Superman vs. Team-Invincible (Stacking Gauntlet)...
Scenario #1: Round 1: Superman vs. Invincible Round 2: Superman vs. Invincible+Omni-Man Round 3: Superman vs. Invincible+Omni-Man+Conquest Round 4: Superman vs. Invincible+Omni-Man+Conquest+Battle Beast Round 5: Superman vs. Invincible+Omni-Man+Conquest+Battle Beast+Thragg
Scenario #2:
Same combatants. The only difference is that Thragg is Superman's first opponent.
Stips:
-DCnU Superman.
-Fight takes place on, and is confined to, earth.
-Assume the teams function well together.
-Everyone on the field fights in character.
-Combatants start each round fresh.
Supes bench pressing for 5 days weight equivalent to the entire planet seems to be superior to anything Invincible or the others have done.
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This isn't a bench-pressing contest. That said, Omni-Man, Invincible, and Conquest are each around Supreme-level. Thragg and Battle Beast are both FAR beyond that.
I never said it was a bench pressing contest. That was called me giving an example of the kind of strength Superman has. You know, the whole "feats" thing.
Please don't cite Supreme fights, as Supreme is all over the place. His sister once basically moved the universe for christs sake. Show me strength feats on the level of what I posted for Superman. I know it took at least 3 people to even fly through a planet to destroy it, and even then they also had some help from that space laser thingy(unless I'm forgetting something).
Also could of sworn I remember Invincible being able to draw blood from Thragg via his hits.
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...Yet I mention the Supreme fight(you know, the whole "feats" thing), and you swiftly dismiss it, lol?
Double-standard, much?
This was the villain archetype version of Supreme, specifically--as made clear in the issues themselves.
Yep, Invincible's all-out punches drew a trickle of blood. However, Thragg allowed said punches to make contact. He wanted Invincible to realize how inferior he was before being effortlessly stomped--a stompage that rendered Invincible unconscious for 2 weeks, btw. That's... Quite something, given Mark's uber HF.
Also, Invincible beat Conquest, twice. His punches obviously pack quite a wallop. Also(x2), I'm not saying any one...or two...or even three of the combatants are necessarily on par with Superman. Ergo the "stacking" nature of this thread.
Consistent feats, why does this need to be said? Supreme at the high end is so far above anything done in Invincible it is not even funny.
Whether he let himself get hit or not is irrelevant. Nu Supes is physically more powerful then Invincible. The point of bringing it up was to show he can hurt even one of the most durable people here just fine.
I know he beat Conquest, but Conquest wasn't on the level of Nu Superman.
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I told you the specific version of Supreme that Omni-Man stalemated. Are you intentionally trying to argue with me, or what?
I have no doubt that Superman's punches could injure Thragg IF he just sat there and allowed Supes to punch his face... Pretty much any sub-Skyfather would be injured under the same circumstances, actually.
Although it's worth noting that when Thragg got serious, he no-sold Invincible's punches w/o even flinching.
Conquest was still>Omni-Man, which means he was > Supreme. That considered, Invincible beating him is very impressive.
The Viltrumites are vulnerable to sonics and also not as fast, strong, versatile or durable as Clark. Battle Beast showed his mettle but will go down as well even with his and Thragg's current showings. The Viltrumites and BB only have blood soak superiority but that does not make the difference here. In a comic Superman would struggle to face against even three of these Viltrumites without weakness exploitation. In a forum fight however Clark should win all these scenarios with majorities due to being significantly enhanced versions of all the opposing contestants in tandem. This all being said Invincible is an example of what a type of quasi realistic/dystopic superman character driven story is done right and what comics in general should strive to be.
Here's what Kirkman himself had to say about the Nolan/Supreme encounter, as well as inter-company interactions in general: (please log in to view the image)
So yeah, the Supreme crossover is definitely canon.
This also helps explain why/how Invincible #60 canonically featured characters like: The Darkness, Witchblade, Pitt, Spawn, Madman, etc. etc. Hell, Mark even had a canon crossover with Spider-Man, during Marvel Team-Up #14 (2006.) The Invincible Universe has no real boundaries where crossover canonicity is concerned... Especially with haxxed characters like Angstrom Levy running around.
'Mean' Supreme was also beating the bejesus out of Suprema, until Omni-Man intervened. Additionally, he killed the villain Khromium, along with every being on his planet, after absorbing the power of some laser fire. He then proceeded to physically rip completely through the planet itself and throw Khromium into a star.
I'm not that familiar with the Supreme universe so I don't know how good a of a feat beating the Supreme family is. Although someone said earlier that one of them pushed a Universe?!?!?! Which based on what I know about the Invincible Universe characters seems weird to me any of them could be the equal of a Universe pusher.
But yeah if you rip a planet in half you are most definitely herald level.
OK, if the writer intended it to be canon, who am I to argue with?
See, that's why I'm hesitant to think Supreme vs Nolan an average for Nolan. Kirkman himself never showed Nolan to be that level to the point he can just shrug off Supreme level punches. Even noob Invincible could bloody Nolan with punches and drew blood from Thragg himself.
Basically it's a very high showing for Nolan and extrapolating entire Invincible universe on it is a mistake IMO.
He may have still been amped(by absorbing laser fire) when he did that. Depends whether or not you think he expended that extra power when he unleashed the "scorched earth" blast on Khromium's world, which was powerful enough to kill all of its inhabitants.
Supreme is amped by the laser fire in scans 1-3, impales Khromium with his fist and unleashes the planet-wide 'scorched earth' blast in scans 4-5, and then shreds through the entire planet and throws Khromium into a star in scans 6-7.
Either way, those feats aren't why I think he's herald-level.
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