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So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

According to the rules, you can only name an element after five things: a scientist, a mythological concept or character, a mineral or similar substance, a place or a property of the element, like its color. People have tried Batmanium before without joy. But with Metal making Batman very much a mythological character, as well as giving us a fictional Batmanium, maybe we could have a real Batmanium after all?

Batman #45 is the first appearance of Batmanium in the comics, in the story Super Heavy by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the creators of Metal. With the Powers Corporation running colliders that had "little universe being created and destroyed, moment by moment"…

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

The ultra-dense Batmanium was one of four new elements created by the Powers Corporation, element 206 on the periodic table. The others weren't mentioned…

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

Today, Batman gets close and personal with Batmanium.

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

But with Metal willing to embrace such a thing, what about Supermanium? Appearing through the Silver Age and Bronze Age (to name two other metals) it was the strongest metal known to science! Superman forges it from the heart of a star!

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

The strongest metal known! He discovered it, which makes him a super scientist and thus able to name it after himself.

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

The hardest metal known!

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

The densest metal known!

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

And the scientific community named it in his honour!

So, DC Comics, What About Bringing Back Supermanium? (Metal #2 Spoilers)

Is there any way Mr. Oz could have built his prisons out of it?


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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