One of the greatest Superman moments was when he was recovering from surgery after being shot with a kryptonite bullet. All his villains heard he was weakened and they all attacked the hospital he was in, while the rest of the JL was outside doing everything they could do to hold them back. Superman wakes up with a war zone outside, and barely hold it together enough to get up and go outside...and everything stops. He tells the entire collection of Earth's bad guys that he's willing to allow them to fight him in his weakened condition, but that he's Tired. The only thing that's ever allowed anyone to fight him without Superman literally killing them instantly was the limitations that he's always self-imposed. And now he's so tired he doesn't think he could really keep that self control up. He's like, Ok guys, but we can do this if you really want. ...And all the bad guys ALL of them just walk away like "I wonder what's on TV right now." Great moment.
@@keelergamingCR action comics 818, make it better, one of the villains said he was bluffing and he punch them so far up the air, they created a crater on the concrete they landed
The drawback: while the clone was active, superman couldn't use his powers, since the clone was borrowing them. He eventually tried to murder his clone, as it was becoming more popular than him.
Wait. This reminds me of that one futurama episode where bender cloned himself Could those clones clone themselves? Would there be an infinite army of tiny supermen?
My favorite thing from Justice League animated series is when Superman and Darkseid or fighting and Superman says all his life he's felt like he's lived in a world made of cardboard always afraid to break something someone
Except cardboard ain't easy to break. That's why they use cardboard boxes for stunt people to land in/on. Superman lives in a world of fragile glass, like the most delicate china or ancient scrolls, something where the merest touch of his hand can shatter it. JLAU Superman was easily one of the weakest versions of Superman ever shown.
I thought she's on top It would probably be the only safe way to have sex with a human or Superman somehow figured out how to turn her into a Kryptonian
I think you guys would enjoy doing this of Martian Manhunter, his backstory its amazing and you will get a good laugh about how absolutely broken his powers are
The only difference: Superman is vilnerable to radiation from fragments of his destroyed home planet, which are canonically rare. (Except that any goofball can score them on the black market, but I digress.) The Martian Manhunter's vulerability? Fire. Not even flames from some specific rare substance. Anyone with a disposable lighter or a book of matches can mess J'onn up.
@@edwardphilibin3151 Actually hes not really weak to fire , he's weak to fire because of some weird psychological issues because if he'd didn't have that weakness he would just wreck the universe beucse he would turn into an evil Apex Predator or something
@@DrPluton If that's the argument, he should see no life left in a stake, but instead see plenty of it in fresh vegetables and fruit, even as he cuts and cooks them alive. And that's if we ignore the billions of bacteria constantly dying all around us. Anyone who takes an antibiotic would be beaten to a pulp for committing genocide.
@@84C4 animals run aways and scream at you, plants don't run and need other creatures to spread their seeds. Fruit and vegetables aren't alive, so yeah stop boxing animals and eating poor meat
@@ifigureditout999 Fruits and vegetables respond to fear stimulus in lab tests, so, maybe your prejudice against chlorophyllic lifeforms is the real outrage. :)
@@killernyancat8193 Just double checked, it was just a mix up with a random thug and they ran with it. I believe the initial art had him with hair so he didn't just come off as Humanite v2 though
@@dans9097 1 - Superboy saves Lex Luthor from laboratory accident. 2 - Lex Luthor loses his hair (& his shit). 3 - Lex Luthor vows lifelong vengence against Superman. Sure, makes perfect sense... At least it's better than some iterations of Luthor's character, where he's a bigot against all aliens, or that he's such a viciously pathological bastard that he murders first a shuttle full of astronauts, then kills his new assistant - throwing her off a building - for shits 'n' giggles...
"Man of Tomorrow" sounds like something Howard Stark would have called Steve Rogers at that World Fair or whatever that was, if the fair were held after he was in the program and wasn't Classified. If superman can vibrate himself into intangibility, why would he have to limit his speed to keep the air from catching fire? Couldn't he become intangible, so that he will have no effect on the air, and then fly however fast he wants?
If he is only immortal because of the radiation of our yellow sun, how can he survive until the end of the universe, when even black holes will have dispersed?
On the topic of Superman memorising all the heartbeats of his friends, in Dark Nights Metal when Batman wanted to hide from the Justice League, he had to scatter several transmitters playing a live feed of his heartbeat across the world to show them down, and I think he was still found within a day. Superman could also tell Batman was scared just by the heartbeat.
Karate Kid indeed is a thing. And he possess the power of Super Karate, which he used to save the Earth from meteors with karate chops and roundhouse kicks. He's basically a walking Chuck Norris meme.
Superman never really stood out to me and I wouldn't call him a favorite at all, but I also find it hard to dislike him when he's basically the essence of what a hero should be.
Eh, Ik every hero in comics is op due to power creep, but he is the definition of op. He doesn’t have any sort of limit so it kinda makes him a 1 dimensional character for me. Another thing is, why tf would yellow sunlight make him op when kryptonians were around red stars? That just isn’t how biology works, if a species were to adapt like that, it would be for an active benefit. Also, why would any krytonians ever die if all they need is a little bit of yellow sunlight and there immortal.
@@bananaeclipse3324 To be honest he do have some kind of limits as Red sunlight, Kryptonite and magic works seems to affect him more not to forget other characters like The Flash, Thor, Hulk and others are stupid OP to... As for the red don't even bother making sense on the origin of his powers, it's comics...
Listening to all of this, you come to realise that Superman is one of the most broken, overpowered characters in all of fiction. He is, for all intents and purposes, unbeatable. And yet there are still people that believe he would lose to Goku?!
I think people get so angry at this that they miss the point that if superman and Goku met....they wouldn't fight. They'd chill and fight some big ass monster or huge metaversal threat and go back to their respective lives. But imagine getting angry at a stupid death battle video
Goku would win for one simple reason. He would lose. When Goku loses, he takes it personally, trains, gets better, then fights and wins. Goku scales quadraticly and has no known ceiling. I'm honestly not really a fan of either (too much on my plate and what little comic time I have is spent on other characters) but no matter how powerful Superman is, what I have seen of Goku suggests he will keep scaling until he wins, no matter what it takes or how long. The only exception is if Superman *accidentally* kills Goku first.
The feeling when Superman in comics is so inconsistent, any fight he is in is decided by who is writing him, if the writer thinks that Superman can't punch down a tree, then he can't but if the writer thinks he can sneeze and the whole existence is gone, he can do that.
@@NeoIsrafil I was thinking because Homelander doesn't have that biomatrix field, iIt would explain him not even trying to lift the plain, besides him obviously not really caring either way. But if he wanted to, he could've lifted the plain a la Superman. But he would just punch through it, cause physics.
An enhanced version of it was also the only power the post-crisis Superboy initially had when introduced after Superman's death back in the mid 90s. (For Superboy it is referred to as "Tactile Telekinesis".)
I've always liked the interpretation that superman isn't weak to magic, but rather he has the same resistance to it as any other person and it's only a 'weakness' because of his normal untouchable state
As a note: The "Help from Green Lantern" iirc was just that Green Lantern provided a harness to let Superman pull the Earth. That was all. I'm going to guess that was really just needed so Superman didn't have a whole ass planet in his sight line when he was trying to move it.
@@SantosAl A Green Lantern's constructs are as strong as their will power. I imagine if you had enough willpower to earn the power of the ring and your home was on the line, you'd have the strength of will to create that strong a construct.
@@Theroha Or the pressure would lead me to question my capabilities and bow down to my fear; there is a reason why players in the NBA can consequently score free throws in training while sucking in a game Having the wherewithal to overcome this amount of psychological pressure and perform at this level is incredibly impressive.
"If he chooses, Superman can excite the molecules of whatever substance he vibrates through to critical mass, causing it to explode." Imagine: Superman vibe checks Darkseid and he just explodes.
Speaking of releasing his limiters, you just can't beat the "World of Cardboard" speech from Justice League Unlimited. That is still one of my favourite scenes in media.
Right? But then like...what do you do with the poor guy? I imagine I'd suggest he be taken backward in time and cryogenically frozen somehow so his life can, in a way, end.
You assume Superman died at the end of time. He can cross dimensional barriers and by the end of time, he would be so powerful that even the destruction of the universe wouldn't phase him. He'd just travel to a new universe and set up shop.
See that's what always gets me. They say if You take wonderwomans power and batman money they are both amazing fighters. Then they meme around and say superman is useless. Yet superman know a butt load of fighting styles regardless
As a Kryptonian he's also about ten times denser than a normal human being without his powers, so even if he weren't a highly capable fighter sans powers, he'd still be a bitch to have to take on.
@@AdderMoray plus his natural Kryptonian physique should be immensely strong due to the gravity and atmospheric pressure being far greater than Earth's. If he trained at Krypton standard while under red solar radiation he would basically be at Atlantean or Amazonian strength. Writer's tend to forget this. I would love for a comic to have Zod and his wife being depowered by red solar radiation by someone only for them to still wreck their foes easily and for Zod to state "I am a warrior bred and trained on Krypton, do not think I am like Kal-El if you remove my powers"
A weird thing people (including writers) forget is that even depowered, Superman is 10x as strong as a normal human because krypton has 10x earth gravity.
the list of masters he's trained under is surely incomplete if it leaves out heavyweight champion Mohamed Ali fro, the legendary Superman vs Ali comic.
There was a different guy (with no superpowers) already going by the name Gangbuster. Clark's split personality was him wearing Gangbuster's costume and beating the crap out of thugs in a Batman style. It was all Brainiac's doing.
@@killernyancat8193 i remember a deadpool comic from when i was like 15 where he didnt like the next page so he went and beat up the writer and made him "go back and change the story" was the first deadpool comic my brother made me read so i could understand the character.
My favourite thing from Superman is the little moments, where he’s just being super nice. Like that one time he was just in Bludhaven and he decided to chill on patrol with Nightwing cause he likes helping people.
The best part about his spuer smell is one comic where he's been wacked in the head hard and is acting weird, but while he's being kept in the Justice League space station he's like "guys, wait, somebody's making brownies in north dakota, we need to go"... from space. He can not only hear in space but also smell in space
It would be a good scene for a comedic style Superman show (e.g. One Punch Man). Imagine pedestrians sees Superman on the pavement doing a handstand, and pedestrians looking him confused as they pass by. Then people realise that the Sun getting smaller and smaller in the distance.
@@karrotakun3581 I had to look it up and he apperantly punched out of the phantom zone and retconed Beast boys history. Was trapped in the speedforce but punched out of it too People always bring up Goku vs. Superman, but Goku vs. Superboy-prime is the real fight
Pa Kent dying isn’t a part of Superman’s canon...it was pre-Crisis (both parents were dead) but post-Crisis Pa remained alive until 2008...then they both died again in New 52 and finally are alive again post-Doomsday Clock (unless Death Metal has retconned it again)
Seeing as this is a video about Superman I just want to mention that one of my favourite panels in the comics that shows who Clark Kent is. He's sitting somewhere pretty high up watching the horizon and as the sun rises he smiles and quietly and happily says 'Good morning' . It's just a cute moment but it, at least to me, shows just the genuine sweetness that Clark has. Happily saying "good morning" to the world and going off on his day. Man of steel superman would never have such a cute moment.
I got to that "separate dimension" for sex question they asked, and like all I can think of was when Buffy and Angel banged a new universe into existence in the Buffy comics.
Bro, The tidbit about flash running to the end of time only to find Superman standing there is ... Absolutely mind blowing. Only other thing that blew my mind like this is when I saw the scale of Ringworld in comparison to earth. Scared the shit out of me. Look at a comparison and see if it doesn't scare the shit out of you.
I think one way they can explain about how he hides his identity (and I think I read this) would be to attribute it to his heat vision. That he radiates some energy from his eyes that make it hard for people to look at his face directly. Or for cameras to capture his face clearly. And he dials it back as Clark. This would create a great moment where he would tell Lois to look at him, to really take a look at him as superman and he dials it back so she sees Clark in dupes costume.
13:01 That is terrifying.... That is my exact worst nightmare. Being immortal is the worst curse. Being forced to live to the end of existence. What happens if he can't die after that? It's so sad it's terrifying.
@@nicholase82 no he’s right, the character does have a golden skull but is named golden bat, he was a character originally used in street plays in a manga/comic esc style using panels to tell the story called kamishibai
Debatable who the first comic hero was depending on your definition. Zorro and Tarzan predate Golden bat SS does The Shadow who while not originally a comic character would still make his way there
If there was a comic where Luthor decides to use Superman's super senses against him by paying a LOT of people to eat really awful junkfood that gives them diarrhea, so Superman could feel the smell of diarrhea all over the planet... ...I want this now.
Okay, So; since Supes has Ultra Instinct just like Kakarot. And, since they are both pure of heart; they'd be equally matched. I bet Goku would say something like Supes did in the animated series, I can finally cut loose.
He also has the ability to hypnotise people into seeing him how he wants them to and the ability to project an image of superman eg. Flying just outside the window. So, he can point to it and say "How can I be superman? He's right there!".
Yes but you still cannot divide an infinity to make 1/2 infinite. But you CAN go to INFINITY AND BEYOND as there is not only a first order infinity, there is a 2nd order and supposed to be an infinite number of orders of infinity. OK that last one I have trouble with. Unless its using the 2nd order of infinity of irrational numbers to produce MORE orders of infinity. Oh, since the real numbers include the 2 order infinity of irrational numbers the real numbers would be a third order. I guess the 10,000 character limit on RUclips kinda limits this discussion so I will stop here.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 The most brain breaking part: there is no conceivable infinity that can be used to denote how many infinities there are. The realm of infinity is so big, it can't even describe itself.
@@LilyKazami ", it can't even describe itself." But with just two more symbols we can do that. * ∞^∞^∞... * Cheesy math symbols to go to ∞ and * ∞^∞^∞... BEYOND *
@@ーテイル The integer numbers The irrational numbers The real numbers The imaginary numbers The complex numbers I said it could go on. I am not a mathematician but I see no reason that it cannot go on and someone managed to prove that it can. IF you are referring to: * ∞^∞^∞... That is NOT three, an ellipsis in math indicates that it goes on ... infinitely.\ Example The series 1, 2, 3 ... The series 1, 3, 5 ... ...
A scene from smallville had dr fate see superman’s future which had no end he called it “utterly blinding”, it looked like he was flying through eternity
Thinking about if that feat of dodging Darkseid omega beans was made by Nightwing I will feel ok, but no is have to be Batman. There is no love for Dick.
but Superman is the first superhero. When you split the word up it has a different meaning... case in point...The Phantom wore a costume but his genre was more akin to crime noir, but more...super.
@@Deception975 well, I don't know for an absolute fact that there isn't a way that it could work , maybe during certain phenomenon that may occur out in space. So I guess yeah it COULD work, but it's probably so incredibly unlikely that it has yet to happen? Lol
@@righty-o3585 Look up the "WOW!" signal that was received from space. Yea, we say Superman can "hear" in space. That just might be a very simple way of defining it. Granted, the distance he can hear is greater than what should be possible, in the that time frame. That's really the only problem I have with it.
@@Deception975 that signal was picked up by a radio telescope, meaning that it was a non audible electromagnetic radio wave, which do not require a medium to travel through . It didn't become an actual sound until it was received by the telescope.
@@righty-o3585 Yea, but you get what I mean? Superman can see the electromagnetic spectrum. Basically, I'm saying. Maybe there are "sounds" that he can ear. That we normally can't. Sorry, I'm not really good at explaining things.
@@charzanboo9940 Surely he doesn't... But it's not like "I do mqgic i can beat sups", it's hard to beat him even with the usage of magic. Edit: sups so op my tablet broke itself while writing about him.
@@charzanboo9940 Yes and no. He has no invulnerability to magic, but he's still a Kryptonian and his dense molecular structure makes him hard to hurt. A magic blast that can destroy a building, just "hurts" Superman but doesn't do any actual damage that can put him down for the count. Transformation magic won't work on him because he refuses to bend to someone else's will. Dr. Strange still thinks at human speeds and Superman thinks faster than light. He could beat Dr. Strange literally faster than it takes Strange to blink.
the part about the omega beam is interesting. could it be that the omega beams are homing on consciousnesses and predicting their thoughts, and batman can dodge them because he is preforming a sort of occlumency?
it was actually shazam that helped superman lift the infinite pages book, wonder woman did help him lift the literal embodiment of eternity tho so ya know similar feet
When it comes to Man of Steel I completely get where Johnathon came from as a parent. In his shoes I would have said and done the same thing to protect my child above all else
Superman is practically invincible in a situation where he's saving a bus of children that's like walking to the mail box for superman and he likes doing it why would you dissuade the behavior
@@santiagogonzales9487 true, but Kent knew his son would be an outcast. Hunted by governments and agencies that would seek to capture, control, or kill him. As a father protecting his son from that was the lesser evil.
Being trained by Karate Kid alone is actually more impressive than Wonder Woman and Batman combined if you know your DC characters. Karate Kid (who predates the Ralph Macchio character. In fact there's a thanks to DC in the first film for use of the name.) is a member of the Legion of Superheroes in the 31st century. (Superboy's team in the silver age.) Karate Kid has no actual powers (despite the main rule for LSH membership being that you have at least one power that no existing member has), but is the only person to have mastered every form of martial arts in the entire universe. His fighting skill is such that he can take out even Kryptonians and Daxamites in one on one combat. (He's done so against both Superboy and Supergirl in various continuities. The latter was in a single well calculated, well placed, and perfectly executed kick as she was flying at him, full speed.)
I remember the one comic where he was in a mine when an atomic bomb went off in it. Afterwards, he flew to a nuclear power plant, and climbed into the reactor for a while to bleed off the radiation. Afterwards, the technicians used a geiger counter and found he was clear of harmful radiation, and he was able to fly back to Metropolis and resume his life.
The heart beat thing seems potentially hilarious. Like image one of his friends "in the heat of the moment" and superman gets worried and crashes in to "save" them and awkwardness ensues.
That powers section reminds me of that one comic panel where Superman is high on some kind of kryptonite, and can smell someone making brownies in like North Dakota or something. From space of course.
One of the greatest Superman moments was when he was recovering from surgery after being shot with a kryptonite bullet. All his villains heard he was weakened and they all attacked the hospital he was in, while the rest of the JL was outside doing everything they could do to hold them back. Superman wakes up with a war zone outside, and barely hold it together enough to get up and go outside...and everything stops. He tells the entire collection of Earth's bad guys that he's willing to allow them to fight him in his weakened condition, but that he's Tired. The only thing that's ever allowed anyone to fight him without Superman literally killing them instantly was the limitations that he's always self-imposed. And now he's so tired he doesn't think he could really keep that self control up. He's like, Ok guys, but we can do this if you really want. ...And all the bad guys ALL of them just walk away like "I wonder what's on TV right now." Great moment.
Can you tell me the name of the animated series or the comic series?
@@dandywaysofliving don't know, didn't hear from the guy who put up the entire story, but didn't give the source.
If I'm not mistaken this happens somewhere in between action comics 810 and 818
@@keelergamingCR action comics 818, make it better, one of the villains said he was bluffing and he punch them so far up the air, they created a crater on the concrete they landed
@@justinbueche7315 thanks a lot dude will surely read it
'How does that one sentence GET Superman better than all the movies?'
Because BATMAN!
Cause he's fuckin Batman
Because it's always THE BATMAN.
The difference a decent writer makes is amazing, innit?
That one quote was the reason I even started to like Superman
Captain America in the MCU is who Superman should've been in the DCEU
In the silver age of comics he had the power to shoot clones of himself from his hands. They have the same powers but are half his height.
The drawback: while the clone was active, superman couldn't use his powers, since the clone was borrowing them.
He eventually tried to murder his clone, as it was becoming more popular than him.
Superboy-Prime punched reality and caused line wide retcons.
Wait. This reminds me of that one futurama episode where bender cloned himself
Could those clones clone themselves?
Would there be an infinite army of tiny supermen?
Wasn't the whole issue in that episode that the clones were continuing to clone themselves?
Yes, it was.
DC's Karate Kid is an absolute monster, he is a normal man who knows so much martial arts that he can perform grapples that work on Superman.
So much like the Karate Kid remake, this Karate Kid doesn't really do Karate?
Basically, he's a hanma.
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Well he does , he does everything.
@@84C4 same as judo master, a martial arts expert lol
My favorite thing from Justice League animated series is when Superman and Darkseid or fighting and Superman says all his life he's felt like he's lived in a world made of cardboard always afraid to break something someone
Yah. That was a pretty good line IMO. It must be frustrating.
Except cardboard ain't easy to break. That's why they use cardboard boxes for stunt people to land in/on. Superman lives in a world of fragile glass, like the most delicate china or ancient scrolls, something where the merest touch of his hand can shatter it. JLAU Superman was easily one of the weakest versions of Superman ever shown.
@@Falcun21 Glass is actually pretty Strong too, How about Wet Tissue Paper?
@@Falcun21 imagine how fragile cardboard is to Superman.
@@Random-Draw-Time pffff, wayyy to strong. More like gel.
"he has the power to vibrate so hard things around him explode, man lois lane is having a right good time" 🤣🤣
I thought she's on top
It would probably be the only safe way to have sex with a human or Superman somehow figured out how to turn her into a Kryptonian
@@anarchomando7707 kryptonite bedposts
@@Cutie_Amor Nah Kryptonite handcuffs... I bet Lois Lane is kinky
I think you guys would enjoy doing this of Martian Manhunter, his backstory its amazing and you will get a good laugh about how absolutely broken his powers are
Thatd be good, MM is definitely supremely broken.
Discovers that Superman's Power just copy Martian Manhunters.
"Invisible, Intangible,Flight"
The only difference: Superman is vilnerable to radiation from fragments of his destroyed home planet, which are canonically rare. (Except that any goofball can score them on the black market, but I digress.)
The Martian Manhunter's vulerability? Fire. Not even flames from some specific rare substance. Anyone with a disposable lighter or a book of matches can mess J'onn up.
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Actually hes not really weak to fire , he's weak to fire because of some weird psychological issues because if he'd didn't have that weakness he would just wreck the universe beucse he would turn into an evil Apex Predator or something
@@l0sts0ul89 I believe that's only cannon in new52 though.
Somehow the least believable thing in all that is that a Kansas boy would be a vegetarian.
If you could see the life aura of a living creature fade when it died like Superman can, I'm sure you would have a different stance than other people.
@@DrPluton If that's the argument, he should see no life left in a stake, but instead see plenty of it in fresh vegetables and fruit, even as he cuts and cooks them alive. And that's if we ignore the billions of bacteria constantly dying all around us. Anyone who takes an antibiotic would be beaten to a pulp for committing genocide.
@@84C4 animals run aways and scream at you, plants don't run and need other creatures to spread their seeds. Fruit and vegetables aren't alive, so yeah stop boxing animals and eating poor meat
@@ifigureditout999 Fruits and vegetables respond to fear stimulus in lab tests, so, maybe your prejudice against chlorophyllic lifeforms is the real outrage. :)
@@eshbena I'd rather eat a plant then a creature that had a mother flat and simple
Lex Luthor is only bald because of a printing error.
Alright I’ll believe this
Something about getting the character model for initial introduction getting mixed up with Ultra Humanite?
And then they retconned it to be a lab accident Lex bans on Superboy. Excellent writing.
@@killernyancat8193 Just double checked, it was just a mix up with a random thug and they ran with it.
I believe the initial art had him with hair so he didn't just come off as Humanite v2 though
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1 - Superboy saves Lex Luthor from laboratory accident.
2 - Lex Luthor loses his hair (& his shit).
3 - Lex Luthor vows lifelong vengence against Superman.
Sure, makes perfect sense...
At least it's better than some iterations of Luthor's character, where he's a bigot against all aliens, or that he's such a viciously pathological bastard that he murders first a shuttle full of astronauts, then kills his new assistant - throwing her off a building - for shits 'n' giggles...
Green Lantern made the harness around the Earth that Superman pulled it with.
He's a vegetarian because he can see the life-force of living beings, it's addressed in 'Superman: Birthright'.
That’s really interesting thank you for sharing
Must really hate vegetables then if he can see their life force, considering they were alive.
@Dick Balls • 30 years ago No, he doesn’t. He can be completely sustained by radiation from a yellow sun.
@@deadpool3982 that technically only became a thing after the reeves movie
His favorite food is actually beef bourguignon with ketchup.
"Man of Tomorrow" sounds like something Howard Stark would have called Steve Rogers at that World Fair or whatever that was, if the fair were held after he was in the program and wasn't Classified.
If superman can vibrate himself into intangibility, why would he have to limit his speed to keep the air from catching fire? Couldn't he become intangible, so that he will have no effect on the air, and then fly however fast he wants?
If he is only immortal because of the radiation of our yellow sun, how can he survive until the end of the universe, when even black holes will have dispersed?
@@snowblood74 Given that he can store solar energy in his cells, he probably just had so much stored up by that point that he kept going.
it's comics dude, just roll with it
On the topic of Superman memorising all the heartbeats of his friends, in Dark Nights Metal when Batman wanted to hide from the Justice League, he had to scatter several transmitters playing a live feed of his heartbeat across the world to show them down, and I think he was still found within a day.
Superman could also tell Batman was scared just by the heartbeat.
"Superman is familiar with these teachings"
Sun Tzu , the art of war
Karate Kid indeed is a thing. And he possess the power of Super Karate, which he used to save the Earth from meteors with karate chops and roundhouse kicks. He's basically a walking Chuck Norris meme.
Superman never really stood out to me and I wouldn't call him a favorite at all, but I also find it hard to dislike him when he's basically the essence of what a hero should be.
Aggree
Eh, Ik every hero in comics is op due to power creep, but he is the definition of op. He doesn’t have any sort of limit so it kinda makes him a 1 dimensional character for me.
Another thing is, why tf would yellow sunlight make him op when kryptonians were around red stars? That just isn’t how biology works, if a species were to adapt like that, it would be for an active benefit. Also, why would any krytonians ever die if all they need is a little bit of yellow sunlight and there immortal.
@@bananaeclipse3324 To be honest he do have some kind of limits as Red sunlight, Kryptonite and magic works seems to affect him more not to forget other characters like The Flash, Thor, Hulk and others are stupid OP to...
As for the red don't even bother making sense on the origin of his powers, it's comics...
I mean he's the paragon for heroes. He's like the yardstick.
"The most deadly martial art on krypton. it uses pressure points"
So superman can use hokuto shinken
Since this version is in the current Crisis, i want him to the Batman Who Laughs
Superman is so powerful he makes McDojo shit work
Listening to all of this, you come to realise that Superman is one of the most broken, overpowered characters in all of fiction. He is, for all intents and purposes, unbeatable.
And yet there are still people that believe he would lose to Goku?!
I think people get so angry at this that they miss the point that if superman and Goku met....they wouldn't fight. They'd chill and fight some big ass monster or huge metaversal threat and go back to their respective lives. But imagine getting angry at a stupid death battle video
Goku would win for one simple reason. He would lose.
When Goku loses, he takes it personally, trains, gets better, then fights and wins. Goku scales quadraticly and has no known ceiling.
I'm honestly not really a fan of either (too much on my plate and what little comic time I have is spent on other characters) but no matter how powerful Superman is, what I have seen of Goku suggests he will keep scaling until he wins, no matter what it takes or how long. The only exception is if Superman *accidentally* kills Goku first.
Cartoons>=comics>anime
I'm terms of powerscaling
The feeling when Superman in comics is so inconsistent, any fight he is in is decided by who is writing him, if the writer thinks that Superman can't punch down a tree, then he can't but if the writer thinks he can sneeze and the whole existence is gone, he can do that.
In comics people are strong or weak depending on whose writing
Like batman can clap the whole justice league
Then lose to bane lol
I think biomatrix field is the reason he can stop a airplane without breaking through it
And why Homelander didn't save the plane
Fact fiend actually exsplain this is their own superman can never get dirty video 🤣
@@animegamernerdo homelands probably didn't care enough to have done so anyway. He's too selfish to be able to share his invulnerability.
@@NeoIsrafil I was thinking because Homelander doesn't have that biomatrix field, iIt would explain him not even trying to lift the plain, besides him obviously not really caring either way. But if he wanted to, he could've lifted the plain a la Superman. But he would just punch through it, cause physics.
An enhanced version of it was also the only power the post-crisis Superboy initially had when introduced after Superman's death back in the mid 90s. (For Superboy it is referred to as "Tactile Telekinesis".)
I've always liked the interpretation that superman isn't weak to magic, but rather he has the same resistance to it as any other person and it's only a 'weakness' because of his normal untouchable state
As a note: The "Help from Green Lantern" iirc was just that Green Lantern provided a harness to let Superman pull the Earth. That was all. I'm going to guess that was really just needed so Superman didn't have a whole ass planet in his sight line when he was trying to move it.
That's how I remember it. I imagine there's enough lead in the Earth to keep Superman from just x-ray visioning that.
That's quite impressive that the Green Lantern could do this, his chains needed to be able to deal with an incredible amount of force to not break.
@@SantosAl A Green Lantern's constructs are as strong as their will power. I imagine if you had enough willpower to earn the power of the ring and your home was on the line, you'd have the strength of will to create that strong a construct.
@@Theroha Or the pressure would lead me to question my capabilities and bow down to my fear; there is a reason why players in the NBA can consequently score free throws in training while sucking in a game
Having the wherewithal to overcome this amount of psychological pressure and perform at this level is incredibly impressive.
@@SantosAl I think that's why you and I aren't Green Lanterns
"If he chooses, Superman can excite the molecules of whatever substance he vibrates through to critical mass, causing it to explode."
Imagine: Superman vibe checks Darkseid and he just explodes.
Funny thing is that's kinda how he defeated Hank Henshaw/Cyborg Superman when they first fought.
One of my favourite Superman titles is ‘Champion of the oppressed.’
Imagine when he was a little boy and he was like at school and he could smell that his mom was making his favorite food
Imagine being able to smell the pheromones of every girl or guy who has the hots for you. Its gotta be super distracting for the guy.
lol
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And hear his father clapping his mothers cheeks.
One day the quote is gonna be his World Of Cardboard speech
@@killernyancat8193 just look up World Of Cardboard
My favorite superman moment of all time.
Still the most epic Superman scene in moving picture form
Speaking of releasing his limiters, you just can't beat the "World of Cardboard" speech from Justice League Unlimited. That is still one of my favourite scenes in media.
Flash should have waved at clark at the end of time. Dick move for him to let him die alone. :P
Right? But then like...what do you do with the poor guy? I imagine I'd suggest he be taken backward in time and cryogenically frozen somehow so his life can, in a way, end.
You assume Superman died at the end of time. He can cross dimensional barriers and by the end of time, he would be so powerful that even the destruction of the universe wouldn't phase him. He'd just travel to a new universe and set up shop.
See that's what always gets me. They say if You take wonderwomans power and batman money they are both amazing fighters. Then they meme around and say superman is useless. Yet superman know a butt load of fighting styles regardless
As a Kryptonian he's also about ten times denser than a normal human being without his powers, so even if he weren't a highly capable fighter sans powers, he'd still be a bitch to have to take on.
@@AdderMoray plus his natural Kryptonian physique should be immensely strong due to the gravity and atmospheric pressure being far greater than Earth's.
If he trained at Krypton standard while under red solar radiation he would basically be at Atlantean or Amazonian strength.
Writer's tend to forget this. I would love for a comic to have Zod and his wife being depowered by red solar radiation by someone only for them to still wreck their foes easily and for Zod to state "I am a warrior bred and trained on Krypton, do not think I am like Kal-El if you remove my powers"
“No one man should have all that power”
- Reverend Kanye Omari West
14:16 You mean *Santa* wrapped them in lead.
A weird thing people (including writers) forget is that even depowered, Superman is 10x as strong as a normal human because krypton has 10x earth gravity.
Weird Flex but ok.
No need to get political
The only time this is acceptable to say.
Lmao...I suppose it would be a pretty weird flex. 😂
I hate this. Burn in hell
Weird flex but -
the list of masters he's trained under is surely incomplete if it leaves out heavyweight champion Mohamed Ali fro, the legendary Superman vs Ali comic.
I like how the word cloud in the beginning says Clark Steel, that’s kick ass
“Gangbuster”
I’m sorry what
He developed a split personality where he became an edgy street level vigilante
Yes, it IS as stupid as it sounds
There was a different guy (with no superpowers) already going by the name Gangbuster. Clark's split personality was him wearing Gangbuster's costume and beating the crap out of thugs in a Batman style. It was all Brainiac's doing.
Ok, they just gave a bunch of The Flash's powers to Superman.
His most BS power is (and I’m not making this up) that the plot will change so that he can win. The power is literally in-canon plot armor.
Archie Sonic has a similar ability
And they say batman has the best plot armor.
Superman have any power that writer needs him to have.
@@killernyancat8193 i remember a deadpool comic from when i was like 15 where he didnt like the next page so he went and beat up the writer and made him "go back and change the story" was the first deadpool comic my brother made me read so i could understand the character.
Lucas M. Most protagonist in every story ever written have this ability.
Mr Rogers.... What a great dude.
"He vibrated so hard, an entire planet (that was a ghost) disappeared."
Fucking cackling here.
Pure hardman beating up ghosts
My favourite thing from Superman is the little moments, where he’s just being super nice.
Like that one time he was just in Bludhaven and he decided to chill on patrol with Nightwing cause he likes helping people.
The best part about his spuer smell is one comic where he's been wacked in the head hard and is acting weird, but while he's being kept in the Justice League space station he's like "guys, wait, somebody's making brownies in north dakota, we need to go"... from space. He can not only hear in space but also smell in space
Superman moving the Earth would look like hes doing a handstand!
It would be a good scene for a comedic style Superman show (e.g. One Punch Man). Imagine pedestrians sees Superman on the pavement doing a handstand, and pedestrians looking him confused as they pass by. Then people realise that the Sun getting smaller and smaller in the distance.
We did actually have that Superman in the movies... back in the 80's... Yeah. The first of those movies is still one of my favorites. XD
"So Superman always Always Smells Fresh"
Well then he needs a more accurate name, How's "SuperFresh?"
Don't know if they'll make a video for superboy-prime because he's alot more broken then superman but he doesn't have much for band name
He punched the universe so hard that it resurrected Jason Todd, so yeah. Absolutely broken. Lmao
@@karrotakun3581 I had to look it up and he apperantly punched out of the phantom zone and retconed Beast boys history. Was trapped in the speedforce but punched out of it too
People always bring up Goku vs. Superman, but Goku vs. Superboy-prime is the real fight
@@the123joker Both Goku don't stand a chance.
Pa Kent dying isn’t a part of Superman’s canon...it was pre-Crisis (both parents were dead) but post-Crisis Pa remained alive until 2008...then they both died again in New 52 and finally are alive again post-Doomsday Clock (unless Death Metal has retconned it again)
Seeing as this is a video about Superman I just want to mention that one of my favourite panels in the comics that shows who Clark Kent is. He's sitting somewhere pretty high up watching the horizon and as the sun rises he smiles and quietly and happily says 'Good morning' . It's just a cute moment but it, at least to me, shows just the genuine sweetness that Clark has. Happily saying "good morning" to the world and going off on his day. Man of steel superman would never have such a cute moment.
This is by far one of my favorite wiki weekends. Thanks for this boys
I got to that "separate dimension" for sex question they asked, and like all I can think of was when Buffy and Angel banged a new universe into existence in the Buffy comics.
Not only is Karate Kid a thing, the movie had to pay DC for use of the name.
Bro, The tidbit about flash running to the end of time only to find Superman standing there is ...
Absolutely mind blowing. Only other thing that blew my mind like this is when I saw the scale of Ringworld in comparison to earth. Scared the shit out of me. Look at a comparison and see if it doesn't scare the shit out of you.
Not on topic, I've just been watching this channel for a while and wanted to say I dig it. Thanks man, keep doing what you do!
It's funny that he gets his power from a yellow sun, seing as our sun IS WHITE and only looks yellow after the sunlight travels through our atmosphere
Clark Joseph Kent so that means Superman is part Jojo. - insert pillar men theme here for flexing -
I think one way they can explain about how he hides his identity (and I think I read this) would be to attribute it to his heat vision.
That he radiates some energy from his eyes that make it hard for people to look at his face directly. Or for cameras to capture his face clearly.
And he dials it back as Clark.
This would create a great moment where he would tell Lois to look at him, to really take a look at him as superman and he dials it back so she sees Clark in dupes costume.
Actually they merged the two Supermen into one and gave him his wife and son back. Now that means Superman is a time anomaly
I think a wiki weekend on a dragonball character would be mint
There was one on Broly but more would be pretty cool
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That is terrifying.... That is my exact worst nightmare. Being immortal is the worst curse. Being forced to live to the end of existence. What happens if he can't die after that? It's so sad it's terrifying.
he can choose to die, all he has to do is not get near a yellow sun, but he chooses not to, just to make sure he can help more people
Golden Bat is the first comic Super Hero actually and he a nice skeleton with op ability and a crazy evil laugh
I think you're thinking of a Golden Skull and he's more of a Japanese Manga.
@@nicholase82 no he’s right, the character does have a golden skull but is named golden bat, he was a character originally used in street plays in a manga/comic esc style using panels to tell the story called kamishibai
Debatable who the first comic hero was depending on your definition. Zorro and Tarzan predate Golden bat SS does The Shadow who while not originally a comic character would still make his way there
@@creed8712 this is strictly comic book hero and it not even debatable tbh
If there was a comic where Luthor decides to use Superman's super senses against him by paying a LOT of people to eat really awful junkfood that gives them diarrhea, so Superman could feel the smell of diarrhea all over the planet...
...I want this now.
9:00 It was SHAZAM, not Wonder Woman. Also, they could barely lift it to chest level.
The Man of Tomorrow can vibrate the molecules in anything he touches until it explodes! Talk about "Poppin cherries" 🍒🍭🎉
Okay, So; since Supes has Ultra Instinct just like Kakarot. And, since they are both pure of heart; they'd be equally matched. I bet Goku would say something like Supes did in the animated series, I can finally cut loose.
They’d have to fight in the void dimension so they don’t accidentally destroy a universe or several.
I love that just a pair of glasses and a suit are his disguise
He also has the ability to hypnotise people into seeing him how he wants them to and the ability to project an image of superman eg. Flying just outside the window. So, he can point to it and say "How can I be superman? He's right there!".
No one expects him to be in disguise and in one limited run(?) I think, he said people tell Clark Kent that he looks like superman.
"Hyper-metabolize"
Funny way to say, "is allergic to yellow sunlight."
Isn’t he weakened to red sunlight aswell? Imagine what he would be like under a blue star
Conceptually, greater and lesser infinities are a thing, soo..
Yes but you still cannot divide an infinity to make 1/2 infinite.
But you CAN go to INFINITY AND BEYOND as there is not only a first order infinity, there is a 2nd order and supposed to be an infinite number of orders of infinity. OK that last one I have trouble with. Unless its using the 2nd order of infinity of irrational numbers to produce MORE orders of infinity. Oh, since the real numbers include the 2 order infinity of irrational numbers the real numbers would be a third order.
I guess the 10,000 character limit on RUclips kinda limits this discussion so I will stop here.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 The most brain breaking part: there is no conceivable infinity that can be used to denote how many infinities there are. The realm of infinity is so big, it can't even describe itself.
@@LilyKazami
", it can't even describe itself."
But with just two more symbols we can do that.
* ∞^∞^∞... *
Cheesy math symbols to go to ∞ and * ∞^∞^∞... BEYOND *
@@ethelredhardrede1838 those are 3
@@ーテイル
The integer numbers
The irrational numbers
The real numbers
The imaginary numbers
The complex numbers
I said it could go on. I am not a mathematician but I see no reason that it cannot go on and someone managed to prove that it can.
IF you are referring to:
* ∞^∞^∞...
That is NOT three, an ellipsis in math indicates that it goes on ... infinitely.\
Example
The series 1, 2, 3 ...
The series 1, 3, 5 ...
...
A scene from smallville had dr fate see superman’s future which had no end he called it “utterly blinding”, it looked like he was flying through eternity
Always great videos ,I gone back in the Video Play list,said good
Thinking about if that feat of dodging Darkseid omega beans was made by Nightwing I will feel ok, but no is have to be Batman.
There is no love for Dick.
The underrated power of being able to use his eye beams to cut his facial hair
wrong, the original super hero is Gilgamesh
Hero then yes but super hero as in comic and movie then it is Golden Bat the nicest most op skeleton with the most evil laugh ever
@@hikarihakai1285 That is completely correct, tho that skeleton is definitely super I dont know about the hero part.
@@ParagonGoetia he help people and defeat villain which is enough tbh
@@hikarihakai1285 Tarzan predates him actually
but Superman is the first superhero. When you split the word up it has a different meaning... case in point...The Phantom wore a costume but his genre was more akin to crime noir, but more...super.
Whenever superman says he forgot he just didn't care😂
The animated movie Superman vs The elite does a good job of showing how OP he is but constantly holds back so he can be more human.
Weird flex, but ok.
Strange proclamation, but very well
@@neurohack9038 don't be rude bro
Unorthodox display of hubris but very well
The Bromance between Superman and Batman is criminally underused in modern DF Stories
Isn’t like Batman the only person Superman trusts to take him down, or something like that?
It makes no difference how incredibly super his hearing is, sound needs a medium to travel through. No medium, no sound.
Contrary to popular belief. Space isn't a complete vacuum. So... it somewhat can work, with a stretch of imagination.
@@Deception975 well, I don't know for an absolute fact that there isn't a way that it could work , maybe during certain phenomenon that may occur out in space. So I guess yeah it COULD work, but it's probably so incredibly unlikely that it has yet to happen? Lol
@@righty-o3585 Look up the "WOW!" signal that was received from space. Yea, we say Superman can "hear" in space. That just might be a very simple way of defining it. Granted, the distance he can hear is greater than what should be possible, in the that time frame. That's really the only problem I have with it.
@@Deception975 that signal was picked up by a radio telescope, meaning that it was a non audible electromagnetic radio wave, which do not require a medium to travel through . It didn't become an actual sound until it was received by the telescope.
@@righty-o3585 Yea, but you get what I mean? Superman can see the electromagnetic spectrum. Basically, I'm saying. Maybe there are "sounds" that he can ear. That we normally can't. Sorry, I'm not really good at explaining things.
I wanted them to bring up that meme about Flash thinking in attoseconds
There's a doom patrol member called flex mentallo who basically has this as a power
If superman can manipulate Chi, can he do the Kamehameha?
And this is why Dr.strange beats him despite how OP superman is. Because Magic
Not really but ok. Bud
He does because Superman has no defense against magic.
superman resists magic idiots superman fought Multiverse magic level from Dr. Fate which is way more powerful than Dr. Strange
@@charzanboo9940 Surely he doesn't... But it's not like "I do mqgic i can beat sups", it's hard to beat him even with the usage of magic.
Edit: sups so op my tablet broke itself while writing about him.
@@charzanboo9940 Yes and no. He has no invulnerability to magic, but he's still a Kryptonian and his dense molecular structure makes him hard to hurt. A magic blast that can destroy a building, just "hurts" Superman but doesn't do any actual damage that can put him down for the count. Transformation magic won't work on him because he refuses to bend to someone else's will. Dr. Strange still thinks at human speeds and Superman thinks faster than light. He could beat Dr. Strange literally faster than it takes Strange to blink.
So my parents named me after Superman and this video is like constant psychic damage.
Weirdest Superman golden age power was his ability to shoot miniature versions of himself from his hands.
Now that you've done superman. You gotta do doomsday
Actually, there's actually one more thing I heard! Supes is so op, he once sang so hard he shattered the essence of Darkseid.
Superman doesnt even have to be muscular. He can overcome almost all situations with just flicking his finger
the part about the omega beam is interesting. could it be that the omega beams are homing on consciousnesses and predicting their thoughts, and batman can dodge them because he is preforming a sort of occlumency?
I find it hilarious that Superman knows that you smoke pot before he even sees you
Everyone knows you smoke pot before they see you.
it was actually shazam that helped superman lift the infinite pages book, wonder woman did help him lift the literal embodiment of eternity tho so ya know similar feet
When it comes to Man of Steel I completely get where Johnathon came from as a parent. In his shoes I would have said and done the same thing to protect my child above all else
Superman is practically invincible in a situation where he's saving a bus of children that's like walking to the mail box for superman and he likes doing it why would you dissuade the behavior
@@santiagogonzales9487 true, but Kent knew his son would be an outcast. Hunted by governments and agencies that would seek to capture, control, or kill him. As a father protecting his son from that was the lesser evil.
Being trained by Karate Kid alone is actually more impressive than Wonder Woman and Batman combined if you know your DC characters. Karate Kid (who predates the Ralph Macchio character. In fact there's a thanks to DC in the first film for use of the name.) is a member of the Legion of Superheroes in the 31st century. (Superboy's team in the silver age.)
Karate Kid has no actual powers (despite the main rule for LSH membership being that you have at least one power that no existing member has), but is the only person to have mastered every form of martial arts in the entire universe. His fighting skill is such that he can take out even Kryptonians and Daxamites in one on one combat. (He's done so against both Superboy and Supergirl in various continuities. The latter was in a single well calculated, well placed, and perfectly executed kick as she was flying at him, full speed.)
even though he is talking to far away lucas or far away nisha i like how it always feels like he is talking to us
It makes me happy fact fiend likes Superman and how wholesome he is
I remember the one comic where he was in a mine when an atomic bomb went off in it. Afterwards, he flew to a nuclear power plant, and climbed into the reactor for a while to bleed off the radiation. Afterwards, the technicians used a geiger counter and found he was clear of harmful radiation, and he was able to fly back to Metropolis and resume his life.
The heart beat thing seems potentially hilarious. Like image one of his friends "in the heat of the moment" and superman gets worried and crashes in to "save" them and awkwardness ensues.
If I remember correctly, Superman and Wonder Woman having sex caused world wide natural disasters.
Essentially superman never takes a shower.
That powers section reminds me of that one comic panel where Superman is high on some kind of kryptonite, and can smell someone making brownies in like North Dakota or something. From space of course.
Anyone have the comic where the flash runs to the end of time and sees Superman?
Can't find it anywhere.
Haven't watched in a while. Looking fit!