@krleavenger: The reason I didn't respond yet is because I am on my phone, but I guess I'll just do it from here.
COUNTERS:
1) Defensive Capabilities: In regards to defensive capabilities you brought up for Sinestro, they are impressive, but it shows nothing to say Superman isn't getting through I mean. You can't use Sinestro's constructs tanking blasts of energy and comparing it to Superman's blows, especially since Lanterns have always done better against the former. I mean really, Black Adam has destroyed Alan Scott's constructs, and he's of the same level as Superman, while Alan is above Sinestro. Atroticus hasn't had much difficulty breaking through not only Sinestro's constructs, but Hal's too and he's physically weaker than Clark. Point being made, those constructs aren't taking Clark's blows just because they pack enough fire power to make Clark grunt in pain. It wasn't as if it did a whole lot, so it would be better to see a feat which shows Sinestro's constructs taking severe physical punishment on the level Clark Posesses. I think you will be hard pressed on doing this which is why you only used it stacking up against energy blasts. Most times when those Constructs meet someone with Superman's physicals, they falter.
2) Damage Output: I don't think it was ever in question if Sinestro could harm Clark, because it's pretty clear he can. The main arguement I was bringing up was is he capable of harming him enough to knock him out before Superman does the same to him, which I don't think he can. I mean really, Superman is a tank can take plenty of punishment, and seeing as how this is New/Pre-52 version, I could apply his recent durability showings against Doomsday where he was currently taking plenty of blows from Doomsday. If you want showings against energy projection, there has been a good amount of times when he's shrugged off energy blasts from Lanterns, or blasts from the Eradicator, or Orion's Astro Force or Darkseid's Omega Beam, which are all on par with Sinestro's damage output or above. I mean the showings you presented of him taking out Lanterns isn't all that impressive because well they don't share the durability Superman has (without force-fields or constructs). Only one worth mentioning was Lobo, and though he was bleeding, he seemed relatively okay after Sinestro's attacks. Keep in mind Superman is much faster than Lobo, so he likely wouldn't even be tagged by that in the first place.
3) Constructs: I'm not too sure where you got all of the corps from or I may be missing out on additional context, but from what I see I only witness a little more than half a dozen Lanterns. No where close to 7200. It's an impressive feat because he's combating Kilowog and that orange guy (forgot his name) who aren't fodder Lanterns, however all he seemed to do was hold them off, not overpower or anything like that. I don't think Superman is going to have much trouble if Sinestro brings out the numbers strategy because he's insanely fast and could just blitz the constructs very quickly or unleash a rapid fire hear vision as he's shown in the New 52 to take them out. As for the the durability of the constructs I already went over that, and fact of the matter you already showed Lobo being capable of destroying them, even so by striking Sinestro with one, and Superman has strength on his level. As for the the final part you brought of the encounter between Diana and Sinestro, I'm gonna say you're missing some context there, minor but it's there. Diana was trying to get Sinestro to move the battle away from the city to stop him from harming civilians, she asked him and he struck her mid-sentence. Hardly a fair shot, which would have been dodged or blocked of counter had she been prepared for such a blow. I mean I know, Sinestro is fast, but he wouldn't get Diana like that if she was on guard, especially since she was worrying more about the civilians then herself. I'm not sure why you brought up that whole Bruce Lee, Usain Bolt dialogue when fact of the matter is Sinestro caught an unprepared Diana who was trying to reason with him with a construct. Even if Diana is faster than Superman reaction wise, it wouldn't matter because he still is faster than Sinestro.
4) Sinestro Versality/More: You do realize Versality doesn't win you a battle every time, right? If that were the case, brick characters like Hulk or Thing would never win fights, and a contrary to what you believe, Superman is quite versatile. All of his abilities may not all be offensive like Sinestro, but they are still there. I'm still waiting on when Sinestro has heavily damaged a Superman level being, because Lobo was fine and dandy after that assault. Your probably going to bring up the blood, but Lobo bleeds a lot in his comics, and he's always been subtle to piecing attacks which Sinestro applied to him. Lobo practically got up back from everything Sinestro threw his way. I already went over his constructs aren't stopping Superman like you think because characters as strong as Clark or physically weaker have destroyed them, not to mention Clark is faster than Sinestro (nano second reaction speed and has reacted to light itself). So I find it likely he's going to dodge most thing Sinestro throws his way and blitz him with his overwhelming physicals while combinding it with his heat vision.
5) Superman's speed: I already debunked that Sinestro/Diana encounter above. As for Hal and Sinestro fighting at light speeds of above, Superman did that in his encounter with Doomsday and Bizzaro. It's impressive, but it's a feat of speed Superman shows more consistently. Can you show Sinestro fighting at those speeds as consistent, because Superman has been shown to react to light and in nano seconds on more than one occasion. Not to mention if you compare the two characters, reaction/combat speed wise Superman seems more impressive.
6) Superman damage output: Yeah, Superman will be able to destroy Sinestro's constructs, and I don't think it's going to take that much time. I know John isn't Sinestro, but he had his construct (which was made to contain Superman) blown a big whole through in one punch when Superman unleashed all his strength. Sinestro isn't that much above John, so you should see where I'm coming from. The fact that Aroticus wasn't having much time destroying his and Hal's constructs even without his ring, just goes to show that Superman can do the same. As I shown, Lobo was able to break them too. Also Superman can multi-task, he break the construct while using frost breath on Sinestro so he can't move whiles he's doing so. It's not as if he hasn't multi-tasked in similar ways many times before.
7) Superman's invulnerability: Sinesto one-shotted a Red Lantern who doesn't hold a candle to Clark, beat up Carol who doesn't hold a candle to Clark, took out Kyle in what I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) his rookie days, and the rest aren't worth mention because I either don't get it or the context isn't know to me. He didn't take out Kyle, he's shown in the last scan still conscious, which isn't impressive at all because Lanterns without their aura or constructs aren't all that impressive durability wise. As for destroying the Star Saphire crystal, how durable is that thing? All of these feats if you really look at it aren't enough to say he's taking Clark out, while Clark has been beating down by characters like Mongul, Doomsday, Darkseid, other Kryptonians, and more which are all characters who Posesses tremendous power. It doesn't hut that he's done the same vice versa to them to show his damage output. You make it seem as if Clark is going to fall easy to Sinestro, when in reality he's fast enough to dodge a lot of what he throws at him or pretty much tank it though it will obviously hurt him. Superman can take damage better and deliver it faster than Sinestro can vice versa, and that's what it really comes down to in this fight.
8) It seems you replied again so I'll just counter that post too. I was not trying to use ABC logic, but it's just pretty much common sense. If Mongul who is physically imposing to Superman is capable of doing something to Sinestro physically, wouldn't Clark be capable of doing the same? Regardless if he was amped or not, he was relying on his brute strength in that occurance, which I touched upon. I spoke strictly of his durability and physical strength, which Superman has him beat in both, so why not apply that here? As for using Sinestro > Hal > Superman, that's baseless and different all together seeing as how it hasn't been proven, not to mention it doesn't have anything to do with what I brought up. At best you can say Sinestro is above Hal because they forgive, but Superman he has not, so it's speculation as is this whole battle of the week thing. As for your arguments, I think I had them beat without the use of scans, so if you want to proceed from here, we can can continue on.
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