Respect Superman [Complete Post-Crisis]
##"You asked me what 'being Superman' means. Being Superman doesn't mean I'm greater than anyone. But it does mean I'm better than you."
Superman, also known as Kal-El and Clark Kent, is one of the most, if not the most, famous heroes in the entirety of DC. Spearheading the superhero trope, Superman fights for Truth, Justice and for the those who cannot fight for themselves. One day, many light years away, a scientist on the planet Krypton realized his planet was going to explode. Putting his only child, Kal-El, into a rocket, he sent him off to Earth to save his life. Landing on the planet Earth, Johnathan and Martha Kent adopted young Kal-El and nurtured him to adult-hood, where he would later move to metropolis and become Superman.
Superman for a good portion of his Early Post-Crisis life was heavily nerfed, as a sort of counter to how he was in Pre-Crisis. However, upon the Death and Return of Superman, some of his mental limiters were removed and he gained even more power than before. During the arc of Our Worlds At War, Mongul II landed on Earth and told him of his self-placed limiters in his brain to make himself more human. With some training, Superman finally removed all of his mental limiters and achieved his full power as the Last Son of Krypton.
###Personality
Superman is a true hero, always fighting to do what's right and protect others, though it's a fine line he struggles with on a regular basis. Despite his boy scout appearance, Superman can be sometimes quick to anger if the situation calls for it, especially when Magic is involved, although this rarely interferes with his objective thinking. Superman is very intelligent, preferring to solve situations without too much violence, and very commonly finds a way to tailor his powers and his intellect just right to solve a situation. Although Superman shows a preference towards tanking blows, if the blow is heavy enough he won't make the same mistake twice. He is an incredible investigator, a terrific leader and an expert in hand to hand combat, having a style that directly compliments his superpowers.
###Powers
- Super Strength
- Super Speed
- Super Durability
- Invulnerability
- Solar Radiation Absorption (gains power from Yellow and even more from Blue)
- Longevity
- Super Hearing
- Super Smell
- Self-Sustenence
- Super Breath
- Sonic Scream
- Reality Warping Resistance
- Matter Manipulation Resistance
- Healing Factor
- Heat Vision
- Super Vision
- Incredible Intelligence and Brainpower
- Timeline Protection
###Feats
Strength
- Shockwaves move them clouds... So peaceful
- Pls leave Mammoth
- Lel
- Best pitcher
- Throws a bomb into space Whether or not he threw it or just moved into space is unclear. If he did move into space, this is also a durability feat, since he took something that could slice the planet in half.
- Tosses Bizarro into outer space
- Tosses Neutron into geosynchoronous orbit
- Breaks Kryptonian Kryptonite robot
- One-shot's Arion - also takes his rings of power quick fast.
- No sell disintegration beam, and hits lobo into outer space through a moon sized space ship
- Stops a an impact equivalent of 5000 megatons
- Punch would split a moon
- Possessed Superman knocks out Kyle and Batman
- Mantis and Kalibak are completely no match for Superman
- Tackles Hal Jordan There is no change in BL power levels, they're only undead with a healing factor
- Beats the shit out of Mongul II Mongul II can BFR WW after being slashed by her
- Stops WW from landing a killing blow
- Destroys a Destroyer A Destroyer is a a ship created by the Monitors meant to sterilize universes and has "reality blitzing" missiles
- Punches through monsters that adapt to any threat The monsters have previously adapted their durability to resist Flash throwing rocks at near light speed to them
- Destroys giant asteroid. IDK how big this one is, all we know is that superman can see it from earth using only x-ray vision and that it isn't in the atmosphere yet. So it should be fairly big.
- Casually destroys a meteor that would demolish the earth
- Moving the moon and burning the white martians with the league
- Tosses moon sized spaceship
- Removes Highfather's staff from the Source Wall - cited for "unimaginable strength".
- Has hit hard enough to shatter planets
- Destroy's replica planets in the void of the Galactic Golem - the Golem housed a dimension inside it inaccessable via normal means. We do not know the size of said dimension, we only know it is cited as vast, enormous and empty
- His punches are capable of shattering small planets
- Punches Wonder Woman from the sun to the earth (possible sun-amp)
- Evenly matched with Orion
- Punches Mordru 30th Century Mordru is an incredibly large threat, supposedly galactic
- Moves the earth in tandem with the league
- Moves the earth, moon and giant spaceship - there might have been some shenanigans involved here, but it's never confirmed.
- Pulls the Earth against Starbreaker
- Escapes the pull of a black hole
- Evenly matched with Captain Marvel
- Fight rocks heavens and the earth
- Holds a miniature black hole in his hands, the release of it would have, and I quote "good-bye solar system"
- Moves solar system - mass is unclear, we do know however that it was compressed since it came from a compressed universe (at least in the context of the story it makes sense), extent is unclear. The solar system later returned to it's natural universe.
- Superman IMPs the Shadow Moon While this appears to be just a moon busting feat, the amount of energy it was generating is far more, as the moon was moving at many times the speed of sound towards the Earth.
- Breaks out of being frozen in time
- Breaks through time and space and punches Death in the jaw
- Smashes Neron's endless Illusions/Realities
- Breaks Dominus' alternate realities and resists further attempts at reality warping
- Punch breaks the world and/or timelines?
- His conflict with Kal-L shatters the boundaries of space time
- Teenage Kryptonians can allegedly crack the planet in half
- Sundipped pushes against Warworld which was being powered by the Big Bang
- Lifts a book with an infinite number of pages
- Lifts the Spectre with WW, who weighs as much as eternity
Speed
- Desaad's theory on his flight Desaad is a brilliant New God scientist
Travel Speed
- 10 year old Kent was super sonic
- Goes from Orbit to 2 thousand miles underground in a short amount of time
- Faster than a lightning bolt... also kryptonite... painful
- Contains a nuke
- Makes a water vortex 2 miles deep
- Easily circles the globe
- Blitz spaceship
- Catches up to Earth 1 Superboy Clone before he breaks the time barrier
- Can go to the sun and back in less than a minute
- Circumnavigates the sun - to note this is from the time when sundipping was a no go. Superman didn't always get boosted from sundipping, in fact it was very draining on him
- Keeps up with Jay Garrick
- Breaches Darkseids singularity The Flash's needed to go faster than light to enter.
- Flies off into deep space to take out some stress
- Keeps up with Wally West
- Moves so fast even Lightray would be left behind For reference, Lightray can circle Apokolips thousands of times in a short amount of time. Apokolips is so large Earth barely displaces a lake on it.
- Flies lightyears and saves an alien
- Flies from Vega to Earth in a short amount of time
- Goes to Andromeda to help people and doesn't take 1000's of years
Combat Speed
- Colors David's shirt without him noticing
- Uses his speed to keep his secret ID
- Reads 27343 letters in 3 minutes
- BFRs Batman before he can react
- Saves lois, no RT is complete without saving Lois
- Same thing saving Jimmy since... Saving Jimmy happens at least once a month
- Cleans up the city with the Flash
- Catches falling spaceship
- Intercepts heat vision
- Flash compliments his speed
- Cited as one of the potential people faster than Jay
- Weakened by Kryptonite evades lasers
- Blitz Mongul
- Blitzes an early Monarch Early Monarch has microsecond rections
- Reacts and does something in a microsecond
- Blocks sword swings from MMH disguised as WW
- Blitz Imperiex Probe
- Blitz another Imperiex Probe
- Fighting across the globe
- Thinks faster than lightspeed - nanosecond+
- Reacts to Barry and Wally going FTL
- Detects UV fluctuation and speeds to the sun
- Blitzes Darkseid to the sun
- Blitzes Wonder Woman from earth to sun in 1 minute and 48 seconds
- Blitzes Zod and Ursa, 2 Kryptonians
- Reacts to Flash slowing down everything
- Catches Professor Zoom
- Nanosecond baby save - it was an anti-matter baby or smthn
- Can measure the time in between nanoseconds
- Keeps up with the GL Time Dilation in a fraction of a nanosecond. Important to note that the ring was trying to choose a new suitor and was giving Hal time to decide. Deadman wasnt affected because hes a ghost. Superman can just naturally react that fast.
- Moves fast enough to negate the effects of time manipulation
- Fights Superboy Prime from Earth to Oa to Krypton Oa and Krypton are MAAAANY light years away from Earth
- Accelerates his perception with Flash so that time stops around them - Author Comment on particular scene Interesting to show that the Author says Superman can see all the way down to attoseconds
Other Speed Granted Abilities
- GG Doomsday Rex
- Phases earth, saves omniverse
- Phases through Mongul and Mongal's blasts
- Can turn invisible
- Disintegration
- This might or might not be a shenanigan, but he functions properly in a place that exists for only a few nanoseconds (the robot is his future self)
Durability
- Tanks apokoliptian fire
- Cant be hurt by Booster Gold
- No sells disintegration beams
- Tanks a hit from an early Monarch
- Casually contains an Intergang bomb in his hands
- Tanks Redemption's gravity based attacks
- No sells eradicator
- Hit into outer space
- Hit into a disabled satelite
- Hit to the Moon
- Hit to the Moon again
- Tanks an entropy blast
- Withstands a wormhole
- Isnt bothered by Superboys heat vision
- No more blasting Braniac
- Punches himself through the earth
- Takes a blast from a guy who feeds off the energies of destroyed planets
- Survives a cosmic storm that mutates matter and energy
- Attacked by copy of Earth 1 Superboy, who was way stronger than him
- After having some of his power drained by the Parasite, and being further weakened by Khyber gets tossed into the earth Interesting to note how he survived depowered even though the Earth was absolutely fucked by this.
- Hit back by the Claw of Horus, which is the equivalent of being punched with a planet He was just fine afterwards. Its also notable that this is magic.
- Takes an assault from a guy who one shot Martian Manhunter
- Survives a blast from Time Trapper
- Tanks Kyle Rayner's construct
- Survives an astro force explosion that covers half of Supertown Considering how big supertown is compared to New Genesis, this is a really big explosion
- Withstands Sodom and Gamorrah's matter manipulation
- A younger Superman survives a supernova
- Withstand the pressure equivalent of a giant black hole
- Tanks a blast that de-evolutionizes the entire league
- Emperor Joker clocks him into outer space, and let's not pretend Emperor Joker wasn't powerful
- Survives sun eater's implosion. Force was powerful enough to knock him lightyears away and back in time. For reference, Sun Eater's are pretty big
- Withstands Imperiex Probe detonation Imperiex Probes carry a tiny portion of the power of Imperiex, the big bang
- Survives the after effects of a fight between two nigh-omnipotents This, once again, covered a large portion of Apokolips, speaking much about its power
- Survives attacks from the Void Hound and the Void Hound destroyed 10 star systems in one test run.
- Survives another red sun eater's detonation that was 50 times the size of the Keplar Supernova Notable that he was currently being weakened by Red Sun Radiation, which would explain why he almost died from the radiation from the Entropy bomb
- Was right in the center of and survived the collision and fusion of Apokolips and New Genesis This is really good, once again considering the size of these planets
- Absorbs enough anti sunlight that would have vaporized half a galaxy, or if you don't believe MMH, Heaven thought the threat was so high that they were planning a new universe.
- Survives the Source Wall explosion The Source Wall is a pan-dimensional wall that borders every corner of the universe and the Source. A very powerful surviving feat.
- Joins the end of the universe with a black hole as it collapses on him - he wasn't even phased because he did this right after
- Withstands Death
Kryptonite Resistance
- Still bulletproof bitch
- Smashes Luthor's robot thing
- Nuclear weapons yo
- Withstands High voltage
- Withstands Apokolips Fire
- Falls several stories
- Beat up by a Kryptonite clone of Doomsday
- Takes a full Kryptonite beating
Magic vulnerability
- His views on it
- Repeatedly attacked by Shazam
- Unfased by magical beatdown
- Hit back by the Claw of Horus, which is the equivalent of being punched with a planet He was just fine afterwards.
- Survives a blast from 30th Century Mordru
Red Sunlight
Healing Factor
- Would heal faster than Batman can remove the bullet
- Heals with only a little bit of sunlight
- Heals from his throat being slashed open by WW
Other
Heat Vision
Scope & Accuracy
- Backwards heat vision
- Extremely Accurate
- Absolutely Accurate
- Shoots it past the moon from Earth
- Has complete control over it
- Can hits ghosts with it
- Bounces low intensity, high luminosity beams to blind people
- Makes a sort of electromagnetic pulse with microwaves
- Ionizes the air
- Activates self destruct on parademons
- Zaps a microscopic homing device out of Batmans skull
- Completely stops Manchester Blacks powers by micro-heat visioning his brain His famous lobotomy feat
- Heat vision works on a molecular level
- Repairs tears in reality
Power
- Vaporizes Doomsday clones
- Defeats an OMAC
- Defeats Blackrock
- Melts Major Force
- Heats up the earth
- Off the charts by any standard scientific scale
- Powers engine's that move krypton while his solar reserves were at a low since red sun, Krypton was larger than Jupiter and solid with mega gravity or w/e
- Melts and freezes Bizarro
- Burns through Imperiex probe - keep in mind that Imperiex probes have to be durable enough to contain a portion of Imperiex's power aka the Big Bang
- One shots Despero
- Briefly matches Parallax Hals blast
- Matches and cancels out absolute zero
- With MMH, causes an extinction level event The lake they punctured through was also said to be colder than absolute zero
- Creates a miniature localized supernova from water
- In case nobody knew, it's how he shaves
Super Hearing
- Hears across the planet and can identify heartbeats
- Can hear a millisecond alarm
- Can hear you at Saturn
- Listens to every signal in every language simultaneously - also a brainpower feat
- Can hear you in outer space
- Hears a shooting in Gotham as it happens from the Arctic
Super Vision
- Sees a cell phone signal and tracks it all the way to the person on the other line
- Can read discs with a glance
- Can see the entire electromagnetic spectrum and things down to the microbial level
- Has 4D Vision
- Can recognise DNA
- I mean look at this shit
- See heat trails
- Can see left over heat imprints
- Can see and interpret radio signals
- Can see souls
- Can just casually peer into outer space
- Can scan the molecular structure of your body
- Atomic structure GG
Super Breath
- Freezes the brain of the cannibal planet
- Melts and freezes Bizarro
- Briefly freezes WW
- Superbreath pellets knock back Darkseid
Shouting powers
- 18 Terahertz
- Replicate sonics
- Destroys an illusion by shouting
- Cancels out Darkseids soul with a vibration The implications of this are kind of fucking ridiculous. Does this mean he can cancel out anyones soul with a right vibration?
Mental Resistance
- Breaks Poison Ivys control of him
- While under control of Maxwell Lord, refuses to kill
- Too pure to be possessed by Neron
- Unconsciously forces MMH out
- Maxima fails
- Brainiac fails
- Resisting the Eradicator
- See's through Dominus' tricks
Skill
Torquasm-Rao and Torquasm-Vo
- Rao: Explains it and teaches it too Lois - It has something to do with this
- Lois uses it to astrally project herself across dimensions
- Lois does it again
- Vo: Uses it to make illusions to provide a distraction
- Vo: Fights another Torquasm-Vo user
Martial Arts Skill
- Beats a magical kryptonian dragon while nearly powerless
- Takes on the CSA - note how he says he was trained by Wonder Woman. Also something that should be noted is that there might have been some shenanigans involved. It's complicated but normally the JL can't beat the CSA on home turf. Home universe and whatnot.
- Pressure points another Kryptonian - also note how he trained with Batman
- Pressure points Kryptonite Man Batman
- Powerless cracks wall
- Good game cap, you've been replaced - powerless btw
- Can fight properly
- Good at fighting with a plan
Technology and Equipment
- Some random Fortress Stuff
- Kryptonian Quantum Physics is a thing
- Can make a planet
- Phantom Zone projector
- Pocket sized Phantom Zone projector
- Has access to psi-blockers
- Stardrive
- Sunstone crystals are useful little shits
- Solar grenade
- K-Suit and it's bulletproof
- Kryptonian tech can find New Genesis New Genesis exists outside the normal universe, so thats pretty good
- Hunter/Prey Suit - this is broken, but he used to have it.
Misc
- Clark Kent disguise is Catwoman approved
- Considered by the 4 horsemen to be close in power to Black Adam
- Can sense shifts in air current
- Repairs a hole in reality with static electricity
- By Banshee's admission, he has the power to shatter worlds
- Got the munchies while high on silver kryptonite, and smelled food in north dakota... from space
- Calms creature down with a touch
- Makes a car
- Minibio
- Intimidates the elemental giants - Supermans pretty fucking scary when he needs to be
- Sometimes doesn't deal with loss well
- Loves kids and visits sick children
- Foulplay is a lesser known weakness
- Movie reference
- Dancing shoes
- Can leech energy off heat
- Superman and Wonder Woman's power cancel each other out
- WEDDING
- Supervision
- Is honest because superman needs to be honest
- Doesn't lie
- Discerns the truth
- Vampires are gonna die
- Dat poker face
- Superman > Batman
- Is heavy
- Russian
- Enjoys a good joke
- Let Batman keep the Kryptonite
Baseball
- They love their baseball
- Plays it with kids
- Plays with himself for charity - for those wondering where that got him and how good his aim was
Willpower
Ladies Man Ability
- Police Captain
- Huntress
- Lana
- Brad Pitt ain't got nothing on Superman
- Mermaid's bru
- The mermaids loooooooooooove our boy
- Cat Grant
- Cat can't help herself
- Island Girl
- Chick from Apokolips
- Zatanna
Supreme Bro Moments
- Talks someone out of Suicide
- Lets a couple guys beat him in basketball
- Helps average people fix their car
- Bros out with Hal
- Stops to take a picture with Jimmy
- Congratulates President Luthor - is the bigger man
- Helps a woman deliver a baby - relieves this woman of her pain
Unbro Moments
- Man of murder
- Man of corruption/nepotism/something illegal, id... *#*justsupermanthings
###Krypton
Krypton, the original planet he was from before it exploded, is known for its extremely high technological advances and powerful mythology.
Kryptonian Gods
- Kryptonian Mythology
- Rao
- Cyothonna - Cythonna in particular is extremely powerful. Like backhand Superman unconscious powerful.
- Nightwing and Flamebird
- Prison
###Other Supermen
These are other notable forms or alternate universe versions of Superman.
An alternate form of Superman, in which he split into two different forms with a wildly different power set than his normal form.
Kal-Kent is the 853rd century descendent of Superman and is the leader of the Justice League Alpha. He was last in line in the Superman Dynasty before the Prime Superman returned and still leads the heroes of the 853rd century.
This is the original Superman, after 15,000 years of sundipping. Though he has little to no actual power showings, Superman Prime One Million is said to be very powerful and holds the last Green Lantern ring.
The current Superman, the one of the mainstream Post Flashpoint Continuity. Although the new universe is grittier and edgier, this Superman has changed little personality wise from his Post Crisis counterpart.
An older Superman from the Earth-22 Universe, this Superman faces off against the younger and grittier heroes of today, looking to fight for whats right.
A young Superman just beginning his career and finding out who he is.
This Superman of the "Gods and Monsters" universe is the son of General Zod who is harsher and more violent than his main universe counterpart.
Before the multiverse even existed, there was nothing but the overmonitor/source. Then eventually a flaw in the perfection of the source, and Source created a concept to contain this flaw. This created other concepts, the entire idea of stories and birthed the whole multiverse. Eventually, a giant Sentinel was created to protect Monitor from the imperfections in this flaw and the Ultimate Evil. This is Thought Robot Superman. Born from a combination of hate crime (Ultraman) and self-less act (Superman), Thought Robot Superman embodies the concept of heroism and completely exists to protect stories and concepts from the ultimate evil (Mandrakk).
###Special Thanks
u/super_surfer - Did the major bulk of these scans by literally reading through every single issue of Superman solo. What a guy. This RT was basically a collab between me (all crossover issues) and him (all solo issues).
u/chickennuggetfandom - Provided Aquaman feats and scans
u/1bigteeth - For support in general really. RIP.
More Dank RTs to come at some point
Posted Oct 15, 2015, 6:17 PM UTC