Originally posted by Senor Cage
It wasn't just pre-crisis superbly, but Mon-El as well, whom is stronger than kryptonians. They didn't even register with Validus. Validus would crush here.
They simply dropped power levels to make Validus a relevant threat, because compared to Superboy's most ridiculous feat, Validus was weak. It took Validus a long period of time to threaten a single planet, while WB Hulk was destroying them without directly even hitting them. There is a huge difference in power here. So yeah you can stop trying to hand Validus PC Kryptonian/Daxamite feats.
Originally posted by Adam Grimes
Crossovers are not canon and unusable here, friend. Besides, do you believe they would let Hulk get one-shot by Superman like, if we're being honest, should have happened back then?
The PC era was not contiguous in any form, and the contradictions that plagued that era were epic. Even so, the amount of power that the Hulk unleashed in one punch was greater than anything that Validus did in terms of destructive force. They set the Hulk on an incredibly tall stage; purposely saying that in a calm state that his very intestines were tough enough to withstand an uninhibited full force blow from a being 133.5 times stronger than Hercules, and then multiplying it by ten by having him whip on the original Wendigo who had been amped 1000 times greater than his base, which also indirectly scaled him over 1000 times greater than Savage Hulk who had never been able to defeat the original Wendigo.
Now they didn't stop there, they pushed the envelope to the bursting point when they had him go into the Dark Dimension and unleash the power to obliterate entire planets with indirect punches. Validus has nothing on this Hulk, and to further eclipse his power level, the Hulk could have become even more powerful than that.