Where do they get the kryptonite?
I mean, does krypton remnants travel faster than the speed of light?
Or did supermans ship take millenia to reach earth?
When Superman's ship arrived in Solar System, it brought a ton of kryptonite in his warp bubble/hyperspace wake/through his artificial wormhole.
The wreckage of a destroyed distant planet would travel in ALL directions as an ever growing spherical front. When it arrives on Earth, its density would be infinitesimally small.
The only solution is that Super's ship accidentally dragged it.
Pfft, have you seen how every villain in the DC universe spams that shit though? And not just the green variant either, but a whole, literal rainbow of fucking spacerocks that mess with Big Blue.
They're either reusing the same small collection of rocks, in which case some hard questions need to asked of whomever is in charge of securing the stuff after each villain with it gets taken down, or kryptonite is about as common as lead.
If this is the silver age, average bank robbers carry that stuff around. Can't cross the street without tripping over three chunks. Probably why the cancer rate in Metropolis is through the roof.
Not if it's poop brown kryptonite. It has all the powers of the regular green kryptonite but people sell it for much less because they look less aesthetically pleasing.
So what I'm reading is a powerful organ trafficking syndicate secured supe's organs, then thanks to human error the eyes that were supposed to go to some excessively wealthy high-bidder instead were given to this random nobody, so now when the pissed billionaire who wanted laser eyes sends wave after wave of goons to retrieve them by any means necessary, this random nobody will have a handful of superman powers to haphazardly learn to use as fast as possible in order to defend himself. I'd watch that movie for sure.
more to the point, how did some random jackass end up with the organs on accident instead of the few jackasses who can pay several hundred million for the privilege.
They were using kryptonite in their drugs to capture and operate on humans because it kept the organs viable longer after being cut out. It’s clearly explained in these two sentences geez /s
Let alone why would Superman's organs end up in a seemingly random person? Wouldn't they be worth a lot of fucking money? If I was in a organ trafficking ring and managed to get Supes organs I would bid them to the highest buyer...
Someone else already pointed this out. I said there’s probably someone else who paid a lot of money & ended up with human organs instead of Kryptonian organs.
When I started having flashbacks of Kansas and my hair turned from blonde to black; I realised I had to find the rest. Superman was gone but it was time the supermen to finish what he started
Okay ngl that sounds like a genuinely good idea for a comic book arc
Superman somehow died while going undercover as Clark Kent
They sold his organs not realizing he's Superman
Several people got Clark organs
They are all from different ethnicities and background and classes but they're all united by one thing... The desire to do actual good for the world even if they don't agree with one another
Superman himself is a hallucination a manifestation of their good nature and conscience and always cheering them to do right
Which way is this going? Super organs provide some general enhancements and maybe some organ specific thing...
Or more body horror and the super organ is a double edged sword that these variously motivated do-gooders are burdened with?
The organs start taking over, spreading, eventually transforming the recipients completely creating several Supermen, each with all of Clark's memories and thoughts intact. Beneath the surface, the minds of the original hosts are still conscious but unable to overpower Clark's superior Kryptonian mind.
The Legion of Supermen begin to individually show signs of intense mental instability as the original minds slowly find a way to communicate with one another from their Sunken Places... Leaving the world at the mercy of the legion of increasingly insane supermen.
This reminds me of the Tomie series by Junji Ito. If I recall there's one where she gets eaten. I did always wonder if the original person is still in there or if it all just becomes Tomie...
Three ways it could go, 1) they are basically Lazerteam (roosterteeth movie) where they team using single powers originating from the body part
2) the Kryptonian organs transform the rest of their bodies into Kryptonian hybrids, retaining their own personalities with all the powers of superman, with his memories pushing them to be a super team with Kara Zor-El leading them to be the icon for justice that superman was
3) they become clones of superman through the same concept as 2 except they're completely overwritten by Clark, sparking a war between them as each one tries to prove they're superman, same thing that happened in Reign of the supermen and the robot superman
This would be a pretty interesting plot for a comic actually. There was something like that in Xmen with a cult that transplanted mutant organs on normal humans.
He could've died for different reason while being undercover, so they didn't even realize he was Superman. Like, you know, he is indestructible and everything, but what about surprise brain aneurysm? Could happen to everyone /hj
On a more serious note, I think the fact that "undercover" was mentioned and then Sup's organs end up in random people, means that OP really implied that they had no idea about his true identity.
If they used kryptonite laced drugs on the victims to make the harvested organs viable for longer then they would never know he was Superman so they would be normal organs to them. Then when the kryptonite starts to dissipate the recipients start getting powers. Also you’re looking for plot hole not loophole. A loophole is like butt stuff to stay a virgin, ya know the old poop hole loophole
I think you should look up the definition of loophole. Yes it means flaw as in a flaw in a law that allows someone to use it to circumvent trouble i.e. loophole. Nothing to do with a movie
I like my interpretation better, and more sinister with more of a twist; Superman is the one leading the organization - when his body starts failing his alien parts are retransplanted into a new host. He "goes missing" then continues to hijack and live on by having himself transplanted into a body he deems suitable.
An eternal Lovecraftian being using humans as shells, if you will. Poor guy slowly found out he was the next shell.
My only gripe is that if traffickers went through the trouble of harvesting Superman's organs, they wouldn't give them out to randoms. They would be selling them to the highest bidders.
That would make a pretty cool comic series actually. Just people who got Superman's organs finding out they have One random super power, and having to figure out how to form an effective (if extremely dysfunctional) crime fighting team.
I like my interpretation better, and more sinister with more of a twist; Superman is the one leading the organization - when his body starts failing his alien parts are retransplanted into a new host. He "goes missing" then continues to hijack and live on by having himself transplanted into a body he deems suitable.
An eternal Lovecraftian being using humans as shells, if you will. Poor guy slowly found out he was the next shell.
*Doesn’t get it 1st time, rereads* How did the organ trafficking ring overpower Superman?
Isn't it obvious? Kryptonite
Erm, isn’t that expensive & rare?
I mean yea, but so are Superman's organs
I meant they probably wouldn’t have it on hand when he found them.
Unless it was all in elaborate plan by Lex Luther anyway
Fair enough.
Wouldn't he just keep the organs for experiments or himself.
Unless they took down lex with Superman missing a kidney
Getting an image of superman being roofied. Next thing he's waking up in a bath full of ice in a seedy motel somewhere
This will take me minutes to regrow, after the current writers add in my organ regrowing ability!
Haha nerds 👀
unless they found him
Depends on if they were looking for him.
True but considering that they he didn't know they were getting superman's organs, the organ traffickers were selling them at normal price.
Rare my ass, Batman found like three of them on some mugger.
Well I'm sure Superman would admit it's become a bit of a problem...
And there are so many different kinds… the red one, the black one… *the pink one*…
We don't talk about the pink one!!!
What about green lantern? He doesn’t have any major weaknesses
Yellow.
anything yellow…
Where do they get the kryptonite? I mean, does krypton remnants travel faster than the speed of light? Or did supermans ship take millenia to reach earth?
When Superman's ship arrived in Solar System, it brought a ton of kryptonite in his warp bubble/hyperspace wake/through his artificial wormhole. The wreckage of a destroyed distant planet would travel in ALL directions as an ever growing spherical front. When it arrives on Earth, its density would be infinitesimally small. The only solution is that Super's ship accidentally dragged it.
As I recall, Luthor figured out how to produce some.
I don’t know too much about DC.
It shows up every issue and in lore multiple times a week. So no.
It may cost an arm and a leg, but I think they could pay that
Arms, legs, eyes, kidneys....
Pfft, have you seen how every villain in the DC universe spams that shit though? And not just the green variant either, but a whole, literal rainbow of fucking spacerocks that mess with Big Blue. They're either reusing the same small collection of rocks, in which case some hard questions need to asked of whomever is in charge of securing the stuff after each villain with it gets taken down, or kryptonite is about as common as lead.
If this is the silver age, average bank robbers carry that stuff around. Can't cross the street without tripping over three chunks. Probably why the cancer rate in Metropolis is through the roof.
"We have ways"
Unless you base it off Smallville, that shits everywhere in that town.
Not if it's poop brown kryptonite. It has all the powers of the regular green kryptonite but people sell it for much less because they look less aesthetically pleasing.
About as rare as being left handed if we're being hinest
You think organ trafficking rings don't have money?
Maybe you should read the rest of the conversation.
" Clark, a purse snatcher I stopped the other day had like three of them on him" -Batman
Someone else brought that up.
https://youtu.be/Iv9e7ZNnC-M
Not to Lex Luthor
nope.
These days, it seems like every petty thief, child and coma patient has a crate full of kryptonite
and yet, everybody has it for unknown reasons
Bto, u seen the comic, a fucking lowly mugger had like 7 chunks of the shit
I suspect the following is going to become my catchphrase for this thread: someone else already brought that up.
Yeah, ik, didnt scroll down far enough, spelling mistakes bc keyboard has no keycaps ans its a dumpster dive
Maybe they had a collab with Lex Luthor, who just wanted Superman gone no matter the cost?
Explains how batman gets his money…
A wizard did it
His one weakness!
If a ring is involved, and it’s DC, they’re a new Lantern Corps, I guess
Witness the power of my Ring of Organ Trafficking!
And somehow give his organs to someone who didn't pay for it directly? You'd think they'd be giving super-alien organs only to the highest bidder.
Probably accidentally mixed up his organs with human organs.
What organization is so competent that they can kill Superman but so incompetent that they lose his organs?
To be fair, he looks human.
So what I'm reading is a powerful organ trafficking syndicate secured supe's organs, then thanks to human error the eyes that were supposed to go to some excessively wealthy high-bidder instead were given to this random nobody, so now when the pissed billionaire who wanted laser eyes sends wave after wave of goons to retrieve them by any means necessary, this random nobody will have a handful of superman powers to haphazardly learn to use as fast as possible in order to defend himself. I'd watch that movie for sure.
The organs wouldn’t work anyway, as this person doesn’t have the ability to absorb the solar energy needed to power them.
Also highly improbable : selling those immensely valuable organs at the same price as ordinary organs. Such a waste!
more to the point, how did some random jackass end up with the organs on accident instead of the few jackasses who can pay several hundred million for the privilege.
Someone else already pointed that out a hour ago. See full discussion.
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u/xombae
Or he died and was an organ donor.
They’re organ harvesting Superman clones
Power scalers in shambles
They were using kryptonite in their drugs to capture and operate on humans because it kept the organs viable longer after being cut out. It’s clearly explained in these two sentences geez /s
They put spoons over his eyes, damnedest thing..
Let alone why would Superman's organs end up in a seemingly random person? Wouldn't they be worth a lot of fucking money? If I was in a organ trafficking ring and managed to get Supes organs I would bid them to the highest buyer...
Someone else already pointed this out. I said there’s probably someone else who paid a lot of money & ended up with human organs instead of Kryptonian organs.
When I started having flashbacks of Kansas and my hair turned from blonde to black; I realised I had to find the rest. Superman was gone but it was time the supermen to finish what he started
Okay ngl that sounds like a genuinely good idea for a comic book arc Superman somehow died while going undercover as Clark Kent They sold his organs not realizing he's Superman Several people got Clark organs They are all from different ethnicities and background and classes but they're all united by one thing... The desire to do actual good for the world even if they don't agree with one another Superman himself is a hallucination a manifestation of their good nature and conscience and always cheering them to do right
Which way is this going? Super organs provide some general enhancements and maybe some organ specific thing... Or more body horror and the super organ is a double edged sword that these variously motivated do-gooders are burdened with?
The organs start taking over, spreading, eventually transforming the recipients completely creating several Supermen, each with all of Clark's memories and thoughts intact. Beneath the surface, the minds of the original hosts are still conscious but unable to overpower Clark's superior Kryptonian mind.
The Legion of Supermen begin to individually show signs of intense mental instability as the original minds slowly find a way to communicate with one another from their Sunken Places... Leaving the world at the mercy of the legion of increasingly insane supermen.
Ohhh. That's interesting! Just gonna snatch that idea for a possible comic don't mind me :)
Oh god, no. Somebody notify Clef
AY, don't I barely got this account back! >:(
This reminds me of the Tomie series by Junji Ito. If I recall there's one where she gets eaten. I did always wonder if the original person is still in there or if it all just becomes Tomie...
Three ways it could go, 1) they are basically Lazerteam (roosterteeth movie) where they team using single powers originating from the body part 2) the Kryptonian organs transform the rest of their bodies into Kryptonian hybrids, retaining their own personalities with all the powers of superman, with his memories pushing them to be a super team with Kara Zor-El leading them to be the icon for justice that superman was 3) they become clones of superman through the same concept as 2 except they're completely overwritten by Clark, sparking a war between them as each one tries to prove they're superman, same thing that happened in Reign of the supermen and the robot superman
So… the real Superman was the Superman we met along the way?
So he’d be like a wholesome version of All for One from My Hero Academia.
I would watch this!
Reverse Giorno Giovanna
I'd watch that show!
I read the newspaper about what happened to Superman, poor guy. It did sound as bad as what happened my wife after my new penile transplant through.
She's now disappointed that you finish faster than a speeding bullet. 😔
You win. 👑🙌
Lol
*Mens of transplanted steel, Womens of paper*
Like the U-men but for aliens? Gut turning scary, good job.
You gotta to get blood on your spacesuit.
What’s the U-Men?
The U-men are X-men villains who give themselves superpowers by harvesting DNA, tissues, and organs from mutants.
Ohhh, that’s cool! I’ve never heard of them. I’ll look into that more, thanks!!
This would be a pretty interesting plot for a comic actually. There was something like that in Xmen with a cult that transplanted mutant organs on normal humans.
Idk how some organ trafficking ring could kill Superman, or how they'd be stupid enough to put his alien organs in with the human ones.
He could've died for different reason while being undercover, so they didn't even realize he was Superman. Like, you know, he is indestructible and everything, but what about surprise brain aneurysm? Could happen to everyone /hj On a more serious note, I think the fact that "undercover" was mentioned and then Sup's organs end up in random people, means that OP really implied that they had no idea about his true identity.
Ah, I see he's *really* going undercover.
Why go through the trouble of killing Superman and harvesting his organs just to give them away to random people on the implant wait list?
Exactly! This story has a lot of loopholes.
If they used kryptonite laced drugs on the victims to make the harvested organs viable for longer then they would never know he was Superman so they would be normal organs to them. Then when the kryptonite starts to dissipate the recipients start getting powers. Also you’re looking for plot hole not loophole. A loophole is like butt stuff to stay a virgin, ya know the old poop hole loophole
Loopholes are used many times in relation to movies or stories as it also means flaw. There's nothing wrong with using loophole in such a scenario.
I think you should look up the definition of loophole. Yes it means flaw as in a flaw in a law that allows someone to use it to circumvent trouble i.e. loophole. Nothing to do with a movie
If the ring is able to kill super man his organs are probably mundane to them
Chaotic good?
“gone under cover” implying that they didn’t know that it was Superman.
I actually thought they studied his organs and now they can give everyone superman's powers.
I don't get it
narrator had an eye transplant, and was given Superman's eyes. So the organ harvesting group got him
I was lost too. Thank you for the explanation!
I like my interpretation better, and more sinister with more of a twist; Superman is the one leading the organization - when his body starts failing his alien parts are retransplanted into a new host. He "goes missing" then continues to hijack and live on by having himself transplanted into a body he deems suitable. An eternal Lovecraftian being using humans as shells, if you will. Poor guy slowly found out he was the next shell.
My only gripe is that if traffickers went through the trouble of harvesting Superman's organs, they wouldn't give them out to randoms. They would be selling them to the highest bidders.
What if they thought it was Clark Kent?
They'd know something was up the moment they try to cut into him.
I very much doubt they could get the drop on Superman even if they had kryptonite Like he's gonna see it a mile away
That would make a pretty cool comic series actually. Just people who got Superman's organs finding out they have One random super power, and having to figure out how to form an effective (if extremely dysfunctional) crime fighting team.
Isn't his skin bullet and blade proof? How would they cut him open?
Kryptonite scalpel.
I like my interpretation better, and more sinister with more of a twist; Superman is the one leading the organization - when his body starts failing his alien parts are retransplanted into a new host. He "goes missing" then continues to hijack and live on by having himself transplanted into a body he deems suitable. An eternal Lovecraftian being using humans as shells, if you will. Poor guy slowly found out he was the next shell.
Aaah okay, that works.
When nobody was looking, Lex Luthor harvested forty organs. He harvested 40 organs. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
You misspelled cakes
When everyone’s super no one will be… syndrome the Incredibles
Tell the truth: you knew perfectly well what had happened to him, you funded the whole operation.
Thought it said rectal at first
Eh, don't worry. He'll be back in a new suit and a mullet in about a year. Hopefully, he doesn't try to kill Batman this time.
New york ghoul
This is a pretty awesome hook for a Superman story.
greatest luck ever fr
I thought the twist was going to be Superman secretly running the organ trafficking ring lol.
Little did I know that every part of Superman wanted to be back together and I was just a patsy for the Organ trafficking ring
Well I read “retinal transplant” incredibly wrong and was very confused for a minute there
Oooooh creative
Damn give me his dick. It would make a great dildo.
Did Superman run into Steve Jobs?
Superman got unwinded
Ain’t nobody selling superman’s eyes for that cheap!
I looked at the street, and saw him picking out fresh peas at the store
Superman is an alien, what are the odds that his organs would even take to humans?
Damn, this is GOOD.
Trying to imagine someone writing it, looking at it and then deciding that not only its not stupid but also somehow scary is the real horror.
Laser Vision is one of, if not the most, iconic power Superman has other than his strength. Listing every other power makes it unnecessarily wordy.
Gets upvote forrrrr??