Originally posted by Big Sexy
I just read there planning to do another story with Superman and General Zod but this time their using the version of the characters from Superman 2. Hopefully they do the story write. Please dont be another "For Tomorrow"
I though 'For Tomorrow' was ok, though Zod was an unnecessary bad guy...
Originally posted by dashabz
some fanboys. in another forum is saying green lantern is the fastest ever .... due to a bad write.. comic where he crosses light years under seconds. .. who hear thinks that was a bad write?
Originally posted by I watch Pokemon
I think that was a Pre-Crisis comic.
Originally posted by dashabz
if gl can will himself any speed he can .. why doesnt he will hmself to be strongest and best at anything .. why doesnt he just will away his opponents .. it does not work like that it is a badwrite end of ..
No, it depends on their willpower... they have to comprehend going that fast, and then literally push themselves into going that fast... its not easy...
Originally posted by batdude123
Doesn't mean that the feats weren't bullshit though. That whole age of writing was just plain goofy. Even Pre-C GL crap isn't conducive as to how I measure them today, even if they're still canon.
I know... 😖
A LIST OF FEATS ... MORE COMING UP..
Strength and Movement Power:
Man of Steel #30: Standing on Earth’s surface, Superman punched Lobo into orbit and beyond with one uppercut.
Nuclear Submarines: These typically weigh between 10,000 and 20,000 tons. In Adventures of Superman #599, Superman raised a Russian nuclear submarine from the ocean floor (swamped with water as it was, it must have weighed more).
In Superman For All Seasons, book two, he casually held a nuclear submarine overhead with one hand.
Adventure of Superman #473: From Earth, Superman threw an alien space craft clear of Earth’s gravity and into outer space. This craft was larger than an aircraft carrier and over a mile long (a typical aircraft carrier is about a 1/4 of a mile long and weighs about 100,000 tons, so this ship was about 4x that size).
In Man of Steel #131, after taking a hit from a nuke (while sitting in kryptonite), Superman vortexed the thousands of tons of radioactive debris into the upper atmosphere by spinning around the debris at high speeds. He then used his heat vision to fuse and condense the debris into one very dense lump, then casually tossed the lump into the sun (distance: 93 million miles). After kryptonite, no less.
Action Comics # 585: Superman muscled overhead a magically animated mountain, not quite big enough to "crush Metropolis with one step." He achieved flight with it and flew the chunk of earth into outer space. Once there, he tossed the mountain into orbit around the sun.
Action Comics # 793: Superman plugged up an active volcano by very casually dropping a mountain on top of it.
Justice League of America (old series) # 65 (early nineties): Embedded in the core of the planet Almerac, Superman dug free through countless tons of rock all the way to the planet’s surface. This was after Starbreaker had drained nearly all of Superman’s power. In another storyline, Superman circumnavigated the Earth's surface by burrowing 20,000 miles through the Earth's crust in an hour.
In Action Comics #762, Lois asked Superman to not bring her another hand-forged diamond (by squeezing a lump of coal) for Christmas this year.
In Wonder Woman #175, Superman broke Wonder Woman's forearm by squeezing it through her indestructible bracelet. WW also admitted that her bracelet - forged by Hephaestus, blacksmith for the Gods and magically enchanted to be indestructible - would eventually break from Superman's blows.
JLA: World War Three story-line: Superman was chained to the "endless millwheels" of the Mageddon machinery. His strength was used to move the gears of a weapon whose size dwarfed the entire Earth/Moon system.
In Superman: The Earth Stealers, Superman propelled a massive space station, cylindrical in shape and stated to be 600 miles in diameter (the length of the cylinder, judging by the depiction, had to have been about 2500 miles) by pushing against it. The weight was inestimable- it was constructed from all the natural resources gleaned from an entire solar system. A hyperspace portal was opened and Superman not only pushed it, he propelled it for 20 minutes through hyperspace (it was stated that they reached the halfway point at 10 minutes). He had to exert the power to move it at the same time that he had to deal with the environment of hyperspace unprotected. Note that the space station was also towing both the Earth and the Moon in a stasis field, however, I do not factor this weight into the feat as Superman himself theorized that the stasis field was neutralizing the planet’s mass. Hence he merely resisted the space station’s weight, not the Earth and Moon’s.
Several events show Superman as a moon-mover. In JLA # 7, as Electro-Superman, he halted the fall of the Moon towards Earth (caused by Neron’s magical machinations), then moved the Moon back its proper position in orbit. He later commented that he's more powerful as "regular" Superman. Writer Grant Morrison and artist Howard Porter had originally intended the moon-moving event in JLA #7 to be done by "regular" Superman, but DC forced them to use Electro-Supes in order to stay current with events in the Superman comics at that time. This event is butressed by several more. In JLA: The Century War, ancient "alchemical engines" were causing the moon to fall towards the Earth. Superman and Green Lantern took turns holding the moon back against the "geometrically increasing force" that was causing it to fall. Superman alone got the last "moon-bracing" shift. In Superman Man of Steel #30, Superman grabbed, easily broke the forward movement of, and easily threw in the opposite direction, a space ship the size of a small moon. In JLA # 58, Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern collaborated to tow Earth’s moon a distance of 238,900 miles in mere seconds, indicating a fantastic acceleration, and then pulled the moon out of Earth's gravity (which increases its weight tremendously). As he is universally regarded as the JLA’s most powerful member, I’m inclined to give Superman more than one-third, and perhaps as much as one-half, the work effort.
In the Lex 2000 special, with a single strike, Superman split one of Saturn’s moons in half. Saturn’s moons are small moons.
In JLA #75, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter, combined their efforts to tow the Earth an undisclosed distance. Following the same logic as above, I give Superman about half the work effort. This was immediately after the entire JLA (including Superman) had been resurrected from the dead, and had only several minutes to recover their strength.
In Action Comics #797, Superman referred to himself as an unqualified planet mover twice. "Superman can move the Earth"; he says of himself ; later he refers to having "pushed a planet out of orbit" (presumably this refers to his moving of WarWorld in Action Comics #782 - see just below).
In Man of Tomorrow #13, it took the combined effort of Martian Manhunter, Big Barda, Steel, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman to physically restrain Superman. They dogpiled him, but admitted, "we can't hold him for long!".
Action Comics Annual #7: Fighting in space, Superman successfully resisted the pull from a black hole that had opened up directly below (inches from) his feet. The miniature black hole had been induced by advanced alien (Ht’ros) war technology.
Action Comics #782: After plunging into the core of the sun, Superman, energized beyond usual, physically pushed WarWorld, (a small, Pluto-sized planet) across the solar system and into a boom tube. WarWorld did engage a "full throttle countermeasure" in resistance Superman’s push. We can see WarWorld’s engines (which encompass nearly an entire hemisphere of WarWorld’s surface) firing in resistance, to no avail. WarWorlds’ engines allow WarWorld to travel at faster than light speeds through space; they generate the power to accelerate a planet beyond light speed. "How is he moving my planet! The Kryptonian does not have that power!" Braniac’s disbelief is reasonable since WarWorld’s engines had no fuel shortage ; WarWorld had just pirated the energy of Imperiex - energy gleaned from the devouring of many galaxies. (Hence Imperiex’s reputation as the "Devourer of Galaxies."😉
Not canon: In Kingdom Come #3, Superman drilled through the Earth's diameter (he entered the planet in Asia and came out in Gotham City, America) in seconds flat.
Durability:
Atomic and Thermonuclear devices: Superman’s ability to withstand these has been extensively demonstrated. In Superman #54, (and continued in Adventures of Superman #477), an atomic bomb blew up in his hands and Superman didn’t bat an eye. In Superman for all Seasons, Book Two, he survived, without any injury, a Lexcorp thermonuclear missile, capable of destroying Metropolis, at point blank range. He smiled immediately after the explosion. In Superman #9, John Byrne’s "weak" Superman endured at ground zero (the bomb was in his hands) a 40 megaton thermonuclear bomb. Then he fell to Earth (he was in outer space at the time of the explosion). Superman was knocked unconscious for a half hour; he suffered no physical damage. 40 megatons is more than 3000 times as powerful as the blast that destroyed Hiroshima. Superman also endured a 30 megaton blast at fairly close range, without losing consciousness, in Action Comics #682.
To further cement Superman's nuke-proof status, in the recent Man of Steel #131, Superman easily shrugged off a nuclear blast that destroyed an island..... while literally sitting in kryptonite.
Buttressing these examples, there are numerous other instances of Superman withstanding forces on the level of a tactical nuke, i.e., city and island destroying events. In Action Comics #649, Superman withstood without injury, Braniac’s "clean" (non- radioactive) city-destroying bombs. In Superman Man of Steel #52, Superman withstood 3 particle beams, each powered by the core of a planet, fired at him by the Cyborg. One of these planet-powered beams was a plasma beam capable of leveling a city. In War of the Gods #4: Superman used his body as a shield to block a magical bolt capable of destroying an entire Island (Themyscira, Paradise Island). So effective a shield was he, that he weakened the bolt such that only a single casualty occurred on the island. Despite experiencing pain, Superman survived without any medical attention. In Superman #23, Superman endured without visible harm, a magical explosion that destroyed most of an island, but was unconscious after the blast.
Superman's resistance to molecular disintegration attacks has been demonstrated several times. In Actions Comics #586, after exhausting his Omega Beams, Darkseid attacked Superman with a beam attuned to Superman’s "precise molecular structure". The blast caused him pain but no physical damage. Superman proceeded to beat down Darkseid and defeat him soundly. In Adventures Of Superman #595, Darkseid used his disintegrating Omega Beams (one of the most feared forces in the DCU) upon Superman with the stated intention of killing him. Superman withstood repeated blasts at point blank range, and easily shrugged them off. In Superman Man of Steel #30, Superman survived a so called "force twelve disintegration beam" fired from a ship the size of a small moon, with absolutely no effect at all.
Here are some examples of his resistance to tremendous impacts:
In Adventures of Superman #581, Superman allowed Adversary, a powerful magical foe, to hit him as hard as he could, without retaliation. Superman was literally punched halfway across the planet- from Metropolis, he literally landed in China- without any injury or loss of consciousness.
But forget about being punched across the planet to China, how about through the planet to China? In Superman #181, Superman and Bizarro (his magically-created, brain damaged, "imperfect" duplicate) switched bodies. Superman (in Bizarro’s body) punched Bizarro (in Superman’s body) completely through the Earth and out the other end. Bizarro (in Superman’s body) was slammed in through the ground in Metropolis and came out two panels later in China. He was shown ripping straight through the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core, and coming out on the other side of the planet. Superman’s body was fully conscious and completely unharmed by the blow (Bizarro was smiling as usual).
In Man of Tomorrow #13, Superman harmlessly shrugged off a blast from Orion’s Astro-Harness that blasted him across the planet from the North Pole to India.
Action Comics # 762: Superman harmlessly shrugged off a blow from the magical demon Etrigan. The blow actually knocked Superman from Earth's surface all the way to the moon (239,000 miles), a distance that is about 10 times the diameter of the Earth. Superman was virtually unfazed. In this issue he also shrugged off magical demon-fire (which he withstood previously in Action #589).
Speed:
Superman #13: Flew around the equator in a matter of seconds, indicating a speed of well over 1,000,000 mph, or roughly 1350 times the speed of sound.
Man of Steel #110: Standing in one spot, Superman used his super speed to vibrate his body invisible.
Superman #175: Taking a speed trick from the Flash’s book of tricks, Superman used his super speed to vibrate his body intangible, thus allowing Doomsday’s punches and fire-breath to pass harmlessly through him. A body moving at light speed within an atmosphere will become intangible (that’s how the Flash does it).
Return of Superman: Superman used his speed to vibrate his arm so fast, it shattered the Cyborg’s body into hundreds of fragments.
After racing the Man of Steel, Impulse stated that Superman travels at 99% of the speed of light. In JLA: Heavens Ladder, it is stated that Superman can race a photon to its target.
In War of the Gods #4: Superman out-raced an energy beam to its target. In Man of Steel #134, Superman outraced an energy blast from the Aegis armor.
Superman #191: Trapped inside a black hole, Superman notes that an object must be travelling faster than the speed of light in order to escape such an environment, and then proceeds to do so.
Lex 2000 special: Superman made the trip from Earth to Saturn in well under 4 minutes. By comparison, light takes about 19 minutes to make this trip.
In JLA # 51, Superman made this same trip from Saturn to Earth in a matter of seconds.
In Superman #153, a trip from Saturn to the sun (27 light minutes) and back again (for a total of 54 light minutes) was completed in seconds by the Man of Steel. This works out to about 3000 times the speed of light.
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, Book One: Superman stated he is now capable of space travel, and requires only a star chart and directions to Apokolips (apparently unaware it is located in another dimension).
Heat vision:
Superman #167: His power waning under a red sun, Superman still summoned enough heat vision to successfully power Jor-El’s planet-moving engine. The planet in this case had a mass 16 times that of Earth's.
Superman’s heat vision has a maximum range of at least 239,000 miles (the distance from the Earth to the Moon). In Superman #101, he let out a beam from Earth’s surface that scorched the surface of the moon; In Man of Steel #112, he shot a beam that bounced off the surface of the moon. Krypto did, too.
In Adventures of Superman # 594, Superman's heat vision proved capable of matching and blocking Darkseid's Omega Beams. He deflected the Omegas again with his heat vision in Superman/Darkseid: Apokolpis Now.
New Gods #10 (second series): Superman used his heat vision to cauterize tears in the fabric of reality as caused by S'ivaa.
Senses:
In John Byrne’s Man of Steel revamp, it was shown that Superman’s microscopic vision can see on the subcellular level, as he analyzed Bizarro’s cellular structure; and even on the molecular level, as he analyzed the molecular composition of Magpie’s acid-gas.
In the JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel, the Martian Manhunter and Superman mulled over the abnormalities at "every eighth angstrom" in the DNA of the anti-matter Earth’s version of Lex Luthor. An angstrom is about the size of a large atom.
Superman #152: Superman’s telescopic vision allowed him to peer across the galaxy to WarWorld.
In Man of Steel #121, Superman’s super-hearing allowed him to pinpoint a single person in a city of 11 million based on such distinctive sounds as the rustle of that person’s clothing and the sound of their heartbeat.
Fighting prowess and other miscellaneous stuff:
Superman Man of Steel #126: Superman held a contest of strength against an immortal god, Baal the "Thundering Destroyer", and stalemated him. (Baal is magical.) The assembled gods then called Superman "magnificent."
Superman Man of Steel #127: Superman fought off three magical gods, all at once: Baal, the "Thundering Destroyer"; Lord Ahriman, "evil incarnate"; and Mixcoatl, the "Lord of the Hunt."
JLA# 7: As Electro-Superman, wrestled Asmodel, the "deadliest King-Angel in all Heaven", and gave him all he could handle before Asmodel was teleported away. Asmodel was a being "whose every heartbeat is a thousand Hiroshimas, whose gaze can sear flesh from bone, whose blood is an acid purer than any found on Earth."
In the same story, Superman withstood the scouring light of heaven, which "only the purest souls" can do "without being driven mad."
Soul Search: Fighting in Hell (pretty much literally), Superman single-handedly defeated Blaze, a death goddess, in her own realm. This had never been accomplished before by anyone; Blaze has magical control over the very reality of her realm. The attacks that Superman fought off included magical transmutation into a demon, which he shook off through sheer willpower; magical energy blasts from Blaze; a magical spell that encased him in stone, which he subsequently shattered; and immersion in the lava lakes of this magical dimension.
Superman Man of Steel #15; continued in Superman #71: Once again in Blaze’s realm, Superman survived and bounced back from an assault by hundreds of magical demons; literally the entire demon population of a dimension.
In JLA: Seven Caskets, with the entire JLA laid out by an energy attack from the 7 Elder gods, Superman was the first and only Leaguer to spring right back up. He subsequently defeated the Elder gods.
In JLA: Primeval, Superman withstood and waded through a blast of magical energy that completely incapacitated the rest of the JLA, including Zauriel and Wonder Woman (both magical beings). The blast was from Disciple, fully empowered by, and on an equal power level with, the Elder Gods; said gods were described as "impossibly ancient" by Zauriel, who is literally an Angel from Heaven. After wading through Disciple’s best shot, Superman disabled and defeated Disciple single-handedly.
Another example: Kingdom Come writer Mark Waid has stated that Captain Marvel's so-called lightning is in actuality a magical spell that merely takes the form of lightning, and that this spell contains the combined powers of Zeus, Hercules, Atlas and Mercury (the pantheon of gods from whom Captain Marvel draws his power). Superman, in Kingdom Come # 4, withstood at a minimum, 4 "lightning" bolts of this magnitude, possibly many more depending on how the story is read. The fight ended with a bloodied- but very much still fighting- Superman using his superspeed to match Captain Marvel's vaunted Speed of Mercury, thus drawing Captain Marvel into the lightning's path.... and achieving a much-overlooked victory.
Superman's greatest test against magic came against Emperor Joker. At the time, Joker possessed virtually infinite 5th dimensional power, and was literally more powerful than God. He kept the Spectre (the Spectre is literally the manifestation of God's - THE God's -wrath) as a pet in a cage...literally. The Emperor also turned the Cosmic Quintessence (Zeus, Highfather, Shazam, Ganthet, and Phantom Stranger) into a walking joke with his reality-altering powers. Superman's brawl with Emperor Joker was mostly on the receiving end for Superman, and in the end Superman won the day in a battle of wills with Emperor Joker, not a battle of sheer might. The all-powerfull, magical Emperor Joker delivered a haymaker to Superman that smashed Superman past the moon; grew to about 90 feet and stepped on Superman like a bug; and Supes remained virtually unhurt and very much in the fight until the Emperor ripped Superman's heart out of his chest... which still failed to stop him.
Superman #175: Superman actually overpowered Doomsday in hand to hand combat, which he had never been able to do before. Doomsday's first claim to fame was killing a Guardian, and later, of course, killing Superman himself in Superman #75.
Superman #32: At less than peak power (due to weeks of solar deprivation), Superman KO’d Mongul.
Action Comics #775: Alone in combat, Superman faced down and authoritatively defeated the Elite. The Elite tore one of Neptune’s moons in half, and, at least according to John Henry Iron’s measurements, tossed around enough power to "ignite a star."
Originally posted by dashabz
A LIST OF FEATS ... MORE COMING UP..Strength and Movement Power:
Man of Steel #30:
Standing on Earth’s surface, Superman punched Lobo into orbit and beyond with one uppercut.
Nuclear Submarines: These typically weigh between 10,000 and 20,000 tons.
In Adventures of Superman #599, Superman raised a Russian nuclear submarine from the ocean floor (swamped with water as it was, it must have weighed more).
In Superman For All Seasons, book two, he casually held a nuclear submarine overhead with one hand.
Adventure of Superman #473:
From Earth, Superman threw an alien space craft clear of Earth’s gravity and into outer space. This craft was larger than an aircraft carrier and over a mile long (a typical aircraft carrier is about a 1/4 of a mile long and weighs about 100,000 tons, so this ship was about 4x that size).
In Man of Steel #131,
After taking a hit from a nuke (while sitting in kryptonite), Superman vortexed the thousands of tons of radioactive debris into the upper atmosphere by spinning around the debris at high speeds. He then used his heat vision to fuse and condense the debris into one very dense lump, then casually tossed the lump into the sun (distance: 93 million miles). After kryptonite, no less.
Action Comics # 585:
Superman muscled overhead a magically animated mountain, not quite big enough to "crush Metropolis with one step." He achieved flight with it and flew the chunk of earth into outer space. Once there, he tossed the mountain into orbit around the sun.
Action Comics # 793: Superman plugged up an active volcano by very casually dropping a mountain on top of it.
Justice League of America (old series) # 65 (early nineties):
Embedded in the core of the planet Almerac, Superman dug free through countless tons of rock all the way to the planet’s surface. This was after Starbreaker had drained nearly all of Superman’s power. In another storyline, Superman circumnavigated the Earth's surface by burrowing 20,000 miles through the Earth's crust in an hour.
In Action Comics #762,
Lois asked Superman to not bring her another hand-forged diamond (by squeezing a lump of coal) for Christmas this year.
In Wonder Woman #175,
Superman broke Wonder Woman's forearm by squeezing it through her indestructible bracelet. WW also admitted that her bracelet - forged by Hephaestus, blacksmith for the Gods and magically enchanted to be indestructible - would eventually break from Superman's blows.
JLA: World War Three story-line:
Superman was chained to the "endless millwheels" of the Mageddon machinery. His strength was used to move the gears of a weapon whose size dwarfed the entire Earth/Moon system.
In Superman: The Earth Stealers:
Superman propelled a massive space station, cylindrical in shape and stated to be 600 miles in diameter (the length of the cylinder, judging by the depiction, had to have been about 2500 miles) by pushing against it. The weight was inestimable- it was constructed from all the natural resources gleaned from an entire solar system. A hyperspace portal was opened and Superman not only pushed it, he propelled it for 20 minutes through hyperspace (it was stated that they reached the halfway point at 10 minutes). He had to exert the power to move it at the same time that he had to deal with the environment of hyperspace unprotected. Note that the space station was also towing both the Earth and the Moon in a stasis field, however, I do not factor this weight into the feat as Superman himself theorized that the stasis field was neutralizing the planet’s mass. Hence he merely resisted the space station’s weight, not the Earth and Moon’s.
Several events show Superman as a moon-mover. In JLA # 7, as Electro-Superman, he halted the fall of the Moon towards Earth (caused by Neron’s magical machinations), then moved the Moon back its proper position in orbit. He later commented that he's more powerful as "regular" Superman. Writer Grant Morrison and artist Howard Porter had originally intended the moon-moving event in JLA #7 to be done by "regular" Superman, but DC forced them to use Electro-Supes in order to stay current with events in the Superman comics at that time. This event is buttressed by several more.
In JLA: The Century War, ancient "alchemical engines" were causing the moon to fall towards the Earth. Superman and Green Lantern took turns holding the moon back against the "geometrically increasing force" that was causing it to fall. Superman alone got the last "moon-bracing" shift.
In Superman Man of Steel #30,
Superman grabbed, easily broke the forward movement of, and easily threw in the opposite direction, a space ship the size of a small moon.
In JLA # 58, Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern collaborated to tow Earth’s moon a distance of 238,900 miles in mere seconds, indicating a fantastic acceleration, and then pulled the moon out of Earth's gravity (which increases its weight tremendously). As he is universally regarded as the JLA’s most powerful member, I’m inclined to give Superman more than one-third, and perhaps as much as one-half, the work effort.
In the Lex 2000 special, with a single strike, Superman split one of Saturn’s moons in half. Saturn’s moons are small moons.
In JLA #75, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter, combined their efforts to tow the Earth an undisclosed distance. Following the same logic as above, I give Superman about half the work effort. This was immediately after the entire JLA (including Superman) had been resurrected from the dead, and had only several minutes to recover their strength.
In Action Comics #797, Superman referred to himself as an unqualified planet mover twice. "Superman can move the Earth"; he says of himself ; later he refers to having "pushed a planet out of orbit" (presumably this refers to his moving of WarWorld in Action Comics #782 - see just below).
In Man of Tomorrow #13, it took the combined effort of Martian Manhunter, Big Barda, Steel, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman to physically restrain Superman. They dogpiled him, but admitted, "we can't hold him for long!".
Action Comics Annual #7: Fighting in space, Superman successfully resisted the pull from a black hole that had opened up directly below (inches from) his feet. The miniature black hole had been induced by advanced alien (Ht’ros) war technology.
Action Comics #782: After plunging into the core of the sun, Superman, energized beyond usual, physically pushed WarWorld, (a small, Pluto-sized planet) across the solar system and into a boom tube. WarWorld did engage a "full throttle countermeasure" in resistance Superman’s push. We can see WarWorld’s engines (which encompass nearly an entire hemisphere of WarWorld’s surface) firing in resistance, to no avail. WarWorlds’ engines allow WarWorld to travel at faster than light speeds through space; they generate the power to accelerate a planet beyond light speed. "How is he moving my planet! The Kryptonian does not have that power!" Braniac’s disbelief is reasonable since WarWorld’s engines had no fuel shortage ; WarWorld had just pirated the energy of Imperiex - energy gleaned from the devouring of many galaxies. (Hence Imperiex’s reputation as the "Devourer of Galaxies."😉
Not canon: In Kingdom Come #3, Superman drilled through the Earth's diameter (he entered the planet in Asia and came out in Gotham City, America) in seconds flat.
Thanks for all the feats dude, I’m just going to make it easier to read.
Originally posted by dashabz
Durability:Atomic and Thermonuclear devices:
Superman’s ability to withstand these has been extensively demonstrated.
In Superman #54, (and continued in Adventures of Superman #477), an atomic bomb blew up in his hands and Superman didn’t bat an eye. In Superman for all Seasons, Book Two, he survived, without any injury, a Lexcorp thermonuclear missile, capable of destroying Metropolis, at point blank range. He smiled immediately after the explosion.
In Superman #9, John Byrne’s "weak" Superman endured at ground zero (the bomb was in his hands) a 40 megaton thermonuclear bomb. Then he fell to Earth (he was in outer space at the time of the explosion). Superman was knocked unconscious for a half hour; he suffered no physical damage. 40 megatons is more than 3000 times as powerful as the blast that destroyed Hiroshima.
Superman also endured a 30 megaton blast at fairly close range, without losing consciousness, in Action Comics #682.
To further cement Superman's nuke-proof status, in the recent Man of Steel #131, Superman easily shrugged off a nuclear blast that destroyed an island..... while literally sitting in kryptonite.
Buttressing these examples, there are numerous other instances of Superman withstanding forces on the level of a tactical nuke, i.e., city and island destroying events.
In Action Comics #649, Superman withstood without injury, Braniac’s "clean" (non- radioactive) city-destroying bombs.
In Superman Man of Steel #52, Superman withstood 3 particle beams, each powered by the core of a planet, fired at him by the Cyborg. One of these planet-powered beams was a plasma beam capable of leveling a city.
In War of the Gods #4: Superman used his body as a shield to block a magical bolt capable of destroying an entire Island (Themyscira, Paradise Island). So effective a shield was he, that he weakened the bolt such that only a single casualty occurred on the island.
Despite experiencing pain, Superman survived without any medical attention.In Superman #23, Superman endured without visible harm, a magical explosion that destroyed most of an island, but was unconscious after the blast.
Superman's resistance to molecular disintegration attacks has been demonstrated several times. In Actions Comics #586, after exhausting his Omega Beams, Darkseid attacked Superman with a beam attuned to Superman’s "precise molecular structure". The blast caused him pain but no physical damage. Superman proceeded to beat down Darkseid and defeat him soundly.
In Adventures Of Superman #595, Darkseid used his disintegrating Omega Beams (one of the most feared forces in the DCU) upon Superman with the stated intention of killing him. Superman withstood repeated blasts at point blank range, and easily shrugged them off.
In Superman Man of Steel #30, Superman survived a so called "force twelve disintegration beam" fired from a ship the size of a small moon, with absolutely no effect at all.
Here are some examples of his resistance to tremendous impacts:
In Adventures of Superman #581, Superman allowed Adversary, a powerful magical foe, to hit him as hard as he could, without retaliation. Superman was literally punched halfway across the planet- from Metropolis, he literally landed in China- without any injury or loss of consciousness.
But forget about being punched across the planet to China, how about through the planet to China? In Superman #181, Superman and Bizarro (his magically-created, brain damaged, "imperfect" duplicate) switched bodies. Superman (in Bizarro’s body) punched Bizarro (in Superman’s body) completely through the Earth and out the other end. Bizarro (in Superman’s body) was slammed in through the ground in Metropolis and came out two panels later in China. He was shown ripping straight through the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core, and coming out on the other side of the planet. Superman’s body was fully conscious and completely unharmed by the blow (Bizarro was smiling as usual).
In Man of Tomorrow #13, Superman harmlessly shrugged off a blast from Orion’s Astro-Harness that blasted him across the planet from the North Pole to India.
Action Comics # 762: Superman harmlessly shrugged off a blow from the magical demon Etrigan. The blow actually knocked Superman from Earth's surface all the way to the moon (239,000 miles), a distance that is about 10 times the diameter of the Earth. Superman was virtually unfazed. In this issue he also shrugged off magical demon-fire (which he withstood previously in Action #589).
Originally posted by dashabz
Speed:Superman #13: Flew around the equator in a matter of seconds, indicating a speed of well over 1,000,000 mph, or roughly 1350 times the speed of sound.
Man of Steel #110: Standing in one spot, Superman used his super speed to vibrate his body invisible.
Superman #175: Taking a speed trick from the Flash’s book of tricks, Superman used his super speed to vibrate his body intangible, thus allowing Doomsday’s punches and fire-breath to pass harmlessly through him. A body moving at light speed within an atmosphere will become intangible (that’s how the Flash does it).
Return of Superman: Superman used his speed to vibrate his arm so fast, it shattered the Cyborg’s body into hundreds of fragments.
After racing the Man of Steel, Impulse stated that Superman travels at 99% of the speed of light. In JLA: Heavens Ladder, it is stated that Superman can race a photon to its target.
In War of the Gods #4: Superman out-raced an energy beam to its target.
In Man of Steel #134, Superman outraced an energy blast from the Aegis armor.
Superman #191: Trapped inside a black hole, Superman notes that an object must be traveling faster than the speed of light in order to escape such an environment, and then proceeds to do so.
Lex 2000 special: Superman made the trip from Earth to Saturn in well under 4 minutes. By comparison, light takes about 19 minutes to make this trip.
In JLA # 51, Superman made this same trip from Saturn to Earth in a matter of seconds.
In Superman #153, a trip from Saturn to the sun (27 light minutes) and back again (for a total of 54 light minutes) was completed in seconds by the Man of Steel. This works out to about 3000 times the speed of light.
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, Book One: Superman stated he is now capable of space travel, and requires only a star chart and directions to Apkolips (apparently unaware it is located in another dimension).
Heat vision:
Superman #167: His power waning under a red sun, Superman still summoned enough heat vision to successfully power Jor-El’s planet-moving engine. The planet in this case had a mass 16 times that of Earth's.
Superman’s heat vision has a maximum range of at least 239,000 miles (the distance from the Earth to the Moon).
In Superman #101, he let out a beam from Earth’s surface that scorched the surface of the moon.
In Man of Steel #112, he shot a beam that bounced off the surface of the moon. Krypto did, too.
In Adventures of Superman # 594, Superman's heat vision proved capable of matching and blocking Darkseid's Omega Beams. He deflected the Omegas again with his heat vision in Superman/Darkseid.
Apokolpis Now.
New Gods #10 (second series): Superman used his heat vision to cauterize tears in the fabric of reality as caused by S'ivaa.
Senses:
In John Byrne’s Man of Steel revamp, it was shown that Superman’s microscopic vision can see on the subcellular level, as he analyzed Bizarro’s cellular structure; and even on the molecular level, as he analyzed the molecular composition of Magpie’s acid-gas.
In the JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel, the Martian Manhunter and Superman mulled over the abnormalities at "every eighth angstrom" in the DNA of the anti-matter Earth’s version of Lex Luthor. An angstrom is about the size of a large atom.
Superman #152: Superman’s telescopic vision allowed him to peer across the galaxy to WarWorld.
In Man of Steel #121, Superman’s super-hearing allowed him to pinpoint a single person in a city of 11 million based on such distinctive sounds as the rustle of that person’s clothing and the sound of their heartbeat.
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Fighting prowess and other miscellaneous stuff:Superman Man of Steel #126: Superman held a contest of strength against an immortal god, Baal the "Thundering Destroyer", and stalemated him. (Baal is magical.) The assembled gods then called Superman "magnificent."
Superman Man of Steel #127: Superman fought off three magical gods, all at once: Baal, the "Thundering Destroyer"; Lord Ahriman, "evil incarnate"; and Mixcoatl, the "Lord of the Hunt."
JLA# 7: As Electro-Superman, wrestled Asmodel, the "deadliest King-Angel in all Heaven", and gave him all he could handle before Asmodel was teleported away. Asmodel was a being "whose every heartbeat is a thousand Hiroshimas, whose gaze can sear flesh from bone, whose blood is an acid purer than any found on Earth."
In the same story, Superman withstood the scouring light of heaven, which "only the purest souls" can do "without being driven mad."
Soul Search:
Fighting in Hell (pretty much literally), Superman single-handedly defeated Blaze, a death goddess, in her own realm. This had never been accomplished before by anyone; Blaze has magical control over the very reality of her realm. The attacks that Superman fought off included magical transmutation into a demon, which he shook off through sheer willpower; magical energy blasts from Blaze; a magical spell that encased him in stone, which he subsequently shattered; and immersion in the lava lakes of this magical dimension.
Superman Man of Steel #15; continued in Superman #71:
Once again in Blaze’s realm, Superman survived and bounced back from an assault by hundreds of magical demons; literally the entire demon population of a dimension.
In JLA: Seven Caskets, with the entire JLA laid out by an energy attack from the 7 Elder gods, Superman was the first and only Leaguer to spring right back up. He subsequently defeated the Elder gods.
In JLA: Primeval, Superman withstood and waded through a blast of magical energy that completely incapacitated the rest of the JLA, including Zauriel and Wonder Woman (both magical beings). The blast was from Disciple, fully empowered by, and on an equal power level with, the Elder Gods; said gods were described as "impossibly ancient" by Zauriel, who is literally an Angel from Heaven. After wading through Disciple’s best shot, Superman disabled and defeated Disciple single-handedly.
Another example: Kingdom Come writer Mark Waid has stated that Captain Marvel's so-called lightning is in actuality a magical spell that merely takes the form of lightning, and that this spell contains the combined powers of Zeus, Hercules, Atlas and Mercury (the pantheon of gods from whom Captain Marvel draws his power). Superman, in Kingdom Come # 4, withstood at a minimum, 4 "lightning" bolts of this magnitude, possibly many more depending on how the story is read. The fight ended with a bloodied- but very much still fighting- Superman using his superspeed to match Captain Marvel's vaunted Speed of Mercury, thus drawing Captain Marvel into the lightning's path.... and achieving a much-overlooked victory.
Superman's greatest test against magic came against Emperor Joker. At the time, Joker possessed virtually infinite 5th dimensional power, and was literally more powerful than God. He kept the Spectre (the Spectre is literally the manifestation of God's - THE God's -wrath) as a pet in a cage...literally. The Emperor also turned the Cosmic Quintessence (Zeus, Highfather, Shazam, Ganthet, and Phantom Stranger) into a walking joke with his reality-altering powers. Superman's brawl with Emperor Joker was mostly on the receiving end for Superman, and in the end Superman won the day in a battle of wills with Emperor Joker, not a battle of sheer might. The all-powerful, magical Emperor Joker delivered a haymaker to Superman that smashed Superman past the moon; grew to about 90 feet and stepped on Superman like a bug; and Supes remained virtually unhurt and very much in the fight until the Emperor ripped Superman's heart out of his chest... which still failed to stop him.
Superman #175: Superman actually overpowered Doomsday in hand to hand combat, which he had never been able to do before. Doomsday's first claim to fame was killing a Guardian, and later, of course, killing Superman himself in Superman #75.
Superman #32: At less than peak power (due to weeks of solar deprivation), Superman KO’d Mongul.
Action Comics #775: Alone in combat, Superman faced down and authoritatively defeated the Elite. The Elite tore one of Neptune’s moons in half, and, at least according to John Henry Iron’s measurements, tossed around enough power to "ignite a star."