You know, I can't help but feel if Smallville didn't pushed ALL of Clark's worst enemies into the show, they could have actually made a balance movie instead of starting over again with Man of Steel... just a what if scenario if it would ever past...
I don't like the shades of Fourboot xenophobe Legion Earth for this one, but at least things worked out.
Also, I almost forgot Doomsday's original 'containment outfit'. He should stay in that more (or the classic, put a villain in it without revealing whether or not it's ol Bonespike).
As someone who loathed Earth Man in the regular Legion comics and never bought him as a hero and as someone who hated what DC did to the Argonians of New Krypton (blew all of them up including the children in an act of genocide that Superman let pass) this is awesome.
Superman gains his powers from sunlight, but he can still, presumably, be incinerated by the sheer power of the atomic furnace which comprises a sun. As an analogy, I drink water to survive, I like a shower or a nice bath, but I can still drown. :)
And I imagine he killed A Doomsday, and only until another plot requires him to come back.
i am assuming that this clark has never TRIED going into the sun. for all we know had he done it, he WOULD have gotten a super charge. but they stopped him.
Depends on how powerful the Smallville version of him is.
The Man of Steel Kryptonians could be taken down by sufficiently powerful conventional missiles, so Clark would probably fry unless his specific ability to absorb solar energy protected him.
The post-Crisis Superman took a 40 megaton nuke right in the face and was knocked out but not injured or even sunburned - and that would involve temperatures about 10x those at the sun's core. The biggest danger to him would be the breathable air in his lungs running out after 90 minutes or so.
And, of course, the Silver Age Superman could do things like move planets and fly through novas. If it didn't involve Kryptonite or Magic, you needed cosmic level powers to harm him.
This version of superman can't travel into deep space under his own flight power (that why he needed the gravity space buoys to get to it) or survive being in or near close to the sun.
Clark and the legion of superheroes says that it wouldn't kill doomsday but trapped him in there forever.
I'm not entirely sure that A) You can see the curvature of the Sun at that angle when you're actually AT the surface, and B) A human chain would be that relevant to pulling against the gravitational force of the sun at that distance, as long as any member of that chain had normal human strength and endurance (The whole "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" thing). Cos might get away with it with using his magnetic powers to act against the EM field of the Sun, but the likes of Saturn Girl, or Lightning Lad... not so much.
Still, it's a comic cliche classic, so I'll let it slide! :)
I actually wonder if this was meant to adapt the Death of Superman arc but with a completely different ending and setting. If it is, it's pretty damn awesome and a case of where something different actually worked. But if there's still plans to adapt Death of Superman, this could still work as I feel like a sort of... rivalry is developing between Supes and Doomsday.
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Date: 2013-07-01 05:28 am (UTC)Also, I almost forgot Doomsday's original 'containment outfit'. He should stay in that more (or the classic, put a villain in it without revealing whether or not it's ol Bonespike).
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Date: 2013-07-02 12:06 am (UTC)And I imagine he killed A Doomsday, and only until another plot requires him to come back.
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Date: 2013-07-03 05:27 pm (UTC)The Man of Steel Kryptonians could be taken down by sufficiently powerful conventional missiles, so Clark would probably fry unless his specific ability to absorb solar energy protected him.
The post-Crisis Superman took a 40 megaton nuke right in the face and was knocked out but not injured or even sunburned - and that would involve temperatures about 10x those at the sun's core. The biggest danger to him would be the breathable air in his lungs running out after 90 minutes or so.
And, of course, the Silver Age Superman could do things like move planets and fly through novas. If it didn't involve Kryptonite or Magic, you needed cosmic level powers to harm him.
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Date: 2013-07-02 12:06 am (UTC)Clark and the legion of superheroes says that it wouldn't kill doomsday but trapped him in there forever.
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Date: 2013-07-02 12:04 am (UTC)Still, it's a comic cliche classic, so I'll let it slide! :)
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