if Superman had toenail clippers capable of cutting through his nails, they wouldn’t shoot off at insane speeds.
One word: TEC
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Disagree. Yes, normal clippers would just bend and break but let's say the clippers are from Krypton (maybe some basic accessories were in the space pod he was send it or whatever) and can in fact cut his toenails. When a normal human cuts his toenails those will sometimes shoot off and fly a meter or two. The joke is that for forces involved in cutting Superman's toenails are so big that the clipping would take down an airplane. I think the "shoot off with huge energy" part is in fact possible. I don't think that a tiny piece of really dense matter traveling at huge velocity would cause this kind of damage though. It would be more like a bullet, passing straight through and leaving a tiny hole behind. Or exploding and leaving a crater if the thing it hits is also really dense I guess.
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It seems not even superman can escape toenail fungus
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probably a little blue kryptonite, the blue turns off his powers, the green one makes him sick.
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I've read for years about this scene being written, but not included. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was not only filmed, but made easily available online!
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Damn, is that some kryptonite toe clipper?
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Well she is using a chainsaw. That always gets het riled up.
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What did superman's hair do to you?
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We just don't talk about the red one and it's tingling effect.
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People who have aex are trash and should burn in hell
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Yes, they do work better
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No, 99% of the time, it's laser vision. But kryptonite did show up once or twice.
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lol, that was hilarious
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I thought it was pink kryptonite that we don't talk about.
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Been a while since I read it, but Larry Niven had a whole essay on this subject:
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Those covers are great.
In the Silver Age, Superman's hair and fingernails didn't grow. (I'm not sure whether it was addressed in the Golden Age.) This implies that Superman has the exact same haircut that Jor-El and Lara gave him as a baby, which was also never addressed, as far as I know.
In Action Comics #300 from 1963, Superman ends up in the far future, when the sun has turned red, so he loses his powers. Losing his powers makes his hair and fingernails grow. As he figures out how to get back to his own time, he makes a point to cut his hair and fingernails before his powers come back, since otherwise, there would be no way to cut them afterward.
Later renditions are a completely different story, of course. Mostly, I've seen him use heat vision to cut his hair, with an occasional kryptonite-laced razor or scissors. I don't remember any version showing him cut his nails, other than Action #300.
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