Sent to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice, and the American way!
Survives krypton's destruction at point blank while weakened and crash lands on earth via phantom zone. For those who don't know krypton was 16 times larger than earth.
But what you don't know is the size of the twin planets. Hers's the only comparison between apokolips and earth which applies to new genesis too. Now grasp the crazyness of this feat.
@Supreme Marvel: I think I have to respectfully disagree with a couple of your points.
He doesn't fight with anger
Superman gets angry. I've read several stories, particularly during the 90s Jurgens era when Superman fought while angry. It's inevitable. Even JESUS got angry at the guys selling sicky sacrifices in the temple.
He will never kill
Superman has killed. In Superman #22 he executed General Zod and his baddies using Green k.
@Supreme Marvel: I think I have to respectfully disagree with a couple of your points.
He doesn't fight with anger
Superman gets angry. I've read several stories, particularly during the 90s Jurgens era when Superman fought while angry. It's inevitable. Even JESUS got angry at the guys selling sicky sacrifices in the temple.
He will never kill
Superman has killed. In Superman #22 he executed General Zod and his baddies using Green k.
I wrote that almost four years ago. Now I've read a lot more Superman comics. My ideals towards him have changed. However, I bet the killing go of them Kryptonian doppelgängers is not cannon any more. I will say this, he is still the greatest hero to me.
@Primmaster64: In page 5 nerx posted two pics of superman (one upkick, one headkick) and aronmorales on the superman fighting style thread. So far that is three, the only other instance where i know superman using his feet is vs doomsday (dropkick) but I don't have scans for those and where he supposed kicked a guy in the chin when depowered (can anyone please provide scans)
whenever superman is kicking that stuff is comics treasure
@Primmaster64: He boxes on the silver age, and I remember him getting choked (camel clutch) by a pc kryptonian in the silver age. Seeing him use his feet is a very rare thing in comics.
“Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.”-Grant Morrison
“Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.”-Grant Morrison
“Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.”-Grant Morrison
I just lived daily with my parents fighting against the bomb, the idea that this thing when it happens, we'd be obliterated, forever. & then for me the big thing was discovering superhero comics, because suddenly, there were people who could stop the bomb, Superman could take an atom bomb hit to the chest & just shake it off... so all that reflects on me, the moment you realise that the bomb, before it was a bomb, was an idea, & suddenly that understanding: Superman was a better idea, so why not make that one real instead of that one?
@GrandSymbiote94: I was looking for that, but to be honest it really looks like there are just less leaves, the only indication of movement is the big brown leaf.
I guess he could have gone left then right, which would explain why they disappear on each side for those frames.
The other thing I'm thinking is the leaves could be overlapping with the tree.
“Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.”-Grant Morrison
Superman: Sacrifice #1: Heat vision melts glass(confirmed by Jimmy in later panels)and almost kills black rock.
Superman: For Tomorrow: Traveling to an unspecified solar system in a short period of time. Also, he hearing Kyle Rayner's call of help in spaceas it happens.
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Superman: For Tomorrow: Hearing Earth's radio waves and easily surviving atmospheric reentry.
Superman: Sacrifice #1: Superman using his "soul vision" to see how Superboy is reacting after learning that he nearly some members of the Teen Titans.
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