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** Superman's [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart Ultraman actually has this as his superpower: exposure to Kryptonite, rather than harming him, causes him to develop new abilities.
*** And Red Kryptonite (occasionally, in some continuities) lets the "regular" Superman develop new abilities, albeit temporary ones.
** [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405022900/http://www.superdickery.com/super-weaving/ Super Weaving]. Out of fairness, this is actually Van-Zee, Superman's lookalike from Kandor. It's not really a unique power as much as "using Super Speed to weave really fast", but they for some reason chose to wrap it this way. Ditto for [https://web.archive.org/web/20160530162308/http://www.superdickery.com/super-landscaping/ Super-Landscaping].
** Not even this much for [https://web.archive.org/web/20160414222321/http://www.superdickery.com/super-makeup/ “Super-Makeup”] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160404030319/http://www.superdickery.com/superman-moonlighting-as-a-villain/ "Super-Aim"].
** But "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160404040914/http://www.superdickery.com/super-ventriloquism/ Super-Ventriloquism]". And [https://web.archive.org/web/20160331215930/http://www.superdickery.com/middle-school-math-is-a-super-power-apparently/ Super-Mathematics] - which is not the same as the regular mathematics, it's [[Epic Fail|ten times as much]] ([[Memetic Mutation|and that's terrible]]?).
** In one strip, Lois is going blind and she wants to see a play based on herself before this happens. But the play is only a script, so Superman uses super-puppetry to make it appear that actors are performing on stage (Lois' vision is blurred so she doesn't notice). He also uses "super-memory" to learn the script, even though he could just ''read'' it given that he's offstage.
** Other silver age classic powers: super-hypnotism, super-kissing (don't ask, really), and super-mimicry.
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** [http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/superpowers-that-time-forgot/ There's plenty more examples from the comics.]
** The basic assumption was that, for any ability a normal man might have, Superman could do it or learn to do it much better. If a man can blow out a candle, then Superman can blow out a forest fire (never mind that his lungs aren't that big). The problem lay in that the writers didn't consider how ventriloquism or hypnotism really work, so Superman was shown ''literally'' throwing his voice, or hypnotizing people almost effortlessly.
** The time travel ability is a logical extension of the fact that they'd already established he could fly faster than light; the real question is how he ever broke the light barrier ''without'' time traveling. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100529050012/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3v.html#causality See here for details.]
** To sum it up, Superman only has one super power: the ability to pull any super power he wants out of his Super-ass.
** This didn't end with the Silver Age by the way. The modern Superman has been shown to use the psychic martial art of Torquasm-Vo which in one instance allowed him to ''alter reality''.
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