re: Official Comic Book Hero Tournament (Round III) Results In!

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That's why I have been saying that Superman would win the whole thing

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I think the firestorm character would pretty near automatically beat superman given his ability to create out of nothing a sphere of kryptonite in which superman is trapped/incapacitated.

if you look back at the history of the character a variety of supers (not including doomsday) have beaten superman at different points. Ruin and Lobo have beaten him heads up. Darkseid, Circe, Coldcast have beaten him. Captain Marvel knocked him out cold with a sucker punch (so there are obviously meant to be limits on his invulnerability). Wonder Woman has beaten him a couple times when they fought (even when his powers were amplified). Mr Majestic and Swift are other characters who probably would.

Anyway, the point of the Superman character is that in spite of his ridiculously overpowered nature his writers still like to write him up like Rocky Balboa. He can be and perhaps even often is beaten but he is never defeated and he will win the rematch as a rule. FWIW, these debates can be taken in pretty near any direction you like - when dealing with characters with hundreds or even thousands of comic book appearances you can find dozens of examples in which the character lost or was even beaten badly... that's what writers do to make things interesting (even with the Superman characters).