Superman - Superman vs The Elite
Superman learns that there is a new superhero team around, The Elite. They quickly prove themselves a team of extraordinary power guided by a confident sense of direct practicality. As their popularity grows, Superman finds that they are outshining him with disquieting methods that grow more ruthless by the day even as the public appears to approve of their sneering dismissal of the Man of Steel’s sense of moral restraint. However, as Lois Lane digs into the truth of the Elite, the secrets discovered combine with the team’s escalating arrogance to create a menace determined to destroy Superman for their own power. Against that, Superman will have to resort to a disturbingly unorthodox solution to defeat them with a new perspective they cannot ignore.
Strength
- Sends the Atomic Skull flying with a punch (source)
- Burrows the Atomic Skull into buildings (source)
- Uses a utility pole like a baseball bat (source)
- Knocks the Atomic Skull out after punching him into a lake (source)
- Throws a wing into a jet, impaling it (source)
- Snaps a rocket in half over his knee (source)
- Smashes fighter jets with his bare hands (source)
- Lifts a massive concrete square with Manchester’s help (source)
- Holds back one of the Atomic Skull’s arms (source)
- Smashes Menagerie by her vines and tears himself out of them (source)
- Flies through Hat’s magic rocks (source)
- Breaks Manchester’s force field (source)
Speed
- Dodges the Atomic Skull’s eye blasts (source)
- Snatches rockets away from jets quickly enough to be a blur (source)
- Captures all the soldiers from their parachutes (source)
- Dodges bullets and missiles (source)
- Smashes Manchester against a wall faster than the eye can see (source) (FTE)
- Maneuvers around Hat’s magic rockets (source)
- Creates a wind funnel fast enough to suffocate Hat (source)
- Flies from the moon to earth fast enough to blitz Coldcast and blow back cars and pieces of debris, claiming to be moving at Mach 7 (although he didn’t really kill Coldcast here so take that claim as you will) (source) (Mach 7)
- Moves faster than the eye can see to dodge Manchester’s attacks (source) (FTE)
Durability
- Shields a crowd from a bomb (source)
- Blocks a blast from the Atomic Skull (source)
- Comes back after the Atomic Skull punches him through several buildings (source)
- Survives a shockwave from the Atomic Skull that turned normal people into statues (source)
- Takes some more blows from the Atomic Skull (source)
- Manchester Black can’t read his mind (source)
- Gets cratered into a stone wall by Manchester (source)
- Menagerie smashes him against the floor (source)
- Coldcast craters him (source)
- Gets beat down by Coldcast (source)
- Gets scratched by Menagerie (source)
- Survives the seizure that Manchester gives him (source)
- Gets hit with Coldcast’s most powerful blast point blank and survives (Coldcast claims that it was the equivalent of 15 supernovas although this is probably hyperbole) (source) (equivalent of 15 supernovas)
- No sells Manchester’s attempt to crush him (source)
- Manchester hits him with a massive blast of psychic energy (source)
Heat Vision
- Shoots down rockets (source)
- Slices apart fighter jets and rockets (source)
- Cuts out a concrete square (source)
- Can be used underwater (source)
- Cuts through a subway ceiling (source)
- Stuns the Atomic Skull (source)
- Blows back Menagerie (source)
- Fires it through Manchester’s pupils and cuts out the abnormality that gave him his powers (source)
X-ray vision
- Sees through a monster (source)
- Looks into Manchester’s skull to find the abnormality in his brain that gives him his powers (source)
Super Yell
- Is loud enough to shatter glass and hurt the Atomic Skull’s nonexistent ears (source)
Super Hearing
- Implies he could hear someone from orbit (he didn’t actually kill anyone here) (source)