^ the authority team is op as hell compare to most marvel and dc team. superman fighting jenny is just like fighting franklin richards or any high level reality warper. he is most likely to lose
the first 5 are meta-low heralds though, I doubt supes would even be tired from finishing off apollo or jack hawksmoore. you can team dem up all together and I'd probably still back supes. although it's close.
Originally posted by Pillow Biter
Of course Superman.But name the number of times that a speed edge was decisive in a battle between at least somewhat evenly matched top tier bricks? Even harder to find are examples of a top tier brick using speed to beat a more powerful brick that the less powerful one would normally have lost to. (When a character is going to dominate another due to being decisively more powerful overall, writers often get creatively realistic with power sets as a way to make a lopsided fight interesting, but you rarely see a writer 'spoil' an otherwise balanced or interesting fight with some kind of insta-win power set usage, regardless of how realistic it would be).
Superman is faster in every way. The chances of this mattering in a fight vs. Thanos are low.
Basically 99.9% of all characters move and fight at the same speed (within 20% of each other). That's why speed doesn't matter much.
But when someone is magnitudes faster then speed matters the most. It would be equivalent to effectively stopping time (like Metro Man).
Even if someone is just twice as fast has a huge advantage. Just imagine two boxers fighting where one is twice as fast as the other.
Lol. But hey, nothing like an Authority thread to pull me out of retirement, if only for a day...
Angie, Apollo and Jack would all make him work to some degree. But none pose a true threat. He'd be battered after all three, but still in fighting form.
Both Jenny and Doctor are quick-draw scenarios. They can OHK Supes with a host of esoteric abilities (easiest of which would be offensive matter manip.). But they're also vulnerable before they "power up" so to speak. I could get fiddly with feats and point to the time Apollo knocked the evil Doctor's brain out of his skull and bits of it were floating in space...then he reformed and proceeded to laugh Apollo out of the building (or the sun, as it were). But on balance, I tend to think that a proper speedblitz could work against either. Without certainty, I'd lean toward either from the Authority, but wouldn't argue stridently against the speedblitz argument. YMMV.