A while back, Marvel Comics killed off Captain America. There was some strong reaction to it, as well as a mix of introspection and doubt.
That's in the comic books.
Here is where real life interrupts fantasy. Miners in Serbia have found, and scientists in England have determined, a mineral that, by all accounts, is kryptonite. Apparently it has no remarkable powers. Then again, none of us are from Krypton.
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