Do kryptonians under a yellow sun need to eat?
Do they metabolize food in the same way as humans?
Is it possible for a Kryptonian -- excluding red kryptonite effects -- to get fat or develop an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa?
Presumably they evacuate waste like humans. Is that waste indestructible?
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Well, we know Superman does eat. Whether he needs to or not is a question I've never seen addressed.
There weren't enough Kryptonians under a yellow sun to know if they needed to eat - but both Kal-El and Kara were shown eating - not often, but often enough. Whether that was to maintain their secret identities or to support their physiologies, one doesn't know.
Do they metabolize food the same way? How do humans metabolize food? Yellow sun rays gave Kryptonians about half their powers, but I don't think that was a substitute for eating,
Kryptonians were pretty human like, so I think any "disorders" would be similar too. And if you look at a Curt Swan page of Kryptonians, you'd see every somatype, for sure.
Was their waste indestructible? Of course. Everything from Krypton was indestructible, save Kryptonite. And rumor has it that Kandorian children would mock each other with "Ah, your old man poops Kryptonite!"
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"Was their waste indestructible? Of course. Everything from Krypton was indestructible..."
At the risk of being drawn into a ridiculous nerd discussion, that's an argument for why the waste of Kryptonians (under a yellow sun) is not indestructible... unless the food they were eating was also from Krypton.
In regards to metabolism, I may be using the wrong word.
Bismollians seem to be able to eat (literally) pretty much anything without gaining weight. Most humans vary on this scale -- some have difficulty gaining weight, some seem to gain weight by breathing. Are Kryptonians like this? I don't recall ever having seen a Kryptonian that didn't look like he or she was in perfect health. Some are built larger than others, but I cannot recall any I would refer to as "plump" or "skinny".
Oh, that. Yeah, you're right. But then, a super powered metabolism would digest said Earth food so fast and completely that it probably never made it to the colon and then out. Gods I'm feeling silly! :) :) :)
Randy, there were some variations in Kryptonians, especially by Curt Swan... but Earth-2's Krypton was POPULATED by super men and women. Can't figure that Krypton-1 was a lot different, although they didn't go jumping an eighth of a mile at a time regularly....
Randy Jackson said:
I don't recall ever having seen a Kryptonian that didn't look like he or she was in perfect health.
Jeff of Earth-J said:
Just to pile on the geekery, I think it's important to note that there are different Supermen, and their needs probably varied as much as their powers.
Looking back on my answers, I confess they look a lot like guesses. The only one I feel strongly about is the Silver Age Superman, and even there I'm not going to believe myself until Commander Benson corroborates.
IF Thor poops, is that holy s**t?
What about Odin? Would the poop be all-seeing?
The Baron said:
Captain, one place that establishes the Silver Age Superman's need for sleep and dreams is 1972's Action Comics #409.
Thanks, Luis! Who wrote it, Cary Bates or Elliott S! Maggin?
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