The following characters would be harmed, but could ignore it:
Doomsday
Superboy-Prime (Pre Teen Titans BS)
The following characters would scream in agony, but could handle it:
Thor
Wonder Woman
The following characters wouldn't be able to handle the damage and go down after a whole while:
Black Adam (besides WW3 not very impressive)
Silver Surfer (great durability, but it's not really his main defense, since he has other abilities to recover from damage)
The following character would go down very quickly:
Hulk since he does not have any invulnerability and the Heat Vision would instantly start harming him and probably burn away his face and probably knock him out, before he would reach the needed level to start healing against the damage ... basically similar to his confrontation with Gladiator, but in this case even with far more damage)
There's a number of things that leap out here as being 'lolwut', but the biggest by far is ranking Surfer's energy durability as being below Thor, Diana's or (depending on the incarnation) Doomsday.
I've never seen Surfer harmed by any degree of heat. If anything, extremes of temperature are exactly the type of thing his galactic glaze is supposed to protect him against.
If Superman really wants to hurt Surfer, punching him is his best option.
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I actually saw it more as a complete durability test and ignored Silver Surfer's ability to deal with energy.
Besides that, I see Thor being more durable then the Silver Surfer and that's why I placed him above Silver Surfer.
Not the best example to use from what I can remember That's from the post-Onslaught period when Hulk was separated from Bruce he was getting progressively weaker to the point where Dead-pool pierced him with a signpost.
OP is pretty specific about the trial the characters are undergoing: they get blasted for an hour with heat vision. Surfer is arguably the most well-equipped character on this list (sans possibly Prime, your mileage may vary) to deal with that.
Hulk has a very high resistance to Heat most recent example would be him withstanding Apollo while going up Mount Olympus to face Zeus or being completely unharmed from point blank Nova blast from Human Torch.Hulk's natural durability plus ridiculous healing factor combine to place him higher on the list than you have him.
Last edited by SuperiorTech on Dec 8th, 2011 at 06:57 PM
Withdranding a warp core bomb point blank in the face. Withstanding Ghost Riders hellfire along with human torch going nova. Smiling during entering reentry. The list goes on. WWH was never impacted by heat.