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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5346395" data-attributes="member: 14159">If I recall correctly, while Kryptonite will weaken and kill him, and a Red Star will slowly deprive him of his powers, he is vulnerable to magic and psionics.His powers, generally speaking are physical and perceptive: Super-speed, flight, superhuman strength, physical invincibility, super-breath, X-ray vision (and heat vision), super hearing.  I remember once they tried to ret-con that his glasses-and-business-suit disguise as Clark Kent only worked through a subtle mind-control "super hypnosis" he radiated that made people believe the disguise, but I don't think that explanation was used by other writers or other than that one time.By "vulnerable" I mean he has no special immunity or resistance to them, he's as weak against telepathic effects and magic spells as any normal human.  In almost every version of him this is a consistent (relative) weakness, albeit one that isn't as flashy and dramatic as a tiny shard of kryptonite bringing him to his knees, that and magic-using foes aren't quite as common in DC as Marvel (where several major supervillains such as Dr. Doom and the Mandarin are major magic users, but off the top of my head I can't think of any major magic-using supervillains in DC).</blockquote>