I love a good abhi “i’m going to ask a question re: Superman i have a preconceived opinion on, and steadily disagree w. any differing opinion no matter what evidence is presented to support it” thread.
Flash was intended by the writer to be moving sub-c, as the scans clearly state twice. Superman obviously wins by default.
Anywho, the thing that really impressed me about Superman's feat(other than how damn fast he did it) is that he rebuilt the moon complete with its previous craters and general topography, ffs: (please log in to view the image)
Asinine.
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Exactly. So there was clearly more to it than him just randomly throwing moon chunks together and letting gravity do the rest. This was a very precise reconstruction.
It's also not an unprecedented memory feat for Supes. This is the same dude who was able to recall how to build a Miracle Machine from scratch, just by glancing at Brainiac's MM for a few seconds.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Oct 4th, 2018 at 01:31 PM
The Flash feat is one of the most amazing showings of speed-with-dexterity feats in all of comics. Maybe the greatest of them all (while there are some characters shown to have travelled faster, none were simultaneously searching, finding and evacuating people).
It’s one of the best speed feats ever.
But that Superman feat! Damn!
Not only did he go and find little pieces that were scattered randomly, not only did he put them all together in a large 3D puzzle type of way (note it’s not just the surface pieces, but EVERYTHING from the core through the mantle to the core ...it really is an impossible feat). And putting it all together in a couple of seconds while maintaining how it looked at the surface level.
While the Flash feat MAY be faster (due to time/speed operating at a log scale of magnitude), the Superman feat definitely IS better.
The Flash feat was an outcome of sheer overwhelming speed.
The Superman feat included crazy speed, crazy memorization, crazy understanding of topography and geology, crazy intelligence of his pieces fit into each other in a THREE DIMENSIONAL sphere.
It is literally insane, and would fit perfectly in the Pre-Crisis days.
It seems some of the Superman feat happens off panel, or in a longer timeframe than that page. Plus that whole "faster ways" thing.
Even if you assumed the whole feat happened over the span of the comic though it's still a ridiculous feat. Especially considering how it was put together, which honestly makes no sense. You ever try and fit something together that doesn't want to fit? That's when things get smashed and thrown.
Even if he just smashed everything together forcibly, he still had to carve out the moon features all around the entire thing. Feat just goes from impossible to half of impossible either way you look at it.
I dont know the calls as mentioned, but solely off of the intensity of the situation and the time given to do the deed...I think Supermans feat is more impressive for the depth that it took to perform. Rebuilding and remembering an opposed to just finding and carrying. /shrug
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Oct 4th, 2018 10:04 AM
it's a good mental feat as well. Can any of you recreate your entire house from memory, including all the weird paint features and the random cracks?
