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Warning ! Contains spoilers For Superman # 9 !
Very few villains have been able to beatSupermanin a straight - up fight , with one of the few examples beingDoomsday . But of late , the currentSupermancreative squad promised to give reader a new Last Judgment - level menace for the Man of Steel to face . consider his accidental injury after the fight , it seems vindicated thattThe Chained has absolutely lived up to this verbal description , as he ’s injured Superman unlike anyone since Doomsday .
The liberal challenge that Superman has just overcome is facing off against theDoomsday - story threat call the Chained , a villain from Lex Luthor ’s past . After Superman releases the Chained from his prison house , Superman quickly realise the misunderstanding he ’s made as the Chained goes on a rampage throughout Metropolis .
Unable to quit him at first , Superman eventually realizes that the Chained ’s power can be nullified with kryptonite . With no other choice , Superman come to the Chained with kryptonite and weakens him enough to be captured . However , Superman is also leave naughtily wound and on the brink of death and lector can see Lois helping his recovery inSuperman#9 by Joshua Williamson , Bruno Redondo , Adriano Lucas , Ariana Maher .
Superman ’s destructive new enemy the Chained is unleashed upon Metropolis and his astonishing superpower has a private connection to one Super - Family member .
Superman’s Fight With The Chained Is As Bad As His Fight With Doomsday
Introduced in the seminalDeath of Superman plot line , Doomsday is a massive creature who intensely hate all living things . It first seem on Earth and began rampaging toward Metropolis , easily mow down any heroes in its way . This resulted inSuperman and Doomsdayhaving a titanic battle in the streets of Metropolis that eventually end with Doomsday being defeated , but Superman apparently dying from his injuries as well . Superman entered a catatonic state , and it took a long time for him to awake up . Now , it seems that the Chained has just achieved a similar accomplishment .
After being free , the Chained is able to take on the intact Super - Family and keep them at bay due to his intense telekinetic great power that prevents them from acquire faithful to him . His power is so cracking that Superman has to recur to using kryptonite to be capable to bypass his telekinetic buckler and lot any legal injury to him . While this definitely works , it also end the battle thesame way as Superman ’s iconic coming upon with Doomsday . While the menace to Metropolis is defeated , Superman is leave behind hang onto life by a thread .
Superman’s Battle With The Chained Leaves Him Badly Wounded
As the defender of Earth , Superman has gone up against actual gods and faced off with the ilk of Darkseid , but the biggest frustration he ever suffered was at the hand of Doomsday . Doomsday was the only villain to match Superman snow for bump and , in some instances , even overpower him . While Clark was able to eventually overcome Doomsday , it practically cost him his life . Now it seems that account is repeating itself , and just as readers were promised , the Chained has lived up to being aDoomsday - tier menace by once again puttingSupermanin a coma after the hardest fight of his life .
pane # 9will be usable from DC Comics on December 19 !
