Can Superman be anesthetized? People on Reddit say no but if you listen to people on Reddit, aluminum foil is sentient and everyone once had a moment where they said something so smart the professor handed them the chalk and said you teach the class, you're more brilliant than I'll ever be. Argument FOR Superman's being anesthetizable: he can smell things. That means chemical compounds can interact with his cells. Although they don't know exactly how anesthesia works, scientists suspect it turns some cells affecting your sleep on and others off. Wait, scientists DON'T KNOW how anesthesia WORKS? They are routinely putting millions of people per year thru a process that THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND? Combined with the facts that they don't know how Tylenol works, and that scientists are starting to agree that "dark matter" is nothing more than Einstein's Constant (as I've said for years) I'm starting to wonder how scientists keep their job To sum up: Superman can be anesthetized.