Vanquish evil. There’s quite the list at the moment.
There are about ~3000 billionaires. Or a billionaire every minute.
I mean if you have all of Superman’s powers you could go one a second
I can hear this in my head. Snoop is amazing
not a single POW! ?
Some of y’all don’t understand the type of shit this guy’s on
Try to fly through these god damn rings
Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
You don’t do anything about the wealth? Someone else will get hold of it in no time after your 48 hs are past
I look at it like this: if you’ve accumulated that much money AND have had time to use it to help others, and haven’t? Glub glub time.
If you’ve suddenly stumbled into ludicrous wealth because a psychotic demigod drowned one of your forebears? Well, it’ll take at least 48 hours for you to put that money to more philanthropic use. I figure we can give those folks at least that much of a grace period to decide to be better.
The next Superman can handle them if that’s not enough to change their attitude.
And realistically, this would create so many power vacuums all at once that civilization would probably collapse overnight, but you can only get so realistic with superpower hypotheticals.
I would make the Fortune 500 a checklist.
holy based
Possibly a world tour of grabbing billionaires and far right politicians, Bibi, Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Musk, Murdoch and all the likes, showing them the messes and human suffering they helped creating and hurling them into space or something.
That’s a pretty good starting list. I don’t know that I’d waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.
I, too, was thinking “murder.” It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you’d just have a new batch.
The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won’t be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.
Lots of regimes will fall.
The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list
Saved the biggest flame for Australia. Or is it just bushfire season.
DC…Trump to the moon to fix - Trump.
Stratosphere - blow all the CO2 out into space and fix global warming.
Schwarma after with friends.
Oh yeah, grab the great plastic pollution bomb in the pacific and hurl it into the sun then use fry-eyes to burn every plastic manufacturer on the planet.
That’s actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?
Probably not good either. We kind of need the O2 in it and the C probably too. Just in other forms.
Couple of these here 50 states gotta go. I’m annexing them on behalf of Rhode Island. Try to fuckin stop me. Wait does anybody know my powers only work for 48 hours? Cuz otherwise I think I can bluff
Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.
Oh! This one jar that is freakin stuck super bad.
Fly everywhere. I’m having breakfast in Paris, lunch in Cairo, and dinner in Kyoto, and checking out a bunch of other places in between. Also doing approximately all of the cocaine so I can stay awake for the whole thing.
Not sure if that’s fast enough, but I would try to visit all the planets in our solar system. And then head out to see what’s in the Oort cloud.
No comic-buff here, but is Superman fast enough for that?
In the OG movies he goes so fast that he goes faster than light and turns back time. At least I think that was the idea. So yeah, he could do FTL travel. Given that he accelerated to that point in about a minute, it’s probably doable all within an hour.
Considering it takes around 8 minutes for the sunlight to reach us, I think even a fraction of the speed of light would be enough.
No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.
The math looks like:
- 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
- The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
- The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU ≈ 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
- The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that’s about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.
The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it’s about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.
Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.
The original Superman wasn’t a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn’t work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he’d have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.
I wasn’t aware the cloud was that far away. Thanks!
Stop wars non violently by disarming all parties involved. I know, they’ll arm up again after the 48 hours but all I need to do to protect myself is get a haircut and fake glasses.
