MASSIVE RESPECT THREAD OF DCEU SUPERMAN
Lately i have noticed that there are still no respect threads for Dceu Superman with complete breakdown so i have decided to make one myself. I will make it slightly different from other respect threads like for comic versions were a picture is posted with description. While i will post down gifs/pictures and put a description for each feat, i will also post a break down of atleast some feats if not most feats. The main list will be the showcase of Supermans durability/strength(lifting,striking, combat),speed and destructive power, senses. All of the feats that are unclear, holding speculations, assumptions and are using calculations will be noted as "Spec and Calc" an will be further discusses in spoiler topic. Under that topic i will also post down atleast couple of comparisons between Superman and his fellow Kandorians due to the fact that they are on very similar power levels just for discussion. I will keep updating this thread after upcomming dc movies are released in case Man of steel shows new feats. Opon making all of the gifs i realised that many feats are hard to see in the gifs when superspeed is used. Therefore in the gifs where things happen extremely fast i will post the same gif a second time with around 60-80% slowdown.
All the Gifs in the post are made by myself.
The post is with spoiler blocks, but it contains massive amount of gifs. Would be good to open and leave it for a minute or so to load all of the gifs
I also added short movie tag in front of every feat/text to make it easier to search for feats. To search feats from individual movies you need to push ctrl+f and search for tag. Currently there are only 3 tags as Superman is present only in 3 movies so far. Tags are (MOS), (BVS), (JLA).
Before i post down all of the feats i would like to do a quick representation on who Man of steel is and what type of powers we have seen so far.
Man of steel
Man of steel is adaptation and reboot of Superman released in 2013 in an attempt by DC/WB to set new DC universe movie franchise starting with their most iconic Superhero. Man of steel adapts classic Superman story where Kal El is sent from Krypton to earth in space ship minutes before Krypton explodes. After landing on earth Kal El is found by Martha and Jonathan Kent in the cornfield and they decide to adopt the kid and raise Kal EL as their own child and give him the name Clark Kent.
Clark grows up in a farm with in a peaceful, carrying, full of love, justice and american way familly while slowly learning mysteries of his superhuman kryptonian physiology over time. He protects people from the shadows and covers his tracks in adults years until Zod and kandorians are introduced to the planet and Clark had to reveal himself. This sets him in new path where he has to save earth from his own kind with help of his biological father who gives him Superman suit and he goes on to become the saviour of earth.
Powerset (so far)
- Super strength, speed, durability
- Flight (even in space)
- Heat vision
- Enhanced senses like xray vision, superhearing
- Healing factor
- Solar Energy projection
- Freeze Breath
Speed/reaction
(MOS) After first starting to learn his powers he jumped around with massive leaps at superspeed. Not many people know, but this was reference to og Superman comics.
(MOS) First flight by Superman flies above the sea and breaks sound barrier.
(MOS)Superman goes massive superspeed and almost dissapears into space while being faster than sound
(MOS)Flies to the world engine with incredibly fast speed and reaches top of the clouds in matter of seconds (Spec and calc)
(MOS)Blitz and bulrushes zod when he is screaming at Martha and the kandorians were not capable of reacting to him
(MOS)When humans were still not trusting him they fired on all kryptonians and Superman dodged thunderbolts machine guns by jumping to the side.
(MOS)Fights both Nam Ek and Faora at superspeed and holds his own by avoiding their punches/kicks etc.
(MOS)While being held down by Nam Ek and Faora by his head reacts and catches Nam eks punch. Second gif is in slow mo by 70%
(MOS)Blitzes namek in fight. Keep in mind namek is like twice the size of Superman and yet get overwhelmed. Second gif is in slow mo by 75%
(MOS)Speed blitzes Faora from the side when she tries to kill Colonel and slams her into the floor smashing her head. Second gif is 75% slowed down.
(MOS)Fight the nano bot defensive goo and reacts to the tentacles, he was later overwhelmed when world engine released all of the goo from the legs as well.
(MOS)Chases zod through the city of Metropolis at superspeed and makes very fast and precise and accurate turns.
(MOS)Superman and Zod fight each other and reach space from metropolis in couple seconds and hit wayne satelite. Given The fact that they where still close to earth it is most likely that wayne satelite was Low earth orbit satelite which orbits lowest of all satelites at around 950 km from earths surface. They reached the satlite in matter of seconds which puts them close to 317 Km/second speed. This is a speed that exceeds bullet speed by over hundreds of times. (SPEC AND CALC)
(MOS)After Superman and Zod fight comes back to earth they slam into some museum breaking all the walls and Superman immediately blitzes and holds Zod down. Second gif is slow by 60%
(BVS)Blitzes a terrorist in Africa who threatened to kill Lois while holding a gun on her head.
(BVS)Goes superspeed trough Batman's smoke grenade and then catches Batman's grenade launcher bullet.
(BVS)Easily reacts to Doomsdays punch and catches it before it reaches Lex while he was still weakened from the kryptonite as his scar was still not healing.
(BVS)Blitzes Doomsday and carries him into stratosphere in matter of seconds. He passed stratosphere in 7-8 seconds. Considering its about 50 km height there he is reaching around bullet speed while carrying Doomsday out to the space. While still weakened from kryptonite.
(JLA) In the first encounter after Superman was revived Cyborgs automatic defenses reacted to Superman as danger and shot him with some kind of missile. He was totaly not afraid as he was standing and watching and effortlessly dodged it. Its hard to calculate how fast the missile was moving and its slower than what superman could react to before this, but its still shows how consistent superman is with his speed.
(JLA) As he was distracted by wonder woman and catched her armor, Aquaman attempted to hit him with his trident from the side. Ths was almost a blind angle as Superman was looking at wonder woman, but he still reacts and catched the trident. While Aquaman has not shown very impressive speed feats, in my opinion he would be close to wonder woman and steppenwolf as he was more than capable of fighting him.
(JLA) While Superman was distracted by wonder woman, cyborg and aquaman as all three of them were attacking him at the same time, flash attempted to blitz him. While he was charging at Superman, he moved in superspeed towards Superman and Superman instantly reacted to him and starts rolling his eyes as he catched his movement. This is a clear demonstration of incredible reaction and speed. Why? because given the speed of flash the time he would need to move that short distance would probably be far less than a second, which would be Supermans reaction speed. Not only reaction, but also he can tap into the same speed level as flash nearly instantly.
(JLA) While he reacts to Flash moving towards him and rolls his eyes, he also starts moving his head and shows that he can move that fast aswell and not just react. Notice that flash does emitt lightning from his body and they spread outwards. Im not saying he is as fast as lightning, but the visuals show that his eyes can track lightning moving in slow motion. We also see how some kind of matter float mid air completely frozen. In the original cut they were shot by policemen and the bullets were frozen mid air.
(JLA) Superman while holding the rest of the JL, sees flash charging and throws everybody away and starts attacking flash instead. While they are fighting, the rest of the JL are literaly are frozen midair compared to their movements. Wonder woman has shown to have mach 3 bullet level reaction/combat speed yet is completely frozen and unconcious of what is going on around. While i think flash is slighly faster here as he is able to react to Supermans punches, still superman manages to corner him and throw him with a push that slams him into the wall and almost knocks him of.
(JLA) After he slams finished flash, Batman comes to the field and shouts Clarks name. He remembers Bruce in bad way and in anger mode walks towards him. This is were wonder woman jumps and lands in front of him. Clark literaly shows no sighn of of reaction, no fear at all. After that Diana understands that he is very dangerous and is forced to attack him. Clark is still not impressed and easly blitzes her from large distance before she can tap her bracellets, despite wonder woman being easly bullet timer in speed and reaction.
(JLA) In the final battle when Superman comes to rescue. He realises that civilians are in danger with his superhearing. Batmans says Barry is already on it, but he says there are to many civilians and flies. Then he flies and catches up with Barry while he is in superspeed. This clearly shows that he can fly and react as if it is casual speed. Alot of people were debating that because he has shown only speed mostly in flights and so on, he is not fast in combat for that matter. Well he clearly now shows that his speed is as fast as it is, regardless if he is in flight, walk, fight or just casual reaction to things.
JLA) After he catches up with flash they choose different directions and try to save civilians. When they change directions they both accerate even further and dissappear like flashes of light. The second scan is slowed 5 times to show the movement a bit slower.
(JLA) In the final battle as he confronts Steppenwolf, Wolf tries to hit him while he is charging at him. Superman easly dodges it midflight like it was nothing. Wonder woman and Aquaman were on consistent basis having big trouble with Steppenwolf in terms of speed and everything else yet Superman shows that he is far ahead of him in terms of speed.
(JLA) Superman opens up his shirt, instantly breaks sound barrier and flies away at hypersonic speeds.
(JLA) Races on equal with the flash. While its uncertain how fast they exactly are, but before the race they were pretty much chasing which coasts they would like race to. This should make it pretty clear that they can race around the globe in very short times.
Strength (combat/punching/raw strength)
(MOS)Easily rips a metal door in oil rig station and crushes it with bair hands like it was a pillow.
(MOS)Impales a truck with logs. Lifting the truck is not that impressive when you imagine that he literally pushed logs through the steel.
(MOS)Holds a metal pipe when he was still a teenager and crushes in his hand.
(MOS)Catches a powerful drone/support robot and easily crushed it with bare hands.
(MOS)During the first flight, he leaves the ground so fast that the shockwave left massive cracks around the ground.
(MOS)When he was tired of listening to those earth scientist and soldiers he stood up and broke the handcuffs like if they were not even there.
(MOS)When him and lois escaped the Kryptonian mothership Jor El told him to punch the panel and he broke it with ease. Not only is kryptonian ships incredibly durable and it was also made of very thick material. Just for fun when the panel is broke, open space pulls the air out with powerful pull, yet supermans seems to not even be bothered.
(MOS)Blitzed Zod in smallville and smashed him into some kind of Nuclear or oil waste pipe and remains unharmed and uneffected.
(MOS)Throws Faora through a trash truck and throws her back again in less than a second.
(MOS)Faora and Nam Ek can barely hold him down in 2 vs 1 fight while Nam Ek is also twice his size.
(MOS)Blitzed and overpowered Nam Ek and then punched him around 100 yards away. He punched so hard that the impact of Nam Ek getting punched into the locomotives and flipped couple of them, each weighting at to 164 tons (union pacific 3563 EMD SD40-2 locomotives).
(MOS)Stands up against being directly under the gravitational beam of World engine which easily flattened cars and one shotted several skyscrapers with one shot. Its also worth to mention that world engine changes the atmosphere to more of kryptonian and Superman was weakened here yet he resisted that insanely powerful force. (SPEC AND CALC)
(MOS)Resisted the gravity of small black hole which sucked in world engine and all the kandorians.
(MOS)Flies straight and collides with Zod causing massive shockwave.
(MOS)Blitzed and fights Zod in superspeed. Worth to mention that every punch they land on each other causes shockwaves. Seen in slow mo gif 70%
(MOS)Another collision with Zod that causes massive shockwave, which destroys part of a skyscraper.
(MOS)Blitzes completely adapted Zod around the city in mid air. Second scan is in slow mo 60%
(MOS)With all these kryptonian durabilities. Man of steel is still powerful enough to pull the infamous Zod neck snap.
(BVS)Destroyed a drone and its missile mid air effortlessly.
(BVS) In BVS Superman pulled a ship which was 6375 tons. Very impressive feat as Superman is pulling it with ease and also the boat is literally breaking through the ice which makes it harder to pull as he also needs to put more fore to break the ice. This will be on Spece and Calc.
(BVS)Effortlesly places his hand on Batmans chest and pushes trough his chest and bullet proof Batsuit.
(BVS)Opens Batmobile panel like a can with ease.
(BVS)Easily rips apart a Manhole like a toilet papper.
(BVS)Pushes armored Batman away with slight touch sending him dozens of yards away like nothing.
(BVS)Throws armored Batman like a baseball and destroys his Bat projector.
(BVS)Lifts and throws armored Batman like he was not even there.
(BVS)While weakened from kryptonite gas still lifts and throws armored Batman through several layers of walls.
(BVS)Punches newborn Doomsday into the wall while still in weakened state as his scar was still not healing.
(BVS)Punched Doomsday through space sending him hundreds of meters backwards.
(BVS)Charges down from space at supersonic speed and punches doomsday into buildings and causing massive explosion.
(BVS)Punched Doomsday mid air and the impact of doomsday landing on the floor caused massive shockwave.
(BVS)Even under exposure of kryponite radiation, he was still strong enough to stab Doomsday.
(JLA) Superman gets revived and instantly jumps out of the chamber and wrecks the ship in the process, break large portion of it. This ship was durable enough to crashland on earth and remain undamaged while also no sold the reentry. It also remained undamaged after it crashed in man of steel and flew trough dozens of skyscrappers.
(JLA) Lands a casual punch on Aquaman as he gets attacked, which causes shockwave and throws aquaman away pretty long distance probably 50-60 meter away.
(JLA) After he punches Aquaman, wonder woman attempts to blitz him from the other side, but Clark easly reacts to her and pucnhes the shield hard enough to throws her away casually. The punch throws her hard enough to smash and break the concrete on the ground.
(JLA) Catches wonder womans lasso and she tried to pull him. Clark easly shows the physical superiority and drags her with one arm. She tries to hold him of, by putting her legs on the concrete steps there and concrete starts to break. Wonder woman in her respective right was powerfull enough to easly lift 29 ton tank overhead, throw 10 ton truck like a ping pong ball, keep doomsday in his tracks in similar way, yet Clark overpowers her with single arm.
(JLA) Wonder woman tries to calm him with her lasso and make him remember his past, but Superman got none of that and pulls her harder. His strength is way to much even for wonder woman trying her best and using all of her body. He pulls her trough concrete breaking at her feet and trough it and catches her armor. Then cyborg and aquaman attack him aswell and push with all of their strength, yet Superman does not even feel it, literaly does not even move an inch.
(JLA) Overpowers wonder womans arms once again and holds her arms to the sides and headbutts her, which makes her dizzy and then she headbutts back and makes him angrier and he headbutts her even harder and she get burried in the concrete and almost gets knocked. Considering that wonder woman was fighting powerfull opponents like doomsday and struggled less, this makes him even more impressive.
(JLA) Casually backhands Batman throwing him 25-30 meters backwards, smashing him into the car and deforming it in the process.
(JLA) Throws Batman away like a bag of trash when sees Lois. Shows no effort at all.
(JLA) Even though this was cut out of the movie for theatres. It was released later on. Im not sure what causes the waves in the wisky glass, but i would guess its either Superman landing outside of the mansion or him breaking trough some kind of safety vault.
(JLA) Lands a casual punch from standing position on Steppenwolf and throws him away 50-60 meters away on some kind of alien concrete walls smashing and breaking it in the process.
(JLA) Punches Steppenwolf sends him trough the concrete ground, causes lightlike flash of shockwave and smashes him into the first floor burrying him there. The second gif is slowed down by 7 times to show the flashlike shockwave.
(JLA) Bullrushes Steppenwolf and punches him hard enough to slam him on the floor from the wall.
(JLA) After slamming Steppenwolf on the ground, Superman punches him hard enough to cause massive shockwave hard enough to lift his cape and put steppenwolf down.
(JLA) After giving couple of punches to Steppenwolf, Superman throws him away like a ping pong ball and slams him into a concrete wall, breaking it in the process.
Durability
(MOS)Fire has 0 effect on him
(MOS)When he tried to lift oil rig tower the metal under his feet broke down and whole oil rig crashed and exploded on him and he was not harmed a bit.
(MOS)Fell down from the skies when he attempted to fly and toppled a mountain and was unharmed.
(MOS)Gets thrown by Faora through several building and get slammed into a safe door destroying and crushing the steel door and he was unharmed.
(MOS)Takes full assault from 2 kryptonians punches, kicks, getting slammed on the floor. In second gif Nam Ek runs into him with a punch that causes sonic boom behind him and he still was uneffected. Third scan namek punches him so hard it slams him into the ground breaking the ground.
(MOS)Nam ek throws a locomotive on him from far away and decent height and it does not harm Superman at all. This locomotive is Union pacific UP 3563 EMD SD40-2
model. Im sure about this model, because this is model used in Kansas. This locomotive weights 164 tons and he thrown it probably long than 100 meters away. Very strong feat by nam ek and Supes was stronger than him aswell and would replicate that feat.
(MOS)Superman gets shot by what it looks like kryptonian battleship or kryptonian version of Jet which one shotted thunderbolt with ease and does not affect Superman at all.
(MOS)Once again Superman stands under world engine gravity beam. While i added this under strength feats, this is also immense durability feat as it flattened metal with ease and easily destroyed multiple skyscraper with one shot and also Superman was weakened around it due to atmosphere change.
(MOS)Zod punches him with a speed blitz punch, which causes massive shockwave and sends him hundreds of meters flying backwards, but Superman still remains unharmed. Second gif is slow motion in 80%
(MOS)Zod punches Superman and sends him bouncing of the cars into a building and Superman remained unaffected.
(MOS)Zod uppercuts Superman sending him to the top of the skyscraper and still remains unharmed.
(MOS)Fully adapted Zod swings and throws Superman through multiple buildings and Superman was not bothered at all.
(MOS)When the Superman and Zod dragged each other to space and they were falling down again they reached enough speed and atmosphere started to burn them. A shooting star on average reaches between 1500-1800 kelvin which is temperature hotter than magma. Would mean Superman can literally stand inside a lava and remain unharmed. (SPEC AND CALC)
(BVS)Tanks and explosion that destroyed the capitol and it exploded right beside Superman. He is unharmed and didnt even move and inch from the explosion impact.
(BVS)Batman drives and hits him with Batmobile at full speed and batmobile bounces of him like a baloon and he doesnt even move and inch. In comparisson batmobile was driving through layers of walls without any effort.
(BVS)Batman attacks him with sound gun which causes very strong sonic boom and superman was not even bothered.
(BVS)Batman assaults him while he was kryptonite gassed and even then he was not harmed even when getting swinged and slammed into walls. Even then Superman did not get a single wound or started bleeding.
(BVS)oomsday punches him, sending him hundreds of yards away, breaking the ground completely with all stairs made out of stone and he was unharmed.
(BVS)Doomsday throws him through a big stone panel at Superman memorial and then breaks one of those blocks on his heads. Its hard to say but by looks of it the stone would be weighting somehwere around 10-15 tons. Superman was still unaffected. We should also mention that Superman was weakened at this point as the scar on his face was not healing yet.
(BVS)Survives a nuke exploding in his face although it burned up all of his skin and what it looks like most of his muscle tissue. At this point Superman was still not healing after kryptonite exposure and it could be made an argument that he was still weakened. The size of the nuke is still up to be discussed but a nuke doesnt affect differently because of the size specially at point blank range the temperature released during the explosion can go up to 100 million kelvin. That temperature is so hot that all the surrounding materia turns into plasna sauce. But this will be in "SPEC AND CALC"
(BVS)Tanks overcharged heat vision blast from Doomsday in the face and was up in less than second with 0 affect.
(BVS)Takes a punch from Doomsday, which sends him hundreds of meter flying backwards and he was unharmed. Second gif is 70% slowdown.
(BVS)Takes another one from Doomsday, which is a superspeed punch sending him ragdolling all over the place and he was still unharmed. Second gif is 70% slowed down.
(BVS)When Doomsday absorbed the nuke and the buildings explosion he blasted with very powerful blast that destroyed multiple buildings and destroyed a large town. While Wonder woman used her shield. Superman tanked it with his pure durability and was unharmed.
(JLA) Cyborg hits him with some kind of plasma canon, while he is pushed back it, he is remains undamaged.
(JLA) Wonder woman is pretty powerfull on her own as she was capable of keeping up with Doomsday, Steppenwolf etc. She headbutts Superman hard enough to cause shockwave, he is pushed back by it due to the headbutt being something unexpected, but he is still unharmed.
(JLA) Survived the explosion of motherboxes when they separate it. This is hard to quantify therefore it will be in spec and calc.
Strength (lifting)
(MOS)Superman during oil rig scene. Held a very large oil tower which dwarfed that SOS helicopter and was pushing with force the bended thick steel under his feet. Its hard to calculate how much that weighted. But would be atleast 30-40 tons.
(MOS)In his teenage years he lifted a school bus out of water.
(JLA) Easly lifts and throws his head on wonder woman. Looking at the size of the stone. It would be around one ton.
(JLA) When him and flash saved the civilians, he carried away an entire building and its people with it away. This building has an estimiated weight of 7000 tons. Considering Superman would have to not only carry it away, but also rip it out of the concrete/fundament makes it even more impressive.
(JLA) Separates motherboxes from each other with cyborg. Considering cybrog has not shown any decent strength feat, he probably did all of the work himself. Its hard to quantify this feat, as only one who separated the boxes before was Zeus, who blasted it with lightning.
Destructive powers and Heat vision/Freeze breath
(MOS)Superman resists insane gravity of World engine beam although he was getting weakened by the engine. Then flies against the gravity and bullrushes the Supermassive world engine which was larger than skyscrapers and incredibly durable. The second gif is showing the durability of world engine when it hit the ground charging with speed that caused atmospheric burn. To do that the engine should need to move at speed around bullet speed. A machine that large hitting earth with speed of bullet or faster would hit with a force of a nuke. World engine was durable enough to remain undamaged by that and Superman one shotted it while also flying against its powerful gravity.
(MOS)Drills a large tunnel through ice with heat vision
(MOS)One shots the kryptonian scoutship with heat vision and damaging it enough to drop the ship. The ship is as large, if not larger than world engine.
(MOS)Heat visions and melts a large piece of steel in 1 second.
(BVS)One shots multiple people with heat vision killing them like butter.
(BVS)Destroys multiple machine guns of Batman with ease.
(BVS)Goes into heat vision battle against doomsday and held his own for a while.
(JLA) Blasts cyborg with heat vision and slight deflections of it easly destroy cars. Sheer force of it also throws cyborg away.
(JLA) Freezes Steppenwolfs axe with his freeze breath. The axe was easly capable of cutting trough metals aswell as melting solid boulders. To melt such stone would take heat at atleast around 1500 degrees of kelvin. The sword was also capable of matching wonder womans sword as it never broke while fought her. To freeze the axe so casually makes his breath pretty impressive and dangerous at the same time.
Senses
(MOS) Can see in Xray vision that is much more enhanced than regular xray and works like a 3D MRI. He also could see trough objects when they had interrogation.
(BVS) He can hear lois drowning under massive stones and in battle against Doomsday, proves his hearing is extremely enhanced to catch even smallest frequencies.
(JLA) After he is revived he activated his sensory type organs and starts hearing people/voices from far away. He also scans the league member with his X-ray vision, which appears in some kind of advanced 3 MRI looking appearence. He also has the ability to zoom in to see things closer, which is sort of microsopic vision.
(JLA) Tells Lois that she called his mother. Thats before minutes that Martha arrives. Clear indication that he heard her from long distance or the car.
(JLA) While having conversation with Batman and in the middle of a battle, hears civilians miles away.
Healing Factor
(BVS) Although we barely had any healing factor feats due the fact that Superman is insanely hard to damage. But we have some at least.
(BVS) Heals back from being gassed with kryptonite in 2-3 minutes. He healed even after second time aswell although it did not heal the scar on his face, but he went on to battle Doomsday. Which means he got some of his powers back atleast.
(BVS) Heals back in matter of second when sunlight starts to hit his body after he got nuked and was burned almost to the bones. This means under solar energy exposure he can nearly heal from most wound instantly.
(JLA) Healed back from death with help of mother box. According to Cybrog and Batman, the box can create cellular regeneration which would help him to recover heavy damage. According to Batman his cells are also incapable of decaying even after being dead. Cyborg stated that the energy of the can terraform or destroy a planet and Batman answered with "what if you were stronger than a planet" Not sure what it means, but probably durable enough to withstand destructive energy of the mother box. One thing is for sure, that he was not completely dead at cellular level the sand on his hrave rised in the end of BVS
Kandorian soldiers and feats
(MOS) This has nothing to do with the feats of Superman. I just do this to show some of the feats of kandorians since they are on similar power levels as Superman, this is just to show capabilities of kryptonians.
(MOS) Faora showing kryptonian combat speed by blitzing soldier with booming speed and throwing objects like massive metal thing on soldiers. Second scan is slowed by 80%
(MOS) Zod running againt Superman as fast as Superman flies against him. Also every footstep of Zod is literally breaking the ground.
Second scan is slowed by 70 %.
Speculation and Calculations
This is the category where all of the feats that were marked as spec and calc. Which means that those are feats that are based on assumptions and a bit of unclear results.
(BVS) One of the speculated feats is the pulling the ship feat as we were never told what type of ship this is. But by looks of it the ship is NoCGV Svalbard. The fact that Superman is pulling it through ice seems reasonable. The ship weights 6375 tons and the fact that superman drags it while also pulling stronger to break the ice in the way as well makes it impressive feat.
(MOS) The movie stated that Superman flew to indian ocean. Alot of people say that he was there in matter of minutes, but this is speculation feat as it was not really specified in the movie. But for the fact he entered stratosphere here in about 8 seconds. Stratosphere is 50km of height and he flew up there in 8 seconds put him around 6,5 km/second from flying straight up. This was a bit inconsistent in the movie as in another moments like carrying Doomsday to the space and flying together with Zod was massively faster than this one. But still 6,5/second is about 19 times the speed of sounds which puts fastest earth Jet fighters into complete shame with multiple times. In other feats like when him and zod got to space it overshadows further.
(MOS) As we speak about him and Zod getting into the space. It took about 3 second for them to reach wayne satelite in space. Even if we assume that Wayne satelite is LOS (low orbiting satelite) which are satelites of earth that are closest to earth and orbit at 950 km away from earth. It took them about 3 seconds to reach the satelite which means they moved at a speed of 317 km/second. This is 930 times faster than sound speed, 211 times faster than rifle bullets. With this speed Superman would travel around the globe in 2 minutes. Maybe not as impressive from comic book standards, but defiantly impressive for comic movies.
(MOS) Not many people consider or think about this as feat. But if you calculate it, this feat is quite impressive durability feat. Zod and superman fell from the sky with enough speed to spark a burning effect by the atmosphere like a shooting star. A small shooting star while burning and falling trough atmosphere reaches temperatures between 1500-1800 kelvin, which is 300 kelvin higher than magma temperature is. This would be a reason that Superman could probably take a bath in Lava and not even get bothered.
(MOS) Superman stood up against a very powerful gravity beam by the world engine which makes the atmoshphere more like kryptonian and would weaken him. Not only does he stand against the beam that easily destroyed skyscrapers and flattened cars, he also manages to fly against it and hit the engine so hard that it gets destroyed. Keep a note that World engine hit the ground with a speed that would hit with force enough to rival a nuke. Although this feats is hard to describe as we dont know how powerful the beam really was or how durable the world engine exactly was. We also dont know how much he was weakened by the engine. The only thing we saw that he fell down drained after destroying the engine. Still impressive strength feat and this would mean Superman would carry heavy objects in flight.
(BVA) Last but not least the infamous nuke scene. Superman survived a nuke while being still weakened by kryptonite exposure as he was not healing from the wounds. Although the nuke burned him he still survived it which is quite impressive. A blast radius by Doomsday seen from the space in the gif is comparable to the size of the gotham or metropolis (not sure which city it was). Those are very large cities. Doomsday most likely also did not absorb whole nuke energy, but part of it yet blasted with size of large city.
The nuke that hit them was was LGM-30 Minuteman, which hits with intercontinental balistic misile W-87 which has yield of 300 kiloton
Regardless of the size any nuke from point blank range would have same effect. Exploding nuke in the central part reaches up a temperature around 100-150 milion kelvin which about like 10-15 times hotter than the core of our sun. Superman survived it which is insanely powerful durability feat. Most people think that more megatons equals to more impressive feat, which is false and right. In this case its false. If Superman was hundred meter away from the nuke explosion it would matter because core of the nuclear explosion cools down quickly even after couple meter away from the core of the explosion. In this case Superman and Doomsday were hit from point blank range. From scientific point of view and calculations temperature like that would vaporise any kind of matter in known universe and basically destroy it at subatomic level. Process is even called as plasma sauce where extremly hot temperatures rip apart matter by ripping apart electrons from the atoms and then protons and neutrons durning it into plasma with subatomic particle sauce. This means Superman is really durable at subatomic level.
(BVS) This is an of screen feat where newspapper states that Superman has shifted tectonic plate. The feat is ofscreen and most people will say it doesnt count. This would put him at a trillion tonner level
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