Originally posted by tjcoady
ahh, the ole standby of DC superheroes- vibrating your molecules. I just read through a bunch of silver age showcases, and that is literally... literally... how every single villain was defeated during the silver age. It's the 'sentient nanotechnology' of it's day.
So molecular dispersion and a bfr to the source wall are the two things that have been shown to defeat him? Without the rings obviously- although apparently the Kryptonians managed to take him out through sheer force and numbers with the rings. Are those three times the only times he's ever been beaten?
1st time, Henshaw was weakened by K-nite. And molecular dispersion didn't kill him. Just destroyed his body. He can jump to more tech and just make a new body via matter manip. Henshaw is now invulnerable to k-nite and red sunlight, so that's out.
After that, he jumped all the way to.......wait a minute. How did Doomsday get to the 4th world? I thought Boomtube was the only way. And for that matter, how did Henshaw get to the 4th world via his energy form? Maybe I forgot or missed something in the book.
Anyways, on Apokolips, Henshaw met his 2nd defeat when he got fried by the Omega Effect and stuck into an orb. Darkseid later let him out, with a promise to stay away from Apokolips. After that, Henshaw survived a black hole and ended up in the marvel-verse. He asked Galactus to make him a perfect being. Galactus turned him into a metal slab. Powerful yes, creative, no.
3nd time, after he got back to the DCU, Parallax (Classic) tore him apart and stuck him on the Source Wall. Problem was, Henshaw was controlling part of the Source Wall. Supes blue stopped him, but Henshaw hitched a ride back to earth in the containment suit.
There's a 4th time I don't know the circumstances for, but I think that was PIS.
5th time, he got blown apart by Hal Jordan and Arisia using a highmaster manhunter droid, which magnified GL power 100x.
and most recently, the highly dubious circumstances in Sinestro Corp war.
Ask Avlon if I missed anything.