>Superman doesn't actually have super strength. Take a look at the comics. He stops planes by holding on to the nose cone. This means the entire weight of a falling plane is balanced on a section of metal approximately the size of a human being's hands. That's like trying to stop a person toppling over by putting a knife, blade up, in front of their chest. It won't end well. It's not strength that's keeping that plane aloft.
>It's negative mass. Negative mass is a so-far hypothetical state of matter in which all the properties of a particle are the same, except their reaction to certain forces. A push on negative mass would cause it to go flying in the opposite direction. Superman must have the ability to temporarily turn parts of his own body, and objects touching it, to negative mass. If a plane is crashing, he would take hold of the nose cone – and create a web of negative mass throughout the plane. The force of the plane would push on this web of negative mass, causing it to resist, and slow the descent of the plane, all without breaking the plane into pieces. Superman could create these negative mass nets within himself, too, to provide internal structure of the proper strength – so he doesn't fall to pieces either.
>This also explains why Superman's strength seems to increase and decrease depending on the power level of the foe he is fighting. Negative mass can only resist force that's applied to it. Final evidence for Superman's powers of negative mass control is the fact that a clone made with half his DNA, Superboy, has telekinetic control over the movement of any object he touches. It's clear that Superboy was able to refine Superman's abilities.
Brandon Collins
>gawker
Justin Richardson
alien power
Xavier Phillips
OP read the All Star Superman comic book and you'll know how his powers actually work.
Cameron Hughes
it's a comic you stupid austistic motherfucker
Zachary Scott
>challenging if superman is not strong
>not challenging the fact that wearing glasses makes superman appear like an other person
Angel Green
Explain it to me because to me it's just this: Are you saying it's something more?
Matthew Myers
OP is about 30 years late
Ian Harris
>Are you saying it's something more? I've just finished birthright. The powers come from his race evolving to survive off of the radiation of a sun. But the sun Krypton revolves around gives off very little energy. When he moves to earth the radiation from our sun provides him with the energy to perform amazing strength/healing feats. Krpyton also had Jupiter tier gravity, which factors in.
Lex actually reverse engineers that he is an alien by analysing his abilities.
Landon Bell
TLDR his race evolved to survive under very high gravity whilst feeding off of very little nutrients/energy. Moving to earth lowered the gravity and upped the input, giving him amazing strength/speed/power. Kind of like an astronaut on steroids jumping around on the moon.
William Gray
I hate when people feel they need to retconn or explain something that needs no new explanation. Superman is strong due to our yellow sun, that's it... period.
Also the black reviewer using the election and state of the world to allegorically explain the new capeshit flick.
Sometimes things need no "ultra geek" explanation and movies are just movies at face value.
Kayden Long
BvS? Shit sandwich.
Hudson Myers
>The powers come from his race evolving to survive off of the radiation of a sun Why do they look like humans then?
Carter Jones
this
Easton Bennett
what is he a fucking plant?
Zachary Peterson
Because comics. I mean, there is no valid reason that an ancient race from galaxies away looks identical to humans.
In the DCEU, it may be that a kryptonian fucked a gorilla and made humans. Remember the missing person from the pod in MoS?
Carson Russell
Marvelcucks BTFO!
Lucas Lewis
>what is he a fucking plant? Photosynthesis is light. Supes is radiation.
It's like us finding a small planet with weak as fuck inhabitants, and part of the air is growth hormone and testosterone, we would be able to wreck shit.
Jayden Walker
You know, Superman's own abilities can fall under suspension of disbelief.
The problem is that objects and materials around Superman violate common sense even more than he does.
Superman could apparently attach a length of twine using children's wood glue to a jumbo jet, then pull on the twine and use it to lift the jet. At that point the jarring factor isn't that he's strong enough to lift a jet, it's that nothing EVER deforms or snaps apart around him unless he's destroying it on purpose.
Jordan Long
Nerd culture was a mistake
Jacob Sullivan
That looks silver age or earlier. Those feats can't be compared to modern superman as it was a different world then and most importantly a different target audience.
Michael Martin
Says the guy posting on a superman power thread on Sup Forums.
Carson Collins
>survive off of energy from the sun >all their clothing is full body suits and capes
Adrian Parker
>Those feats can't be compared to modern superman I just saw Henry Cavill use a chain to drag a thousand foot long tanker across ice.
Without damaging the ice.
Kevin Lee
Unlike superman, your infinite density is a reality with no good explanation.
Jason Peterson
>Supes is radiation. Light is radiation, you tit
Gavin Allen
This is addressed in MoS though. Superman wrecks the Kryptonians in Smallville and it isn't until he starts knocking off their armour that they get stronger.
Jack Peterson
They're still not naked
Ethan Watson
You just compared glue and twine to pull a solar system to a chain to pull a tanker.
Then yeah, he's a glorified plant.
Cameron Rodriguez
>They're still not naked Do you know how radiation works? Pretty sure it goes through standard clothes.
Adam Green
The guy can also throw a truck by grabbing it's open door and in MoS he basically arrests the oil rig collapse by pushing one girder.
Aside from that, none of the multi ton objects he heaves around even seem to end up with hand prints engraved in them.
Chase Ward
You know this is how we ended up with the speedfoce right?
Mason Gutierrez
this is exactly how the lords power works as well
Dominic Gomez
Comics and shit say it's the yellow sun vs red sun. So visible light, not X-rays or Gamma rays which can penetrate clothing
But I think the movie says it's the atmosphere not the sunlight
Josiah Richardson
I'm actually not massively familiar with comics but I'm assuming it's to do with the fact that if The Flash is really about as strong and durable as a normal human being, using his own powers would horribly murder him almost instantly due to everything from G force pressure to air friction?
Ian Ramirez
>But I think the movie says it's the atmosphere not the sunlight In the movies krypton has a dying yellow sun. So it's not red vs yellow, it's weak vs strong. They also say the atmosphere is far cleaner on earth and he will thrive in it.
Jonathan Myers
>Do you know how radiation works? Do you know how sunlight works? Most of the Sun's radiation is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere before it reaches us. About half is infrared (heat), half visible light and a tiny amount UV.
Zachary Stewart
just looks like someone having some fun. ironically it's you who's taking shit too seriously
Logan Williams
its light nigga
everything with a shorter wave than an xray won't penetrate cloth
Lucas Perry
>Flash is really about as strong and durable as a normal human being, using his own powers would horribly murder him almost instantly due to everything from G force pressure to air friction? Basically yeah. Writers must have got sick of answering questions spawned from applying real world physics to a character that exists in a fictional world.
How does the Flash eat enough to sustain his energy output? How come the air in front of him doesn't compress and explode? How doe he survive the whiplash from turning? How does he not kill anyone he touches?
Answer is speed force, basically an extra fundamental force in the comic universe that governs motion and velocity. The Flash has a hardline connection to it and thus can manipulate all aspects of speed.
Christopher Jones
But he doesn't wear a hijab
Chase Price
>heavyworlder stock >spends its formative years in a normal gravity world Not going to have heavyworlder traits, bro.
Wyatt Sanders
It's bones and literally everything else is still built for Jupiter type gravity.
Caleb Lopez
>that hairline
Henry?
Lincoln Howard
Do these idiots not know how to use google? This has been talked about in comics hundreds of times. The current canon is he has super strength coupled with tactile telekinesis.
Charles Cox
They don't touch on this much, but part of what makes him invulnerable is a tight force field around him(this is Byrne era Supes, which I happen to really like) and it also figures into him being able to lift things that couldn't possible support their own weight. It's like he extends that field to the thing he's attempting to lift.
There are occasions where it's even shown extended a degree of invulnerability to that object. There was a scene in MoS that kind of hinted at that when he rescues Lois from the escape pad and turns away from the explosion, exposing Lois's face to it. We get a closeup of the fire rushing all around her, but she's unscathed.
And as far as the ship goes, that's him pulling by "flying," but keeping himself grounded as a means of referencing how fast he's "pulling," "Flying grounded" is also how he's able to remain flat-footed through impacts that should send him reeling, like when the guy tries to push him in the bar in MoS and when the Batmobile is unable to move him.
Levi Rogers
Watch a couple of episodes of "The Expanse." You'll see what he's talking about,
Anthony Wilson
Their suits are all dark because they absorb solar energy (as their skin would do) and presumably plug into their Kryptonian anatomy somehow. So they get the dual benefit of armor and sunlight.
