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I'm sorry but I don't think you're right here. Beyond the fact that Karate Kid does not scale to Kryptonians in AP as checking his page would inform you of, the argument that "superman trains his lifting capacity, striking strength, flight speed and combat speed" is just... not elaborated on at all. How can speed even be equal to attack? Anyways, Lobo's stellar feat is casual and done with a lack of leverage (which kinda counters these anti-feats), comic book fights rarely hinge on grappling and are mostly just people throwing punches and kicks at each other with little choreography, and even other people who do physically scale to Superman in SS without any hax bullshit arguably don't in terms of LS, Wonder Woman coming to mind.DC Comics far from linear with its power level system. Yes, some characters are consistently Superman level in terms of heavy hitting despite lacking anything beyond Batman level lifting capacity such as the various Flashes and Karate Kid. But Superman is pretty much the opposite and he typically trains his lifting capacity and flight speed with his SS and combat speed only being as good as those. And a lot of characters who are just as strong as Superman pretty much have their lifting strength being their primary method of attacking even against their strongest opponents. Lobo's best lifting strength feat was stellar class and he had to give all his might to pull it off, and this is the same guy who has ripped Superman's arms off before (Or at least I have seen an image for such on an old Screwattack forum that no longer exists). Furthermore, I recall FanofRPGs mentioning many times in the past, but the various planetary lifting feats also caused Superman's muscles to tear up and gave put him in a near cardiac arrest point.
I'm not saying they don't, I'm just saying that the debate should get to continue in that regard.Also, the list of anti-feats aren't the only thing Deagon listed that concerned, but pretty much each and every single Tier 2 feat has some flaws or reading the entire comics either proved otherwise that either there was no real feat to be had, or was a chain reaction; and the few legit Tier 2 feats aren't even direct feats but indirect feats such as him fighting Superboy-Prime (Who held back exponentially against Post-Crisis) and it's still consistently stated for Post-Crisis to be infinitely weaker than his Pre-Crisis counterpart. So Superboy-Prime going from being Pre-Crisis Superman's equal to then being Post-Crisis' equal makes 0 sense unless he either some how got much weaker or he held back that much.
Anyways, if Post-Crisis and Rebirth scale to each other, which fair enough, they do, I wasn't sure if that was something we considered profile-wise:
Well, the very fact that it is powering the multiverse just throws the feat into question, and in fact this is arguably a tier 2 feat of its own. That isn't provable but you can't prove the opposite either and that makes the anti-feat very suspicious. And... again, Swamp Thing is there. That dude's got like five tier 2 feats of his own.2) It takes 9 Heroes/Villains hitting the earth with everything they have at max-speed to destabilize it (DC Death Metal #5)
The response was that the Earth was acting as a conduit for TDK being powered by the multiverse, but there's no indication that this altered or affected the degree of difficulty it would take to destabilize it.
Again, tier 9 anti-feat.
Arguably LS. But arguably legit.19) Ship is accelerated to the point where it would merely destroy a continent... ...Superman passes out after stopping it (Action Comics #901-902)
We don't use hand/guidebooks for DC/Marvel. They're very unreliable.The Essential Superman Encyclopedia statement. And the same page above mentioned how he defers from his Pre-Crisis counterpart.