Honestly if I were Smallville’s Clark I just wouldn’t go outside. They have so much Kryptonite to the point you’d think Krypton was right next door to earth.

"Sham... kazam... alakazam..." Wait, that's a little long, let me fix it for you. Ahem. SHAZAM!

The most unbelievable part of this story for me was when Perry didn't want to run a story because it might cause a panic. Can a imagine a newspaper/news show editor doing that now?

Sasha: I can’t believe Superman’s dead! Random civilian: No, he’s just knocked out. Sasha: Then I will finish the job.

if you start a gang in Metropolis, you need to recruit some goofy bronze age villlains. forgotten relics. catch Superman so off guard that your victory is assured!

"Love is out there lurking in corners." Is my happy quote of the day lmao

Nice to see Superman actually putting in the research to understand what happened to him. Too often he's portrayed as the big dumb boy scout.

Wait, so Golden Age Ma and Pa Kent never thought it necessary to give him the talk about how they found him? Even when he started lifting tractors above his head? Oh and on the topic of Superman's evolving mythos, I'd love to hear the history behind the Fortress of Solitude.

"Rawr! Manimal!" Best Sasha being Sasha moment.

Got one of the old tropes in there about "there are exactly five different kinds of kryptonite, each a different color and each with its own specific effect". Several quick panel flashes of versions of that. But missed out the later one that "nothing can affect Superman except kryptonite and magic" (mostly to make Mxyzptlk a real threat), and here the mystic's hex turns out to be one of those masquerading as the other. Oh, and I see someone below speaking about modifying green K to affect humans. It actually did--shortly pre-Crisis, I think it was--when Lex Luthor took to wearing a signet ring with a kryptonite stone to taunt Superman, and over time developed bone cancer from the radiation.

Remember that magical silver kryptonite that made Superman stoned in '08? Also, how have we not gotten an Elseworlds where Lara Lor-Van comes to Earth with her infant son? Why no Supermilf, DC?

Denny O'Neil's Kryptonite Nevermore was actually really interesting because it not only rendered all kryptonite inert, but also came with the price of reverting Superman back to his Golden Age level of strength, removing most of his powers except super-speed and super-strength. The story also introduced concepts like Cadmus Labs, Intergang, and the New Gods getting involved, long before Crisis. Actually, I'd like the story to be covered on this channel.

How did Superman travel back in time... without spinning a planet?

I can just see it now: Superman comes into contact with Green K(ryptonite) and then some guy wearing a spare Superman suit walks in, taking his place while the Man of Steel goes off to take time off while his replacement moans and groans.

Jerry Siegel wrote a story in 1940 called K-Metal From Krypton that weakened Superman. It was not published but I remember reading a text only version in DC Archives Edition Superman Volume 1

90's Supergirl gave us silver aged pink kryptonite. I love the entire K-rainbow.

My true exposure to Kryptonite it was to the '78 movie, then in Smallville, with different colors blowing my mind, like, I didn't know about red's bonkers side effects until later, but I always did like "red makes you lose your inhibitions" in the series, a bit more consistent. Followed by Blue K, that takes your powers while being around it, Silver K, which makes you crazy, Black K, that... splits you into 2 beings? and Gold K (which is the same in comics) takes your powers permanently... which you never see used on the show. It's probably my favorite bit of lore, does every Superman type need one, no, but it's interesting for Superman.

I'd love to see you cover "the k metal from krypton," a golden age story from 1940 that has the antecedents to a TON of essential parts of the superman mythos, including proto flight, proto kryptonite, superman exploring his motivations for being superman, and him revealing his identity to Lois! It was rejected because the suits were afraid of all the status quo changes it proposed, but it's insane to think about looking back.

Can you do a history of Storm’s claustrophobia?

Swami Riva made a return in Superman Family. It completely exposed Superman's weakness to the public. Alexis Luthor was the reason after sharing a cell with the swami.

Could you do a follow-up with all the types of kriptonite and their effects?

I've always paralleled the different colors of kryptonite to the different colors of mist used by Japanese wrestlers. They all seem to do different things based on what you need at the moment.

There was an unpublished Superman story, circa 1939, by Jerry Siegel, that WOULD have been the first appearance of Kryptonite. It glowed green, and were fragments of Krypton (which was known by that name to Earth scientists, already), and it negated Superman's powers. Though it was called "k-metal". A few pages of the story are reprinted in the "Steranko History of Comics" vol. 1 by Jim Steranko. It was also said to be green on the radio. I don't know why it took the comics so long to catch up.

I want to join the Casually Comics gang that you create, we can all wear the approved by Casually Comics shirt.

Just a small correction: while Superman #233's transmutation of Kryptonite into iron (a 1971 story) was never reversed as such, Kryptonite resumed being a regular part of Superman's stories starting with 1977's Superman #311. It was a main plot point for most of the next year, until in #323 it was revealed that Krypton-two (created in issue #255) had exploded as well and became the source for a whole new batch of Green Kryptonite. But don't worry about the Kandorians; they never moved into Krypton-Two, but rather into New Krypton aka Rokyn, which was only created in 1979. Yeah... Superman lore can be a bit arcane at times.

Sasha Metropolis gang: "Okay, henchmen, you know what to do. Get in there and do all the usual crime things: Steal! Rob! Plunder! I always appreciate it." * * * "Where are we committing crimes today, boss?" "Wherever our whims take us!"

Speaking of Superman Lore. Can you do a video on the origin of the Fortress of Solitude? Like where did it come from? How does it ends up on Earth? Why is it in the Artic? Did Superman build it? Did Jor El built it? I can't seem to find a clear answer anywhere.

Most people: "Oh no! Superman's weakness! I hope he doesn't die!" Sasha: "I need to go to Metropolis and start a gang. I'll get it done!" SAAASHAAAAAA

At the time this story was written MURDER got you the electric chair; even actual real life mobsters avoided killing high-profile individuals, as this would definitely make them a high-priority/shoot-on-sight individual...

Wait. Wait a sec. All of these Kryptonite stones have different colors because Lois had different hair colors on a cover?

Fun video, I like the Silver Age red kryptonite as it's responsible for various wacky shenanigans.

Ironically this hints at another Superman weakness... Magic.

Pink K, because Clark 'admiring' Jimmys bow-tie will never not amuse me.

My favorite stories involving Kryptonite were on the 90's animated series. There Superman and S.T.A.R. Labs develop a lead lined suit to protect Superman from Kryptonite. It inevitably often gets ripped, but the idea was that Superman would take precautions to avoid being harmed by it. Post-Crisis, DC reduced the types of Kryptonite to just green, except for a story where Mr. Mxyzptlk created Red Kryptonite. This ban on other types of Kryptonite lasted almost two decades! Some of the types of Kryptonite make no sense (I'm looking at you Gold Kryptonite), but having three types makes sense. Green Kryptonite would be the default, weakening and killing Superman, Red Kryptonite mutating him for wacky stories, and Blue Kryptonite for Bizarro to not be afraid of.

I'll never understand people who think Superman's boring.

I like how Superman smashes the Klan handles the alien reveal

I'm surprised they didn't go with the battery route. Just say Superman's powers are fueled by the energy he gets from the sun. When he uses his powers he drains a certain amount of that energy. Once he's out of energy he's significantly, or completely, depowered until he can recharge. Would have given writers a lot more freedom to create dramatic situations. His power could be scaled according to what they needed at the time. The only thing needed to bring him down to a needed level would be a number of events that occurred in the background.

Time travel through the astral plane...One of my favorite quotes about kryptonite is from an episode of Smallville where Pete Ross is infected by an alien parasite. ' Pete Ross: I figured it out, Clark. In your world, green means "stop", and red... [slipping a sliver of red kryptonite into Clark's pocket] Red means "go" '

5:27 actually, I think it makes sense for him to have let superman alive, if he wanted to sell his services as the guy who can stop superman then it doesn't make sense for him to kill Superman since as soon as the biggest superhero in metropolis bites the dust a big part of the demand for his powers would just disappear (but I am probably overthinking this lol )

I've also heard of the radio play story was how Kryptonite was introduced. I loved the re-cap. I never read the story where it was introduced into the comics continuity before. One thing you didn't talk about was when Superman went back in time to Krypton about why he was drawn without colour. The Pre-Crisis laws of physics regarding time travel stated something like you can't co-exist with your previous self, so when travelling to an earlier point of your life, you would automatically become a phantom, unable to touch or interact with the world of the past. Of course you would be solid if you went further back before you were born. I'm assuming the same thing would happen if you went forward in time further along your life span. Post Crisis, the time travel rules had changed. Initially they had stated that using the same method to travel through time multiple times would damage your body, so to avoid that you'd have to use different methods each time. That idea did fade over the years, but I appreciate that there needed to be a mechanism to make time travel more difficult. Also Post Crisis, Clark was not able to travel through time unaided, though this wasn't established yet in Booster Gold's origin telling, Superman threatened to take Booster back to his own time. Anyways, back to Kryptonite. Post Crisis, Kryptonite was really rare. I guess when you think about it, when anything in space explodes, it's mass is scattered in all directions. The fact that there was so much to Batman.

I have listened to all the old time radio shows and the time-off thing is taken as gospel. No mention of preferred hair colour though.

I don't know if they've done this or not, but I think an 'Elseworlds' story where Superman's mom actually decided to go with her son to Earth could be a very interesting tale, indeed.

Gold K is the scariest since it takes away your powers permanently. Blue K is funny because it only works on Bizarro.

"No wonder John wants to put them into the bottle." >Coffee spit take< (Gratefully missed my laptop)

"Superman's pain double" Something to include in my list of favorite quotes ever.

Focusing on the least important part of the video, Mooch is a great name! "MOOOOCH!!, Where's Moochie? Mooch screwed the pooch!", and so on! MOOCH!!

Fashion is My Kryptonite.

Sasha repeatedly advocating for Swami Riva to kill Superman 😂

I remember reading that the Superman radio VA was sick one day so they created Kryptonite as a way to explain away his absence.

Side note: Bill Woolfolk, and Manly Wade Wellman, were writing The Spirit while Will Eisner was in the Army from 1942 to 1945.

"If that was the one that got through, I really want to know what was the script that got rejected."😂🤣 Sasha, I love your videos and your many, many wigs. 🥰💻💇🏽‍♀️

This kinda also feels like a prelude to superman's weakness to magic lol. Cuz our "swami" here is practicing some astral powers or whatever he said and is kinda casting spells

Siegel & Shuster once created a story that involves a form of Kryptonite which predates the radio show's introduction. In it, a comet made of "K-metal" -- yes, a fragment of Krypton-- comes close to Earth. As it neared, Superman got progressively weaker and believed he was about to die from its radiation. However, the comic book editors spiked the story because S&S also had Lois finding out that Clark is Superman and he accepted her as his ongoing partner and confidant. The editors preferred to keep the Clark-Lois-Superman triangle going. And the rest is history.

The amount of kryptonite on Earth has grown in direct proportion to how crazy powerful Superman became over the years.

You should look up the unpublished story form 1940, The K-Metal From Krypton. A lot of people consider it to be the true origin of Kryptonite.

"Are you Kryptonite, because you make me feel weak in the knees... and eventually kill me"!

I just realized that one of Sasha's superpowers is book balancing! lol

Periwinkle Kryptonite In the Tiny Titans continuity, Brainiac hit Superman with a Periwinkle Kryptonite ray. It turned his skin and costume periwinkle and caused him to briefly charm Lois Lane with charm and dance skills. Later that day, Lois used a piece of physical Periwinkle Kryptonite on Clark Kent, achieving the same effect.

Batman and Robin were on the radio show and, in it, lived in Metropolis. They were added so Bud Collier could take off some time as well.

My favorite was always White Kryptonite, the one that killed all plant life - just totally off the wall

Another thing the radio series did when Bud Collyer would take a vacation would do a couple of weeks worth of stories starring Batman and Robin, who, on radio, also lived in Metropolis instead of Gotham City.

Bought a beat-up copy of this issue a couple years ago for a good price. I could never afford Action #1, so why not the first appearance of Kryptonite? Incidentally, if anyone's wondering why Superman appears as a ghost, it's because DC time travel rules at the time said if you went back to a time when you were still alive, you could only exist as an astral presence.

Feel like they went crazy with the kryptonite stuff. Like how they went crazy with lantern rings. Cause for some reason if anything is colored there has to be many different colors of it. Can't stop at green, gotta do the entire color spectrum.

Did I hear you say "the filming time" of the radio serials? Le gasp! PS: Video liked if for no other reason than the "Manimal" joke.

I'm so happy to see someone mentioned orange kryptonite I have that Krypto the Superdog Cartoon tie in comic where I'm pretty sure orange Kryptonite made its only appearance and it's always right remember most from those comics it's nice to see someone bring it up. I think the Super pets movie might be bringing in back which would be amazing if it does

I like kryptonite despite nowadays there's a lot of different weaknesses and just natural things that Superman can lose to. But cryptonite works because it's a great way to stop an unstoppable force bubble force and have it both been extremely rare And easy to come by due to just how rocks can travel around the world.

I imagine that if Darkseid, Doomsday, and Mongul had existed back then there wouldn't have been a need to create Kryptonite. There were no physical threats to Superman at that time, I don't believe even Bizzaro and the Phantom Zone Criminals had been introduced. And without a physical threat Superman was seriously OP! Evan more so than he usually is.

0:30 Can confirm, I am from the future! DC, in their newest reboot Crisis of Crises 2, have confirmed all Kryptonite is actually from Lex Luthor's homeplanet when _he_ was shipped to Earth as a baby due to its explosion. Luthor orchestrated the elaborate scheme of convincing Superman it was from Krypton to demoralise him and make him believe the remains of his home planet were actually toxic, because many Kryptonians survived. When this fact was revealed it was a pretty big deal and the next 2 Superman issues covered him fighting the evil Lara Lor-Van who actually was the one who induced Krypton's explosion in the first place due to exposure to yellow sun radiation and knowing she'd survive it, but that happened in an alternate universe, she had just come to this one to pose as Clark's real mother and take over the Kryptonian remnants that survived _in the New Prime universe,_ Clark's real mother was actually dead, but at the time of those comics releasing nobody knew that, it was clarified later in Superboy + Danny the Street #19. Oh wait, spoilers, sorry

Hey, would you do a Kryptonite Retrospective? I’d love your takes one by one. Plus most of the other KZfaq vids for this are not recent, I want to know more about Orange-K you mention. 😂

Can we talk about Superman casually going back in time and just not saving anything or anyone.

If it is still on line, you want to check out "K metal from Krypton". It was a competed version of a story started by Seigel & Schuster but shelved by DC (National at the time) in 1939 and is the first concept of what would be Kryptonite.

In regards to what hair color he prefers, I'm sure there's slash fiction somewhere that says he prefers the bald look, for... reasons 😁

Short answer: No Long answer: This was only a misconception and the explanation for why it exist is pretty complicated.

Supes created pseudo-Kryptonite in the form of a watch he tested. When he was near the watch after this, he became weak, and the guy wearing it, strong enough to KO Supes.

The classic "Red K" stories were some of the most gonzo moments in Superman's history, and they have their own unique charm, to be honest. Just imagining Clark having to endure all these crazy transformations, lol. Like getting the head of an ant, or going crazy and demanding people treat him as their king, all while wearing a crazy pope hat. Speaking of Super-Accessories, an odd story I'd like to see you tackle (if you haven't already) is The Sword of Superman.

Perhaps, it would be boring having a hero who’s nigh-invincible and wins all the time, so you have to have some kind of weakness.

Love is lurking in the corner? Love is on the train to go where I am not. Love is hiding in the bathroom. Love is swimming to Cambodia.

“Le gasp!” BWAHAHAHA….!! 😂😂😂 ..I can’t, I just can’t; I’m dying!

I love red kryptonite because of the unpredictability of it, and I love that Smallville's version makes him a "bad boy".

Kryptonite was here because it fun to see someone suffer from allergies

Incidentally, did you know that, pre-New 52, at least, kryptonite affected EVERYONE? It was deadly stuff. It technically killed Lex Luthor by giving him terminal cancer, and it could kill ANYONE with enough exposure time. It just affected Superman faster because...Kryptonian...reasons. If you MUST have kryptonite in a story, THAT'S the version I prefer. Make it SO deadly that NO ONE wants to mess with it.

Can I say like his other two weakness The phase sorta to well SHAZAM and he is weak magic A jewel that come from space that red, Red Sun radiation light They were hinting to this all along… With bonus of kyropnite….

I had to go back and watch the vid again, as after you said you were going to Metropolis to start a gang. What is your gang name? Would it have the word "Casually" in it? If so what kind of 'talent' would you draw (shooters, robbers, graft, etc.). How would you kill a helpless Superman? So....many....questions!!

You can't just make a Kryptonite video without making a video specifically about Pink Kryptonite. I'll be waiting.

I recall a story about jewel kryptonite from the Jewel mountains of Krypton. The story is centered on phantom zone criminals creating this version for evil stuff. The long forgotten Zone criminal Jax Ur has his back story fleshed out. I'm not sure if Jewel K was used again. It seemed like a convenient throw away plot contrivance. I have not read the story in several years, I think Jimmy Olsen gets hypnotized. He was always a good candidate for mind control. Thank you for the entertaining videos.

I am a fan of kryptonite personally but it comes with its baggage. The way a lot of people seem to have gleaned on to the idea that *only* kryptonite can hurt Superman really annoys me. Like he can get hurt by magic or just anyone who is stronger than him too. His invulnerability only works to a point gosh dangit.

God I love Golden Age Superman. So fun and wacky.

How about a piece of kryptonite with a little bit of color of each one. Kind of a Neapolitan ice cream style kryptonite. That'd be cool. Maybe not.

I have a headcanon that *red* kryptonite was originally kryptonian drugs

I remember as a kid watching Super Friends and being excited at the idea of Superman being able to reverse red kryptonite effects with blue kryptonite if he could find some. And when they used blue kryptonite as health in the Superman arcade game. I think Data East made it. The introduction of gold kryptonite in Superman #157 was pretty powerful. We're introduced to a Phantom Zone criminal called Quex-Ul, who wants revenge on Jor-El through Superman after his sentence ends, but when Quex-Ul puts aside their dispute to rescue someone, Superman similarly gfoes back in time and sees that Quex-Ul committed his crimes (killing endangered species for a profit) only under hypnosis by a known criminal who died when Krypton was destroyed. Meanwhile, Quex-Ul has set up a trap with gold kryptonite that he observed in sace while in the Phantom Zone. When Superman seeks out Quex-Ul to tell him he's been cleared of any wrongdoing, Quex-Ul realizes he doens't have the character to replace Superman, and exposes himself to the gold kryptonite, which is destroyed in the booby trap. Quex-Ul would go on to be a major character in Steve Gerber's Phantom Zone miniseries, which led me to seek the issue out in the first place. I wasn't disapppointed. It was really well done.

Blue Kryptonite. Pre-Crisis It affected Kryptonian Bizarros the way Green Kryptonite affects Kryptonians. The Bizarros were grateful for this. I found that funny. Post-crisis Blue kryptonite was the opposite to the more common green variety and made Kryptonian-based Bizarros highly intelligent, a process that scared them. Unfortunately they changed that with the Smallville series. Now Blue Kryptonite strips a Kryptonian of their powers while they are in physical contact with it. This also turned out to be a weakness for the Bizarro of that series. He absorbed Green Kryptonite radiation the way Clark absorbs sun light. So when Bizarro came into contact with Blue Kryptonite on the Smallville series it overpowered to the point that he literally exploded.

I don’t remember what it’s effect was but I always liked the idea of silver kryptonite

"Love is out there lurking in corners" made me laugh

2:17 So was Han- and he shot first.

So I can't be the only one who noticed the planet sized hole in the Superman origin story right from the start ( like in the 1960's when I was a kid). So why didn't the Kryptonians kick everybody out of the Phantom zone so they could have ringside seats to the planet blowing up, then evacuate a whole bunch of folks to the zone. Step 2 send the projector off planet with a picture or two showing the on switch. DUH !!!

Perhaps the rejected storyline was the color of Lois' dress. Also I'd like to join Sasha's Metropolis gang.

I always thought the radio series created Kryptonite in order to explain why Superman wasn't off winning WWII. By '43 he was tussling with spies on the show, and he'd even have trips to Europe for spy stuff. But the Allies sure could've used Mr. "Shame you couldn't see those bullets bounce off my chest. It's a pretty sight." Seriously, so much was invented on the radio series, it doesn't get nearly enough credit for its role in crafting the lore. Jimmy Olsen and Perry White were created for the show. "Up, up, and away." "Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." "Look, up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane! It's Superman!" And, of course, Kryptonite. (If you're interested in a great, obscure yarn, listen to Dr. Roebling's Voice Machine. Obviously, the Atom Man stories and the ones of Supes fighting the Klan are awesome). Strangely, the original Kryptonite allowed him to keep his invulnerability. He couldn't be killed - boy did they try. But he was weak, could hardly move. So the plan they kept coming up with was to starve him to death, or else drown him. Maybe that explains why no one offed him in the comic you mentioned? (Strange side-note that ties in to your reporting: There's one episode, right around the time they introduced Kryptonite, where Clark tells Lois his whole origin, and she publishes it, complete with Kryptonite as his weakness, so everyone will know. It's - a thing.) Anyway, that was my take on why they needed something like Kryptonite - the Nazis had it, thus explaining his absence from the battlefield. Thanks for the fun! Love stopping by.

Thanks Sasha for another good vid! My favorite is the standard green 'cause the other ones are just weird, not following any logic, like magic, which is another of his weaknesses. When did that come about? Well the other fave, just for the weirdness, is the pink k. Didn't see that one in the "kryptonite handbook".

At last... whims..... at last. Right up there with "already ready already" which I use in daily speech unironically

"OOOHHH!!! le-gasp... that needs to be worked in. Once a quarter, once a month, once a day. We need it.