Superman and regeneration?

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I need your expertise and advice on a dillema I recently had. I noted in various examples and incidences that on several occassions Superman has recovered from injuries in a superhuman fashion and rate. Now you see this most often in the comics, cartoons and movies when he is bathed in sunlight or actually concentrates in the face of great danger. Thus, the question is should Superman have regeneration. My contention is that he should have regeneration at Amazing or Monstrous when in the presence of sunlight or focuses on it.

Regeneration seems to end up part of a lot of characters that weren't considered to have it originally, generally super-strong types like the Hulk and Superman, to explain how they can recover or show so little damage. Since Superman's cells all derive energy directly from sunlight unlike normal human cells they require no other nourishment to function or for him to heal. This also means he has a form of Self-Revival, that as long as enough of him is intact if he's not cut off from sunlight he'll recover eventually from otherwise lethal damage. I suppose you could call it solar revival, and require disintegrating enough of his body it couldn't regenerate what was missing.

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I think it should be at a Unearthly Rate in the presence of Yellow Sun Light and considering his Battle with Doomsday.

dont forget that in the presence of kryptonite that his abilities fail.