Originally posted by Golgo13
Superman is fast, but it's not like MM can't shapeshift and turn intangible to avoid his attacks. He's done it before. Not to mention read his mind and anticipate his every move.
Except that J'onn's intangibility hasn't been shown to be fool-proof, and his telepathy straight up doesn't work on Superman.
Originally posted by -Pr-
Superman can tag him even if he plays it smart.
Not impossible, but there's a few examples to consider:
Massacre.
He was just a one dimensional brick with a neural impulse reading gimmick, and Superman struggled to touch him.
Energy Form eradicator had a similar mind reading trick, but also had intangibility and routinely slipped attacks by letting Superman phase through him.
And Ostrander also wrote MM avoiding a fight with punchy Superman by keeping intangible, and letting him fly through him.
A smartly written MM should, at the very least, use a few of his basic powers like TP and intangibility to avoid attacks..
Originally posted by -Pr-
Except that J'onn's intangibility hasn't been shown to be fool-proof, and his telepathy straight up doesn't work on Superman.
It's shown he can subconsciously block TP's probes when he's in Clark Kent form, but it works when he's playing communications hub for the JLA.
Supermans history supports that he has tp resistance, considering his rogues gallery includes characters like The Union and Milton Fine Brainiac, but he's never been immune, and has has his surface thoughts read before.
And besides, it was Ostrander himself that established Supermans resistance to MM while in Clark Kent disguise, yet also had MM surface read his thoughts and go intangible to avoid a charge.