Det verkar som att Clark, när han växer, kommer att komma in i sina befogenheter . Förmodligen är detta helt normalt och händer på ett sätt som är analagöst mot puberteten. På den speciella dagen blev han plötsligt kunna använda både hans supersyn (röntgen, infraröd / ultraviolett) och hans superhörning. Det finns inget omnämnande i romanen av en viss utlösare , bara att det var något nytt och helt överväldigande.
The other children giggled at his discomfort. They couldn’t see what he saw—the inside of Ms. Whitaker. The teacher’s skin and clothes had gone transparent, revealing the bones, organs, and arteries beneath. He could see the blood coursing through her veins, watch her heart beat rhythmically. Her lungs expanded and contracted like fleshy balloons. Chewed-up food made its way through her digestive tract. She looked like the “visible man” model he’d seen in the Sears catalog, but life-sized and pulsing with animation. Exposed muscles, resembling strips of raw meat, covered her bones. Eyeballs rolled in the sockets of her skull.
He looked away from her, only to discover that his classmates had turned into living anatomy lessons as well. Even worse, he could hear all of their heartbeats, which were pounding like kettledrums—and growing louder by the second.
Clark threw his hands over his ears, but it didn’t do any good. He could hear everything. Even the ticking of the wall clock sounded like a jackhammer going off right in his ears.
It was unbearable.
Närmare bestämt går Zod och hans anhängare igenom samma inlärningskurva när de landar, om än mycket mycket snabbare och med långt större självkontroll. Detta tyder starkt på att dessa egenskaper är relaterade till fysisk mognad snarare än den totala tiden som spenderas i jordens atmosfär.