That finally got him mad but rather than yelling, he just got more animated.
"Was there some part of 'nuclear option' that everyone missed here?" he said, looking around the table. "The reason I chose 'nuclear,' specifically, is because of the irony. Because nukes don't hurt Kryptonians. Depending on how close we are to ground zero, they don't even jack up our clothes. You have to go bigger and badder than nukes."
Kon looked around the table.
"When I got brainwashed by my version of Lex Luthor and he made me attack the Teen Titans? I leveled the entire team in the space of maybe five minutes. By myself. Without even being with it enough to get tactical about it like Supes can. Hell, we were lucky I was all brute force, it meant as soon as I knocked everyone out I left before I killed them. Superman can go toe to two with Darkseid, Mongul, Doomsday, Solomon Grundy. With people we treat like angry gods. He can survive nukes. He can hold a black holein his fist."
He nodded towards them all, deciding that he needed to show them the thing they weren't considering.
"You're all juiced up on the super-pills right now, right? Fast as you're all gonna be. So try to stop me. Right now. I'm gonna whack each of you on the back of the head. Try to stop what I'm about to do."
He blurred and in the course of maybe a single second, every single person at the table would have felt a sharp, slightly painful tap, to the back of the neck - Batman included - before Kon was back at his seat. Anyone that blinked would have missed it.
"That's a broken neck for each of you. What was that, maybe half a second? Quarter of a second? Less? And he's faster than me." He turned to Cassie. "Cassie was the only one that came even close to stopping me - not that any of you could even see it since she moved at superspeed, too."
He sat forward in his chair.
"I know you think because he's been such a monster - because of Ollie, because of Dinah - that he's lost control, but you're wrong. You're all still alive. He still thinks he's not a monster so he's still been holding back. Even with how brutal he's been, that's been him holding back."
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"Was there some part of 'nuclear option' that everyone missed here?" he said, looking around the table. "The reason I chose 'nuclear,' specifically, is because of the irony. Because nukes don't hurt Kryptonians. Depending on how close we are to ground zero, they don't even jack up our clothes. You have to go bigger and badder than nukes."
Kon looked around the table.
"When I got brainwashed by my version of Lex Luthor and he made me attack the Teen Titans? I leveled the entire team in the space of maybe five minutes. By myself. Without even being with it enough to get tactical about it like Supes can. Hell, we were lucky I was all brute force, it meant as soon as I knocked everyone out I left before I killed them. Superman can go toe to two with Darkseid, Mongul, Doomsday, Solomon Grundy. With people we treat like angry gods. He can survive nukes. He can hold a black hole in his fist."
He nodded towards them all, deciding that he needed to show them the thing they weren't considering.
"You're all juiced up on the super-pills right now, right? Fast as you're all gonna be. So try to stop me. Right now. I'm gonna whack each of you on the back of the head. Try to stop what I'm about to do."
He blurred and in the course of maybe a single second, every single person at the table would have felt a sharp, slightly painful tap, to the back of the neck - Batman included - before Kon was back at his seat. Anyone that blinked would have missed it.
"That's a broken neck for each of you. What was that, maybe half a second? Quarter of a second? Less? And he's faster than me." He turned to Cassie. "Cassie was the only one that came even close to stopping me - not that any of you could even see it since she moved at superspeed, too."
He sat forward in his chair.
"I know you think because he's been such a monster - because of Ollie, because of Dinah - that he's lost control, but you're wrong. You're all still alive. He still thinks he's not a monster so he's still been holding back. Even with how brutal he's been, that's been him holding back."