Doctor Manhattan has complete control over the laws of physics. The Silver Surfer has complete control over the laws of drama. The Silver Surfer wins.
The Silver Surfer would seriously OWN Dr.M....I mean pwnage POWNGE I invoke the power of Lucian89, ItachiUchiha and SirConnery from the movielounge boards and comixtreme forums Surfer would make Dr M feel something he hasn't felt in a long time and that's FEAR http://photobucket.com/albums/b305/surfistaprateado/Silver_Surfer_1997_125_28.jpg The Silverman can suck the power outta Dr Manhattan, make tachyon flavored kryptonites, blast him to kingdom come until Dr M gets tired of resurrecting and finally dies, turn him back to a man, attack his spiritual/astral form, any number of cosmic things to finally rid the Universe of Dr M Silver Surfer has to his advantage: cosmic awareness, spiritual attacks, psycho scan http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/kingaholu/silversurfer199612013xu7.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3939/mcp06927fv8.jpg or Surfman can imprison Dr M in his Surf board and drop him into the centre of a star If the battle gets tough, Surfer can simply trap Dr M in his board and then drop him into the Phantom Zone, or maybe a Pulsar (which will probably cause Dr M to Overdose on tachyons like a dead crack addict) or maybe Silverman can do something more humane to the blue man like drop him in a Blackhole or something Other Surf powers : Encased in Cocoon of solid energy http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7568/stones5hz.jpg Surfboy traps a Cosmic God in his Surfboard http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8547/silversurfer199612217bh0.jpg Destroys Dr Spectrum (Green Lantern Copycat) http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2207/defenders11311vj1.jpg Defeats Green Lantern http://www.supermandatabase.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163 Splits Gladiator in two halves http://img164.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssravager2ql6.jpg If Dr M can burn a symbol of a hydrogen atom into his forehead it means Dr M is physically vulnerable all Surfer has to do is find the right particle/frequency and Dr M is toast We know Dr M had limitations in speed, Ozy seemed to be almost quick enough for him. Here we see Surfer has few limitations even while traveling in atmosphere, in a few secs he flys around the planet and scans every inch of it physically http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7694/silversurferannual0508tc4.jpg Silverman dodges Cosmic blasts from Galactus http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3450/fantasticfour5005dodgegnv0.jpg Surfman can teleport during battle http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7996/ffannual05silversurfer1tl0.jpg SS defeats Galactus bondage and a depressed obital trajectory in a mere nano-second http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/48/marvelcomicspresents001fk4.jpg Surf man can foresee where monsters teleport to, meaning once Dr M reappears wherever he's going immediately get his butt handed to him http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6231/silversurfer198902312rp5.jpg Silverman can turn off every machine on Earth rendering it useless http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4130/silversurfer03p07globalcr0.jpg Restores every machine he just destoryed http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9160/silversurfer03p16yy3.jpg SS can just dump Dr.M in the future near the end of time itself http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2946/thor19327zt8.jpg http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9743/thor19328hv7.jpg When the Silverman is attacked SS takes punishment like a man while the blueman Dr M phases himself out of existence like a big girls handbag http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=silversurferv308022fs5.jpg http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq94/hunthunt85/Silver_Surfer_054-13.jpg Surfer can do something Dr. Manhattan can't, he can change people's hearts and tame creature's savage nature http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=silversurfer1220sf6.jpg Dr M is a radioactive battery, deplete his stored power, and you will be able to weaken him. He can even change him back into a mere mortal like he did to Dr Banner http://www.leaderslair.com/gammapeople/hulksmashes/hulk250-1.html Dr.M had limitations, he could only challenge 99% of Russia's missiles SilverSurfer travels at light speed and can fight at this speed to wipeout delta class warships or just wave his hand to neutralize the weapons of these alien spaceships http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7517/annihilationsilversurferi9.jpg disables a Dreadnoughts weapon systems http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3176/ssenslavers42up3.jpg Like other Marvel and DC super creatures Dr M is weak against psionics, especially mind control. In this case, you don’t need to kill the man of blue, when you can control him Here the Surfman goes hand to hand with Hulk and Ko's him in quicker time than it took Superman or Juggernuat etc to defeat Hulk during their battles http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq94/hunthunt85/surfer3.jpg Everything Dr.M can do, Surfer can do better Walks through glass http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4610/ffv15505transmutationwp9.jpg Miracles? Oxygen into Gold? How about Ash trays into gold? http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7476/silversurfer01507transmtk0.jpg Oxygen bubbles, Oxygen cubes you name it http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3329/silversurfer04316hm7.jpg Even Surfer's bad dreams are dangerous http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6531/ssenslavers14cosmicnighpy9.jpg Yeah Surfer once 'broke apart' but this breaking up of the Silverman ain't no easy feat in order to do so he had to fly at Warp-999 Fly outside the expansion of an inflationary universe and blast himself into a big void he then came back in 12 different personalities (beat that Dr M, I think Manhattan's crowning achievement was 6 or so Dr Ms?) and after breaking up Surfer willed himself to be reborn again as Surfer http://www.comicvine.com/silver-surfer-surfing-with-the-alien/37-96276/ Unlike Dr M, Surfer can change the future and stop universal sized apocalypses
I see your light year and RAISE YOU A PARSEC Need more evidence Silver Surfer owns Gods on a daily basis In the vision that the Silver Surfer had, he saw all the universe's heroes and villains fighting together as one, including Galactus and the Living Tribunal. He stood back and watched in horror though as Blackbody let a black river of death flow from his massive chest, killing all who touched it. The Silver Surfer was the only survivor of the fight, since he was teleported to the tower of the Watchers by Uatu. The Watcher then told the Silver Surfer that it was a vision of the future, and that he must stop Blackbody. He succeeded through doing certain tasks that would indirectly lead to the absence of Blackbody from reality. One other thing Surfer has that Dr.Mr hasn't is Shields to block energy/magic/munitions etc not that he really needs it since his skin allows him to take pulsars, red giants, supernovae etc without getting as much as a suntan http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thor47014fn6fb4.jpg at light speed SS resurrects a force field http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/kingaholu/80245_flvsss1.jpg Traps Alien ships with force fields http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/kingaholu/Moreforcefield.jpg Dodges energy beams at light speed, absorb suns, turn matter into energy http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/8756/scan0011pd5.jpg http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssvsuni3df8.jpg Silverman Absorbs enough energy to jump star a Sun http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8063/silversurferv3103p21jo7.jpg Even as a mere mortal Surfer was always a fighter a spaceman and a guy who fought against the Universe Dr.M on the other hand was always dreamer and a distracted physicists who comes up with philosophical stories, Dr.M will always be a wanderer not a fighter Drained of the Galactus Power cosmic Silver Surfer is still a champ fighter equal to Gods like Thor, here he without power cosmic he still opens a can of whopass on Hulk http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=incrediblehulk95011zw0yz6.jpg http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=incrediblehulk95013ao4bf9.jpg and no you can't just drain his PowerCosmic away, only guys like Galactus can do that Here SS resists power absorption from Rogue http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6002/xmenunlimited1324roguerm2.jpg Silver Surfer: The Enslavers (Paperback) by Stan Lee (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Surfer-Enslavers-Stan-Lee/dp/0871356171 When SilverSurfer finds himself outclassed by Gods and Super alien beings from other Universes, before he goes down and out for the count he can make a Rocky style comeback create THE BIG CRUNCH to collapse the Universe and defeat his opponents - Take that Dr M!! Try surviving the death of a Universe!! http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2530/annihilationheraldsofgali6.jpg http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5589/annihilationheraldsofgakn4.jpg
Except that Captain Atom was just an Air Force officer, while Jon was a nuclear physicist. So, while he is based on Captain Atom, if he were based in the DCU, I doubt he'd have been played and out thought as much as Nathanial Adam was. Adam was never portrayed as the smartest guy on the block, while Jon understands his powers and their nature a whole lot better.
Dude, the Silver Surfer when human was part of a highly advanced space faring civilization. A people that created the perfect utopia devoid of crime, disease, or poverty. While we were going around with fur on our backs making monkey noises like primates Surfer's people were doing the most amazing things... owned while still in diapers Cracking an atom or creating things like radiation was childs play to the people of Zenn-Lavian society. Forget that silly silver guy in the fantastic four film who turned into some trapped black/gray plastic man the more I search this topic on the net and think about Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's original Surfer, the more I realize he's going to open up a serious can of pwnage and I mean POWNGE on DR.M People say Dr Manhattan can break up Surfer like he did that Tank or that Vietnamese guy who attacked him with an AK, ridiculous! Even if Dr.M by some kind of miracle manages to break up the Surfer he can come back in 12 different parts and willed himself back together like when he fought the Blackbody God of another multi-verse. its not easy to 'break up' Surfer. The Silver Surfers skin makes him immune to any attack, pulsars, suns, supernova you name it surfer takes this stuff wthout even getting a suntan. To break Surfer up you either have to fly at Warp 9.999999999999999999999 and take him outside the expansion of the inflationary universe like the Blackbody fight, be Galactus to break him up, or collapse the Universe in a big crunch >>> since Dr Jon Osterman can do none of those things and has trouble defeating Soviet missiles he hasn't a hope in hell. It said a max of 99% of missiles in the movie but think in the comic he could only take down 60% of the missiles. Surfer on the other hand takes out whole fleets of Bird of Prey class warships with futuristic weapons systems in the blink of an eye. Dr Manhattan doesn't know if he's a God or if there's a God....he's still philosophying trying to figure that stuff out while Silver Surfer on the other hand knows there is a God, there are many of them. He's fought them for a living and even killed some of them. To be in Surfer's league or take him out you have to be guys like Galactus, the Green Lanterns, Lady Death, Mephisto etc To only reason Surfer ever does get hit is because he choses to be hit the guy could choose to project himself across the universe in some kind of hologram, he could be sitting at home and using some kind of spiritual/astral projection to explore the stars. But Surfer doesn't work this way, he likes to be human, to explore the stars, to get down and dirty when the fighting starts and slug it out gladiator style and it adds to the drama. I mean how crap would it be if everytime Hulk or Superman took a swing at Surfer their fists swung through thin air. The Silverman is a Gladiator who has proven himself a champion against a universe of immortals, taken out alien starfleets and Gods. Dr M on the other hand is a chicken, he's a philosopher not a brawler. Dr Manhattan wants to flee from his humanity. In his first fight he ran away to Mars, plus Dr M never had to face an opponent on the level of Green Lantern or Odin or Galactus....Surfer fights guys in this class all the time. Dr Manhattan's first big tests were fighting the Russians and Ozy (Adrian Veidt) and he failed miserably against those two.
BTW if a USAF officer and a physicist were in a bar room brawl, I don't care how 'smart' the physicist thinks he is my money's on the Air Force officer. In terms of intelligence Jon Osterman wasn't actually that smart, he was outsmarted by the Russians and outsmarted by Ozy and was dumb enough to get himself trapped in that experiment chamber.
I think the upshot of this is that as good as Alan Moore can be, when it comes to >>>BIG IDEAS<<< there's just no point in trying to compete with the team of Lee and Kirby. Anyone else is fighting out of their weight class by an order of magnitude or thirty.
You must have missed Darkseid vs. Galactus: The Hunger. Darkseid's omega beams easily crippled the Surfer. SS was down and out immediately. Really? I don't think they've actually battled each other. Take away half of the Surfer Surfer's "wins" here and it's obvious that he's still too powerful for his own good. And being too powerful means that he's rather boring to all but a handful of die-hard fans.
Just getting warmed up Oooh, oooh, she looked at me with big brown eyes And said You ain't seen nothin' yetB-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet Here's something that you never gonna forgetB-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet This thread is going to be epic, I will not stop until the myth of Dr M has been shattered like his glass blue jaw crippled? easily? OH WHAT A LIE (BTW where's my jpeg of the bowie goblin from the labyrinth movie saying "Oooh what a lie) My bro has that comic I should get a few scans Plus I know the tango at Darkseid Vs Superman Vs Surfer threads Here's what happens, Surfer checks out a planet for Galactus to snack on. Darksied don't like unwanted guests who trash his turf like Superman did, so he throws everything he got at Surfer, thousands and thousands of Darksied Parademon warriors, automatons - no problem for Surfman http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6259/dg14ey1.jpg Weapons, Cannons, Machines - even easier Orion - (Yeah he's tough enough to kill Darksied - dead) but against Surfman its KTFO on poor Orion http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/33/dg31cr8.jpg Suddenly Silverman is tricked to remember Zenn-La, and stars to save Orion from hell itself and Surfer fights off the BlackRacer himself (DC's personification of Death) Galactus disappointed, can see Surfman switched teams, then Silverman turns against Galactus and its KO for the Surfer. Galactus hits the reset button on Surfer, while he has Surfer down starts to re-program him as a Hearld. Darkseid like a dirty runt of a villian, sneaks up on Surfer while he's down and fires his Omega Effect Beams into the back of Surfers nutsack to score a cheap 8 count. Surfer is down but not out, 8 secs later he's back up and ready to help Galactus. Meanwhile Darkseid hits Galactus with everything he's got! Galactus LOLs, not even as bad as a mosquito bite. Galactus a God amogst Gods swats an insect http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/...vcauq12sdca6rjy83cahb3h48cao53svrcafhjthj.jpg http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/21012/433524-01.jpg Unfortunately Nothing to eat here, wasteland, worse than eating MaggotCheese and Marmite....no food at the table Darkseid say Ooops My Bad Galactus ain't that hungry the Bee's honey nest was already empty. Surfman and Galactus move to the next planet to devour
Which is just bad writing, really. The Omega Effect is, by definition, equivalent to the Ultimate Nullifier. It makes things cease to exist. Period. End of sentence. It is only because Darkseid has been wussified over time with his integration into the DC universe that it has become less powerful. After all, they can't have Superman erased from existance. HE brings in too much money. But Manhatten ain't Darkseid.
Old Darkseid might have been a different monster, new Darkseid gets owned by Batman. Can't wait to see what Smallville does with those big red eyes Supes took it, Batman a mere mortal dodged it, Orion played ping pong with it, Wonder Woman took it on her wrists and laughed at Darksieds impotence. Darkseid your myth has truly been broken ever since Doomsday humiliated you Dear super villain Darkseid you are more impotent than Owlman, steroid up on some viagra before you think of trying that Omega stuff out on Surfer or Wonder Woman again
Supes took it because the guy who wrote that story was an idiot. Same with Batman dodging it. When it comes to the Fourth World, if Kirby didn't write it then it didn't happen.
Jack Kirby was a great, great comicbook writer but he was not perfect, he did sometimes make mistakes. One of the problems many writers faced was Superman had no canon, it was a trillion times worse than Trek. Superman would flip from the cartoonish, to the entertaining, to thought provoking to the completely ridiculous. One problem Jack Kirby had was he wasn't working with a level playing field and people had created all kinds of alternate canon for Superman http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc167/Kittysquared/spjodance.jpg Maybe part of the problem was people were taking all kinds of crazy drugs during the 60s/70s. One comic Superman is a guy who can jump only a few miles, the next he can fly from Metropolis to HongKong in the blink of an eye. Another Superman comic he's lifting the entire planet and it doesn't collapse under its own weight, the next comic he gets KO'ed by a common bad guy or was it batboy? DC comics needed to have some kind of continuity in their comics so they came up with this 'Crisis' thing in the late 80s early 90s and started killing off characters and hitting the reset button. It started to work. Superman was finally taken down a big peg or two, especially when he was killed by Doomsday. It finished kind of silly, Superman beaten by a guy with no real strategy except brute force, more of a marketing gimmick than anything else. I think part of the reason why Smallville is so silly is it randomly pulls silly stuff from the many years of an un-continuious Superman and just adds a bunch teenage drama to it. Marvel also had the same probelms with its history of poor continuity, they tried to hit the reset button on everyone with its Heroes Reborn. Not sure if it worked though. Some of Marvel's movies like Xmen are great, I don't think Fanatastic 4 Surfer worked. That movie was complete crap, Galactus a cloud talk about epic fail, it also received some of the worst critical reviews for a Marvel movie.