@highaccuser:
How would it being a construct reduce the power of the attack?
Because er...the blast is not coming directly from the ring itself?
Aside from that.....GLs be it Kyle,or Hal or even Alan whenever they use the "construct as a person/army" thing usually have them shattered (been done on multiple occasions , be it Hal bringing back the corps or Alan bringing back the Marvel family) as opposed to the person himself
And the only lesser lantern than Kyle I remember dropping Superman is John who shot him in the eyes (vulnerable spot).
Kyle's blast meanwhile was all over him, including his eyes and was explicitly focussed on him . How does it not drop him then ?
Kyle's feats of construct size and durability
It isn't so much the size of the constructs as just how powerful they are. the nova containing thing wasn't particularly large. But it bottled a ....supernova that would have wiped out the star system. A freakin solar system level explosion contained/concentrated within a building size cage. Likewise holding together multiple planets in orbit as they are about to collide with each other ,is frankly well beyond anything Superman has ever tanked
So...
Superman gets KOd by a supernova from the same source that powers him when it is nothing like focussed on him. Kyle holds together a solar system wide explosion , concentrated within a building size cage
Superman gets KOd by two planets colliding. Kyle stops multiple planets from collding with his constructs
have nothing to do with the output of his energy attacks which are still planetary level.
I would like an actual scan from an actual comic saying the strength of their constructs is not equal to their energy blasts
The ring is the ring, be it an energy blast or a construct or a shield. All of them are roughly equally powerful because all of them come from the ring itself
Beyond that a rookie Kyle reduced Oa to dust with an energy blast if we are getting specific. When has Superman shown the ability to just ....walk through something that reduces planets to dust outside of facing Kyle? When has he ever no sold/walked through an attack that reduced a planet to dust to make him doing so vs Kyle...not PIS?
Superman is a character whose total number of appearances are matched only by the likes of Batman and Spiderman. So....in all his appearances, when has he tanked a planet "reduced to dust" blast?
Kyle typically holds back as all heroes do and wasn't in that instance.
Eric Masterson never overpowered Thanos he just floored him with a few hits
That is overpowering honestly to the point where Thanos has to resort to the gauntlet to get the job done
that didn't seem to cause all that much damage and this showing is pretty contradictory when you consider he needed help to take down Gladiator who Thanos completely outperformed against Annihilus.
And....Superman has been knocked out by a supernova. Kyle contains one. Superman's been KOd by two planets colliding. Kyle holds apart half a dozen planets from colliding.
Kyle reduces planets to dust as a rookie even as a rookie and when older does things like trap Ultraman and the Syndicate for hours as they hammer away failing to break his constructs
Really by any measuring stick you care to use, Kyle's feats are so far above Superman's it makes no sense for Superman NOT to be KOd by a proper blast, let alone walk through one
I'm not saying this is Superman's average durability level, but as far as best feats go I find this to be the best one.
Meanwhile kyle's "best one" involves containing the freakin big bang despite no evidence for him being capable of pulling off the same before or after and plenty of contradictory stuff
Going by "best ones" Superman has universal durability now
Actually Kyle's feat is more legit given he contained the actual big bang and not "blast of a dude who once did a big bang blast" or whatever (which Superman incidentally has done, on more than one occasion too)
So is Kyle a universe buster now?
Beyond that, as I said, Thor's taken blasts from the likes of Celestials, and even Byrne era Superman has taken hits from universal beings
It goes on , and on for both if we look at what they did when other characters forgot how powerful they were when facing two of the most powerful characters in fiction
In terms of actual, consistent feats, NOT related to jobbing out more powerful people, or indeed, fights, Superman has flown through red stars and Thor has conversations inside stars, without having to invoke them taking hits/blasts from solar system level-ish people (Kyle, Gladiator , bloodlusted even , Surfer etc )
:I mean if we are going by "performances against powerful characters regardless of their own, independent feats", it makes no sense to talk about Superman no selling green lantern or a dying Thor running even with Surfer, or even tanking hits from celestials when we can talk about Superman's or Thor's multiversal durability
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