Editing Kryptonite (section)

==Forms, effects, and other media<!-- Citations needed in the table. --> ==
Various forms of the fictional material have been created over the years in ''Superman'' publications and programs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleisher |first1=Michael L. |title=The Original Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Volume Three: Superman |date=2007 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-4012-1389-3 |pages=369–375}}</ref> This table includes forms that have not persisted in canon. 

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!rowspan="4"|Type
!rowspan="4"|First appearance
!rowspan="4"|Origin
!colspan="3"|Effects
!colspan="5"|In other media
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!rowspan="3"|Kryptonians
!rowspan="3"|Earthlings
!rowspan="3"|Bizarro<br>/Ultraman
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!colspan="2"|Film
!colspan="2"|Television
!rowspan="2"|Video games
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!style="background: lime; color: black;" |Green
| [[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|''The Adventures of Superman'' radio serial]], "The Meteor from Krypton" (June 1943)<ref name="auto"/><hr>''[[Action Comics]]'' #161 (August 1951)
|Fragments from Krypton
|Severe, intensifying pain<hr>Loss of superpowers<ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = [[John Byrne (comics)|Byrne, John]] | Penciller = [[John Byrne (comics)|Byrne, John]] | Inker = [[Karl Kesel|Kesel, Karl]] | story = Bloodsport! | Title = Superman | Volume = 2 | Issue = #4 | Date = April 1987 | Publisher = DC Comics | Page = 22}}</ref><hr>Usual collapse<hr>Severe muscular weakness<hr>Fever<hr>Eventual unconsciousness<hr>Green blood or skin<hr>Eventual fatality<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greenberger |first1=Robert |last2=Pasko |first2=Martin |title=The Essential Superman Encyclopedia |date=2010 |publisher=Del Rey |isbn=978-0-345-50108-0 |pages=174–177}}</ref><hr>Non-accumulative<ref>{{cite journal |title=Superman II |journal=Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe |date=Dec 1986 |volume=1 |issue=22 |page=29}}</ref><hr>Mitigation by long-term<ref>{{Cite comic|writer=Mark Waid|artist=Alex Ross|story=|title=[[Kingdom Come (comics)|Kingdom Come]]|volume=|issue=|date=1997|publisher=[[DC Comics]]|location=New York|page=129|panel=4|id={{ISBN|1563893304}}}}</ref> or high short-term<ref>{{Cite comic|writer=Grant Morrison|penciller=Frank Quietly|inker=|colorist=|letterer=|editor=|story=|title=All-Star Superman|volume=|issue=#1|date=January 2006|publisher=DC Comics|location=|page=|panel=|id=}}</ref> yellow sunlight absorption<hr>Blocked by lead
|With prolonged exposure: carcinogenesis<hr>Possible cancer treatment<ref>{{Cite comic|writer=John Byrne|penciller=Dick Giordano|inker=|colorist=|letterer=|editor=|story=Games People Play|title=Action Comics|volume=1|issue=#600|date=May 1988|publisher=DC Comics|location=|page=8|panel=|id=}}</ref><hr>Varied (''Smallville'')
|Bizarro: perfect health<hr>Bizarro World humans: temporary superpowers (''Superman & Lois'')
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* [[Superman (serial)|''Superman'' serial]] 
* ''[[Atom Man vs. Superman]]''
* ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Superman III]]''
* ''[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Staskiewicz|first1=Keith|title='Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice': 6 EW exclusive photos|url=http://www.ew.com/gallery/batman-v-superman-dawn-justice-first-look-photos/2232978_batman-and-superman-square-first-time|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=2 October 2017|date=2 July 2015}}</ref>
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* ''[[Justice League: Doom]]''
* ''[[Justice League Action]]''
* ''[[DC League of Super-Pets]]''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Milligan |first=Mercedes |date=May 3, 2022 |title='DC League of Super-Pets' Domesticate Their Powers in New Trailer |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/05/dc-league-of-super-pets-domesticate-their-powers-in-new-trailer/ |access-date=October 25, 2024 |website=Animation Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''[[Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League]]''
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* ''[[Adventures of Superman (TV series)]]''
* ''[[Superboy (TV series)|Superboy]]''
* ''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]''
* ''[[Smallville]]''<ref>Scharping, Nathaniel (April 4, 2018). [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/04/04/meteorites-ancient-cultures "Space Metal Has Captivated Humanity for Ages"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119060942/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/04/04/meteorites-ancient-cultures |date=2019-11-19 }}. ''[[Discover (magazine)|Discover]]''.</ref>
* [[Arrowverse]]
* ''Superman & Lois''
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* ''[[The Brady Kids]]''
* ''[[Super Friends]]''
* [[Superman (TV series)|''Superman'' (1988)]]
* [[DC Animated Universe]]
* ''[[Krypto the Superdog]]''
* ''[[Legion of Super Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]''
* ''[[The Batman (TV series)|The Batman]]''
* ''[[Young Justice (TV series)|Young Justice]]''
* ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]''
* ''[[DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)|DC Super Hero Girls]]''
* ''[[My Adventures with Superman]]''
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* [[Superman (1979 video game)|''Superman'' (1979)]]
* [[Superman (1987 video game)|''Superman'' (1987)]]
* ''[[Superman: The New Superman Adventures]]''
* ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]''
* ''[[Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes]]''
* ''[[Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure]]''<ref name=":0" />
* ''[[Lego Dimensions]]''
* ''[[Injustice: Gods Among Us]]''
* ''[[Injustice 2]]''
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!style="background: red; color: black;" |Red
| ''[[Superman (comic book)|Superman]]'' #61 (November 1949)
|Traversal through radiated space
|Disinhibition<hr>Unpredictable effects<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleisher |first1=Michael L. |title=The Original Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes, Volume Three: Superman |date=2007 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-4012-1389-3 |pages=369–375}}</ref><hr>Same as green (prior to ''[[Adventure Comics]]'' #252, September 1958 only) 
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*''Lois & Clark''
*''[[Smallville]]''
*''Supergirl''
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*''Super Friends''
*''Batman: The Brave and the Bold''
*''Krypto the Superdog''
*''DC Super Hero Girls''
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*''Superman'' (1987)
*''Scribblenauts Unmasked<ref name=":0" />''
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!style="color: white;" |Positive<hr>Platinum 
|"All that Glitters", ''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series (1958)<hr>''Batman Secret Files'' #1 (December 2018) 
|Impossible world (dream of Jimmy Olsen, ''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series/impossible world inside [[Phantom Zone]], comics)
|Source of superpowers (''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series)
|Permanent Kryptonian powers
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!style="background: gold; color: black;" |Negative<hr>Gold
|"All that Glitters", ''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series (1958)<hr>''Adventure Comics'' #299 (August 1962)
|Dream of Jimmy Olsen (''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series)<hr>Green affected by "atomic radiation"
|Permanent loss of superpowers<hr>Temporary memory loss (''Justice League Action'')
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*''The Adventures of Superman'' TV series
*''Smallville''
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* ''Super Friends''
* ''Justice League Action''
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*''Scribblenauts Unmasked<ref name=":0" />''
*''Injustice 2''
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!style="color: green;" |Anti-<hr>Fool's<hr>Slow<hr>Hybrid
|''Action Comics'' #252 (May 1959)
|Created by Metallo (''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'' #175, June 1981)<hr>Synthesized on Earth (''Lois & Clark'')
|None
|Same as green on Kryptonians
|Ultraman: Perfect health<ref>{{Cite comic|writer=Grant Morrison|penciller=Frank Quietly|inker=|colorist=|letterer=|editor=|story=|title=JLA: Earth 2|volume=|issue=|date=September 2000|publisher=DC Comics|location=|page=73|panel=1|id=}}</ref>
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*''Lois & Clark''
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0" />
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!style="background:#fc9;"|X-<hr>Orange
| ''Action Comics'' #261 (January 1960)
|Experiment by Supergirl to counteract green<hr>Fragments from Krypton (''Superman & Lois'', ''DC League of Super-Pets'')
| None
| Temporary Kryptonian powers<hr>Paranoia (''DC Super Hero Girls'')
|Bizarro: same as green on Kryptonians (''Superman & Lois'')
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''Superman & Lois''
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0" />
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!style="background: blue; color: white;" |Blue
|''Superman'' #140 (October 1960)
|Green subjected to Professor Dalton's duplicator ray
|None<hr>Loss of superpowers (''Smallville'')<hr>Counteracts red (''Super Friends'')
|Perfect health (''Smallville'')
|Bizarro: same as green on Kryptonians/instant death (''Smallville'')<hr>Ultraman: perfect health<ref>{{Cite comic|writer=Grant Morrison|penciller=Frank Quietly|inker=|colorist=|letterer=|editor=|story=|title=JLA: Earth 2|volume=|issue=|date=September 2000|publisher=DC Comics|location=|page=73|panel=1|id=}}</ref>/same as green on Kryptonians (''[[Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths]]'')<hr>Blocked by "imperfect" lead
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*''Crisis on Two Earths''
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*''Smallville''
*''Supergirl''
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*''Super Friends''
|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Eisen |first=Andrew |date=October 2, 2013 |title=DC Characters and Objects - ''Scribblenauts Unmasked'' Guide |url=https://www.ign.com/wikis/scribblenauts-unmasked/DC_Characters_and_Objects |access-date=October 25, 2024 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref>
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!style="background:#FFFFFF|White
|''Adventure Comics'' #279 (December 1960)
|Fragments of Krypton
|Plants, bacteria, and viruses: death
|Plants, bacteria, and viruses: death
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!style="background: lime; color: red;" |Red-green
|''Action Comics'' #275 (April 1961)
|Created by Brainiac
|Mutation<hr>Loss of superpowers (''Superboy Comics'' #121, June 1965)
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!style="background: blue; color: red;" |Red-green-blue-gold
|''Superman'' #162 (July 1963)
|Invented by Superman
|Splitting into red and blue beings<hr>Enhanced intelligence
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!style="background: silver; color: black;" |Silver 
|''[[Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen]]'' #70 (July 1963)
|Hoax by Jimmy Olsen<hr>Brainiac technology (''Smallville'', comics following ''[[Superman/Batman]]'' #46, April 2008)
|Paranoid delusions
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*''Supergirl''
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0" />
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!style="background: purple; color: white;" |Jewel<hr>Purple<hr>Purple-spotted
|''Action Comics'' #310 (March 1964)
|Kryptonian mountains
|Mind control powers
|Nightmares (''[[DC League of Super-Pets]]'')
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|''DC League of Super-Pets''
|''Smallville''
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*''Krypto the Superdog''
*''DC Super Hero Girls''
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!style="background: red; color: white;" |Bizarro-red 
|''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' #80 (October 1964)
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0" />
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!style="background: gold; color: red;" |Red-gold
|''Superman'' #178 (July 1965)
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|Temporary memory loss
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!style="background: grey; color: white;" |Magno-
|''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' #92 (April 1966)
|Created by Mr. Nero
|Magnetic attraction
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked<ref name=":0" />''
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!style="background: gold; color: green;" |Red-green-gold 
|''Superman'' #192 (January 1967)
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| Permanent superpower loss<hr>Permanent memory loss
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!style="background: black; color: white;" |Tar-based<hr>Black<hr>Harun-El
|''[[Superman III]]'' film (1983)<hr>''Supergirl'' (vol. 5) #2 (October 2005) (comics)
|Synthesized on Earth (''Superman III'')<hr>Superheated green (''Smallville'')<hr>Fragments of Krypton<hr>Kryptonian religion (''Supergirl'' TV series)
|Malevolence<hr>Splitting from good self (''Superman III'', ''Justice League Action'', ''Supergirl'' TV series)<hr>First exposure: splitting from Kryptonian persona (''Superman III'', ''Smallville'')<hr>Second exposure: merging with Kryptonian persona (''Smallville'')
|First exposure: splitting from good self (''Smallville'')<hr>Second exposure: merging with good self (''Smallville'')<hr>Temporary superpowers (''Supergirl'' TV series)<hr>Good beings: eventual fatality (''Supergirl'' TV series)
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|''Superman III''
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*''Smallville''
*''Supergirl''
|''Justice League Action''
|''Scribblenauts Unmasked''<ref name=":0" />
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!style="background: crimson; color: white;" |Krimson
|''Superman'' Volume 2 #49 (November 1990)
|Created by Mister Mxyzptlk to grant one wish for as long as origin is concealed
|Variable
|Variable
|Variable 
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!Kryptisium<hr>-X
|''The Adventures of Superman'' #511 (April 1994)
|Green filtered by Eradicator
|Excessive superpowers
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|''Scribblenauts Unmasked<ref name=":0" />''
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!style="background: gainsboro; color:gainsboro"|Clear
|"Visage", ''Smallville'' (January 14, 2003)
|Green neutralized by Kryptonian technology
|None
|None
|None
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|''Smallville''
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!style="background:#fce;"|Pink 
|''Supergirl'' (vol. 4) #79 (April 2003)
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|Inversion of gender-stereotyped traits<hr>Reversed sex (''Justice League Action'')
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!style="background:yellow;"|Yellow
|''Superman Family Adventures'' Vol. 12 (August 2012)
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|Unknown<hr>Fear (''[[Lego DC Super Hero Girls]]'')
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|''Lego DC Super Hero Girls''
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!style="background:#bbf;"|Periwinkle 
|''[[The Superman Family|Superman Family Adventures]]'' #9 (March 2013)
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|Joy<hr>Periwinkle transmutation
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|Bizarro: anger (''DC Super Hero Girls'')
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|''DC Super Hero Girls''
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!style="background: aqua; color: black;" |Turquoise 
|''[[Dark Nights: Death Metal]]'' #3 (August 2020)
|Dark Multiverse
|Similar to green
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[[File:Action Comics 310.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Superman]] and [[Jimmy Olsen]] discuss the mineral kryptonite, with the '''jewel''' variant making its debut, in ''[[Action Comics]]'' #310 (March 1964), art by [[Curt Swan]].]]