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It's mainly due to both attacks coming from the same type of energy source.To clarify, you are scaling a being's Psychic Blast Attack potency against character A to their Telepathy/Mind Manipulation Ability against Character B? Do we have precedent for this sort of thing?
Later on in that same arc, #10 to be precise, Superman would confront Darkseid and endure several Omega Beam attacks.I presume you are referring to Superman Confidential Vol 1 #8 December 2007
- In this comic, Superman hadn't met Highfather or Darkseid yet.
- According to Serifan, Superman survived a full-on "sigma" blast from a Parademon spear.
- Darkseid easily backhanded Superman.
- Superman says he would be mad to fight Darkseid.
It really doesn't answer a lot of my points when again, he was caught by surprise and was trying to talk things out rather than trying to actually fight. Not to mention having a group hitting at all angles is always going to give an advantage that a 1v1 wouldn't. His thought process very well could be "I can't get through the forcefield, because it would hurt me more and then leave me open to another assault" or so. Superman catching his breath is fine and all, but it's still literally stated that it was a great cost to him, so I don't think you can assert he comes back to full power.At this time, Darkseid was feeding power to both sides of the Cutlist war. The cultist energy attacks were able to overcome Superman's durability. It got to a point that a pseudo forcefield formed around the war. Per Superman, their power is increasing exponentially. This force field caused Superman pain and prevented Superman from interfering. We should acknowledge that in this instance the scaling displayed is Darkseid > Peak Cultist War > Superman
All this points that Superman likely wasn't operating at full capacity, or was using his full strength in this case.
I'll do so laterYes. Scans of this would be more appropriate for this era's scaling.
I supposeCouldn't we just easily revise the statement to "could harm Titus, who could break out of Hal Jordan's Constructs and give him the most painful mental feedback he's felt in the process." It would be more concrete.
I don't see what suggests Monarch was using more power than ever before? Nor do I know of any reason why Monarch would hold back against anyone else in his prior fights. With Superman even capable of breaking his armor, so it's clear that Superman would downscale and is at least in a similar ballpark of power.It's shown in the clash between Hank Hall Monarch and Captain Atom that this is the most power he's output in the overall fight. Your draft also acknowledges that he overpowered the Justice League, sans Atom. Atom, on his own, could go on par with him. Atom scaling to Hank is more solid than the other League members scaling.
I recalled Ant saying something about this in a Marvel thread but I can't find it. Oh well.AFAIK, I don't think such a rule exists. In any case, they have been informed of the offer.
Oh we phrased it wrong, my bad.overpowered the pull ofStarbreaker alongside Hal Jordan
On Supes and Hal’s profile, this scan doesn’t show Supes and Hal doing said feat.
Also, Supes and Hal didn't overpower Starbreaker's pull, they fought against it, Starbreaker then got stronger after feeding on negative energy which forced Hal's construct to fracture, Starbreaker then got weaker from all the hope of the humans cheering for the JLA giving Hal and Supes the advantage to pull Earth back to orbit, after spending the last of his energy trying to put Earth into the Sun and being so severely weakened by positivity and hope, Starbreaker was drained of power and Supes and Hal succeeded into putting Earth back into orbit.