Superman: Abilities and Equipment
Kryptonian Abilities
Kal-El's Kryptonian physiology means that under a yellow sun (a.k.a. ours) his cells become supercharged via solar radiation, effectively heightening every normal human ability hundreds of times over. This means that he is one of the strongest and fastest people on the planet. A natural bio-electric aura accounts for much of his invulnerability acting like a natural force field mere millimetres from his skin. This is why his costume is often protected, it was also how Doomsday was able to kill him (when exhausted his aura weakens). The accentuation of normal abilities also applies to his senses allowing him the ability to see in most of the EM spectrum, extreme detail and to literally focus past normal matter (a.k.a. X-ray vision).
Perhaps the most notable of Kal-El's powers is his ability to fly by a form of self-telekinesis that also applied to any heavy object he carries. A final ability is that he is able to tap his solar energy reserves and expel that energy via his eyes as a form of "heat ray" vision.
Energy Powers
The radical mutation that had taken over Kal-El had turned him into an energy based life form that didn't normally exist wholly within this plane of reality. This allowed him to alter his density from intangible down to the point where he is a normal human, but in this state he possessed no powers and was no more powerful that the average human male. The nature of his energy matrix meant that he could influence all forms of energy allowing him to control magnetism, gravitational forces, radiation and electricity.
He could travel as a bolt of lightning landing with a jolt when ever he landed. He displayed some other abilities including the ability to link with electronic systems such as computers, see in vastly expanded and different radiation spectra, emit electrical blasts and produce a "solid field" that allowed him to physical interact with objects, he was also able to control the shape and size of this field.
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