@ouroborik said:
I'm pretty sure that was a metaphor. Adam was reading a comic-book and comparing the experience to the way he perceived the 3D world, so he kept the metaphor going by saying he could read their thought balloons a.k.a. read their minds.
The main "mechanic" of Multiversity is that DC comic books are actually the result of events in parallel universes "leaking" to our reality through the writers and artists' minds.
It wouldn't make much sense for thoughts in Captain Adam's world to literally be thought-balloons.
That's true, but DC cosmology and meta stuff is really confusing so I wasn't sure if it was a metaphor or not, and it's pretty much the only thing that I could find for his feats.
Well, he only appeared on three issues so it's natural he doesn't have many feats.
But by logic and hype he was clearly pretty powerful.
He was the only non-Monitor character capable of sensing the existence of the Cosmic Armor, he no sold Ultraman's attacks and told Ultraman he was "the endgame of the idea that spawned the likes of you". In other words, he was supposed to be the idea of someone as powerful as Superman in comparison to humans taken to the limit, like Doctor Manhattan. Speaking of which, he is a pastiche of the original Doctor Manhattan concept by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, so he should be at least as powerful as the original Manhattan, before Rebirth and Doomsday Clock. He also displayed casual matter-manipulation although it was on such a small scale that it really isn't significant for such a battle.
All in all his best feat was sensing the Cosmic Armor and knowing how to access it, something that at the time was completely unheard of. Because of COuntdown and after Rebirth the whole Monitor concept has become banalized but when Grant Morrison introduced the idea for Final Crisis they were suppsoed to be the top if the food-chain, and Captain Adam was the only one from below the Sphere of the Gods who could compare.
In this thread I think he can go at least until Odin, but probably stops there.
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