List of ALL of Superman's powers?
Peter Meilinger
Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
the powers were.
Pete
Jason
doesn't have the 'super-hypnotism' and such.
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Fred Perry
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> Well post-crisis, which the show seems to be following power-wise, he
> doesn't have the 'super-hypnotism' and such.
>
>
a huge distance!"
Jim Longo
Last time I checked (pre-Crisis, natch), all Kryptonians had the
following:
superhuman strength
superhuman stamina
superhuman speed, sufficient to allow them to break the time
barrier
superhuman reflexes
near invulnerability, or at the very least high degrees of
resistance to harm
superhuman hearing
superhuman vision for distance and magnification, but not light
amplification (in other words, telescopic and microscopic vision, but
not catlike night vision)
thermal vision
x-ray vision
heat beams projected from the eyes
near-total memory of anything they've sensed or experienced
absorption of yellow solar energy
super breath
flight
j.
Michael Robert Dunn
Superbreath breaks down into 2 powers
super hard breath and/or
Supercold breath
Also superhearing included the ability to hear, and translate radio waves
super ventrilauism, which also sometimes included the ability to talk in
radio waves.
super hypnotism
super intelligence (which mostly they never seemed to use)
One the T.V. show (reeve) I remember him splitting into 2 supermen once.
I have also heard he once vibrated through a wall (both due to his super
control over his molecular structure)
In the golden age I remember him sculpting his face (like Richard Benson
(the Avenger)).
And in a Kirby new gods I remember him rubbing his hands together really
fast to generate static electricty (lightning lad would have been
impressed)
Jim Longo <phoen...@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Last time I checked (pre-Crisis, natch), all Kryptonians had the
: following:
: superhuman strength
: superhuman stamina
: superhuman speed, sufficient to allow them to break the time
: barrier
: superhuman reflexes
: near invulnerability, or at the very least high degrees of
: resistance to harm
: superhuman hearing
: superhuman vision for distance and magnification, but not light
: amplification (in other words, telescopic and microscopic vision, but
: not catlike night vision)
: thermal vision
: x-ray vision
: heat beams projected from the eyes
: near-total memory of anything they've sensed or experienced
: absorption of yellow solar energy
: super breath
: flight
: j.
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>Peter Meilinger <mell...@bu.edu> wrote in message news:<9u5dsm$395$1...@news3.bu.edu>...
>> Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
>> Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
>> present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
>> I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
>> the powers were.
> x-ray vision
One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
Which also rather reminds me, why does he, when disguised as
Clark, always pull his glasses down over the bridge of his nose
to use his x-ray vision? It's x-ray vision, for pete's sake!
and he's only looking through glass!
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> On 29 Nov 2001 14:32:41 -0800, phoen...@hotmail.com (Jim Longo)
> wrote:
>
> >Peter Meilinger <mell...@bu.edu> wrote in message
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> >> Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
> >> Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
> >> present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
> >> I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
> >> the powers were.
>
> > x-ray vision
>
> One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
> skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
> broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
>
> Which also rather reminds me, why does he, when disguised as
> Clark, always pull his glasses down over the bridge of his nose
> to use his x-ray vision? It's x-ray vision, for pete's sake!
> and he's only looking through glass!
>
glass. Post-Crisis, his X-Ray vision isn't really x-rays; he once used it
to look inside a pregnant woman to see whether the baby was ready
to be delivered; that isn't something he'd do if he still generated actual
x-rays.
Thomas Ward
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> Peter Meilinger <mell...@bu.edu> wrote in message
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> > Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
> > Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
> > present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
> > I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
> > the powers were.
> >
> > Pete
>
> Last time I checked (pre-Crisis, natch), all Kryptonians had the
> following:
>
> superhuman strength
> superhuman stamina
> superhuman speed, sufficient to allow them to break the time
> barrier
> superhuman reflexes
> near invulnerability, or at the very least high degrees of
> resistance to harm
> superhuman hearing
> superhuman vision for distance and magnification, but not light
> amplification (in other words, telescopic and microscopic vision, but
> not catlike night vision)
> thermal vision
Superman used to be able to see in the dark, I believe. Infra Vision.
Josh Dull
> One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
> skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
> broken arm
As long as it's not coated in lead, yes.
>or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
I imagine he could if he ever wanted to.
> Which also rather reminds me, why does he, when disguised as
> Clark, always pull his glasses down over the bridge of his nose
> to use his x-ray vision? It's x-ray vision, for pete's sake!
> and he's only looking through glass!
.
Maybe he can focuss it better without the lenses interferring?
Josh
Michael Dalriada
he would switch from Clark Kent to Superman so fast that he could carry on a
conversation with himself. Darned if I remember which book that was in,
though. I know that basically that breaks down to super speed and super
intelligence (what else could you call the ability to figure out how to
fracture sound so that you could talk to yourself while dressing and
undressing?)
-- m
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John M. Gamble
Pre-Crisis, he once beamed heat-vision from one eye, and x-ray vision from
the other eye, in order to erase the memory of his secret ID from Jimmy
Olsen. This was a one-shot, there was a thought balloon that said something
like "if i every do this again, i'll short out both my powers." Even as
a teen-ager (twenty five to thirty years ago) i thought this was the
lamest deus ex machina device i'd ever read.
Hmm, i also remember an issue where Superman and the Flash were hypnotized
into thinking they were each other. There was a good scene where Superman
tried to vibrate through a wall like the Flash, with disasterous results
for the wall (the panel text stated explicitly that Superman didn't have
the Flash's vibration ability). Then a couple of months later, Supergirl
vibrates through a wall. You think there's bad editing now? Back when
*i* was a kid...
-john
February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.
Bill Svitavsky
Pete! It's about time you posted something in the rac groups.
If you're looking for ridiculous powers, you need go no further than the
Christopher Reeve movies. Superman II included Superman pulling the "S"
symbol of his chest whereupon it became some sort of enlarging
Saran-wrap entanglement. He also seemed to be teleporting in that
battle, though it could be explained as superspeed. Then there was the
memory-erasing kiss he used on Lois; it might have been superhypnosis, I
suppose.
Superman IV easily takes the cake, though, with Superman's
rebuild-Great-Wall-of-China vision. Some day I'm going to build a
Champions character with that power.
Getting back to comics, the Golden Age superman demonstrated the ability
once or twice to disguise his face by altering its shape.
The Silver Age Superman always seemed like a latent telepath to me. He
somehow seemed more receptive than others to telepathic communication
from Lori Lemaris and other telepaths; maybe he was just so darn super
people just liked communicating with him better.
Then there was a JLA adventure vs. the fear-eating alien Nekron (not to
be confused with Necron). I recall some sort of arrangement where GL's
ring and someone's (Aquaman's?) telepathy were used to terrify Superman
and broadcast his SUPER FEAR, thereby overloading the villain.
Strangely, Superman never again mentioned super fear among his
abilities.
A late pre-Crisis story featured something that Superman *couldn't* do -
inhale smoke into his lungs. According to this story, all the times he
inhaled smoke from burning buildings, poisonous gasses, and such, he was
actually keeping it all compressed in his mouth. Who'd have thought it
was possible to do an exceptionally poor super-breath story?
Post-Crisis, Superman's latent telepathic abilities have been even more
strongly suggested. He's clearly picked up some mental defenses over
time. At one point Psi-phon, who'd "drained" Superman's powers before,
was completely blocked by Superman's mental shields. Then there was some
sort of mental martial art he learned a couple of years ago, but I never
fully followed that.
- Bill Svitavsky
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>
>
>
> If you're looking for ridiculous powers, you need go no further than the
> Christopher Reeve movies. Superman II included Superman pulling the "S"
> symbol of his chest whereupon it became some sort of enlarging
> Saran-wrap entanglement. He also seemed to be teleporting in that
> battle, though it could be explained as superspeed.
I always thought that it was something the Fortress of Solitude could do.
Kinda like a hall of mirrors.
Michael
And just to add some from the Christopher Reeve movies:
- Kiss of Forgetfulness.
- Tossing some funky growing plastic version of his insignia that grows and
ensnares not-so-smart Kryptonian foes.
- Whatever that "game" that Superman and the three Phantom Zone villains were
playing that allowed Superman to apparently teleport then create several other
images of himself.
The last two might be due to the Fortress of Solitude in some way.
Michael
Mikel Midnight
<bsvit...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> If you're looking for ridiculous powers, you need go no further than the
> Christopher Reeve movies. Superman II included Superman pulling the "S"
> symbol of his chest whereupon it became some sort of enlarging
> Saran-wrap entanglement. He also seemed to be teleporting in that
> battle, though it could be explained as superspeed. Then there was the
> memory-erasing kiss he used on Lois; it might have been superhypnosis, I
> suppose.
>
> Superman IV easily takes the cake, though, with Superman's
> rebuild-Great-Wall-of-China vision. Some day I'm going to build a
> Champions character with that power.
The Dean Cain Superman displayed "water purification vision."
The George Reeves Superman could walk through walls, and also split
himself into two Supermans.
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Anthony Dean
<cd...@woh.rr.com> wrote:
Pre-Crisis:
Originally in the mid-50's or so, Superman had introduced as a power
"the heat of his x-ray vision" (aka his x-ray vision could generate
heat to melt stuff---one reprint from this era I've seen shows Superman
using x-ray vision to look through a wall and by cranking up the
intensity, melt some crook's gun/bullets). Thus in an early 60's origin
retelling, Clark made his glasses out of Kryptonian glass since
ordinary lenses would melt when he tried to use his x-ray vision/heat
of his x-ray vision. Shortly thereafter, it apparently dawned on the
writers that x-rays don't generate heat, and they made heat vision a
seperate power (though with Clark still having Kryptonian glass, so he
could presumably use his heat vision while as Clark).
Post-Crisis: No idea. What Josh said, perhaps?
Anthony
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quimico
>
>"Jason" <jlar...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> Well post-crisis, which the show seems to be following power-wise, he
>> doesn't have the 'super-hypnotism' and such.
>>
>>
>Super-ventriloquism was always my favorite. "Learn to throw your voice from
>a huge distance!"
Actually, super-ventriloquism is no more ridiculous than
TeleKynesis - and post-crisis explanation for heat visision
is TeleKynesis,,,,
quimico
>
>> x-ray vision
>
>One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
>skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
>broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
He has seen his own brain.
>Which also rather reminds me, why does he, when disguised as
>Clark, always pull his glasses down over the bridge of his nose
>to use his x-ray vision? It's x-ray vision, for pete's sake!
>and he's only looking through glass!
What is x-ray vision? It is pretty much clear it can't be
vision using x-rays. However, it should be some mechanism that allows
him to see through (usually opaque) matter. That being
the case, it is not so absurd to suppose that a bit of matter
close to the eye could be annoyingly interferent, even if that
matter happens to be transparent to "visible light".
Kevin Yong
news:<9u5dsm$395$1...@news3.bu.edu>...
> > Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
> > Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
> > present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
> > I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
> > the powers were.
> >
> > Pete
>
> Last time I checked (pre-Crisis, natch), all Kryptonians had the
> following:
--SNIP--
Wow, nice list. Here's a few more additions.
Besides super-intelligence, there was some aspect of
a Kryptonian's "super-brain" that made them immune
to mind-control or hypnosis... unless, of course, it was
"super" mind-control or if the hypnotic commands were
Kryptonian in origin (broadcast over a Kandorian
radio, or made from a spliced tape of Superman's
voice, etc.)
Oh, and Superman also the "power" to temporarily stop
his heartbeat. He used it several times to fake his death
and/or play cruel hoaxes on his friends.
--- Kevin Yong,
starving comics writer at large
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Majik
with despite continuity, which was not a big priority in the golden and
sliver age.
I pulled out my "Encyclopedia of Superheros" for this qustion which gave the
usual list of flight (Though early on it was only jump), super
strength/speed/endurnace/breath, X-ray vision, heat vision, invunerablity to
all earth weapons so only kryptonite or alien stuff could "really" hurt him.
Superman also boasted that "Nothing on Earth can move him" unless he
chooses.
It also list several features that were more used in the silver age such as
the ventrioquism, hypnosis, time travel, ablity to fly though space on one
breath. More fantastic powers was the total control he had over his body so
he could alter his voicebox to sound like anyone for extended period of
times, adust his face muscles for disguse, and could compress his spine to
be shorter. Thus one of the reasons no one knew Clark was Superman is
becasue he would use these methods and be shorter than Clark with a
differnet voice and face.
Clark's glasses were from the front windshild of his spaceship and his
uniform was from the blankets he was wrapped in thus giving them powers and
properties.
Majik
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Wayne S Garmil
Mikel Midnight <blak...@best.outdamnspam.com> wrote:
>
>The Dean Cain Superman displayed "water purification vision."
I thought that was just a specific use of heat vision to purify the
water similar to boiling.
>The George Reeves Superman could walk through walls, and also split
>himself into two Supermans.
The walk-thru-walls power was one that someone has to devise for
Superman, he didn't figure out on his own he could do it. I took it
as something similar to the way Flash vibrarted thru walls. Too bad
it was never used again.
As for splitting in two, didn't each have only certain powers? I took
that as a tribute to Superman-Red/Superman-Blue, the classic imaginary
tale, not the somwhat recent electro-man dreck one. It's been over
two (maybe three by now) decades since I saw that episode, so my
memory could be very faulty here.
Much as I liked Christopher Reeves (he has definately proven he
deserves to wear the S-shield), George Reeves will always be how I
picture Superman and Clark Kent should look like. Chris was always
a little too thin for me to see as Superman. But courage? No
question at all, he *is* a superman. Who else would be able take his
kind of disability and use it to continue making good movies? His
remake of Rear Window was better than the original, including where
he let them turn off his ventelator for real in that scene at the
end. That was no acting, folks, he realy was gasping for air because
that was what the scene needed and he knew he could do it, and did.
Wayne
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>
>Oh, and Superman also the "power" to temporarily stop
>his heartbeat. He used it several times to fake his death
>and/or play cruel hoaxes on his friends.
>
"play cruel hoaxes on his friends?"
Sounds like the plot of every Weisinger story.
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Peter Meilinger
: Pete! It's about time you posted something in the rac groups.
Ah, I knew you were holding the fort.
: If you're looking for ridiculous powers, you need go no further than the
: Christopher Reeve movies. Superman II included Superman pulling the "S"
: symbol of his chest whereupon it became some sort of enlarging
: Saran-wrap entanglement.
I loved that thing!
: He also seemed to be teleporting in that
: battle, though it could be explained as superspeed. Then there was the
: memory-erasing kiss he used on Lois; it might have been superhypnosis, I
: suppose.
No, I think that was just the aftereffects of some Super-Lovin'.
: Superman IV easily takes the cake, though, with Superman's
: rebuild-Great-Wall-of-China vision. Some day I'm going to build a
: Champions character with that power.
Luckily, I have never watched more than a few minutes of Superman
IV. I have vague memories of someone getting clocked with the
Statue of Liberty, though.
: Then there was a JLA adventure vs. the fear-eating alien Nekron (not to
: be confused with Necron). I recall some sort of arrangement where GL's
: ring and someone's (Aquaman's?) telepathy were used to terrify Superman
: and broadcast his SUPER FEAR, thereby overloading the villain.
: Strangely, Superman never again mentioned super fear among his
: abilities.
Huh. Reminds me of the story where both Supes and GL have to confront
their fears in some weird outer space maze. GL turns out to be afraid
of spiders, so he confronts a giant yellow spider. Fair enough.
Superman, however, was afraid of disappointing his father, Jor-El.
I have never been able to blot out of my memory the panel where a
15 foot tall Jor-El puts Superman over his knee and spanks him.
God, I love comic books...
Pete
Peter Meilinger
Thanks to everyone who replied! I have a big list now, and
my friend Vic is giggling over some of the dumber stuff as I
type.
Pete
Jim Longo
> > superhuman vision for distance and magnification, but not light
> > amplification (in other words, telescopic and microscopic vision, but
> > not catlike night vision)
> > thermal vision
>
> Superman used to be able to see in the dark, I believe. Infra Vision.
That's also called thermal vision--the ability to see into the
infrared part of the spectrum. What I don't think he's ever had is
night vision--the ability to see in near-total darkness with only a
little bit of light, but only in the visible spectrum (in other words,
no infrared or ultraviolet).
j.
Mathew Krull
He pulled down his glasses to keep from melting them. His 'x-ray' vision
generated heat for some reason. This was also how his heat vision worked, it was
just a full force use of his 'x-ray' vision.
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facial features.
Marcus
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Trevor Barrie
John M. Gamble <jga...@ripco.com> wrote:
>Hmm, i also remember an issue where Superman and the Flash were hypnotized
>into thinking they were each other. There was a good scene where Superman
>tried to vibrate through a wall like the Flash, with disasterous results
>for the wall (the panel text stated explicitly that Superman didn't have
>the Flash's vibration ability). Then a couple of months later, Supergirl
>vibrates through a wall. You think there's bad editing now? Back when
>*i* was a kid...
Maybe she was just better co-ordinated than he was.
quimico
>In at least a few Golden Age stories Superman had the ability to remold his
>facial features.
I only know of one, involving an alien collector who would
kidnap earthlings and turn them to statues - to integrate his
collection. If there are others, I never saw any one mentioned.
Bill Svitavsky
I could swear I saw Roy Thomas show this power once in an issue of
All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars, or Infinity, Inc., but I've been
called on this before in this newsgroup and I've never again been able
to find the incident.
- Bill Svitavsky
Richard Carter
: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:54:53 GMT, spo...@spooonfedreviews.com (Spooon) wrote:
: >One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
: >skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
: >broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
: He has seen his own brain.
Oh? When and how?
--
Rick Carter
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quimico
>quimico (qui...@fortalnet.com.br) wrote:
>: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:54:53 GMT, spo...@spooonfedreviews.com (Spooon) wrote:
>: >One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
>: >skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
>: >broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
>
>: He has seen his own brain.
>
>Oh? When and how?
I can't exactly quote the issues (they were translated)
but once was when he was battling Terra-man
for the first time. He was being plagued by an ailment
peculiar to Kryptonians, that struck them on their birthday,
each kryptonian year (6+ earth years). This malady
provoked depression, emotional crisis and various
weird physiological responses, like reversing the
action of the x-ray vision, making it focus the
inside of his head, instead of the outside...
The other time was when Luthor used a weapon on Superman
that made his body increase in size. Superman performed a
self-examination with the Atom's help using lead-backed
mirror and other stuff to reflect his vision to his head.
The image of his brain being scanned by his own vision
is very clearly depicted.
Michael Ward
"quimico" <qui...@fortalnet.com.br> wrote in message
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>
> I can't exactly quote the issues (they were translated)
> but once was when he was battling Terra-man
> for the first time.
Superman 249 "The Challenge of Terra-man"
Derik Smith
>generated heat for some reason. This was also how his heat vision worked, it
was
>just a full force use of his 'x-ray' vision.
I recall a mid-80's Superman animated adventure with a bat-mutant in a lost
underhgroudn city whose only weakness, Clark discovered, was x-rays, so he used
his x-ray vision on it. (That, or someoen set up a situation where he was
using his x-ray vision, and used that to incubate something, my memory is
fuzzy...)
-Derik
"Ninja cars are preposterous, but INVISIBLE ninja cars? Now you're talking
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I probably don't care what you think.
Marcus O Murchu
identity a little more believable. Best not say too lound though someone will
think it' s a good idea to use.
Michael Dalriada
> A late pre-Crisis story featured something that Superman *couldn't* do -
> inhale smoke into his lungs. According to this story, all the times he
> inhaled smoke from burning buildings, poisonous gasses, and such, he was
> actually keeping it all compressed in his mouth. Who'd have thought it
> was possible to do an exceptionally poor super-breath story?
Does anyone remember the 1970's "Private Life of Clark Kent" episode in
which Superman tries smoking cigarettes, then after a few puffs he decides
they taste nasty, he gets disgusted with them and throws 'em away?
-- m
Orion
wrote:
I disagree. I think it's a lot more rediculous. A TK explanation
covers for a lot of Superman's powers (you get tangled up at
superspeed and supersenses, but the rest work just fine), whereas
superventriloquism is yet another power that works on the assumption
that Superman can do anything and everything in a "super" manner.
I admit that it's a subjective call, but it's mine to make.
-Orion
"I write of things which I have neither seen nor learned from another,
things which are not and never could have been, and therefore my
readers should by no means believe them."
quimico
>On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 06:25:56 GMT, qui...@fortalnet.com.br (quimico)
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:13:24 -0500, "Fred Perry" <tar...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Jason" <jlar...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>>>news:y4tN7.53600$kb.43...@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
>>>> Well post-crisis, which the show seems to be following power-wise, he
>>>> doesn't have the 'super-hypnotism' and such.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Super-ventriloquism was always my favorite. "Learn to throw your voice from
>>>a huge distance!"
>>
>>Actually, super-ventriloquism is no more ridiculous than
>>TeleKynesis - and post-crisis explanation for heat visision
>>is TeleKynesis,,,,
>
>I disagree. I think it's a lot more rediculous. A TK explanation
>covers for a lot of Superman's powers (you get tangled up at
>superspeed and supersenses, but the rest work just fine), whereas
>superventriloquism is yet another power that works on the assumption
>that Superman can do anything and everything in a "super" manner.
No, not really. The mechanism behind "super-ventriloquism"
has never been explained in detail. Like TK, this is
"black-box" power. As for the label "super-ventriloquism",
it is just an atempt at describing in two words what the
said power acomplishes: it allows superman to do what a
ventriloquist SEEMS to do, that is, to make his voice come
from point away from his mouth. Of course, what superman
did was way beyond any illusion ever created by a stage
ventriloquist, so you couldn't call it just "ventriloquism",
it had to be "super-ventriloquism".
Michael Robert Dunn
Since the sound of your voice is just produced by moving air, it seems to
me that telekynesis should cover superventriloquism just fine, after all
that would just require moving air at a distance. (at least as well as
making things hot, which is just the result of moving atoms).
sombody wrote:
:>>>> Well post-crisis, which the show seems to be following power-wise, he
:>>>> doesn't have the 'super-hypnotism' and such.
:>>>Super-ventriloquism was always my favorite. "Learn to throw your voice from
:>>>a huge distance!"
:>>Actually, super-ventriloquism is no more ridiculous than
:>>TeleKynesis - and post-crisis explanation for heat visision
:>>is TeleKynesis,,,,
:>I disagree. I think it's a lot more rediculous. A TK explanation
:>covers for a lot of Superman's powers (you get tangled up at
:>superspeed and supersenses, but the rest work just fine), whereas
:>superventriloquism is yet another power that works on the assumption
:>that Superman can do anything and everything in a "super" manner.
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JWMeritt
Physics: Action-reaction.
Conclusion: Super-flatulance.
Derek Stevenson
> "Thomas Ward" <tdwar...@home.com> wrote in message
news:<zcAN7.193594$My2.11...@news1.mntp1.il.home.com>...
> > Superman used to be able to see in the dark, I believe. Infra Vision.
>
> That's also called thermal vision--the ability to see into the
> infrared part of the spectrum. What I don't think he's ever had is
> night vision--the ability to see in near-total darkness with only a
> little bit of light, but only in the visible spectrum (in other words,
> no infrared or ultraviolet).
You'd think he *would* be able to, though -- it would be consistent with the
notion of super-hearing.
Was he ever depicted as *not* being able to see in the dark?
Michael Dalriada
order to stand in for an old fellow who was a socialite. In Superman #1, he
was shown to be an excellent makeup artist, but he was evidently able to
"super" his way into disguises not long after that. This is the Superman who
won my heart as a kid - the Siegel and Shuster hero who defended victims of
domestic violence, immigrant workers, and people who had just gotten the
shaft in life. Only later did I learn to appreciate the pulp science fiction
vision of Krypton and other worlds that Weisinger's era introduced us to.
Everything in its time.
-- m
quimico <qui...@fortalnet.com.br> wrote in message
news:3c08a8cc...@News.CIS.DFN.DE...
John Savard
in part:
>Is there a website out there anywhere that lists all the powers
>Superman has ever been shown to use, from his debut through the
>present day? A friend of mine is getting into Smallville, and
>I thought it'd be funny to show her how ridiculous some of
>the powers were.
There was "The Great Superman Book", which might help if you can find
a copy.
But in general, I think it was established that his powers were:
super-strength
invulnerability
super-speed
X-ray vision
heat vision
telescopic vision
super-hearing
super-breath
super-memory
and, as some one noted,
super-ventriloquism
and that was basically it, his complement of powers remaining pretty
consistent from one comic book to the next.
In the 70s, in the Superboy comics, he was also given infra-red vision
as sort of a natural complement to heat vision.
Super-hypnotism wasn't one of Superman's powers: it was a technique
that others could use, and one that was used against Superman on
occasion.
John Savard
>Which also rather reminds me, why does he, when disguised as
>Clark, always pull his glasses down over the bridge of his nose
>to use his x-ray vision? It's x-ray vision, for pete's sake!
>and he's only looking through glass!
Post-Crisis, that makes sense. But pre-Crisis, the lenses of his
eyeglasses were made from fragments of the rocketship from Krypton
that brought him to Earth. So, since they are of super Kryptonian
transparent plastic, presumably he could only see through them with
ordinary vision!
John Savard
wrote, in part:
>One thing I always wondered. Can Superman see through his own
>skin? I mean, can he A) scan his own arm to see if he has a
>broken arm or b) See through his own closed eyelids?
No, because his skin is as powerful as his vision is - and so is dense
enough to block his X-ray vision.
However, that rule *doesn't* apply to heat vision. If Superman invited
Krypto and Supergirl to help him, their combined heat vision was
enough to shave off a super-beard he grew due to Red Kryptonite
exposure. This made (a sort of) sense because Kryptonians on Krypton
didn't have a power to emit heat from their eyes that becoming super
amplified, so it wasn't governed by the same rules as super-strength
and so on...
George Mealer
news:3c10eed3...@news.powersurfr.com:
> However, that rule *doesn't* apply to heat vision. If Superman invited
> Krypto and Supergirl to help him, their combined heat vision was
> enough to shave off a super-beard he grew due to Red Kryptonite
> exposure. This made (a sort of) sense because Kryptonians on Krypton
> didn't have a power to emit heat from their eyes that becoming super
> amplified, so it wasn't governed by the same rules as super-strength
> and so on...
I don't think he invited them so much as sat near-catatonic, if I recall
that story. :)
Didn't he generally shave in the mirror using heat vision? Always
wondered quite how that worked.
Geo
--
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'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
Bill Svitavsky
George Mealer wrote:
>
> jsa...@ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid (John Savard) wrote in
> news:3c10eed3...@news.powersurfr.com:
>
> > However, that rule *doesn't* apply to heat vision. If Superman invited
> > Krypto and Supergirl to help him, their combined heat vision was
> > enough to shave off a super-beard he grew due to Red Kryptonite
> > exposure. This made (a sort of) sense because Kryptonians on Krypton
> > didn't have a power to emit heat from their eyes that becoming super
> > amplified, so it wasn't governed by the same rules as super-strength
> > and so on...
>
> I don't think he invited them so much as sat near-catatonic, if I recall
> that story. :)
>
> Didn't he generally shave in the mirror using heat vision? Always
> wondered quite how that worked.
>
The Silver Age Superman's hair didn't normally grow under a yellow sun.
Byrne established that the post-Crisis Superman shaved using a fragment
of the spacecraft that brought him as a mirror to reflect his heat
vision. He neglected to explain how Clark could cut the hair on the back
of his head, though.
Jones
<bsvit...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>The Silver Age Superman's hair didn't normally grow under a yellow sun.
>Byrne established that the post-Crisis Superman shaved using a fragment
>of the spacecraft that brought him as a mirror to reflect his heat
>vision. He neglected to explain how Clark could cut the hair on the back
>of his head, though.
So *that's* why he had a pony-tail.
-Jones
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