Superman Confirms The One Illness He Actually Isn't Immune To

The darkest days of the time can prove draining for indeed Superman, indeed if his powers should technically make him innocent by the seasons. 

Superman's Kryptonian physiology may cover him from utmost common infections and conditions, but his struggle with Seasonal Affective complaint shows that indeed the Man of Steel needs to take the time to duly manage his internal health. Watching Superman struggle with seasonal depression, despite the fact that his powers technically allow him to circumvent it, is a fascinating shot into the mind of one of DC’s most important individualities, showing how Clark struggles with both a messiah complex and unintended trauma foisted by his father. 

 Superman’s adversaries have long plodded to jut down any definitive weakness he may retain. Outside of kryptonite( which is generally accepted to be a rare and delicate material to gain), the substantially accepted results to the Superman “ problem ” are his perceived responsibility to save as numerous people as he can and Superman's dependence on the sun to fuel his powers. For a deeper disquisition of these particular sins, Kennedy Johnson, Grant Morrison, Sami Basri, Adriana Melo, and Miguel Mendonca’s ‘ Warworld Saga ’ excellently depicts a world where Superman must try to keep to his proposed values when deprived of unheroic solar radiation and where altruism is considered a weakness. 

Superman Struggles During The Darkest Days of the Year

 Building further upon these issues is Dave Wielgosz, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Plascenia, and Tom Napolitano’s story ‘ We Just Have to Make It Till Spring ’ in DC’s Legion of Bloom# 1, in which Superman is shown to be decreasingly worn down from dealing with the seasonally- convinced stress of Metropolis’s citizens during the darkest part of the time. Lex Luthor and other members of Clark’s hellions ’ gallery take advantage of this surprising Superman weakness and his internal strain to gang up on him when he's weakened, and while Superman fends them off fluently, the stress of his overwork nearly pushes Superman to kill Luthor outright. It’s only when Lois intervenes that Superman is suitable to stop pushing himself so hard and let others pick up the slack. 

Pa Kent's Well-Meaning Words Sow Seeds of Trauma

 What’s fascinating about all of this is that there's no reason for Superman to be affected by Seasonal Affective complaint. While Luthor proposes that the sun’s farther distance down during downtime would weaken Superman’s powers, the changing of the seasons locally means veritably little to a being who can simply fly to where it's springtime away, or indeed directly up to the sun. Rather, the problem seems to stem from a discussion with his father at the launch of the story, where Pa Kent tells a youthful Clark that “ there’s commodity about the stretch of the time from New Year’s until spring it does its stylish to beat us. There’s a darkness that looms over us. ” Clark easily has taken these words to heart, as the coming panels show ultramodern- day Superman purposely buckling down to increase his heroic sweats directly following New Year's. 

 Pa Kent’s advice always guided Superman with his prayers to mortal kindness, but in this case, his advice has boomeranged while Superman has easily internalized the need to help others further than ever during this time of time, he also seems to have accepted the fact that these days are bleaker for him, too. All of this results in Superman unconsciously taking on the psychic stress of those he's trying to save, and he doesn't realize it until Luthor’s capers leave him seriously considering killing his nemesis. It’s a astral illustration of how everyone needs to take time to rest and recharge, because not indeed Superman is vulnerable to internal illness.