Why is superman so damn powerful?

[Eternally Jaded]

Because hes a metaphor for jesus

In his worst stories imo.
The Superman/Jesus thing was some of the ish that made Snyder-Man insufferable.

 

[3rdWorld]

Hes essentially pure energy

 

[Eternally Jaded]

Also Superman has a great stable that supports him well and he feuds with Lex and Darkseid are legendary.

Not to crazy about his feuds against Bizarro Sup, since he don’t like to sell and really put Kal El over

Darkseid never fell so low, as to when he became known as a Superman villain.

That was when the shyt show started, and it's carried over to every depiction afterwards.
Superman has beaten Darkseid in his own hall a bunch of times in the DCAU, and it sucks imo.
Writers are hacks, fans are dumbasses and the product stinks.
Morrison at least tried to abstract it out in Final Crisis, with the Eternity Engine(I forgot, haven't read it in years) but everyone else just goes Superman gets pissed, Darkseid gets beat up, the end.
He's the first so I give him that, but the DC bylines limit the storytelling of the universe severely imo.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

Hes essentially pure energy

He's not, he's a battery. And those can be corrupted or collapsed.

 

[3rdWorld]

He's not, he's a battery. And those can be corrupted or collapsed.

The greatest Energizer in the universe..

 

[qwasi]

aside from DBZ, anime characters arent bending time and space and devouring planets

This is a limited view of Anime and Manga. From the completed Shounen: Bleach characters compensate for scale with hax. Naruto's antagonistic Otutsuki are planet devourers. Toriko's Top Tiers are all Star leveled beings and there God Tiers are in the region of affecting Solar Systems. Planetary is tame in Anime/Manga. Its when you get to Star levelled that things become tighter.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

The greatest Energizer in the universe..

Nope, that's DC Superman mandated wank speaking.
The greatest energizer in the universe is Willpower.
It's what Green Lanterns fight with(greatest weapon in the universe) and its what the Morningstar used to alight suns.

After that or before, depending on who you ask is Hope, as that is the oxygen that allows Willpower to spark that fans into a blaze, that catches on with those who can see it, or warms those who can't.

Superman doesn't work because he's a Terran placed in ideal circumstances but at the root, he's normal.
The math of a million Superman equivalents breaks down, the further you take it into logic.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Because hes a metaphor for jesus

Hes a metaphor for jews actually

 

[Monsanto]

He's a metaphor for black people.

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