They can't see through the particles, but presumably they can see around them the same way we can. (After all, humans can't see through lead either, but the air was still transparent.)

Well, she says she has now. But not until after she'd thought that the "Millennium Falcon" that had injured her husband was an airline she'd never heard of.

Tragically, early in her term, the Marsden administration had pushed through a highly successful green ammo initiative. (It had been deemed one of her signature environmental triumphs at the time.) Only foresighted villains like Cadmus had any lead bullets in their inventory.

Though it was a pretty darned measured dose, since shortly thereafter the Legion's allies were leading three billion powered up Daxamites against Darkseid.

X-kryptonite is the kind that wound up (unbeknownst to anyone) inside Streaky the Supercat's ball of yarn, which would grant him temporary Kryptonian powers when he played with it.

The real answer is that he needs to go away so that he can show up with the Legion of Super-Heroes someday. But treating Earth as an essentially hostile environment (he doesn't just need a mask, he needs a full bodysuit or to sit in the pod forever, and let's never mind about the wildly varying effect of lead at…

They'd have been better off making her Olivia Trevor Marsden (maybe just show the middle name in CatCo news crawls), and done a winking nod to maternal Grandma having had an exciting WWII career. Homage, strong female president, and no constitutional crisis, done.

If only the warlike, starfaring civilization had ever invented space armor.

Ben may have been a street fighter from near Delancey Yancy Street, but until he came out as Jewish in IIRC the 90s, he was celebrating Christmas with everyone else.

There is also some question whether "lack of systemic power" still entirely applies when the President, the "Queen of All Media", the CEO of the leading tech firm, and the most powerful being on the planet(tm) are all women.

Superbaby is stronger, but since Wonder Tot's abilities are magical and she can call on Mister Genie…

Also X-Kryptonite and anti-Kryptonite!

I am disappointed that after Mon-El asked Winn for a suit when he started heroing, we never got to see it.

Kryptonians never remember their distance powers when it's time for a fistfight.

There is that old joke that ends with "…a moving van."

Cadmus's argument for ridding Earth of aliens that have no powers, and no history of violence, is maybe not that strong.

He needs to breathe. If Earth is uninhabitable for him, the Moon isn't really an option.

They're generally nonspecific about his age and have allowed him to be a bit older-seeming (especially when married, with a kid, and the clear elder statesman of that generation). Though never to the point of, e.g., Hal Jordan sporting gray temples, except when we see alternate Earth versions.

That was very true, both in comics and Hollywood. (Before racial issues started to be acceptable onscreen, you'd get things like the Bulgarian couple in Casablanca as an oblique stand-in for Jewish refugees.) It's not till I think the late 70s at the earliest that explicitly Jewish superheroes start to appear, once…

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