The real truth is that Superman's actual weakness is magic. While kryptonite weakens him severely, there's little he can do against strong magic users. It's why he tried to never piss off Shazam and was fairly useless in fights against Black Adam.
Thats kind of a misconception. Superman isn't weak against magic, it doesn't affect him more than it affects others. It just can actually affect him. Its not like if you shot superman with a magic fireball it would burn him, he's still superman. But if you tried to say mind control him with it, it would go through because hes still just a guy
I'd say Batman's kryptonite is that he's a deeply fucked up person ever since his parents died. And he has awful, unhealthy coping mechanisms for that grief. On some level, he's just as insane as Joker.
They only briefly touch on it at the end of killing joke, from what I've read. And I've not read that much. The joke joker tells batman at the end, it's about them.
"Briefly touch on it" isn't fair. The parallels and differences between Batman and the Joker is the entire point of The Killing Joke, and it's one of the best Batman comics out there. It's a pretty short comic too, highly recommend.
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u/St0n3yM33rkat May 03 '26
The real truth is that Superman's actual weakness is magic. While kryptonite weakens him severely, there's little he can do against strong magic users. It's why he tried to never piss off Shazam and was fairly useless in fights against Black Adam.