Superman

Superman has over 44 different versions, and each version has different authors, you may be looking for: Pre-Crisis Superman, New 52 Superman, Cosmic Armor Superman, Animated Series Superman or War Superman.

It's a bird? It's a plane? It's our next fighter! Superman! Rocket to Earht as an infant from the doomed Planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the lovely Kent family as Clark Kent, using his immense solar fueled powers, he became Superman, defender of mankind.

Powers and abilities
Superman's powers rely on his cells' ability to absorb solar energy from yellow stars like the Earth's sun, his Kryptonian body is a living solar batery that absorbs solar energy and converts it into fuel for his powers. Superman also heals much faster when he is closer to yellow stars, and he can still use his powers when he is away from yellow stars for a shorter time.

Known for being "More powerful than a locomotive", Superman can lift over 6 Sextillion Tons metric tons, Superman's true strengh is potentially limitless, as he gets stronger based on his solar intake. Superman's Infinite Punch has the impact equivalent to 10 Octillion Megatons, and while in yellow sunlight, his stamina is also limitless, however, don't confund "limitless" with "infinite", while there hasn't been a real limite of how much solar energy he can store, it will always be a finite amount, the potential to always re-charge may be limitless, but the actual value absorbed will aways be a limited amout, regardless of how big or small it is, that's why his power changes from time to time.

Superman is also known for being "Faster than a speeding bullet", he can easily surpass the speed of light. Superman is a very skilled fighter, he has bben trained to fight by Wildcat, in boxing, Mongul, in fighting arts, he has fought learned from Wonder Woman and also learned martial arts technics from Batman.

Superman's most powerful ability is his Heat Vision, this power drains his solar energy faster, but it is strong enogh to obliterate an army of Doomsdays.

Superman has flawless memory and an intellect that surpasses genius level, this makes him a mastermind strategist during combat.

Superman is durable enogh to survive an impact that is as strong as 15 super novas, however, Superman isn't immortal, his invincibility only represents his rate os solar energy, prolonged damage can greatly hurt Superman, Kryptonite deplets his solar energy the fastest, but intense combat can also do the trick.

Superman basically initiated a kamikazi run on Doomsday, he held nothing back to defeat him, and Doomsday pushed Superman to his current limit, Superman's limit is based in his solar battery, which can vary in power from time to time, if Superman is facing a foe who can push him to his current limit, that said foe would have a great opportunity to kill him.

It was decided to place restrictions os Superman's abilities, this was designed to make it easier for writers to come up with suitables challenges for the hero, and to eliminate or reduce some powers, that had become too sensacional and unbelievable for modern audiences. The Essential Superman Encyclopedia states: "Superman's strengh level have fluctuated throughout his career, but he has never had the unlimited power of Spectre or other magical beings. There are always weights he can't lift, enemies he can't outrun, or puzzles he can't solve, Superman's support bench for academic or scientific challenges include Batman and Dr. Emil Hamilton, and if a threat is too powerful of too numerous to fight solo, Superman can always call in the help of The Justice League." This encyclopedia also states that extreme trauma would kill Superman, just as it would any normal human, Doomsday infiltrated fatal injuries on the man of steel, and end up almost killing him.

Post-Crisis Superman is really strong, fast and powerful, but he does have physical limits, and it's killable.

Wasn't Superman able to lift The Book of Infinite Pages?
The awnser is no, not alone, and not for long, at least. Superman was not able to lift that book.

I'll first start by saying that "The Book of Infinite Pages" is just the title of the book, it is only called "The Book of Infinite Pages", it has nothing to do with the amount of page in the book, the book is really made out of every book ever written, this is still an extremely heavy book, but it's a finite book, and because it was finite, and Shazam had to help Superman to lift this book, this feat has to be shared with both Superman and Shazam, but in the end of the day, they both failed to lift the book, another interesting fact, is that Ultraman read the final chapter and last page of the book, if the book has an ending and a final chapter, then, it is not infinite, true infinite has no begining and no end, and this book, clearly has an end.

Wasn't Superman able to lift Spectre, who is made out of eternity, all on his own?
I can awnser this question with another question, what is half of eternity? It isn't matter, eternity is a measurement of time, not weight, he is made out of all time, not all mass, so, the next question is, how much does Spectre weight? Spectre weight as much as he wants to, he has the ability to change his own weight whenever he wants, that's how he is able to want on Earth without breaking ito the ground, Spectre will never have an infinite weight, because the amout of weight he gives himself will always be mesurable, when Superman tried to lift Spectre, he had help from The Justice League, and they needed to be there, because Spectre had an finite weight. Now, for the sake of debating, lets pretend, just pretend, that Spectre weights infinite pounds, let's look at the scans that shows The Justice League lifting him, in the first scene, Superman and Wonder Woman are trying to lift Spectre's cape, but they're having troubles, so Green Lantern comes in, and digs them a tunnelto break the ground Spectre was on, the ground was perfectly fine holding Spectre, which makes no sense if he weights infinite pounds, but let's just pretend that the ground somehow has infinite strenght, in the very next slide, we notice that Superman and Wonder Woman are no longer lifting Spectre, only one person is lifting Spectres in this scene, all on his own, does anyone notice that green box that Spectre is in? Ladies and gentleman, give a round of applause to the man who apparently has infinite strength, Green Lantern.

Green Lantern can apperently lift Spectre, all on his own, so Supermen and Wonder Woman didn't even need to be there. Green Lantern's ring has something known as "The Pocket Dimension", within the ring, exists the possibilty of an entire world, when Green Lantern defeated an evil sourcerer, he reduced the magician to sub-microscopic size, and emprisioned him iside of the power ring, into a world created by Green Lantern's will, this indefinable space may be a tesseract or a virtual reality created by the power ring, but it doesn't take away the fact that there is a whole entire world inside the ring, Green Lantern's ring has a whole world in it, but the ring only weighs a few ounces that anyone can lift, thanks to hammerspace, just because someone or something is made out of eternity or has a whole world inside of it, this doesn't mean that they have infinite weight, also, a lot of Superman's strenght feats, such as moving planets, would have not been possible without the help of Green Lantern.

Didn't superman travel from Vega to Earth in under 10 minutes, making him over 1 million times the speed of light?
The truth to this question is yes and no, Superman did travel from Vega to Earth, not by traveling really fast, but by slowing down time while in space, because everything in space moves faster when there is not that much gravity in it's way, the comic clearly states that Supermen is really just bending time without gravity stoping him, time works differently while in space, and if you don't want to believe me, or if you don't want to beliave the comic book, then ask Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Now, for the sake of debating, let's pretend that Superman can travel over 1.000.000 times faster than the speed of light, travel speed is completely different from combat speed, and just for kicks, if it was Goku in this situation, he would have been able to travel from Vega to Earth in an instant using Instant Transmission, but then again, that's just travel speed, not combat speed.

Didn't superman had the power to destroy the universe when he was figthing an alternate version of himself?
Well, if you read the slide out of contest, that's what could mislead you to look like, but the comic really desplays that he was only destroying the baundaries of space and time, and by "space and time", this Supermen will really only shatter their own timelines, and their own space baundaries, as they enter each other timelines, now, Superboy Prime does have the strenght to shatter dimensions, you cannot take this away from him, this makes him Semi-Universal, but the comic clearly states that it takes Superboy hours of constant punching to acomplish this.

Darkseid, not Doomsday, Darkseid, kicked his butt with the Anti-Life Serum upgrade, which made him Universal, in that battle, Superman tried to pull a smart move on Darkseid, by physically preparing his body to catch him of guard and quickly finish him, but because Darkseid had the Universal Anti-Life Serum, he was able to kick Superman's butt, Superman would have died if The Justice League didn't come in and save him.

Appearances

 * Hulk Vs Superman
 * Goku Vs Superman