Kryptonian DNA now readily available

[raidensix]

With the current powered down version of Superman and his bleeding pretty much where ever he goes, Kryptonian DNA is now readily available for collection. I wonder if this will be addressed in the future.

[Superlad93]

Nope, not really as far as we know

[Slaughter]

Machine could be on the fritz, or being controlled by someone else (Xa-Du?).

In the post-crisis time, used to be that it was sort of a established thing that It Wasn't Easy to Clone a Kryptonian. Before they retconned Superboy into a half-k clone, at best what you got was a Bizarro, althrough Simian and Mokkari managed to make a kryptonite-emiting Superman clone once. Only one who aparently got it was Hank Henshaw, Cyborg-Superman was essentially a Kal-El clone with cybernetics over it (and I presume a cybernetic or fully computer brain), but he had Supes' birthing matrix. Then there was Kaleb, but I don't remember right now if he was a kryptonian-like clone or one of Superman's future descendants- he appeared like twice in the late nineties.

[manofsteel1979]

Machine could be on the fritz, or being controlled by someone else (Xa-Du?).

In the post-crisis time, used to be that it was sort of a established thing that It Wasn't Easy to Clone a Kryptonian. Before they retconned Superboy into a half-k clone, at best what you got was a Bizarro, althrough Simian and Mokkari managed to make a kryptonite-emiting Superman clone once. Only one who aparently got it was Hank Henshaw, Cyborg-Superman was essentially a Kal-El clone with cybernetics over it (and I presume a cybernetic or fully computer brain), but he had Supes' birthing matrix. Then there was Kaleb, but I don't remember right now if he was a kryptonian-like clone or one of Superman's future descendants- he appeared like twice in the late nineties.

I imagine it is still tough in current continuity, seeing how it takes 10 years for a proper clone of Kal to be fully functional (see b-zero from FOREVER EVIL)....and also the fact Kon-El is now not a clone of Kal again but instead a clone of his half human alternate timeline son.

[Sacred Knight]

If his genetics really are being screwed with, I'd imagine that blood is worthless from the POV of recreating a true-to-form Kryptonian. But of course that's the big question. Is there something truly altered in him at the biological level or not.

[Auguste Dupin]

If his genetics really are being screwed with, I'd imagine that blood is worthless from the POV of recreating a true-to-form Kryptonian. But of course that's the big question. Is there something truly altered in him at the biological level or not.

Yeah, that's kind of the question. Although I guess even his altered DNA woud be worth something. I mean, an army of clones as tough as Truth Superman wuld still be pretty useful.

[Imacomicfan]

I could see this as a storyline in far future.

[Cipher]

I doubt any of the current teams have plans for this, but that bit from Action Comics leaves future creators options either way for using or being able to ignore it.