10 Ways To Beat Superman

7. Psychic Attacks

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Another bizarrely specific weakness of Kryptonian's is that they are vulnerable to psychic attacks.

Throughout the years, Superman has found himself laid low by illusions or psychic assaults from the likes of the evil Kryptonian H'El. What is more common though, to a frankly ridiculous degree, is that he is incredibly susceptible to mind control and will often find himself turned into the unwilling pawn of someone like Poison Ivy or Starro.

While 90% of the time this results in him trying to turn Bruce Wayne into a bat shaped pavement stain (to the point where you have to question how much he's really being "forced" to do it), there was one memorable occasion when he was enslaved by Darkseid's minion Sleez and almost forced to make a porn film with the New God Big Barda.

Really Superman's life is a bit of a double-edged sword. He was lucky enough to land on a planet that gave him incredible powers, but unlucky enough that it also happened to be full of things that are harmful specifically to him.

Still, probably serves him right for all that weird stuff with the mind-erasing kiss.

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