Parece que Clark, à medida que cresce, está entrando em seus poderes . Presumivelmente, isso é perfeitamente normal e acontece de uma maneira análoga à puberdade. Naquele dia em particular, ele subitamente conseguiu usar tanto sua super visão (radiografia, infravermelho / ultravioleta) quanto sua superaudição. Não há menção no romance de um gatilho em particular , apenas que foi algo novo e totalmente esmagador.
Notavelmente, Zod e seus seguidores passam pela mesma curva de aprendizado quando chegam, embora muito mais rápido e com muito mais autocontrole. Isto sugere strongmente que estas características estão relacionadas com a maturidade física e não com a quantidade total de tempo gasto na atmosfera da Terra.The other children giggled at his discomfort. They couldn’t see what he saw—the inside of Ms. Whitaker. The teacher’s skin and clothes had gone transparent, revealing the bones, organs, and arteries beneath. He could see the blood coursing through her veins, watch her heart beat rhythmically. Her lungs expanded and contracted like fleshy balloons. Chewed-up food made its way through her digestive tract. She looked like the “visible man” model he’d seen in the Sears catalog, but life-sized and pulsing with animation. Exposed muscles, resembling strips of raw meat, covered her bones. Eyeballs rolled in the sockets of her skull.
He looked away from her, only to discover that his classmates had turned into living anatomy lessons as well. Even worse, he could hear all of their heartbeats, which were pounding like kettledrums—and growing louder by the second.
Clark threw his hands over his ears, but it didn’t do any good. He could hear everything. Even the ticking of the wall clock sounded like a jackhammer going off right in his ears.
It was unbearable.