OneDumbG0
Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by quanchi112
He was pulled out imo right before the blast. His clothers were torn by getting pulled through the time stream.
Highly unlikely for three reasons. First, Superman-Prime never talks about his sudden removal from the battle, e.g. "I was just fighting Monarch, what happened?!" Surely someone who was still conscious and fighting an opponent and was abruptly yanked from the fight's conclusion would wonder what happened?
Second, when we see Superman-Prime's body floating here when Time-Trapper is looking at him, he's sprawled out as if he's been knocked out, whereas right before the end of the fight, he was fighting mad:
http://images.wizarduniverse.com/WizardUniverse/Previews/legion2.jpg
Third, in connection with the image Time-Trapper has of him, we see no remains of any cape. And he clearly had a good portion of his cape left right before the explosion:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Superman/Countdown13p16.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Superman/Countdown13p17.jpg
Therefore, his sprawled out nature and his lack of a cape came before he was ever pulled through the timestream into the future. It cannot have happened during that. Superman-Prime took Monarch's blast.