Blue kryptonite psychosis[]
I wonder if the inhabitants of Meeker Springs went psychotic. Just a note to self that blue kryptonite should probably be added to the article... --Kanamekun 04:14, November 2, 2011 (UTC)
I'm not convinced thats "kryptonite psychosis". Those people got extraordinary powers that allowed them to affect their surroundings and it's well known fact that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". So it's not as much as kryptonite as power psychosis.87.99.0.167 10:49, April 10, 2012 (UTC)
Problematic (and debunked) concept[]
It's application also boarders dangerously close to fan fiction. A while back, I had to remove information on Alicia Baker's article, which attributed her behavior to Kryptonite Psychosis (a phrase never said on the show), when her patient file in Unsafe states her diagnosis as being histrionic personality disorder (an actual condition, that fits her behavior).
The category for benevolent metahumans opens with this sentence:
Most people who gain special abilities are psychotic versions of their former selves
Would this include Harry Volk, a convicted killer, who spent 60 years (before becoming meteor infected) dreaming about killing the families of the people who convicted him for murder?
The truth is that most evil meteor freaks are one-shot characters. So, we can't say anything about their behavior prior to being infected.
The idea of all meteor freaks turning out bad, is based on opinioned dialogue. Every time that they say that all meteor freaks are bad, they forget about Cassandra Carver, Kyle Tippet, Cyrus Krupp, Karen Gallagher, Jordan Cross and Maddie Van Horn. Chloe even says the line in Freak, which featured nothing but two benevolent meteor freaks: Daniel Kim and Tobias Rice.
Now, as for why this idea has been debunked. In Prey (an episode that features ten meteor freaks, only one who does something bad), there is a scene between Clark and Chloe, where she notes that it isn't just the damsel in distress who needs saving (and Clark admits that he's never looked at things, from the meteor infected perspective). Chloe also notes that she has never saved a meteor freak. The important thing to remember is: When did she try? In Extinction, she just registered the meteor infected (resulting in the deaths of two people (one being innocent of any crime) and the attempted murder of another), she didn't sit down and try to talk to any of them (help them get through whatever problem that they might have). Like Lex says in Ryan: "You see, Ryan, in life, the road to darkness is a journey, not a light switch". With most evil meteor freaks, we simply didn't get to see the journey. Not to mention, like we see with Harry Volk, some were already bad people before becoming infected.
To summarize, not only are there evidence against this concept, but Prey effectively puts this idea to rest. The meteor infection didn't make them go psycho. They went down a dark path, because no one was there to save them.
KylieMfever (talk) 18:34, August 12, 2019 (UTC)