People have always given me a lot of flak for my stance as a Superman fan, they like to point out his weakness, and how vulnerable he really is. This is really [i]why[/i] I love Superman. Even at our very best, we're still vulnerable, even when we seem impregnable, we still carry the same weaknesses as everyone else. In [i]Man of Steel[/i], there is no Kryptonite. Superman's "weakness" is his compassion for human life, and in this way, he can be even more direly wounded then he ever could by Kryptonite. This weakness is more easily exploited, and it makes Superman so much more human than the weakness of Kryptonite ever could. It makes him that much easier to aspire to as a hero, because he now has a weakness we can identify with. Superman is so much more than we could ever hope to be, yet he can be hurt in the same ways as us.