He basically has powers similar to Supes. He has shown extreme speed, able to causr Sonic Booms easily(while drunk), his strength is enough to throw a child thousands of feet in the air and catch her before she lands, he grabbed a whale by the tail and easily chucked it back into water, a missile heading for his was singlehandedly pushed out of the way and into a car. His durability is at least on the level to take explosions without real injury.
I'm really waiting for the movie. The trailers look pretty good.
As for the powers question, I would say that his powers are analogous to those of Superman, but more akin to the physical manifestation of the powers of (say) Captain Marvel/Black Adam.
After all, he has super strength, super-speed and durability. Like Cap Marvel.
But he does not have (at least based on the preview) heat vision and other forms of vision (e.g. x-ray, although by how he looks up at the kid he threw he might have telecospic vision), ice breath, etc.
So he may be more akin to Captain Marvel/Black Adam rather than a true and proper Kryptonian/Daxamite (who have additional powers). Thus he seems to be more of a Shazam-power user, but without the magic component (although, again, this is simply based on the movie trailer).
Either way, he appears quite cool.
In terms of feats .....even movie Hulk (who was quite weak) can shrug off a small missile (like the one in Hancock), should be able to toss a whale (maybe not as far, based on the distance he tossed the tank in the Hulk movie, but he should still be able to toss the whale), can easily smash vehicles (and as mentioned, he did mash up a tank pretty well), and would certainly be able to toss a kid way up into the air. And that is movie Hulk (the first movie), who was not exactly the 'strongest there is.'
Routh Superman, based on movie continuity, is the Reeves Superman once he returns from space. Reeves Superman was at pre-crisis levels (including that whole time-reversal thing). Although, even if we ignore pre-Routh movies, even in the recent SM movie the guy was basically lifting a land mass (be it a large island, or a small continent ....fact is it was a large land mass that was partially kryptonite tinged). That is a feat to be proud of.
While the judgement is out on Hancock (movie about to come out), and the NEW Hulk (had to use the first Hulk movie), so far the winner has to be the Routh Superman. Even without the Reeves feats, the Routh feats alone are at the top-most echelon of movie character feats (that is, if we ignore Reeves feats, and anyways per movie continuity it is the SAME Superman, just different actors).
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Someone please explain to me how the hell, he was able to throw a continent, made of kryptonite while having part of a kryptonite crystal still lodged in his side, into outer space like 10 minutes after getting a beat down form 3 normal humans while just standing on it?
Also how did he not feel form like a mile away that he was about to step onto a kryptonite continent?
And how are any of us anywhere near qualified enough right now to compare Hancock to anyone yet?
Who has any idea what he's truly capable of or how limited he really is unless you've managed to see a screening preview specially.
Agreed based on what I've seen so far.
Definitely looks like it's a much much more interesting and incredibly more realistic superman that I could actually appreciate.
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I go with Routh. Without the limitation of kryptonite, Superman was able to move moons (from Superman IV). But Hancock is right there. He tossed a nearly 100 ton whale a long a$$ distance like it was a feather.
but an interesting memory occurred to me, this HAD to be brought up before in defense of sentry-
in superman returns kal had to catch and land a jumbo jet full of passengers right.....the directors at least payed attention to physics and aerodynamics in that scene so it would look and film right.
superman, let alone pre-crisis can obviously stop the jet with his strength/flight but at the cost of the occupants if he really gave his all, to me and others the same applies with the sentry hellicarrier incident.some posters discredited his heroic actions for weakness when the former was correct. he had displayed power that would destroy the helicarrier killing hundreds of government officials, he simply curbed his thrust as he would have punched a hole through the hull when the logical choice was to wait and allow his teammates to level and bare the structure.
idunno, i think sentry is pretty close to superman in a lot of areas and the feat in superman returns sort of reinforces that.
"The Way It Was Supposed To Be:
Superman II was to be Richard Donner's epic tale of earth's mightiest protector, and why he decided to let aliens take over the world so he could get some poontang. Superman II probably contains the first true superhero-movie brawl, a violent dust-up between Superman and General Zod that leaves the Man of Steel crushed beneath a bus.
Most of Superman II was actually shot at the same time as the original, by Donner. Donner was more of the Christopher Nolan school of superhero movies, rather than the Joel Schumacher one, meaning he didn't see the need for a lot of goofball camp in his superhero movies. He even brought on his own writer on both films to smooth out the most retarded parts of the scripts.
This all worked great, except for the fact that the producers hated Donner's guts, though probably not as much as he hated theirs. He was booted off the project with 75 percent of the film shot.
The "Improved" Version:
The studio brought in director Richard Lester to re-film much of the movie. The resulting film marks the exact moment in which a franchise that already hinged on an invulnerable man traveling through time by spinning really fast, became ridiculous.
For some reason, Lester thought it would be a good idea to splice slapstick comedy scenes that played like rejected America's Funniest Home Videos clips into the vicious superhero battle. So, when the bad guys unleash their super breath on the city, we are treated to a shot of an ice cream cone flying into a dude's face.
Lester also felt the need to give the Kryptonians a series of increasingly bizarre and useless powers. Apparently, the powers that be felt that flight, super strength, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision, ice breath, x-ray vision, time travel and super-ventriloquism weren't sufficient. In one of the most inexplicable changes to the Superman mythos, our hero is given the power to tear the insignia off of his costume and throw it at an enemy. Yes, they gave him super-logo powers.
Is it unfair to say that everything that was good about Superman II was due to Donner, and that all of the goofy parts were Lester's fault? Let's put it this way: When Lester was finally given control of an entire film from the start, he gave the world Superman III.
Where you can find the original:
In 2006, Donner re-created his film using his scrapped footage, and released it on DVD as Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut."
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