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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which part confused you. Show us on the doll.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh did OP mean his adoptive parents? I was thinking about his birth parents on Krypton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He may have been on the other room but his x-ray vision and super hearing means he knew exactly what was happening.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If he has x-ray vision shouldn't he just be seeing a bunch of bones or other dense objects not penetrable by x-rays? Can it be shut off? How? Are we sure he wasn't responsible for a drastic rise in cancer rates by going around just blasting everyone with his radiation vision all day?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While he can turn off his laser vision I am going to go ahead and say he cannot turn off x-ray vision. Superman only identifies people based on skeletal structure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Have you ever seen Superman compliment someones hair?

Me neither.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a one-shot somewhere about people around superman getting cancer due to his x-ray vision? I think it would be an observable phenomenon if his eyes always worked in this manner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

In the comics (at least those from my decades ago childhood), it's depicted as him seeing the same as normal people do - just through stuff. As such, I've always assumed it's not actually X-Rays proper & they just used that phrase to convey the concept of seeing through solid objects.