I lol too, but for different reasons.
I never much noticed MrMind, in a good -or- bad way (he was just always kinda there), until i read a comment he made that he ‘had me on ignore’.
Then i thought, this guy is active in all my threads, and often comments on my direct posts, so:
-Either he’s lying, which is funny.
-Or he’s going to the trouble of clicking on my blocked posts to read them regardless, which is even funnier.
This guy is about the opposite of his username.
lol
If you reversed Surfer with the Hulk in the order, then I'd say that on the whole Superman clears until MAYBE Hulk.
Superman vs. Hulk is nearly impossible to call as both, particularly the Hulk, have very dynamic power levels. I would probably give the Hulk an edge if Superman is significantly exhausted and/or damaged before coming to a fight with him.
Strange, as most mages are, also has very variable power levels. Combine this with him often being a glass cannon, and you get a fight that would be tough to predict even without the very unpredictable magic weakness. Still, I'd typically give Strange an edge over Superman in a fair fight, given the magic weakness. Throw in Superman being at all damaged or exhausted and the edge gets bigger.
At any rate, I'd probably say that on the whole and according to your gauntlet order, Superman likely stops at the Hulk or Surfer. The fights prior to the Hulk wouldn't take much out of him, and as wildly unpredictable as a Hulk vs. Superman fight is, I'm still inclined to give him the edge. But at that point he's likely too worn down to beat Surfer, even though I would typically give Supes the edge over Surfer.
With ease imo. 🙂
Don't listen to anyone who says "But-but Val never actually HURT Superboy with punch's!" Yeah, he could restrain him forever, use him as a human shield, and spin him around so fast he passes out, but can't KO him with a punch..
It was a different era. Durability was trumped above strength then, as you can see when Superman and Captain Marvel have their early slugouts, wail on each other all day, and after three pages of Superman hitting him in the head, pouring on the HV, and slamming him across the city, the worst that happens is Cap thinking "Boy, I'm actually starting to get a little tired. That must be because I'm on Earth 1, away from the rock on Earth S!"
Post Crisis Superman kind of fought a similar character, called "The Union".
No idea how powerful the Uni-Mind is by comparison, though. All I know is Supes post crisis rogues gallery is stacked with telepaths, which Byrne, Jurgen's, and whoever else often used as a dramatic plot device to get his "secret identity".
Milton Fine Brainiac, in particular, was ridiculously power. While in a coma on New Genesis (Which is a separate universe from the DCU), he influenced every mind on Earth into thinking Superman's body was still in his tomb. Even scientists like Professor Hamilton using devices were fooled.
And when Brainiac finally decided to move to Earth, he took out a group of New Gods, including Orion and Lightray, with a single telekinetic attack.
So how did Superman beat this ridiculously Op telekinetic/telepath?
How do you think? He.... beat him down. 🙁 Yeah, even as a big fan, I was kind of scratching my head at how easy it was... Feat of power, or just shite writing, you decide.
Not gonna edit that last post, because it was based on my memory and don't want to embellish:
Ok, I slightly misremembered. Supes DID do better then he was any right to do against a character that one shots all the heavy hitter New Gods of New Genesis.
Granted, Fine making up telekinetic battle armor is different then nuking the gods, but lets assume that battle armor hits hard enough to KO those gods about as easily, or what's the point of it?
But Supes didn't actually knock Brainiac out. He just kept calling him Milton Fine, until he mentally cracked.
Anyways, my main point was that Fine was powerful, and Supermans performance here proves he can handle powerful psi's... (Or that I like to use bad writing and PIS to prove my points, again it's your call. 😉 )