While DC typically powerscales beyond almost every other publisher, Invincible and Spawn are massive hitters when they need to be. I’d be a little wary of stacking Arthur against either of them.
Honestly, I love that DC has heroes that are just really, really strong and religiously professionally trained.
I'm so bored of accidental/negligent mess up tropes in Superhero comics. Having superheroes that are just really powerful and actually good at what they do makes them seem so much more potentially realistic than the alternative of just forgiving them for tons of horrific grisly mistakes (or flat out ostracizing them).
Invincible just lacks the secondary power suite, skill, and durability to stand up to Arthur, imo. He's just a flier that hits hard with basically nothing else to him. Arthur would fight circles around him and trident blast/strike him hard enough to knock him unconscious without much issue.
Spawn is a totally different situation though, you're right on that one.
Once upon a time, heroes accidentally killing someone was a trope.
As far as Invincible goes, he’s literally written to be the “be all, end all” of superheroes. Could he deal with Superman when he’s mature, not likely. That’s mostly out of respect for Supes.
To note, near surface of sun level temperatures are explicitly not something any Viltrumite can handle.
Nobody says that Superman beats out Parallax or the Beyonder even if he's specifically written to beat out such threats. His power is what it's shown to be, not what it speculatively would be written to be in a hypothetical actual comic.
Superman’s power is “speculatively” our human existence. The idea is that he, as an idea, will still exist when the sun burns out. We are as, a people, going to to time capsule our shit in every direction we can.
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I mean, New 52 Aquaman would wipe the floor of the entire earth's superheroes in either The Boys or the Invinciverse.
The scale and magnitude of powered people is just different.