Originally posted by panthergod
.. due to his mental state and self belief, as the DoS aftermath make 100% clear in Adventures 500 per PA Kent, and which Jurgens went out of his way to make clear again time and time again, including in Infinite Crisis. with a stronger more confident midnset, Post Crisis Superman beats DD clealn, as is stronger than ever.Byrne is the guy who started that concept Post Crisis. Subtextually, Post Crisis Superman IS the Pre Crisis Superman, albeit with a self limited humanized mindset due to having his history altered and born on Earth and raised among humans.
None of which jibes with an entire arc of Clark's story being that Clark absorbed all kinds of radiation from the Eradicator in Return of Superman and started getting weird with his powers and body, ending with him becoming the Post-Crisis guy we all know and love. Who was that much stronger than he was in the Byrne era and, yeah, being capable of beating Doomsday.
And that business of him having an 'Aura' being dropped like a hot potato.
And there is a HUGE difference between Telekinesis and 'just being that strong', or 'subconscious muscle control'.
The feats might be canon, but so is Spider-man beating up Firelord, to just pick one example from out there.
Do I agree that Superman - Clark - suppresses himself and holds back?
Sure.
But the much, much weaker Byrne era version, whose big, 'I'm not holding back!' punches against Doomsday made a modest crater in the ground, who received an explicit powerup on-panel to become the more powerful Post-crisis version of himself, does it make sense for that early Byrne version to be towing around the world, something that AFTER his power-up Post Crisis Superman had to work his ass off to do?
No, no it don't.