The Superman franchise has had its issues. Movies have been the Man of Steel’s Kryptonite, but to hear some critics tell it, the problem isn’t Superman’s movie scripts, marketing, or writers. It’s Superman himself.

The criticism goes like this: Superman is invincible, which is boring. He is nearly all-powerful, which is boring. He is a good person, which is also (you guessed it) boring—and perhaps even suspect.

These are fair enough questions to ask. What can hurt Superman? Most writers stick with one of a few things. There’s Kryptonite, of course, which was invented in 1943 to give the Man of Steel a weakness; his invulnerability was seen as a problem even back then. The other two favorite options for overcoming Superman’s immunity are magic and other Kryptonians.

Superman Isn’t Boring — He’s Just Like Us

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