QUOTE: Don't think the character scale is meant to be taken literally looking at how Spider-Man is portrayed.

Isn't he standing in the foreground, though?

QUOTE: Maybe Layton was simply trying to cram the characters in and for some reason ignored scale? We may never know...

Looks that way plus it looks as if allowance was made for the word balloons, but I can't see that as an excuse.  The thing could have been laid out better.

I'm probably showing a kind of sexism, but I can't put WW, Supergirl, and Power Girl in Superman's strength class. I base some of that on stories, like "For the Man Who Has Everything" in which Mongul crushed Wonder Woman and was about exactly equal with Superman. I mean, there it is, retcons be damned.

Captain Atom...I thought he was pretty doggone powerful strong. I must be basing this off of "Justice League Unlimited", where he goes up against Superman at one point.

I've always thought Mon-El is the future Superman, so he has to be top three at least. I included Earth 2 Superman because, well, he's still Superman. Or was. Or is the Kingdom Come Superman. Or whatever.

I can't see Robotman or Martian Manhunter as strong as Superman. Maybe JB's Superman or the Golden Age version, but not the Superman I think of.

Does the Nth Metal give Hawkman a strength boost or affect things he's lifting? I don't recall.

Also, Metamorpho  ...how to class his strength? He's no normal, but I don't necessarily think of him as super-strong. He seems to be able to control mass and density though, to a degree. He must gain power from changing his mass to cobalt and being able to throw a cobalt fist and so on.

Different places they get their powers, I believe, Chad. Wonder Woman gets her power from gods and magic and it doesn't rely on anything scientific. She can be as strong as the DC editors want her to be without my brain having a blip.

With Power Girl and Supergirl I have a different point of view in that their powers are scientifically based and since the powers are based on how much yellow sun radiation they can absorb and store in their cells then someone who is bigger should easily be more powerful.

Superman is six foot four and two hundred and thirty pounds (approximately), Powergirl is about 5'10, maybe 140, Supergirl; 5'8, about 115 (all approximate) so theoretically Superman should be able to absorb and store a lot more energy than either of those two. Non is larger than Superman and is shown to be more powerful than him so it would seem to hang together. Though personally I liked that it took twenty years for Superman to reach operational levels and would say any kryptonian who is a recent arrival couldn't have stored up the same amount of power. Maybe for short bursts of full out power, but he should be able to operate at his peak for much longer than kryptonians who haven't been on earth as long as him.

Though (and trust me on this), some fans will look at my explanation and claim that as sexism.

My main thing is that the character inspired by the original just shouldn't be more powerful than the original. So I have no problem with Wonder Woman being extremely powerful but would be annoyed if Supergirl was more powerful than Superman.

And repeated exposure to Nth metal over centuries is what's said to have given Hawkman (Carter Hall) his enhanced strength though I'm not sure just how much enhancement that is.

I don't think there's really anything embarrassing about Supergirl not being on Superman's level. It's rare air. Barkley was great, but he wasn't Jordan, and so on.

I put Cap Atom up there because, like Silver Surfer, he can tap into "umlimited" amounts of energy. In terms of how he uses that energy, like the Surfer, I suspect he can be as strong as he needs to be. It might be "cheating" but I just can't put Cap Atom any lower than Super Heavyweight.

Metamorpho: I meant to say, I guess, how does his changing to different elements affect his strength level? I know his mass/density is altered, but maybe I'm not understanding. I just want to figure out how strong he is.