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Originally posted by TheHulkster
I don't see it as a point of how powerful Russian Zod is. The point In see is that while he deals with two probes similarly to how Superman and Doomsday deal with them in space, he is never shown much above Superman. End the end, he loses a head to head, on Earth confrontation with Superman outside of OWAW and outside of "probe busting mode". This contradicts the notion tossed out by a few here that probe busting mode is a 3 to 5 times increase on strength.To me, it's a case of a small increase yielding large results as well as the noted power inconsistencies that plague comics.
He also lost their initial encounter (where Kelex is scared he'll kill Superman) and their second encounter (in space, where he's beating the crap out of Superman). The last encounter in the end, Superman has weakness exploitation on (red sun radiation).
Then there is also the Bizarro encounter, where a guy Superman doesn't exactly struggle with, but who fights quite evenly with, being broken on a daily basis for fun.
Its like Liston vs Ali...Ali won both encounters against Liston, but their first was pretty even.
Then I come around and keep Liston in my basement and beat the crap out of him every single day just to see what it feels like to punch a pro boxer. Its a world of difference.