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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2946846" data-attributes="member: 3649">Those answers depend on what parts of the various Superman mythos you refer to.  What parts the movie uses and doesn't use are up in the air. I'll give answers as I know them from the comics.Yes, he does age but it seems slower and slower as he gets older. Depending on the comic, he'll probably start to go grey in a couple generations. The yellow sun radiation seems to strengthen him as time goes on. In the DC One Million series, the original Superman is still around, I think, in the year 8000+ but he's almost confined to living in the sun itself. Yes, he grows facial hair and such just like a person. He shaves and cuts his hair with his heat vision and a mirror. Yes, he feels things. He feels pain, heat and all the rest but it just doesn't become incapacitating to him unless it's really dialed up high. Two answers, depending on the comics.Old Answer: The suit is made from the blankets he was wrapped in on Krypton, and it's just as invulnerable as he is.New Answer: Superman's invulnerability extends a fraction of an inch away from his body. That's one reason he wears a skin-tight uniform but his cape gets torn.That's one of those things you just have to accept. The old answer was that the suit, in addition to being infinitely stretchable was also infinitely compressable. The new answer is, as far as I know, 'no one worries about it'.</blockquote>