As explained in the previous pages -- Superman was split in two in order to weaken him after Flashpoint - the Superdad [operating in secret, married with Lois and having Jon as a son] and Superbro [new 52 Superman]. Following Superman: Reborn, they combined into one being with the history of both merged.
There's two time periods in which these feats take place, either at the start of his career - which will be denoted as [Year1] or around present day.
To have a few words in regards to his portrayal throughout this [relatively short] publishing period - if there's one word to describe it, at least at first, it's raw. He was action first, confident but, at the same time, inexperienced. But, as stories advanced, there was a revert to mean, and the young head-first version that was introduced morphed into a somewhat season veteran that most writers actually wanted to write -- the classic Superman. He was constantly getting stronger, breaking through whatever limits he had before, and as the threats got bigger, as with Helspont, H'El or Doomsday, he started in classic Superman fashion to understand that he needs to increase the level he operates at even further and, through training or being put into end-of-the-world doomsday scenarios, he broke through the limits of what he thought he could do.
Super-Brain
In order to counter an attack from the 5th dimension, Superman actually solves the Unified Field Theory on the spot:
Bench-presses the Earth for 5 days:
- without sunlight
- barely breaks a single drop of sweat but only because he's been away from the sun for so long
- to be tested further a pan-dimensional wormhole would need to be accessed that would suck the entire Earth inside of it
Lex detonates an EMP bomb that shuts down brains, only Superman due to his physiology and Batman due to his cowl tank it -- Bizarro, Atomic Skull, Clayface, Livewire are all KOd.
His kryptonian psychology fought off the Amazo virus with no visible effort, when he was younger 4 years ago. The same virus is killing and depowering the entire metahuman population, like Captain Marvel, Aquaman or Flash:
Darkseid is resurrected and his power is the sum of:
- the ALE [Steve w/Ale one-shotted Mobius] https://ibb.co/BCNNrMh https://ibb.co/WBSpH8N https://ibb.co/br2YB8V
- the power of the Omega Effect
- the power of the Gods (including Shazam, who had the power of Yuga Khan, H’ronmeer and a host of others).
Superman then, while his cells are dying, shields the league against Darkseid's eye beams attack without falling and then matches it momentarily with heat vision:
His raw power is so absurd, that he is more powerful than the combined power of all the other heroes -- including Krona Gauntlet Hal Jordan, Shazam, Wonde Woman, Flash, Jessica, Supergirl, Cyborg and plenty others:
The drawback of this ability is that it depowers him for 24 hours -- but this drawback has been eliminated once this version of Superman has been merged to the whole [see previous pages with Superman Reborn]
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“Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom. The freedom to leave.”
[5 years ago] Fights GL Hal Jordan and Batman
- KOs Hal with a blitz
- No sells Batman's entire utility belt
- Breaks Hal's chain construct trying to restrain him
- Ragdolls them around town
H'El
- overpowers H'el until he is distracted
- shakes the Earth's core and the Watchtower in orbit by hitting him
[also Luthor telling Superman he needs to not limit himself to fight him]
Wraith
- fights him everywhere, from Earth to Space, Wraith even resorts to using kryptonite
- he hits him through the moon
- takes him near Earth's core where Wraith's extra powers are nullified and beats him in hand to hand while extrapolating on his vast experience fighting various opponents
Orion
- starts off receiving free shots due to being telepathically altered by Hammond.
- punches Orion harder than he's ever been punched then speedblitzes him with a flurry of attacks underground, breaking his mask.
- they were hitting eachother with supersonic punches
Apollo
- gets sucker hit into Hephaestus's forge and only has his costume torn [the forge is used to create the Gods weapons]
- floors Apollo
- gets amped by a blast from Apollo and then casually overwhelms him
- it has evolved to its mature state where it's grown stronger and destroys everything around him just by his aura. Superman is the only person on the planet able to fight more than 10 minutes against him.
- Doomsday is consuming life to get bigger and stronger in preparation for Superman, the most powerful prey. Superman is the one prey he ran from because he wasn't ready to face him yet.
Energy Superman
- final fight before his 'death'. At this point, Superman is so weak he could barely stand the previous issue as is on his deathbed
- energy Superman one-shots Wonder Woman and Supergirl
- Superman ovepowers him and takes him to space, with the help of Superdad [see previous pages], far enough for his solar flare to negate his power detonation
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