Lex Luthor: Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their power with mankind.
Lex Luthor: C'mon, let me hear you say it. Just once. C'mon.
Lois Lane: You're insane.
Lex Luthor: No! Not that! The other thing. C'mon.
Lois Lane: Superman will never-
Lex Luthor: WRONG!
Superman: Your wrote that the world doesn't need a saviour. But every day I hear people calling out for one.
Lois Lane: How did you get here?
Richard White: I flew.
Lex Luthor: Kitty, what did my father always say?
Kitty: You're losing your hair?
Lex Luthor: Before that.
Kitty: Get out?
Kitty: Wow. That's really something Lex.
Lex Luthor: Wait for it.
Kitty: Wow, that's really something Lex. It's freaking Gone with the Wind.
Chosen answer: The chunks that fall off the "new" land are actually bits of the earth's crust. Superman had actually drilled himself way beneath the "new" land (under the bottom of the ocean floor) so that he was not in contact with the Kryptonite infected crystal land, so that he could lift it up and get rid of it. It is this earth crust that falls off slowly, revealing the kryptonite crystals beneath, and this is why his strength slowly gets taken away as he flies higher, until there is too much exposed and he loses all his strength.
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