Originally posted by JBL
How on earth you are allowed to post these flat out lies in every thread that has superman in it is just plane incredible. Superman has NEVER had freaking mental blocks that keeps him from accessing his powers and he can drop anything he wants but he has NEVER in his life went from equals to CM,BM to gaining 5x a strength increase over them. You keep bring up OWAW or DOS??? In OWAW, was DD 5x stronger than superman?? Was DOS DD 5x stronger than superman?? Doomsday destroyed probes. In PLENTY of superman comics it is flat out stated that superman has gotten a little bit stronger and that he felt stronger than ever and that was only a small increase. He has been amped and gotten stronger yet never went 5x over his strength on panel and clear as day. He has went all out against WW, BA and plenty others and has NEVER gained a 5x strength increase. There is not a writer, editor, narrator, character be it friend or foe that has ever made such a claim. IT IS YOU that dream up this crap. By your twisted logic, OWAW and DOS doomsday was 5x stronger than superman in the beginning of each story. In one story you claim he himself dropped his BS mental blocks, yet in another someone in another has to teach him to drop them while claiming that he put BS blocks on himself and then forgot or threw away the keys so that he cannot access his true strength that he has shown PLENTY of times ON PANEL and stated as clear as day. CHRIST! 🙁
I guess you didn't read OWAW, or the issue where Batman explains his mental blocks, or DOS. Superman can't will himself to access his full power UNLESS he meditates and receives training (OWAW) or is faced against a severe crisis (DOS).
What you don't understand is that those times you see Superman using all of his might HE IS NOT USING HIS FULL POWER. His subconscious is preventing him. So to his mind he believes he is using ALL OF HIS MIGHT, but in reality he isn't. OWAW explains the whole damn thing.
You are not understanding what a retcon is. It overpowers in other showings in comics, regardless of writer's intentions. Pak retcon that Hulk, since the very beginning, has been holding back.
We have OWAW explicitly explain this to us. We see the difference in Superman's power (beyond 5x).
If Superman never had mental blocks then answer these three questions:
1. Why did OWAW Superman explain this?
2. How did you go from using all of his might (you see his face full of struggle) and not causing DD any pain to killing him in a few moments?
3. How did he go from fighting with a single probe for hours and hitting it with all of his might (again you see Superman's face that he is using all of his might) to simply one shotting them left and right?
Note: HP DD was vastly stronger than Superman. He treated a vastly amped Superman like a child.