Enhancements on Weakness

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Originally Posted by Plane

The "Justice League Unlimited" episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core" explored that in an interesting way for Supergirl, regarding how it interacts with the solar power.

Supergirl was weak because of the red sun of Skartaris, and comments when encountering a HUGE piece of kryptonite "if I wasn't powerless, the kryptonite would've already killed me".

She's not COMPLETELY powerless due to the red sun (still has higher than normal strength) and not completely immune to the kryptonite either (it's still hurting her, but apparently not how much a chunk that size ought to if she's a full yellow-sun power).

So I think somehow what we need is Vulnerability tiers that work as a scaling Temporary Disadvantage to using always-on super-strength. IE to represent Kara (and presumably Kal) as they are in the DCAU based on CATEC you would need strength you could only turn off by lack of yellow sun (unless red is worse than darkness somehow, not sure how that works) but when that strength IS off, you have the advantage of the weakness/vulnerability to kryptonite diminishing too.

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

That sounds like kryptonite causes a Kryptonian's own powers to attack them in some way.

This is also a mixture of pre- and post crisis.

Pre-Crisis Kryptonite caused a very accelerated from of radiation poisoning if it was the correct type. Anti-Kryptonite (which was green in color) only effected non-superpower Kryptonians (Argo city) while normal Green Kryptonite only effected superpowered Kryptonians.

Post-Crisis New Earth Kryptonite was deadly to both types of Kryptonians - all that changed was how fast it worked. If superpowered Kryptonite actually drives the solar radiation from the body and replaces it with its radiation - Superman Vol 2 #1 (1987)