r/respectthreads • u/InverseFlash ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Say It In Red • Aug 04 '22
movies/tv Respect Superman! (Superman: Doomsday)
I wish I could help humankind by being more than its resident strongman.
Superman is someone that everyone is aware of you get it I'm not doing the shtick.
Italicized feats belong to Dark Superman, Superman when he's at 67% power. Bolded feats belong to Luthor's clone of Superman, said to be an exact duplicate of Superman (at his prime).
Doomsday thread for scaling.
Strength
Lifting
Prime Superman
- Carries a failing plane
- Catches a thrown tank
- Keeps Doomsday from overhead-slamming him
- Lands Lois's helicopter
- Flings Doomsday through a skyscraper, the impact fracturing the glass of Lex's office many blocks away, then throws him into a power grid
- Judo-throws Doomsday
Dark Superman
- Struggles to lift a piece of machinery before being able to do so later, at 67%
- Wraps Clone Superman up in a projectile chain and slings him through a wharf
Clone Superman
- Carries a school bus
- Tears Luthor's black box out of Lexcorp, then throws it through the building
- Swings Dark Superman by the mullet into a wall repeatedly
- Breaks the top off of a dock crane and throws it
- Throws a boat
- Lifts the Superman monument over his head, but after exposure to Kryptonite gas, he can't hold it
Pushing/Pulling
Prime Superman
Dark Superman
- Catches Clone Superman's punches, and doesn't let go even as they're slammed into a building
- Does his best to stop Clone Superman's thrown boat
Clone Superman
- Tears the legs off Toyman's spider-mech
- Drags Dark Superman through multiple buildings
- Catches Dark Superman's punch
Striking
Prime Superman
- Affects Doomsday
- Stuns Doomsday chaining his blows together
- Matches punches with Doomsday
- Presumably punched Doomsday into an 18-wheeler
- [Limit] Kills Doomsday by charging him into the ground from orbit
Dark Superman
- Punches Clone Superman through a Soder billboard
- Draws blood from Clone Superman after a prolonged fight
- Clashing with Clone Superman creates a dust cloud taller than a skyscraper
Clone Superman
- Creates a shockwave that splinters every window on multiple skyscrapers attacking Dark Superman
- Smacks the Kryptonite gun out of Dark Superman's hand
- Punches Dark Superman hard enough that the nearby windows immediately shatter, then drives him through three floors of concrete
- Clashing with Dark Superman creates a dust cloud taller than a skyscraper
- Punches Dark Superman into an oil tanker
- Knees Dark Superman in the face repeatedly and drops him
Other
- Swings Clone Superman around by the cape and throws him at a skyscraper
- Tunneled to Superman's grave and stole his body
- Breaks the Superman memorial slinging Dark Superman into it
Durability
Blunt
Prime Superman
- Backhanded by Doomsday
- Punched, slammed into an army jeep, dragged through a street, and punched again to the top of a skyscraper where more concrete is broken, all by Doomsday
- Powerbombed into a street by Doomsday, then grabbed by the ankle and smashed again
- In severe pain after Doomsday kicks, punches, and stomps him multiple times
- Used as Doomsday's battering ram to break through several steel formations, then plowed through a street and into a subway
- Flung through a subway's support pillar and into a wall hard enough to crater it
- Backhanded into a subway's roof
- Flung through a street and into the side of a brick building, and he's hurting
- Headbutted by Doomsday, then tackled into a building that collapses
- Doomsday causes internal bleeding
Dark Superman
- Dragged through multiple buildings
- Beaten up by Clone Superman
- *Punched into an oil tanker
- *Flung into a Superman monument
- *Doesn't move after Clone Superman repeatedly knees his face
Clone Superman
- Beat up by Lex wearing Kryptonite gauntlets in a red sun room
- Punched through a billboard
- Swung through a wharf
- Bleeds from the assault Dark Superman put on him
Esoteric
Heat
- Doomsday holds his head in place as its grated against by a passing subway train
- Hit by Superman's heat vision
- Melts a hole to his brain with his heat vision
Other
- Dies from the effort of defeating Doomsday, except he doesn't actually, his vitals slowed to a crawl to help him heal
- Could fight Dark Superman all day
- Dies after prolonged exposure to Kryptonite gas
Speed
- Roughly the same speed as Doomsday
- Visually fast
- Avoids Clone Superman's heat vision
- Dodges a projectile dock crane
- Frees Toyman from his falling spider-mech
- Avoids the blast from Dark Superman's Kryptonite gun
- Avoids Dark Superman's heat vision
- Hit by a Kryptonite gun blast when unaware, but dodges the subsequent one
Other Powers
Freeze Breath
Heat Vision
Prime Superman
Dark Superman
Clone Superman
- Dismembers Toyman's spider-mech
- Melts two police officers' guns and another's handcuffs
- Melts a hole to his brain
- Cuts Luthor's gun in two
- Kills all of Luthor's gestating Superman clones
- Obliterates a battalion of tanks
- Beats Dark Superman's heat vision
- Breaks a Kryptonite gun
X-Ray Vision
- Looks inside his skull to see the lead nugget Luthor placed in his brain
- [Limit] Can't see through lead-lined walls
Other
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u/ShiningBulwark Aug 05 '22
The Toyman scene scared the fuck outta me as a kid, but I revisited this movie years later and I gotta say it's one of my favorite DC movies now