he just fought 3 Kryptonians and there was no kryptonite around in either battle
that wouldn't work in any sort of way


>in a post we had a couple of months back about superman
>returns i defended the film because i felt the only stories
>you could do with the superman character was: he's born, sent
>to earth, virtually immortal, someone brings out the
>kryptonite, he fight it, wins, credits
>

you're so wrong about this, but whatever


>the next poster made the point that the atmosphere
>pseudo-substituted for kryptonite but i was just pleased that
>this 21st century superman film avoided, somewhat the arc i
>described above.

there was no substitution for any variation of kryptonite, you guys are reading that wrong
without some sort of difference in atmosphere, the terraforming angle wouldn't be plausible
THAT was the purpose of it, not doubling a kryptolite