Kryptonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race of the DC Comics universe who hail from the planet Krypton. The best-known Kryptonian is Superman. "Kryptonian" may also be used as an adjective to refer to anything created by or associated with the planet itself or the culture that existed on it.
Inhabitants of the fictional planet Krypton appear to resemble humans, but their biology is much more complex. According to the DC Comics canon, the ce...
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Kryptonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race of the DC Comics universe who hail from the planet Krypton. The best-known Kryptonian is Superman. "Kryptonian" may also be used as an adjective to refer to anything created by or associated with the planet itself or the culture that existed on it.
Inhabitants of the fictional planet Krypton appear to resemble humans, but their biology is much more complex. According to the DC Comics canon, the cellular structure of Kryptonians allows for solar energy to be absorbed at extremely high levels when exposed to a yellow star like Earth's Sun, giving them vast superhuman powers (such as flight, strength, x-ray vision, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision and superhearing) when on planets such as Earth.
Visually, Kryptonians are identical to humans; this allows Kal-El to lead a double life as Clark Kent. On their native planet, Kryptonians were not known to possess any superpowers as Krypton revolved around a red star. However, when on...
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