Your excuse above wasn't that Superman wasn't taking it seriously but that this was his first meeting with Orion. Second, there's no indication whatsoever that Superman isn't taking this fight seriously.




The fact though is that Superman hit Orion, who simply shrugged it off and then Orion one-shot Superman.




Just questioning = complete surprise that his punch only "almost hurt" Orion.




I see that you can't deny that you hold different standards for wins/losses based on whether you favor the character at hand. In your version of Darkseid beating Superman, he's briefly immobilized, still struggling to free himself, and never actually even attacks Darkseid in this non-fight and you count that as a defeat. Orion knocks Superman completely out, carries off Superman's limp body by his cape, opens a boom tube, takes Superman elsewhere, and only then Superman wakes up, and that's somehow not a defeat! You say Superman is stunned, but Orion actually tells him to "Wake up." You don't wake up from being stunned. You wake up from being unconscious, which is what Superman was.








I was responding to your saying that Orion has NEVER looked superior to Superman. I wasn't saying that in general Orion is more powerful than Superman, which is debatable. But certainly in this instance, Orion looked superior to Superman and knocked him out in a clean fight.