Man of Steel answers insight commentary episode five powers part three will ask the obvious question start asking questions and answers welcome to Man of Steel answers insight commentary on your Man of Steel apologist Dr. awkward I cover a mosaic of topics for fans who love discussing the Man of Steel and the DC cinematic universe together will endeavor to answer the questions criticisms and controversies raised by Man of Steel as we eagerly anticipate the DC cinematic universe in this episode we cover kryptonian powers in Man of Steel and how they worked in the film this is the third and final part of our three-part series covering kryptonian powers in Man of Steel in this episode we cover superspeed flight and more if you haven't listen to the previous episodes go back and check them out as all three parts of the series were recorded together and reference each other this podcast dives deep into Man of Steel to answer the critics and the confused the show is not meant to convert anybody but the celebrate a film that leaves a lot of wonderful room for interpretation and investigation reasonable minds will differ but this is a show for the fans who love to Man of Steel and who love to chew their food will start with die genic analysis for what happened in the film then analyze the creative decisions that took place outside the film for now were doing general topic episodes like this one this is not to be your typical run down of superpowers it using the sciences Superman or things like that were to have a little bit of that this is going to be a lot of just crazy fan theory the approach we take on these things is how can we rationalize the powers to come to an understanding of the mechanics behind them not in order to come to a physical reality of how they may occur that ship has sailed but rather to see what guided the creation of the film and how these may predict or project the use of Superman's powers into the future as part of the joy that having this podcast is trying to dissect things pull it apart challenge it with a bunch of different theories and see if we can't find out where the moving pieces are where the underlying assumptions are and maybe come up with a coherent or cohesive theory on how everything works no promises is after all the end of the day it is a flying man with physics defying abilities but it's fun to try and if you think it's want to stick around and listen to the podcast programs for sun okay next up is number 11 my absolute favorite power bar none superspeed I think I said in a previous episode that second only to Superman and sometimes even trumping him my favorite superhero in the world is the flash particularly Wally West and a lot of that has to do with the fact that the flash was what got me back into DC comics got me back into comics just generally speaking help three rediscover Superman in my love for us all comics yes I do lean towards mainstream superhero stuff but you read everything I do enjoy everything that includes all those wacky in these because of my love for the flash have been doing meditations and speed almost as long as I've been doing meditations in Superman and his character in his ability dating back well over a decade right so despite that I don't think I want to go way too much into this but I probably will so the reason I raise speeded this point is not because I think it's the next power we see but rather because it's the power that we don't see now that sounds kind of weird but there are a lot of complaints potential issues alleged plot holes raised about the tornado seen okay and I don't endeavor to tackle all of them here too early in the podcast that I'm not ready for had to be honest I have all my arguments lined up to tackle all them just yet I do want to figure out a nice persuasive cohesive coparent complete package that sort of attacks the of the topic from every angle in a way that's persuasive but before that sort of magnum opus that were building towards it is reasonable to raise the fact that a lot of people when into that tornado seen or criticize that tornado seen expecting sort of that small Ville red blue blur effect I what I mean by that is they don't understand why Clark couldn't just zip in zip out unseen invisibly rescuing pod can't without issue they don't understand why he could and uses superspeed and there's a lot of answers to that first of all we don't know that he has superspeed it and will talk about that just a bit later in the same segment but as far as having superspeed obviously the movie lays out the precedent that his powers are discovered over time and were not discovered all it wants we know for a fact that he didn't discover flight until meeting Jor-El right so for all we know superspeed isn't something that came to him at the age of 18 and in fact there is an argument be made that superspeed as we traditionally understand it or see it doesn't actually even rear its head in the film the speed that we see in the film is all highly physical and it tensed all be flight based speed we don't see Clark run quickly we don't see Clark blur or – or jump anywhere quickly there is an sort of that same I keep repeating the word I may be using that same physicality to his speed rather it's a more ethereal flight based speed and to the extent that he has that speed we see that it is a physical practical realistic speed you know he does sonic booms he in packs things with flushing a enormous force like we talked about in the strength section this is where that force equals mass times acceleration has equaled in may comes to light we see him crashing toward Mountain and cause colossal damage we see him cannonball through the world engine and just puncture through it and damage we see him knockout the the scout ship through that same sort of projectile like speed so we don't know that he can do these kind of speed sheets where he runs up to something interacts with it at high speed and then comes away effortlessly and without impact or without incident right to put it more may be graphically we don't know that colliding into or trying to catch running into Jonathan Kent at high speed wouldn't turn Jonathan Kent into a fine red mixed and just imagine how that would mess up Clark we don't see him manipulating things that speed we don't see him say flipping through a book at high speed and we don't know that as far as we can tell with this Superman if you were to do something like that those pages would catch on fire right the reason the flash is distinguishable from Superman is at least in the modern comics he had the speed force in the Silver age he had sort of he would use the word molecules as a catchall as if you know most of the readers of the time were not sophisticated enough to understand quite what molecules meant those lungs he said molecules and vibration pre-much justified any of his actions or his defiance of physics in the more modern era Wally West did the same kinds of defiance of signs with a sort of quasi-mystical catchall called the speed force and the speed force was a a lubricant to help make all the super hearing tropes true so all the things that you want the flash be of the do like flip through that book at blazing fast speed but without having the pages catch fire the speed force let him do it so it would help him moderate his friction and his interaction with the environment in the air and sustenance all those kind of things to make a ground-level superfast speedster practical and possible within the world and to be honest something that can catch all those things and make all those think possible it has to be quasi-mystical right there is no real elegant way to make that all happen with one thing except to make it basically magic and I think that's one of the great innovations of the modern flash now they stepped away from the a little bit and I think they've tried to add some mechanics to it that honestly I don't think quite work as well as they did back when it was a little bit more mystical but that's neither here nor hair were talking about Superman were dogging the Man of Steel and what I'm getting at is Superman and Man of Steel doesn't have the speed force he doesn't have this thing to mitigate his impact with the world he doesn't have this thing to stop the air from being ripped out from his lungs when he travels at high speeds he doesn't have this thing that stops them from causing sonic booms Sheedy travel faster than the eye can see and so in the tornado seen had Superman had those kind of abilities or rather Clark in a week is if he had the superspeed that we see in the movie but not this sort of extra speed force moderator to make sure that he's able to use the powers and Trope like fashions that it's simply not possible for them to save pod can't at least nine that banner I I know that a lot of Egyptians have to do with him being to rescue them in other ways that's not the show will talk about that in another show now another thing on a just quickly talk about with superspeed is also how it relates to superstrength right so while a ways you can make superspeed work other than this sort of arbitrary force vector that we can talk about all throughout is to bring force it right so that you kick off the ground with such force and such energy that you propel yourself forward with superspeed right something that I don't think people quite into it necessarily is that striking the earth with such force in such speed doesn't generate a traditional footfall it doesn't generate a you don't get to run superfast just because you can kick the ground superhard maybe that's a better way of saying it because the mechanics of running anticipate a certain footfall and gravity an arc to your movements at a certain speed running is just jumping right and so suddenly at a certain point your no longer like running fast you're actually making giant a real leaps with be long gaps in between them traveling at extraordinary speed and even then there is an upper limit right this escape velocity and at the point you hit escape velocity you cease to be of the travel any faster because all you're doing is traveling to space so what I'm getting at is you can brute force speed but only to a certain extent you can't really brute force superspeed in the way that we want to see a flash right and that doesn't translate to sort of Superman running superfast rate he can run superfast only to an extent because at a certain point he starts to make those leaping jumps and where his each step is like 100 m and an he's it flying in this large arc and it doesn't look like running it's no longer running any more and that's one of the reasons like a set I love this film because they treat superspeed the way you want to see it treated and the way they did it was they Hamlet through flight because flight takes out that awkward weird running mechanic in less you're basically striking the ground parallel to the ground and that point you don't even look like a running either lay looks very weird it looks like your side let's get off the tent tangent by using flight you get to have your superspeed without having to worry about the mechanics of running about robbing up and down without having to worry about escape velocity without having to worry about those things that would make superspeed look goofy or not look right so this film chose to show superspeed through flight primarily the exception is they or in that scene that is so iconic and everybody loves it because it's a great scene showing reaction speed combat speed it looks like a Dragon Ball Z scene she just sort of almost visually teleports between various positions right and again they skipped over the running because there's no way to make that transition that movement through running right even if your superspeed superstrength striking the ground at high speed will send you flying in an arc you won't get that sort of flat teleporting speed that we see in those situations so instead I'd argue that mechanically what she's doing is essentially flying downwards she's willing herself to be in the positions that she needs to be and maybe she's just translating it through foot moment foot motions and footfalls and things like that but intuitively I will consciously thinking it she's exerting a flying force downwards to ensure that she moves level he and with the ground in fashion that we anticipate or expect to see rather than these weird arcing leaping jumps that would happen if you struck the ground superhard superfast right that's overly mechanical it's a little nutty that I went into all that detail but what I'm getting at is this film just really nailed it on how to handle speed I really enjoyed the portrayal of it understand why they didn't have that sort of classic scene of Superman running through or Clark running through a cornfield at high-speed because I'll be honest most times doesn't look right most times if you're smart we have to do is you have to obscure the feet have to obscure than motion because it it just honestly doesn't work the work without something like the speed force to sort a covered up and and smooth it out okay I'm I'm going way too long on this episode but like is that I've done meditations a lot of these powers a lot of these things for for ages of been dying to talk about them and so you get the benefit or perhaps the bane of that are eight just real quick will also talk about how speed is actually a whole collection of powers right so it's it's traveling speed so you can put yourself into something like an autopilot and how quickly can you get from eight be but that's with no interruptions nothing in between is just a debate and obviously that's exhibited when Superman travels from the Indian Ocean back to Metropolis it's exhibited when Superman and God go all way out to geosynchronous orbit and come back those things are sort of like traveling speed Socha shows straight-line velocity you how quickly can you possibly travel at top speed or or or in a straight line or without sort of complex maneuvering then there's reaction time right so even if you can travel at those long fast high speeds may be a reaction times are just human so a classic example a lot of people like to use is for example the Green Lantern Green Lantern Corps obviously they have faster than light abilities to give them the power to travel between galaxies and planets but nonetheless how Jorden John Stewart Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner they all have human reaction times they're all just human so although they had this incredible traveling speed the reaction times a reaction speed still within human range this film doesn't show a whole lot of examples of individuals working outside of human reaction time I think the best example of course is that they or of speed blitz and so the behaviors during that action also in the fight with Superman she tends to indicate that she has faster than human reaction time and that's tempered by the fact though that she also likes to play with her pray and so sometimes the little hard to gauge just how fast she can react to things but so far we don't have sort of a blown out of the water example of heightened reaction times so that if you combine the reaction time with traveling speed and you add acceleration deceleration and maneuverability to it than you get that third sort of collection of powers which is the functional speed the speed at which you can do things the speed at which you can maneuver and consciously do things consciously interact with the environment maneuver around it deal with things react to things it's possible for example to have superhigh traveling speed to have superhigh reaction time but then if you don't have the ability to accelerate decelerate maneuver or react you can be fully conscious and aware you be traveling at high speed but still be not able to do anything about it so I think in the traditional power fantasy of superheroes they they get sorted the full suite of powers usually so Superman is expected to also have high functional speed and again I don't think that we saw anything tickly outside of human range necessarily but in the small Delphi you do see somebody who is processing things pretty extraordinarily pretty quickly and pretty frantically I know it's choreographed and will have a post about that on the blog you know what we consider plot holes are not or what we consider Crandon are not fight choreography is something a little bit debatable about that but the fight choreography in this film was quite realistic a but it was also quite involved and intense if you wash like an MMA battle or something there's only so much that you consorted consciously do a lot of it is almost a plan or autopilot that the fighter is on it so it's not like there's times of these complex branching decisions being made in real time constantly is more sort of a default pattern that you just keep falling into default training that you you give yourself muscle memory that you you fall into contrast that with the small don't battle and the sod battle and both of them you see that the kryptonian's are making so many little tactical decisions so many different little choices and that's why the battle was so branching and varied in different it is a just sort of a repetition of ground and pound or a typical traditional battle tactic it it is a high-speed chess match that you really have to sort of watch these fights over and over and over again to see everything that's going on again it's not completely outside of human range but it is quite exceptional and so that's just another like taster example of the superspeed that we wait seen again I I like how their handling of because if you did give them that sort of godly time freeze Neo in the matrix sort of ability it really becomes hard to writer and honestly I mean at that point your giving the characters the ability essentially to stop time analyze the situation and come to the most rational most practical most functional optimal solution in any and every case and when you do that to break the story it makes it so hard to have organic realistic human kind of interactions right and so by dialing back Superman's reaction time and functioning speed and making it more within human ranges we get to have more human stories now get I'm I may be completely missing something and I may be speaking out of turn but that's roughly where I think superspeed is that I've definitely gone too long on superspeed so let me stop that here and let's move on to number 12 flight number 12 flight and this arrives in the midpoint in the movie in one of the most seminal scenes seem that a lot of people considered the most joyous and high point of the film in terms of optimism in sort of that classic Superman Clark discovering that he can fly you can just see how much that liberates him how much the weight of the world falls off his shoulders how much he's going to embrace this new role as soon as he is able to take to the skies and have that under freedom this unique ability in the Superman animated series second episode when Clark finds out about his alien origins he's really struggling with the information and it confronts him as something in a terrifying and something that sets him apart as a freak but how he deals with it is that he starts to run and run faster and faster and then leap for the he's ever leaped before until he realizes that he's flying an increase that same sense of liberation and freedom in that Clark as it does for our adult Superman here like I said before I really like the way that they handled the flight or a I really like how the film handles the powers they give us all the traditional little things they make his flight completely maneuverable he can hover he can bank he can fly at speed accelerate with his fists out or not his flight is effortless it's second nature to him it doesn't seem to exert or use any energy which is the way we like her flight can can you imagine if you had to strain and Paul every muscle in your body just to levitate a couple inches off the ground or to move a little faster a fly faster through the air that that's that's not what we want from our flight the power fantasy of flight is something that's liberating and effortless and free and for that same reason we see Superman use flight in the film it doesn't have that sort of energy drain that we see with the heat vision or even his strength right there is no straining or pulling or pushing in fact from small bill on it almost becomes his default mode of transportation it's what he defaults to in order to get around and you see that contrast strongly when he fights his odd initially right's out is still lumbering along the ground and still tied to the earth and bound by gravity and that contrast between how effortlessly Superman's floats it moves through the world compared to how grounded.has to be until he discovers his own flight and takes the fight to another level right so I just enjoy how how they they handled all those different aspects of the flight the mechanics we talked about sort of and strengthen other things it is just as arbitrary for Specter I don't think is anyway you can sort of rationalize or explain consistent logical scientific way that it works but it does give you this sort of universal magic that you can start to apply in all his other powers are many of his other powers to make them all work sort of his ability to just will a for Specter into being makes a lot of the other powers work including flight and ended sort of essential to flight no one of things that they didn't show us which is traditional to Superman and we kind of talked about it little bit earlier was we do have not seen his ability to lift heavy things while flying now I maintain that that's primarily or more because of so the awkwardness of showing the physicality of that the structural integrity issues the in elegance of that I think that's the main reason we we haven't seen it not because he can't do it just because they didn't want to show it or they haven't found a good language for showing it just yet or a good enough example to justify showing it yet but Jeff throughout the whole movie we haven't actually seen him lift anything heavy while flying and there's a couple examples of little things here there where we know where would the would of made sense to have seen it for example when he's rescuing Lois from the escape pod he goes out of his way to rip the door off extractor from the pod and then just barely protect her from the from the explosion of the crash of the pod right there is reasons you can justifiable why he did it that way but there's also aren't an argument that Whiting he just catch and stop the whole pod right I think the argument is that the pod was ago self-destruct anyways whether or not it the ground at speed something to that effect or maybe you know maybe he recognize the issue from the outset maybe he said in out this pod does not have the structural integrity necessary for me to rip it hold it and bring it to a stop got in the way that I needed to so rather than sending it into a tailspin rather than ripping off pieces of it and compromising the protection that it may potentially give Lois inside is the line myself up come up with a plan to remove the door remove Lois and safer that way maybe that's what happened but yet I mean he didn't he didn't just catch and stop whole pod right the other implicit scenario where he may have carried something by flying but then Messerli is the surrender of his ship to the US government now a lot of people said didn't Clark give away his secret identity when he volunteered to ship to the government should they have just gone to the farm seen the ship was there and then put you know one plus one together equal to and say Clark Kent is Superman know not Messerli and that there's many other arguments surrounding that many arguments that we can have about that that's another show I definitely will be covering that but instead let's let's get to some of the rationality of how this worked right when we first see the pod arriving on the US airbase it is with in a helicopter harness and it's being lowered into a more specific in a holder or him harness I guess so that he can be rolled into the C-17 so it's being loaded into a C-17 and the reason is because the C-17 can carry it and reasonably deliver it at the fastest possible speed to the black zero in Metropolis right in other words this is the fastest possible transport the most efficient way of bringing this thing to Metropolis if the military was the one that picked it up from small bill do you think that they use the slowest form of transport that they have a helicopter to move it from small bill to Metropolis or move it from small bill to the airbase of course not that would've taken way too long Metropolis would've been dust the earth would of been terraform by the time they made that transition and obviously it wasn't transported to the airbase in a C-17 because they're loading it onto a C-17 it would make any sense for the open transport the fastest most efficient way that they have a C-17 than two unloaded from the C-17 put in a helicopter harness and then put it back onto a rig to be put back into a C-17 right so the question is how did that get to the airbase published to answers and both of them involve Superman one is that Superman brought it to the base now he flipped that he picked it up uses superstrength used his flight with his superstrength to carry it to the airbase and left it there because it wasn't mounted on a rig then they used a helicopter to lift up put it into the rig and then put it into the C-17 right that's one way we could explain how it got there the other way we could explain it without using flight but it's a little cumbersome is that Superman while standing on the ground picks up his ship loads it onto one of the many farm vehicles that Jonathan Kent had in a he did have to move and transport that ship in the first place and I have no doubt that he could do it with the the right farm equipment which undoubtedly heat have and if it's still there and it's still the farm then Clark could have lifted the ship and put it onto some farm equipment he could've taken it out as far as he needed to go perhaps hijacked or borrowed another truck to sort out the skier the identity just a little bit more and then drove it to the military base codes for all we know the military bases right outside a small right so it's a small distance of each so he transports the the ship to outside the military base and again they pick it up by helicopter off of the bed of the truck lowered down into the rig and then put it into the sea 17 so the the second case is plausible as possible as a way of doing it and preserving the anonymity of thought his home but I'm inclined to think the first case is much more plausible because it's the end of the world and there's no point in preserving your secret identity if the world is going to and so it's in everybody's interest to move it all speed and handle things as quickly as possible so I'm inclined to believe that Superman understood that to picked up his ship and float to the military I think that's the most practical explanation and that would tend to imply like we've been discussing along that Superman can use his superstrength and flight at the same time now some of your screaming at the podcast and saying well didn't he crash into the world engine right and didn't he crash into that mound and maybe those are examples of superstrength and flight at the same time but is arguable that those are all examples of durability superspeed and flight so super is basically just cannon bawling his way through those object not necessarily applying his strength perhaps it's ambiguous I met we don't the last thing I want to talk about with flight and will also covered under the telekinesis catchall at the very end is those impressive takeoffs where he has people backup and where there's clearly an extra force emanating from because the impact in the ground isn't just his footsteps it isn't just the impression of his fest rather it's a spherical impact upon the earth that extends beyond just his person so clearly his flight is exuding or exerting this kind of for Specter and again I find that very satisfying because it does sort of cause all these other theories to co-he's but we will move onto the next power number 13 telescopic vision after Superman discovers his ability to flying the Arctic he comes home visits his mother and while he's with her Zeid makes his appearance gives his ultimatum to the earth and in the process the black zero is hovering over small bill and we see Clark quickly zoom in with his vision and used telescopic vision on the black zero now to be fair it could be a sort of convoluted camera trick because a lot of this was shot in sort of quasi-documentary view and used sort of these quick zooms in a sort of newsreel style so it's possible that it wasn't actually telescopic vision but I'm inclined to think it is it's one of his traditional abilities it's one of the powers that makes Superman Superman and again as I said before axes lubricant to make his powers work for example in Clark zoned in on the black zero and the scout ship specifically while flying at the speed that he was traveling from the Indian Ocean to Metropolis it tends to make sense that he used his telescopic vision to sort of guide his motions and an end zone in on exactly what he had he had to hit with the precision that he did within the time that he did although now think about it talking about this may have been one of those superhuman reflex moments that that he may have done everything through that with you know insane reaction time and time dilation sort of ability but as we discussed above those kind of that kind of ability sort of takes them out of the human realm and make some very difficult right and so telescopic vision in this case would be a little bit more of an elegant solution as a corollary to the auditory omniscience that we talked about before you may want to check out a fun little YouTube video from minute physics called how far can ligula seek legless from the Lord of the rings trilogy the the short version is it's very similar to the analysis of the auditory omniscience light is a wave right it travels through medium and because of that is an upper limit to how far and how accurate you'll be up to see objects with certain degree of precision you can overcome some of this with shorter wavelength vision but even then it has has many of the same kind of issues with the hearing over long distances so ill the conclusion ultimately is that legless his vision is easily magic and I think that the same sort of conclusion we have to reach with Superman at the end of the day it's that visual omniscient swear he's able to see things that otherwise he really can't or shouldn't be up to see and will become all this together really what we're talking about his extrasensory perception or ESP but obviously that plays more like psychic powers that plays in in a different realm and different flavor than what we expect with Superman and so rather than that which is can apply the traditional tropes and will stay within the dish traditional boundaries were Superman's Longview and long site is unlimited unlimited on rain a relatively unlimited on range but basically line of sight a for it to whatever distance or accuracy he would he would like or prefer real quick number 14 is a speculative power again so so after's odds ultimatum eventually we get to's odds ship and Zeid relates to him that he has been in wondering for 33 years and so that leads to power number 14 slowed aging at least compared to humans and honestly other than the great soul patch I don't think there is much evidence that Zeid of his crew has aged I think some people have said that his temples a grade I didn't really see that I didn't really see it and on krypton he didn't have the soul patch at all so it wasn't so much that it grade as that now exists before it may have been great his I don't know if that was an indication or attempt to show that he had aged that is a little bit in the US but I certainly look if they are a and don't say that that looks like a woman that has aged 33 years right and the question is how did this come about now one fundamental an easy way to do it is to say that this is how kryptonian's age they have had the benefit of generations and generations of eugenics they perfected biological technologies and so maybe kryptonian simply age at the optimal or most likely lifespan than or are able to achieve with all their technology and therefore for them may be 33 years is just a drop in the bucket maybe there maximum lifespan is twice 3×4 times a times or more what are lifespan is the the great age of their civilization the the great stagnancy of it how easily Timeslips by for them it does tend to suggest a sort of more static long-lived longer age. So it wouldn't be stunning to me to say that the default kryptonian just blitz longer a lot longer and if that's the case then it's not unreasonable for example in the prequel comic for there not to be a murder for say 1000 years you figure some societies and in America without a murder for 200 years is it really unreasonable to say time that by 400 x 5 in a depending on how rigid their culture is how stagnant it is how how little free will there may be it's not unreasonable that they should go so long without a murder and particularly their lives are that will so that's one explanation possibly of why their aged their ages appears to be in a slow to drag out another is in of the black zero was a prison ship they were in sort of that eyesore hibernation kind of material at least at one point in their stay they were wondering vagabonds for 33 years without a world and without anything but the things that they scavenged so with such limited resources and with such desperate hopes I wouldn't be surprised if they took shifts in hibernation so the 33 years may have been spent in rotation being in and out of the hibernation cells that the prison ship itself provided so that's another explanation in other was they were not up and help and fully conscious all of them for 33 years the entire time rather the took shifts and maybe you know Zeid was only out there for 11 of the 33 years right in which case the visible aging on his face is a little more plausible and a little bit more possible threat real quick the implications of this may have in the future films is it's tough to say right because at the in the day Henry cavil is a human 10 he will age as lamia Adams and all the other cast members of the film so I don't know how to what lengths they may go to try to preserve his relative age against the humans or maybe you know will say that in in light of the yellow sun you actually don't gain this benefit this is a supposition on my part so it's very easy for them to say no kryptonian's agent at the same rate as humans and and that's that last and certainly not least is number 15 telekinesis now telekinesis might not be a fair portrayal of it I think perhaps a more practical way of describing it is a force field field that exerts force beyond the boundaries of their body receives several examples just very tangible examples of this throughout the film one is when Superman is charging up to fly we see the snow and the particles swirling around his body before he takes off another time we see the dust swirling around him just before fightings odd as world in a pattern that is consistent with a fielded almost shows the spherical field around a very deliberate and clear example is when Zonta rips the armor from his body and it floats around him it hovers around him showing that definitively kryptonian's can exhibit force on objects beyond the boundaries of their body right and that has so many different little implications which smooths out and just really makes this whole Superman thing work one of them is what we talked about before that the tactile telekinesis the ability to lend structural integrity or support feats of strength through touch so you grab the object the impossibly large object that you wouldn't ever be up to lift even if you had the personal strength to do so the object itself could withstand the listing but with this field the ability to extend your field onto this object was exert a field onto the object perhaps either strengthening the object or at least spreading out for secure exerting upon it suddenly are able to lift these massive huge objects that before you were able to write we talked extensively about superspeed mitigation and if you have this sort of field now we can sort of impart a whole bunch a little crazy magic to to the field and explain how you can move quickly without causing sonic booms without causing impact to your rescue wheeze you can in part invulnerability to them can have invincible clothing you can start to catch people without slicing through them to metal bars sticking out the catch them instead maybe if you can extend your field objects than you can impart Ural invulnerability to the them was their strong and durable than there's no reason you should bid to catch limit speed read something like that it also explains things like being able to maintain your personal integrity so for example it's not just durability physical durability of your person but it's why you can fly through space without having your blood boil and your and the gases escaping from your body it's why you can travel at superspeed without the air being sent from your lungs because you have this field around you maintaining these things keeping those things in you regulating your environment the field can also be an explanation for sensation mitigation right you can act as a medium between or apart from between or apart from all those intense sounds and sights and other sensations visual spectra that would otherwise bombard the individual so if you can strengthen or project the field in such a way or even within your own personal integrity for example we talked about the physical way in which you could limit the auditory response in your ear by pulling back the stapes ear typically the habitable the muscle contraction but imagine if you have such instinct or control over your personal force field that you can use your force field in order to manipulate the stir up in the same way are the stapes in the same it also works as a out powerful catchall you know we haven't talked about the future powers that we haven't seen yet and that may be upcoming but one of the ones on the top of that WishList is super breath and as we discussed in the flight or superspeed sections the way you breathe is just a small variation in air pressure and realistically that small variation in air pressure that that move of your diaphragm it can only compress so much air right the matter how forcibly or how strong your able to do that you're not going to be up to compress any more air than a certain amount to visit there's just a simple physical limitation on that and without the compression without the ability to compress large volumes of air that you're not able to perform the traditional Superman feet in not able to breathe extraordinarily a large volumes of air which able to push things in low things over and similarly you're not able to have that sort of cold breath of the extreme cold or freezing ability from the extreme evaporation however mechanically the decide to operate that if at all however the force field acts as a catchall that enables you to do something like that because although you may not have been musculature or the diaphragm or something that actually could physically holding compressing cause that sort of gaseous compression force field house you to have a fictional or impossible mechanism or pump or valve on your breathing and an air so you would be up to have this sort of force field intake or force force field reservoir holding the air down and allow you to compress beyond what just your normal physical body would be able to do and suddenly have a catchall explaining how well super breath works right so that's is way way way for my time I didn't touch on some of the other topics that I wanted to talk about I did want to talk about the interaction with the things that enable these powers and the weaknesses end and the the armor and helmets in the sense is all these other different things that will definitely be another episode eczema soliciting I love discussing the stuff been sticking with me for this whole thing hopefully to gently grateful to everyone and listen to join my community@ManofSteelofSteelanswers.com that way questions anyone answer for insight to want to share commentary to make composing performed for all your like-minded apologist for you can email me@ManofSteelofSteelanswers.com imago address your question if you like what you 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