Yes, two beings who consistantly own multiple top tiers can't be in the same scale of power. That's crazy. This isn't hard Surfer is Top tier Despero is above top teir.
Then I believe is objective to say that a hanging-group of bricks in the neck is hardly the same thing than facing a full powered, non-PIS Surfer. The abilities employed to beat one or the other are completly different.
Thing is it still shows just how strong Despero is. It's no different than Thanos showing Drax and Hulk his pump hand. Besides what were they supposed to do to Despero. They were not capable of dealing any lasting damage against him so they tried to restrain him.
How did they stop him in the end? The Surfer still has powers that match most of the JLA all by himself, its just a matter of implementation -although it would be weird for him to throw a shark against Despero.
The most recent time Zatana froze him and they shipped him off to Oa. Time before that they used Johnny Sorrow against him.
In the most recent battle he succeeded in mind controlling most of the JLA, including the Martian manhunter and GL. Only Superman was able to resist him and it seemed it wouldn't be long before he fell too.
Agreed.Since Despero has one shoted Superman many times with his hypnotic blast the only reason why I don't post it is because both characters are in the tourney.....