Originally posted by qwertyuiop1998
For me, The hyperbolic arugment seems like trying to arguing all of Hulk's planet-destroying statements are hyperboles since Hulk's pants never get destroyed. You need to do a really high level of mental gymnastics
DC was certainly slowly improving the scale of this fight throughout those years(Mainly because Superman slowly becoming more powerful. For example, In a flashback Superman pulling the earth)
In Superman: Day of Doom, stating that Superman and Doomsday were creating a roll of powerful shockwaves
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superman-Day-of-Doom/Issue-2?id=108991#11
It stated Doomsday's punches so powerful that could be registered on seismographs all over the country
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superman-Day-of-Doom/Issue-1?id=108990#21
Not to mention in Doomsday Annual an early version of Doomsday also got a lot of good feats
Not sure how u got to explaining Hulk pants..
Like I said, one can lean hyperbolic mainly because original story had nothing that indicated planet shaking in regards to their "deathblows". I mean one would be literally lying if they had that sentiment when the story first came out. It wasnt until years and years later that the shaking planet to its core in bio form came out that the scale of damage might now be able to be viewed differently. It's like night and day.
As to Day of Doom series that came out a decade after the original story, I already addressed that when I brought up Gotham. Still when I first read it, it's simply not comparable to planet shaking.
In regards to DD and seismographs, he was well below earth's surface and can affect the planet much easier from that location. The most recent bio statement said "deathblows" shaking the planet core. I'm figuring the statement was talking about their final few blows at each other(*shrug*).That is much harder to achieve i think since they were fighting on earth's surface and much of the force or shockwaves were probably propagating through air.