• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
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    In Superman The Animated Series Batman (and the Joker) discover that a jade dragon is actually made out of kryptonite because the owners die after a few months.

    And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

    So at least in those universes it’s also harmful for humans.

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      And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

      In Smallville, the spacecraft carrying Superman brings a kryptonite meteor swarm with it. Lex’s exposure to the meteors is the cause of his premature baldness and a partial reason for his resentment of The Alien.

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      And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

      In the mainline comics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, wearing a kryptonite ring day after day gave him incurable cancer.