Originally posted by JBL
I understand what you are saying. But in supermans and every other hero except for someone like the hulk who actually has dynamic strength, superman fans get hero time to win and make fans happy time confused with dynamic strength. Superman, CM, BA are very close in strength. Superman CANNOT will, drop mental blocks or do anything else to open up a gap between the 3 UNLESS he sunamp. It is a Canon fact stated in the comics. There are plenty of documented characters that are as strong, a little weaker, a little stronger and a lot stronger than superman. No where is it mentioned that superman can overcome that by his mindset. When he and CM arm wrestled, it was plain as day that they were VERY close in strength. Now if superman could have altered that, why did the writer lie or waste his time doing and stating that. CM does not have dynamic strength so why is he able to stalemate superman?
I'm not into discussing what he can and cannot do once he gets the "dynamic strength", I'm just saying that these types of limit breaking powers are very much a part of humans, let alone comic characters. It doesn't help that dynamic strength means strength while moving so I'm not sure what the meaning we're using is (you seem to compare it to Hulk's amping).
However, as I've always seen it, it's essentially an adrenaline amp when he 'busts his mental blocks', but as is common in the place of comics, it puts him vastly above his perceived limits to whatever degree they feel like doing. It's not a 1 to 1 amp like what happens to humans. It's something that can make him smash his 'limits'. Which makes it similar, but greater than what happens to us, and perhaps greater than this sort of thing existing in other characters. Which would make it unique to Superman. While Cap for example might experience the same thing, his limit breaking power would be below Supermans, hence why we give greater emphasis to this existing within Superman. What that would mean is that if they were perfectly equal, and both received this 'amp', Supermans strength might very well be way greater.
A phenomenon that could be explained by Superman essentially being a solar battery and calling on more power in these times of need.
For example, he turned beings that gave him incredible trouble at his non amped 'max' into essentially fodder, en masse.
I already said it might not kick in everytime though, and pretty much said what I just tried to explain.
It's a rare occurrence in the comics, and one I admittedly haven't looked into in quite a few years. I'm just throwing out my ideas on the topic and what I think everytime I see the term. And why it would differ from a gas tank.
The issue is, the forum rules open up this as a possibility. So while you might not see it in every fight in a comic, one could argue it a possibility in a forum fight. Superman could be portrayed as an exact equal to everyone but as long as they keep showing him bust his own limits, it's still an issue on the forum.
Originally posted by One Big Mob
It might not kick in everytime, but when it does, he is going to be operating above his normal max. And when you're operating at those levels already, something like this would make him seem quite a bit more powerful.Then you realize it's also a comic and understand that they can make this "adrenaline strength" whatever the **** they want to. IE, dynamic strength.
This is imo an easier way to define it as opposed to just mental blocks. Which I'm not saying isn't the case, it just gets muddy when you try to explain that he's just always holding back subconsciously.