If I want a suit of armor to mimic/fight Superman.....

Aha, beaten to it.

Dark Knight Returns was so much win...

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Just need to control decceleration. If you talking crazy comic super science then there are any number of solutions. I know for my main power armor using guy, I use a combination of graduated density padding, the armors strength boosting artificial muscle fibers and a good old fashioned force field to mitigate thst sort of damage.

Depending on how things are setup, the human body can take a fair bit of punishment when it comes to decceleration. At the extreme end, there was a case where a formula one driver sustained a 200g smack into a wall and survived.

Also you can design active attributes into the armor like air brakes, Supes smacks you and you go flying, the armor could deploy panels creating alot of drag slowing it down to managable levels (well provided there is enough space).

Indeed, and if reports are true, Bruce Timm could be making a Dark Knight Returns animated movie......

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I can see sustaining one 200g smack into a wall, lucky guy. But more than one, and dependably? Not so sure about that.

A force field would be nice, if it existed. Air brakes... not sure they'd be useful within 10 feet, or even 50. And that assumes they weren't even deformed enough to prevent their deployment...

The materials idea, again, if a material existed, it might help... but again, repeated concussions at the level of football hits cause long term Traumatic Brain Injury; we may be talking 10-100x these forces over and over and over.

I still think any solution is significantly beyond what we can imagine today, and akin to magic (by which I mean tech that isn't easily linkable to current tech.)

Also, forgive my ignorance, but someone above mentioned that the grey hulk wsa semi-immune to alcohol - is there a connection to Supes? (<--noob.)

Someone else I believe posted about getting Superman alcohol poisoning or somesuch presuming he isn't immune to it. I posted the Grey Hulk incident where Grey Hulk sucked down a store worth of booze so that his own immune system wouldn't burn off the effects right away and when he reverted to Banner at sunrise, Banner was tanked.

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An important thing to remember with Superman is that even if you can equal him in every facet physically his brain still operates faster than yours so it is a necessity to have AI and/or train your body to move at the instinctual level and to self induce the "flow" state. you can only equal Some Supermans in this aspect with real world devices (as far as we know) by tons of martial arts training, multiple AIs in the suit, and a neurologically linking system...

Depending on what superman we're talking about we can only accelerate to a certain point before it no longer is capable of keeping up no matter what.

The way Max Sterling could integrate with his veritech and make it work so smoothly that it truly was an extension of him might be a good example of this.

However let's also remember that due to Superman's upbringing, that he is not a killer. He CAN kill but he chooses not to, thus he holds back a lot.

Two examples:

1. End of JLU "I feel like I live in world made of cardboard! Always taking care not to break something or someone, always afraid of losing control because someone could die!" He then cuts loose on Darkseid and gives him a super speed falcon punch that sends Darkseid through several buildings.

2. Batman/Superman Public Enemies: Superman watches the missile with Batman at the controls fly into space to smash the meteor. He then glares at Luthor, stops Luthor's kryptonite powered punch, crushes the gauntlet on Luthor's wrist and says "That was my BEST FRIEND.....and YOU JUST KILLED HIM!" One punch sends Luthor flying into the wall, he coughs blood and then looks up and sees Superman stalking towards him and realizes the mistake he just made of angering Superman and tries to fly away. Superman chases him around the world, ripping the suit apart as they are in flight.

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Precisely. But Luthor's monumental ego just keeps getting in the way.

Though I did like the JL episode with the Justice Lords where President Luthor had his finger on the button and Superman said there was at least 6 ways to stop him and Luthor said "But they all involve deadly force and you don't do that do you?" he then lectures him about how deep down Superman loves being a hero, the cheering fans the swooning women and that a hero needs a villain thus Superman is Luthor's most reliable accomplice since Superman never crossed the line and stopped Luthor for good.....until that moment when Superman felt that Luthor was right and charged up his heat vision.....

However in defense of that particular Superman, the world was on the brink of nuclear armmageddon and Luthor's finger was right on the button.

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I just put down "inertial dampers" and leave it at that.




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Not a crash into a wall, but this is Kenny Bräck in a 214 g's crash, highest g-forces ever measured in a crash (wikipedia says 240 g, video says 214 g). Took him 18 months to recover.