Welcome to our speculative stadium, where legends duke it out and winner takes all! All what? No one knows! We’re just here to have fun!
Veteran’s Day in the United States is a few days away. Our matchup this week is between two superheroes who served their country in the military-Captain Atom versus John Stewart!
Nathaniel Adam was an officer in the Air Force who participated in a dangerous experiment that sent him forward in time and granted him powers derived from the Quantum Force. These powers include absorption and manipulation of energy, strength, energy blasts, and flight.
John Stewart is a former Marine and current member of the Green Lantern Corps. His power ring grants him a wide range of abilities, including flight, creating hard light constructs, and force fields.
If these two veterans and superheroes were to face off against each other, who woud win? Tell us who you think it would be and why, below!
Captain Atom is an energy based life form, who doesn’t need food, air or water to survive. That gives him one advantage. He can transmute physical matter and absorb energy. I’m thinking at him in alignment with Firestorm and being tied into some big bang components, absorb the energy of the power ring, or destroy a construct, create some backlash against John in space, and defeat him. I think the biggest thing with most Lanterns is when they show what they can do without a power ring, or depleted power ring, you’re helpless against someone who is living energy.
I’d like to point out that Doctor Manhattan, who’s based on Captain Atom, once clobbered Earth’s entire metahuman population, including four or five Green Lanterns.
My question here is can Captain Atom absorb green lantern constructs, as they are not typical energy, but a manifestation of the emotional spectrum, based on that, although he is a powerhouse, I have to give the edge to John.