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Everyone know that superman can withstand bullets & knifes, etc. But can he withstand nuclear weapons or something such as lightsaber?

Originally posted by vader11
Everyone know that superman can withstand bullets & knifes, etc. But can he withstand nuclear weapons or something such as lightsaber?


Although some different incarnations of superman are more vulnerable than others, the main stream concept of superman is only vulnerable to a few things like kryptonite and EXTREME force, but he has easily withstood nuclear weapons, and could probably easily withstand a lightsaber.

Isn't an atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb a extreme force?

Originally posted by vader11
Isn't an atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb a extreme force?

In the real world yes, in the comic book realm, it's not that bad.

Not extreme enough. Superman's taken planet destroying explosions before.

Originally posted by Galvaclaw
Not extreme enough. Superman's taken planet destroying explosions before.

Not really, he's only been able to live through when he has absorbed their energy is some shape or form, e.g. like the MAHGEDON explosion.

He goes down to krytonite time and again.

The truth of the matter is that Superman is invulnerable when the situation calls for it. Is he immortal and impervious? as long as he sells comics.


I have a question and wasnt sure where to ask it. diddnt want to start a thread for one question. What comic series of superman leads up to him leaving to sleep in the sun? Why did he leave in the first place? much appreciated if any help can be given?

That happened over 70,000 years in the future from mainstream DC continuity.

As for his invulnerablity, he has easily survived nuclear bombs, he does that all the time. He's even taken supernova - level explosions or higher. However if you have enough force you can put him down without utilizing one of his weaknesses (Kryptonite, red sun radiation, or magic). Examples are Darkseid (at least back when he wasn't a joke), Mageddon, Imperiex, Doomsday....

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
The truth of the matter is that Superman is invulnerable when the situation calls for it. Is he immortal and impervious? as long as he sells comics.


I have a question and wasnt sure where to ask it. diddnt want to start a thread for one question. What comic series of superman leads up to him leaving to sleep in the sun? Why did he leave in the first place? much appreciated if any help can be given? It was only explained in the dc 1million arc by Supes 1million. He left because all his loved ones had long since past away and felt as though the earth was in safe hands. I think he spent thousands of years traveling the universe, fighting gods and demons and apparently breaking through the gates of heaven all in search of Lois. He returned to earth at some point a few hundred century's down the line and granted his Superman dynasty with powers beyond any metahuman and 10 new extra senses I think. This is the point where he decides to go hibernate in the sun for oh I dunno a few hundred thousand years. The story behind Superman Prime is vague at best but DC 1 Million is a really good read.

thanks partner

Originally posted by vader11
Everyone know that superman can withstand bullets & knifes, etc. But can he withstand nuclear weapons or something such as lightsaber?

He's taken a direct nuclear blast while being in kryptonite more than once.

Originally posted by Magee
It was only explained in the dc 1million arc by Supes 1million. He left because all his loved ones had long since past away and felt as though the earth was in safe hands. I think he spent thousands of years traveling the universe, fighting gods and demons and apparently breaking through the gates of heaven all in search of Lois. He returned to earth at some point a few hundred century's down the line and granted his Superman dynasty with powers beyond any metahuman and 10 new extra senses I think. This is the point where he decides to go hibernate in the sun for oh I dunno a few hundred thousand years. The story behind Superman Prime is vague at best but DC 1 Million is a really good read.
They got their ten extra senses from breeding with the 5-d imps.

He's as invulnerable as Surfer is.

He's not invulnerable.

He appears to be, but then, to ants we're like gods.

It's all relative, is what i'm saying.

Originally posted by UniOmni
He's as invulnerable as Surfer is.

He's not invulnerable.

He appears to be, but then, to ants we're like gods.

It's all relative, is what i'm saying.


And all meaningless,

I have the feeling that u may have had a breakdown recently hence all your irrational behaviour.

It would be fun to see how superman withstand a lightsaber...

It likely wouldn't effect him. He can fly through red suns (which drain his power) without a burn and take heat vision from other Kryptonians to the face. Superman has very high energy resistance.

Originally posted by vader11
It would be fun to see how superman withstand a lightsaber...

As a casual fan of Superman and mildly hardcore fan of SW movies, I will bite. We all know that Superman's skin will easily turn a knife and is resistant to temperature extremes. Because lightsabers behave like swords, one could assume Superman would easilydeflect a blow.

No, correct me if I'm wrong, but lightsabers use various crystals to focus the beam of light, hence, the different colour blades. Supposing some managed to use a chunk of Kryptonite as the focal crystal? Would the resulting beam cut through his skin or would the hilt just make him sick?

Food for though.

Well a kryptonite sword would most likely impale him with enough force behind it so yes I imagine a k-nite lightsaber would. Though I don't think a normal one would do shit.

A lightsaber can slice things apart on an atomic level so it might hurt him, but then again it is repelled by forcefields, and Superman has his own forcefield....

a normal lightsaber would bounce off him, a kryptonite one might take a few swings, but it would eventually kill him...

Originally posted by vader11
Everyone know that superman can withstand bullets & knifes, etc. But can he withstand nuclear weapons or something such as lightsaber?

matters the writer and who is holding he lightsaber. DOS supes most likely could be ko'd by a nuke by post imprelex it would take a crap lot more then that to do anything to him.

The lightsaber thing would be interesting though. Even the most crazy writters (like Jeph Loab) have shown that supes can be cut by things that are really durrable (like solders bullet) so a light saber might do a lot of damage. but seeing as how superman has a healing factor now I don't see it killing him or putting him down for long

It would be very interesting to see what would happen if someone hits spuerman with a lightsaber...(would it cut through his skin or not?) If it can, then that guy can just cut superman's head off

A regular lightsaber would do nothing at all to him. You'd achieve the same effect with a lightsaber as you would if you hit Supes with a baseball bat. Nothing.

couldnt the light sabre emulate red sunlight and cut him up?

It's hard to imagine the lightsaber can be stopped by superman's skin...><

but it should be stopped by his forcefield he has.. Unless the bio-aura has been retconed without me knowing it to him not having it.

Why> It's just a blade of heat and Superman has taken Supernova's to the chin before. The Aura stops it and even if the aura has been retconed ther's still no evidence a light saber could slice through someone of Superman's durability.