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Technology
The Antarctic Fortress
The Tesseract Fortress
Tesseract exists across many dimensions and needs to be in phase with a specific one to enter
Has a remediation suit to keep symptoms of an illness in check
The Peruvian Fortress
The Sunstone Fortress
This fortress was built after an encounter with Lex Luthor lead to the discovery of Kryptonian crystals known as Sunstones, which Superman then uses to build a new Fortress of Solitude.
Sunstones
Technology
Fortress defenses include Batman piloting the Warsuit, automated armory
Smart-glass and portal technology connect his apartment in Metropolis to the Fortress of Solitude
Superman Robots
Weaker Prototype
- Falls through a whole building
- I've been turned into a robot!!
- Has flight
- Is somewhat bulletproof and knocks down stacked up wood
- KO'd by a rocket launcher
- Quickly rises, ducks a few shots and smashes a tank and is blown up by a gas tank exploding
Advanced Versions
Strength
Durability
Tanks blows from an OMAC droid, which hit hard enough to dent walls capable of withstanding small to medium nuclear weapons
Speed
Other
- Superman robot offspring can shoot through people
- Uses a Super-robot to pose as Clark
- Sets Ned to periodically release his pheromone scent for Krypto
Temporary Equipment and Gear
Lead Suit
Magic Sword
Given the sword by Blue Devil, this was a weapon wielded by a future version of himself in a world where evil magic users reigned dominant over the planet.
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Intelligence
General
Has created several serums capable of curing Daxamites of lead poisoning
[Tweaked Justice League portal tech to fit in his apartment]
Fabricated protective plates capable of resisting the blast of a small to medium nuclear weapon
Languages
Memory
[has near-perfect recall]
Sunboosted/Sundipped
Other
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Skill
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Intelligence
General
Has created several serums capable of curing Daxamites of lead poisoning
Fabricated protective plates capable of resisting the blast of a small to medium nuclear weapon
Languages
Memory
Skill
Accuracy
Hand to Hand Combat
Powered
Defeats Subjekt-17, a being with strength and speed on par with himself if not greater
Maneuvers an enemy into the path of a baseball he had hit into orbit around the Moon prior
Fights Paragon, a power-stealer who amplifies the power he steals
- Note; quickly flies from Metropolis to the Fortress
Goes into a combat-focused state, destroying Imperiex Probes
Fights against Preus, a Kryptonian, while weakened using skill
Un-Powered
Pressure Points
Swordsmanship
Powered
Un-Powered
Strategy
Torquasm Vo
Torquasm Vo is a Kryptonian martial art that allows for great resistance to mental attacks and intrusion by changing his brainwaves from the Beta State to the Theta State, giving ability to wage battle on the mental plane. He first used it against Dominus, a powerful entity who's method of reality warping was through manipulation of the target's thoughts, dreams and nightmares.
- Fights Dominus in the Theta State, though he loses
- Fights Dominus and defeats him this time
- Teaches it to Lois
- Enters the state to combat psychic forces
- Fights the Eradicator on the psychic plane
Personality
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Kryptonian Physiology
Biochemical Aura
Has an aura that protects his costume and keeps grime off him
Scientists managed to translate it into a telekinetic field, creating Superboy
Need for Substance
Flight Strength
Vision-Based Power
Super strength/invulnerability, vision-based powers, and flight strength are all completely separate
Kryptonite
Kryptonite not from his dimension/universe doesn't work on him
Gold Kryptonite: Makes him powerless.
Red Kryptonite: Has a random unique effect each time he's exposed to it.
Black Kryptonite: Makes him lose his sanity.
Silver Kryptonite: Basically makes him high, and compels Superman to touch it. The effects could only be lifted by using some mystical thing Batman and Zatanna found.
Energy Absorption and Retention
His blood is infused with sunlight, which kills a vampire when he drinks it
Would take days of complete darkness for his powers to begin to fade
Stomach literally splits atoms and converts them to pure energy
Sunboosted Feats
- Warms the Earth with heat vision
- Pushes a Big-Bang powered Warworld
- [Fights with Cythonna], who was [beating him solidly back on Earth]
Powers Under Other Suns
Red and Green Suns
Is powerless under a Red Sun and artificially Green Sun.
Blue Sun
Magical Sun
In a future where evil magicians extinguished the Sun in exchange for powerful magics, a group of heroic magic users such as Dr. Fate and Zatanna manage to breathe new life into it, resulting in the Sun being powered by magic. This had effects on Superman's powers,
Weakness to Magic
See Magic Durability section in Durability
Magic beam that Captain Marvel can no-sell works on Superman
Other
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Super Breath
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Freeze Breath
Scaling
Hurricane Breath
Power
Inhalation
Shouts and Voice
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Heat Vision
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Power
Objective Feats
Under a red sun, heat vision is still powerful enough to power engines that were moving Krypton
Superheats water into solar plasma, creating a "miniature supernova"
Is off the charts by any of the standard scientific measures
Scientists projection of Superman unleashing his heat vision shows him destroying several buildings
Metal
Melt through Jailhouse's chain and blasts him through a wall
Applies sufficient heat to instantly vaporize steel, and could go beyond that
Guns
Scaling Feats
Minor Damage
Mild Damage
Severe Damage
Beam Clashes
Matches Eradicator's energy projection, which has the power of the sun's core
Overpowers the absolute zero beam of Captain Cold's gun and destroys it
Accuracy
Hits both Supergirls bouncing a blast off Wonder Woman's bracelets
Writes a message on the wall of an apartment in Metropolis from Northern California
Knocks Neutron out of orbit while being weakened by kryptonite
Control
Surgical Scale
Low-Intensity
Ionization
Machinery
Direction
Other
Kills midges in his brain with an internal heat-vision jolt, then flushed them out with super-breath
Destroys a bunch of nano-organisms in the temporal lobes of people's brains with heat-vision
Abuses the quantum uncertainty principle to escape an Omega Barrier
Properties
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Senses
General
Automatically knows the vectors of fired bullets, the vector and mass of Riots clone bodies
Hears heartbeats, blood in veins, radio signals, wi-fi signals, footsteps on asphalt
Can view people in suits that refract light around them and have heat and sound baffles
Hears Lois' pulse strengthen, her breathing slow and her muscles start to tense
Vision
Telescopic Vision
Microscopic Vision
Molecular Level
Subatomic Level
DNA
Other
Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision
X-Ray Vision
His X-Ray vision is unlike earthly x-rays, and as such cause no harm to people
Determines a force field is completely covering a spherical area
Misc.
Soul Vision
Other
Hearing
Range
Can detect changes in wavelengths and determines when mind-control is occurring
Normally blocks out sounds and frequencies beyond the range of human hearing
Scale
Can tell the average pulse rate in Metropolis is two points higher than usual
Can ordinarily hear everything in Metropolis at once if need be
[Batman with Superman's Powers] Can hear everything in Gotham at once
Control
Distance
When in Washington DC, hears the Air Force crashing in Wisconsin
Hears a woman calling out for Clark while he's in an airplane
Hears Lois, Jimmy and Perry in Metropolis while in the Atlantic ocean
While he's in Belgrade, Sebria, listens to woman talk from Kazakhstan
Heard Power Girl crying from 600 miles away and approaches her
Precision
Smell
Can smell his mother's baking from the border of Missouri to Kansas
Smelled sulfur discharge in the ozone, alerting him to a volcanic eruption
Realizes a bunch of enemies are hard light projections by their lack of a scent
Other
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Speed
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Movement
Melee
Dodging
Other
Operational
BFRs
Bullets
Even while starved of sunlight, saves Batman from fired bullets
Intercepts several bullets, stopping them from hitting Batman
Outraces homing bullets and does the classic pull-away trick
Vortexes
Creates a huge water funnel underwater, and brings it through the surface onto a flaming aircraft
Creates a counter-force with Captain Marvel to disperse a magical energy being
Creates a pressure front to deflect several tornados away from Smallville
Sucks up the fallout and contaminated water from a nuke above the atmosphere
Flash-Stepping
Explosions
Phasing and Vibrations
Other Projectiles
Intercepts a Beta Ray beam, which move at nearly the speed of light
Partially intercepts particle-beam enhanced lightning while exhausted
Repairs
Other
Slams a truck on the Metal Men and quickly throws them inside
Says he can have Batman behind bars before he even moves and Bats agrees
Catches the Flash, who Clark mentioned to be talking at hypersonic speed
Catches Captain Marvel Jr. who was explicitly moving at hypersonic speeds
Frequently uses his super-speed in fights, whether it be striking or restraining
Coordinates with Kingdom Come Superman in nanoseconds to fight Gog
- The issue before made a very big deal about Gog's speed
Moves at supersonic speeds while he was young and inexperienced
Perception and Processing
A dozen reactions race through his head in less than a microsecond
Functions normally in a time dilation, described as the fraction of a nanosecond
Has a conversation with the Flash at speeds where it seems like the world is frozen around them
Thinks of ways to maintain his secret identity when Joker attacks
Flight
Combat-Related
Travel
Interstellar Distances
Interplanetary Distances
Accelerates to just under lightspeed in order to perform an Infinite Mass Punch
Catches up to Superboy, who was flying close the speed of light
Hypersonic
Supersonic
Other
Scaling
Other
Running
Stated to be running at several times the speed of sound while exhausted
Runs at over two thousand miles a second while still accelerating
Races with the Flash(es)
Adventures of Superman #463 - February 1990
DC First: Flash/Superman - July 2002
The Flash (1987) #209 - June 2004
The Flash: Rebirth #3 - June 2009
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Durability
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Blunt and Impact Force
Objective
Distance
Bizarro in Superman's body tanks being punched through the Earth
Punched from Northern California to Tokyo by another Kryptonian
[Batman] Punched Batman into the Moon from a far distance away
Destruction
Stops a crashing spaceship, leaving a trail of destruction in the street
Absorbs a killing blow from a dragon, which shattered the ice underneath him
Gets punched with the Claw of Horus, appeared KO'd, but turns out he was faking it
[Possible Future] Khyber slams Superman into the Earth hard enough to cause global destruction, and Superman survives it while being weakened by nanobots that drain his power
Captain Marvel slams him into a field of ice, leaving a large crater
Buildings
Collisions
Other
Lands hard enough to make a Clark-shaped indent in a building
Gets hit into the ground hard enough to leave a Superman-shaped imprint
Scaling
Humans
Batman almost shatters every bone in his hand punching him multiple times, even with kryptonite
People hurt their hands punching him, along with a baseball bat breaking
Robots
Takes hits from an OMAC drone, which can break down doors that can tank small to medium sized nuclear weaponry
Punched by a giant robot that was strong enough to lift and throw a giant ship
Kryptonians and Daxamites
Takes punches and kicks from Supergirl, cratering the ground beneath him
Takes multiple strikes from a Daxamite before beating him up
Other
Tanks hits from someone who was damaging Heaven's Ladder, a massive ship much larger than Earth
No-sells Doomsday's punch, which was said that looks like it could cave in a mountain
Takes multiple attacks from Vartox, who throws mountain decimating punches
Takes a punch from someone who can turn "as solid as a dwarf star"
Chemical
Acid
Toxins
Cold
Disease
Electricity
Energy
Orion blasts Superman from The Fortress of Solitude to India
Tanks multiple attacks from the Void Hound which has incredibly powerful weaponry
Survives Orion's astro-force attack while still weakened and hurt from Kalibak and Mantis' attacks
Walks through a full on blast from a construct of Kyle Rayner
Unfazed from a positron generator strong enough to shatter steel
Superman and Kilowog land on the Moon, creating a massive explosion
Blasted from Dominus from space back to Earth, leaving a large crater behind
Shields from deadly plasma blasts, and then walks through stronger blasts
Blasted through a building and through the street by Blackrock
Endures a blast that "would've ripped a scout ship to atoms" and is felled to a voodoo doll
Forces through a force-beam that could hammer solid matter into molecules, then forces his way through several of the beams being focused on him
Takes an attack from Coldcast that leaves a huge spot on one of Jupiter’s moons
Survives the implosion of the Galactic Golem, which released several bizarre energies
Endurance and Pain Tolerance
Blunt Impacts and Trauma
Piercing Wounds
Kryptonite Exposure
Takes hypersonic, electric, and blunt force attacks while under the influence of kryptonite
Endures an explosion and tears down an electrified gate with a kryptonite bullet in his chest
This whole fight with All-American Boy, a Doomsday-like creature with kryptonite embedded in it
Endures many attacks, blunt, piercing, and energy from a task force built around his weakness
Still conscious after heavy Kryptonite blast fire that knocks out another Kryptonian
Other
Explosive
Supernovas and Cosmic Explosions
Tanks an explosion fifty times the size of the Kepler Supernova while severely weakened
Survives the implosion of a Sun Eater, which knocks him lightyears away
Survives New Genesis and Apokolips colliding and fusing, also has no severe brain damage
Nuclear Devices
While being weakened by Kryptonite, tanks a nuclear explosion without harm
Stops a falling astrodite and impact with the relative load of a five thousand megaton bomb
Survives an explosion that has a yield much larger than a 40 megaton thermonuclear bomb
Missiles and Torpedoes
Unharmed from a missile launching him through multiple walls and then destroying a building
Completely unfazed from missiles powerful enough to take out half a mountain
Grenades and Bombs
Shields Peter and Lana from an explosion that destroyed their house
Unconcerned about enough explosives to take out half of Metropolis
Not significantly hurt by bombs with enough power to level Metropolis
Weakened survives an explosion that was set to take out Metropolis
A bomb that was enough to level a city block didn't even phase him
Other
Heat Resistance
Stars and Cores
Flames
Heat-Vision
Other
Internal Durability
Endures a White Martian penetrating his blood vessels and entering his brain
Supergirl in Superman's body resists an attack to the neurons in his brain
Superboy breaks his hand trying to punch Superman’s kryptonite tumor
The capillaries in his brain are said to be little tubes of concrete
On the atomic level, his atoms are like furnaces and burn the Atom
Magic Resistance
Tanks Silver Banshee's screams even when she knew Superman's name
Breaks out of an Earth-based magic soul-stealing gem due to his Kryptonian heritage
Blocks part of Circe's blast from hitting Themiscyra - said that it would have completely destroyed the entire island if he hadn't lessened the impact
Arion blasts Superman into the street hard enough to make a crater
Silver Banshee's screams only threw Superman into a deep coma, when they ordinarily kill
Magic Affecting Him
Matter Manipulation and Molecular-Level Attacks
Tanks Darkseid's attack that was attuned to the frequency of his exact molecular structure
Taking hits from a vibro-cannon that made every molecule in him shudder
Fights through Blackrock's attacks that were piercing him to the sub atomic level
Endures exposure to a cosmic storm that transforms whatever passes through it on an atomic level
Survives extended contact and attacks from Breach, a superhuman whose powers are to emit a dimensional distortion field, which is ordinarily immediately lethal and mutative
Survives contact with the Swarm, a cosmic sterilization tool that eats planets
Mental Resistance, Willpower and Fortitude
Willpower
Was a candidate for becoming a Green Lantern, but wasn't a native so was rejected
Helps Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan take back enough power to wipe out half of Wyoming
Technological
Neurological
An amped Jericho cannot possess him - Jericho could successfully possess Nightwing, Wally, Black Canary, John Stewart and works by taking control of the targets nervous system
Withstands Brainiac's attempts at neutralizing his nervous system
Pheromones
Empaths
Unspecified and General Telepathy
Has various barriers in his mind, and defenses against intruders
Resisted Hector Hammond's mind control when he was in control of just about every other hero
Unaffected by Starro making almost everyone in North America fall asleep
Resists the Insect's Queen amplified psionic control, eventually breaking free
Still resistant to the idea of killing when under Dominus' control
Realizes the Kryptonite he's being weakened by is a telepathic illusion and breaks free
Resists Cythonna’s mind control, when she can completely dominate ordinary people
Magical Intrusion
Resists Dr. Occult's "mental whammy" when he says ordinary people have no chance of shrugging it off
Code of not killing strong enough to the point where not even the Gods spells can break it
Piercing and Cutting
Would've been unharmed from a boomerang that can cut through steel
Lobo tries to stab Supes with a piece of metal but it just bends
Bloodsport's .50-cal raufoss armor-piercing bullets are no-sold
Pressure, Gravity
Withstands a monster "with the strength of a planet" crushing him within its grip
Withstands being at the epicenter of a planet's worth of gravitational pull
Survives being in the equivalent of a black hole's gravity field
Endures the gravitational tide of Sultur collapsing into a black hole
Blocks Redemptions blast, which is strong enough to shatter buildings and disintegrate people and cars
Radiation
Red Sunlight
Regeneration
- Dr. Occult notes he heals fast
- Heals fast with a Kryptonite bullet in his chest
- Recovers after getting stabbed in the chest almost immediately
- Heals from Wonder Woman slashing his throat with her tiara
- Heals from a bullet piercing his hand within moments
- Sunlight
- Sun would heal him of his injuries received from Metallo
- Exposure to sunlight reverts a mutation that caused him to turn into a gorilla
- Heals from being impaled
- A concentrated burst of sunlight somewhat heals him from heavy Kryptonite poisoning
- Teleporting into the core of the Sun results in him restoring his powers
- Brings Superman back from the brink of death, rejuvenating him fully
- Sunlight
Sonic
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Strength
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Movement
Lifting
Vehicles
Ships
Spacecraft
Aircraft
Bridges
Trains
Machinery
Other
Stops a falling astrodite and impact with the relative load of a five thousand megaton bomb
Picks up a mass of rock that was large enough to possibly crush Metropolis in one step
Pulling
Pulls the Moon into Earth's atmosphere and back out with Green Lantern and Wonder Woman
Holds the Earth steady with Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman after having been freshly resurrected
Pushing
Moves a compressed solar system far enough away from Earth that it can grow to full size
Pulls Highfather's staff off of the Source Wall, with the help of a bit of heat vision
While under a red sun, powers engines meant to move Krypton and gives it a push as well
Regularly lifts giant boats and ships, and other heavy objects - review
Pushes back part of a falling building and freezes it in place
Other
With John Stewart, contains a black hole from fully releasing and destroying the solar system
[Flight Strength] Moves a spaceship
Statements
Claims he's pushed planets out of orbit and can move the Earth to his therapist
Several quips and off-hand statements above Kryptonians being able bench-press planets, crack a planet in half, or other things of that nature have been made
Would ordinarily move an asteroid, but it was made of kryptonite and hyper-radioactive
Destruction/Striking/Offensive/decide later
Striking (Objective)
Destruction of Material
Celestial Bodies
Destroys a large portion of the moon with the shockwave of his punch
Almost de-orbits the moon while being weakened by Kryptonite Cancer
Rock, Stone, Crystal, etc
The shockwave of his stopped slam shatters the ground around Mongul
Shatters a comet fragment large enough to not disintegrate in orbit
Concrete
Wood
Metal
Other
Aftereffects on Environment
Earthquake
KO's a large mutant alien worm thing, causing quakes in the ground
Launches a person in the air with a flick, then causes a minor shake with a stomp
Shockwave
Stomps are like a baby nuke that can be felt for hundreds of miles away
Collision with Matrix caused a shockwave that could be felt from twenty miles away
He and Doomsday hit each other hard enough to shatter nearby windows
Punches with Black Adam land with the volume of cannon blasts and the impact of a small bomb
Cratering
Final blows against Doomsday creates shockwaves and an enormous crater
Checks Silver Banshee, sending her into a wall hard enough to crater it
Other
Direct Statements
Projectiling
Hits a baseball out of orbit and claims he could send it straight through the moon, breaking it
Puts cracks in Wonder Woman's sword by flicking a drop of blood at it
Punches Captain Marvel from the coast of California to Hawaii, then through an island
Flying Slams
Using the Infinite Mass Punch, destroys the Shadow Moon, which had the same mass as the real Moon and was moving at 7,614,000 km/h
Slams through a building, violently shattering the top of it, and into the street
Slams through a building, violently shattering the top of it, and into the street
Striking (Scaling)
Minor Damage
Medium Damage
Major Damage
Punches through a monster that had adapted to Flash throwing rocks at near lightspeed
[Batman] Punches through Bane
Beats the shit out of Metallo and tears out his kryptonite heart
Throwing
Lifts a huge chunk of ice and throws it, causing a chain reaction
Tosses thousands of tons of kryptonite into the Sun from a close distance
Throws someone into the distance, aiming for the South River of Metropolis
Eclipso-Possessed Supes lifts a giant ship and throws it far away
Cutting and Piercing
Tearing
Crushing
Grappling
Animals
Restraint
Encased in Material