Adamantium in the DCU?

[Paragon]

What is the hardest (least breakable/strongest) substance in the DCU?

If you can please list some objects made of this material.
(The source wall does not count)

Some candidates that I can think of at the moment:

SA Supeman’s Suit, Cape, Rocket ship fragments etc.
Deathstroke’s sword.
Wonder Woman’s lasso
Amazonian battle gear. (Or Atlantean)
(I also vaguely remember some kind of unbreakable girdle from the earlier issues of the recently cancelled series)
Whatever Amazo is made of.
Captain Atoms shell.
Cyborg Superman’s metal parts. (Or Cyborg’s, or Metallo’s)
Luthor’s Battle suit. (Or Steel’s or Rocket Red’s)
Nth Metal.
Dwarf star fragments. (Should be extraordinary dense)

Opinions anyone?

[JulianPerez]

The hardest substance in the DC Universe, arguably, is Supermanium.

It was discovered by members of the Supermen of America, who named it after their hero. Superman used Supermanium to construct the indestructible door to the Fortress of Solitude, to make the prison that caged Brainiac in space (and it should be noted, at no point did Lex Luthor AND Brainiac, mind you, find a way to actually break the material), and to make the hull of the Supermobile during Superman's fight with Amazo. It took a being as powerful as the Galactic Golem to actually bend Supermanium.

Though there are other properties apart from hardness that can make a metal useful. For instance, Amazonium, the metal that Wonder Woman's bracelets are made of, are easily able to be enchanted.

[Gingold]

Isn't the DC equivilent of Adamantium called Prometheum? Or is that something else?

[JulianPerez]

Isn't the DC equivilent of Adamantium called Prometheum? Or is that something else?

Yeah, prometheum is more like "unstable molecules" than it is adamantium. It was used a lot in the Marv Wolfman NEW TEEN TITANS, where it had, essentially, snake oil properties: it could do whatever the writer needed it to at any given time. If I recall correctly, it could be used to make a super-atom bomb, form cyborg parts, and so forth. If I look it up, it could probably do some more.

It's a floor cleaner! No, it's a dessert topping!

[Will.S]

The hardest substance in the DC Universe, arguably, is Supermanium.

It was discovered by members of the Supermen of America, who named it after their hero. Superman used Supermanium to construct the indestructible door to the Fortress of Solitude, to make the prison that caged Brainiac in space (and it should be noted, at no point did Lex Luthor AND Brainiac, mind you, find a way to actually break the material), and to make the hull of the Supermobile during Superman's fight with Amazo. It took a being as powerful as the Galactic Golem to actually bend Supermanium.

Though there are other properties apart from hardness that can make a metal useful. For instance, Amazonium, the metal that Wonder Woman's bracelets are made of, are easily able to be enchanted.

Supermanium is the stupidest name for a metal I have ever heard.

Prometheum at least sounds more decent and reasonable.

[Xero]

The hardest stuff would probably be X-Ionized depleted Promethium. The X-Ionization process was introduced by Cary Bates in the Captain Atom series of the 1980's. Basically any matter (usually metal) subjected to the process became superdense and supersharp able to cut through anything.

[Oggar]

Prometheum is a metal that actually regenerates itself, like the titan Prometheus who regrew his liver each day. Supermanium sounds pre-Crisis.

[LordEd1976]

The hardest substance in the DC Universe, arguably, is Supermanium.

It was discovered by members of the Supermen of America, who named it after their hero. Superman used Supermanium to construct the indestructible door to the Fortress of Solitude, to make the prison that caged Brainiac in space (and it should be noted, at no point did Lex Luthor AND Brainiac, mind you, find a way to actually break the material), and to make the hull of the Supermobile during Superman's fight with Amazo. It took a being as powerful as the Galactic Golem to actually bend Supermanium.

Though there are other properties apart from hardness that can make a metal useful. For instance, Amazonium, the metal that Wonder Woman's bracelets are made of, are easily able to be enchanted.

Supermanium sounds pre-Crisis.

Superamnium existed pre-Crisis and as far as I know hasn't yet made an appearance in the post-Crisis DCU.

Of metals that are currently in conuity I'd say Promethium is up there along with Amazonium (is that name still used?), and Nth Metal.

[Thnikkaman]

I think Inertron may top Promethium in durability, but it's only available in the Legion's era.

[Wannabe]

I was always under the impression that Metallo was the DC equivalent to Adamantium.

And I now know, that if I ever discover an element, it will be called Supermanium.

[Ontir]

In the Legion's time, there's Inertron, which predates Adamantium, IIRC. In the present DCU, as of Wolfman's writing of the Teen Titans, there's Prometheum, which seems to have some properties similar to Marvel's Vibranium.

[Agentum]

I really hope substances with names as Amazonium and Supermanium is gone forever. laughable names.

[JulianPerez]

Prometheum is a metal that actually regenerates itself, like the titan Prometheus who regrew his liver each day. Supermanium sounds pre-Crisis.

Prometheum was invented by Steve Dayton (Mento), whose primary purpose was as a fuel supply: it was, conceiveably an infinite source of energy. It also had other uses: it was used to construct a gigantic super-atom bomb that nearly destroyed the Titans when the Terminator lured them to its Ground Zero, and Steve Dayton used the inherent mutation-causing properties of prometheum to bond with the life essence of several subjects about to die, creating the Hybrid (each of whom had a different power and accent).

Prometheum could indeed become an indestructible metal - at least when combined with vanadium and titanium.

I think Inertron may top Promethium in durability, but it's only available in the Legion's era.

D'oh! I knew I forgot something. Inetron is easily the densest and hardest metal available. It should be noted that according to ADVENTURE COMICS #367 (1968) even a being like Superboy could not break (though Karate Kid speculated that Superboy might be able to do so - if he took up Karate). It also should be noted that the Galactic Prison at Bismari where the Science Police kept Validus, was coated by inertron, which even a being like Validus, identified as "power personified" and "mightier than Superboy" whose 'mental lightning' could destroy cities" was trapped inside.

Further, it was shown that Inertron was the one material that Ultra Boy's Penetra-Vision could not see through.

I really hope substances with names as Amazonium and Supermanium is gone forever. laughable names.

I don't know...I think they have a bit of poetry to them.

[Paragon]

I was always under the impression that Metallo was the DC equivalent to Adamantium.

And I now know, that if I ever discover an element, it will be called Supermanium.

The element Krypton, in the real world has its name inspired by the superman mythos, so in a way, this has already happened :)

[boolean]

The element Krypton, in the real world has its name inspired by the superman mythos, so in a way, this has already happened :)

It's the other way around. Krypton, the element, was named from the Greek word kryptos, meaning "hidden". The fictional planet was named after the element.