Originally posted by Ptr_GrifinThe blatant connection to Superman Red/Blue that they have, and strongly insinuating that they're both part of a whole.
Out of curiosity, what is leading you to that assumption? Admittedly, I'm not very well kept up on comics lately.
Hell, they're literally shown as Red/Blue in the solicits for April:
With this solicit:
“SUPERMAN REBORN” finale! As this epic tale wraps up, Superman’s life is drastically changed…and that’s all we are saying for now—except that you won’t want to miss it!
Not to mention that the whole deal about Rebirth is that ALL of the heroes are the same as they were Pre-Flashpoint, they just don't remember it. Somehow, the Superman are two different characters, which gets me to the above point.
Then you have the solicit of the aftermath of the crossover:
“Superman Reborn Aftermath” part two! Superman’s life has been changed, some good is back, but the bad is back as well—with a vengeance! As Superman’s allies gather to address the looming threat of Mr. Oz, another Squad seeks revenge against the Man of Steel—and you won’t believe who made the team!
Then you also account for the changed costume..
I'm 95% sure they're merging, and I really hope that's the case.
It's easy to miss this, due to the fact that it's not put an emphasis on, but an astronomical durability feat.
For reference, Darkseid's sum is at this point:
- Anti-Life Equation, which when inside Steve, the eye beams have one-shotted Mobius [abstract-level power]:
- Omega Effect, which Luthor has matched Mobius output:
- All of the Gods that the Justice League got possessed by
[Shazam is of importance, since he had this overkill:
S – S’ivaa
H – H’ronmeer
A – Anapel
Z – Zonuz
A – Ate
M – Mamaragan]
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What happens when Darkseid's attack is directed at the league?
Superman shields everybody by tanking his attack [penultimate panel]:
Yeah...
You missed one thing, Superman even matched Darkseid's blast with HV.
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/27591968/Justice_League_2011-_050-028.jpg.html
Last panel.
Oh and Superman is providing enough power to move Earth to Dark Multiverse. Removing him from the machine stops the earth from sinking.
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It was shown at the end of the last issue.
So just looking for chronology of Superman in OWAW, I found that Superman went to several levels
of power in one arc alone.
First, Mongul shows Superman that he is limiting his power and he needs to go all out if he wants
to beat Imperiex (Probe).
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But even then Superman struggled to even stagger the imperiex probe even with Mongul helping him.
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This same Superman was overpowerd by Validus created by Warworld easily. And Warworld could
easily create hundreds of such holograms.
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Then Superman went a level above and with very high difficulty managed to stalemate one probe who
even broke his arm and then defeated it.
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One level above when he managed to do it without getting his arm broken but was messed up by one
probe's explosion.
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Then a whole another level where he essentially oneshotted innumerable Probes like nothing.
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And yet another level when Brainiac 13 absorbs the entire power of Imperiex and has the total
power of Warworld at its command, Superman still manages to stalemate B13 in raw strength.
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And just how powerful was one probe? Fortress Eradicator saw just imperiex probe destroy entire
galaxies and had to fly away from lightyeard of aftershocks just to get away from it.
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One Imperiex probe destroyed Maxima's galaxy.
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The galaxies were destroyed by probes creating a construct and channeling their power to destroy
the galaxy whose power was then channeled into Imperiex's ship.
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Superman easily punches through Brainiac's force field at its weakest point.
This is notable because a planet busting, FTL monster was unable to even scratch the weakest point of the same force field at its weakest point.
Vril Dox made it clear that this is the same force field which his father used.
Not even Pulsar Stargrave, a neutron star could breach the force field.
Originally posted by abhilegend
Superman easily punches through Brainiac's force field at its weakest point.This is notable because a planet busting, FTL monster was unable to even scratch the weakest point of the same force field at its weakest point.
Vril Dox made it clear that this is the same force field which his father used.
Not even Pulsar Stargrave, a neutron star could breach the force field.
source? this is pretty impressive
OWAW/Apokolips Now re-established precedent what was shown through implication in te Krypton Man/Red Glass/Blaze-Satannus War/DoS waaay back in 1991/92 -- a fully unleashed Superman is multiple times more powerful than his standard Elite top tier Class 100 levels at the time, a peer to Darkseid in combat(H/P Supes for example, was nowhere near Darkseid in power), can 1-2 shot kill/destroy elite top tiers/trans(above top tier on average) tier Imperiex Probes when fully cutting loose, and is absolutely on a par with Skyfather class beings. We also saw this when he saw him match Kal-L(1/2 of Silver Age Superman) and both of them directly overpower SBP(who has Silver age levels)
I'm thinking the original Sand Superman storyline explains why SBP's still above everything -- also he knows his power levels are limited by his mind since he's an expert on Superman's continuity and therefore has no limits at peak confidence)