“ | Oh, man, red and green ones? No wonder I feel angry and sick at the same time. | „ |
~ Supergirl about a red and green Kryptomite. |
The Kryptomites are major antagonists in the first generation of the superhero cartoon series DC Super Hero Girls.
They are sentient mineral lifeforms created by Lena Luthor using a combination of Kryptonite dust taken from Supergirl's Kryptonian Rocket in order to assist in her plans.
They are voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
Appearance[]
Kryptomites are short creatures, looking like jagged flat rocks with eyes, mouth and rudimentary limbs. Yet they are surprisingly quick and nimble, and their stumpy, fingerless hands don't preclude them from operating heavy machinery.
There are many varieties from differently-colored Kryptomites due to their origins: green, red, blue, yellow, orange and purple. Nevertheless, their bodies' radiation have also effects on humans, albeit not on Tamaraneans.
Personality[]
Kryptomites are extremely mischievous creatures who love wreaking havoc and causing mischief purposelessly, particularly if they're making some hero's life harder. They are also intelligent enough to work with others, operate advanced machines, and understand human idioms. They have apparently developed their own language, even though it sounds like gibberish to everyone but Lena Luthor.
They are very loyal to Lena Luthor. Lena has admitted she manufactured them because she doesn't manage to find henchmen who are able to put up with her.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Intelligence: Kryptomites are intelligent enough to work with others, operate advanced machines, and understand human idioms. They have also developed their own language, even though it sounds like gibberish to everyone but Lena Luthor.
- Stealth: Due their tiny size, Kryptomites can infiltrate and gather information on their enemies without them knowing, making them good informants for Lena.
- Genetically Enhanced Kryptonite Physiology: Kryptomites have displayed a veritable array of powers, some of them stemming from their Kryptonite physiology:
- Regenerative Replication: When a Kryptomite is shattered, many Kryptomites grow from every shard.
- Flight: In LEGO media, Kryptomites are able to float.
- Radiation Generation: Depending on the kind of Kryptomite, their bodies' radiation can make people irrationally mad, paranoid, confused or frightened:
- Purple Kryptomites: Use hypnosis to control people minds.
- Yellow Kryptomites: Instill fear.
- Green Kryptomites: Weaken Kryptonians.
- Blue Kryptomites: Instill confusion.
- Red Kryptomites: Instill rage.
- Orange Kryptomites: Instill paranoia.
- Fusion: In Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, Kryptomites show the ability to fuse their bodies in order to create a one, colossal and more powerful Kryptomite.
Description in the series[]
Season Three[]
Seeking revenge on the Super Hero High School, Lena Luthor manages to get hired as IT Technician. During a rescue misdirection Lena manages to steal the remnants of kryptonite from Supergirl's ship to use it for her schemes.
Using her science knowledge, Lena creates her first example of living kryptomite. Just as Lena takes a selfie to celebrate, she notices Supergirl and her friends, Batgirl and Wonder Woman calling for her.
As Lena deals with the three heroines, the kryptomite begins wrecking the lab.
Lena quickly dispatches the girls through the door, but when she returns in her lab, she finds out the mess caused by the Kryptomite. As the girls approach the Batjet, the Kryptomite appears from behind a nearby barrel, and begins to follow them. Suddenly, Supergirl begins to feel weak and collapses as Wonder Woman notices the living kryptonite approaching. Batgirl ensnares it with her Bat-rope, only for it to cut it and free itself.
The kryptomite then charges at the girls, as Wonder Woman grabs a nearby light pole and uses ot to crush the Kryptomite, causing it to shatter. After Wonder Woman puts the pole back, the girls then help Supergirl return to school. While their backs are turned, several kryptomites form from the shattered fragments.
Afterwards, Lena creates a new kind of Kryptomite, a red one. Meanwhile, at Super Hero High, the Save The Day Alarm goes off.
A collection of students race out the front doors of the school to respond to it. They arrive in Metropolis, where several green Kryptomites are making trouble in the city and attacking the citizens. Supergirl begins to weaken again due to the effects of the Kryptomites and falls out of the sky but is saved by Wonder Woman from falling to the ground. She tells Batgirl to take the lead while she takes Supergirl away from the Kryptomites. Batgirl then races into battle, and shatters several Kryptomites, as does the Flash, Cyborg, Bumblebee and Harley Quinn. As they celebrate their initial success, it then begins to rain, which causes the shattered Kryptomite fragments to multiply into several more. Bumblebee ponders how they will stop them if they can multiply into more if they smash them. Frost then walks back into a kryptonite fragment and attempts to freeze it, before Poison Ivy notices that it has not turned into a Kryptomite as it is covered from the rain by an awning. Frost and Ivy examine the crystal and notice that it is also organic, meaning they need by chemistry and biology to defeat it, before racing off to the science lab at the school. While Bumblebee, Cyborg and Harley are surrounded by Kryptomites, the Flash speeds by and shatters them all before joining Batgirl in the Capes and Cowls Café and finding it swarming with Kryptomites attacking the customesrs.
Steve Trevor attempts to keep them at bay with a mop, just as Flash arrives behind the counter and uses a trash bin to trap inside all the Kryptomites in the Café. Just as Steve thanks Flash, a red Kryptomite approaching him from behind makes him incredibly angry. The Kryptomite jumps on the counter, and Batgirl notices how the different colours of the Kryptomites effect people in different ways. As the Flash catches it in the trash bin, he guesses that red ones create anger. Outside, Frost and Ivy return to the scene, with a new formula that inhibits their crystallization and stops the Kryptomites. The two then hand guns and balloons full of the formula to their classmates and use it to defeat the Kryptomites, shrivelling them into harmless, inanimate stones.
Batgirl then opens a large container as Cyborg drops a large load of the former Kryptonites inside and indicates that that is the last of them. Batgirl closes the container as the citizens and other heroes cheer. Meanwhile, Harley holds a shrivelled red stone, intending to keep it for herself as it matches her dorm decor. The stone, however appears to still be a living kryptomite.
In Seeing Red The red Kryptomite (the same the Harley kept for herself) wake up and sows discord in Super Hero High School, making staff and students fight each other. Starfire, whose Tamaranean physiology makes her immune from its powers, discovers it and chases it around the school. The Kryptomite uses its powers to manipulate Poison Ivy to stop her. It is eventually defeated when Starfire manipulates Ivy into using the anti-Kryprtomite chemical on it.
In the film DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games, the Kryptomites reappear again as the secondary antagonists (alongside the Female Furies).
Lena creates Kryptomites as her personal army. During the Games' banquet, a Kryptomite escapes Lena's office and kicks a meatball at Lashina, instigating a food fight. It is discovered by Batgirl, who chases it down the hall before being attacked by it. Ivy and Frost then defeat it with the anti-Kryptomite chemical. The Kryptomite army appear in mech suits when Lena and Platinum invade the stadium during the final event to destroy the Super Hero High students and battle against Super Hero High students and Blackfire. They also appear piloting small ships using kryptonite on Supergirl. When Cyborg destroys their canopies with his sonic cannon, they are left defenseless to the anti-kryptomite chemical, which Ivy, Frost and Batgirl use to defeat them.
Season Five[]
In Target Practice, Starfire accidentally creates a Kryptomite when she throws a frisbee at a park, which lands in Lena Luthor’s warehouse and causes chemicals to spill. The Kryptomite manages to multiply first by stepping into a puddle and then by shattering when Starfire inadvertently hits them again with another frisbee. Kryptomites then attack Supergirl but she is freed by Starfire, who knocks them away with more frisbees. Kryptomites are then captured by Wonder Woman’s Lasso.
In the first part of For the Girl Who Has Everything, Kryptomites appear trying to scrap and loot the vehicles of Super Hero High students at the school garage. They depower Supergirl, but are defeated by Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn. In the second part, Kryptomites appear in Supergirl’s dream looting her jet. She defeats one by punching it and Grodd tells her of her immunity to kryptonite. As the rest of the Kryptomites get away, Supergirl defeats them with her freeze breath.
Depiction in LEGO media[]
In the short Body Building, Lena Luthor unleashes her new rainbow Kryptomites to wreak havoc on Metropolis, but Batgirl, Cyborg and Bumblebee team up and work together to save the day.
In Crazed & Confused, blue Kryptomites make Beast Boy attempt to turn himself into a turkey sandwich as Supergirl calls him "Feast Boy". Later on, when Mad Harriet threatens Harley Quinn for ruing her "crazy" plans, Wonder Woman throws the two Kryptomites at them, causing Mad Harriet to willingly surrender to Harley, and Harley to start an essay to earn an A+.
In Need for Speed, the Flash is running faster than ever before and causing trouble in Metropolis, all because a confusing blue Krytomite has been planted on his back by Lena Luthor.
In Trading Places, Lena Luthor and Killer Moth kidnap Batgirl (disguised as Supergirl), and threaten to harm her with a green Kryptomite if she doesn't tell them the weaknesses of her classmates. When Supergirl intervenes to rescue Batgirl, Lena Luthor is confused at the sight of two Supergirls, noting that the Kryptomite next to her isn't even the blue confusion one.
In Wonder Waitress, a blue Kryptomite is shown as Supergirl comes out of Capes & Bowls Cafe as she tells Krypto to drop it. Along came Mad Harriet later that day as the blue Kryptomite confuses her. Mad Harriet is mad at Steve Trevor as she looks at Gorilla Grodd for giving her all the pies.
In the movie DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, Eclipso joins in as Lena Luthor calls Eclipso, as the green and red Kryptomites attack Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl. Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl have now made it to LexCorp and sees Lena and Wonder Woman asks Lena that she had it yesterday or not. Lena calls to the Kryptomites as the Kryptomites look at Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl. Wonder Woman thinks that they're not scary, kinda cute as Lena makes the Kryptomites attack them.
Later, Lena makes her escape but Batgirl is after her, leaving Supergirl and Wonder Woman to deal with the Kryptomites, that fuse their bodies in order to create a one, more powerful Kryptomite. The two heroines manage to defeat it/they when Wonder Woman makes Supergirl have physical contact with a red one, empowering her with rage, and take down the monster together.
In Galactic Wonder Batgirl, Supergirl and Wonder Woman receive a warning signal from the Bat-Computer. They learn that the warning is about the Earth's electromagnetic energy, which is building up in certain places around the world, which messes with the current's natural flow. Batgirl finds out that the source of this is coming from LexCorp, and the trio head off. When they arrive, they discover stolen StarLabs technology, which are being used to mess with the Earth's electromagnetic output in several locations in order to generate a hyper-space wormhole so Eclipso can finally wreak her revenge on Gemworld. Lena then shows herself, explaining that when Eclipso's gone, she'll take over the planet. The trio battle Lena and her Kryptomites only to subdue them long enough to go to the electromagnetic hotspots - the Egyptian pyramids, the Aztec Jungle and the English Stone Hedge.
The Super Hero Girls arrive at their respective locations - Wonder Woman at the Egyptian Pyramids, Batgirl at the Aztec Jungle and Supergirl at the English Stone Hedge. However, Lena, via screens on the generators, greets them with newly-made Kryptomites sent to destroy them, with Wonder Woman getting attacked by yellow fear-inducing ones, Batgirl getting attacked by blue confusion-inducing ones and Supergirl getting attacked by orange suspicion-inducing ones. As the girls are filled with overwhelming emotions, WW uses the Lasso of Truth to remind of who she truly is - not a coward, but someone who is strong and will prove herself worthy. Riding on her invisible motorbike, she destroys the generator at the Pyramids, and via their com-bracelets, she reminds Supergirl and Batgirl of who they are and how much they mean to her, causing them to snap back into their senses and destroy their respective generators as well. A new electromagnetic disturbance arises in Themyscira, and they head over their on the invisible jet.
The Girls arrive at Themyscira, only to discover that all of the Amazonians have been brainwashed by purple hypnotic Kryptomites. They quickly destroy Lena's backup generator on Themyscira, but their celebration is short lived as both Lena and Eclipso arrive. Eclipso explains that she has her own backup generator on the moon, and even destroys her contract and partnership with Lena. She reveals that she doesn't plan to return to Gemworld, and is going to transform Earth into a newer version. Lena willingly teams up with Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl, and they discover a brainwashed Bumblebee heading towards them.
Bumblebee reveals that she was merely pretending to be hypnotized to blend in with the Amazons, and she stayed on Themyscrira after dropping off Hippolyta to investigate strange activity. Supergirl, Batgirl and Lena head off back to the Batbunker, while Wonder Woman and Bumblebee stay on Themyscira to save the Amazonians. At the Bunker, Batgirl works on creating a virus to disable the generator while Lena works on discovering a way into the software to upload it. Purple crystals begin erupting all over the planet as Earth transforms into New Gemworld, and Amazonians attack Wonder Woman and Bumblebee. Lena discovers that there is no back door to upload the virus, so Supergirl volunteers to upload it physically, which she succesfully does.
Wonder Woman and Bumblebee stop the purple hypnotic Kryptomites by making them bump into each other, which causes them to hypnotize each other. The world is saved, and the Amazonians are free from their brainwashed trance.
Meanwhile, Eclipso scolds her purple Kryptomites for failing her, but the Kryptomites angrily hypnotize her to serve them.
In Super-Villain High, Lena Luthor sneaks her Kryptomites into Super Hero High so they can frame Poison Ivy, Cheetah, Catwoman and Frost of causing mischief around the school. When Lena and Cheetah expose an undercover Green Lantern, Lena Luthor sends her yellow Kryptomites to torture Green Lantern, who eventually passes out. Amanda Waller then transforms back into Lena and asks the green and red Kryptomites to join her. She then asks the green and red Kryptomites to grow into ultimate Kryptomites, but the Super Hero Girls team up like a team and take down the crystallized monsters.
Trivia[]
- The Kryptomites are original characters of the show, as they have no counterparts in the DC comics.
- The Kryptomites have various similarities to the Gremlins from the 1984 horror comedy film.
- They may be inspired by the imps from the 5th dimension, as both are mischievous beings with tiny size. To notice, their name end in "mite" like the imp Bat-Mite.
External Links[]
- Kryptomites on the DC Super Hero Girls Wiki.