I found no agreement on amount of kryptonite distance other factors In its use

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It was in late 1950's I first encountered Superman, supergirl.

Then The Adventures of Superman, kryptonite three different times. In the show it was stated about six feet or closer for it to take effect.

Since high school I stopped reading comics.

One thing that is not a settled question, and of course being fictional, should not there be consensus?

A. How much is needed to kill the Superheroine?
B. How long, how much time to kill the Superhero?
C. How close does it have to be to take effect of any kind?

And from the Supergirl episode, she tells the Russian Supergirl that having been exposed to kryptonite so often allowed her to escape.

Thus:

D. Can frequent exposures to it allow for those from Krypton to be able to fight off some of its effects?

Can we please keep all measurements,in American system and not metric, thanks.
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It was in late 1950's I first encountered Superman, supergirl.

Then The Adventures of Superman, kryptonite three different times. In the show it was stated about six feet or closer for it to take effect.

Since high school I stopped reading comics.

One thing that is not a settled question, and of course being fictional, should not there be consensus?

A. How much is needed to kill the Superheroine?
B. How long, how much time to kill the Superhero?
C. How close does it have to be to take effect of any kind?

And from the Supergirl episode, she tells the Russian Supergirl that having been exposed to kryptonite so often allowed her to escape.

Thus:

D. Can frequent exposures to it allow for those from Krypton to be able to fight off some of its effects?

Can we please keep all measurements,in American system and not metric, thanks.
As with virtually all aspects of Superman's mythology, the rules about Kryptonite have varied wildly in different continuities and retellings. I fear your quest for consensus is doomed. Clearly a person needs to be relatively close to be affected. But how close? And can they get resistance to it? I doubt very much that there'll be a straight and consistent answer. In fact, I guarantee it.
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I have to agree with damselbinder above. Every writer seems to have his own take on how kryptonite works on Kryptonians. In far too many videos, I've seen villains keep a K rock in their pants pocket and even with SG close to the man and holding him in her grasp, she doesn't feel any affect until he takes it out of his pocket. That's always seemed absurd to me. I do try to adhere to the six-foot rule or so myself depending on the size of the rock. And it does seem to be almost universal that if the element touches her skin it burns her and hurts badly. (Except in porn films when a K dildo somehow doesn't burn but makes her weak and gives her pleasure?).

As far as being less affected by repeated exposure, my answer to that is that there's no lessening in the amount of pain, it's just SG's or SM's ability to withstand that pain. And again, writers vary greatly on how they handle that. The SG writers on the show took far too much license with that tactic, imho.

Anyway, write it how you want. Just try to be consistent about it. Good luck.
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Damselbinder wrote:
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dragontigerandhorse1985 wrote:
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It was in late 1950's I first encountered Superman, supergirl.

Then The Adventures of Superman, kryptonite three different times. In the show it was stated about six feet or closer for it to take effect.

Since high school I stopped reading comics.

One thing that is not a settled question, and of course being fictional, should not there be consensus?

A. How much is needed to kill the Superheroine?
B. How long, how much time to kill the Superhero?
C. How close does it have to be to take effect of any kind?

And from the Supergirl episode, she tells the Russian Supergirl that having been exposed to kryptonite so often allowed her to escape.

Thus:

D. Can frequent exposures to it allow for those from Krypton to be able to fight off some of its effects?

Can we please keep all measurements,in American system and not metric, thanks.
As with virtually all aspects of Superman's mythology, the rules about Kryptonite have varied wildly in different continuities and retellings. I fear your quest for consensus is doomed. Clearly a person needs to be relatively close to be affected. But how close? And can they get resistance to it? I doubt very much that there'll be a straight and consistent answer. In fact, I guarantee it.
Damselbinder, respond to your post though all responses are excellent.

I would think putting into story the rules that apply to kryptonite, specially if there is a major change from what appears in all bodies of work.

What I can't stand is a video and the villian pulls the k out of pocket and only then does supergirl go weak. I also dislike when vid shows villian hitting supergirl in her crotch and of a sudden she is weak.

Superman / Superwoman would not be so slow or vulnerable to such a blow.

I do realize that the video creators do this because it makes vid sexually exciting.

DrDominator9, Dittos to you on that the writers took too much license.

Also, when whats her name used silver K on Superman, so he thought Supergirl was his arch enemy. Was silver K ever used in any other comic book for same purpose?
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DrDominator9 wrote:
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I have to agree with damselbinder above. Every writer seems to have his own take on how kryptonite works on Kryptonians. In far too many videos, I've seen villains keep a K rock in their pants pocket and even with SG close to the man and holding him in her grasp, she doesn't feel any affect until he takes it out of his pocket. That's always seemed absurd to me. I do try to adhere to the six-foot rule or so myself depending on the size of the rock. And it does seem to be almost universal that if the element touches her skin it burns her and hurts badly. (Except in porn films when a K dildo somehow doesn't burn but makes her weak and gives her pleasure?).

As far as being less affected by repeated exposure, my answer to that is that there's no lessening in the amount of pain, it's just SG's or SM's ability to withstand that pain. And again, writers vary greatly on how they handle that. The SG writers on the show took far too much license with that tactic, imho.

Anyway, write it how you want. Just try to be consistent about it. Good luck.
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And the rules on kryptonite bullets... all over the place.
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Superheroine weaknesses, much like Superheroine powers tend to vary depending on how the writer wants the story to go. We've seen it like a million times on the SG TV series and in probably all superhero themed shows.
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Heh. Time for my 2 cents here.
Now, from my vast knowledge of DC lore, green kryptonite could come in varied "quality", from fairly weak stuff to the knock out kryptonite plus! Also, volume has a value here too, as evident in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core" in which a HUGE green K boulder had Kara on all fours in literally a second!
In the series, it's nice to see the green rocks being put to decent use, and the bad guys did enough research so they could use it t "safely" detain her.
However, in season 4 I was very angry with how Red Daughter used green K to knock out Kara in a couple seconds exposure, yet when leaving it in Kara's lap, Kara was able to bust her chains and escape. Such BS! Kara should've been wilting from the deadly rays from such a potent rock!
As for the silver kryptonite? Never heard of it, so I'm figuring a writer made it up to be "cool". At least we had an honest excuse for red K as Max Lord was experimenting with making green K, and fucked up.
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I thought they used silver kryptonite on Superman in the CW Supergirl show to get him to attack Supergirl.
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I thought they used silver kryptonite on Superman in the CW Supergirl show to get him to attack Supergirl.
They did, and that is why I mentioned it.
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I thought they used silver kryptonite on Superman in the CW Supergirl show to get him to attack Supergirl.
Yeah. Rhea, Mon-El's Mom, used the silver K on Supes, to make him think Kara was General Zod-his biggest fear. And then Kara kicked his ASS! And Superman wasn't pulling his punches, so she beat him fair and square!
Rhea REALLY didn't like Kara dating her son. Might be she was having problems with debris from a blowing up Krypton forced the Daxamites to evacuate their homes since it was getting pummeled by radioactive debris. Not immediately lethal to them, but the damage from the meteorites caused catastrophic damages to the environment. A faux nuclear winter will do that to a planet.
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It's got worse though in last decade as they often just write it for one particular episode and then discard that rule when it doesn't suit them in later shows. It's lazy and doesn't often need a lot of exposition to avoid yet most times they don't even bother. They are wasting all their time on complicated relationship angst that no one gives a shit about rather than any coherent and consistency of plot that actually contains a threat.
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Also what does it "do" particularly. Does it disrupt his cells from using solar energy? Does it drain the cells? Is it just toxic?
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Also what does it "do" particularly. Does it disrupt his cells from using solar energy? Does it drain the cells? Is it just toxic?
To the best of my knowledge, it's supposed to be Kryptonian radioactive waste, with radiations acting on Kryptonians sorta like uranium. Some sources say the radiation "pushes out" the yellow sun radiation from their cells, and replaces it with these green, killer rays. Only reason they can recover when the radiation source is removed is due to their super metabolisms being able to repair the damaged cells.
A Kryptonian's cells are so "special" that on two occasions Supergirl donated her cells, blood for one, and brain cells for another, and the recipients temporarily gained superpowers! Kara even used green K to subdue the one that got the blood as the girl used her powers to commit crimes until the powers wore off!
Crazy stuff.

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