10 Superman Questions That Always Confused You

8. Why Doesn't He Get Overwhelmed By His Enhanced Senses?

Supes' powers might have changed a lot over the years, but one that's always stuck around has been his X-Ray vision, or enhanced vision as it goes by these days.

The ability enables the Man of Steel to look through solid objects to reveal the contents within, lest a quantity of lead is blocking his way. However, when using his vision, how exactly is he able to focus on what to look through? If his vision is so powerful, wouldn't it just continue to look through all matter until it hit a lead wall?

Well, not exactly. As was previously mentioned, Supes' X-Ray vision is actually just one aspect of his enhanced senses. He's able to focus on individual layers just by concentrating, and the same goes for his super-hearing.

By now it's well established that the Man of Steel can hear pretty much anything he can put his mind to, but while you'd imagine that ability would be too much for one man to bear, through years of practice, Supes has managed to block out distractions and tune his ears to pick up on certain noises. It's not something he can switch on at the flick of a switch, but given Metropolis' criminals have taken to holding meetings in lead lined rooms and are conscious of mentioning him by name, it goes to show just how effective those powers are.