Delta1938
True King of House of El
Originally posted by h1a8
TBH I don't know how in the phuck Superman beat DD. Nothing was able to hurt him. I was thinking it was PIS that he beat him. I mean he managed to hurt DD for the first time at the very end of the comic where Superman was near death. So Superman letting loose is more than 5 times as powerful as his normal self. WTF?Anyway Superman wins by letting loose in the very beginning.
Post-CRISIS Superman's mind limited his powers. Byrne and I think Wolfman too established in early Post-CRISIS stories that Superman's mind has an effect on his powers, like he lost his powers due to amnesia(yet still while powerless and amnesic, out-performed Silver Surfer against Parademons 😄 ). There's several examples of this, both clear and ambiguous. Loeb's run leading up to and including OUR WORLDS AT WAR is probably the best example. Mongul II was training Superman specifically to overcome the mental blocks, and you compare the fight of Superman/Mongul II vs an Imperiex Probe all the way through to AOS 595(I think it was) where the narration shows Superman's dropped the mental blocks, and you see him owning Imperiex Probes left and right with ease. And the narration shows he's been doing this for at least hours, perhaps days.
Superman dropped mental blocks when Doomsday threatened Lois. One example of this is comparing he team effort energy attack that was worthless, to after Doomsday threatened Lois, him slamming Doomsday into a building with a burst of heat vision. Going from hurting your hands punching Doomsday to beating Doomsday to death while injured kinda shows the power jump Superman had.
