Superman (New 52)

Summary

Superman, also known as Clark Kent and Kal-El, is a Kryptonian superhero. Though born on the planet Krypton, he was sent away in a spaceship as a baby to save him from his home planet's destruction. His spaceship landed on Earth in Smallville, Kansas, where he was found and adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Raised to a high moral standard, Superman uses his powers to protect innocents and safeguard his adopted home.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 4-B, higher when supercharged

Name: Kal-El, Clark Kent, Superman

Origin: DC Comics

Gender: Male

Age: 29 years

Classification: Kryptonian

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers and Abilities
• Resistances

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2), Flight (Can fly), Enhanced Senses (Could look into a criminal's body to determine that they had a stomach ulcer. Could see all the way into outer space from Earth. Could smell a fire in a thoroughly different part of town), Heat Manipulation (Can use heat vision against opponents and objects with evident melting characteristics), Fire Manipulation (His heat vision can consequently set things on fire. Noted that he could burn out specific parts of a target such as their brain), Breath Attack (Can launch attacks through his breaths, such as freeze breath), Body Control (Can raise his body temperature), Martial Arts (Stated to have “formidable brawling skills” by Captain Comet), Genius Intelligence, Regeneration (At least Mid-Low; Can regenerate from tissue damage), Longevity, Light Manipulation (Can emit light from his eyes that can be used to blind his opponents), Social Influencing (As a reporter, he wrote sentimental stories that influenced people's understanding of other feelings), Technology Manipulation (Can read a flash disc), Supernatural Willpower (By sheer willpower, he was able to push Xa Du's spirit out of its body, a fight which was described as a battle of spirit and will), Empowerment (He gets his strength from the sun), Air Manipulation (Can blow opponents away by simply raising his arms), Energy Manipulation (Constantly gives off psionic energy waves), Extrasensory Perception (Can sense people deep within the core of Earth without seeing/hearing them), Ice Manipulation (Can utilize freeze breath), Information Analysis (Analyzed the water on an underground kingdom to determine whether it would be drinkable or not), Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact with Ghost Soldier while he phases out of existence using his freeze breath), Immortality (Type 2; Can survive and continue to fight even while multiple spears pierced his thoracic area), Mind Manipulation (Could trap the “imaginary” doomsday in his mind and manifest within his own mental space)

Resistance to Radiation Manipulation (Can easily move around and act in areas with large amounts of cosmic radiation), Corruption (After inhaling the particle remains of Doomsday, he slowly began to turn into it, but eventually, managed to resist the corruption with only a gigantic Kryptonite explosion causing him to finally lose himself), Disease Manipulation (His super-immune system was able to dispose of the DNA-replicating virus implanted into him by Lex Luthor), Sleep Manipulation and Sound Manipulation (Unfazed by Batman's gases and sonic disruptor), Poison Manipulation (Can take poisonous gas from the military), Electricity Manipulation (Resisted the voltage of an electric chair that would have killed a gorilla. Resisted 10 gigawatts of electricity), Mind Manipulation (Has barriers within his mind that can resist corruption of his memories, with only powerful and skilled individuals, such as the 20 victims of Brainiac, being able to bypass his barriers), Death Manipulation (Fought and successfully defeated Doomsday, who kills everything surrounding him by simply existing), Limited Resistance to BFR (Can forcibly resist BFR by flying around extremely fast)

Attack Potency: Solar System level (Evenly fought against Orion's Post-Flashpoint Avatar and gave him more trouble than blasts from Mogo did), higher when supercharged (Overpowered Apollo after being exposed to excess solar radiation, who is considerably stronger than Wonder Woman)

Speed: Unknown; at least FTL movement speed. Massively FTL+ flight speed (Flew to Earth from Pluto in a seemingly short amount of time)

Lifting Strength: Class Y (Bench-pressed the mass of the Earth for 5 days continuously while cut off from yellow sunlight and shedding only a single drop of sweat in the process)

Striking Strength: Solar System level, higher when supercharged

Durability: Solar System level (Took attacks from Orion's Post-Flashpoint Avatar and was just fine, despite Orion admitting he was trying to kill him. Regularly takes hits from characters who are comparable to him), higher when supercharged

Stamina: Superhuman (bench-pressing the mass of the earth for 5 days continuously in the absence of sunlight made him sweat only a few drops)

Range: At least Planetary

Standard Equipment: Adaptable, near-indestructible Kryptonian armor

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Read every medical text in a matter of seconds, Casually determined the Higher dimensional nature of the multitude and easily formed a strategy to defeat it, something which was considered impossible to figure out even by the standards of the Kryptonians, who are far more advanced than Earth. Processed data from 100 of the most powerful telescopes in the world to formulate a computerized image, a feat which even supercomputers could not pull off. Identified high-tech alien technology by merely glimpsing at its debris)

Weaknesses: Kryptonite (various varieties), he is entirely dependent on the Stellar Radiation of a Yellow Star to sustain his powers (if he's deprived of Sunlight, he slowly loses his powers), the Stellar Radiation of a red star (weakens him due to red Stellar Radiation having less energy than that of a yellow or blue star), Magic (susceptible to it instead of weak against it, since he resisted a magical blast which could destroy a planet to some extent), he cannot see through lead, and is left as vulnerable as a regular human after using Super Flare for 24 hours before being able to use his powers again

Feats:

• Stopped Brainiac's larger-than-Earth ship from crashing into Earth with help from the Martian Manhunter
• Pushed a Kryptonite Moon

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• Kryptonian Physiology: Superman's cellular structure is much denser, resilient, and biologically more effective than human tissue. He does not possess superhuman strength levels despite his enhanced cellular ability without his cellular structure charged with yellow solar energy. Without such charging, his physical capabilities are identical to a human of his height and weight who engages in regular physical activity. As an alien, he possesses several organs whose functions are not yet disclosed or understood, but are believed to be part of or the source of his bio-matrix force field and reclamation aura. Superman's body also stores energy actively within his bio-cellular matrix as an energy pattern that is linked to his body's electromagnetic field. This energy powers most of his abilities, such as flight, heat vision and other solar-based abilities, while supplementing his physical abilities to superhuman levels.
  • Stellar Radiation Absorption: As a Kryptonian, his cells function like a super battery, hyper metabolizing specific wavelengths of radiation as fuel to enable living functions and/or superhuman abilities. Different wavelengths of radiation have different effects on Superman's physiology and well-being, but his cells cannot absorb or utilize all types of radiation. The wavelength of his home star system's red sun enables his body to function on an identical level of a healthy human, while the solar radiation on Earth, in both its raw and filtered state through the Earth's atmosphere, acts as fuel to enable all of his powers. Every time Superman uses any of his superhuman abilities, his body expends absorbed sunlight, and he is capable of utilizing any of them to various degrees through controlled circumstances. The stellar radiation of a foreign blue star proved to increase his known abilities under a yellow sun to a higher degree and enabled additional powers.
  • Superhuman Strength: Superman can physically lift massive levels of weight, and deliver blows which have the force of trillions of gigatons of TNT explosives.
  • Superhuman Speed: Superman can move and fly incredibly fast. He possesses the ability to achieve speeds faster than light. While not as fast as the Flash, Superman can move at speeds faster than light. He can use this power to disarm opponents, catch bullets or shrapnel, and cross vast distances in mere seconds.
  • Superhuman Stamina: Superman’s Kryptonian physiology allows him to exert himself to peak capacity for an undetermined amount of time. In the presence of a yellow star, his solar reserves are constantly replenished. In an environment without the light of a yellow star, his solar reserves gradually decrease as he exerts himself.
  • Superhuman Durability: Superman is immensely durable, able to easily withstand bullets, missiles, bombs and other weapons without a scratch. His body is nigh-invulnerable due to his immensely dense cellular and anatomical structure as well as his radiating bio-electrical aura. Superman is under some circumstances resistant or immune to different forms and levels of lacerations, blunt force trauma, energy-based assaults, falls from great heights, explosions, the cold void of space, toxins and all known diseases on Earth. His supercharged bio-electric "aura" acts as an invisible "force field" radiating within a few millimeters from his skin.
  • Flight: When Superman's body is charged with solar energy, he can emit a gravitational field that enables him to defy gravity and fly. He has extreme mobility while he is in flight, allowing him to fight, change course, and also carry great weights air-borne.
  • Superhuman Vision: Superman possesses a superior sensory arrangement of visual capabilities.
    • X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through anything except lead. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays.
    • Telescopic Vision: Superman can focus his vision to see something at a great distance, with equal clarity of visual perception.
    • Microscopic Vision: Superman can see minuscule objects and images down to a molecular level.
    • Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Superman can see all of the EM Spectrum. He can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods.
• Superhuman Hearing: Superman has incredible hearing at extreme variances of sound and pitch frequency, allowing him to pick up noises from across the globe. He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source/frequency.
• Superhuman Olfaction: On various occasions, Superman has demonstrated that his sense of smell is significantly enhanced to the point he can smell odors across the entire planet.
• Stellar Radiation Expulsion: Superman can also release his stored energy directly.
  • Heat Vision: Superman can accurately target things smaller than human beings from orbit and use either a narrow or wide-area beam. The heat intensity can be greater than that of the sun and can be modulated to deliver different frequencies and types to best affect his opponent. His heat vision is invisible at lower temperatures, but blinding at higher temperatures.
• Super Flare: Superman can expel all the solar energy stored in his cells in one explosive blast, incinerating everything a quarter mile around him. The technique is unstable as of yet and makes Superman temporarily vulnerable.
• Superhuman Breath: Superman can inhale and exhale gigantic volumes of air with great force, and capable of extinguishing large fires and moving heavy objects with his breath alone. This ability also allows Superman to hold his breath for extended periods in airless environments.
  • Freeze Breath: Superman can freeze his opponents by using his Super Breath to do release a large volume of air. This is due to the Joule-Thomson effect (see detailed description here).
• Radar-Sensing Capabilities: Superman, as of Action Comics #49, has the ability to sense transmissions, energy waves, and signals spanning all across the globe; giving him the ability of also being a "super antenna".
• Intangibility: Superman can manipulate his atoms to phase through attacks and turn invisible.

Notes:

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• New 52 Superman Feat Timeline

Gallery

Heat Vision - 1

Heat Vision - 2

Freeze Breath - 1

Freeze Breath - 2

Super Flare - 1

Super Flare - 2

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