So, ummm, does Superman have some sort of psionic abilities?
It seems so, if he can lift HUGE objects without them crumbling to nothing under their own weight.
Also, I've heard somewhere that he once used powerful telepathy or something to make people see him as just a reporter while as Clark Kent, when the disguise he used was obvious of him being Superman.
Does his psionic powers also give him SOME strength too, like a SHORT-DISTANCE telekinesis maybe?
Yeah, it's true that they have said before that Superamn had kind of a hypnotic stare, so when he was Clark Kent, he would be made to look different in a few ways. Either blurry and you just never got a clean look at him with glasses and his hat, or made to look like a weakling. In the 'Man of Steel' storyline, Clark's glasses were made from crystals from Krypton that made him look like a weakling, but these are highly criticized because of someone looking at him from behind. Superman could vibrate his face(like the original Flash) while he's Clark(because Superman is supposed to be out in the open) just enough to make him look different. Also, the most important thing to realize is that no one is looking for a Superman altar-ego, because it is believed, since he is so public and wears no mask that he doesn't have a secret identity and is Superman all the time. In one Superman comic, someone told the truth to Lex Luthor and he disbelieved it because he couldn't believe someone as powerful as Superman would ever want to pose as a weakling like Clark Kent.
There have been occasional, alternate explanations for Superman's powers (other than the yellow-sun radiation bit) involving "psionics," especially since, as I have pointed out in numerous threads, Superman does not have anywhere near the skin surface area required to absorb the amount of solar power needed for him to do what he does. So possibly, the solar energy triggers a greater power source (like how a car ignition gets the more powerful car motor going), this source involving psionics.
But now you have to explain what psionics is and how that works, at least if you wanna keep psionics from becoming a plot device (TK already bordering on such).
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Because Supes' version would probably be called "tactile telekinesis," which is really a contradiction in terms. "Tele-" means far away, from a distance; yet how far away can something be if you can touch it?
Regardless, the psionic theory, as far as I know, is not canon.
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Yeah, "tactile-kinesis," while more awkward a term, would be more accurate. And PIS = Plot Inspired Stupidity (ie, bad/lazy writing).
Canon is, in short: Superman is a living solar battery, the solar energy being metabolized by a kryptonian "metagene" which converts the solar energy into biological energy, a big part of which is his bioelectric aura, which is responsible for Superman's invulnerability.
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I have a theory of "psiconsciousness," or awareness of quantum wave-functions, which could be used to explain pretty much every superpower imaginable. I've posted the details of it in previous threads...but in comicdom the theory is, of course, moot, since each comic/character has its own canon as to how powers work.
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"psi-consciousness," Grant Morison uses this to explain magic .... as does Mark Waid during his FF4 run. As you stated this awareness it linked to a transcendent form of consciousness outside the realms of time. This accounts for the mystical element. Imagine if you could see the Wave functions of the universe (The many worlds theory and Hawking's notion), and then 'tunnel' matter from one reality into another. You would be able to violate the energy matter conversion law of thermo dynamics. You be literally a god !
I hate magic the way it is conventionally used/otherwise explained. Too plot-devicey for me. Morrison's approach is better, IMO.
I find it an interesting coincidence (?) that psi is the term parapsychologists use to refer to psychic phenomena, AND it is the term physicists use to refer to the quantum wavefunction. In terms of real-world applications, the major drawback is that the theory places Consciousness--not the material world--as the ultimate ground of being, which right away puts it beyond the reach of empirical science. However, in the comic world, where you already have all kinds of gods and cosmic beings and such, it works out very nicely.
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The closest shown in comics for psonic powers is Superman's "Torquasm Vo."
With this he creates a mental battlefield that snares his opponents and whatever else is around them. He then has access to some of his opponents powers as well.
It's basically a Super virtual reality under Supermans rules.
Perhaps this "reality distortion" ability is being used at a subconscious level and that is why people don't see Superman when they see Clark Kent.
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Sounds good to me. It would also explain that amnesia-kiss he planted on Lois in Supe 2, or for that matter, that replication/hologram "game" he used in the Fortress.
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Ah! But can it explain the plastic S shield of doom?
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Maybe that’s why humans drink the darkness that is coffee.
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