Why Doesn't Batman or Cyborg manufacture a Suit or Armor that Blocks Kryptonite, to Protect Superman?

[spongeworthy2023]

Pretty much the Title. Kryptonite rock emits radiation that hurts and weakens Superman right?

Why doesn't Batman, Martian Manhunter, or Cyborg create an armor or suit that blocks Kryptonite?

Wouldn't a normal everyday suit used by industrial laborers to block Nuclear radiation work the same to block Kryptonite radiation?

Has this ever been addressed or tried in comics or the animated incarnations of DC?

Thanks

 

[RoscoIsANinja]

Yes. In the animated series Starlabs made a suit for Superman that blocked the radiation of Krytonite. However, the Joker's acid was strong enough to destroy the suit so...

 

[Cheimison]

There is some practical difficulty in that making a suit which can match Superman's extreme performance requirements is very difficult: if you can make armor that takes a hit like Clark, you basically have the most durable armor in the universe already. This is a New Gods level engineering feat.
A more practical real world reason can be generalized to examples like 'why don't Cyclops and Professor X wear Iron Man suits?', it's because while using all the scifi technology is very rational and would totally happen in the real world, it undercuts the strengths and weaknesses, as well as appearance, that differentiates the characters. Why doesn't Batman always wear power armor with stun blasters? Any answer is basically going to be a rationalization, and really doesn't fit the actual performance of technology in the comics, but writers seem bent on avoiding the superhero singularity that would pretty naturally follow from what we see in these comics. Likewise, why doesn't Superman learn to cast spells?

 

[Cheimison]

Yes. In the animated series Starlabs made a suit for Superman that blocked the radiation of Krytonite. However, the Joker's acid was strong enough to destroy the suit so...

Insanity is a super power on Batman.