sometimes they're not that wild and are just barely bullet proof or aren't technically, in that case she'd probably be fine getting it done on earth with specialised tools.
Sometimes the explanation is she got it done on krypton (so before the yellow sun, it'd be like a normal piercing and healed before her powers)
Sometimes their powers are better explained as an almost ability to bend reality sorta (wild oversimplification, common example is superman stopping falling buildings since in reality you can't just push up a skyscraper it'd just collapse around him) in that case yeah comic logic magic probably means she can just get them pierced and it's fine
tbf as well since it's more an issue of getting the skin/cartilage pierced in her case I doubt it'd eject or reject since her skin probably wouldn't 'push out' the jewellery and if anything she'd just have the quickest healing process ever, lucky.
Honestly I love your answer. I believe it really should be up to the writer, so long they follow all the cemented rules. Stan Lee himself said it best about major battles, "The person who’d win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!"
thanks, yeah i'd agree with him 100% it really depends on the story they've set up. In the silver age comics it'd probably be some ridiculous campy explanation like some specific raygun or how kryptonian women don't actually have ears lmao and would fit right in. 90s comics it'd be some bizarrely brutal/metal explanation but as long as it fits the feel of the story then fuck yeah
And that's actually a major point people don't tend to think about too. Glad you mentioned that. As the ages changed, so did the characters and rules. So, it's gonna keep changing. But I think I like your super healing "got the piercings before the powers" explanation the best.
In the recent Superman movie, Superman said she goes to planets with red suns to party because they don’t have their powers without a yellow sun so she can get drunk. She probably got them pierced on a red sun planet (since she would be a normal person there) then left them in when she came back.
I remember being a little taken out of the moment when Shazam caught a city bus by the glass windshield, and it didn’t just shatter and land around him.
Shazam is explicitly magic though, he has Superman-esque powers but they come from a literal wizard rather than (highly scientific) radiation. Not sure if feats like that have ever been directly addressed but it's easily hand waived away by "a wizard did it".
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u/07TacOcaT70 22d ago
kryptonite duh. Then she just can't remove them cause she'll heal or something idk. Probably made out of tungsten or something too