Maybe 20 times 16 times 10 does in fact equal 32,00o and we're just too stupid to realize how much of a genius he is. Or maybe he intentionally got the answer wrong to let us feel like we are smarter than Superman. Maybe this power is intended to make him sound like he knows what he's talking about by spewing out a bunch of random numbers so as to impress people with bean tricks.
Maybe he should have stuck to X-ray vision after all.Īlright, so who cares if Superman's super-mathematics are basically regular mathematics that any fourth-grader could master, and even then he gets it all wrong. Thus proving that the Man of Steel is just as super smart as… oh wait, 20 times 16 times 10 actually equals 3,200? Hmm. He could easily use his x-ray vision to figure out how many there are inside, but instead, he decides to turn his arm into a scale and calculate weight differentials. Take this jar of jelly beans for example. The great thing about Superman is that he has so many different options for solving problems. But none of that tomfoolery changes the fact that a Superman out there somewhere has the oddly specific ability to make your dream wedding a reality. It's all part of Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #15, where we're led to believe Superman is finally marrying Lois Lane, only to find out in true Silver Age fashion that it's actually a doppelgänger (who presumedly possesses all the same weaving powers) that has fallen in love with someone that looks identical to Lois. If that wasn't impressive enough, he salvaged those silken threads from the wedding dress of Helen of Troy and paired it with the ring of Cleopatra, which he stole from a pyramid and a bouquet comprised of flowers he picked from the Garden of Eden.
As in, he's an aspiring fashion designer who possesses the amazing talent to construct looms on the fly in the middle of forests, keeps an emergency weaving kit in his costume, knows how to properly prepare silken threading, and then can convert it all into a gown befitting the contemporary styles of the day. That's not Superman using super-speed to quickly create a modern wedding dress, that's him super-weaving. Here are 15 Superpowers You Didn't Know Superman Had. But if you can open your mind to the possibilities of what it truly means to be a superpowered hero, then you might just be ready to see the Man of Tomorrow shoot rainbows from his fingers. We should caution though, most of these are from the Silver Age, a fabled time when monkeys roamed free, everyone got turned into a baby at least once, and Lois Lane would do crazy offensive things like pretend to be a black woman. Or as legit as blasting solar rays out of your face can be. Sure, Superman's powers may come and go faster than we can say “Myxlplyx”, and for the most part, they just take everyday tasks and add the prefix “super” to them - Super-Friction, Super-Landscaping, Super-Makeup, Super-Hunches ( Spoiler: they're just regular hunches, except made by Superman) - but there are some that stand out as actually being legit. Forget flight, invulnerability, and speed, we're talking about the genuinely ludicrous superpowers that only someone who's flown well past the point of reason could come up with. Thankfully, DC's writers have been more than up to the challenge of making Superman as super as possible, and the world is a better place for it. Ever since he first appeared in 1938's Action Comics #1, the Man of Steel has racked up a litany of abilities beyond our wildest dreams.
Or at the very least have an amazing ability for knitting. If you're going to be the most famous superhero of all-time, you better be able to fire super-dwarves out of your hands.