@theonewhoknows: "If I was "biased", I would not state-UP FRONT-that it is legit that Surfer can win, and in fact I would have "no problem" if it was depicted happening. "Bias" has nothing to do with my decisions---I go where the feats, facts, stats and logic takes me. Because I present documentation that a character I advocate for wins a battle does not mean I have "bias"; people who claim that are often people who don't "like" that my evidence proves my case projecting their frustrated feelings on to me---something that is regrettable, but not my responsibility."
I've seen you debate for Superman often and no offence but it's clear your bias towards him. I'll admit I'm bias towards Surfer but I can admit when he loses and be realistic about him. Surfer beats Superman with little trouble, in a purely physical match up its debatable but here it isn't really.
"Surfer is NOT a "fair bit faster than Supes", ESPECIALLY in the use of COMBAT speed."
The gap in travel speed is almost immeasurable between the two, combat...well I'll get to that.
"Surfer is great shakes at fantastic TRAVEL super speed, but Kal uses COMBAT super speed a lot more."
Surfer has feats like entering the time stream under his own power and dominating the fight within it. He's fought and reacted to the Runner, an Elder of the universe, whilst they were both in motion at incredible speeds. He's also effortlessly outraced the pull of black holes. He's escaped being shackled and drained where a nanosecond more would have been the end of him, which shows his reactions are above nanosecond. He is not a great h2h fighter and he doesn't need to be, but it does not mean he isn't capable, he's blitzed Nova (with the full Nova force) before he could react before on more than one occasion. Characters like Quasar have commented on how much faster he is than himself. Hrs fought Red Shift in the heart of a black hole, so it's clear he was moving FTL.
"And considering Superman has feats like being able to outrace a photon (look up what a photon is if you don't recognize the significance of how fast that is) to it's target in the double sized "JLA: Heavens Ladder" and appear a micro second behind Starfire, Red Hood and The Outlaws after they teleported away from Kal to escape him from near Pluto to Earth, while using Tamaranian cloaking technology to boot (in Red Hood And The Outlaws issue 14; that means Supes is so fast that he can appear a moment behind people who teleported away from him---even though he had to take time to find his way around technology that hid them from him first!)---any "advantage" Surfer has over Kal in this area is slim to none."
All of those feats are travel speed and don't come close to those of Surfers travel speed.
"So the notion that Kal will just stand around and LET Surfer do whatever he wants to do is at best, wishful thinking; it's just as likely he'll be too occupied trying to block FTL fists to his face to be able to concentrate enough to try any of his tricks."
Superman may have great combat speed but SS has shown reactions that could deal with that on numerous occasions. He's also deliberately tanked hits from characters like Hulk purely because he knew they would not hurt and has effortlessly restrained Rhino with one hand. So physically he is at least a match for Superman...not that it really matters here. So as long as he can react to them, which I believe we've established he is more than capable of he can just go intangible.
"Superman would not be "screwed" when he went back to solid form---a morals off Kal could pass his arm through Radd, re solidify, and vibrate him to shards (as Kal did to the Cyborg Superman during the "Return of Superman" mini series),"
Not if Surfer is intangible he can't, and even so Surfer has control over his own atoms and can heal himself. You're assuming a morals off Radd would let Kal do that. This is where your bias kicks in, you act like Surfer has no chance of landing an attack (especially drain/mm) because Superman won't just sit there and let him but Radd will?
"and if Surfer went intangible too, so what? That's a stalemate, and no advantage for Radd."
Maybe but not necessarily, Radd has a whole host of other powers to damage Superman.
"And again, any red sun or kryptonite poisoning attempts are predicated with the notion that Kal will just stand around and LET Radd do them."
Since Radd has travel speed feats that dwarf Superman's and has reacted at such speeds I do not believe Superman has much say in the matter. He could even drag him through the time stream into a red sun. Something the Surfer will not even notice, but that will put Superman at a distinct disadvantage.
"Highly unlikely (and in the case of Red Sun "attacks", again, all that does is cut off Kal's power source, but considering how much power he has stored up, he'll be able to fight for QUITE a while-again,"
I believe it's been shown to affect him more greatly than you're letting on but tbf I'd have to check. However, whilst fighting in a red sun and being drained only a fool would put any money on Supes.
"keep in mind there are TWO people involved in this battle,"
I am, are you? The difference is Surfer basically has all of Superman's powers and much more which can be devastating to Kal, whereas Kal can only rely on physical strength.
"and Superman is NOT just going to float around and do nothing while Surfer does whatever he wants to do)."
But Surfer is?
"Hitting Kal with Red Sun radiation---even turning a sun completely red does not make the Kryptonian INSTANTLY DROP to the floor screaming!"
I never said it does, but it's a major disadvantage which a bloodlusted Surfer can and likely will use against him, it also makes your 50/50 argument highly improbable.
"The Parasite is an arch enemy of Superman, and as for Meggadon-to stop Meggadon, Orion of the New Gods teleported via Boom Tube into heart of this sentient construct---and was drained, absorbed, and nearly killed, so that is example enough of who it has drained (not to mention it was responsible for killing many of the Old Gods, the precursors of the modern New Gods)."
I won't lie I'm not overly knowledgeable about Orion but from what I've seen he's massively inconsistent. It seems most would put Superman above Orion too.
"To conclude, I notice you asked about the Eradicator's qualifications"
Because I'm not to familiar with him...
"---even though I named SEVERAL TP's that Superman resisted. Not cool---"
Refer to above, not unreasonable.
"don't willfully ignore evidence to get the results you want."
I'm not, but considering Despero had his pants pulled down and was unwillingly dominated by MMH I'm not impressed there. Protex was also bested by MMH was he not? Iirc his actual mind control isn't anything special, and some of his telepathic abilities did work on Kal. Admittedly I did miss captain comet and again I am unfamiliar. However, going solely by Protex and Despero fir now yes I'd argue SS has better telepathy. Thanos has some of the best to defense in the marvel universe and the Surfer *morals on) bested him...so I'm led to believe morals off Surfer would make short work of Clark.
"Oh, speaking about yet another example of Kal resisting TP that I forgot to mention: getting back to Maggedon, this being was capable of psionically controlling large amounts of people to do its bidding from great distances---including Injustice Society members General Eiling, Queen Bee (despite the fact that she is a being who knows a thing or two about controlling people) and leader Lex Luthor. Kal, despite being in the very HEART of this nightmare, resisted his mental assault and as mentioned, went on to defeat it."
Fairly impressive but still, ask yourself if MMH could dominate Supes using telepathy...if your answer is yes it seems we can move past this, if your answer is no I must ask why?
"So after all this, if you ignore this to try to focus on Eradicator, that would seem to be (I don't know for CERTAIN, I can't read your mind) an attempt to get around evidence that shows the "cinch win" you thought was evident in this category is just not there."
It seems I have given good reason as to why I still believe tp is a viable, of not instant, win for Surfer...especially morals off.
"With the evidence presented here, Superman has the stuff to resist Surfer's attacks-and I think it is time for you to concede that it is just as probable Superman can win as well."
No, I think it's more than reasonable to believe Surfer is still the dominant force in this fight. If it were purely a physical fight I'd probably concede that it's closer to 60/40 in favour of Superman although I'd say that fight could go either way. However, due to the abilities of both characters Surfer takes down Superman rather easily imo. Feel free to continue to try and persuade me otherwise but I'd rather you avoided your personal jabs, they were honest mistakes.
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