Superman was tossing her around with one arm in the same comic. She only pinned him because he was distracted because of Lex becoming president. Here is the full scene
Catching ... the Moon? (Or really, really large chunks of it ...?)
JLA Titans features a rather odd story. Apparently Cyborg of the Teen Titans merges with the Moon. His consciousness forms a moon-sized construct that the combined Justice League and Titans groups must confront. Somehow they manage to communicate with him, returning his consciousness to some database on Titans island.
At which point, unfortunately, the moon sized construct slips OUT of Cyborg's control, breaks apart and starts falling rapidly to Earth as a series of HUGE meteors. So huge in fact that most groups realize they cannot catch these ginormous rocks in time to prevent untold destruction on Earth, or even save themselves, so they find ways to break the rock masses into debris, a much easier task.
This is apparently the case for Power Woman, Karen Starr and Damage ...
Amazingly, despite the power of Kara Zor-L and 2 Marvels failing at their tasks, a remaining "team" does succeed at the catch, and really only one person, who utilizes pure physical strength to avert a disaster her young would-be stand-in would have been helpless to prevent, or even save herself from, otherwise ...
This one I like for cool imagery more than being able to confirm exactly what is happening. From Action Comics #754, apparently, where Superman robots are "escorting" Lex Luthor to his landing destination ...
If I have this right, this is from 1999, where the theme of Superman robots going haywire or being used for evil purposes was fairly common.
This was a pretty big concern for people in the DC Universe because the robots were very powerful, comparable in some stat areas to the big guy himself. They could, and did, absolutely WRECK teams and individual heroes. Perhaps the most notable was the Teen Titans group which included Donna Troy, decimated by exactly ONE of these things.
Unfortunately, during this period, Donna Troy was not really comparable to Big Sister. Mores the pity. She lost her life in that encounter, requiring later resurrection. Diana, however, though having vulnerability greater than her 2005 self, nevertheless possessed a great deal more strength and skill. HER superstrength appears to have been more than sufficient to deal with not one but several of these at a time -- at least if the following is any indication.
This one detail puzzles me a bit. Wonder Woman appears here without a breathing mask. I'm thrown off because she, again, did NOT possess the level of invulnerability Greg Rucka and Gail Simone would give her at this particular point in history. I've not personally read the entirety of this story, however. I am, instead, trusting the man who was kind enough to "loan" these images to me earlier, and told me I was welcome to use them later on as I wished, BienSalsa nka RaoKalel, who gave these as goodwill corroboration that Diana was actually FAR physically stronger than the average fan is typically aware of.
At any rate, this is, again from ACtion Comics #754, Volume 1 ...
I'm of two minds regarding consistency. For the present, though, I'm content to go without it as far as Diana is concerned, for DC hasn't settled at a level for her that they should be consistent AT.
At any rate, discussion of breathing requirements made me think of more scenes with Diana and breathing apparatus.
The most detracting instance surely occurs in the 1978 fight between herself and Superman.
There the 2 heroes, more or less in their World War II incarnations, decide to battle it out on the moon. The breathing requirement here detracts: How can it be said Superman is giving a good account of himself? Diana, wearing what looks like an astronaut's helmet, wears it still after a sustained skirmish. What fan could be convinced even Batman were punching with any serious intent if that remained so?
Sometimes her oxygen limitations, with their attendant requirements, prove beneficial to the scene, however.
For instance, besides outer space, underwater is another area where Diana requires air. So, underwater we see her with a breathing mask, too.
This is not a bad thing in, say, the Justice League episode "Enemy Below". We are reminded that Diana IS underwater here, for instance, and that water is a very dense medium and creates a great deal of inertia at great depths.
So a thing pushed upon will move only slowly, unless an almost unimaginable amount of force is re-applied to it. Which will create a LOT of buckling and stress. Which does a great deal of communicating just how much strength some DC pushers have ...
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