what do you know about this?

He's no more vulnerable to it than a normal human.  If the magic in question had some loophole in it that allowed it to be resisted, he'd have just as good a chance at doing so as anyone else.

superman is vulnerable to magic. it was clear in his encounter with the Externals

certain types of supermen are such as kingdom come supes and pre crisis

" you would think superman would work on his resistance to magic with zatanna or Dr fate "

" @DEGRAAF said:

" you would think superman would work on his resistance to magic with zatanna or Dr fate "

Yea you think he would especially after he tried to get rid of all the Kryptonite on earth it was the obvious next step to take but maybe he belives in case he is ever controled some people should have the ability to take him down. "

If he did he would be too powerful.

Golden Age Superman (38-55) -  
 
Silver Age Superman (55-70)-  
 
Bronze Age Superman (70-86)-  
 
Modern Age Superman (86-Present)-   
 
Alternate futures that you can think of - 
 
Fill in the blanks. 

Golden Age Superman had no weaknesses until the late Golden Age, when kryptonite was introduced. Magic was introduced as a weakness somewhere in the early silver age, I believe.

Superman is weak against magic, depending on how powerful it is. He's shown to resist weaker forms of it, though.

i think it is because magic is a type of energy, or a kind of radiation, which is why it affects him like kryptonite or a red sun, and it's also not just used on earth, cause if i remember correctly, mordru is from a differant planet, so that would mean that magic is also cosmic. and by the way, aren't the new gods' and apokolyptians abilities magical, i mean they are technically gods after all, just more advanced, and they can hurt superman like the gods of earth

" He's no more vulnerable to it than a normal human.  If the magic in question had some loophole in it that allowed it to be resisted, he'd have just as good a chance at doing so as anyone else. "

that is also true, but if it can hurt someone as powerful as him, then shouldn't it still be considered a weakness. cause if you look at the hulk, the only way magic could hurt him is if it was used by the high level magic users, were as superman is vulnerable to any kind of magic, no matter how powerful, i mean liu kang could hurt him, and he is human

 
 
he did work on it with zatanna and phantom stranger gave him a magic dispel aura or something

ok here it is,, 
hes a magic shield in effeect he got from phantom stranger 
    
learning aabout magic from zatanna then utilizing that knowledge 
       

This is how it seems to work: unlike bullets, fire, radiation, fists, etc to which Superman has virtual invulnerability he has "no more immunity than a normal human". In short, bullets that would kill Jimmy olsen, bounce. But magic that would paralyze Jimmy Olsen paralyzes him. He has no more protection to it than anyone else. So in comparison to most damage he is surprisingly vulnerable to it. None of his Kryptonian advantages affect magic. Also I believe that it has been implied over the years that Krypton was an advanced scientific culture, to the point that magic was never tapped or "discovered" on Krypton. And so, just as animals that live completely underground don't need to develop resistance to sunlight, Kryptonians never developed any resistances to those magic energies.

" This is how it seems to work: unlike bullets, fire, radiation, fists, etc to which Superman has virtual invulnerability he has "no more immunity than a normal human". In short, bullets that would kill Jimmy olsen, bounce. But magic that would paralyze Jimmy Olsen paralyzes him. He has no more protection to it than anyone else. So in comparison to most damage he is surprisingly vulnerable to it. None of his Kryptonian advantages affect magic. Also I believe that it has been implied over the years that Krypton was an advanced scientific culture, to the point that magic was never tapped or "discovered" on Krypton. And so, just as animals that live completely underground don't need to develop resistance to sunlight, Kryptonians never developed any resistances to those magic energies. "

Clark is vulnerable to magic as is everyone else who doesn't have any experience with it. He has minor experience with it giving him some degree of control and knowledge on how to stop it as proved in the scan Valtot where he's saying that Zatanna told him a few things. Clark has friends that will help him out if he asks them, Zatanna, Phantom Stranger etc. These will give him magical resistances to help him during a battle. Clark going into a battle without any help from these said character, depending on the level of being the person is, will probably result in what happened against Atlas before he got the magical resistance put on him by Zatara.

he is learning to do that now with zatana , and he can counter all the spells known , but semi divine and divine magic can harm him , he was able to stand a magical blow tha knocked all the JLA down along with wonder woman (high resistance to magic ) and an Angel i forgot his name , also took a magical sword to the hear and a magical arrow to the back , and survived them and whooped 4 gods asses who did this to him.

Superman cannot resist magic because Jor-el did the rabbit in the hat trick right before Krypton was destroyed. That's the last image he has of his real father. It was embedded into his psyche and so whenever there is a magic show, Supes can't resist but watch it. :p

@ssejllenrad said:

Superman cannot resist magic because Jor-el did the rabbit in the hat trick right before Krypton was destroyed. That's the last image he has of his real father. It was embedded into his psyche and so whenever there is a magic show, Supes can't resist but watch it. :p

Denial lol

@SilverGalford said:

what do you know about this?

Yes. Read this link: Kal Kent and google his name.

Kal Kent , SPM Guardianamped can easily resist to all kinds of magic .The other versions may go down

So in short why can he not learn magic , super smart it should be no problem and most books of that nature to avert the effects of any spell one simply must A. stop the casting of such spell or B.Move out of its range of effect or C..counter spell and cast your own spell that offers protection of a sort against that school of magic.

Being this is Superman he could at least learn protection magic or have Diana teach him some simple wards to protect him in the future or she could use them on him.

As the Goddess of War she could even use her abilities to put him under her protection and shield him against the effects of magic thus is she is safe so would he be.

All in all it is up to the writer is there really any book on the subject or rules that they have to follow when writing that the writers must follow word by word or do they have any freeway here?

Magic is pretty much you can do anything you want with it.

What to make Superman a women , just cast the right spell and have him seeking out a whole new outfit.

How about want to make superman a midget whom loves cheese cakes goes by the name Cheese guy and screams about Oranges all day long.

Well you could do it but whom would want to read such a tale.

So is Superman weak against magic or would anybody want to see a story where he is beaten by spells all day long and never grows or learns anything and just stays the poster boy for how to be fast , strong , smart and all around super but still weak to magic.

Story line story line story line it says everything and at the end of the day if enough people are willing to read a story or invest time in it as in money you could very well hear Clark say omg Lana call me Miss Kent I am no longer worthy of being called Clark and do I look good in this dress?

Until next week when we ask if Superman can Yodel have a great day.....

Not really. It's one of Superman greatest weaknesses, if not the greatest. Against magic he's pretty much defenseless. Unless it's elemental magic, where the magician uses magic to manipulate natural forces of nature. In that case he can withstand it, but if it's pure magic, then he's in serious trouble.

And unlike what I've read countless times, a kryptonian vulnerability to magic has nothing to do with kryptonian society being more focused on science than magic. It's simply because no kryptonian so far has shown no knowledge of magic. It's simply a lack of knowledge, nothing else. After all even Batman hates magic, and he's human. So by the same accounts of what I've read in other posts, then Batman should also be able to use magic, but he doesn't. Simply because he lacks the knowledge.

@kingofkings1 said:

Little remark – he was resistant to magic even before been amped with Guardian’s energies (though magic resistance may have been increased as well in result).

@kingofkings1:

Well, Kal Kent was the product of centuries of Superman descendants crossbreeding with other species, more specifically the Superman descendant that married the queen of 5th dimension. That alone not only gave Kal Kent resistance to magic but also the ability to do magic.

Superboy-Prime turned adult after he absorved the energies of the guardian that tried to kill him, was already invulnerable to magic before he became Superman-Prime, all because in his universe magic did not exist.

Depends on the writer, Superman can resist it if he wants to but he has to feel something in him to easily withstand it relative to his willpower and mentality. I think of it Superman sub consciously handicapping himself to the laws of physics and limiting his power of comprehension only to comicbook science which makes Magic and Psychic energy more potent to him.

Yes. But every writer will have him resist it differently. I've seen him fall to his knees just being around it and I've seen him shrug off magic blasts like he didn't even feel it.

Yes.

Only strong magic are vulnerable to him

Yes.

The applied magic must be strong and cause a huge physical and telepathic damage effect to harm Superman, as I mentioned before, capabilities like transmutation is alchemy and not magic.