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Superman (DC Comics) Profile(s) Discussion Thread

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I made this thread for suggestions on improving Supeman’s profiles in preparation for a CRT (adding missing abilities, scans or supporting evidence). To clarify this thread is intended to focus on his Intelligence, Stamina, Range, Weaknesses, Standard Tactics, and (most notably) Powers and Abilities sections, not Tier/Lifting Strength/Speed.

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Superman​

Kryptonian Physiology​

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Superman is a member of the race that populated the planet Krypton, known as Kryptonians. Such beings were known as being a race of engineers, explorers, and scientists, ever challenging the cusp of possibility for a greater, brighter future. Kryptonians are almost identical to humans superficially, but possess differences based on the evolutionary pressures they were raised in.


Kryptonians due to evolving in an environment with higher gravitational influences, a less enriching atmosphere, and a supermassive red sun (named Rao) has caused them to become hardened physiologically in a certain way that Earthlings cannot dare hope to match. Yet, while on Krypton, under the influence of its red sun, Kryptonians do not seem to possess abilities beyond that of your average human being; once you put them under the influence of other types of solar radiation, you unlock their innate energetic potential, giving them abilities beyond anyone’s wildest imagining.


Such an exposure changes the Kryptonian on a quantum level, changing not only their physical makeups through giving them immeasurable strength, speed, and durability, but also giving them the ability to warp time and space itself. Kryptonian powers once exposed to solar rays of the non-red variety are due to the storage of interstellar energies in every individual Kryptonian cell, with Jor-El explaining them to be psionic, telekinetic, and temporal energies sourced from the stars above. According to The Chief (from the Doom Patrol), Kryptonian abilities cannot and are not explained by simple DNA contents or the fact that Kryptonians possess different organs from humans, instead the conclusion comes that since the abilities are not generated from the material makeup of the Kryptonian body, the energy that makes up this matter (as in their non-material essence) rather explains their abilities.


There exists no upper-limit to how much solar energy a Kryptonian can absorb, as the absorption of more and more solar energy (with this absorption being passive) simply strengthens the aura that Kryptonians spontaneously generate which give them the ability to interact with the world in supernatural ways. This aura is telekinetic in nature, and allows for Kryptonian synapses to communicate with each other instantly without any time delay, and as Batman explains, this probably can only be explained through Kryptonians passively manipulating space itself in the timeframe of planck instances through passively creating wormholes so that they can achieve the effects that are otherwise physics breaking (e.g. traveling FTL). Desaad, similarly, states that Superman through warping the fabric of space-time itself can achieve effects such as flight and superspeed.


For the more esoteric abilities Kryptonians have used, the explanation that they basically have the ability to do anything as long as their will is strong enough has been put forth before, including the idea that at a certain point, Superman has no limits whatsoever and is not defined by handbook-style stats when it came to his abilities. In the story The Greatest Hero of them All, it is explained that the original Superboy’s ability to always save the day, and do things like travel through time without so much a thought of effort, was explained as “maybe just because I always could do anything I really, truly had to do!” Dream of the Endless repeats this fact, saying that Superman is the “strongest man in the world”, and can do anything, absolutely anything.


This is further seen in the case of H’el, a Kryptonian clone who had been exposure to the solar energy of a Quasar, unlocking his true inner power as a Kryptonian, allowing him to create entirely new timelines according to his will, reshaping it whenever he needed reality to be a certain way, with this constant reshaping even threatening the entirely of all life in the Omniverse. The Kryptonian Martial Art of Torquasm-Rao and Vo also lends credence to this idea, as it unlocks the hidden potential within the Kryptonian mind and expands it to its true actuality.


Such an ability allows for Superman to create entire psychic-based universes that can influence reality through force of will, being able to counteract and fight against the magic of other reality warpers whose wills were imposed on reality, with even entire multiverses (infinite experiences of different universes) being created as information weapons. It also allowed for the self-transformation and adaptation of Superman against a foe, as to gain the capacities of other versions of Superman altogether, although more on this later.


The final evolution of Superman as a Kryptonian is seen in his stages of life in the future, such as Superman Prime One Million, whose capacities due to constant evolution via solar energy gave him abilities beyond that of all metahumans in the 853rd century, with this evolution eventually leading beyond this, to the point where Superman during the heat death of the universe itself was able to continue the existence of the universe proper, being able to split himself into several fragments with different characteristics and abilities, before merging back to only reach his true potential to rescue that which was lost beyond the 5th dimension. The 5th dimension is itself the cap for all things that can be dreamt up and comprehended by minds in the multiverse, allowing things such as the erasure of the art itself, and yet Superman’s evolution as a Kryptonian even allowed him to go past this.


Such a fluidity in the abilities of Superman due to being a Kryptonian allowed him to even adapt to higher spatial dimensions, gaining higher dimensional senses (made from the cosmic armor) to correspond to whatever new level he is put within. This seems odd, if it weren’t for the fact that Superman is actually not just a Kryptonian, but also a god.


Superman is actually a direct descendant of the Kryptonian god Rao, the metaphysical embodiment of the red sun that Krypton itself orbits. Such metaphysical embodiments are so powerful they exist within the city of stars, a metaphysical location that allows them to exist on the same ontological function as the Endless, whose existences are themselves summed as the constants of the DC multiverse. Rao is himself the creator of all life on Earth too, fathering the ancestors of all gods that stem from Earth.


Superman himself is sired directly from Rao and was able to defeat Cythonna, a goddess of Krypton while Rao could only banish her after lifetimes of battle. This status as divinity for Superman has even led him to believe that his only place among equals would be found in New Genesis, a world harbored by deities composed of platonic concepts.


Solar Energy Absorption​

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Kryptonians are empowered by something called the photonucleic effect, a mechanic of physics within the DC universe which describes how Kryptonian beings are able to process the energy coming from solar bodies differently. According to this law of nature, the same physical process which turns Kryptonite radioactive around yellow stars also energizes the cells of beings who are native to red stars, or as Maggin explains:


“Where non-living matter becomes unstable and radioactive with this dislocation, living things develop an enhanced stability. The first thing that happens under the photonucleic effect is that the nucleus of each of an organic creature's cells grows a carapace—a temporary shell that shields it from external harm. This happens very quickly, from the outside of the organism - the cells in direct contact with yellow starlight—to the most internal cells of the organs, in less than the time it takes to draw a breath. For a moment, the organism is suspended in a comatose state, but the moment is too brief to notice. In that moment, the nucleus of every atom in the organism quakes. Each electron in every carbon or hydrogen atom in every molecule of its body jumps outward by one quantum level. The nucleus unbinds, its protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles loosening, expanding the binding space between them by the merest fraction of an angstrom. The molecules of the transplanted being's body do not actually grow, but the physical space that the solid parts of them take up thus increases exponentially without increasing the organism's actual mass or proportions. The organism becomes harder, tougher, more durable, better able to navigate the changed environment in which it now finds itself.”


Effectively, sunlight can specifically change the matter of a being from other solar systems with different types of stars in the DC universe, and a being native to a red star (like that of Krypton’s Rao) once introduced to a yellow star (like the Earth’s sun) would have their eigenstates changed so that the nucleic content of such a being is decohered, creating a larger volume of energy that Kryptonians exhibit throughout their bodies.


According to a similar continuity, yellow, blue, dwarf, brown, and white stars all give Kryptonians unique properties that vary in potency, while pulsars and quasars give power beyond imagining (more on that later). Black holes attempt to consume the Kryptonian completely, while red stars reduce their abilities to something equivalent to a human being. Such sunlight empowers the Kryptonian to do anything they are usually able to do, empowering their flight, strength, speed, energy projection, etc. Violet suns, for example, even give Superman certain telepathic powers.


Recently, Superman after being exposed to War World’s ‘white sun’ has claimed that its radiation made him stronger than he has ever been, supported by the fact that such an exposure allowed Superman to overcome his weakness to red sunlight in general and also gave him the ability to readily fold space like no-one’s business, therefore giving him direct teleportation. This is similar to the N52 Kryptonian clone H’el, whose exposure to a Quasar gave him specific abilities like teleportation, intricate matter manipulation on a molecular level, advanced telepathy, etc.


The exact power level Superman gets based on exposure to the sun is almost arbitrary, given the fact that he was able to go from being on the brink of death due to malnutrition to one-shotting the creator of the DC multiverse upon just entering 6 suns for a little while. It should be noted that Superman was going faster than he had ever gone at this point, which, if you look at his speed section, literally means he was moving faster than infinity. This means that Superman was spending less than an infinitesimal fraction of an individual planck instant within these stars, and still was able to internally generate his abilities back to such a level that it even exceeded his average, and was able to even one-shot a higher-dimensional cosmic deity.


The exact rate of absorption mainline Superman has is also probably above the absorption of other Supermen and Kryptonians, given the fact that Superman existed as the rogue element in every possible timeline which messed up the Forger’s plans, and every time the Forger simply isolated Superman in a pocket dimension with minimal sunlight, where they would eventually die from lacking energy. Yet, the mainline Superman endured, and overcame, indicating that his rate of solar energy absorption is somehow better than every other Kryptonian in the multiverse… somehow.


In such an interesting case, Superman’s solar energy absorption should be above Supergirl’s from Cosmic Adventures in the 8th grade (yes, really), which had her cells supercharged by the equivalent of a “million billion suns” (equivalent to a quadrillion suns), allowing her to grow bigger than the entire multiverse and defeat Mxyzptlk (who is the same in every community) who had become 10th dimensional. Superman could scale above this through being able to metabolize entire universes worth of everything at once, as shown with Mageddon, so Superman being able to pull a stunt like this is not out of the question.


Additionally, after a certain point, Superman does not seem to need solar energy whatsoever. In many futures of the DCU, Superman is fine despite the Earth becoming a red giant in the future (as shown in Action Comics #1000), or is fine even at the Heat Death of the Universe during two separate occasions after every star had died out for well over a googol years, with Superman still retaining his abilities. In fact, the very idea that when the stars die out, Superman will still nonetheless remain, is one of the entire plot points of one of these stories.


Finally, the fact that ‘stars’ themselves (and therefore the energy Superman absorbs) in DC might even be metaphysical rather than simply physical chemical and quantum processes indicates that the absorption of solar energy by Kryptonians and Superman in particular has more than meets the eye. Sandman: Overture in fact details how there exists metaphysical representations of stars in the DC Multiverse, representing the actual stars in the universe. Among them is Rao, the star of Krypton, and Sol, the star of Earth.


Clark’s importance as a reminder of the despair caused by such life being put around an unstable star like Rao was initiated by Despair of the Endless (even though Superman’s arrival was more so oriented towards hope rather than despair proper), indicating his greater place in such a cosmological idea. Such stars are even able to kill and trap members of the Endless for eternity within metaphysical representations of black holes, which shows their metaphysical significance.


Electromagnetic Manipulation​

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Superman possesses a variety of visions much superior to that of humans, and all for different purposes, be it damaging a foe or using a form of sensory beyond human. These types of visions include:


Heat Vision: Superman’s heat vision is one of his most famous and powerful abilities. Effectively, he can shoot concentrated lasers of heat out of his eyes, generating heat more intense then the sun. He’s shown great precision in how he can alter the heat vision; the lower the temperature is, the less visible it is. The hotter it is, the more blinding it can appear. He’s also shown control in how he fires it, whether as a narrow beam or a wide area-of-effect attack, or even just shooting straight behind him.


He can also control the heat vision in size and pitch for more practical uses, such as surgical procedures or bypassing durability. It can also be used to hurt intangible beings, vaporize enemies, or even ionize the air around an enemy. It’s powerful enough to beam clash with absolute zero, Martian Manhunter’s martian vision, and the heat vision of Eradicator, which has the power of a sun’s core. And power-wise, it’s harmed some of DC’s heaviest hitters such as Captain Atom, Shazam, Despero, and even other Kryptonians such as Power Girl.


X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through any solid object… except lead (bruh). And due to his x-ray vision being unlike the x-rays of Earth, he does not have to worry about affecting anyone with radiation. The range of his x-ray is so powerful, he can see through things down to a person’s immune system, or all the way out to the entire planet of Earth. Another usage of this ability is detecting things within the body, such as detecting stress points or internal damage. One greater feat Superman can do with his superhuman vision is that he can see the soul of any lifeform. That and his 4-D vision, which allows him to see fourth dimensional perspective. Superman can even see emotion.


Using his x-ray vision, Superman can create electromagnetic pulses which can destroy any technology he uses it against, as well as use his x-ray vision to create a field of radiation which could act as a force field against the energies of a sentient universe with power over the ultraviolet segment of the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, Umbrax. Superman could contain Swamp Thing’s astral form using the magnetic field generated with his x-ray vision, too.


Superman can even see the future! This is consistent with the fact that x-ray vision allows one to travel object’s tachyonic paths through time, allowing a Kryptonian to theoretically see the entire timeline of one object, and when combined with time travel, allows them to perfectly follow things through time.


Telescopic Vision: Superman can use his vision to see something at far greater distances than the human eye can see, with much superior perception as well. For example, Superman was able to see fires in Kansas all the way from Washington D.C. More impressively, he can watch events from the unlikeliest of places, such as underwater, the moon, and the further reaches of outer space. His vision is so great, Superman can see a scar on the moon that stretches for a million miles as well as the edge of the universe.


Microscopic Vision: Likewise, Superman can also alter his vision to view extremely small objects and images down to the molecular level. He can scan objects and people down to the molecular level, being able to see molecule chains and the compounds that make them. Not only that, Superman can view things down further to the subatomic level, like being able to watch photons collide. He can see the individual strands of a person’s DNA and use that knowledge to identify people. Not only can Superman see a human's genetic marker just from their blood, but he can also see the genetic makeup of alien races like the New Gods.


Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Superman can see very much into most of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing him to identify radio and television signals and other broadcast/transmitted frequencies. As a result, he can trace cell-phone signals, frequency links, and UV fluctuations among other things. Because of this, Superman can avoid detection from methods such as radar and satellite monitoring. Interestingly enough, he can also see through invisibility like with Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, view sine waves, and feel imbalances between magnetic waves. Lastly, Superman can use this ability to see the aura living beings produce, such as the heat signature of their footprints and the energy patterns of a meta human.


Super Hearing​

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Superman can hear any sound at any pitch or volume, allowing him to pick up any noise from across the globe, such as heartbeats, blood in veins, radio signals, wi-fi signals, footsteps on asphalt, etc. One example is that he was able to hear an alarm that lasted a millisecond. More impressively, Superman can hear changes in wavelengths, letting him know when a person has been mind controlled. His super hearing is so precise, he can hear molecules bonding as well as hear a person’s heartbeat in a crowd of 11 million people.


Superman can hear everything in Metropolis at once, allowing him to hear the change in the average pulse rate of the city. He can even hear people fall asleep across the U.S. and listen in to a delta brainwave from a great distance. Speaking of which, Superman can hear news reports from all over the world while underwater, meaning he’s listening to multiple languages all at once. He achieved the same feat, but while he was near the moon instead. In fact, Superman was able to hear someone on Earth shouting his name while he was flying near Saturn.


With enough skill and concentration, he can also block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. As a result, it would be futile to ambush him since he would be able to sense it coming. In fact, he can dodge an attack just by hearing a change of the air’s movement. This amount of control has allowed him to attune his hearing to a specific person’s voice to save them from trouble. Having to search for a specific sound with his hearing is described as panning for gold.


Super Smell​

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Lastly, Superman’s sense of smell is also at superhuman levels. He can smell brownies being made specifically in North Dakota all the way from the Justice League’s Watchtower satellite. Superman can tell when enemies are a hard light projection instead of being the real deal just by their lack of scent. He can tell a volcanic eruption was taking place just by smelling sulfur discharging in the ozone layer. Lastly, Superman can smell a person’s tears.


Non-Physical Interaction​

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In the past, Superman has been shown interacting with non physical entities like holograms (as seen above) and even to things like ghosts and other non corporeal beings like the Phantom Stranger. He has been able to use his powers to freeze astral projections and ghosts. He was able to use his telekinetic bio-electricity to contain Swamp Thing’s astral form even as this astral form exists as fractal geometries and pure information. Superman can even see people’s souls, and could absorb the souls of those within the Phantom Zone in order to gain enough power to beat the Eradicator.


Super-Breath​

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By exhaling air from his lungs, Superman can generate hurricane force winds strong enough to the point where he can blow a being made of smoke into outer space. He can speak at hypersonic frequencies and duplicate certain other sonic frequencies. Superman can reverse the process of his super breath by pulling large volumes of air or vapor into his lungs, such as inhaling fire and smoke as well as a lethal amount of Joker’s laughing gas.


Astral Projection​

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Kryptonians in the Phantom Zone, despite lacking a body due to being trapped in such a void, are nonetheless able to telepathically project their spirit in a form of Astral Projection in order to interact with the waking world, with Clark being no different. As a teenager, despite being stuck in the Phantom Zone, he was able to project a telepathic projection of himself into the physical world, which could affect technology through the electrical energy of his brain-waves, allowing him to control his Superman robots as well as Typewriters.


It is likely that if Superman were ever stuck in a situation where he could not escape physically, he could do a similar trick in order to gain help from his familiars. Additionally, using Torquasm Rao, he was able to manifest a telepathic projection of himself in order to fight with the Eradicator, and using the same technique, Clark was able to teach Lois how to project her spirit across the universe through the absorption of the non-local energy of the cosmos into her body.


Freeze Breath​

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Superman can also freeze his breath to chill a target or freeze them solid. He’s shown the ability to use his freeze breath as a counter measurement to heat and fire, such as when he heated the core of an Imperiex Probe’s armor to break it down, which are pure forms of energy contained within a colossal suit of armor. He can extend the range of his freeze breath to an entire planet’s surface. His freeze breath has overpowered numerous DC heavy hitters, such as Bizarro, Green Lantern John Stewart, a cannibal planet by giving it a brain freeze with his freeze breath, Darkseid, Wonder Woman (shown above), can affect ghosts, and was even cold enough to freeze and shatter the astral form of Zatanna… damn.


Super Flare​

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Often used as a last resort power, Superman can use the solar energy stored in his body/cells into an all out area-of-effect attack, releasing a gigantic burst of explosive force and energy. He cannot use it more than once at a time however, as it leaves him severely drained of his Kryptonian abilities as the drawback. In earlier uses, Clark would lose his powers and be rendered vulnerable for up to 24 hours, but the Justice League have lent their hand in helping Clark in reducing this timeframe, by using the super flare in more controlled environments and in smaller bursts. As of late, he’s been able to control his super flares so well, his powers remain intact.


Supernatural Willpower​

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The spirit and will of Superman is perhaps one of the Man of Steel’s most well defined attributes. Through well-raised optimism and no desire to give up, Superman’s feats of willpower have defined who he is for time and generations. He not only has the willpower to break through his own limitations and achieve the impossible, but also impose his own barriers on himself, make sure his power doesn’t cause tectonic plates to shift with a mere flex, or harm innocents in any way. But when faced with a seemingly impossible task or powerful foe, those limitations are abandoned to find a way. Some of his most well-defined feats of willpower can include:


- His willpower has been described as infinite (image above).

- Undid the reality warping effects of Emperor Joker through his ‘manifest faith and will’

- Reversed the magic of Etrigan the demon with his willpower and conviction

- Was stated by Hal Jordan Spectre to have the strongest willpower in creation

- His will is stated to be stronger then his own muscles

- Was unaffected by a transference of Batman’s experience of an eternity of torture (due to it permanently breaking Bruce) after the events Emperor Joker

- Superman was a successor to the Green Lantern Abin Sur due to his willpower but it only went to Hal Jordan due to Clark not being from Earth

- Overpowered Green Lantern Guy Gardner’s willpower with his own, making his Green Lantern ring his own. By way of reference, Guy Gardner’s willpower is so strong, he has overpowered the influence of a Yellow Lantern ring, and withstood a neurasthenic antimatter antibody that can graft onto the fabric of space, and attack the sentient nervous system to cause physical, mental, and emotional damage

- Lends his willpower to Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner to charge their rings

- Powered the rings of four Green Lanterns (including Hal Jordan) by 20%

- Stated to have the strongest willpower on Earth


Vibration Manipulation​

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Thanks to his super speed, Superman can vibrate his molecular structure to achieve various effects. One common use he has with this ability is vibrating his molecules to phase through enemy attacks. Superman as a teenager could phase through objects through vibrating his molecules through them. However, he can also use this ability for offensive purposes such as destroying someone from the inside out. Aside from those, Superman also used his vibration manipulation for more wilder effects.


For instance, he can render himself invisible by vibrating at a rate of oscillation. Most impressively, Superman saved the omniverse by vibrating the ghost of a dead parallel Earth from his reality. Superman was even able to erase Darkseid’s soul from existence, which was infecting the entirety of reality itself, through vibrating his vocal cords to cancel out the frequency at which Darkseid’s godhead was vibrating. He could also whistle at a certain vibrational frequency to make people paralyzed.


Space-Time Manipulation​

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Using his superspeed, Superman can manipulate space-time, granting him the ability to time travel. He can travel into the future by flying at superspeed clockwise with the Earth’s rotation. Superman can also send the people around him into different time periods simply by spinning at superspeed. Superman can seal cracks in space using his heat-vision and even plug holes in space-time using his own static electricity. His flight pierces space-time and creates micro-wormholes which allow him to halve distances in planck time.


Superman can even teleport billions of light years through space warp in order to not waste a nanosecond, and is able to open up boomtubes to the source wall through simply flying. Superman could also tear holes in the continuum of space-time to reach Lex Luthor after being teleported to a star system with a red sun, saying that space-time as a concept does not concern him.


Superman is a nexus being on a nexus planet whose pure force of wills is able to change the events of time and fate itself. The timeline itself warps around Superman and all versions of every possible universe exists only to preserve a version of Superman.


Matter Manipulation​

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Superman has been shown manipulating matter in very odd ways, such as crushing a piece of coal into a perfectly cut diamond… somehow. His heat vision also has shown degrees of manipulating matter, such as replacing the effects of the Sun or causing molecules to become agitated, thereby damaging their molecular structure. Superman, using his heat-vision, was even able to excite the quantum field to create virtual particle pairs of antimatter and matter in order to escape the functional equivalent of a Black Hole’s event horizon.


In order to teach a boy that miracles actually existed, Superman was capable of using his speed to change the wavelengths of the atoms within materials, making it so that the streets were gold and the moon was green. Also, the traditional ‘turn coal into diamond’ trick was even reversed one time, with Superman being able to rub diamond in order to turn it back to coal, which would require the reversal of the laws of thermodynamics.


Telekinesis​

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As seen above, Superman, for some reason, has the ability to bastardize the sport of baseball and any conception of fair play by moving objects with his mind. Dick move, Supes. Jor-El explains that Kryptonians have their abilities, including telekinesis, from solar energy, with Superman utilizing his Kryptonian martial arts even being able to put up a telekinetic barrier in order to stop physical attacks.


Superman’s bio-electric aura was translated into a form of tactile telekinesis for Superboy, whose abilities allow him to manipulate any object with simply his mind. Superman’s ability to lift heavy-objects corresponds more to the force of will he has with his telekinetic aura rather than actual strength from his muscles, which corresponds to his ability to fly, too.


Telepathy​

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Because Superman needs to have every single superpower ever thought of and more, he’s also a proficient telepath. Such an ability can be broken down into multiple sections, including hypnosis, illusions, psychokinesis in general, etc. As Jor-El explains, Kryptonian abilities are inherently psionic in nature, generated from the rays of the sun. Superman’s brain is bursting with psionic energy to the point where even he is unaware of the full amount of psychic energy he produces, being compared to the light of a star to telepaths who can see psychic energy. Superman can telepathically mind control other individuals if he is restrained physically, and has the ability to hypnotize people, mesmerizing them with a variety of effects.


To use his hypnosis, the Man of Steel shoots beams from his eyes at his intended targets. Thanks to the Kryptonian properties of his glasses, he can automatically project his subconscious desire of having his Clark Kent persona be seen as a weaker man compared to Superman. He can also affect himself with his super hypnotism, meaning that Superman’s telepathy is more layered than any of his resistances (see Superman’s resistances section, in particular the section on Telepathy, to see just how impressive this really is).


Superman was even able to hypnotize Batman into thinking that a demon that was possessing him was actually the spirit of Joe Chill (the thug who murdered his parents), so that he could gather enough willpower to fight against it. Superman can even erase your memories by just looking at you and whispering the hypnotic suggestion, and can erase your memory by kissing you.


However, this is just scratching the surface of Superman’s mental abilities. Using Torquasm Rao and Vo, Superman could create psychic-based universes to fight against Dominus, a being whose reality warping abilities allowed him to make his, and his enemy’s, thoughts into reality. Dominus’ mental abilities were so vast in comparison that he could warp the experience of all minds in an infinite multiverse, yet Superman could defeat him with his own mental abilities.


Soul Manipulation​

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If battling a spooky ghost and his own raw power will not suffice, the heat of Superman’s heat vision can become hot enough to burn spirits, as seen above. Superman was even able to shatter Darkseid’s soul through the vibrations of his vocal cords. Superman was able to shatter Dominus’ spiritual body, which was composed of all the souls of those he had previously killed.


Superman can even absorb the souls of those around him in order to gain more power. Finally, Superman could destroy the Phantom Zone, which exists as the Oversoul’s own ability of abstract thought, the interface between this abstract intelligence and the main universe, which contains the spirits and souls of those lost.


4th Wall Awareness​

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Yep, of course Superman knows about us. He’s been winking at us specifically for years, and he knows we exist… so have fun sleeping tonight with that bombshell. Ever since the silver age, he has been aware of the reader’s presence and their knowledge of the events that only he was aware of. This is not even an old thing either, as he has done it recently, many times over. To get even more meta than this, Superman has even lifted the comic book panel with other characters in it! He has even literally broken the fourth wall (as in, a wall that represented the viewer’s point of view), and crossed it to traverse comic book eras.


“Goku, you can't fight the G1 team. They have no powers, stop!”


Resistances​

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Electricity: As shown above, unaffected by lightning. Could tank millions of volts of electricity and was subsequently unaffected.


Extreme Temperatures: Was unaffected by the Kryptonian goddess Cythonna instantly converting energy to matter in freezing him solid. Using his solar energy (through his heat vision), was able to counteract Captain Cold’s absolute zero field. Was even able to break out of ice which froze time itself around him. Survived the Heat Death of the universe during the Black Hole era after all stars had died out within the entirety of the cosmos. Survived diving into the core of a red star in order to defeat Superboy Prime with Kal-L. Survived the Big Bang, which reached a temperature of 1032 Kelvin.


Matter Manipulation: Was unaffected by Doomsday’s presence, despite the fact that Doomsday’s aura could passively decohere the molecular structures of things around him. Was able to tank multiple blasts from an extraterrestrial fire which could transmute the objects it touched into the same type of fire. Withstood the effects of a particular type of ice which could turn other beings and objects it touched into the same specific type of ice. Withstood several attempts to magically transmute his body into salt, reversed through pure will-power a magical attempt to transmute him into a demon, withstood a vortex which could transmute matter into energy, tanked alien technology which would disrupt molecular structures, tanked a radiation storm which could transmute and change every atom touched by it.


Spatial Manipulation: Was able to punch his way out of an energy field designed by Lex Luthor which could reduce his spatial dimensionality into pure flatness. Was able to survive the entire space-time of the universe collapsing in on itself and was able to break through the barriers of space and time in order to return to the present. Was able to survive within Darkseid’s singularity, which was due to the fact that his true form was pulling all space-time continuums into himself, survived Emperor Joker pulling all space-times into a singular point of infinite gravity.


Time Manipulation: Has been bounced around so many times throughout the timeline that he has become immune to chronal distortions in general, which includes resistances to:


- Time Dilation (has counteracted a temporal modulating field which could slow down time around him, was unaffected by Hal Jordan’s ring dilating time into an instant suspended between the eternities of the past and future)


- Time Stop (broke out of full chrono-suspension which froze time around him completely)


- Time Loops & Rewinding (overcame Vandal Savage’s weaponization of Hypertime, which trapped Superman into an endless fabric of yesterdays—a loop that never ends—a loop that never crossed Vandal’s own individual timeline so that he might achieve victory in the present. Clark overcame this due to the fact that in every possible timeline, he succeeded in getting home to his family.)


- Time Acceleration (Was able to resist against and eventually bypass the barriers of space and time after the conceptual embodiment of Death sped up the universe’s timeline to its eventual destruction and entropization.)


- Temporal Paradoxes & Causality Manipulation (no matter how many times Dr. Manhattan changed the timeline around Superman, Superman’s existence would be maintained, with the Metaverse changing around him in order to preserve his existence, resisted the attacks of Vyndktvx despite the fact that he was simultaneously attacking Superman at every point of his timeline at once, could not be erased from the timeline or have his timeline edited at all by the Time Trapper’s attempts (in order to defeat the Legion, influenced by Superman), even as the Time Trapper is the embodiment of a sentient parallel rogue timeline whose capabilities include the ability to warp all possible timelines to facilitate whatever event he wants to occur.)


Empathy Manipulation: Resisted a magical crystal’s capabilities of manifesting someone’s primal fear, resisted the Hollow Men draining him of the very emotion within his soul, including his hope.


Reality Manipulation: Resisted Mxyzptlk’s magic getting rid of reality itself as well as his attempts to warp Superman away from reality, resisted Dominus’ attempts to warp his reality using his own thoughts and desires with Beta Waves, and was even able to reflect that ability with Alpha Waves.


Plot Manipulation: Resisted Retconn corp’s attempt to edit his narrative during the events of Milk Wars, was the only story in the DCU to survive Mandrakk, the end of all stories, from consuming his narrative, resisted Mxyzptlk’s attempts to erase him from reality, even as Mxyzptlk’s erasure has erased the very comic book art, and even the pencil from the artist himself.


Existence Erasure: On multiple occasions, Clark has withstood Darkseid’s Omega Beams; concentrated beams renowned for their “total wipeout”, erasing not only the target from existence but all traces of their existence, including the memory of them, with no chance of rebirth or redemption. Mister Mxyzptlk has also failed to erase Superman from all of reality and memory. Clark has even defied Aethyr's attempt to "erase'' him and absorb the spiritual essence that defines his being, preventing his identity from fading away. Dominus was unable to “uncreate him”.


Despite numerous attempts, Time Trapper has also been unsuccessful in erasing Superman and his impact on the timeline from the annals of history. Though he was being erased by the Overvoid into ‘less than a thought’, the same plane that can erase the Spectre, he heard Lois’ voice and was restored. His “story” was the only story left after Mandrakk, the personification of “isn’t”, ate and erased all stories in the DCU. Such narrative erasure would be layered, since it would include beings who have survived narrative erasure before like Superboy Prime, who was able to come back from being erased from the art and the story itself.


Illusions: Could use Torquasm Rao and Vo in order to see past and block illusions, saw through Dominus’ attempts to trick him through illusions, shattered through Neron’s infinite collection of illusions upon being aware of his love for Lois. Broke free of Brainiac’s illusions.


Telepathy: Resisted a telepathic assault from the Martian Manhunter when it downed most of the Justice League, resisted an extraterrestrial force’s telepathy, which was able to affect Green Lanterns’ Kilowog and Hal Jordan, resisted a mental intrusion from Brainiac, who was able to psychically incapacitate a bunch of New Gods at once. Just looking into his psyche caused the Martian Manhunter to fall to his knees while grasping his skull in pain, most impressively, Superman’s mind was immune to Emperor Joker’s madness infecting creation, despite the fact such a madness is equal to the anti-life equation, and was able to infect the mind of the Spectre while possessed by Hal Jordan.


Poisons: Due to his Kryptonian immune system, is immune to basically every poison, to the point where he could only get drunk after he had been depowered. Has also absorbed an entire room full of Joker’s lethal laughing toxin and was subsequently unaffected.


Extrasensory perception: Could consciously make it so that his mind was hidden from Martian Manhunter’s sensing.


Biological Agents: His immune system could resist pathogenic mutagens so potent that they could bypass even the Flash’s phasing.


Anti-Matter: Shrugged off a point-blank blast of anti-matter from the Anti-Monitor during the events of Darkseid War. Tanked a hit from a position generator, with positions being the antimatter equivalent of electrons. Survived Composite Superman turning half of his body into antimatter while retaining the other half as positive matter.


Absorption: Superman resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination. Survived the absorption powers of Parasite.


Power Nullification: Immune to the abilities of Psi-Phon, who can analyze the brain of superhumans to find the area that controls their powers, shutting them off. Resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination.


Sealing: Through his strength and willpower, could break free of the Source and escape the Source Wall, a feat Highfather believed to be impossible. Superman could also break free of a Hypertime trap devised by Vandal Savage which trapped him within his own history, and, through the power of love, escaped Neron’s false realities and illusions, even after they reduced him to an immaterial thought.


Evolution Manipulation: Bizarro has many instances of turning people Bizarro upon touch, and Superman has taken this ability head-on. Resisted Gorilla Grodd’s attempt to devolve him via the Morphogenetic Field. Disciple devolved the whole Justice League, but failed to devolve Superman.


Conceptual Manipulation: Has resisted the very concept of his death attempting to destroy him on conceptual levels, as well as resisting Retconn attempting to change the very concept of his existence as Superman.


Death & Age Manipulation: Could not be killed by death itself despite accelerating the age of the universe, the concept of Death itself says that despite the fact that worlds will dissolve and universes will perish, Superman is the one anomaly out of all creation, being able to turn himself young after Death even turns him into an elderly man.


Soul Manipulation: Resisted the Hollow Men draining his soul & life-force into nothingness, alongside his powers and emotion. Tanked soul-targeting attacks from Etrigan. Has survived Silver Banshee’s scream, which can disrupt the esthetic fibers of souls themselves.


Mathematics Manipulation: Superman can move in and beyond the Monitor Sphere, which is beyond mathematics. Superman has also resisted having his mathematical formula representing his very being as an archetype edited by Retconn.


Information Analysis: Lex Luthor was incapable of analyzing Superman despite his ‘anti-Superman’ technology, claiming he is difficult to control and unpredictable. For reference, Lex Luthor has technology capable of analyzing things on a molecular scale to see if they're extraterrestrial, analyzing possible outcomes in situations, an analyzing changes in the pattern of the fabric of the universe, and analyzing extra-dimensional and inter-dimensional facilitations.


Paralysis Inducement: Resisted Kalibak's Nerve Beam, which activates all its target's pain receptors.


Physics & Law Manipulation: Can exist in Hyperspace, which exists beyond space and time itself, lacking physical laws and distorting reality itself. Was unaffected by Mxyzptlk getting rid of reality, physics, and gravity in his own realm.


Memory Manipulation: Superman has shown he has mental defenses in his mind via barriers. He’s resisted Dominus’ attempts to influence him into killing despite not wanting to, resisted the mind control of Hector Hammond despite it affecting heroes such as the Justice League, Firestorm, John Stewart, etc. He’s also resisted the mind control of notorious Justice League enemy Despero, who has mind-controlled over half the Justice League before.


Battlefield Removal: Was able to return to the present through transcending creation and bypassing the barriers of space and time once dislocated into the future where all life and stars had died out in the universe, and was able to escape weaponize Hypertime after being trapped there by Vandal Savage. Was able to even escape the primal void preceding all universes and dreams after being dumped there by Neron and left to die.


Possession: Superman has resisted possession attempts from various magical beings such as Neron and Eclipso, the latter of which can possess Zatanna, Etrigan, and the Spectre.


Electromagnetic Manipulation: Superman was barely halted by Repulse manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum to take away his sight and yellow sun radiation. He was later completely unphased when Doctor Polaris tried it on him.


Radiation: Shrugged off radiation blasts from Atomic Skull, which can vaporize a target. Survived being in the center of a radiation storm caused by Mister Mxypltzk.


Sleep Manipulation: Resisted Starro the Conqueror’s sleep inducing abilities, which put almost everyone in North America to sleep.


Vibration Manipulation: Superman tanked the vibro-cannon, which could make every molecule in his body shudder via vibrations. Resisted having his molecules phased through by Barry Allen’s vibrations due to their high density.


Gravity Manipulation: Superman has survived in black holes almost routinely, even ones that can become gravitational anomalies caused by Brainiac. Can operate in a realm without gravity itself.


Magic: Despite having no specific physiological response against magic, Superman has consistently shown to have resistances against magical attacks. With just his willpower alone, Superman was able to resist a demonic spell meant to overpower him and make him feel powerless. However, that’s not all. Superman was able to power through Disciple’s magic attack that de-evolves a person, which had affected other Justice League members Martian Manhunter, Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Wonder Woman. Thanks to his Kryptonian heritage, Superman was also able to break free from a magic gemstone that sealed away his soul. He has also endured magic-based attacks from several magic users from Tullus the Damned to Felix Faust to Circe.
 
 
It is understandable that Superman's profile is outdated and Superman has many impressive showings, but I feel that knowing the context of Superman's impressive feats is important.

It is a pity that the discussion thread is not about improving every Superman profile, including the Injustice one and upcoming Atari one.
 
So rebirth is post-crisis, new 52, and post-flashpoint merged together, right?
 
Bastolan27 said:

Superman​

Kryptonian Physiology​

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Superman is a member of the race that populated the planet Krypton, known as Kryptonians. Such beings were known as being a race of engineers, explorers, and scientists, ever challenging the cusp of possibility for a greater, brighter future. Kryptonians are almost identical to humans superficially, but possess differences based on the evolutionary pressures they were raised in.


Kryptonians due to evolving in an environment with higher gravitational influences, a less enriching atmosphere, and a supermassive red sun (named Rao) has caused them to become hardened physiologically in a certain way that Earthlings cannot dare hope to match. Yet, while on Krypton, under the influence of its red sun, Kryptonians do not seem to possess abilities beyond that of your average human being; once you put them under the influence of other types of solar radiation, you unlock their innate energetic potential, giving them abilities beyond anyone’s wildest imagining.


Such an exposure changes the Kryptonian on a quantum level, changing not only their physical makeups through giving them immeasurable strength, speed, and durability, but also giving them the ability to warp time and space itself. Kryptonian powers once exposed to solar rays of the non-red variety are due to the storage of interstellar energies in every individual Kryptonian cell, with Jor-El explaining them to be psionic, telekinetic, and temporal energies sourced from the stars above. According to The Chief (from the Doom Patrol), Kryptonian abilities cannot and are not explained by simple DNA contents or the fact that Kryptonians possess different organs from humans, instead the conclusion comes that since the abilities are not generated from the material makeup of the Kryptonian body, the energy that makes up this matter (as in their non-material essence) rather explains their abilities.


There exists no upper-limit to how much solar energy a Kryptonian can absorb, as the absorption of more and more solar energy (with this absorption being passive) simply strengthens the aura that Kryptonians spontaneously generate which give them the ability to interact with the world in supernatural ways. This aura is telekinetic in nature, and allows for Kryptonian synapses to communicate with each other instantly without any time delay, and as Batman explains, this probably can only be explained through Kryptonians passively manipulating space itself in the timeframe of planck instances through passively creating wormholes so that they can achieve the effects that are otherwise physics breaking (e.g. traveling FTL). Desaad, similarly, states that Superman through warping the fabric of space-time itself can achieve effects such as flight and superspeed.


For the more esoteric abilities Kryptonians have used, the explanation that they basically have the ability to do anything as long as their will is strong enough has been put forth before, including the idea that at a certain point, Superman has no limits whatsoever and is not defined by handbook-style stats when it came to his abilities. In the story The Greatest Hero of them All, it is explained that the original Superboy’s ability to always save the day, and do things like travel through time without so much a thought of effort, was explained as “maybe just because I always could do anything I really, truly had to do!” Dream of the Endless repeats this fact, saying that Superman is the “strongest man in the world”, and can do anything, absolutely anything.


This is further seen in the case of H’el, a Kryptonian clone who had been exposure to the solar energy of a Quasar, unlocking his true inner power as a Kryptonian, allowing him to create entirely new timelines according to his will, reshaping it whenever he needed reality to be a certain way, with this constant reshaping even threatening the entirely of all life in the Omniverse. The Kryptonian Martial Art of Torquasm-Rao and Vo also lends credence to this idea, as it unlocks the hidden potential within the Kryptonian mind and expands it to its true actuality.


Such an ability allows for Superman to create entire psychic-based universes that can influence reality through force of will, being able to counteract and fight against the magic of other reality warpers whose wills were imposed on reality, with even entire multiverses (infinite experiences of different universes) being created as information weapons. It also allowed for the self-transformation and adaptation of Superman against a foe, as to gain the capacities of other versions of Superman altogether, although more on this later.


The final evolution of Superman as a Kryptonian is seen in his stages of life in the future, such as Superman Prime One Million, whose capacities due to constant evolution via solar energy gave him abilities beyond that of all metahumans in the 853rd century, with this evolution eventually leading beyond this, to the point where Superman during the heat death of the universe itself was able to continue the existence of the universe proper, being able to split himself into several fragments with different characteristics and abilities, before merging back to only reach his true potential to rescue that which was lost beyond the 5th dimension. The 5th dimension is itself the cap for all things that can be dreamt up and comprehended by minds in the multiverse, allowing things such as the erasure of the art itself, and yet Superman’s evolution as a Kryptonian even allowed him to go past this.


Such a fluidity in the abilities of Superman due to being a Kryptonian allowed him to even adapt to higher spatial dimensions, gaining higher dimensional senses (made from the cosmic armor) to correspond to whatever new level he is put within. This seems odd, if it weren’t for the fact that Superman is actually not just a Kryptonian, but also a god.


Superman is actually a direct descendant of the Kryptonian god Rao, the metaphysical embodiment of the red sun that Krypton itself orbits. Such metaphysical embodiments are so powerful they exist within the city of stars, a metaphysical location that allows them to exist on the same ontological function as the Endless, whose existences are themselves summed as the constants of the DC multiverse. Rao is himself the creator of all life on Earth too, fathering the ancestors of all gods that stem from Earth.


Superman himself is sired directly from Rao and was able to defeat Cythonna, a goddess of Krypton while Rao could only banish her after lifetimes of battle. This status as divinity for Superman has even led him to believe that his only place among equals would be found in New Genesis, a world harbored by deities composed of platonic concepts.


Solar Energy Absorption​

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Kryptonians are empowered by something called the photonucleic effect, a mechanic of physics within the DC universe which describes how Kryptonian beings are able to process the energy coming from solar bodies differently. According to this law of nature, the same physical process which turns Kryptonite radioactive around yellow stars also energizes the cells of beings who are native to red stars, or as Maggin explains:


“Where non-living matter becomes unstable and radioactive with this dislocation, living things develop an enhanced stability. The first thing that happens under the photonucleic effect is that the nucleus of each of an organic creature's cells grows a carapace—a temporary shell that shields it from external harm. This happens very quickly, from the outside of the organism - the cells in direct contact with yellow starlight—to the most internal cells of the organs, in less than the time it takes to draw a breath. For a moment, the organism is suspended in a comatose state, but the moment is too brief to notice. In that moment, the nucleus of every atom in the organism quakes. Each electron in every carbon or hydrogen atom in every molecule of its body jumps outward by one quantum level. The nucleus unbinds, its protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles loosening, expanding the binding space between them by the merest fraction of an angstrom. The molecules of the transplanted being's body do not actually grow, but the physical space that the solid parts of them take up thus increases exponentially without increasing the organism's actual mass or proportions. The organism becomes harder, tougher, more durable, better able to navigate the changed environment in which it now finds itself.”


Effectively, sunlight can specifically change the matter of a being from other solar systems with different types of stars in the DC universe, and a being native to a red star (like that of Krypton’s Rao) once introduced to a yellow star (like the Earth’s sun) would have their eigenstates changed so that the nucleic content of such a being is decohered, creating a larger volume of energy that Kryptonians exhibit throughout their bodies.


According to a similar continuity, yellow, blue, dwarf, brown, and white stars all give Kryptonians unique properties that vary in potency, while pulsars and quasars give power beyond imagining (more on that later). Black holes attempt to consume the Kryptonian completely, while red stars reduce their abilities to something equivalent to a human being. Such sunlight empowers the Kryptonian to do anything they are usually able to do, empowering their flight, strength, speed, energy projection, etc. Violet suns, for example, even give Superman certain telepathic powers.


Recently, Superman after being exposed to War World’s ‘white sun’ has claimed that its radiation made him stronger than he has ever been, supported by the fact that such an exposure allowed Superman to overcome his weakness to red sunlight in general and also gave him the ability to readily fold space like no-one’s business, therefore giving him direct teleportation. This is similar to the N52 Kryptonian clone H’el, whose exposure to a Quasar gave him specific abilities like teleportation, intricate matter manipulation on a molecular level, advanced telepathy, etc.


The exact power level Superman gets based on exposure to the sun is almost arbitrary, given the fact that he was able to go from being on the brink of death due to malnutrition to one-shotting the creator of the DC multiverse upon just entering 6 suns for a little while. It should be noted that Superman was going faster than he had ever gone at this point, which, if you look at his speed section, literally means he was moving faster than infinity. This means that Superman was spending less than an infinitesimal fraction of an individual planck instant within these stars, and still was able to internally generate his abilities back to such a level that it even exceeded his average, and was able to even one-shot a higher-dimensional cosmic deity.


The exact rate of absorption mainline Superman has is also probably above the absorption of other Supermen and Kryptonians, given the fact that Superman existed as the rogue element in every possible timeline which messed up the Forger’s plans, and every time the Forger simply isolated Superman in a pocket dimension with minimal sunlight, where they would eventually die from lacking energy. Yet, the mainline Superman endured, and overcame, indicating that his rate of solar energy absorption is somehow better than every other Kryptonian in the multiverse… somehow.


In such an interesting case, Superman’s solar energy absorption should be above Supergirl’s from Cosmic Adventures in the 8th grade (yes, really), which had her cells supercharged by the equivalent of a “million billion suns” (equivalent to a quadrillion suns), allowing her to grow bigger than the entire multiverse and defeat Mxyzptlk (who is the same in every community) who had become 10th dimensional. Superman could scale above this through being able to metabolize entire universes worth of everything at once, as shown with Mageddon, so Superman being able to pull a stunt like this is not out of the question.


Additionally, after a certain point, Superman does not seem to need solar energy whatsoever. In many futures of the DCU, Superman is fine despite the Earth becoming a red giant in the future (as shown in Action Comics #1000), or is fine even at the Heat Death of the Universe during two separate occasions after every star had died out for well over a googol years, with Superman still retaining his abilities. In fact, the very idea that when the stars die out, Superman will still nonetheless remain, is one of the entire plot points of one of these stories.


Finally, the fact that ‘stars’ themselves (and therefore the energy Superman absorbs) in DC might even be metaphysical rather than simply physical chemical and quantum processes indicates that the absorption of solar energy by Kryptonians and Superman in particular has more than meets the eye. Sandman: Overture in fact details how there exists metaphysical representations of stars in the DC Multiverse, representing the actual stars in the universe. Among them is Rao, the star of Krypton, and Sol, the star of Earth.


Clark’s importance as a reminder of the despair caused by such life being put around an unstable star like Rao was initiated by Despair of the Endless (even though Superman’s arrival was more so oriented towards hope rather than despair proper), indicating his greater place in such a cosmological idea. Such stars are even able to kill and trap members of the Endless for eternity within metaphysical representations of black holes, which shows their metaphysical significance.


Electromagnetic Manipulation​

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Superman possesses a variety of visions much superior to that of humans, and all for different purposes, be it damaging a foe or using a form of sensory beyond human. These types of visions include:


Heat Vision: Superman’s heat vision is one of his most famous and powerful abilities. Effectively, he can shoot concentrated lasers of heat out of his eyes, generating heat more intense then the sun. He’s shown great precision in how he can alter the heat vision; the lower the temperature is, the less visible it is. The hotter it is, the more blinding it can appear. He’s also shown control in how he fires it, whether as a narrow beam or a wide area-of-effect attack, or even just shooting straight behind him.


He can also control the heat vision in size and pitch for more practical uses, such as surgical procedures or bypassing durability. It can also be used to hurt intangible beings, vaporize enemies, or even ionize the air around an enemy. It’s powerful enough to beam clash with absolute zero, Martian Manhunter’s martian vision, and the heat vision of Eradicator, which has the power of a sun’s core. And power-wise, it’s harmed some of DC’s heaviest hitters such as Captain Atom, Shazam, Despero, and even other Kryptonians such as Power Girl.


X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through any solid object… except lead (bruh). And due to his x-ray vision being unlike the x-rays of Earth, he does not have to worry about affecting anyone with radiation. The range of his x-ray is so powerful, he can see through things down to a person’s immune system, or all the way out to the entire planet of Earth. Another usage of this ability is detecting things within the body, such as detecting stress points or internal damage. One greater feat Superman can do with his superhuman vision is that he can see the soul of any lifeform. That and his 4-D vision, which allows him to see fourth dimensional perspective. Superman can even see emotion.


Using his x-ray vision, Superman can create electromagnetic pulses which can destroy any technology he uses it against, as well as use his x-ray vision to create a field of radiation which could act as a force field against the energies of a sentient universe with power over the ultraviolet segment of the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, Umbrax. Superman could contain Swamp Thing’s astral form using the magnetic field generated with his x-ray vision, too.


Superman can even see the future! This is consistent with the fact that x-ray vision allows one to travel object’s tachyonic paths through time, allowing a Kryptonian to theoretically see the entire timeline of one object, and when combined with time travel, allows them to perfectly follow things through time.


Telescopic Vision: Superman can use his vision to see something at far greater distances than the human eye can see, with much superior perception as well. For example, Superman was able to see fires in Kansas all the way from Washington D.C. More impressively, he can watch events from the unlikeliest of places, such as underwater, the moon, and the further reaches of outer space. His vision is so great, Superman can see a scar on the moon that stretches for a million miles as well as the edge of the universe.


Microscopic Vision: Likewise, Superman can also alter his vision to view extremely small objects and images down to the molecular level. He can scan objects and people down to the molecular level, being able to see molecule chains and the compounds that make them. Not only that, Superman can view things down further to the subatomic level, like being able to watch photons collide. He can see the individual strands of a person’s DNA and use that knowledge to identify people. Not only can Superman see a human's genetic marker just from their blood, but he can also see the genetic makeup of alien races like the New Gods.


Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Superman can see very much into most of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing him to identify radio and television signals and other broadcast/transmitted frequencies. As a result, he can trace cell-phone signals, frequency links, and UV fluctuations among other things. Because of this, Superman can avoid detection from methods such as radar and satellite monitoring. Interestingly enough, he can also see through invisibility like with Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, view sine waves, and feel imbalances between magnetic waves. Lastly, Superman can use this ability to see the aura living beings produce, such as the heat signature of their footprints and the energy patterns of a meta human.


Super Hearing​

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Superman can hear any sound at any pitch or volume, allowing him to pick up any noise from across the globe, such as heartbeats, blood in veins, radio signals, wi-fi signals, footsteps on asphalt, etc. One example is that he was able to hear an alarm that lasted a millisecond. More impressively, Superman can hear changes in wavelengths, letting him know when a person has been mind controlled. His super hearing is so precise, he can hear molecules bonding as well as hear a person’s heartbeat in a crowd of 11 million people.


Superman can hear everything in Metropolis at once, allowing him to hear the change in the average pulse rate of the city. He can even hear people fall asleep across the U.S. and listen in to a delta brainwave from a great distance. Speaking of which, Superman can hear news reports from all over the world while underwater, meaning he’s listening to multiple languages all at once. He achieved the same feat, but while he was near the moon instead. In fact, Superman was able to hear someone on Earth shouting his name while he was flying near Saturn.


With enough skill and concentration, he can also block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. As a result, it would be futile to ambush him since he would be able to sense it coming. In fact, he can dodge an attack just by hearing a change of the air’s movement. This amount of control has allowed him to attune his hearing to a specific person’s voice to save them from trouble. Having to search for a specific sound with his hearing is described as panning for gold.


Super Smell​

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Lastly, Superman’s sense of smell is also at superhuman levels. He can smell brownies being made specifically in North Dakota all the way from the Justice League’s Watchtower satellite. Superman can tell when enemies are a hard light projection instead of being the real deal just by their lack of scent. He can tell a volcanic eruption was taking place just by smelling sulfur discharging in the ozone layer. Lastly, Superman can smell a person’s tears.


Non-Physical Interaction​

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In the past, Superman has been shown interacting with non physical entities like holograms (as seen above) and even to things like ghosts and other non corporeal beings like the Phantom Stranger. He has been able to use his powers to freeze astral projections and ghosts. He was able to use his telekinetic bio-electricity to contain Swamp Thing’s astral form even as this astral form exists as fractal geometries and pure information. Superman can even see people’s souls, and could absorb the souls of those within the Phantom Zone in order to gain enough power to beat the Eradicator.


Super-Breath​

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By exhaling air from his lungs, Superman can generate hurricane force winds strong enough to the point where he can blow a being made of smoke into outer space. He can speak at hypersonic frequencies and duplicate certain other sonic frequencies. Superman can reverse the process of his super breath by pulling large volumes of air or vapor into his lungs, such as inhaling fire and smoke as well as a lethal amount of Joker’s laughing gas.


Astral Projection​

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Kryptonians in the Phantom Zone, despite lacking a body due to being trapped in such a void, are nonetheless able to telepathically project their spirit in a form of Astral Projection in order to interact with the waking world, with Clark being no different. As a teenager, despite being stuck in the Phantom Zone, he was able to project a telepathic projection of himself into the physical world, which could affect technology through the electrical energy of his brain-waves, allowing him to control his Superman robots as well as Typewriters.


It is likely that if Superman were ever stuck in a situation where he could not escape physically, he could do a similar trick in order to gain help from his familiars. Additionally, using Torquasm Rao, he was able to manifest a telepathic projection of himself in order to fight with the Eradicator, and using the same technique, Clark was able to teach Lois how to project her spirit across the universe through the absorption of the non-local energy of the cosmos into her body.


Freeze Breath​

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Superman can also freeze his breath to chill a target or freeze them solid. He’s shown the ability to use his freeze breath as a counter measurement to heat and fire, such as when he heated the core of an Imperiex Probe’s armor to break it down, which are pure forms of energy contained within a colossal suit of armor. He can extend the range of his freeze breath to an entire planet’s surface. His freeze breath has overpowered numerous DC heavy hitters, such as Bizarro, Green Lantern John Stewart, a cannibal planet by giving it a brain freeze with his freeze breath, Darkseid, Wonder Woman (shown above), can affect ghosts, and was even cold enough to freeze and shatter the astral form of Zatanna… damn.


Super Flare​

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Often used as a last resort power, Superman can use the solar energy stored in his body/cells into an all out area-of-effect attack, releasing a gigantic burst of explosive force and energy. He cannot use it more than once at a time however, as it leaves him severely drained of his Kryptonian abilities as the drawback. In earlier uses, Clark would lose his powers and be rendered vulnerable for up to 24 hours, but the Justice League have lent their hand in helping Clark in reducing this timeframe, by using the super flare in more controlled environments and in smaller bursts. As of late, he’s been able to control his super flares so well, his powers remain intact.


Supernatural Willpower​

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The spirit and will of Superman is perhaps one of the Man of Steel’s most well defined attributes. Through well-raised optimism and no desire to give up, Superman’s feats of willpower have defined who he is for time and generations. He not only has the willpower to break through his own limitations and achieve the impossible, but also impose his own barriers on himself, make sure his power doesn’t cause tectonic plates to shift with a mere flex, or harm innocents in any way. But when faced with a seemingly impossible task or powerful foe, those limitations are abandoned to find a way. Some of his most well-defined feats of willpower can include:


- His willpower has been described as infinite (image above).

- Undid the reality warping effects of Emperor Joker through his ‘manifest faith and will’

- Reversed the magic of Etrigan the demon with his willpower and conviction

- Was stated by Hal Jordan Spectre to have the strongest willpower in creation

- His will is stated to be stronger then his own muscles

- Was unaffected by a transference of Batman’s experience of an eternity of torture (due to it permanently breaking Bruce) after the events Emperor Joker

- Superman was a successor to the Green Lantern Abin Sur due to his willpower but it only went to Hal Jordan due to Clark not being from Earth

- Overpowered Green Lantern Guy Gardner’s willpower with his own, making his Green Lantern ring his own. By way of reference, Guy Gardner’s willpower is so strong, he has overpowered the influence of a Yellow Lantern ring, and withstood a neurasthenic antimatter antibody that can graft onto the fabric of space, and attack the sentient nervous system to cause physical, mental, and emotional damage

- Lends his willpower to Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner to charge their rings

- Powered the rings of four Green Lanterns (including Hal Jordan) by 20%

- Stated to have the strongest willpower on Earth


Vibration Manipulation​

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Thanks to his super speed, Superman can vibrate his molecular structure to achieve various effects. One common use he has with this ability is vibrating his molecules to phase through enemy attacks. Superman as a teenager could phase through objects through vibrating his molecules through them. However, he can also use this ability for offensive purposes such as destroying someone from the inside out. Aside from those, Superman also used his vibration manipulation for more wilder effects.


For instance, he can render himself invisible by vibrating at a rate of oscillation. Most impressively, Superman saved the omniverse by vibrating the ghost of a dead parallel Earth from his reality. Superman was even able to erase Darkseid’s soul from existence, which was infecting the entirety of reality itself, through vibrating his vocal cords to cancel out the frequency at which Darkseid’s godhead was vibrating. He could also whistle at a certain vibrational frequency to make people paralyzed.


Space-Time Manipulation​

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Using his superspeed, Superman can manipulate space-time, granting him the ability to time travel. He can travel into the future by flying at superspeed clockwise with the Earth’s rotation. Superman can also send the people around him into different time periods simply by spinning at superspeed. Superman can seal cracks in space using his heat-vision and even plug holes in space-time using his own static electricity. His flight pierces space-time and creates micro-wormholes which allow him to halve distances in planck time.


Superman can even teleport billions of light years through space warp in order to not waste a nanosecond, and is able to open up boomtubes to the source wall through simply flying. Superman could also tear holes in the continuum of space-time to reach Lex Luthor after being teleported to a star system with a red sun, saying that space-time as a concept does not concern him.


Superman is a nexus being on a nexus planet whose pure force of wills is able to change the events of time and fate itself. The timeline itself warps around Superman and all versions of every possible universe exists only to preserve a version of Superman.


Matter Manipulation​

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Superman has been shown manipulating matter in very odd ways, such as crushing a piece of coal into a perfectly cut diamond… somehow. His heat vision also has shown degrees of manipulating matter, such as replacing the effects of the Sun or causing molecules to become agitated, thereby damaging their molecular structure. Superman, using his heat-vision, was even able to excite the quantum field to create virtual particle pairs of antimatter and matter in order to escape the functional equivalent of a Black Hole’s event horizon.


In order to teach a boy that miracles actually existed, Superman was capable of using his speed to change the wavelengths of the atoms within materials, making it so that the streets were gold and the moon was green. Also, the traditional ‘turn coal into diamond’ trick was even reversed one time, with Superman being able to rub diamond in order to turn it back to coal, which would require the reversal of the laws of thermodynamics.


Telekinesis​

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As seen above, Superman, for some reason, has the ability to bastardize the sport of baseball and any conception of fair play by moving objects with his mind. Dick move, Supes. Jor-El explains that Kryptonians have their abilities, including telekinesis, from solar energy, with Superman utilizing his Kryptonian martial arts even being able to put up a telekinetic barrier in order to stop physical attacks.


Superman’s bio-electric aura was translated into a form of tactile telekinesis for Superboy, whose abilities allow him to manipulate any object with simply his mind. Superman’s ability to lift heavy-objects corresponds more to the force of will he has with his telekinetic aura rather than actual strength from his muscles, which corresponds to his ability to fly, too.


Telepathy​

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Because Superman needs to have every single superpower ever thought of and more, he’s also a proficient telepath. Such an ability can be broken down into multiple sections, including hypnosis, illusions, psychokinesis in general, etc. As Jor-El explains, Kryptonian abilities are inherently psionic in nature, generated from the rays of the sun. Superman’s brain is bursting with psionic energy to the point where even he is unaware of the full amount of psychic energy he produces, being compared to the light of a star to telepaths who can see psychic energy. Superman can telepathically mind control other individuals if he is restrained physically, and has the ability to hypnotize people, mesmerizing them with a variety of effects.


To use his hypnosis, the Man of Steel shoots beams from his eyes at his intended targets. Thanks to the Kryptonian properties of his glasses, he can automatically project his subconscious desire of having his Clark Kent persona be seen as a weaker man compared to Superman. He can also affect himself with his super hypnotism, meaning that Superman’s telepathy is more layered than any of his resistances (see Superman’s resistances section, in particular the section on Telepathy, to see just how impressive this really is).


Superman was even able to hypnotize Batman into thinking that a demon that was possessing him was actually the spirit of Joe Chill (the thug who murdered his parents), so that he could gather enough willpower to fight against it. Superman can even erase your memories by just looking at you and whispering the hypnotic suggestion, and can erase your memory by kissing you.


However, this is just scratching the surface of Superman’s mental abilities. Using Torquasm Rao and Vo, Superman could create psychic-based universes to fight against Dominus, a being whose reality warping abilities allowed him to make his, and his enemy’s, thoughts into reality. Dominus’ mental abilities were so vast in comparison that he could warp the experience of all minds in an infinite multiverse, yet Superman could defeat him with his own mental abilities.


Soul Manipulation​

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If battling a spooky ghost and his own raw power will not suffice, the heat of Superman’s heat vision can become hot enough to burn spirits, as seen above. Superman was even able to shatter Darkseid’s soul through the vibrations of his vocal cords. Superman was able to shatter Dominus’ spiritual body, which was composed of all the souls of those he had previously killed.


Superman can even absorb the souls of those around him in order to gain more power. Finally, Superman could destroy the Phantom Zone, which exists as the Oversoul’s own ability of abstract thought, the interface between this abstract intelligence and the main universe, which contains the spirits and souls of those lost.


4th Wall Awareness​

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Yep, of course Superman knows about us. He’s been winking at us specifically for years, and he knows we exist… so have fun sleeping tonight with that bombshell. Ever since the silver age, he has been aware of the reader’s presence and their knowledge of the events that only he was aware of. This is not even an old thing either, as he has done it recently, many times over. To get even more meta than this, Superman has even lifted the comic book panel with other characters in it! He has even literally broken the fourth wall (as in, a wall that represented the viewer’s point of view), and crossed it to traverse comic book eras.


“Goku, you can't fight the G1 team. They have no powers, stop!”


Resistances​

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Electricity: As shown above, unaffected by lightning. Could tank millions of volts of electricity and was subsequently unaffected.


Extreme Temperatures: Was unaffected by the Kryptonian goddess Cythonna instantly converting energy to matter in freezing him solid. Using his solar energy (through his heat vision), was able to counteract Captain Cold’s absolute zero field. Was even able to break out of ice which froze time itself around him. Survived the Heat Death of the universe during the Black Hole era after all stars had died out within the entirety of the cosmos. Survived diving into the core of a red star in order to defeat Superboy Prime with Kal-L. Survived the Big Bang, which reached a temperature of 1032 Kelvin.


Matter Manipulation: Was unaffected by Doomsday’s presence, despite the fact that Doomsday’s aura could passively decohere the molecular structures of things around him. Was able to tank multiple blasts from an extraterrestrial fire which could transmute the objects it touched into the same type of fire. Withstood the effects of a particular type of ice which could turn other beings and objects it touched into the same specific type of ice. Withstood several attempts to magically transmute his body into salt, reversed through pure will-power a magical attempt to transmute him into a demon, withstood a vortex which could transmute matter into energy, tanked alien technology which would disrupt molecular structures, tanked a radiation storm which could transmute and change every atom touched by it.


Spatial Manipulation: Was able to punch his way out of an energy field designed by Lex Luthor which could reduce his spatial dimensionality into pure flatness. Was able to survive the entire space-time of the universe collapsing in on itself and was able to break through the barriers of space and time in order to return to the present. Was able to survive within Darkseid’s singularity, which was due to the fact that his true form was pulling all space-time continuums into himself, survived Emperor Joker pulling all space-times into a singular point of infinite gravity.


Time Manipulation: Has been bounced around so many times throughout the timeline that he has become immune to chronal distortions in general, which includes resistances to:


- Time Dilation (has counteracted a temporal modulating field which could slow down time around him, was unaffected by Hal Jordan’s ring dilating time into an instant suspended between the eternities of the past and future)


- Time Stop (broke out of full chrono-suspension which froze time around him completely)


- Time Loops & Rewinding (overcame Vandal Savage’s weaponization of Hypertime, which trapped Superman into an endless fabric of yesterdays—a loop that never ends—a loop that never crossed Vandal’s own individual timeline so that he might achieve victory in the present. Clark overcame this due to the fact that in every possible timeline, he succeeded in getting home to his family.)


- Time Acceleration (Was able to resist against and eventually bypass the barriers of space and time after the conceptual embodiment of Death sped up the universe’s timeline to its eventual destruction and entropization.)


- Temporal Paradoxes & Causality Manipulation (no matter how many times Dr. Manhattan changed the timeline around Superman, Superman’s existence would be maintained, with the Metaverse changing around him in order to preserve his existence, resisted the attacks of Vyndktvx despite the fact that he was simultaneously attacking Superman at every point of his timeline at once, could not be erased from the timeline or have his timeline edited at all by the Time Trapper’s attempts (in order to defeat the Legion, influenced by Superman), even as the Time Trapper is the embodiment of a sentient parallel rogue timeline whose capabilities include the ability to warp all possible timelines to facilitate whatever event he wants to occur.)


Empathy Manipulation: Resisted a magical crystal’s capabilities of manifesting someone’s primal fear, resisted the Hollow Men draining him of the very emotion within his soul, including his hope.


Reality Manipulation: Resisted Mxyzptlk’s magic getting rid of reality itself as well as his attempts to warp Superman away from reality, resisted Dominus’ attempts to warp his reality using his own thoughts and desires with Beta Waves, and was even able to reflect that ability with Alpha Waves.


Plot Manipulation: Resisted Retconn corp’s attempt to edit his narrative during the events of Milk Wars, was the only story in the DCU to survive Mandrakk, the end of all stories, from consuming his narrative, resisted Mxyzptlk’s attempts to erase him from reality, even as Mxyzptlk’s erasure has erased the very comic book art, and even the pencil from the artist himself.


Existence Erasure: On multiple occasions, Clark has withstood Darkseid’s Omega Beams; concentrated beams renowned for their “total wipeout”, erasing not only the target from existence but all traces of their existence, including the memory of them, with no chance of rebirth or redemption. Mister Mxyzptlk has also failed to erase Superman from all of reality and memory. Clark has even defied Aethyr's attempt to "erase'' him and absorb the spiritual essence that defines his being, preventing his identity from fading away. Dominus was unable to “uncreate him”.


Despite numerous attempts, Time Trapper has also been unsuccessful in erasing Superman and his impact on the timeline from the annals of history. Though he was being erased by the Overvoid into ‘less than a thought’, the same plane that can erase the Spectre, he heard Lois’ voice and was restored. His “story” was the only story left after Mandrakk, the personification of “isn’t”, ate and erased all stories in the DCU. Such narrative erasure would be layered, since it would include beings who have survived narrative erasure before like Superboy Prime, who was able to come back from being erased from the art and the story itself.


Illusions: Could use Torquasm Rao and Vo in order to see past and block illusions, saw through Dominus’ attempts to trick him through illusions, shattered through Neron’s infinite collection of illusions upon being aware of his love for Lois. Broke free of Brainiac’s illusions.


Telepathy: Resisted a telepathic assault from the Martian Manhunter when it downed most of the Justice League, resisted an extraterrestrial force’s telepathy, which was able to affect Green Lanterns’ Kilowog and Hal Jordan, resisted a mental intrusion from Brainiac, who was able to psychically incapacitate a bunch of New Gods at once. Just looking into his psyche caused the Martian Manhunter to fall to his knees while grasping his skull in pain, most impressively, Superman’s mind was immune to Emperor Joker’s madness infecting creation, despite the fact such a madness is equal to the anti-life equation, and was able to infect the mind of the Spectre while possessed by Hal Jordan.


Poisons: Due to his Kryptonian immune system, is immune to basically every poison, to the point where he could only get drunk after he had been depowered. Has also absorbed an entire room full of Joker’s lethal laughing toxin and was subsequently unaffected.


Extrasensory perception: Could consciously make it so that his mind was hidden from Martian Manhunter’s sensing.


Biological Agents: His immune system could resist pathogenic mutagens so potent that they could bypass even the Flash’s phasing.


Anti-Matter: Shrugged off a point-blank blast of anti-matter from the Anti-Monitor during the events of Darkseid War. Tanked a hit from a position generator, with positions being the antimatter equivalent of electrons. Survived Composite Superman turning half of his body into antimatter while retaining the other half as positive matter.


Absorption: Superman resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination. Survived the absorption powers of Parasite.


Power Nullification: Immune to the abilities of Psi-Phon, who can analyze the brain of superhumans to find the area that controls their powers, shutting them off. Resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination.


Sealing: Through his strength and willpower, could break free of the Source and escape the Source Wall, a feat Highfather believed to be impossible. Superman could also break free of a Hypertime trap devised by Vandal Savage which trapped him within his own history, and, through the power of love, escaped Neron’s false realities and illusions, even after they reduced him to an immaterial thought.


Evolution Manipulation: Bizarro has many instances of turning people Bizarro upon touch, and Superman has taken this ability head-on. Resisted Gorilla Grodd’s attempt to devolve him via the Morphogenetic Field. Disciple devolved the whole Justice League, but failed to devolve Superman.


Conceptual Manipulation: Has resisted the very concept of his death attempting to destroy him on conceptual levels, as well as resisting Retconn attempting to change the very concept of his existence as Superman.


Death & Age Manipulation: Could not be killed by death itself despite accelerating the age of the universe, the concept of Death itself says that despite the fact that worlds will dissolve and universes will perish, Superman is the one anomaly out of all creation, being able to turn himself young after Death even turns him into an elderly man.


Soul Manipulation: Resisted the Hollow Men draining his soul & life-force into nothingness, alongside his powers and emotion. Tanked soul-targeting attacks from Etrigan. Has survived Silver Banshee’s scream, which can disrupt the esthetic fibers of souls themselves.


Mathematics Manipulation: Superman can move in and beyond the Monitor Sphere, which is beyond mathematics. Superman has also resisted having his mathematical formula representing his very being as an archetype edited by Retconn.


Information Analysis: Lex Luthor was incapable of analyzing Superman despite his ‘anti-Superman’ technology, claiming he is difficult to control and unpredictable. For reference, Lex Luthor has technology capable of analyzing things on a molecular scale to see if they're extraterrestrial, analyzing possible outcomes in situations, an analyzing changes in the pattern of the fabric of the universe, and analyzing extra-dimensional and inter-dimensional facilitations.


Paralysis Inducement: Resisted Kalibak's Nerve Beam, which activates all its target's pain receptors.


Physics & Law Manipulation: Can exist in Hyperspace, which exists beyond space and time itself, lacking physical laws and distorting reality itself. Was unaffected by Mxyzptlk getting rid of reality, physics, and gravity in his own realm.


Memory Manipulation: Superman has shown he has mental defenses in his mind via barriers. He’s resisted Dominus’ attempts to influence him into killing despite not wanting to, resisted the mind control of Hector Hammond despite it affecting heroes such as the Justice League, Firestorm, John Stewart, etc. He’s also resisted the mind control of notorious Justice League enemy Despero, who has mind-controlled over half the Justice League before.


Battlefield Removal: Was able to return to the present through transcending creation and bypassing the barriers of space and time once dislocated into the future where all life and stars had died out in the universe, and was able to escape weaponize Hypertime after being trapped there by Vandal Savage. Was able to even escape the primal void preceding all universes and dreams after being dumped there by Neron and left to die.


Possession: Superman has resisted possession attempts from various magical beings such as Neron and Eclipso, the latter of which can possess Zatanna, Etrigan, and the Spectre.


Electromagnetic Manipulation: Superman was barely halted by Repulse manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum to take away his sight and yellow sun radiation. He was later completely unphased when Doctor Polaris tried it on him.


Radiation: Shrugged off radiation blasts from Atomic Skull, which can vaporize a target. Survived being in the center of a radiation storm caused by Mister Mxypltzk.


Sleep Manipulation: Resisted Starro the Conqueror’s sleep inducing abilities, which put almost everyone in North America to sleep.


Vibration Manipulation: Superman tanked the vibro-cannon, which could make every molecule in his body shudder via vibrations. Resisted having his molecules phased through by Barry Allen’s vibrations due to their high density.


Gravity Manipulation: Superman has survived in black holes almost routinely, even ones that can become gravitational anomalies caused by Brainiac. Can operate in a realm without gravity itself.


Magic: Despite having no specific physiological response against magic, Superman has consistently shown to have resistances against magical attacks. With just his willpower alone, Superman was able to resist a demonic spell meant to overpower him and make him feel powerless. However, that’s not all. Superman was able to power through Disciple’s magic attack that de-evolves a person, which had affected other Justice League members Martian Manhunter, Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Wonder Woman. Thanks to his Kryptonian heritage, Superman was also able to break free from a magic gemstone that sealed away his soul. He has also endured magic-based attacks from several magic users from Tullus the Damned to Felix Faust to Circe.
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Now we need to go through this and list off what powers he would gain from this and for what versions
 
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Superman​

Kryptonian Physiology​

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Superman is a member of the race that populated the planet Krypton, known as Kryptonians. Such beings were known as being a race of engineers, explorers, and scientists, ever challenging the cusp of possibility for a greater, brighter future. Kryptonians are almost identical to humans superficially, but possess differences based on the evolutionary pressures they were raised in.


Kryptonians due to evolving in an environment with higher gravitational influences, a less enriching atmosphere, and a supermassive red sun (named Rao) has caused them to become hardened physiologically in a certain way that Earthlings cannot dare hope to match. Yet, while on Krypton, under the influence of its red sun, Kryptonians do not seem to possess abilities beyond that of your average human being; once you put them under the influence of other types of solar radiation, you unlock their innate energetic potential, giving them abilities beyond anyone’s wildest imagining.


Such an exposure changes the Kryptonian on a quantum level, changing not only their physical makeups through giving them immeasurable strength, speed, and durability, but also giving them the ability to warp time and space itself. Kryptonian powers once exposed to solar rays of the non-red variety are due to the storage of interstellar energies in every individual Kryptonian cell, with Jor-El explaining them to be psionic, telekinetic, and temporal energies sourced from the stars above. According to The Chief (from the Doom Patrol), Kryptonian abilities cannot and are not explained by simple DNA contents or the fact that Kryptonians possess different organs from humans, instead the conclusion comes that since the abilities are not generated from the material makeup of the Kryptonian body, the energy that makes up this matter (as in their non-material essence) rather explains their abilities.


There exists no upper-limit to how much solar energy a Kryptonian can absorb, as the absorption of more and more solar energy (with this absorption being passive) simply strengthens the aura that Kryptonians spontaneously generate which give them the ability to interact with the world in supernatural ways. This aura is telekinetic in nature, and allows for Kryptonian synapses to communicate with each other instantly without any time delay, and as Batman explains, this probably can only be explained through Kryptonians passively manipulating space itself in the timeframe of planck instances through passively creating wormholes so that they can achieve the effects that are otherwise physics breaking (e.g. traveling FTL). Desaad, similarly, states that Superman through warping the fabric of space-time itself can achieve effects such as flight and superspeed.


For the more esoteric abilities Kryptonians have used, the explanation that they basically have the ability to do anything as long as their will is strong enough has been put forth before, including the idea that at a certain point, Superman has no limits whatsoever and is not defined by handbook-style stats when it came to his abilities. In the story The Greatest Hero of them All, it is explained that the original Superboy’s ability to always save the day, and do things like travel through time without so much a thought of effort, was explained as “maybe just because I always could do anything I really, truly had to do!” Dream of the Endless repeats this fact, saying that Superman is the “strongest man in the world”, and can do anything, absolutely anything.


This is further seen in the case of H’el, a Kryptonian clone who had been exposure to the solar energy of a Quasar, unlocking his true inner power as a Kryptonian, allowing him to create entirely new timelines according to his will, reshaping it whenever he needed reality to be a certain way, with this constant reshaping even threatening the entirely of all life in the Omniverse. The Kryptonian Martial Art of Torquasm-Rao and Vo also lends credence to this idea, as it unlocks the hidden potential within the Kryptonian mind and expands it to its true actuality.


Such an ability allows for Superman to create entire psychic-based universes that can influence reality through force of will, being able to counteract and fight against the magic of other reality warpers whose wills were imposed on reality, with even entire multiverses (infinite experiences of different universes) being created as information weapons. It also allowed for the self-transformation and adaptation of Superman against a foe, as to gain the capacities of other versions of Superman altogether, although more on this later.


The final evolution of Superman as a Kryptonian is seen in his stages of life in the future, such as Superman Prime One Million, whose capacities due to constant evolution via solar energy gave him abilities beyond that of all metahumans in the 853rd century, with this evolution eventually leading beyond this, to the point where Superman during the heat death of the universe itself was able to continue the existence of the universe proper, being able to split himself into several fragments with different characteristics and abilities, before merging back to only reach his true potential to rescue that which was lost beyond the 5th dimension. The 5th dimension is itself the cap for all things that can be dreamt up and comprehended by minds in the multiverse, allowing things such as the erasure of the art itself, and yet Superman’s evolution as a Kryptonian even allowed him to go past this.


Such a fluidity in the abilities of Superman due to being a Kryptonian allowed him to even adapt to higher spatial dimensions, gaining higher dimensional senses (made from the cosmic armor) to correspond to whatever new level he is put within. This seems odd, if it weren’t for the fact that Superman is actually not just a Kryptonian, but also a god.


Superman is actually a direct descendant of the Kryptonian god Rao, the metaphysical embodiment of the red sun that Krypton itself orbits. Such metaphysical embodiments are so powerful they exist within the city of stars, a metaphysical location that allows them to exist on the same ontological function as the Endless, whose existences are themselves summed as the constants of the DC multiverse. Rao is himself the creator of all life on Earth too, fathering the ancestors of all gods that stem from Earth.


Superman himself is sired directly from Rao and was able to defeat Cythonna, a goddess of Krypton while Rao could only banish her after lifetimes of battle. This status as divinity for Superman has even led him to believe that his only place among equals would be found in New Genesis, a world harbored by deities composed of platonic concepts.


Solar Energy Absorption​

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Kryptonians are empowered by something called the photonucleic effect, a mechanic of physics within the DC universe which describes how Kryptonian beings are able to process the energy coming from solar bodies differently. According to this law of nature, the same physical process which turns Kryptonite radioactive around yellow stars also energizes the cells of beings who are native to red stars, or as Maggin explains:


“Where non-living matter becomes unstable and radioactive with this dislocation, living things develop an enhanced stability. The first thing that happens under the photonucleic effect is that the nucleus of each of an organic creature's cells grows a carapace—a temporary shell that shields it from external harm. This happens very quickly, from the outside of the organism - the cells in direct contact with yellow starlight—to the most internal cells of the organs, in less than the time it takes to draw a breath. For a moment, the organism is suspended in a comatose state, but the moment is too brief to notice. In that moment, the nucleus of every atom in the organism quakes. Each electron in every carbon or hydrogen atom in every molecule of its body jumps outward by one quantum level. The nucleus unbinds, its protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles loosening, expanding the binding space between them by the merest fraction of an angstrom. The molecules of the transplanted being's body do not actually grow, but the physical space that the solid parts of them take up thus increases exponentially without increasing the organism's actual mass or proportions. The organism becomes harder, tougher, more durable, better able to navigate the changed environment in which it now finds itself.”


Effectively, sunlight can specifically change the matter of a being from other solar systems with different types of stars in the DC universe, and a being native to a red star (like that of Krypton’s Rao) once introduced to a yellow star (like the Earth’s sun) would have their eigenstates changed so that the nucleic content of such a being is decohered, creating a larger volume of energy that Kryptonians exhibit throughout their bodies.


According to a similar continuity, yellow, blue, dwarf, brown, and white stars all give Kryptonians unique properties that vary in potency, while pulsars and quasars give power beyond imagining (more on that later). Black holes attempt to consume the Kryptonian completely, while red stars reduce their abilities to something equivalent to a human being. Such sunlight empowers the Kryptonian to do anything they are usually able to do, empowering their flight, strength, speed, energy projection, etc. Violet suns, for example, even give Superman certain telepathic powers.


Recently, Superman after being exposed to War World’s ‘white sun’ has claimed that its radiation made him stronger than he has ever been, supported by the fact that such an exposure allowed Superman to overcome his weakness to red sunlight in general and also gave him the ability to readily fold space like no-one’s business, therefore giving him direct teleportation. This is similar to the N52 Kryptonian clone H’el, whose exposure to a Quasar gave him specific abilities like teleportation, intricate matter manipulation on a molecular level, advanced telepathy, etc.


The exact power level Superman gets based on exposure to the sun is almost arbitrary, given the fact that he was able to go from being on the brink of death due to malnutrition to one-shotting the creator of the DC multiverse upon just entering 6 suns for a little while. It should be noted that Superman was going faster than he had ever gone at this point, which, if you look at his speed section, literally means he was moving faster than infinity. This means that Superman was spending less than an infinitesimal fraction of an individual planck instant within these stars, and still was able to internally generate his abilities back to such a level that it even exceeded his average, and was able to even one-shot a higher-dimensional cosmic deity.


The exact rate of absorption mainline Superman has is also probably above the absorption of other Supermen and Kryptonians, given the fact that Superman existed as the rogue element in every possible timeline which messed up the Forger’s plans, and every time the Forger simply isolated Superman in a pocket dimension with minimal sunlight, where they would eventually die from lacking energy. Yet, the mainline Superman endured, and overcame, indicating that his rate of solar energy absorption is somehow better than every other Kryptonian in the multiverse… somehow.


In such an interesting case, Superman’s solar energy absorption should be above Supergirl’s from Cosmic Adventures in the 8th grade (yes, really), which had her cells supercharged by the equivalent of a “million billion suns” (equivalent to a quadrillion suns), allowing her to grow bigger than the entire multiverse and defeat Mxyzptlk (who is the same in every community) who had become 10th dimensional. Superman could scale above this through being able to metabolize entire universes worth of everything at once, as shown with Mageddon, so Superman being able to pull a stunt like this is not out of the question.


Additionally, after a certain point, Superman does not seem to need solar energy whatsoever. In many futures of the DCU, Superman is fine despite the Earth becoming a red giant in the future (as shown in Action Comics #1000), or is fine even at the Heat Death of the Universe during two separate occasions after every star had died out for well over a googol years, with Superman still retaining his abilities. In fact, the very idea that when the stars die out, Superman will still nonetheless remain, is one of the entire plot points of one of these stories.


Finally, the fact that ‘stars’ themselves (and therefore the energy Superman absorbs) in DC might even be metaphysical rather than simply physical chemical and quantum processes indicates that the absorption of solar energy by Kryptonians and Superman in particular has more than meets the eye. Sandman: Overture in fact details how there exists metaphysical representations of stars in the DC Multiverse, representing the actual stars in the universe. Among them is Rao, the star of Krypton, and Sol, the star of Earth.


Clark’s importance as a reminder of the despair caused by such life being put around an unstable star like Rao was initiated by Despair of the Endless (even though Superman’s arrival was more so oriented towards hope rather than despair proper), indicating his greater place in such a cosmological idea. Such stars are even able to kill and trap members of the Endless for eternity within metaphysical representations of black holes, which shows their metaphysical significance.


Electromagnetic Manipulation​

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Superman possesses a variety of visions much superior to that of humans, and all for different purposes, be it damaging a foe or using a form of sensory beyond human. These types of visions include:


Heat Vision: Superman’s heat vision is one of his most famous and powerful abilities. Effectively, he can shoot concentrated lasers of heat out of his eyes, generating heat more intense then the sun. He’s shown great precision in how he can alter the heat vision; the lower the temperature is, the less visible it is. The hotter it is, the more blinding it can appear. He’s also shown control in how he fires it, whether as a narrow beam or a wide area-of-effect attack, or even just shooting straight behind him.


He can also control the heat vision in size and pitch for more practical uses, such as surgical procedures or bypassing durability. It can also be used to hurt intangible beings, vaporize enemies, or even ionize the air around an enemy. It’s powerful enough to beam clash with absolute zero, Martian Manhunter’s martian vision, and the heat vision of Eradicator, which has the power of a sun’s core. And power-wise, it’s harmed some of DC’s heaviest hitters such as Captain Atom, Shazam, Despero, and even other Kryptonians such as Power Girl.


X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through any solid object… except lead (bruh). And due to his x-ray vision being unlike the x-rays of Earth, he does not have to worry about affecting anyone with radiation. The range of his x-ray is so powerful, he can see through things down to a person’s immune system, or all the way out to the entire planet of Earth. Another usage of this ability is detecting things within the body, such as detecting stress points or internal damage. One greater feat Superman can do with his superhuman vision is that he can see the soul of any lifeform. That and his 4-D vision, which allows him to see fourth dimensional perspective. Superman can even see emotion.


Using his x-ray vision, Superman can create electromagnetic pulses which can destroy any technology he uses it against, as well as use his x-ray vision to create a field of radiation which could act as a force field against the energies of a sentient universe with power over the ultraviolet segment of the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, Umbrax. Superman could contain Swamp Thing’s astral form using the magnetic field generated with his x-ray vision, too.


Superman can even see the future! This is consistent with the fact that x-ray vision allows one to travel object’s tachyonic paths through time, allowing a Kryptonian to theoretically see the entire timeline of one object, and when combined with time travel, allows them to perfectly follow things through time.


Telescopic Vision: Superman can use his vision to see something at far greater distances than the human eye can see, with much superior perception as well. For example, Superman was able to see fires in Kansas all the way from Washington D.C. More impressively, he can watch events from the unlikeliest of places, such as underwater, the moon, and the further reaches of outer space. His vision is so great, Superman can see a scar on the moon that stretches for a million miles as well as the edge of the universe.


Microscopic Vision: Likewise, Superman can also alter his vision to view extremely small objects and images down to the molecular level. He can scan objects and people down to the molecular level, being able to see molecule chains and the compounds that make them. Not only that, Superman can view things down further to the subatomic level, like being able to watch photons collide. He can see the individual strands of a person’s DNA and use that knowledge to identify people. Not only can Superman see a human's genetic marker just from their blood, but he can also see the genetic makeup of alien races like the New Gods.


Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Superman can see very much into most of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing him to identify radio and television signals and other broadcast/transmitted frequencies. As a result, he can trace cell-phone signals, frequency links, and UV fluctuations among other things. Because of this, Superman can avoid detection from methods such as radar and satellite monitoring. Interestingly enough, he can also see through invisibility like with Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, view sine waves, and feel imbalances between magnetic waves. Lastly, Superman can use this ability to see the aura living beings produce, such as the heat signature of their footprints and the energy patterns of a meta human.


Super Hearing​

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Superman can hear any sound at any pitch or volume, allowing him to pick up any noise from across the globe, such as heartbeats, blood in veins, radio signals, wi-fi signals, footsteps on asphalt, etc. One example is that he was able to hear an alarm that lasted a millisecond. More impressively, Superman can hear changes in wavelengths, letting him know when a person has been mind controlled. His super hearing is so precise, he can hear molecules bonding as well as hear a person’s heartbeat in a crowd of 11 million people.


Superman can hear everything in Metropolis at once, allowing him to hear the change in the average pulse rate of the city. He can even hear people fall asleep across the U.S. and listen in to a delta brainwave from a great distance. Speaking of which, Superman can hear news reports from all over the world while underwater, meaning he’s listening to multiple languages all at once. He achieved the same feat, but while he was near the moon instead. In fact, Superman was able to hear someone on Earth shouting his name while he was flying near Saturn.


With enough skill and concentration, he can also block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. As a result, it would be futile to ambush him since he would be able to sense it coming. In fact, he can dodge an attack just by hearing a change of the air’s movement. This amount of control has allowed him to attune his hearing to a specific person’s voice to save them from trouble. Having to search for a specific sound with his hearing is described as panning for gold.


Super Smell​

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Lastly, Superman’s sense of smell is also at superhuman levels. He can smell brownies being made specifically in North Dakota all the way from the Justice League’s Watchtower satellite. Superman can tell when enemies are a hard light projection instead of being the real deal just by their lack of scent. He can tell a volcanic eruption was taking place just by smelling sulfur discharging in the ozone layer. Lastly, Superman can smell a person’s tears.


Non-Physical Interaction​

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In the past, Superman has been shown interacting with non physical entities like holograms (as seen above) and even to things like ghosts and other non corporeal beings like the Phantom Stranger. He has been able to use his powers to freeze astral projections and ghosts. He was able to use his telekinetic bio-electricity to contain Swamp Thing’s astral form even as this astral form exists as fractal geometries and pure information. Superman can even see people’s souls, and could absorb the souls of those within the Phantom Zone in order to gain enough power to beat the Eradicator.


Super-Breath​

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By exhaling air from his lungs, Superman can generate hurricane force winds strong enough to the point where he can blow a being made of smoke into outer space. He can speak at hypersonic frequencies and duplicate certain other sonic frequencies. Superman can reverse the process of his super breath by pulling large volumes of air or vapor into his lungs, such as inhaling fire and smoke as well as a lethal amount of Joker’s laughing gas.


Astral Projection​

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Kryptonians in the Phantom Zone, despite lacking a body due to being trapped in such a void, are nonetheless able to telepathically project their spirit in a form of Astral Projection in order to interact with the waking world, with Clark being no different. As a teenager, despite being stuck in the Phantom Zone, he was able to project a telepathic projection of himself into the physical world, which could affect technology through the electrical energy of his brain-waves, allowing him to control his Superman robots as well as Typewriters.


It is likely that if Superman were ever stuck in a situation where he could not escape physically, he could do a similar trick in order to gain help from his familiars. Additionally, using Torquasm Rao, he was able to manifest a telepathic projection of himself in order to fight with the Eradicator, and using the same technique, Clark was able to teach Lois how to project her spirit across the universe through the absorption of the non-local energy of the cosmos into her body.


Freeze Breath​

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Superman can also freeze his breath to chill a target or freeze them solid. He’s shown the ability to use his freeze breath as a counter measurement to heat and fire, such as when he heated the core of an Imperiex Probe’s armor to break it down, which are pure forms of energy contained within a colossal suit of armor. He can extend the range of his freeze breath to an entire planet’s surface. His freeze breath has overpowered numerous DC heavy hitters, such as Bizarro, Green Lantern John Stewart, a cannibal planet by giving it a brain freeze with his freeze breath, Darkseid, Wonder Woman (shown above), can affect ghosts, and was even cold enough to freeze and shatter the astral form of Zatanna… damn.


Super Flare​

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Often used as a last resort power, Superman can use the solar energy stored in his body/cells into an all out area-of-effect attack, releasing a gigantic burst of explosive force and energy. He cannot use it more than once at a time however, as it leaves him severely drained of his Kryptonian abilities as the drawback. In earlier uses, Clark would lose his powers and be rendered vulnerable for up to 24 hours, but the Justice League have lent their hand in helping Clark in reducing this timeframe, by using the super flare in more controlled environments and in smaller bursts. As of late, he’s been able to control his super flares so well, his powers remain intact.


Supernatural Willpower​

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The spirit and will of Superman is perhaps one of the Man of Steel’s most well defined attributes. Through well-raised optimism and no desire to give up, Superman’s feats of willpower have defined who he is for time and generations. He not only has the willpower to break through his own limitations and achieve the impossible, but also impose his own barriers on himself, make sure his power doesn’t cause tectonic plates to shift with a mere flex, or harm innocents in any way. But when faced with a seemingly impossible task or powerful foe, those limitations are abandoned to find a way. Some of his most well-defined feats of willpower can include:


- His willpower has been described as infinite (image above).

- Undid the reality warping effects of Emperor Joker through his ‘manifest faith and will’

- Reversed the magic of Etrigan the demon with his willpower and conviction

- Was stated by Hal Jordan Spectre to have the strongest willpower in creation

- His will is stated to be stronger then his own muscles

- Was unaffected by a transference of Batman’s experience of an eternity of torture (due to it permanently breaking Bruce) after the events Emperor Joker

- Superman was a successor to the Green Lantern Abin Sur due to his willpower but it only went to Hal Jordan due to Clark not being from Earth

- Overpowered Green Lantern Guy Gardner’s willpower with his own, making his Green Lantern ring his own. By way of reference, Guy Gardner’s willpower is so strong, he has overpowered the influence of a Yellow Lantern ring, and withstood a neurasthenic antimatter antibody that can graft onto the fabric of space, and attack the sentient nervous system to cause physical, mental, and emotional damage

- Lends his willpower to Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner to charge their rings

- Powered the rings of four Green Lanterns (including Hal Jordan) by 20%

- Stated to have the strongest willpower on Earth


Vibration Manipulation​

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Thanks to his super speed, Superman can vibrate his molecular structure to achieve various effects. One common use he has with this ability is vibrating his molecules to phase through enemy attacks. Superman as a teenager could phase through objects through vibrating his molecules through them. However, he can also use this ability for offensive purposes such as destroying someone from the inside out. Aside from those, Superman also used his vibration manipulation for more wilder effects.


For instance, he can render himself invisible by vibrating at a rate of oscillation. Most impressively, Superman saved the omniverse by vibrating the ghost of a dead parallel Earth from his reality. Superman was even able to erase Darkseid’s soul from existence, which was infecting the entirety of reality itself, through vibrating his vocal cords to cancel out the frequency at which Darkseid’s godhead was vibrating. He could also whistle at a certain vibrational frequency to make people paralyzed.


Space-Time Manipulation​

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Using his superspeed, Superman can manipulate space-time, granting him the ability to time travel. He can travel into the future by flying at superspeed clockwise with the Earth’s rotation. Superman can also send the people around him into different time periods simply by spinning at superspeed. Superman can seal cracks in space using his heat-vision and even plug holes in space-time using his own static electricity. His flight pierces space-time and creates micro-wormholes which allow him to halve distances in planck time.


Superman can even teleport billions of light years through space warp in order to not waste a nanosecond, and is able to open up boomtubes to the source wall through simply flying. Superman could also tear holes in the continuum of space-time to reach Lex Luthor after being teleported to a star system with a red sun, saying that space-time as a concept does not concern him.


Superman is a nexus being on a nexus planet whose pure force of wills is able to change the events of time and fate itself. The timeline itself warps around Superman and all versions of every possible universe exists only to preserve a version of Superman.


Matter Manipulation​

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Superman has been shown manipulating matter in very odd ways, such as crushing a piece of coal into a perfectly cut diamond… somehow. His heat vision also has shown degrees of manipulating matter, such as replacing the effects of the Sun or causing molecules to become agitated, thereby damaging their molecular structure. Superman, using his heat-vision, was even able to excite the quantum field to create virtual particle pairs of antimatter and matter in order to escape the functional equivalent of a Black Hole’s event horizon.


In order to teach a boy that miracles actually existed, Superman was capable of using his speed to change the wavelengths of the atoms within materials, making it so that the streets were gold and the moon was green. Also, the traditional ‘turn coal into diamond’ trick was even reversed one time, with Superman being able to rub diamond in order to turn it back to coal, which would require the reversal of the laws of thermodynamics.


Telekinesis​

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As seen above, Superman, for some reason, has the ability to bastardize the sport of baseball and any conception of fair play by moving objects with his mind. Dick move, Supes. Jor-El explains that Kryptonians have their abilities, including telekinesis, from solar energy, with Superman utilizing his Kryptonian martial arts even being able to put up a telekinetic barrier in order to stop physical attacks.


Superman’s bio-electric aura was translated into a form of tactile telekinesis for Superboy, whose abilities allow him to manipulate any object with simply his mind. Superman’s ability to lift heavy-objects corresponds more to the force of will he has with his telekinetic aura rather than actual strength from his muscles, which corresponds to his ability to fly, too.


Telepathy​

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Because Superman needs to have every single superpower ever thought of and more, he’s also a proficient telepath. Such an ability can be broken down into multiple sections, including hypnosis, illusions, psychokinesis in general, etc. As Jor-El explains, Kryptonian abilities are inherently psionic in nature, generated from the rays of the sun. Superman’s brain is bursting with psionic energy to the point where even he is unaware of the full amount of psychic energy he produces, being compared to the light of a star to telepaths who can see psychic energy. Superman can telepathically mind control other individuals if he is restrained physically, and has the ability to hypnotize people, mesmerizing them with a variety of effects.


To use his hypnosis, the Man of Steel shoots beams from his eyes at his intended targets. Thanks to the Kryptonian properties of his glasses, he can automatically project his subconscious desire of having his Clark Kent persona be seen as a weaker man compared to Superman. He can also affect himself with his super hypnotism, meaning that Superman’s telepathy is more layered than any of his resistances (see Superman’s resistances section, in particular the section on Telepathy, to see just how impressive this really is).


Superman was even able to hypnotize Batman into thinking that a demon that was possessing him was actually the spirit of Joe Chill (the thug who murdered his parents), so that he could gather enough willpower to fight against it. Superman can even erase your memories by just looking at you and whispering the hypnotic suggestion, and can erase your memory by kissing you.


However, this is just scratching the surface of Superman’s mental abilities. Using Torquasm Rao and Vo, Superman could create psychic-based universes to fight against Dominus, a being whose reality warping abilities allowed him to make his, and his enemy’s, thoughts into reality. Dominus’ mental abilities were so vast in comparison that he could warp the experience of all minds in an infinite multiverse, yet Superman could defeat him with his own mental abilities.


Soul Manipulation​

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If battling a spooky ghost and his own raw power will not suffice, the heat of Superman’s heat vision can become hot enough to burn spirits, as seen above. Superman was even able to shatter Darkseid’s soul through the vibrations of his vocal cords. Superman was able to shatter Dominus’ spiritual body, which was composed of all the souls of those he had previously killed.


Superman can even absorb the souls of those around him in order to gain more power. Finally, Superman could destroy the Phantom Zone, which exists as the Oversoul’s own ability of abstract thought, the interface between this abstract intelligence and the main universe, which contains the spirits and souls of those lost.


4th Wall Awareness​

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Yep, of course Superman knows about us. He’s been winking at us specifically for years, and he knows we exist… so have fun sleeping tonight with that bombshell. Ever since the silver age, he has been aware of the reader’s presence and their knowledge of the events that only he was aware of. This is not even an old thing either, as he has done it recently, many times over. To get even more meta than this, Superman has even lifted the comic book panel with other characters in it! He has even literally broken the fourth wall (as in, a wall that represented the viewer’s point of view), and crossed it to traverse comic book eras.


“Goku, you can't fight the G1 team. They have no powers, stop!”


Resistances​

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Electricity: As shown above, unaffected by lightning. Could tank millions of volts of electricity and was subsequently unaffected.


Extreme Temperatures: Was unaffected by the Kryptonian goddess Cythonna instantly converting energy to matter in freezing him solid. Using his solar energy (through his heat vision), was able to counteract Captain Cold’s absolute zero field. Was even able to break out of ice which froze time itself around him. Survived the Heat Death of the universe during the Black Hole era after all stars had died out within the entirety of the cosmos. Survived diving into the core of a red star in order to defeat Superboy Prime with Kal-L. Survived the Big Bang, which reached a temperature of 1032 Kelvin.


Matter Manipulation: Was unaffected by Doomsday’s presence, despite the fact that Doomsday’s aura could passively decohere the molecular structures of things around him. Was able to tank multiple blasts from an extraterrestrial fire which could transmute the objects it touched into the same type of fire. Withstood the effects of a particular type of ice which could turn other beings and objects it touched into the same specific type of ice. Withstood several attempts to magically transmute his body into salt, reversed through pure will-power a magical attempt to transmute him into a demon, withstood a vortex which could transmute matter into energy, tanked alien technology which would disrupt molecular structures, tanked a radiation storm which could transmute and change every atom touched by it.


Spatial Manipulation: Was able to punch his way out of an energy field designed by Lex Luthor which could reduce his spatial dimensionality into pure flatness. Was able to survive the entire space-time of the universe collapsing in on itself and was able to break through the barriers of space and time in order to return to the present. Was able to survive within Darkseid’s singularity, which was due to the fact that his true form was pulling all space-time continuums into himself, survived Emperor Joker pulling all space-times into a singular point of infinite gravity.


Time Manipulation: Has been bounced around so many times throughout the timeline that he has become immune to chronal distortions in general, which includes resistances to:


- Time Dilation (has counteracted a temporal modulating field which could slow down time around him, was unaffected by Hal Jordan’s ring dilating time into an instant suspended between the eternities of the past and future)


- Time Stop (broke out of full chrono-suspension which froze time around him completely)


- Time Loops & Rewinding (overcame Vandal Savage’s weaponization of Hypertime, which trapped Superman into an endless fabric of yesterdays—a loop that never ends—a loop that never crossed Vandal’s own individual timeline so that he might achieve victory in the present. Clark overcame this due to the fact that in every possible timeline, he succeeded in getting home to his family.)


- Time Acceleration (Was able to resist against and eventually bypass the barriers of space and time after the conceptual embodiment of Death sped up the universe’s timeline to its eventual destruction and entropization.)


- Temporal Paradoxes & Causality Manipulation (no matter how many times Dr. Manhattan changed the timeline around Superman, Superman’s existence would be maintained, with the Metaverse changing around him in order to preserve his existence, resisted the attacks of Vyndktvx despite the fact that he was simultaneously attacking Superman at every point of his timeline at once, could not be erased from the timeline or have his timeline edited at all by the Time Trapper’s attempts (in order to defeat the Legion, influenced by Superman), even as the Time Trapper is the embodiment of a sentient parallel rogue timeline whose capabilities include the ability to warp all possible timelines to facilitate whatever event he wants to occur.)


Empathy Manipulation: Resisted a magical crystal’s capabilities of manifesting someone’s primal fear, resisted the Hollow Men draining him of the very emotion within his soul, including his hope.


Reality Manipulation: Resisted Mxyzptlk’s magic getting rid of reality itself as well as his attempts to warp Superman away from reality, resisted Dominus’ attempts to warp his reality using his own thoughts and desires with Beta Waves, and was even able to reflect that ability with Alpha Waves.


Plot Manipulation: Resisted Retconn corp’s attempt to edit his narrative during the events of Milk Wars, was the only story in the DCU to survive Mandrakk, the end of all stories, from consuming his narrative, resisted Mxyzptlk’s attempts to erase him from reality, even as Mxyzptlk’s erasure has erased the very comic book art, and even the pencil from the artist himself.


Existence Erasure: On multiple occasions, Clark has withstood Darkseid’s Omega Beams; concentrated beams renowned for their “total wipeout”, erasing not only the target from existence but all traces of their existence, including the memory of them, with no chance of rebirth or redemption. Mister Mxyzptlk has also failed to erase Superman from all of reality and memory. Clark has even defied Aethyr's attempt to "erase'' him and absorb the spiritual essence that defines his being, preventing his identity from fading away. Dominus was unable to “uncreate him”.


Despite numerous attempts, Time Trapper has also been unsuccessful in erasing Superman and his impact on the timeline from the annals of history. Though he was being erased by the Overvoid into ‘less than a thought’, the same plane that can erase the Spectre, he heard Lois’ voice and was restored. His “story” was the only story left after Mandrakk, the personification of “isn’t”, ate and erased all stories in the DCU. Such narrative erasure would be layered, since it would include beings who have survived narrative erasure before like Superboy Prime, who was able to come back from being erased from the art and the story itself.


Illusions: Could use Torquasm Rao and Vo in order to see past and block illusions, saw through Dominus’ attempts to trick him through illusions, shattered through Neron’s infinite collection of illusions upon being aware of his love for Lois. Broke free of Brainiac’s illusions.


Telepathy: Resisted a telepathic assault from the Martian Manhunter when it downed most of the Justice League, resisted an extraterrestrial force’s telepathy, which was able to affect Green Lanterns’ Kilowog and Hal Jordan, resisted a mental intrusion from Brainiac, who was able to psychically incapacitate a bunch of New Gods at once. Just looking into his psyche caused the Martian Manhunter to fall to his knees while grasping his skull in pain, most impressively, Superman’s mind was immune to Emperor Joker’s madness infecting creation, despite the fact such a madness is equal to the anti-life equation, and was able to infect the mind of the Spectre while possessed by Hal Jordan.


Poisons: Due to his Kryptonian immune system, is immune to basically every poison, to the point where he could only get drunk after he had been depowered. Has also absorbed an entire room full of Joker’s lethal laughing toxin and was subsequently unaffected.


Extrasensory perception: Could consciously make it so that his mind was hidden from Martian Manhunter’s sensing.


Biological Agents: His immune system could resist pathogenic mutagens so potent that they could bypass even the Flash’s phasing.


Anti-Matter: Shrugged off a point-blank blast of anti-matter from the Anti-Monitor during the events of Darkseid War. Tanked a hit from a position generator, with positions being the antimatter equivalent of electrons. Survived Composite Superman turning half of his body into antimatter while retaining the other half as positive matter.


Absorption: Superman resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination. Survived the absorption powers of Parasite.


Power Nullification: Immune to the abilities of Psi-Phon, who can analyze the brain of superhumans to find the area that controls their powers, shutting them off. Resisted the Hollow Men taking away his powers, emotions, color, energy, life-force, willpower, dreams, and imagination.


Sealing: Through his strength and willpower, could break free of the Source and escape the Source Wall, a feat Highfather believed to be impossible. Superman could also break free of a Hypertime trap devised by Vandal Savage which trapped him within his own history, and, through the power of love, escaped Neron’s false realities and illusions, even after they reduced him to an immaterial thought.


Evolution Manipulation: Bizarro has many instances of turning people Bizarro upon touch, and Superman has taken this ability head-on. Resisted Gorilla Grodd’s attempt to devolve him via the Morphogenetic Field. Disciple devolved the whole Justice League, but failed to devolve Superman.


Conceptual Manipulation: Has resisted the very concept of his death attempting to destroy him on conceptual levels, as well as resisting Retconn attempting to change the very concept of his existence as Superman.


Death & Age Manipulation: Could not be killed by death itself despite accelerating the age of the universe, the concept of Death itself says that despite the fact that worlds will dissolve and universes will perish, Superman is the one anomaly out of all creation, being able to turn himself young after Death even turns him into an elderly man.


Soul Manipulation: Resisted the Hollow Men draining his soul & life-force into nothingness, alongside his powers and emotion. Tanked soul-targeting attacks from Etrigan. Has survived Silver Banshee’s scream, which can disrupt the esthetic fibers of souls themselves.


Mathematics Manipulation: Superman can move in and beyond the Monitor Sphere, which is beyond mathematics. Superman has also resisted having his mathematical formula representing his very being as an archetype edited by Retconn.


Information Analysis: Lex Luthor was incapable of analyzing Superman despite his ‘anti-Superman’ technology, claiming he is difficult to control and unpredictable. For reference, Lex Luthor has technology capable of analyzing things on a molecular scale to see if they're extraterrestrial, analyzing possible outcomes in situations, an analyzing changes in the pattern of the fabric of the universe, and analyzing extra-dimensional and inter-dimensional facilitations.


Paralysis Inducement: Resisted Kalibak's Nerve Beam, which activates all its target's pain receptors.


Physics & Law Manipulation: Can exist in Hyperspace, which exists beyond space and time itself, lacking physical laws and distorting reality itself. Was unaffected by Mxyzptlk getting rid of reality, physics, and gravity in his own realm.


Memory Manipulation: Superman has shown he has mental defenses in his mind via barriers. He’s resisted Dominus’ attempts to influence him into killing despite not wanting to, resisted the mind control of Hector Hammond despite it affecting heroes such as the Justice League, Firestorm, John Stewart, etc. He’s also resisted the mind control of notorious Justice League enemy Despero, who has mind-controlled over half the Justice League before.


Battlefield Removal: Was able to return to the present through transcending creation and bypassing the barriers of space and time once dislocated into the future where all life and stars had died out in the universe, and was able to escape weaponize Hypertime after being trapped there by Vandal Savage. Was able to even escape the primal void preceding all universes and dreams after being dumped there by Neron and left to die.


Possession: Superman has resisted possession attempts from various magical beings such as Neron and Eclipso, the latter of which can possess Zatanna, Etrigan, and the Spectre.


Electromagnetic Manipulation: Superman was barely halted by Repulse manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum to take away his sight and yellow sun radiation. He was later completely unphased when Doctor Polaris tried it on him.


Radiation: Shrugged off radiation blasts from Atomic Skull, which can vaporize a target. Survived being in the center of a radiation storm caused by Mister Mxypltzk.


Sleep Manipulation: Resisted Starro the Conqueror’s sleep inducing abilities, which put almost everyone in North America to sleep.


Vibration Manipulation: Superman tanked the vibro-cannon, which could make every molecule in his body shudder via vibrations. Resisted having his molecules phased through by Barry Allen’s vibrations due to their high density.


Gravity Manipulation: Superman has survived in black holes almost routinely, even ones that can become gravitational anomalies caused by Brainiac. Can operate in a realm without gravity itself.


Magic: Despite having no specific physiological response against magic, Superman has consistently shown to have resistances against magical attacks. With just his willpower alone, Superman was able to resist a demonic spell meant to overpower him and make him feel powerless. However, that’s not all. Superman was able to power through Disciple’s magic attack that de-evolves a person, which had affected other Justice League members Martian Manhunter, Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Wonder Woman. Thanks to his Kryptonian heritage, Superman was also able to break free from a magic gemstone that sealed away his soul. He has also endured magic-based attacks from several magic users from Tullus the Damned to Felix Faust to Circe.
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i found a massive superman profile with a bunch of powers and stuff
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A story of a boy who was rocketed to Earth who never loses, Superman is a Kryptonian hero who was a founding member of the Justice League of America who has saved Earth, the universe, and even all of creation on many occasions. His birth planet, Krypton, was being destroyed, and so he was sent...
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Robo432343 said:
i found a massive superman profile with a bunch of powers and stuff
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Superman (Canon, Post-Crisis)/Niarobi

A story of a boy who was rocketed to Earth who never loses, Superman is a Kryptonian hero who was a founding member of the Justice League of America who has saved Earth, the universe, and even all of creation on many occasions. His birth planet, Krypton, was being destroyed, and so he was sent...
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u just now found out about that page? 💀💀
 
Welp, with the release of Goku vs Superman 3, one of the main researcher has released his research for the ep (which he apparently gone through every single piece of Superman media for) and uhhhh yeah... it's something alright...

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CowHeadGod said:
Welp, with the release of Goku vs Superman 3, one of the main researcher has released his research for the ep (which he apparently gone through every single piece of Superman media for) and uhhhh yeah... it's something alright...

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CowHeadGod said:
Welp, with the release of Goku vs Superman 3, one of the main researcher has released his research for the ep (which he apparently gone through every single piece of Superman media for) and uhhhh yeah... it's something alright...

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Bro Superman profile is about to be cracked af
 
Phoenks said:
Bro literally did ALL of the work for us.

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This literally makes things so much easier, hell this'll update other characters profiles too like other Kryptonians
 
CowHeadGod said:
Welp, with the release of Goku vs Superman 3, one of the main researcher has released his research for the ep (which he apparently gone through every single piece of Superman media for) and uhhhh yeah... it's something alright...

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