Superman's strength is legendary, but his new adventure comes close to putting a number on it. With Jon Kent punching a training dummy into orbit at quarter-strength, it seems Superman can deliver 1.611704 × 10^10 (16,117,040,000) joules with one punch.
Warning: contains spoilers for Nightwing Annual 2022 #1!As the heaviest hitter in DC Comics, Superman is comparable to the gods themselves in terms of physical might. However, in challenging the laws of what's possible even for a superhuman, it's always been hard to put a number on the Man of Steel's strength... until now.
Over the eras of comics, Superman’s strength has gone through a lot of drastic changes. The original superman of the Golden Age was typically as strong as the story needed him to be with very little calculable limits. However, in the Silver Age, the Man of Steel was arguably at his strongest, having a body that defied scientific reason, and enough strength to snuff out the sun with little effort.
The Supermath of Superman On the current market, a training dummy like Jon hits weighs about 270 pounds, or 122.47 kilograms. Jon specifically says it will "burn up on reentry,” which means at the very least he sent it into a decaying orbit, between 160 and 1600 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Reentry is typically considered to be at 100 kilometers or 330,000 feet - aka the Kármán line.
Superman's Maximum Strength Is Mind-Blowing To put this in perspective, an average person can only punch about 135-150 joules, and a world-champion professional boxer can only reach about 1,300 joules with their hardest punch. That is less than .00003% of the energy produced from Jon’s punch, which was only about a quarter of his strength. Dick himself is probably only doing about 1,000 joules with his punches and kicks, and he’s a highly trained martial artist.
These calculations are very rough, but they do give an idea of how strong Superman is even when holding back his abilities to less than half their strength. At the same time, Superman's strength does have a limit - while Superman has been depicted as performing feats of infinite strength in the past, these were either out-of-canon versions of the hero or took place on different planes of reality.
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