Man of Steel "Fate of Your Planet"trailer

[Ahriman238]

I've got a question that perhaps goes beyond the scope of this trailer and more into DC comic book lore in general.. maybe a bit of an odd question.

How does Kryptonian durability scale up relative to their strength, when compared to humans?
Like, for humans, a pretty built guy who can throw a proper right hook putting his hips into it and land it squarely on the side of another dude's jaw will pretty much knock him out or at least cause some serious damage.

Is it the same for two Kryptonians?
Or does durability scale up more than strength? Or less?


Different but related, do they have some sort of a "healing factor"?

On Earth where they're strong, they're invulnerable to everything but kryptonite, magic, red sun radiation, sonics, and getting punched in the face by a similarly strong being. Which seems to work out more like two guys punching each other until it's dramatic to show them flying through several buildings after a hit.

The Dark Knight Returns, Superman Returns, and Smallville all state or imply that Clark heals rapidly but only in direct sunlight. AFAIK, this has never been a part of the main comics. Have fun with the inevitable canon debate.

[Cykeisme]

Hmm, so two yellow sunned-up Kryptonians slugging each other will have more difficulty hurting each other than two human blokes doing the same?

Which seems to work out more like two guys punching each other until it's dramatic to show them flying through several buildings after a hit.

Now that you mention it specifically, I suppose that actually does make sense from a physics standpoint..

Their durability is drastically increased, but they mass about the same as a human (or not much more).
So when one Kryptonian hits the other, the victim's momentum is so low (relative to the impulse applied from a Super Punch) that he's simply accelerated by the blow instead of deforming (getting hurt). Meanwhile, the target's durability allows him to survive the massive G-Forces of the sudden acceleration.
He simply goes sailing backward and goes through a building, safely.

[Batman]

I don't think he's talking about it being more difficult for them to hurt each other, it's just not going to happen until it's dramatically worthwhile (or deemed so by the writers at any rate) what with this being a storytelling situation. The same thing happens in Me stories all the time too-people don't get hurt when they realistically should, they get hurt when it is dramatically convenient.
Incidentally, I do think Clark having a massive healing factor popped up in the comics (if not all that frequently)-didn't the 'Tower of Babel' arc have that being a problem WRT getting the kryptonite bullet out of him, or was that just in the animated movie?

[Ahriman238]

I meant that it looks like two guys beating each other up, they get bruises, scrapes, maybe someone chips a tooth. You wouldn't know they were superstrong types going at it, unless the artist decided to show windows exploding or the ground cracking. Then one of them gets hit and goes flying a really long way, or picks up a tractor trailer truck to use as a club.