Originally posted by Astner
I'm not a high-end absolutist. I wouldn't argue that Gladiator is a trillion times faster than Superman (and that a fight between them would play out like a fight between the Flash and a bank robber) just because Gladiator has this one feat and Superman doesn't have anything that's directly comparable.To me, consistency is more important, and we do occasionally see Gladiator struggle with characters that are not particularly fast more often than we get feats like these.
While I do consider them roughly equal I would probably put my money on Superman over Gladiator because Gladiator's power varies with his confidence whereas Superman's powers are permanent.
That said, if Gladiator frequently had feats like this and no real anti-feats then I'd think of him as a souped-up Superman.
if your counting everything. I think that 60 day to cross the universe should count because Superman stated it as much. The 60 days is precise and if that is accepted as true why not the other part of the statement? Why would superman not be able to tell the distance when he can tell the number of earth days that went by when he flew? Was he watching the sun rise and set on earth while he was flying? Of course not, It’s the writer telling us through Superman that he flew for 60 days from the other side of the universe. If you’re picking and choosing it’s only because of bias.
Also Superman flew across universe and a few times across many universes. The mxy sneeze feat he searched for a dead universe to sneeze in. How many universes did he fly through to find a dead one before it takes someone to give in to a need to sneeze? How fast was he going there?
Or the time he was flying after supergirl and crossed universes.
Or the example that abhi brought up? How much air is in the little girl’s tank? A day at most? And he promised to take her across the universe and get her home.