How Come Clark Can't Fight?

I'm going to try to seriously answer your question here:

Think about it from his perspective. These aren't powers to him, it's just the way he is. He isn't stronger due to "powers" acquired through life, he just IS that strong, it's all he's ever known. Now imagine how it would feel to suddenly have that strength torn away? Even if that leaves him with the strength of the average Joe it would be almost crippling to him. To suddenly feel the weight of your own body, the exhaustion of walking through snow, etc. it's a huge shock to the system.

His strength isn't muscular, if it was then he would keep it, kryptonite or not. Most of (if not all) his strength comes from the energy that radiates within him. Therefore he doesn't use his muscles the same way we do. All his exploits will probably tone the muscles but not strengthen them in any way. This means, over time his muscle strength will waste away. This is based on my knowledge of how muscles work and waste away, my daughter has Muscular Dystrophy (a muscle wasting disease) so I know a fair bit.

As for the island lifting scene, I'm tired of explaining this so I'll just skip over the main points you need to consider.

-Where does his power come from? The sun. Not only does he bathe himself in it, he burns through cloud, water and rock to keep himself in the suns rays permanently.

-How does kryptonite affect him? It doesn't kill him outright, it's like a poison draining his energy. Too much of it over too much time will kill.

-So, he is being drained of energy by the island but this effect is reduced due to sunlight. What he is doing is the equivalent of an average man/woman resisting the effects of smoke inhalation to get their family out of a burning building and then collapsing once the adrenaline has worn off.

Watch the scene with that in mind and it makes perfect sense.

Hope that helps!

Well, that's because I'm a man! A man that built the Eiffel Tower out of brawn and steel! I have a larger brain than a woman, it's science!

@Ron- That was funny.

CorndogBurglar - I do remember one episode of Lois & Clark where Superman did in fact take self defence classes to help him beat up some ninja with a special amulet, or something.

I lost you at "Lois & Clark" didn't I?! The one show where Clark was tougher than Superman! Oh, Dean Cain, what did you do! You got it the wrong way around!

SuperAlex - Easily done in just one word...."FOX".

hahaha of course! it was right in front of me this whole time.

@ ron

lolololol, jesus man...do you have a writer or something?? hysterical

and by the way, my sister used to love lois and clark, so unfortunately i watched it with her...ugh.

"lets make a show about clark kent, and only show superman in every episode for like 5 minutes." i guess its better than smallville, a show about superman becoming superman, but with no superman in the entire show. did i just say lois and clark is better than smallville?? hmmmm...they both suck, oh well

I agree with Ron. It's because he isn's used to struggling, he takes his powers for granted in a sense.

i like superman but this is the reason Goku [DB(Z)] would win in a fight with superman. Goku also has superpowers but Goku has trained in martial arts his whole life.