Originally posted by Fishy 500
Mate total missunderstanding .... Im dislexic and so i read things in the wrong context sometimes .... No i totally agree with you .... No he needs to be powerful as DC dont really have The 'Cosmic' characters who have the power of god, but tend to go round blasting each other .... DC's Cosmic and hightier characters tend to be one and the same. As he is the most powerful, he needs to be, powerful !
100% agree.
I think that Superman needs to be ...well ....super. Exceedingly so.
And his current strength levels (i.e in the quintillion range) more than satisfy me.
I'm tired of the people who want to depower Superman to the MArvel level (read 100 tons). 100 tons lifting weight is really 'nothing' for a superhero the caliber of Superman.
For example think of it this way.
The weight of an Abrams M1A2 MBT (main battle tank) is 68.7 tons.
68.7 tons.
This means that a character with a 100 ton lifting ability would NOT even be able to lift TWO Abrams tanks!!!!!!!!!
Now, take an oil tanker.
A fully laden oil tanker can have in excess of 300,000 tons.
How in goodness name is a 80 ton character supposed to even budge such a behemoth?
Note that the largest oil tanker, which is the Knock Nevis, weighing in at 647,955 tonnes fully laden would be TOTALLY out of the range of a 100 ton character.
Thus the whole 'Marvelize Superman' thing just wouldn't work.
Superman is not a male Rogue.
Superman is not a flying Colossus.
Superman is not a red-n-blue QuickSilver.
Thus he should be far stronger than Rogue.
Far more invulnerable than Colossus.
And far faster than QuickSilver.
Superman should never be at the level of Colossus. Ever. Not even near.
And if that means being able to move the moon that is fine with me.