"Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!" ― The original Superman radio slogan
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 8-C | 4-C | 2-C | 4-B
Name: Clark Kent, Superman
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Kryptonian Alien
Powers and Abilities:
Originally only Superhuman Physical Characteristics. By the end of the Golden Age he had basically all his known powers, such as Flight, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Time Travel, Regeneration (At least Mid-Low, scales to his Post-Crisis counterpart), Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, X-Ray Vision, Heat Vision, and Freeze Breath. In addition, his powers include Mind Manipulation (Can telepathically control opponents with his will and hypnotize opponents), Limited Shapeshifting (Can alter his features and size to a certain extent), Pressure Point Strikes (Knocked a man out for hours with a precise nerve strike), Heat Manipulation (His X-ray vision produces heat capable of melting bullets), Limited Air Manipulation via Super Breath (Blew out a star), Limited Vibration Manipulation (Destroyed a building by singing to match its resonance frequency), Limited Sound Manipulation (Projected his voice into police broadcasts and out of other's mouths using ventriloquism)
Resistance to Electricity (Withstood millions of volts of electricity without flinching), Heat and Fire (Withstood plunging through a red star, which depowered him), Poison (Inhaled deadly gas and was unharmed), Deconstruction (A disintegration attack only knocked him unconscious), Matter Manipulation (Was unaffected by a subatomic attack), Sleep Manipulation (Knockout gas did not affect him), Mind Manipulation (Resisted hypnosis and fire that burned the mind and sapped intelligence), Radiation (Was immune to deadly radiation), and Extreme Cold (Could fly in space without protection)
Attack Potency: Large Building level | Star level (Casually blew up a sun with Super Breath) | Low Multiverse level (Repeatedly stalemated Pre-Crisis Superman) | Solar System level (Comparable to Post-Crisis Superman)
Speed: Supersonic+ (Faster than a speeding bullet) | Massively FTL+. Immeasurable by flying through time | Massively FTL+. Immeasurable by flying through time | Massively FTL+
Lifting Strength: Class K (Lifted a military cruise ship) | Stellar (Pushed a sun) | Immeasurable | Multi-Stellar
Striking Strength: Large Building Class | Star Class | Low Multiversal | Solar System Class
Durability: Large Building level (Tanked a beam that could shatter a skyscraper) | Star level | Low Multiverse level | Solar System level
Stamina: Very high. Ran a race around the world, without breaking a sweat.
Range: Stellar | Unknown | Interstellar | Planetary
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Above Average
Weaknesses: Nothing Notable | Kryptonite, Red Suns, Magic
Key: Originally | End of Golden Age | Silver Age | Modern Age
Notes:
During his fight with Post-Crisis Superman, they broke the space-time continuum. However, this should likely be taken as unquantifiable plot convenience.
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