At that, how about a feeble little guy like the Vanisher? He’s done intercontinental feats of teleportation, and even zapped himself from the Earth to a space station – and, as far as I can tell, he’s got the range to make it to the Moon; he wouldn’t last long out there, he’d need to pop back in short order – but, technically, maybe, yeah?
Not sure about Nightcrawler, but Magik just recently teleported the X-Men to the moon.
I think Firestar could probably do it too - she’s flown around in space, I believe.
And this makes it less insane?
There’s no atmosphere on the Moon. There’s no atmosphere in space. Escape velocity is over 5000 miles per hour. Hitting the Earth will create temperatures of thousands of degrees.
Not to mention, you can’t aim at another planet. Does he have retrorockets in his pants?
You’re trying to justify jumping from the Moon to the Earth by the lesser gravity? Why do you think they call them comic books?
Oh, sure, he could definitely put together something that would work, and he’s no stranger to liquid diets, but the OP specified using only what’s normally at their disposal or on their person.
Exapno Mapcase, I’m not sure what your objection is. Jumping from the Moon to the Earth is, in fact, considerably easier than the reverse. It’s not possible for a mere human with human limitations on strength, but we’re not talking about a mere human, we’re talking about a superhero whose limits are much greater. If you’re going to posit the existence of metahumans in the first place, it’s perfectly sensible to posit a metahuman who is capable of jumping from the Moon to the Earth, but not from the Earth to the Moon.
This will doubtless come as a great surprise to the folks at NASA.
Vision can fly when he’s at reduced density and is an android so atmosphere likely isn’t an issue. He also draws power from solar rays. I don’t recall him ever being in space though in my limited experience.
Can anything Tony not do without his suit count as “unaided”?
He’d classify it as a prosthetic.
While Reed can stretch in space (as demonstrated as early as Fantastic Four #6, Volume One alias the first ever Dr. Doom and Sub-Mariner team-up issue), he most certainly cannot stretch all the way from the Earth to the moon. In all of my FF reading through the years (and it’s been A LOT), I can never recall an instance where Reed even stretched beyond the ionosphere from Earth. And if Reed had the ability to elongate himself that far, he would still need equipment to survive the lack of oxygen (in the said FF #6, he wore a space helmet during his attempt to reach Doom’s rocket from the Baxter Building, which was being pulled by the rocket towards the sun).
Speaking of all that’s FF…even though he is not the most popular character, Impossible Man is a perfect candidate for this thread with his ability to rapid-fire evolve into any and everything to transport himself and survive any and everywhere. As a matter of fact, Impy (as he’s lovingly called by the FF and his few fans) got to Earth from his native Poppup by simply morphing himself into a living rocket. Some other great candidates are the Skrulls, who probably could immediately transmogrify into any sort of being that can fly from Earth into space and to the moon, complete with organs adapted for breathing in space (if the Skrulls aren’t already able to do that without the need for transformation).
Yeh, but dood… “Poop Airlock.” Need I say more?
Seriously? They send their rockets straight up and then they ballistically arrive at their destination?
An obvious one no one has mentioned: Uatu, the Watcher (or any member of his species) lives on the moon and makes the trip back and forth quite regularly, seemingly unaided.
There’s an X-character named Lila Cheney who is a teleporter… but she can only teleport across intergalactic distances, with a minimum of several light years. I suppose she could teleport from Earth to the Andromeda galaxy and then teleport back to the moon, but I don’t think she could do it without some kind of a guide.
Warlock (the robot guy, not Adam) originally flew to Earth under his own power, so I suppose he could fly back.
Toomie is a manifestation of the Surfer’s control of the Power Cosmic and is essentially a part of his own body. It’s been destroyed in the past, and he’s simply recreated it out of thin air. So it definitely wouldn’t qualify as an “aid.” He could presumably fly without it if he wanted, he just doesn’t, for reasons known only to Jack Kirby.
During the Kree/Skrull War he’s shown dogfighting Skrulls in space unaided, so I suppose he could fly to the moon very slowly.
To give an idea of the difference between taking off from Earth to taking off from the Moon, compare the two ships the Apollo teams used.
Saturn V
Lunar Ascent Module
Professor X. “Get your ass over here and fly me to the moon.”
Or even better, “You believe that I am on the Moon.”
No, of course not. They aim their rockets in the correct direction, which usually isn’t straight up, and then they ballistically arrive at their destination.
Well, come on. I know we’re talking fiction here, but even comic books generally follow physical principles. Super Heroes have traits that allow them to overcome a lot of physical restraints that humans have, but jumping from the moon to Earth is still easier than the reverse. Therefore, I’m not that impressed by your Red Hulk.
Any of the ‘cosmic-based’ characters can do it easily. Without straying into the actual cosmic entities, or the uber-powerful semi-cosmic like Galactus, the Celestials or Elders of the Universe. Just off the top of my head.
- Silver Surfer -as you mentioned plus any of the other heralds of Galactus
- Quasar (not sure on his status at the moment, I think the power bands are held by a woman at the moment)
- Nova
- Various Captain Marvels as mentioned already
- Thor
- Beta Ray Bill
- Gladiator
- Sentry
- Jack of Hearts
- Hyperion
Ain’t my Red Hulk.
But just to be sure we’re getting our physical principles straight. The Red Hulk can easily jump up at over 5000 mph but you consider it difficult to jump up at over 25,000 mph. When in between do you draw that line?
Even if the Hulk could jump to the Moon (which boggles the mind - wouldn’t he nudge the Earth out of its orbit as he pushed off?), how long could he hold his breath once he got there? Wouldn’t explosive decompression get him?
Molecule Man could do it; construct a vessel around himself and go, but he’d probably just teleport there to save the hassle.
If I’m not mistaken, this is because she absorbed Wonder Man, who indeed could have made the trip.