Superboy Prime

[Oloserian]

Superboy-Prime and Superman are effectively the same person, it therefore makes sense that Superboy Prime would have the same resistances that Superman naturally has (obviously excluding the ones he learned, like Torquasm-Vo)

This would include:

-Resistance to Energy Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Time-Manipulation, Time-Stop and Existence Erasure.

 

[C2_of_Omegon]

Except they're not.

Prime is an alternate version of Superman. As such, he is judged by his own capabilities and showings.

If you use this logic, than all versions of Superman across the multiverse would get these same abilities, despite never showing them.

 

[Oloserian]

Prime has shown to be the same character in almost every regard except for how his personality developed, he displays most abilities Superman does and nothing sugests he is weaker in any area, the reverse is actually true, he is shown as a superior version of him, it makes no sense at all that he would be disadvantaged physically in several areas, his physical body is effectively the same (except more powerful). Giving him the same abilites Superman has showed as inherent to himself only makes sense as he has not learned them, he naturally possesses them.

 

[Oloserian]

This is also further reinforced by the fact that this isn't Prime's first time dealing with time-based abilities, having broken out of the speed force.

 

[C2_of_Omegon]

It's not being weaker or stronger. It's about what the character has shown they can do. Yes, Kryptonians have a basic powerset that they share. But that does not mean that they're all the same.

Pre-Crisis Superman is noted to not have any particular resistance to Magic. Superboy Prime does have a resistance to Magic. Yet, Pre-Crisis is his superior. Prime has punches that can alter realtiy but Pre-Crisis does not. Prime has demonstrated abilities and restitances that are entirely unique to him that no other Kryptonian demonstrates.

As for the Speed Force and Prime breaking out it. The Speed Force is source of power for the Speedsters. It is an energy field that touches time and all dimensions and is seperate from normal reality. It is also depicted as a seperate dimension onto itself. The fact that Prime could be forced into and enter, means that he could escape. I'm mean he's punched through dimensional barriers before, it's not really unprecedant.

 

[Oloserian]

I suppose the big question is if breaking through the Speedforce would count as breaking out of sonrthing that is time-based or just a regular dimension. Since the speedforce is the force behind the flow of time and movement across the whole universe I'd think it would correlate to breaking out of the flow of time.

 

[C2_of_Omegon]

The Speed Force is weird. We don't know exactly how to categorize it. It's described as one thing in one story and then as something else in another. We know what it does but it's very nature is pretty confusing outside of what it does and where it comes from. Sometime it's just the source of speedster's powers or it's literally they're Heaven when they die.

The worst part is? We still don't know exactly Prime got back out! We're never treated to seeing him bust out. We just get a warning from Flash to Doctor Light that he's escaped.

That thing I said about punching dimensional barriers? That's a estimated guess. It's the only answer I can come up with that makes sense in the light of everything and the fact we've seen Prime do it. The basics of it was that Prime should have been stuck there forever, due to not being a speedster. EDIT: Then again, sometimes you can get in if you move fast enough even if you're not a speedster but that's not exactly common.

All of this is highlights the problem with DC/Marvel comics. The sheer inconsistency. Stuff can change story to story, things get retconned out/in, etc. It's hard to establish a baseline when anything can be done to try and make a story work.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

They are not the same people.

 

[Antvasima]

True enough. Prime does have resistance to magic though, whereas Superman does not.