How Kryptonians can exert far more power than a solar panel of the same size could collect. Power Transfers - Green + Lightning - causes a Kryptonian quantum tech to release from the body it occupies and latch onto the nearest suitable host (happened like 3 times in smallville) (It does interface imperfectly and tries to help out someone in distress. Why meteor freak powers vary widely relate to the situations they are gained in. It causes damage that results in psychosis and/or other forms of mental instability. Why meteor exposed people tend go nuts - its not meant to interface with a human biology. Why human tech can't analyze its atomic structure or duplicate it. This theory neatly explains the following issues that are otherwise unaddressed: Black - is attempting to clone the kryptonian Blue - shuts off powers Gold - burns the nanotech out. Green - suppresses powers and scrags the q-tech resulting in physical weakness/harm Red - attempts mental interface and fails - causing mental changes. Kypronian 'Minerals' are really the shattered remains of the quantum tech network. The tech was ancient and no longer used on Krypton so it was pretty much trivial to the isolationist Kyrptonian society that later developed. So they the tech to be shut off by red sunlight / interacting with krypton's core (green K). It was designed to allow their soldiers to survive an alien battlefield and then make it home.Д«ut having anyone running around with that much power on the home planet would not be an option. They applied this technology to their military so that it activated in alien star systems. Once, Kryptonians were an expansionist military empire. The only remnant the Kryptonian's of Jor-El's time really used were the extracting energy form the mass at their planet's core - which was originally needed as the interface to program the technology. The technology was developed long ago and became first ubiquitous and then largely forgotten. Sunlight only activates the quantum tech in a kryptonian's body. Why? Because the powers are not due to natural biology. All the sunlight powering my powers does not satisfy the amounts of energy kryptonians commonly use.

Heat vision uses up far more energy than his body's surface area can absorb. These are extensions of what biology could do with an increased energy budget.Д«ut Flight, X-ray vision, heat vision, existing in a vacuum come out of nowhere. Some increased strength, healing, and endurance, senses sharpened to a degree. It has always bothered me that only the very weak versions of superman's powers can reasonable by explained by and sort of plausible natural biology. They never even try to try to explain it. No natural rock would know the I want to be skinny. The fat girl gets a power that makes her skinny. Think about it, the guy in a frozen pond gets ice powers, the guy in the sauna gets fire powers. Something is interacting with people's psycological conditions. Starting off - Obviously a no form of radiation could ever induce all these powers in people. My personal Fan theory on Clark's powers in Smallville (and a better one that the official explanation imho). Repost of my headcannon speculating on Kryptonians n stuff which answers all sowers of whys:

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