Depends on the hat:
Couldn't Surfer just turn everyone into a block of cheese and call it a day? And KC Supes doesn't have anything on Gladiator in terms of physical strength and durability, so speed equalized still makes KC Supes look out to be a diet Gladiator. Not that it matters since transmutation from Surfer should still be a game ender.
Same reason why Gladiator was considered to be a "diet pc superman". KC Supes is the closest thing here to Gladiators physical abilities yet still greatly falls short against a guy who can shatter a planet with a few strikes and only gets a minor concussion from a contained attack stated to have the destructive output capable of destroying most of a solar system.
Also he doesn't even need the speed equalizer considering various feats where he was too fast for Jay or post crisis Superman and compared to Wally West
Convergence has Superman's punch being stated to move planets
https://m.imgur.com/Bdc0cHP
Even without that, anyone so clearly above post crisis Superman is at least as strong as Gladiator
The solar system buster stuff doesnt really match up even with Gladiator's other feats like the heat inside a star becoming unbearable or not even one shotting the planet and for that matter kinda happens off panel.
Last edited by The Dork Knight; 08-02-2020 at 10:53 AM.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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