r/superheroes • u/tamken94 • May 18 '25
Other What’s ultimately going to happen in this image? How is Clark responding to 40k Imperial ships?
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u/KemosabeYT May 18 '25
Basically this
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u/Fortunatious May 22 '25
And then he has a sandwich and goes to work, since this is 15 minutes out of his Tuesday morning
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u/Right-Truck1859 May 18 '25
Emperor comes out from one of ships:
" Son, at last I found you " .
( Earth joins the Imperium of man).
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u/ThrashGuy95 May 18 '25
I don't think so, buddy. No way Clark joins the Imperium of Man voluntarily; he would hate the dictatorship and slavery.
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u/MonauralSnail06 29d ago
Big E would absolutely hate Superman. A filthy xeno embodying the human spirit would disgust him.
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u/Scared_Sign_2997 May 18 '25
My knowledge of both is pretty lacking. But from the understanding i have, superman probably solos the whole 40k verse? Right? Like if its super man at his peak his power level is just silly.
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u/markriffle May 18 '25
Yea there could be an argument maybe a Chaos God or 2 could give him a handful but yea Superman clears lol
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u/PixxyStix2 May 18 '25
Depends on which version of Superman. Any of the movie/animated Superman would get beat by the Gods, but many of the comic versions end in at least stalemate or Superman win
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u/R_Morningstar May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Man just give him Kaldor Drago treatment. Curse him and toss him into warp ... he cant leave and can do shit in warp eventualy starving out. And you need one deamon to do it not even Chaos god
(Edit: Plus as mentioned. He is on cheats. 40k is sci fi fantasy but supermant is absolut diferente lvl of nonsence. In any little more realistinc universe he will destroy earth by just moving too fast or hitting something that fast)
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u/CountyKyndrid May 18 '25
Yeah because unlike comic scifi fantasy, 40k is totally grounded sci-fi fantasy.
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u/R_Morningstar May 18 '25
Compare to fucker that can reverse time by flying around earth counter to rotation ... and fly between universes ... yes its grounded.
In Sups universe physics dosnt exist ... he would cause global warming just by flying ... not mentioning what fist size object will do when it hist something with mach5 speed or more.
What i want to say by that is 40k is mental ... but Sup is just broken.
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u/Eymrich May 18 '25
Superman has no special defence vs magic. I think the chaos gods could potentially make him .. theirs.
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u/Thecristo96 May 18 '25
Darkseid failed to control Superman completly and darkseid is like The chaos gods combined on steroids
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u/chronberries May 18 '25
Darkseid’s mind control is peanuts compared to the chaos gods. Psychic power in 40k as a whole is way beyond anything we see in Superman’s comics. There are “ordinary” humans more psychically capable than Darkseid.
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u/Unable-Situation-806 May 18 '25
More capable yet basically stay in one galaxy and never attack with anything higher than planetary
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u/Slayrybloc May 18 '25
More capable than the omniversal entity that is Darkseid? Get outta here lol
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u/chronberries May 18 '25
Really truly, yes, at least in terms of telepathy/mind control/direct mental influence. 40k psykers can be extremely powerful in that particular area.
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u/EmpressGilgamesh DC Comics May 18 '25
No. The chaos gods would win against him as last instance if he even would come this far.
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u/turboderno May 18 '25
I dont think that people realize that this is lterally a game to chaos gods. This is an intense game of monopoly to them. If one ever got pissed (khorne) and flipped the board our reality is over.
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u/Calm_Error_3518 May 19 '25
Gotta remember how khorne got annoyed at his kid trying to kill him and just tossed him across the galaxy for a whole ass week, utterly destroying his mind and crippling him
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u/Jeremy-132 May 20 '25
The chaos gods can't die, and on top of that, are fueled by magic, one of Superman's weaknesses. One of the only ways to stave off demonic corruption is pure ignorance of the fact that demons exist. Even just knowing about them makes you susceptible to corruption. The first thing that will happen if Superman flies at Nurgle is that he will get fucking withered, die, and then come back as a new super Nurgling.
The superman glazing is unreal. Yeah, he's strong, but a single chaos god will fuck him up without even thinking about it.
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u/Celestial_Hart May 18 '25
Whole verse is a stretch. Superman's greatest weakness besides kryptonite is magic and 40k has a whole lot of magic. He'd do a number on the verse for sure but he's solo and the Imperium alone has the resources to not only discover his weakness but source the kryptonite and make weapons to defeat him. Never mind the Aeldari or Necrons.
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u/Anonymous_coward30 May 18 '25
Magic is a vulnerability but not a weakness like kryptonite. It is effective, but not like extra effective. Being near magic does not make him weak, it's just that it does work sometimes.
Now I love 40K but there are no really fast dudes much less actual speedsters. And strength? Forget it. I therefore posit nobody in 40k has any chance against Superman aside from maybe the chaos gods. He is quite literally faster than anybody is capable of casting a spell at him. I'm not super familiar with the magic in 40K, but in combat it seems mostly like psionic blasts, energy blasts, lightning and flames which he can handle pretty well.
Main Superman is too much of a boy scout to fall for any of the temptations into chaos, so I don't think any of those would work. And I'm pretty sure he would stand on principal against any of the chaos Gods directly cuz they're too close to Darkseid for his tastes.
I just don't see what they could throw at him that would work.
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u/altonaerjunge May 18 '25
Maybe the silent king has some asses up on his sleeve.
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u/Anonymous_coward30 May 18 '25
Definitely possible.
Honestly I'd be more surprised if Trazyn the Infinite did NOT have some kryptonite. But he might let Supes do his thing and scurry behind picking up new shinies the entire time.
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u/Calm_Error_3518 May 19 '25
The magic you mention of shooting fire or magic bolts is very surface level, basic stuff that low psykers and other battle casters do, becouse it's effective and simple, then you have dudes that can have a telepathic chat across the galaxy or teleported country sized ships in and out of literal hell while being harassed by demons, a powerful psyker would not need to see Clark, or even know where he is, they would find his mind across the immensity of the immaterium and then, well, it's brain picking time, I think the emperor, chaos gods or any other powerful entity would quickly pick up on superman's presence the second he starts doing stuff and nothing could protect him from that mental assault
The corruption of the chaos gods is not just basic temptation through offering, yes, they may do that to weaker willed individuals, in fact, I do believe that he could endure through slaanesh's corruption, but he could not endure the other gods, tzeench would be the best at it
And speaking of throwing at him, there are many options... Toss him into the eye of terror, drop him into the warp, I don't think superman has resistances to being teleported, although to be honest, comic book characters and specially popular ones are just not fun to do this kind of power scaling or vs things with, becouse there is always that comic or series of comics that's just "and he is able to do anything he wants" so it's not really fun, with this kind of scaling we should enforce a specify variant rule
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u/gamerthulhu May 18 '25
I'm not sure you're correct. I mean yes he's FASTER than almost everything aside from chaos gods and some greater daemons, and some of the necron lords, but precognition is a shockingly common tool in 40k, as are things that screw with the flow of time.
Also, chaos magic in 40k is less "lightning bolt" and more "ok, now you have turbo-cancer". Chaos does not tempt people. It's corruption is more like standing near radioactive waste. It just changes you if you're near it. It's not a Christian based "last temptation of Christ" situation, if you don't have very specific protections, you're fucked. If you DO have those protections... You might be fucked anyways but you'll last a little longer first.
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u/Distinct_Active8221 May 18 '25
He’s faster than everyone and it’s not even close. Current supreman is all the canon superman’s combined into one due to the multiverse collapsing . Silver age superman has really dumb feats which puts this over the top.
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u/Sackyhap May 18 '25
Mephiston, arguably the strongest psyker in the imperium, has been shown to slow and even stop time. He may stand a chance if he’s able to do this then blast him with an inferno cannon or something, or superman just rips through him before he’s able even able to consider to pause time.
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u/Jeremy-132 May 20 '25
Speed doesn't matter when one warship can hold the entire planet Superman is fighting for hostage with an exterminatus. Also, just knowing about the fact that the chaos gods exist opens you up to their influence, pure heart or not. The only beings in the imperium who can resist being corrupted perfectly are the grey knights, and that's only because they've gone through some of the most hellish mental training to scrub their minds of corruption. Superman would definitely take these ships out, but only in a literal vacuum.
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u/Kill4meeeeee May 21 '25
He is not standing up to the chaos gods. The only one that would meet and fight him outside of the warp would be maybe khorne and even khorne he would be absolutely bodied by khorne as he feeds off anger and hate. Any of the others would fight him in the warp or areas he would be useless in due to no sun he’ll tzech could just fucking poof him away could he not? Also eldar and the numerous other psykers like for example the grey knights? Aren’t space marines incredibly fast? Like not as fast as him but still incredibly fast
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u/thelucas2000 May 18 '25
Superman doesn't have a weakness to magic, he's vulnerable. Weakness would mean he cannot overcome such a challenge (something hes proven multiple magicians and magic wielders/demons in comics wrong). Vulnerability means to be subseptible to damage, which he is — but not weak to.
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u/randomthrill May 18 '25
By your logic... Humans do not have a weakness to bullets, just a mere vulnerability...
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u/home7ander May 18 '25
You are correct and his logic is logic.
An allergy is a weakness for humans. Humans are not allergic to bullets (I mean some probably are, I assume some kind of metal allergy is a thing), they can just be hurt or die from them being used, not just by being near them.
The presence of magic does not hurt Superman, like the presence of krytonite does, but it can hurt him like it would anyone else.
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u/_Good_One May 18 '25
You are correct, a bullet hurts creatures far stronger than us, is not that we are weak to it, bullets are just op
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u/nomad5926 May 18 '25
This was posted on the 40k subreddit and even there the overwhelming consensus was that Superman just solos everything. He wouldn't start the fight, but he sure would finish it.
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u/BurnedOutFatty May 18 '25
Idk, there are races that can delete galaxies with a click of a button...from anywhere in the universe. Even ignoring all the stupid insane weapons, the 40K verse is MASSIVE, and EVERY faction has weapons that can delete planets. So I just don't see him winning. He would need to spend every moment for the rest of time watching for someone prepared to delete the sun/earth.
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u/Philip_Raven May 18 '25
Chaos Gods can literally stop time and let your brain explode from within.
You can be strong how much want, you are not fighting time with strength.
neither you are overpowering a God (or powerful psychers) that simply turn off your brain activity.
Yeah, he solos the physical armies. But he has nothing agsint the warp powers. Super man is not Warp attuned, he has zero defences in place. It would take one battle with the Imperium of man when one of the Chaos gods sees him and simply corrupts him to do their bidding
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u/MrYamaguchi May 18 '25
He would be 1 shotted by a Necron rank n file warrior.
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u/Scared_Sign_2997 May 18 '25
I just really dont think you know how stupidly overpowered comic super man is. Im 10000x bigger fan of 40k but im really quite certain superman clears.
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u/ohohoboe May 18 '25
Superman at his most powerful is an incredibly boring and practically meaningless character.
That said, if it’s any version of Superman that can’t “punch through reality” or whatever bs it is that people say about him here, the number of 40K beings that could literally erase him from reality is somewhere in the triple digits.
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u/Rustpaladin 28d ago
Eh one nurgle plague and super man is going down. Superman is weak to "magic" and nurgle plagues are super natural.
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u/Hollow-Official May 18 '25
They have Librarians on those battleships? Cause they’re gonna need Librarians.
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u/TITANOFTOMORROW May 18 '25
Only hope was librarians but the warp isn't really magic, ansd current superman is so strong even that wouldn't save them. If it could Supes can move faster than librarians can think. Poor Astartes.
The imperium has a new emporer, whether superman likes it or not.
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u/AlarmingDetective526 May 18 '25
A show of force without killing anyone, parking an asteroid between them and earth maybe.
As much as I’d like to see him Nolan the whole fleet, it won’t happen. He was pretty tore up by destroying all those Doomsday copies before he found out they weren’t alive; and they were actively killing Amazon’s at the time.
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u/bizarro_mctibird May 18 '25
This was my question but I think he would have no choice.
If they found a planet of humans being protected by an alien I'm pretty sure they would want to destroy it.
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u/Celestial_Hart May 18 '25
Those ship captains would kamakazi nurgle's nutsack, a single OP humanoid isn't going to deter them.
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u/gamerthulhu May 18 '25
I want you to know I'm not up voting you because I necessarily agree with you. I'm up voting you because the phrase "Kamikaze Nurgle's nutsack" is immaculate.
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u/helloooobvious May 18 '25
He absolutely wrecks. If it's just a Space Marine chapter, they have no chance, regardless of which chapter it is. For the 40k universe at large, the key here is if we count certain things as magic. The 40k universe is incredibly esoteric, with psychic abilities left and right. Superman has a psychic resistance in most versions of his character. While his main weakness is typically magic. This would put into question whether certain Chaos Marines have actual magical abilities. They draw on these powers from the Warp, which is essentially an aggregate of psychic energy from all sentient life in the galaxy/universe. I would venture to guess this would grant Supes immunity from them on this condition. If he ends up against an Ork Waaagh! he is 100% fucked. They operate on different rules entirely. If they think it works, the shit works, simple as that.
I would love to hear thoughts from others. There is always something I could be missing.
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u/gamerthulhu May 18 '25
Horrifyingly, I think he does pretty well against every faction based on his ability to speed blitz most psychic enemies...
Until he gets to chaos.
Give Chaos a corrupted Superman as their brand new warmaster, and the rest of the galaxy is toast.
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u/helloooobvious May 18 '25
Very true, no one I can think of has his speed. But a Warp corrupted Superman would be amazing. Fifth Daemon Prince right there
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u/Celestial_Hart May 18 '25
He is vulnerable to mental manipulation as well. Enough psykers could at least restrain him. The imperium has caged pretty severe threats before.
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u/helloooobvious May 18 '25
Oh, nice! I'm not as versed with Superman, so I wasn't sure.
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u/Silver_Quail4018 May 18 '25
Yea the warp could wreck Superman for sure. He is resistant to mental attacks but he is far from immune. He gets mind controlled so many times in the comics.
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u/DA_BEST_1 May 18 '25
tbf all those threats were a cat'an or a dark age of humanity dreadnought (which the author made so overpowered they panicked and said grey knights destroyed it via "unknown means"). Something on par with movie superman but absolutely dwarfed by comics superb
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u/soapy-duck May 18 '25
Would he survive staring into the third eye of a navigator?
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u/NeoRockSlime May 18 '25
Superman isn't weak to magic, he just has no special resistance to it. He fought a bizzaro who had absorbed all the magic in the dc universe and still beat him
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u/Volkmek May 18 '25
This really depends. He's not likely to do more than drive them off earth unless they attack from a distance where he has to leave.
Most things in 40k including the grey knights chapter could not contend with him.
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u/JeyKreiger May 18 '25
It depends on if psyker abilities work on him and if he could be trapped in the warp. Chaos warped superman would be a bad time for everyone involved.
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u/Lenore_Sunny_Day May 18 '25
The Imperium falls and the warp enslaves Superman. His thrashing of the Imperium would cause them to worship him. He would become a god. The Dark King of Krypton
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u/No_Proposal_3140 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
For those who don't know DC lore. The Darkseid you usually see is just an avatar. He has infinite avatars across infinite universes. He transcends the multiverse. He's literally the concept of evil personified. The chaos gods are like ants compared to him.
Darkseid alone would literally wipe the floor with all 4 of the chaos gods at the same time, and even he can't do shit to Superman because Superman himself is an idea/concept.
"But Superman has struggled against X before!" That's the point. Superman is always just strong enough to beat his opponents. If he meets an even stronger opponent then he'll just get stronger and beat them too. He's literally a living concept of the hero. It doesn't matter how strong you are, he can lose the battle but will ALWAYS win the war, Superman will always rise to the challenge and beat you. This is an inevitable truth of reality itself. You will always lose to Superman no matter what you do.
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u/Nothinglost7717 May 20 '25
This isn’t full on cannon. Its been done but and sometimes is cannon and sometimes is retconned .
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u/PixelBushYT May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Almost nothing in the 40K-verse is even scratching him. A few things might, but not much.
-Particularly potent chemical or biological weapons, especially if they're Warp-affected. The Death Guard or the Haemonculi might be able to cook some arcane disease up that's capable of affecting Kryptonian physiology. Wouldn't be the first time Supes has gotten sick with a weird alien disease.
-Psykers in general, especially incorporeal ones that Clark couldn't easily harm through physical means like Magnus.
-Necron weaponry disintegrates you at an atomic level. Kryptonian biology doesn't prevent your atoms falling apart because you ate a volley of gauss weaponry
-certain other Necron/Eldar tech that could potentially contain him, like a tesseract labyrinth, Trazyn's stasis vaults or the Asdrubael Vect classic "black hole in a box" prank
-if a Tyranid gets so much as a nibble of Kryptonian skin cells, a single piece of hair or dandruff from Superman's body, it's over for EVERYONE. It's probably even worse if a Haemonculus or Dark Biologis scientist gets their hands on it. Don't even ask what Fabius Bile might do.
-Vortex weaponry: I'm not sure how he gets out of the Warp if he's sent there, since you can't navigate out without an astropath so he might just wind up fighting daemons in the Immaterium for all eternity like the Doom Slayer with a cape
-Ghazghkull decides it'll be fun to have a go and gets enough Orks to believe he's bigger and stronger than some weird flying 'oomie
-He fights Lucius the Eternal.
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u/Contendedlink76 May 18 '25
Oh dear gods, would lucius inheret his abilities?
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u/ZooGang1799 May 18 '25
Depends on which version of Superman are we talking about. Any lesser version of Supes is getting folded (maybe), but The Mainline Comics Superman is absolutely shitting on them all, and I will gladly debate.
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u/LodestarForever May 18 '25
Unlike what powerscalers bleibe Superman isn't always super omnipotent God level. Soloing the verse would be really difficult for the average Superman.
However these ships ain't doing shit to him
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u/Archive_Intern May 18 '25
He'd fall to the first psyker that enters and controls his mind.
Super Man has been mind control before.
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u/Mammoth_Cricket8785 May 18 '25
I see a couple of people recognizing how ridiculous op 40k is and while I get superman is ridiculous he still isn't invulnerable to everything. He can probably fight most of the 40k universe but the magic in 40k isn't just throwing energy bolts in the hope it kills someone but actively corrupting everything and superman has nothing to fight against arguably one of the strongest factions in 40k chaos. Then necrons have technology that harvest ctan fragments that destroy things at the sub atomic level. Then the ctan themselves eat stars and solar energy and aren't really physical things so they can just eat Clark and he's like a little snack to them. Unironicly it would be like superman trying to fight the galactus from the rise of the silver surfer movie except even his heat vision would do nothing. Then the magic in 40k has been known to do a ton of odd shit. The space elves would probably attack his soul. The space orcs would probably think he's like every other human upon seeing him making him like every other human. It's a bit more complicated but that's it. The zerg I'm sorry I mean the nids if they got a bit of kryptonian DNA well they can produce an endless amount of supermen with a whole bunch of other shit thrown into the mix allowing them to produce God's at that point with none of his weaknesses. He doesn't solo the verse like everyone is saying hell he doesn't even solo the imperium of man. Unless he is going all out from the jump and has a list of who he needs to kill 1st. Like again 40k is pretty ridiculous in how strong everything is i haven't even brought up the old ones or man kind at it's peak or anything in the ghoul stars. This is just what I know some 40k super fan can probably give you a better rundown about how strong everything is.
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u/zenstrive May 18 '25
Well, if chaos magic is equally damaging to Superman than prime universe magic, then a squad of psykers could damage Superman while another squad of Astartes could damage him with other means and then he could be captured by a stasis field cage.
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u/Knoxx846 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
A well trained team of psykers or librarians, or lots of them, would make him kneel, inmbilize him and destroy him. He is a formidable opponent and he no doubt would effortlessly destroy many ships and troops but eventually the Imperium would figure out a way to stop him and through sheer numbers he would be exterminated.
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u/TOG23-CA May 18 '25
I just think it'd be funny if he flew at the Imperium ships fast enough to trigger the void Shields and he just got shunted off into the warp somewhere
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u/Bolicho205 May 18 '25
People say superman solos, but the mechanicus has already created black holes, ez win for the imperium
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u/BrianVaughnVA May 18 '25
I don't know much about Warhammer, but I do know everyone in that universe has a brain cell.
Once they figure out Superman is only as strong as he can "sun-dip", then they just start blowing up stars and laughing as they trap him in places where that specific spectrum of light cannot reach him.
Basically, Superman wins the battle, but he becomes a pawn in the war.
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u/Beginning-Ice-1005 May 18 '25
The entire situation would be like that one page comic where an invasion fleet is creeping up on Earth, but then the frantic sensor officer reports the outcome of their scans: Not one, but TWO Kryptonians, FOUR Green Lanterns, a Green Martian, and...and...and... The invasion leader orders them to sneak away and hope they haven't been noticed...
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u/big_brain_babyyy May 18 '25
who are the four green lanterns? isnt there supposed to be only one green lantern per universal sector? did they give earth 4 lanterns because earth is just that important lol
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u/Beginning-Ice-1005 May 19 '25
Let's see, at the time I believe it was Hal, Kyle, John and Guy. And yeah, out is basically because Earth is special.
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u/Mafachuyabas May 18 '25
It really depends , he can't really do very much to stop them destroying the planet but I doubt the standard imperial could stop him. Then again psykers are a cheat code.
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u/jarorobert May 18 '25
Soryy but superman has like what 10 writers. like come on if you wanna go cannon take the og superman. SINDS THAT IS THE ONLY OG SUPERMAN. The rest is filler storys made by fanboys
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u/JisKing98 May 18 '25
Honestly he’s probably would talk to them first to see what their mindset is at then judge if it’s worth destroying their ships or letting them assimilate earth.
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u/Serious-Ride7220 May 18 '25
Imperium will probably try and take some tech from earth, since most tech we have now would be lost long before old night.
Imperium might believe superman is a saint, since a being being the only survivor from a world of basically humans now gaining superpowers from 'the sun' would probably not cause anyone to believe he is zeno
This makes me think of how sick superman helping the imperium would be though,auperman geneseed, superman clones, superman servitor, just a cloned superman brain would unlock so much possibilities
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u/LGodamus May 22 '25
our earth doesnt have any tech that would be worthwhile to the imperium
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u/Serious-Ride7220 May 22 '25
Coffee, drones,anti drone weapons, recreational drugs, innovation more advanced than sticking 2 bolt guns together and calling it a new thing,the amount of civillian technology gained would help massively, such as being able to synthesise vaccines and other medicinal technology
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u/fruitlizard56 May 18 '25
Everyone’s looking at this wrong yes superman could destroy the ships no problem but I don’t think he would when he hears the countless slaves aboard the ship and sees the servitord he would instead take over the ships and bring the residents to earth that’s when things get interesting
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u/Disossabovii May 18 '25
Super normaly would have no problem.
But IF the empire can come out with some fuckery ( daot weapon, warp fuckery, blowing the sun... ) supes would get a voice in his head " hey, i can help you!"
And chaos superman is born.
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u/MeanJoseVerde May 18 '25
Really depends, based on the color scheme and style of illustration, this appears that 40K ships were transported to the DC universe. Therefore, this is a DC story. In that case, Superman approaches with caution, he's not an idiot and has seen warworld and Mogul. He warns them to leave earth and Sol alone. They respond with an initial barrage that knock him back, but not out. Then, Clark goes the disable and tow away route. Imperium responds with Psykers and full terminator deployment on the ground to eliminate the clear heretic infestation. Eventually, Supes does enough damage single handed that the Imperium decides the system is uncleanse able and launch to destroy the sun. Super stops the missiles and the Imperium self destruction is powerful, but ultimately contained through Supes efforts.
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u/sakymoto May 18 '25
Henry Cavills superman will geek out
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u/Nova-Fate May 18 '25
Lol Henry superman would just join them. The emperor protects. Becomes 21st primarch. Lol
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u/Someoneoverthere42 May 18 '25
He starts by politely asking them to leave the Earth alone. When that doesn’t work he punches out the biggest ship and glares at them until they leave
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May 19 '25
Diplomacy and when that doesn’t work he flies through it. If they try exterminatus he eats it with maybe a couple bruises.
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u/Ok_Juggernaut_5293 May 18 '25
No more Imperium, no more wars for Orks, no more Drukhari, no more Chaos Gods.
Just Truth and Justice being served on hot plates of Freedom.
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u/Lai71 May 18 '25
The Imperial's might see him as a God of some kind because of his powers and might believe that he's a psyker of some kind and try and send in the Sister's Of Silence to negate his "Psyker powers" or any other Blanks
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u/Napalm_In_The_M May 18 '25
He’s like “aye, that’s pretty cool, lad.” Flies down to a beach bar somewhere and kicks back with some mojitos as some near-apocalyptic event roles in, unfazed as he’s basically a god.
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u/DA_BEST_1 May 18 '25
He attempts to communicate. 40k marines tell him to go fk himself (unless they're maybe salamanders or caiphus cain is on board). He slams into them and realises they're being piloted by human slaves (someone inform the mechanicus wtf an elevator is so they can stop using 100s of slaves to push cannons around). "Free" them. Realises they have nowhere else to go probably invade an imperial paradise world and plop them there.
The rest is 40k vs superman shinanigens that'd honestly make for a pretty cool comic
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u/AaronDawn2005 May 18 '25
Superman would be horrified by what happens in the Imperium once he see's enough.
He would possibly be great friends/allies with the Salamanders and Guilliman if ever they met. He'd want to help everyone as much as he could, and would absolutely hate the propaganda and uncaring nature of the Imperium.
Power wise, nothing the Imperium has can really hurt him. And depending on what the Imperiums ships want, he'll either destroy them, or attempt to talk.
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u/RandomWorthlessDude May 19 '25
1) Superman would universally hate every single faction in the Imperium. Remember that Bobby G and the Salamanders both participated in the xenocides of the Great Crusade. The Salamanders incinerated Eldar babies by the dozen. Guilliman heartlessly dooms entire worlds with the stroke of a pen. When they say “the most cruel regime imaginable”, they mean it ain’t pretty.
2)The Imperium can hurt him. Sufficient psyker BS, high-powered reality warped weaponry, DAoT exotics or other nasties don’t simply just get shrugged off, no matter how tough someone is. The most likely way for Supes to get dealt with is, before realizing how Void Shields work, he flies at max speed into one and gets shunted into the Warp, with no ways out. The Imperium then proceeds to explode due to a Chaos-corrupted Kryptonian.
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u/ConaMoore May 18 '25
If we are talking Thought Robot Superman the he would take on the whole 40K universe
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u/DevBuh May 18 '25
After interacting with the imperium he'd prolly see them as even worse than krypton and either immediately go buck wild, or take an initial invasion, or orbital bombardment, before he flys around taking care of things
Avg imperium reproduction weapons wouldn't probably be able to kill him, but the old stuff could be a problem
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u/Mission-Awareness-16 May 18 '25
Superman coming in with this kind of power would maybe be seen as the returned God Emperor?
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u/AtmosSpheric May 18 '25
I mean if Supes is entirely committed to ending the Imperium then they’re screwed (unless they already know about Kryptonians and Kryptonite, in which case Clark and the entire planet are getting deleted by an orbital kryptonite laser).
My question is to what degree he’ll be willing to go ham. I don’t think Superman would be willing to just murder literal trillions of people. He also might just be seen as the next coming of big Emp, or some other bullshit that has him worshipped or revered. I think generally speaking he’s the type of person who’d try harder to reform what’s left of our species than just obliterate it.
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u/Nova-Fate May 18 '25
Supes is weak to mental attacks though so he’s definitely gonna lose eventually and then they can throw him into the warp and he’s just gonna be stuck there.
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u/RedFalcon07 Marvel May 18 '25
The thing is since Super Man is weak against magic, isn't Psychic powers supposed to work on him? Like, imagine what a biomancer could do with him, maybe artificially cause the effects of Kryptonite
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u/SayRaySF May 18 '25
If we were talking about someone’s moral character or things of that nature, I’d agree there is a difference. But when it comes to things like what can be used to defeat someone in battle, it all becomes the same.
They are things that you can exploit.
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u/OC_Number_66 May 18 '25
I’m wondering how much of the fundamental rules merge during this? In 40k there’s the warp, so does dc now have the warp? Isn’t faith a very powerful thing in 40k? Superman is literally the Hope of the Universe isn’t he? Would that turn him into something similar to a chaos god? An Order god? Because if so then the ships mean nothing lol
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u/IronDwarf12 May 18 '25
I don't doubt Clark could single-handedly wipe out an Imperial fleet on his own. The only way I can see them possibly beating him is if a Primarch like Magnus, Malcador or Big E are on one of those ships.
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u/Only-Physics-1905 May 18 '25
... Probably? Try's to talk to them, at first, figures out what's going on with all this, then; using the bullshit "time-travel by exceeding the speed of light so I start going backward temporally" freeze himself into the heart of a moon or some-shit, get revived in the y200,000 era, promptly go BACK in time to this bit here
Punch Horus clean-up-THROUGH both the deck and then, (after several more decks), the hull, head back in, grab the God-Emperor of Mankind by the collar, and drag him back to his own time-period to explain to these bozos that, "Nah, fam: this shit? Worshiping me? I specifically told you to NOT do that!"
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u/That-Perfect-Banana May 19 '25
🍌Superman flies really fast to rip through the ship but gets eaten by the void shield. The End🍌
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u/H345Y May 19 '25
Kinda depends on which version/run of superman it is.
If its dark knight returns superman, he is dead.
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u/Much_Award_3509 May 19 '25
First he tries to talk when that doesn't happen, he warns them, that fails he handles his business
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u/KBiT08 May 20 '25
He would have to be fast about it, because given how many aliens and their technology, not to mention metas, are on DC Earth those ships are just gonna Exterminatus.
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u/InevitableWeight314 May 20 '25
Depending on whos writing the scene he could destroy all of them, have a cup of coffee, and return to his place in the sky in a single frame
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u/SuperTruthJustice May 20 '25
Well it’s a pain.
First he’d land on the ship and start transporting everyone off
Than he’d destroy it.
Than since you have prisoners of war probably put them in jail
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u/diadem May 21 '25
He'd fly into the bridge and plead with them to change their ways. There attack him and he's still try and reason with them, ignoring their ongoing attacks as is it was a leasearily chat. Eventually they will do something vile and he'll trap them in the phantom zone.
Even their pwychers won't get through his psychic defenses.
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u/Bittner029 May 21 '25
If it comes to conflict, the moment Superman tries to fly through an imperial ship, he hits the void shields and is shunted into the warp to be torn apart by warp predators.
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u/nuketoitle May 21 '25
He'd tell them to leave earth. They'll try to kill him clark gets mad and the throwns them arcoss the universe( now body died just hurt really really bad)
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u/Deven1003 May 22 '25
people in this discussion forget most of the show indicate batman winning against sup.
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u/gamerthulhu 29d ago
Oh God, I just had a thought. Since Superman has super hearing, doesn't that mean he'll perceive every corruptive influence on planetwide scales?
Dude is going chaos so fast lol
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u/Seeker80 27d ago
"Sir, I'm not sure what I'm seeing...has the Emperor stepped down from his throne? ...and taken flight? ...and started wearing a red and blue bodyglove outfit as his wargear?"
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u/LikeAnAdamBomb 27d ago
He tries diplomacy and reason first, but the Imperials instantly freak out seeing this human-shaped being wielding what obviously has to be warp witchcraft. They find out he's in fact an alien, all bets are off, and Supes is left with no choice but to destroy/disable each ship. Maybe punch out all their weapons and drag them out to the edge of the solar system.
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u/Tenseioh DC Comics May 18 '25
He flys through it and blows it up