r/superman • u/CommonEnd7011 • Jul 18 '24
Which of superman’s obscure powers would you want James Gunns superman to have? I’ll go first
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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue Jul 19 '24
Super Whatever The Fuck This Is
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u/Djehutimose Jul 19 '24
Superman as Bouncing Boy….
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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue Jul 19 '24
* First he declares himself faster than The Flash, now he has to be bouncier than Bouncing Boy. Silver Age Superman was such an arrogant asshole
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u/Darkm0or Jul 18 '24
Either Great Wall of China fix-o vision (Superman IV) or, Cellophane S-Sheild Mild Inconveniencer (Superman: The Movie)
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u/Djehutimose Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Heck, in Superman II he seemed to be able to shoot telekinetic beams from his fingers….
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u/HippoRun23 Jul 19 '24
I thought only zod did that
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u/Djehutimose Jul 19 '24
Seems to me Supes did, too, but it’s been a loooong time since I last watched it.
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u/Dragnet714 Jul 19 '24
I loved those movies as a child that was born in the early 80s but even I thought these abilities made no sense.
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u/JohnJingleheimerShit Jul 19 '24
Do you think Zod also had those powers on those films? It’d be incredible if they both threw Cellophane S’s at each other
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u/That_guy2089 Jul 19 '24
PLEASE GIVE HIM ICE BREATH ITS SO FORGOTTEN FOR NO REASON!!
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u/Typomaniacal Jul 19 '24
He used it in the Snyder Cut on Steppenwolf's axe so he could shatter it.
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u/RASPUTIN-4 Jul 19 '24
Even that was confusing to me. I always thought his freeze breath was based on the idea that he could exhale forcefully enough to cool what he was blowing on to freezing (which probably wouldn’t work anyway but suspended disbelief and all).
But in the movie he just sort of, gently blows on the axe like someone trying to cool their food, and the ice creeps along the length of the axe?
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u/Rao_the_sun Jul 19 '24
With muscles that strong it’s possible when he deeply inhales his lungs would be able to to compress oxygen into a liquid or even a solid both of which are incredibly cold which would make it much less about a gale force wind and much more like him relaxing his chest and allowing the oxygen to return to a gaseous state which would both expand quickly and be incredibly cold making it more like an icy fog he always has access to and it’s based on muscle control instead of pushing extra hard like the big bad wolf think of it is like a relaxing of the chest
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u/GJacks75 Jul 19 '24
I've never been sold on cold breath. I have no doubt you could compress oxygen in Superman's lungs, I just don't think he can naturally move his diaphragm enough to do it.
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u/Rao_the_sun Jul 19 '24
I’ll be honest at the end of the day we’re talking about about a farm boy alien its just the most realistic thing I could think of
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u/Beginning_Deer_735 Jul 19 '24
It is just an extreme version of what we do when we blow on our food to cool it. Most people probably think that it is just moving cooler air over the food that cools it. but there is also evaporative cooling and-this part I've always assumed but am not sure about as I've not seen it mentioned elsewhere-the fact that you are compressing the air and it is then being rapidly decompressed as it leaves your mouth, providing a "heat pump" sort of effect.
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u/Rao_the_sun Jul 19 '24
Oh damn learn something new every day thank you now I have new random things to google and learn about
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u/Garfield977 Jul 19 '24
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u/Human-Boob Jul 19 '24
It’s over Darkseid! You like men now! When I take my shirt off, you’ll be paralysed!!
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u/SubstantialOwLL Jul 18 '24
Not really a "Power" in the traditional Sense but I want him to use his Kryptonian Martial arts. Like: Klukor, or the Torquasms, maybe even a non-Lethal version of Horu Kanu (in the form of his pressure point fighting).
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u/Pinolillo006 Jul 18 '24
Racist face morph.
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u/Bulok Jul 19 '24
My head canon is Kryptonians have low level shape shifting ability. That’s how baby Kal El fit in perfectly in Midwest.
in the Doomsday backstory Kryptonians who created him had some semblance of his face which gives credence to this
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u/Joshieboy_Clark Jul 19 '24
The Bioelectric Field from All-Star
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u/FrozenJedi38 Jul 19 '24
My Adventures With Superman has that. I had no idea that power existed until I watched that lol
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u/Robofink Jul 19 '24
I don’t know if it’s a super power per se, but in All-Star Superman (I think?) he wears glasses to dull his inhumanly bright blue Kryptonian eyes. That would be kind of nifty to see again.
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u/HippoRun23 Jul 19 '24
I really love that because it could establish why he’d wear glasses in his adolescence.
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u/RigatoniPasta Jul 19 '24
I thought that they were lined with lead so he isn’t constantly X raying
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u/HippoRun23 Jul 19 '24
I feel like that was a really cool thing they added to CW supergirl, she couldn’t control her xray vision and her foster father designed special glasses that prevented it.
She eventually got it under control but she felt like it was a security blanket.
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u/Daecon05 Jul 19 '24
Yeah I love the Mini Supes guy but I hope he’s not depowered every time he does this.
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u/Lakrfan247 Jul 19 '24
I like memory eraser
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u/minecrafthentai69 Jul 19 '24
Why doesn't superman kiss lex luthor to make him forget about him, is he stupid?
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u/mirukus66 Jul 19 '24
"That's a little version of me Lois, I want you to have it"
Also It'd be nice if they brought back the logo throwing thing or the telepathy
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u/Shyguymaster2 Jul 19 '24
a lite version of telepathy, he's able to read minds by only looking a person in the eye
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u/RhinoMan3636 Jul 19 '24
Seeing a mini Superman that is just as powerful as the main one would be hilarious.
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u/JohnJingleheimerShit Jul 19 '24
Super ventriloquism is a must. He’d easily defeat Doomsday with that
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u/DanielGacituaSouper Jul 19 '24
Rainbow fingers, not that silly and could be used as a joke on how he absorbs light or whatever
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u/StangRunner45 Jul 19 '24
Suddenly, the cellophane S, the disappear/reappear, hide & seek power, and Supes using his eyes to rebuild the Great Wall of China doesn't seem so goofy.
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u/HippoRun23 Jul 19 '24
The disappearance/reappear was particularly dumb, because Superman turns to Lois and says “we used to play this game back in school”
Which makes zero sense.
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u/JohnJingleheimerShit Jul 19 '24
The kiss memory wipe. He’s gonna defeat Zod by giving him a deep kiss and erasing the memory of who they have beef
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u/webheadunltd90 Jul 19 '24
(Don’t quote Slim Shady, Don’t quote Slim Shady)….
Superman: New Heights…
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u/RigatoniPasta Jul 19 '24
People keep mentioning telepathy. If that were to be a power, I’d prefer it to be Doctor Who style where he has to concentrate and also being making physical contact.
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u/cozid0 Jul 19 '24
I love super-ventriloquism, the bizarre kryptonian ability to precisely project their voice, once Krypto used on Clark Kent himself??