Details
- Kyle Rayner feats only
- Fight to the death!
The Rules
- Morals: OFF
- Prep: None but both characters have full intel on each other.
- Weapons: Kal El has the Sword of Superman.
- Location: Mxypolis (Fifth Dimension), 200 feet apart in mid-air
Hand of God Ion vs. Silver Age Superman
@jwwprod said:
lol this gif makes me laugh every time. Okay so why don't you like this match up?
@lowlaville said:
@carter_esque said:
@lowlaville said:
from what I know, this guy Ion beats down on even Dark Schneider. SA Superman dont stand a chance.
How does that quantify? SA Superman could stomp Schneider too..
No, he could not. SA Superman minus that sword of his has no feats, in terms of speed or strength that rivals Scneider.
You speak those words, but I don't think you know what they mean. Prepare for the Great Wall of Scans.
Dozens of planets being pulled effortlessly with one hand.
Read the second panel, enough said.
Faster than infinity.
Mind control.
Immense intelligence.
Need some more?
@phantomlantern8 said:
@lowlaville said:
@carter_esque said:
@lowlaville said:
from what I know, this guy Ion beats down on even Dark Schneider. SA Superman dont stand a chance.
How does that quantify? SA Superman could stomp Schneider too..
No, he could not. SA Superman minus that sword of his has no feats, in terms of speed or strength that rivals Scneider.
You speak those words, but I don't think you know what they mean. Prepare for the Great Wall of Scans.
Dozens of planets being pulled effortlessly with one hand.
Read the second panel, enough said.
Faster than infinity.
Mind control.
Immense intelligence.
Need some more?
I think what he means is feats worth mentioning Hand of God ion. Or Dark schneider, for that matter.
@phantomlantern8 said:
Read the second panel, enough said.
This one made me LOL! :3
@jonsmith said:
... What's stopping both their brains from exploding simply by BEING in the Fifth Dimension, sensing things their three dimensional minds aren't equipped to even recognize, let alone handle?
the sword of superman makes Superman omnipotent
@carter_esque said:
@allstarsuperman@betatesthighlander1@rbt@dccomicsrule2011@buttersdaman000@comicstooge@risingbean@theamazingimmortalman@lowlaville@patrat18@pokeysteve@the_last_kryptonian - Do y'all happen to have any Sword of Superman scans?
GL experts:
@kidman560@dccomicsrule2011@rbt@nighthunder@patrat18@juiceboks@beatboks1
#38 Posted by MrDestroyer187 (580 posts) - 3 years, 4 months ago - Show Bio
Origin of the Sword of Superman:
For the first time in January 1972, Superman started to become aware of larger issues - like just what effect his presence on Earth was having on the development of human society. Previous writers had criticized Superman as being "too powerful," but Maggin and fellow writer Cary Bates, who had been on Superman since 1967, took the approach that Superman, by definition, was supposed to be powerful. They began to explore Superman's legend and focus on his moral righteousness, subtly constructing a new continuity built upon his Silver Age history and succesfully transforming him into a much more inspiring figure than he had ever been before.
As the decade progressed, it was no longer sufficient for him to be merely Earth's mightiest mortal, he became the universe's. Some called this event 'Genesis.'" Thus begins the earliest piece of this new origin of Superman, as presented in Superman Annual #10. One piece of primal matter formed in that creation somehow took the shape of a sword. That sword floated through space for eons and later came to be known by the strange symbol on its hilt, in millions of languages, on millions of planets, as the "Sword of Superman." The sword is the stuff of legend, resisting the efforts of all who try to capture it, as if sentient, as if waiting for the one being in the universe who is destined to hold it.
Meanwhile, on a planet in the exact center of the Milky Way Galaxy, a race that is almost as old as the universe takes it upon itself to guard the growth of intelligent life on as many planets as possible, first through a corps of robots assigned to protect a small group of planets (the robots would later become known as Manhunters), later with a galaxy spanning batallion of magic ring wielding warriors. Realizing that even immortals can't last forever, the self-styled "Guardians of the Universe" hope someday to turn their task over completely to these Green Lanterns, if only a warrior of such noble proportions can be found who would be capable of leading them (Superman #257).
In a seemingly unrelated event, a race of gaseous beings called the "Sun Thrivers" created a giant red sun by drawing matter from nearby parts of the galaxy. They intended to use this star as a home for themselves as they travelled around the universe. The fate of their original star is unknown. Presumably it was destroyed in some manner, possibly a manner similar to the ultimate fate of this new sun.
Indeed, this sun proved to be an unstable vehicle. The Sun Thrivers compensated for this unbalance by creating planets to orbit their sun. One of these planets, made of incredibly dense matter, was unstable itself. However, the Sun Thrivers managed to hold it together for 10,000 years, long enough for another race of cosmic beings to get some use out of it (Superman #255).
Soon after the creation of this incredible artifact, two space explorers crash landed separately on its surface. Even though they didn't know of each other's existence, they managed to find each other on its gigantic continents. Unable to rebuild their crafts, the two astronauts are forced to make the best of life on the barren planet, with its wispy atmosphere of crimson gases. Coincidentally, the two astronauts turned out to be a male and female of the same species, one named Kryp, the other, Tonn (Superman #238)
These two stranded astronauts turned a world so unfit for life that early generations had to sleep more than half the day and felt more comfortable crawling than walking, into a bustling super scientific civilized world. The weakest died before they could produce children, but the human species displayed its surprising adaptability and evolved to meet the challenge.
The race's physiology was subtly altered, although the outward appearance changed very little. Muscle tissue became denser. Motor reflexes became sharper. Optic capacities widened. The race began expanding out from the low gravity regions around the equator to the upper latitudes. At least, that's the way Elliot Maggin described it in his 1978 novel Superman: Last Son of Krypton.
Central to the history of this evolving planet was an incredible family called "El." Kings, philosophers, scientists, explorers, musicians, and architects all followed one another with bewildering rapidity. It was almost as if someone was watching this family, guiding them, in order to produce an evolutionary masterpiece, a Superman (The Krypton Chronicles).
That someone, most likely, was the aforementioned Guardians of the Universe. For 10,000 years they had manipulated the descendants of Kryp and Tonn until, in Jor-El and Lara, they had created the genetically perfect couple, the couple who would produce the one who would be heir to the Guardians, who would rule the Green Lantern Corps after their passing, Kal-El, the greatest Green Lantern of them all!
Unfortunately, the planet they had chosen for this experiment was unstable and due to self destruct. A Green Lantern named Tomar-Re was dispatched to preserve the planet until Jor-El could build a space ark and escape to found a new colony. This plan, too, came to disaster, as the space villain, Brainiac, stole Jor-El's completed space ark when he shrunk the city of Kandor and placed it in a bottle. Though he fought valiantly, Tomar-Re was only mortal. He could not save Krypton, and so all perished, except for Kal-El, who was rocketed desperately away into space by his father, determined that at least something from Krypton would live on (Superman #257).
The rocket bearing Krypton's last son landed in Smallville, Maryland (or was it Kansas?) where, with the intercession of the famous scientist, Albert Einstein, who had been contacted by Jor-El for help, the foundling was adopted by the Kents. (This moving the time of Superboy's adventures from the '30s to the '60s.)
Soon, the Kents realized that this child had spectacular abilities. Clark, for instance, learned to read English almost immediately, although he exhibited a contempt for the rules of grammar, saying things like, "Me want read Tale of Two Cities again!" The space ship Kal-El had flown in had opened up a space warp, dragging all manner of debris from the vicinity of Krypton, including, in addition to a large swarm of kryptonite, a lost satellite containing his pet dog, Krypto.
The presence of this cosmic being, and perhaps the matter he had dragged along with him, seemed to upset something in the equilibrium of the planet. It was almost as if a mystical magnetic force had been shot through the atmosphere. Extraordinary beings of all shapes and sizes began to appear, where for all of the planet's past history, there had been none whatsoever. Men of cosmic powers were attracted to this globe as if it were a focal point, a cosmic crisis point, waiting for something of universal import to take place (JLA #153)
That event was a dream that came to Jonathan Kent, causing him to awaken in the middle of the night and draw a strange symbol, a weird design, "something like a test pattern" as Perry White called it in Superman #417. Somehow, Jonathan Kent knew that his foster son was destined to wear this symbol and bring it to the far corners of the universe (Superman Annual #10).
First as Superboy, then as Superman, he fought as a champion of justice, the first in a seemingly endless series of super beings that came to inhabit the planet Earth. It was almost as if super powers were contagious, as if he had so much super energy that he radiated it to others.
It came to pass that, in the course of a great battle for Truth and Justice, man and sword finally came together. For the first time the sword allowed itself to be grasped by the hand of a man. Holding it, Superman found himself expanding, spreading across the winds of the universe, the whole history of creation flooding his mind. His consciousness expanded, he was becoming an all-seeing, all knowing Protector. Then he let it go.
"You have done well, my son. You have earned your name. Your future is yours to make. Your greatness among living things is assured." This message was left in his head as the sword receded into the blackness of space once again. The sword remains out there. It waits until he who has earned it is ready to retrieve it and fulfill his ultimate destiny in Eternity (Superman Annual #10).
@degraaf said:
@jonsmith said:
... What's stopping both their brains from exploding simply by BEING in the Fifth Dimension, sensing things their three dimensional minds aren't equipped to even recognize, let alone handle?
the sword of superman makes Superman omnipotent
That makes him about equal to odin.
anything else?
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