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What makes Kryptonians different from humans?
Kal-El can lead an alter ego as Clark Kent because Kryptonians appear identical to humans. Kryptonians use solar energy from yellow, blue, orange or white stars on the cellular and molecular levels to gain superhuman abilities. The light of dwarf stars, pulsars, and quasars also grants Kryptonians different abilities.
Can Superman live without a heart?
15 Superman doesn’t need his heart to beat Superman’s invulnerability lets him live without food, water, air or even a heartbeat. Superman can stop his heart, appearing dead to any medical test, but he has to lie still.
Is Superman a human being?
The short answer: Superman and Kryptonians in general, only share one characteristic with human beings; our external physical, bilaterally symmetrical appearance. Kryptonians sufficiently resemble Humans enough for them to be able to pass as Human but only from a cursory physical inspection.
What is Superman’s physiology?
The Long Answer: DC Comics has never given us a cohesive or guided tour into Superman’s physiology over the decades of his existence. Supposedly born on a world with gravity far greater than Earth’s, Kryptonians were thought to have incredible physical capabilities including superhuman levels of strength, durability and stamina.
How strong is Superman’s reflexes compared to ours?
Born to a world with a stronger gravity, under Earth’s gravity, Superman’s reflexes are many times faster than ours, able to even catch a bullet in mid air.
Why are Superman’s eyes so different from human eyes?
As far as his eyes and other sensory abilities: they too would seem to be better explained as psionic abilities rather than physical abilities, since it would imply his eyes are capable of absorbing and processing far more light than our eyes can, even though they are the exact same size as human eyes.