But that, like, totally wouldn’t be dramatic enough!
Porcupine Pete (from the Legion of Substitute Heroes) could… ummm… soil his uniform.
Yeah if it did go off, you’d end up with 50 new superheroes.
And obviously, it would pose no difficulty for Squirrel Girl.
Squirrel Girl could just text Doctor Doom: “Want to destroy a nuke? Or would you rather get a visit from… a posse of squirrel sidekicks?”
That was written by Frank ‘Superman is a pussy, unlike my god Batman’* Miller**. It doesn’t actually reflect Superman as he’s written by anybody else (save for early John Byrne).
Superman has been known to sit inside the core of stars. A human-built nuke wouldn’t scratch him.
*‘…whorewhorewhorewhore’
** To be fair, this is before he became a total hack, but DKR was already showing his tendencies.
I remember one book where the protagonist, not being a superhero, disabled the bomb by firing his machine gun into it.
Ultimately, it will come down to either the Atom (DC Universe) or Hawkeye (Marvel Universe) who will stop the bomb and save the day, because it is a cliche that a truly great threat can only be stopped by the “weakest” (or most human) of the heroes. (Within limits. Nobody’s gonna call for Porcupine Pete. Or the Red Bee. Or the Nick Fury LMD.)
I stand corrected.
Or perhaps more appropriately, is that so I was wrong.
DKR was around the same time as Byrne’s Superman…reading it at the time I had no problem with DKR, as it made sense given Byrne.
Those aren’t bad choices
Atom can shrink into the electronics and disable it (with one second left on the clock!) Hawkeye immediately pulls his electrical arrow and shorts the mechanism (with one second left). I haven’t even heard of Red Bee, but Porcupine Pete somehow saves the day through a hilariously contrived coincidence, while Nick Fury (LMD) probably knows the exact shutdown code. and enters it… with with one second left.
What’s “LMD” stand for, in a Fury context?
Life Model Decoy. Nick Fury uses lots of James-Bond-style gadgets, but his signature move is revealing that you didn’t kill him, but his lookalike mechanical stand-in.
Adam West Batman naturally just pulls out a can of Anti-Nuclear Bat-Spray from his utility belt.
Note that since the bomb only has three seconds left on the clock when they find it, that’s not nearly as contrived as it usually is.
The original Captain Marvel covered the issue of Nuclear War at a shockingly early date-- October, 1946!
Full comic –
He can easily absorb it. The only issue is, does it pass his energy threshold. If it does, he does a time jump, the more energy be absorbs, the longer be jumps.
Holy Crapoly, that was grim.
“The Battle of the Atoms!” from Superman #38, (Jan-Feb 1946) has an atomic-energy theme - Lex Luthor has a ray that can speed up atomic reactions (or whatever) and make solid objects melt. At the climax of the story, he hurls an “atomic bomb” about the size of a large spool of thread at Superman. Superman survives the blast casually, protecting Luther from it, to Luthor’s disbelief. To my knowledge, this was the first instance of Superman surviving a nuclear explosion - assuming we don’t count his childhood escape from Krypton.
Can any version of Gambit’s powers work in reverse? Since he can charge up an objects potential energy to make it explode, could he in someway reverse the energy blast of the explosion to basically make it not blow up when it does? Or is that just me wanting Gambit to be even more awesome than I think he is?
Could one of the Invisible Woman’s force fields be strong enough to contain such a blast? Or (and this is probably ridiculous) Cap’s shield?
If he thought ahead, Superman could project it into the Phantom Zone. Then it is Lex Luthor’s problem.