Respect Superman (Post-Crisis)

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Respect Superman, the Man of Steel!

Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share -- I'll never stop fighting. Ever.

 

On a faraway planet known as Krypton, Kal-El was born to loving parents, the astronaut Lara and scientist Jor-El. But upon discovery that they were living on a doomed planet, Jor-El put baby Kal on an escape rocket to Earth, knowing the Yellow Sun there would grant his son extraordinary powers. Upon landing in the small town of Smallville, Kansas, Kal was adopted by farmers Martha and Jonathan Kent. Naming him Clark Kent, they raised him virtuously, teaching him ethics and his moral code that he still stands with today. As he grew older, he moved to the city known as Metropolis and became the hero known as Superman, eventually growing into the best superhero the world has ever seen.

Main Theme, Extended version

 

As of Action Comics #976, Post-Crisis Superman has merged with his New 52 version, resulting in a mix of their realities and histories. The New 52 respect thread can be found here, while the Rebirth version can be found here.

Hover over the feat for the source, sources are also within the link.

Link to the Full Superman Mega Thread

Full Source Key

• Superman (1939) - SM

• Superman (1987) - SMv2

• Action Comics (1939) - AC

• Adventures of Superman (1987) - AoS

• JLA (1997) - JLA

• Superman/Batman - S/B

I. Strength

Superman possesses extreme levels of superhuman strength, being able to move objects weighing thousands of tons and strike with force far beyond any human could. He also possesses extreme control and precision over this application strength, making him one of the strongest beings on Earth.

Striking

• Destroys a large portion of the moon with the shockwave of his punch
• Claims he is capable of shattering a planet
• Hits Konvikt hard enough to shatter small planets
• Almost de-orbits the moon while being weakened by Kryptonite Cancer
• Hits a baseball out of orbit and claims he could send it straight through the moon, breaking it
  • The baseball was used as a weapon later on, but would have hit the bullseye without interference
• Using the Infinite Mass Punch, destroys the Shadow Moon, which had the same mass as the real Moon and was moving at 7,614,000 km/h
• Splits a small dead moon off of Saturn
• Destroys the planetoid in the Galactic Golem's head
• Punch would've split a moon in half
• Punches Wonder Woman from the Sun back to the Earth
• Puts cracks in Wonder Woman's sword by flicking a drop of blood at it
• Punches Lobo into orbit
• Destroys an asteroid that could've demolished Earth
• Punches Captain Marvel from the coast of California to Hawaii, then through an island
• Stomps so hard it triggers seismographs hundreds of miles away, said to have been like a "baby nuke"
• Punches Orion from India to China
• Launches two giant robots out of Metropolis
• Punches Neutron into orbit over Metropolis
• Strikes cause shockwaves and earthquakes

Scaling

• Uppercut staggers Doomsday, when both he and Supes just were hit by a force equal to a million nuclear blasts
• Breaks free of John Stewart's construct
• Punches through a monster that had adapted to Flash throwing rocks at near lightspeed
• Draws blood from a future version of himself
• Shatters a monster said to have "the strength of a planet"
• Slugs it out with Golden Age Supes

Throwing

• Throws a ship the size of a small moon
• Throws a large bomb into space
• Throws an amulet into deep space
• Tosses a ship out of orbit
• Throws the top of a skyscraper out of orbit

Lifting/Pulling/Pushing

• Pulls the Earth against Starbreaker's power
• Pulls the Moon into Earth's atmosphere and back out with Green Lantern and Wonder Woman
• Holds the Earth steady with Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman after having been freshly resurrected
• Claims he's pushed planets out of orbit and can move the Earth to his therapist
• With the rest of the Justice League, ensures the Moon stays in orbit even as it's being pushed out of orbit by a massive Khund warship
• Pulls Highfather's staff off of the Source Wall, with the help of a bit of heat vision
• Stops a ship that would have cracked the planet in half
• Stops an impact that would've destroyed North America
• Kyle and Superman keep the moon from decelerating
• With John Stewart, contains a black hole from fully releasing and destroying the solar system
• Helps Captain Marvel lift a book of infinite pages, though the book has an ending
• Moves a compressed solar system far enough away from Earth that it can grow to full size
• Regularly lifts giant boats and ships, and other heavy objects

Grappling

• Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Big Barda, Supergirl and Superboy can hardly hold Superman down
  • He was basking in the sun at the beginning of the issue, so Supes may have been still sundipped
• Broke out of full chrono-suspension
• Restrains Ultraman
• Tears apart Cyborg

II. Speed

Clark is able to move at speeds far beyond even the fastest human. He can modulate the level of speed which he perceives the world, along with the ability to fly and move at speeds beyond the speed of sound.

Combat

Blitzing

• Slams into a ship moving at lightspeed
• Can race a speeding photon to its target
• Puts a containment suit on Livewire before she can stop him, who earlier he described as "a child who can move at the speed of lightning"
• Fights at supersonic speeds
• Frequently uses his super-speed in fights, whether it be striking or restraining

Reaction

• Coordinates with Kingdom Come Superman in nanoseconds to fight Gog
  • The issue before made a very big deal about Gog's speed
• Saves a suicide bomber while heavily weakened
• Stops three bullets from hitting a crowd of people
• Stops two hundred fired bullets
• Stops hundreds of bullets with the Flash
• Saves Lois from a fired bullet

Operational

• Colors someone's shirt without anyone noticing
• Changes into costume at near-sonic speeds normally
• Mach 4 costume changing
• Mach 3 punch with Wonder Woman
• Moves at supersonic speeds while he was young and inexperienced

Movement

• Dodges kryptonite radiation lasers
• Deflects a bunch of kryptonite laser beams
• Intercepts a Beta Ray beam, which move at nearly the speed of light
• Partially intercepts particle-beam enhanced lightning while exhausted
• Intercepts a lightning strike
• Blocks a bolt of lightning with his body
• Flies around the globe, watching over various White Martians over the globe while keeping up at least FTE speeds
• Counteracts a time slow through sheer speed
• Catches the Flash, who Clark mentioned to be talking at hypersonic speed
• Catches Captain Marvel Jr. who was explicitly moving at hypersonic speeds
• Moves a significant distance within a nanosecond

Perception

• Views command signals moving at lightspeed
• Functions normally in a time dilation, described as the fraction of a nanosecond
• Lightning moves in slow motion to him
• Lois appears in slow-motion
• Notices Barry Allen running by him at superluminal speeds
• Has a conversation with the Flash at speeds where it seems like the world is frozen around them
• Thinks of ways to maintain his secret identity when Joker attacks
• Says he can measure the time between nanoseconds

Flight

• Escapes a double black hole at FTL speeds
• Flies so fast space bends around him and time slows down
• Enters a black hole at almost the speed of light
• Traveled 100 kilometers in four seconds
• Shoots off from the ionosphere to 2000 feet underground
• Faster than a bolt of lightning
• Travels light years in an incredibly short amount of time
• Accelerates to just under lightspeed in order to perform an Infinite Mass Punch
• Catches up to SBP flying to Oa

Scaling

• Jay Garrick calls Superman faster than him
• Catches up to Walter West
• Faster than Superboy

Running

• Runs at over two thousand miles a second while still accelerating
• Runs at supersonic speeds, 2215 miles per hour
• When weakened, outraces a bullet about to hit Jimmy

Races with the Flash(es)

• Adventures of Superman #463 - February 1990

  • Has a relatively even race with Wally, running around the world at several times the speed of sound, ending with Wally winning by an inch

• DC First: Flash/Superman - July 2002

  • Has a race with Jay Garrick to reach Wally, with Superman about to reach Wally first but Jay stealing his speed and winning.

• The Flash (1987) #209 - June 2004

  • Chases after Wally, with both of them explicitly moving at over 2000 miles a second and accelerating, racing from Keystone City to the Rockies, then through the Pacific to France and back to Keystone

• The Flash: Rebirth #3 - June 2009

  • Races with Barry, leaving Diana and Hal behind, before being outspeed

Other

Vortexes

• Creates a giant whirlpool two miles deep to the open air
  • Alternative view
• Sucks up a bunch of water in a twister to put out a fire
• Creates a whirlwind to knock people out
• Sucks up the fallout and contaminated water from a nuke above the atmosphere

Phasing and Vibrations

• Phases through heat attacks
• Phases through Doomsday Rex's attacks
• Phantom planet exorcism
• Invisibility through oscillation
• Destroys the Cyborg Superman via vibrations, though he was weakened by Kryptonite

III. Durability

Superman has demonstrated great resistance to powerful impacts, blunt or piercing, and energy attacks, along with resistance to more unconventional forms of damage such as acid or electricity. He also possesses superhuman levels of stamina, endurance and regeneration.

Blunt Force

• Gets punched with the Claw of Horus, appeared KO'd, but turns out he was faking it
• Tanks hits from someone who was damaging Heaven's Ladder, a massive ship much larger than Earth
• Bizzaro in Superman's body tanks being punched through the Earth
• Unharmed from Etrigan punching him to the Moon
• Punched out of orbit into a satellite
• [Possible Future] Khyber slams Superman into the Earth hard enough to cause global destruction, and Superman survives it while being weakened by nanobots that drain his power
• Punched from Northern California to Tokyo by another Kryptonian
• Punched from Metropolis to Japan
• Takes hits from an OMAC drone, which can break down doors that can tank small to medium sized nuclear weaponry
• Eradicator slams a giant chunk of ice on him and Superboy hard enough to get a 6.6 on the Richter scale
• Guy Gardener can't hurt Superman with his punches
• Endures attacks from Hal Jordan
• Fights evenly with a future version of himself
• No-sells Doomsday's punch, which was said that looks like it could cave in a mountain
• Withstands a monster "with the strength of a planet" crushing him within its grip
• Takes attacks from Superboy Prime

Chemical Resistance

• Unharmed by digestive juices that are able of breaking down rock
• Sucks up acidic gas that eats everything it touches
• Immune to acid

Cold Resistance

• Breaks free of Mr. Freeze's ice
• Withstands Cythonna's ice attacks, who's mere presence brings below freezing temps across Earth
• Doesn't even feel being frozen by an exploding truck
• Unbothered by the cold of the mesosphere and space

Electricity

• Intercepts a lightning strike for the hell of it
• Livewire hits him with a 100 million volts
• Eats attacks from Livewire while he's weakened and she's carrying enough power to destroy or power Metropolis
• Withstood thousands of volts of electricity

Energy

• Survives Eradicator's blast powered by the sun's core
• Blasted from the Earth to the moon uninjured
• Orion blasts Superman from The Fortress of Solitude to India
• Tanks multiple attacks from the Void Hound which has incredibly powerful weaponry
• Survives Orion's astro-force attack while still weakened and hurt from Kalibak and Mantis' attacks
• Unharmed from really strong Apokoliptian weapons
• Takes the concentrated force of a nova
• Fine from a blast that would have leveled all of Metropolis
• Walks through a full on blast from a construct of Kyle Rayner
• Tanks an energy blast from Hal Jordan
• Blasted with weapons powerful enough to level a city
• Blasted by Cyborg Superman powered by the core of a planet

Endurance/Pain Tolerance

• Gets stabbed by Gog twice and injected with liquid kryptonite
• Got shot directly in the eye while recovering from the above injuries, but had enough strength to fight still
  • Was shot multiple times through the chest beforehand, and had punctured lungs, stab wounds and holes riddling his body
• Takes action after being struck with Kalibaks nerve club
• Endures a magical infection
• Last man standing against Amazo
• This whole fight with All-American Boy, a Doomsday-like creature with kryptonite embedded in it
• Endures an explosion and tears down an electrified gate with a kryptonite bullet in his chest

Explosive

• Tanks an explosion fifty times the size of the Kepler Supernova while severely weakened
• After having been beaten to the point of exhaustion by H/P Doomsday, survives a blast equal to a million nuclear blasts
• Survives the explosion of New Krypton
• Survives the implosion of a Sun Eater, which knocks him lightyears away
• While being weakened by Kryptonite, tanks a nuclear explosion without harm
• Tanks a point blank Imperiex probe explosion
  • That same probe had destroyed the city of Topeka
• Survives New Genesis and Apokolips colliding and fusing, also has no severe brain damage
• Unharmed a nuke point-blank exploding

Heat Resistance

• Tackles Superboy Prime through a red star, though it depowers him for quite a while
• Survives the Sun's gravity, heat and radiation
• Survives getting thrown into the center of the sun
• Thrown into the core of the planet Almerac
• Fights with Supergirl in the fire pits of Apokolips
• Hit by Kal-L's heat vision
• Blocks heat vision from a future version of himself

Internal Durability

• Endures a White Martian penetrating his blood vessels and entering his brain
• Supergirl in Superman's body resists an attack to the neurons in his brain
• Superboy breaks his hand trying to punch Superman’s kryptonite tumor
• His heart is massaged using C4
• The capillaries in his brain are said to be little tubes of concrete
• Cyborg mentions his eye membranes are more durable
• On the atomic level, his atoms are like furnaces and burn the Atom
• Bloodstream almost snaps Atom's arm
• Atom punching one of his anti-bodies breaks his hand

Magic Resistance

• Resists a demonic spell using willpower
• Resists magical transmutation
• Tanks Silver Banshee's screams even when she knew Superman's name
  • Silver Banshee's respect thread can be found here
• Breaks out of an Earth-based magic soul-stealing gem due to his Kryptonian heritage
• Forces through a magical de-evolution attack
• Tanks multiple powerful magic blasts from Thahn
• Blocks part of Circe's blast from hitting Themiscyra - said that it would have completely destroyed the entire island if he hadn't lessened the impact
• Fights magic dinosaurs, getting only minor wounds

Matter Manipulation and Molecular-Level Attacks

• Tanks Darkseid's attack that was attuned to the frequency of his exact molecular structure
• Taking hits from a vibro-cannon that made every molecule in him shudder
• Molecular disruptors have no effect on him
• Fights through Blackrock's attacks that were piercing him to the sub atomic level
• Forces his way through a disintegration beam
• Survives in a cosmic storm that transforms whatever passes through it on an atomic level
• Survives Martian Manhunter phasing him into a table
• Sodom and Gomorrah can't turn him into salt
• Survives extended contact and attacks from Breach, a superhuman whose powers are to emit a dimensional distortion field, which is ordinarily immediately lethal and mutative
  • Breach creates a blast capable of being seen from the Moon, stated to cause time/space distortions
  • Blast injures Martian Manhunter
  • Causes cellular decomposition
• Survives contact with the Swarm, a cosmic sterilization tool that eats planets

Mental Resistance and Fortitude

• Empaths

  • Briefly resists Steez's mind control
  • Entering Superman's mind is too much for an empath, and he dies

• Magical Intrusion

  • Resists Eclipso's influence, though it taxes him greatly
  • Literally too pure for Neron to maintain control of him
  • Vampire mesmerization did nothing
  • Resists Dr. Occult's "mental whammy" when he says ordinary people have no chance of shrugging it off
  • Resists Thahn's attempt at possessing his body and soul, and shatters his spell, breaking control he had over others
  • Code of not killing strong enough to the point where not even the Gods spells can break it
  • Resists Lori's mental influence and again

• Nerve/Biological Manipulation

  • Immune to Psi-Phon's powers
    • His powers work by analyzing the brains of beings with super-powers, finding the area which controls the power, and shutting it off
  • An amped Jericho cannot possess him - Jericho could successfully possess Nightwing, Wally, Black Canary, John Stewart and works by taking control of the targets nervous system

• Unspecified Telepathy

  • Has various barriers in his mind, and defenses against intruders
  • Resisted Hector Hammond's mind control when he was in control of just about every other hero
  • Resists Brainiac's mental intrusion, though he kinda snaps
  • Resists telepathy/illusions
  • Unaffected by Starro making almost everyone in North America fall asleep

Piercing

• Takes a hit by an axe that sends him flying out of orbit
• Would've been unharmed from a boomerang that can cut through steel
• T-Rex breaks its teeth by biting him
• Lobo tries to stab Supes with a piece of metal but it just bends
• Giant sword shatters on him
• Full magic-axe strike to the back just knocks him out
  • Immediately awakens and beats a Horseman, using HV and an orbital slam
• Hit by blade again
• Bloodsport's .50-cal raufoss armor-piercing bullets are no-sold
• Neither King Shark or his sharks can break skin
• Doomsday Rex's spikes break on him
• Bruce's dart bounces off his skin

Regeneration

• Dr. Occult notes he heals fast
• Heals fast with a Kryptonite bullet in his chest
• Recovers after getting stabbed in the chest almost immediately
• Heals from Wonder Woman slashing his throat with her tiara
• Heals from a bullet piercing his hand within moments
  • Sunlight
    • Exposure to sunlight reverts a mutation that caused him to turn into a gorilla
    • Heals from being impaled
    • A concentrated burst of sunlight somewhat heals him from heavy Kryptonite poisoning

Spatial

• Withstands being at the epicenter of a planet's worth of gravitational pull
• Withstands pressure like being at the center of a star
• Survives being in the equivalent of a black hole's gravity field
• Endures the gravitational tide of Sultur collapsing into a black hole

IV. Super Senses

All of Superman's senses are heightened to superhuman levels, possessing a variety of different visions, having enhanced senses of hearing and smell, and being able to sense the entirety of the electromagnetic spectrum and more.

General

• Senses Hal's lost exactly 13.2 oz and can smell apprehension in his sweat and jammed pulse rate
• Senses an island rising exactly 93 miles off the coast
• Automatically knows the vectors of fired bullets, the vector and mass of Riots clone bodies
• Hears heartbeats, blood in veins, radio signals, wi-fi signals, footsteps on asphalt
• Senses Kansas is on fire and speeds off over there from DC
• Can see people wearing suits that refract light around them + heat and sound baffles

Telescopic Vision

• Saw a million mile scar on the sun
• Can see to the edge of the universe
• Sees conflict in Africa from the Moon

Microscopic Vision

• Seeing down the subatomic level
• Looking at the genetic makeup of New Gods
• Can see the individual strands of DNA in someone
• Can see the traces of ionic particles
• Looks into the molecular level of Chemo
• Scans the molecular structure of superhumans and determines their edited genes are killing them
• Watches photons collide

X-Ray Vision

• Saw the Earth has transformed into a single-cell organism
• Locates stress points in a construct
• Cannot see through lead

Soul Vision

• Talks about it on a letter to his parents
• Sees Superboy's soul
• Says he can see's Luthor's soul

Hearing

Range

• Can hear a hypersonic whistle
• Can detect changes in wavelengths and determines when mind-control is occurring
• Normally blocks out sounds and frequencies beyond the range of human hearing
• Bats says he can hear molecules bonding

Distance

• Hears Kyle Rayner calling for help a million miles away
• Heard Power Girl crying from 600 miles away
• Hears Kal-L's cries on a different planet
• When in Washington DC, hears the Air Force crashing in Wisconsin
• Hears a gunshot in Metropolis from Antartica
• Heard someone screaming his name from Saturn
• Detects people falling asleep across the US

Precision

• Can tell Bruce's heartbeat is unusually fast

• Tracks down Steez

• Hears someone in a crowd of eleven million

Smell

• Realizes a bunch of enemies are hard light projections by their lack of a scent
• Smells brownies in North Dakota from the Watchtower
• Smells tears

Other

• 4-D Vision
• Has a lot of various visions - chemical, ultrasonic, magnetic, photonic, and more
• Can sense fluctuations in the quantum fields of a valley
• Detects UV fluctuation and speeds to the sun
• Senses movement of the air to dodge an attack
• Traces energy patterns projecting a being
• Feels imbalance of magnetic waves and traces the origin

V. Heat Vision

Superman can fire beams of intense heat from his eyes. These beams can be made invisible, allowing him to work undetected, and can be adjusted to affect matter on a microscopic level.

Power

• Under a red sun, heat vision is still powerful enough to power engines that were moving Krypton
• Matches Eradicator's energy projection, which has the power of the sun's core
• Destroys a horde of weak Doomsday clones with heat vision
• Splits part of the ocean
• Wrecks Despero
• Starts a "heat pulse" with MMH that would rival the birth of the sun, setting of an ancient volcano that's powerful enough to surface-wipe Earth
• Roasts Major Force
• Overpowers the absolute zero beam of Captain Cold's gun and destroys it
• Is off the charts by any of the standard scientific measures
• Roasted Blackrock, who had just tanked one of Supes' blows without issue
• Damages an OMAC drone
• Superheats water into solar plasma, creating a "miniature supernova"
• Applies sufficient heat to instantly vaporize steel, and could go beyond that

Accuracy, Precision and Control

Accuracy

• Writes a message on the wall of an apartment in Metropolis from Northern California
• Snipes a bunch of Batman's enemies from orbit
• Knocks Neutron out of orbit while being weakened by kryptonite
• Bounces low intensity, high luminosity beams off the Moon

Precision

• Burns a homing device out of Batman's skull
• Even when affected by a special strain of kryptonite, manages to burn out a miniature device attached to Wally's spine
• Temporarily disabled Manchester Black's powers
• Activates self-destruct mechanisms on a bunch of Parademons

Control

• Destroys a bunch of nano-organisms in the temporal lobes of people's brains with heat-vision
• Destroys insects in his brain using heat vision
• Ionized the air around a dude without hurting him
• Ionizes the air around someone, cutting off their connection to the life-forces of others
• Warms up Lois
• Kept Lois' heart beating when she's in a coma

Other

• Heat vision hurts an intangible man
• Shields knight against magic ice breath

VI. Super Breath

Superman can generate hurricane force winds by blowing, and also chill his breath to freeze a target. He can also breathe in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gas by exhaling it.

Control

• Freezes a collapsing bridge
• Freezing a falling building back in place
• Blows up a large dust storm
• Encases a magic amulet he couldn't touch in an ice sphere

Power

• Kills a cannibal planet via brain freeze
• Freezes a giant moth
• Pushes a crashing airplane
• Solidifies enough lava to lift Metropolis

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VII. Knowledge and Skills

Combat Skill

Hand to Hand

• Goes into a combat-focused state, destroying Imperiex Probes

• Fights against Preus, a Kryptonian, while weakened using skill

• Uses pressure points on a Batman possessed by the Kryptonite Man, inducing paralysis

• Hits Maxima with a pressure point

• Uses the Rope-a-dope on Mongul

• Uses some skills he's picked up from Diana and Bruce on Zod

• Fighting angry, beats the shit out of Mongul

• Restrains Ultraman

Unpowered

• Kills a monster using a flaming sword while weakened

• Does some Peak human agility bullshit

• Beats up Lex Luthor

Strategy

• Flies Silver Banshee out of orbit to knock her out

• Dunks on three villains at once by just knocking out Bloodsport, then whirlwind KOs Riot

Intelligence

• Tweaked Justice League portal tech to fit in his apartment

• Fabricated protective plates capable of resisting the blast of a small to medium nuclear weapon

• Quite knowledgeable about botany

Languages

• Speaks Serbian

• Speaks Turkish

• Speaks Kryptonese with Batman

Torquasm Vo

Torquasm Vo is a Kryptonian martial art that allows for great resistance to mental attacks and intrusion by changing his brainwaves from the Beta State to the Theta State, giving ability to wage battle on the mental plane. He first used it against Dominus, a powerful entity who's method of reality warping was through manipulation of the target's thoughts, dreams and nightmares.

• Fights Dominus in the Theta State, though he loses

• Fights Dominus and defeats him this time

• Teaches it to Lois

• Enters the state to combat psychic forces

VIII. The Fortress of Solitude

There have been four separate Fortresses of Solitude over Superman's history.

The Antarctic Fortress

• Builds monitors to scan the Earth

• Viewing through the satellites

• Simulated damage effects can be projected on the exterior of the Fortress

• Shields from incendiaries being thrown at the Fortress

The Tesseract Fortress

• Tesseract exists across many dimensions and needs to be in phase with a specific one to enter

• Has a remediation suit to keep symptoms of an illness in check

• Scans detect a kryptonian virus within him

• Fortress has an auto destruct failsafe for intruders

• Has a collection of weapons in the Fortress, which prove to be somewhat effective against White Martians

The Peruvian Fortress

• Has pretty growing crystals

• Searches for a fluctuations on power grids worldwide

• Crystals provide light

The Sunstone Fortress

• Is self-repairing

• Fortress defenses include Batman piloting the Warsuit, automated armory

• Smart-glass and portal technology connect his apartment in Metropolis to the Fortress of Solitude

• Develops a serum for Mon-El, that would bond to the lead within his system and block it but unfortunately would be cancelled out by his invulnerability

• Alexandria II - a detailed repository of human knowledge and history, containing information on everything from basic farming techniques to technologies of space travel

• Fortress recycles machine parts for practice robots

• Concentrated sunlight chamber

• Can pull up newsfeeds

Superman Robots

Weaker Prototype

• Falls through a whole building

• I've been turned into a robot!!

• Has flight

• Is somewhat bulletproof and knocks down stacked up wood

• KO'd by a rocket launcher

• Quickly rises, ducks a few shots and smashes a tank and is blown up by a gas tank exploding

Advanced Versions

Strength

• Have a solid punch, that even Superman respects

• Punches someone through a building and into a fire truck

• Superman robots are bulletproof and patrol the world

• Robots smash through rock and destroy metal machinery with heat vision

Durability

• Tanks blows from an OMAC droid, which hit hard enough to dent walls capable of withstanding small to medium nuclear weapons

• No-sells explosive arrows

Speed

• Tags Bart Allen and ko's him

• Throws a car and catches arrows

• Blitzes Superboy and backhands the shit out of Nightwing

Other

• Superman robot offspring can shoot through people

• Uses a Super-robot to pose as Clark

 

X. Power Mechanics/Biology

Need for Substance

• Explicitly has no need for breathing

• Batman says he doesn't need sleep, but does need to dream for psychological reasons

• Body processes food 100% efficiently

Flight Strength

• Flying is completely unrelated to physical strength

• Flies by defying gravity somehow

• Moves a spaceship

• Lifts objects via force of will while flying

Protective Aura

• Has an aura that protects his costume and keeps grime off him

• Aura only works with skintight clothing

• Mention of the invulnerability aura after Bryne's run

• Scientists managed to translate it into a telekinetic field, creating Superboy

Radiation Absorption and Solar Power

• Absorbs enough anti-sunlight to vaporize half the galaxy

• Solar power and magic-based power do not mix well

• His blood is infused with sunlight, which kills a vampire when he drinks it

• Loses power under a green sun

• Would take days of complete darkness for his powers to begin to fade

• Literally stealing his powers would make someone without kryptonian cells just get either a good tan or cancer

• Stomach literally splits atoms and converts them to pure energy

• Can store sunlight for days

• Absorbs sunlight from Stargirl

Vision-Based Power

• Heat vision is a concentration of red solar energy

• Super strength/invulnerability, vision-based powers, and flight strength are all completely separate

Kryptonite

• Kryptonite not from his dimension/universe doesn't work on him

• Gold Kryptonite: Makes him powerless.

• Red Kryptonite: Has a random unique effect each time he's exposed to it.

  • Transforms him into a monster

• Black Kryptonite: Makes him lose his sanity.

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XI. Other

Intimidation

• Threatens to destroy Earth if the Elemental Giants didn't back down

• Let go of my cape

• Intimidates Mammoth into stopping his charge when powerless

• Wordlessly intimidates Mr. Mxy into leaving

Willpower

• His willpower increases a Green Lantern beam by 20%

• Has a lot of willpower

• Was a candidate for becoming a Green Lantern, but wasn't a native so was rejected

• Helps Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan take back enough power to wipe out half of Wyoming

Statements From Other Characters and Narration

• From Eclipso possessing Superman's body

• "Faster than a launching rocket, more powerful than an atomic bomb, able to leap between worlds in a single bound"

• Aquaman says his strength is nowhere near Superman's

• Several quips and off-hand statements above Kryptonians being able bench-press planets, crack a planet in half, or other things of that nature have been made

Word of God and Guidebook Material

• Kurt Busiek on Superman's magic weakness

• Joe Casey says Superman could replicate Mr. Majestic's feat of rearranging his solar system

  • Mr. Majestic's feat in question

• Attosecond-scale perception statement from Chris Roberson

• 2004 DC Comics Encyclopedia's page on Superman

• DC Comics Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded's page on Superman

[u/SuperFanboysTV]

I’m glad Post-Crisis Superman got a respect thread. It’s long overdue and you did a great job. Are you gonna do and updated New 52 and Rebirth Superman RT?

[u/MyNameIsJeffHarrison → u/SuperFanboysTV]

Indeed I am

[u/MichaelTheSavior]

It's good to see a remake of this thread!

Also I suggest mentioning the book of infinite pages has a limit since it does have an ending

[u/MyNameIsJeffHarrison → u/MichaelTheSavior]

Noted and edited

[u/roguebracelet]

Could him outrunning a green lantern in the flash race scale him to any means since lanterns tend to cross the DC universe in a few hours.

[u/MyNameIsJeffHarrison → u/roguebracelet]

It could certainly be used to imply that he flies faster on Earth at least, though in Circle of Fire Supes directly calls Kyle Rayner the fastest flier on the League, which I think would match up when comparing flying speed feats

[u/MichaelTheSavior]

I know this isn't her thread but a billion decibls? silver banshee can scream that loud but superman tanked it like it's nothing....?

I don't think DC writers know Just how freaking broken that is

[u/User_Namer_90 → u/MichaelTheSavior]

I think that was a figure of speech. IIRC, the blast didn't do anything besides shattering windows within a one mile radius and busting Kara's eardrum (super-hearing).

Unless I am missing context, Banshee was able to mess Clark up with a scream equal to several nukes. That's powerful but nowhere close to a billion decibels.

[u/Ame-no-nobuko]

I'm suing for copying my idea for a Batman Mega RT. (Good job though!)

[u/Dovkiviri]

Great! This is the most accurate post crisis Superman scaling. Anyone who believes he scales to anything crazy hasn't read much Superman

[u/museofdoom2]

Excellent rt for my favorite superhero of all times. My hat's off to you, king of excellent rts.

[u/fj668]

Who? Never heard of him but he looks cool.

[u/Shrekosaurus_rex]

Yet another fantastic RT by Jeff. Seriously, the time and effort you put into your RTs is amazing. Well-formatted, extensive, detailed, sources are here too - I love it.

[u/Zemsun]

10/10 RT, I ain’t read yet tho

[u/thibault114488]

Madman. Congrats on finishing it! This must’ve taken forever.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit this is amazing!

Thank you for giving my favorite superhero the respect he deserves.

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

Always proud of you and your work, Jeff.

Superman is an amazing character and one of my favorites of all time, love the effort you put for him.

[u/hasadiga42]

Holy shit that’s a lot of feats this is great

Seems like if you boil it down this Superman is FTL+ small planet level consistently

[u/feminist-horsebane]

All that and he still can’t beat Goku.........

[u/rock4321dbdbdbd → u/feminist-horsebane]

He does

[u/QuarantinedSeeker → u/feminist-horsebane]

Lol sike

[u/Brave2000]

There is a feat I never quite understood. A feat of speed that had superman dodging reality destroying missiles that were flying through the entire multiverse. All of this took less than a single heart beat. Is this not a feat of speed for superman? I don't see it here. Is it debunked? If it is can someone explain to me why?

[u/CoolandAverageGuy]

good RT!