In the comics, Superman and Lois can't have a kid. Incompatible DNA

[MrScorpio]

Superman being from anther planet and all...

OK, but they have a freaking kid in the freaking movie.



Now, which one is right?

[Deja Q]

1. "Superman Returns", I presume? But more to the point,

she said he's faster than a speeding bullet, so how does she really know the kid is hers?

Not a shock that, in modern age, they would get together... that unrequited thing was comparatively fun...

[MrScorpio]

2. Yep, Superman Returns

That slammed piano was pretty good clue

[Capn Sunshine]

9. great ending

Dad visits and tells him all that super stuff like "you'll never feel like you completely belong" and "you'll see things through my eyes." Sequel setup totally.

oh, Lois, you lying b_____h!

[mulsh]

4. " Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue Paper" by Larry Niven

give a good idea of what might happen if Superman and Lois Lane ever did it. Google the title. fun galore.

[kentauros]

13. I remember that story.

Glad you remembered the title as all I could remember was that Niven wrote it :)

[DFW]

3. How can we be sure Superman even has DNA?

Maybe he has battery acid or something, like Kim Basinger's character in "My Stepmother Is An Alien."

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Considering that ALL of the Superman movies are abject CRAP, I wouldn't worry about it.

And, my God, in that insult of calling them all CRAP, the last one stands out as especially nauseatingly reeking of the aforementioned anal discharge.

[Orrex]

7. Is there anything that you *DO* like?

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. LOTS of things that I like!

I really like a movie that's well made, for one thing. I'm a huge movie and theater/art fan. I love stuff that's done well.

Plus lots of other stuff.

[Orrex]

6. The child in Superman Returns was conceived during Superman II

Superman Returns is an indirect sequel to the events of Superman II, with Superman III and IV wisely being ignored altogether.

Superkid was conceived during the time in which the Clarkster was temporarily relieved of his powers in S2. We have no indication--because Jor-El gives us none--that the "molecule chamber" will have any impact at all on Kal-El's progeny.

Regarding the DNA compatibility issue, Kryptonians were highly evolved technologically, culturally, and physiologically (though apparently lacking in some basic knowledge of geophysics). Early issues of Action Comics describe Kryptonians' great physical prowess even on their own planet under a red sun. As such, it is to be assumed that their DNA, or at least key elements of it, are dominant. Therefore it's not a matter of human/Kryptonian compatibility; it's a matter of Kryptonian genetic dominance over human genetics. Bonding with the ovum, the hybrid zygote became viable regardless of any inter-species incompatibility.

Of course, we can quibble over the details of parallel evolution and the improbability of an equivalent female/male physiological pairing arising on a distant planet, but come on! If we accept that a Kryptonian can pass for a tall, handsome human male, then it's a little late to wonder whether or not his sperm would perforate Lois, the bed, the apartment, and the surrounding planet.

[Broken_Hero]

12. What you said....

:)

I think I'm the only Superman fan that liked the kid, finally something new.

[Catshrink]

8. Barack and Michelle had two little girls

and Barack said he was from Krypton.

[LoZoccolo]

11. There's a lot about Superman I don't understand.

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