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Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by batdude123
*sigh*There are TONS upon TONS. Do a little research. The Superman respect thread is FILLED with his speedblitzes.
It's easy to state that they're out there just as its easy for me to state that the ones I've mentioned are nowhere near the feat level you've posited. The speedblitz in 'Sacrifice?' That was speed of sound level until he got enough momentum to start accelerating at near light speeds to make it to the Sun with Wonderwoman. The speedblitz in 'Infinite Crisis?' Did that with Superman-2's help. He doesn't need much time to speed up once he gets going, but at close range and full on bloodlust, the best I've seen him do is break the sound barrier. From these examples, it appears obvious that only after gaining momentum can he traverse these super speeds. Maybe you can explain it away by saying he wasn't really trying? Even though he was probably as bloodlusted against Wonderwoman than he ever was, but look at Superman #207. Superman was trying to save militants from being executed callously by Equus in the opening pages. He sure damn as hell was trying to get there as fast as possible to save human lives and he couldn't make it in time. He was in the same city as Equus and couldn't make it. Those are supersonic speeds from a dead start. Doom's shields can easily take on that power.
Show us one of these famous speedblitzes please. Because he doesn't use them much from my reading. Granted, I've read more of his current stuff but he didn't use it against Mongul, Despero, Zod, Preus, Blackrock... lord the list goes on. This so-called famous 'speedblitz' that can apparently annihilate the Hulk in a pico second? Apparently, he forgets that he has it, or it isn't what you think it is. Either way, if Superman almost never resorts to it or can't do it, Superman proponents should stop touting it as a panacea for all of Superman's ills, because it's beginning to sound very strained.