But by the time Jason and Lois were shut up in the storage room, his strength had receded again, so even if the kryptonite had a lasting effect on his asthma the superpower effect was only temporary. It does seem there was a delay in, as it were, powering up. Yet, did Jason attempt any other super-powered feats between when Luthor waved the Kryptonite at him and the piano incident? No - but he no had reason to think he could, plus no impetus to try. The assault on Lois gave him the impetus to try. Perhaps, if they had only known, in the immediate wake of the exposure, he was empowered enough that he could have flown off with Lois.
Actually ... what's more likely is that he stores kryptonite power like a battery does, the way his father stores yellow solar energy. And he didn't charge enough from Luthor's pass that he could perform more than one feat of super strength (but enough residual charge remained to treat or maybe cure his asthma). He'd need the kind of exposure to kryptonite that his father got to sunlight growing up in Kansas to realize the same potential.
(Of course the obvious corrolary to the latter hypothesis is the hypothesis that yellow sunlight affects him the way kryptonite affects his father. Which could explain those Ds in P.E.)
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Date: 2006-07-03 02:57 pm (UTC)But by the time Jason and Lois were shut up in the storage room, his strength had receded again, so even if the kryptonite had a lasting effect on his asthma the superpower effect was only temporary. It does seem there was a delay in, as it were, powering up. Yet, did Jason attempt any other super-powered feats between when Luthor waved the Kryptonite at him and the piano incident? No - but he no had reason to think he could, plus no impetus to try. The assault on Lois gave him the impetus to try. Perhaps, if they had only known, in the immediate wake of the exposure, he was empowered enough that he could have flown off with Lois.
Actually ... what's more likely is that he stores kryptonite power like a battery does, the way his father stores yellow solar energy. And he didn't charge enough from Luthor's pass that he could perform more than one feat of super strength (but enough residual charge remained to treat or maybe cure his asthma). He'd need the kind of exposure to kryptonite that his father got to sunlight growing up in Kansas to realize the same potential.
(Of course the obvious corrolary to the latter hypothesis is the hypothesis that yellow sunlight affects him the way kryptonite affects his father. Which could explain those Ds in P.E.)
We need sequels.