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Warning ! spoiler beforehand for Action Comics # 1059!DC Comics has once and for all affirm thatSupermanis an immortal being . The Man of Steel ’s Chinese vis-a-vis Super - Man nearly buys the farm after a psychical attack commit him in sedate danger . But Kenan Kong negociate to regress to life story all thanks to Clark Kent ’s secret death - defying living force .
InAction Comics # 1059’sstory " Secret Identity Part Two " by Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic , Super - Man is in a DoS between aliveness and demise thanks to the mental attack fetch on bylearning Superman ’s clandestine identity element . In this state , however , Kenan meets his erstwhile wise man , I - Ching .
After fooling Super - Man into believing he was actually stagnant , I - Ching reminds Kenan that his American counterpart has conquered decease numerous times before and Kenan ’s life violence isintrinsically tied with Superman ’s . Kenan guides his qi through the Eight Trigrams of Bagua as he did when he first became Super - Man and come back to life , much to the relief of the Super - Family .
Super-Man Just Secretly Confirmed Superman’s Immortality
In a moment that stunned the world , Superman revealed his identity as Clark Kent . champion and baddie alike were shocked , but none more than Lex Luthor . After stew for a flake , Lex decided to put the genie back in the nursing bottle by using Manchester Black ’s psychic abilities to make the humanity forget Superman ’s real name . However , now anytime someone is confront with that information , they experience a secure psychic flack , something that nearly killed Superman ’s old boss Perry White . regrettably , Kenan establish that out the hard room when he accidentally discovered Superman ’s identity operator , actuate a psychic attack in his judgement .
When Kenan gained his powers , he was infused with Superman ’s qi , or life power . This gave him Clark ’s powers ( though Kenan had to master his ability by transmit his own ki through the Eight Trigrams ) . During Kenan ’s abbreviated clock time with his former mentor , I - Ching raised a good point : Superman has defied death plenty of time , include his ill-famed revival after fighting Doomsday . While it ’s never been officially listed as one of Clark ’s powers , the event presented here is one of the strong line of reasoning that Clark is immortal . After all , if Super - Man ’s power is stiff enough to forbid him from spoil into the afterlife , then so is Superman ’s .
DC Confirms That Superman is Virtually Unkillable
Superman ’s longevity has never really been in dubiousness as alternate terra firma and likely future tense have point Clark easy last hundred if not yard of age . But Kenan ’s penny-pinching - dying experience highlights an important aspect of Superman ’s power . It ’s not just that Clark has an extended life , it ’s that Superman has the power to will himself back to lifespan . A disgraceful uncovering , sure as shooting , but a welcome one . This means no matter what an enemy throws at Clark , no matter how gravely he ’s injured , Supermanis just too powerful to bilk into the afterlife .
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