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Friday, June 30, 2006

A Dragon, A Dwarf, an Ant-headed Humanoid

Jesse Walker's Superman article at Reason reminds us why Wikipedia is a treasure trove of geekiness and oddity-fetish:

As if the Super-Monkey wasn't odd enough, there were new forms of Kryptonite, with new effects. The most unpredictable was Red Kryptonite, whose various consequences are listed in that unimpeachable source, Wikipedia: "being turned into a dragon, a non-powered giant, a dwarf, an ant-headed humanoid, a lunatic, and an amnesiac; being made unable to see anything colored green; growing incredibly long hair, nails, and beard; being rendered totally powerless; gaining the ability to read thoughts; losing his invulnerability along the left side of his body; being split into an evil Superman and a good Clark Kent; being rendered unable to speak or write anything but Kryptonese, the language used on Krypton; growing an extra set of arms; becoming clumsy when trying to help out; swapping bodies with the person nearest him upon exposure to it; rapidly aging; and multiple personality changes."
I especially like the "being rendered unable to speak or write anything but Kyrptonese" bit. Maybe that's what all the speaking in tongues business is really about.

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