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In the Supergirl movie didn't Kara have the ability to grow to Earth-size and shrink to Argo City-size? I don't know, it's been 20 years, but it seems that she had some other deus ex machina powers in the movie.
quote:Originally posted by Tamper Lad: Didn't Superman have the power of Super Muscular Control which allowed him to change the way his face looked.
didn't Byrne's revamp....included stating all Supe's powers were psychokinetic in nature. (the Who's Who of that era under "powers" section)
example: heat vision - he mentally heated up molecules.
and he had some personal force field aura that explained why his uniform didn't get trashed all the time (although it does seem to now) but in particular when he flew at super speed (like the flash has a "force field" when he runs)
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quote:Originally posted by Tamper Lad: Didn't Superman have the power of Super Muscular Control which allowed him to change the way his face looked.
didn't Byrne's revamp....included stating all Supe's powers were psychokinetic in nature. (the Who's Who of that era under "powers" section)
example: heat vision - he mentally heated up molecules.
and he had some personal force field aura that explained why his uniform didn't get trashed all the time (although it does seem to now) but in particular when he flew at super speed (like the flash has a "force field" when he runs)
I think that was a way of explaning why large objects such as ocean liners, buildings etc... didn't collapse under their own weight when Superman lifted them.
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I remember one story where Superman rearranged the letters on a handwritten cue card by combining his heat and x-ray vision to rearrange the pencil markings. WTF? Why didn't he just move at super speed to substitute a new cue card?
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Super-speed came very early. My "Superman from the 1930s to the 1970s" books has several 1940s stories where Supes used super-speed a LOT, mainly to avoid revealing his identity to Lois Lane. Clark and Lois would be trapped in some thingy, so Clark would move at super-speed, build a replica of himself inside his Clark clothes using rags, break the trap thingie, and then get back into his Clark clothes, all before Lois could say "Great Krypton." Siegel and Schuster were pretty creative in using Supes limited abilities.
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