help from across a galaxy. While asleep.

There's clearly something else there.

So we've established Kryptonians are actually god tier psychics. That also explains how Clark could smell brownies from space when he got high on kryptonite

Maybe he somehow can feel the gravitational pull of every molecule in the universe, and recognize the gravitational change that relates to the molecular movements equivalent to sound of Green Lantern calling for help propagating through air somewhere.

>That also explains how Clark could smell brownies from space when he got high on kryptonite

Loved that scene so much. Zatanna a cute.

The gravity thing has been used as an explanation for his flight, so you could see it as an extension of that, sure.

I mean all gravitational forces continue for infinite distances, they just get weaker the farther away from the object you get. So theoretically something could be sensitive enough to determine the location and movement of all objects in the universe based on how their gravitational force feels.

Conditions for Superman being uncut :
- Not jews on Krypton
- Ma and Pa Kent do not pratice circumsion
- If the Kents are for the circumsion, little Kal-El must have been invunerable since young age

That's a really good theory. Haven't thought about it like that.

Something else I've often wondered about that, but never bothered to look up.

Do changes in gravity occur instantly throughout the universe? Or do they propagate ala a wave at light speed?

Like, if the sun were to instantly vanish right now, we'd still receive light for ~8 mins or so. Would we still be kept in its gravitational influence for that long too?

>- If the Kents are for the circumsion, little Kal-El must have been invunerable since young age
Not if it's post-Crisis where he gets his powers as he grows. So if they snipped him when he was really young before it kicked in, he's cut

I've heard physicists talk about gravitational waves but I do not know if they are instantaneous

i know he can pierce his own skin with his heat vision so its reasonable to assume he can burn his own hair

although that was a difrent superman

turns out there is a conveniently obvious wikipedia article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity

They move at c. So that rules out gravity waves for supermans hearing.

Gonna go with either magic or speedforce on this one...

works for me

pretty much every superman story mentions learning to tune that out

So the question is : do the Kents are for the circumsion ?

it really is supprising that his hearing of all things requires the most suspension of disbelief.

i can deal with most of his hearing stuff but it bothers me when 2 characters carrry a conversation while moving so fast they are long gone before the sound crosses the distance between them

I got a theory, Kryptonians unconciously control relativity. Relative to Clark, an object with huge mass weigh pretty much nothing. Relative to Clark, the speed of sound, light, gravity etc is much faster allowing him to respond instantaneously

I'll never understand stories that have something break Superman, cause if literally spending hours hearing and recognizing the sound of every single horrible thing that happens on the entire planet before he could figure out how to tune it out didn't break him I can't see what the hell would.

So the laws of reality apply differently to kryptonians when empowered by sunlight?

Would do wonders to help explain Superboy Prime can fuck around with universal laws and structures so easily.

It also fits the bill when it comes to very late years Superman stories. Like Prime one million or the adventures of superman 'end of the multiverse' stuff. He gains so much control over what was originally something done unconsciously, that he can warp reality to how he sees fit.

Exactly, shattering reality with a punch? Relative to his fist, reality has the sturdiness of crackers

Doubt it. Kent and Clark are pretty old timey English surnames, so they wouldn't be of the shekel heritage

>shekel heritage

I keked out loud

My problem with this kind of thing is that sound is not like light: sound dissipates over distance and cannot travel forever.
There's a point where it disappears.
So that's why the whole "psychic perception" thing you're all discussing in this thread makes more sense.