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Post by dans on Oct 18, 2023 17:21:59 GMT
Does the E2 Superman have a healing factor? If so...
how strong is it? If he had some broken bones due to a collision with, say, another Kryptonian at 25% light speed, how long would it take them to heal?
is it dependent on yellow sunlight or his Kryptonian physiology?
Side questions: Are E2 Kryptonians invulnerable to each other? Can one E2 Kryptonian break the bones of another? Can E2 Superman break his own bones?
Is E2 Superman less invulnerable in 1985 than he was in 1955 because of his body aging, his ability to process sunlight, or some combination of both?
Ooohhh - now I'm really digressing... Are E2 Superman's powers identical under EVERY yellow star? G type stars are all fairly similar in size (apparently mostly in the range of +/- 10% of Sol) so probably under most circumstances, Superman would never notice the difference in power level under different sized G type stars. But there are also apparently yellow supergiants (which don't last very long on a cosmic time scale, but this could be hundreds of thousands of years on human time scales...) Would E2 Superman become Hypersuperman under one of those stars?
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Post by dave on Oct 18, 2023 19:41:08 GMT
The E2 Superman has some powers such as super strength, speed, and intelligence. they, and his other powers increase over the years as he was affected by yellow sun radiation.
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Post by johnreiter902 on Oct 19, 2023 1:13:48 GMT
Side questions: Are E2 Kryptonians invulnerable to each other? Can one E2 Kryptonian break the bones of another? Can E2 Superman break his own bones?
Is E2 Superman less invulnerable in 1985 than he was in 1955 because of aging? If so, that suggest that at least part of his invulnerability is due to physiology, or else is body is losing its ability to process yellow sunlight.
1. Mala, Kizo, and U-Ban were able to beat each other into unconsciousness, so I would say that E2 Kryptonians can hurt each other.
2. Multiple stories seem to say this is true, Superman of Earth-2 has gotten slightly weaker as he has gotten older
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Post by jonclark on Oct 19, 2023 4:59:02 GMT
Side questions: Are E2 Kryptonians invulnerable to each other? Can one E2 Kryptonian break the bones of another? Can E2 Superman break his own bones?
Is E2 Superman less invulnerable in 1985 than he was in 1955 because of aging? If so, that suggest that at least part of his invulnerability is due to physiology, or else is body is losing its ability to process yellow sunlight.
1. Mala, Kizo, and U-Ban were able to beat each other into unconsciousness, so I would say that E2 Kryptonians can hurt each other.
2. Multiple stories seem to say this is true, Superman of Earth-2 has gotten slightly weaker as he has gotten older
To be fair the Earth 2 Kryptonians are sort of inconsistent. Sometimes Kal-L seems to be identical in power level to his Earth 1 counterpart like in their meeting in Justice League of America #72, Other times we get things like Power Girl being said specifically to be far less invulnerable than Supergirl ( All Star Comics issue with Vulcan). All-Star Squadron and Mr. & Mrs. Superman stories seem to show Kal-L in his prime performing at Silver-Age power levels, but All-Star Comics (the 1970's revival) shows Kal-L still closer to leaping tall buildings than traversing the universe at will. Could be age, but does seem like a sharp power drop if he'd been equal to Kal-El's top feats at any point. And since the Earth 2 Superman was sort of cobbled together from Action Comics #1 and stuff that just no longer fit the modern (i.e. Earth 1) Superman we can't even be sure where the power level cut-off was. We have comics from the 1940's that clearly have Clark working at the Daily Planet for Perry White but know that Kal-L at that point was working for the Daily Star under George Taylor. And there are stories in that Earth-2 period (pre-1958) that show Clark unmarried despite occurring timewise after "Superman Takes a Wife". Is it possible that some of those stories also somehow got Earth One power levels mixed in as well? That the Earth-Prime writer might have told a fairly accurate Earth 2 storiy but with some of the feats described being influenced by similar Earth One events. For example, a story in the 1950's had Superman easily surviving something like an A-bomb. Could it be that the Earth-Two version actually had Kal-L more effected but the published story reflected deatils from Earth-One where Superman did easily shrug off such explosions? |
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Post by lawrenceliberty on Oct 21, 2023 15:53:15 GMT
I do like the idea that the real facts like Superman is married, Superman is eventually weaker than he once was etc. apply to E-2 stories but published tales from the time might not be accurate as far as his marital state or his power levels. I made a pretty detailed timeline for him and while it was simple enough to substitute Star for Planet, and Taylor for White, making stories fit after his retroactive marriage or during that period when Wizard made him forget he was Superman was tough.
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