ZephroCarnelian
Senior Member
I'm still not saying that Superman would be able to defeat Big G, but G turning Hercules into slime doesn't really mean that much.
People have tried to transmute Superman time and again in Pre-Crisis times and always failed. The only times it ever worked was with magic. No amount of technology has succeeded.
He's Pre-Crisis Superman, ie invulnerable.
For example - a nuclear powerplant exploded, fusing the conciousness of a man into a now super-powered robot body.
This robot body has powers of molecular transmutation and is capable of creating nuclear fission in objects with a single blast - destroying anything.
Except Superman. Firstly he hits Superman with a transmuting blast, to turn Superman into metal.
It fails - Superman's invulnerable forcefield save him, and only a millimetre thin layer of air around his body is turned to metal, much to the relief of the crowd.
Later on, when Supes hits the robot, it begins nuclear fission, ala Firestorm. Supes grabs him and flies into space with him as he explodes. Supes is totally unharmed by the detonation.
Pre-Crisis Superman is invulnerable.
Be it laser beams, nuclear bombs, bullets, cosmic rays, black-holes, planetsmashingpunches, transmutation, chronal vortexs, temperature, pressure, vacuum etc etc etc etc and so forth - if it's not KNite or magic, it's not coming in.
The only way Big G can win this encounter is using his powers to create KNite radiation to defeat Superman.
Even this depends on Superman actually staying still enough/in this dimension/point of time etc etc for the rays to hit.
Don't get me wrong, Big G will win this after a while.
But it won't be a one-shot.