It gets even more absurd with the mutliversal versions. I.E. Superboy Prime "punching reality" and altering the timeline, or the massively OP Red Son Superman. And so many of those power excesses have a tendency of making their way to the primary character one way or another.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @nberlat and
When DC starts to get "cosmic", a lot of writers tend to just turn up the dial on Supermans power, and explain it away by saying he was always capable of that but didn't know it/had to hold himself back/etc.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @nberlat and
I love Grant Morrison, but he can get really silly with this sometimes. Like in Superman Beyond/Final Crisis, when he goes to higher-dimensional space and his eyes just automatically adjust to see things properly. And it happens...just because he's Superman and can do that.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @nberlat and
Honestly, the idea that he's some kind of reality bending deity whose powers are limited only by his imagination makes a lot more sense than just saying the bizarre array of powers he normally has are just the specific biological abilities of his species
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
The flying and the heat vision and the X-ray vision and the super breath and the flying so fast he turns back time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
I mean we all know the thing where even his "super strength" has to be some kind of telekinetic ability to alter the effective mass of what he's using his strength on for it to work that way right Why he can lift up a car by its bumper instead of just ripping the bumper off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
The famous flight scene in the Superman movie almost lampshades this Lois clings to Superman in terror as they fly and he encourages her to let go and just hold hands with him, and this lets her soar through the air by his side
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
Instead of dangling helplessly from his hand and dislocating her shoulder as she would if she were still under the normal influence of gravity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Morrison sort of implicitly deals with this stuff too Superman isn't a normal superhero. He occupies this mythic, metaphysical position in the DCU. He's the primal, symbolic, memetic source of everything. Reality organizes itself around him.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @nberlat and
In his defense this didn't start with him, this was a thing way back in the Silver Age The one arc where the Green Lantern Corps guards "the Sword of the Superman"
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He's basically the prophesied Jesus, the unique circumstances of his birth and his powers are to prepare him for the ultimate destiny of taking up the sword and ascending
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
And I mean in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, Earth-1 was the prophesied final Earth and our Superman the one destined to make the final choice to rebuild the universe in its image because it was the strongest and most real timeline etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Morrison also pushed towards this ascension in DC One Million and All Star Superman. The idea of the sun dying and Superman going inside it, charging him to god power for eternity as he keeps the sun alive, and thus not only us but New Earth, keystone of the multiverse.
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