“the kryptonite was brought in to make him vulnerable”
Actually, that is NOT true and it was one of the parts that remained faithful to the source - the comics and their canon.
In the timeline for DC before the reworking of it all, Superman was getting pretty ridiculous. They had one story line where earth got rid of all the kryptonite…EXCEPT one small amount that Superman had entrusted to Batman. Superman did this as a fail safe in case he ever went rogue knowing that Batman would figure out how to use it to bring him down. Batman didn’t just get smarter for that…he has always been smart enough to do that.
There was a Justice League movie where the villains were using a complete set of contingency plans created by Batman to isolate and take down each Justice League member. In that one, a kryptonite dagger played a key role.
Throughout all of the mashups with Superman and Batman - and this goes back to the DC World’s Finest teamup comics (most of them the 25 cent ones when regular comics were 12 cents) there were two things that were used whenever Batman and Superman battled each other. One was Batman using cunning to lure Superman into a kryptonite trap or Batman using cunning to lure Superman into a red sun instead of yellow sun trap. In pretty much all of these, Superman was incapacitated mentally by something that made him go rogue…and for that reason, Batman always got the upper hand before Superman came back to normal.
So, the use of kryptonite and the lure into a well conceived trap IS normal for their confrontations. Not lazy writing but I would say an attempt to follow canon even thought they ignored it a lot in other ways.
[QUOTE=GLW;1292361]“the kryptonite was brought in to make him vulnerable”
Actually, that is NOT true and it was one of the parts that remained faithful to the source - the comics and their canon.
In the timeline for DC before the reworking of it all, Superman was getting pretty ridiculous. They had one story line where earth got rid of all the kryptonite…EXCEPT one small amount that Superman had entrusted to Batman. Superman did this as a fail safe in case he ever went rogue knowing that Batman would figure out how to use it to bring him down. Batman didn’t just get smarter for that…he has always been smart enough to do that.
There was a Justice League movie where the villains were using a complete set of contingency plans created by Batman to isolate and take down each Justice League member. In that one, a kryptonite dagger played a key role.
Throughout all of the mashups with Superman and Batman - and this goes back to the DC World’s Finest teamup comics (most of them the 25 cent ones when regular comics were 12 cents) there were two things that were used whenever Batman and Superman battled each other. One was Batman using cunning to lure Superman into a kryptonite trap or Batman using cunning to lure Superman into a red sun instead of yellow sun trap. In pretty much all of these, Superman was incapacitated mentally by something that made him go rogue…and for that reason, Batman always got the upper hand before Superman came back to normal.
So, the use of kryptonite and the lure into a well conceived trap IS normal for their confrontations. Not lazy writing but I would say an attempt to follow canon even thought they ignored it a lot in other ways.[/QUOTE]
Agree to disagree my friend.
It seems to me that it always goes back to kryptonite, except for Kingdome Come and, coincidently, that was one of the better written storylines.