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10 Weird Super Powers That'll Make You Say WTF!
In many ways, it seems that comic superhumans really have it made. They’re gifted with abilities that we could only ever dream of and the majority of them are revered (or feared) by the general public. But while there are many awe-inspiring superheroes and villains in the comic universe, there are more than just a few with powers that do less than impress, and actually, make you think what in the world was the writer thinking?
Here’s a list of some weird superpowers found in comic books — some are comical, some seem utterly useless, and some will leave you asking WTF?
Emits Women-Seducing Pheromones
Who: Mandrill
First Appearance: Shanna the She-Devil #4
(Marvel June 1973)
Mandrill’s powers may be all well and good in the dating world, but when it comes to using them to coerce and enslave women to do his evil bidding, well then that’s just plain creepy. He’s said to release pheromones at a rate several thousand times that of a normal human and within a 250 foot radius. Using his admirers to build powerful all-female anti-government groups, such as Black Spectre and Fem-Force, Mandrill proves that seduction can be a truly powerful weapon.
The Ability to Generate Seismic Waves Equal to Her Blood Alcohol Content
Who: Gin Genie (Beckah Parker)
First Appearance: X-Force #116 (Marvel May 2001)
Gin Genie’s powers were both a blessing and a curse — the more alcohol in her system, the more powerful she’d become (yet, not to mention unstable and unpredictable). It was an absurd yet inventive ability, but overall it was a recipe for trouble. There’s no time for blackouts and drunken antics when there’s evil to be defeated.
The Power to Translate All Languages
Who: Cypher
First Appearance: New Mutants #13 (Marvel March 1984)
Cypher’s ability doesn’t so much raise the question “WTF?” as it does “What’s the point?” Don’t get me wrong, language translation is an amazing and quite enviable skill in the job world, but out on the battlefield facing dangerous foes, who would really want him as backup? His powers could certainly come in handy behind the scenes, but he’s definitely not going to be any superhero team’s greatest asset.
The Power to Turn Paper Thin
Who: Tommy (Morlock)
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #210
The ill-fated Morlock, Tommy, had the power to make herself as flat as a piece of paper. A cool party trick, no doubt, but what could it really be useful for? Besides slipping into closed doors and hiding in a paper factory, not much else comes to mind. The use of Tommy’s ability sure looked cool but it did little to prevent her death at the hands of the Marauders.
Turns Any Body Part into an Animal, Mineral, or Vegetable
Who: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
First Appearance: Doom Patrol Vol 1 #89 (DC Comics August 1964)
An all too literal power for an all too literal superhero. Animal Vegetable Mineral Man’s torso and limbs have the capability to transform into one of three options, even all at once if he so desires. Unlike many others on this list, this power could actually do some good in battle, but this is no doubt one of the more excessive, not to mention ridiculous looking powers out there.
He also appeared in Batman: The Brave & The Bold.
Communicates With Squirrels and Has Squirrel-like Abilities
Who: Squirrel Girl
First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #8 (Marvel January 1992)
The ability to communicate with animals certainly could come in handy, although, the ability to communicate with squirrels? Really? Were all the other good animals taken? Squirrel Girl can not only communicate with one of the biggest nuisances of the animal world, but she also does one heck of a job imitating them as well. With sharp claws, enhanced agility, and an inhumanly strong set of chompers, Squirrel Girl brought a real playfulness to the Marvel Universe.
The Ability to Become Obese…and Then Skinny Again
Who: Big Bertha
First Appearance: West Coast Avengers Vol 2 #46 (Marvel July 1989)
Big Bertha doesn’t just gain weight at will — her weight gain actually makes her a stronger, more formidable opponent.
Although instant weight gain is a bit of a “wtf” power in itself, it’s one that turns out to be pretty useful (earning her a spot on the Great Lakes Avengers). It’s how Big Bertha returns to her natural state, however, that’s the clincher. Big Bertha also has the power to purge (gross) the majority of her body fat to instantly become skinny once again.
Has A Body Full of Demons
Who: Master Pandemonium
First Appearance: West Coast Avengers #4 (Marvel January 1986)
There are two separate facets to Master Pandemonium’s demonic super powers. First, simply put, his body is a vessel full of demons. Second, his limbs are detachable and can each be turned into separate demon entities. Basically, Master Pandemonium is his own one-man horror house. Having a horde of demons at your disposal would certainly make for a powerful villain, but all in all, it sounds pretty inconvenient.
Super Ventriloquism
Who: Superman
First Appearance: Action Comics #1 (DC Comics April 1938)
Throughout the years this mighty superhero has had an almost endless array of strange powers, and one of the most notable is his ability to perform super ventriloquism.
Super ventriloquism isn’t necessary so terrible in itself — it could be beneficial in many situations — but when you have a superpower that sounds so corny, there’s absolutely no need to spell it out every time you use it.
The Ability to Eat Any Kind of Matter
If a villain has you locked up or bound in chains, you’re definitely going to wish you had the weird superpower of Matter-Eater Lad. The ability to consume any type of matter — apparently without debilitating indigestion or copious amounts of weight gain — is both unique and unsightly.
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The 10 Silliest Powers In Superhero Comics, Ranked
Comics are filled with awesome powers. Some of these powers have become staples, even more so than the characters who wield them. Powers such as flight, invisibility, and super strength have filled the pages of some of the most iconic comic books.
However, not all powers are created equal; in fact, some superpowers are just flat out silly.
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While someone like Wolverine can look intimidating with his retractable adamantium claws, other characters don't have that same benefit. Certain personas have powers that would make any supervillain laugh before they'd ever be taken down by them.
10 Domino — Luck
Marvel's Domino comes off as a cool and stylish hero. She can handle herself in a fight and can deal with Deadpool's brand of humor like no other. However, her original mutant ability isn't nearly as impressive as others. While being supernaturally lucky sounds like a cool idea, it's just not as cool as being able to shoot laser beams or punch through walls.
What makes Domino's powers worse is the fact that they're based on a mutation. Luck being a power may be viable if it was magic-related but Domino's ability is the result of her mutant genes, which makes very little sense, even for a comic book.
9 Ant-Man — Ability to Talk to Ants
Ant-Man is no slouch as a founding member of The Avengers, but his ability to communicate with ants is pretty silly. He may have helped save the world alongside Earth's mightiest heroes countless times, but his relationship with tiny insects might warrant a bit of a laugh.
Ant-Man may have other impressive powers but ultimately, being able to control ants isn't nearly as exciting as controlling sea creatures.
8 Bouncing Boy — Ability to Inflate Into a Ball
As his name suggests, Bouncing Boy is a boy that bounces. Chuck Taine by day, Bouncing Boy by night, the DC superhero has the power to inflate into a ball and bounce into his opponents with incredible force.
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Despite having a name that commands very little respect, Bouncing Boy was a valued member of the Legion of Superheroes. He was even appointed as its morale officer due to his bubbly personality and all-around bounciness.
7 Tattooed Man — Living Tattoos
Not all villains can be on the same level as Thanos or Darkseid, and Tattooed Man is one of those villains. Initially a Green Lantern foe, the original Tattooed Man had the unique ability to create objects from the mysterious chemicals that were doused on him.
Essentially, Tattooed Man became a lesser version of Green Lantern. However, instead of creating constructs with a power ring, he created constructs through whatever was tattooed on him. The man had a specific bad guy quality but it worked for him, even if it was incredibly silly.
6 Squirrel Girl — Ability to Speak to Squirrels
In the great pantheon of animal-based superheroes, Squirrel Girl remains the quirkiest. She may not have the intimidation factor of a Black Panther or Batman; she may not even have the razor-sharp claws of Wolverine, but when the world needs a superhero to talk to squirrels, she's the hero to call.
Squirrel Girl is often depicted as a joke character and a pretty successful one at that.
While talking with squirrels is silly, she does have some useful powers, including superhuman strength and accelerated healing.
5 Rainbow Girl — Powerful Mood Swings
Rainbow Girl is useless at best, offensive at worst. The member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes wields the power of the emotional spectrum. While the Green Lantern Corps and the rest of the power ring wielders use emotion in a much more fantastic manner, Rainbow Girl simply falls victim to unpredictable mood swings.
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Rainbow Girl may not be called upon to fight the likes of Darkseid or Brainiac, but if the Substitute Legion of Superheroes ever needs someone to yell at the manager, Rainbow Girl is their best weapon.
4 Color Kid — Ability to Change the Color of an Object
There's a reason some members fall into the Legion of Substitute Heroes instead of the main team – their superpowers just aren't any good.
Color Kid, one of those superheroes relegated to a substitute, has the ability to change the color of any object.
That's it. That's his power. He may not be able to fend off an alien invasion by himself but he can definitely give their space ships a nice paint job.
3 Dazzler — Converting Sound Into Light Beams
Disco managed to make its way into Marvel Comics in a blatant attempt to sell records. A collaboration between Casablanca Records and Marvel resulted in the X-Men character, Dazzler. Her superpower was the uncanny ability to turn sound into light beams.
Naturally, Dazzler's powers reflected her career as a pop star. Despite aiding the X-Men on several occasions, her powers really just made her a glorified lighting technician as opposed to a bonafide superhero. That said, Dazzler has used her powers in creative ways over the years.
2 Matter-Eater Lad — The Ability to Eat Anything
His name says it all. If there's something that needs to be eaten immediately, Matter-Eater Lad is there to save the day. Tenzil Kim was born on the planet Bismoll where his people were forced to eat all matter once their food was made inedible.
The ability to eat all matter, however, proved to be a useless power. Barring a turn to cannibalism, Matter-Eater Lad was just no good as a member of the Legion of Superheroes.
1 Arm-Fall-Off-Boy — Detachable Arms
Most superheroes choose to fight with their fists. Arm-Fall-Off-Boy fights with his arms, literally. The unusual character has the ability to detach his own arms and beat people with them.
It's not subtle and it's certainly not pretty, but it gets the job done. Arm-Fall-Off-Boy was eventually reimagined as Floyd Belkin after 1994's Zero Hour: Crisis in Time. That version maintained the original's silliness.
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We are all used to the fact that famous superheroes have "ordinary" abilities: superhuman strength and speed, superintelligence or technological suits. However, in the extensive libraries of publishers Marvel and DC, you can find several heroes and villains with unusual and even downright absurd powers. As part of "Superhero Month" we remember little-known characters who stand out for their strange skills.
Effect of alcohol on strength
In 2001, the composition of the X-Force team changed a lot: young and daring mutants came to the fore. Among them was a girl with the pseudonym Gin Ginny, who had an extremely unusual ability: the more alcohol was in her blood, the stronger she became. First of all, she used this feature to create powerful seismic waves.
Ginny didn't last long in Marvel Comics, dying in the same issue she debuted in, X-Force #116. Although she did not manage to become a prominent figure among the X-Men, thanks to an unusual ability, she takes pride of place in our selection.
Demon Body
Martin Preston was a successful actor until he got into a car accident and lost his arm. To restore her, he made a pact with Mephisto and gave him his soul. But this was not enough for the cunning lord of the underworld: he deprived Preston of the remaining limbs and replaced them with demonic ones.
Preston in all its glory
The next morning, Martin found that his arms and legs were unresponsive. In addition, a star-shaped hole formed in his stomach. Later it turned out that Preston can now call on countless hordes of demons, and his hands at any moment are able to separate from the body and turn into huge monsters.
The former actor went in search of his soul, taking on the pseudonym Master Pandemonium.
In his adventures, he met with the Avengers more than once. He once kidnapped the children of the Scarlet Witch, thinking that they were the carriers of particles of his soul. Without thinking twice, Pandemonium connected the children with his hands, trying to get the pieces.
He inserted the received "details" into the hole on his stomach, but, since he lacked another fragment of the soul, his body began to collapse, and in the end the villain was dragged through the formed portal into hell, where he was tortured by Mephisto for many years. Later, of course, he returned to the comics and crossed paths with the children of the Scarlet Witch several times.
Slugs in the body
Marvel hero Muggott's abilities could top the list of both the weirdest and most disgusting superpowers. The thing is that instead of the digestive system, two huge slugs live in the body of this young man, capable of getting out of their host at any time and eating everything in their path.
Maggott
These strange creatures even have their own names: Ini (Eany) and Mini (Meany). Since these creatures eat a lot, Maggott himself can live without food: when the slugs returned to his body, they transferred the energy received from food to him. As a result, the hero's physical strength and stamina temporarily increased, and his skin turned blue.
Magneto helped the hero to reveal these unusual abilities: if not for him, the boy might have suffered from strange pains in his stomach until the end of his life. Muggott later joined the X-Men, but soon left to travel alone. Like many other superheroes, over the next few years, he managed to transfer his "pets" to other people (Weapon X Vol. 2 No. 5), die and resurrect.
Turning parts of the body into an animal, plant or mineral
Doom Patrol #89 (1964) debuts a supervillain with a strange name: Man-Animal-Plant-Mineral. He could turn any part of his body into something from this small list.
The character received his abilities after falling into a vat of amino acids.
Before his transformation, the villain was named Sven Larson and was a student of Niles Caulder, the leader of the Doom Patrol. The group of heroes, of course, managed to defeat the strange opponent, but Man-Animal-Plant-Mineral later challenged the team several more times.
Character in modern comics
The extraordinary character recently made his film debut: he first appeared in the sixth episode of the Doom Patrol series. Given the abilities of the hero, his appearance in the plot of the show simply could not be boring. And so it happened.
Super Ventriloquism
Among all the strange superpowers of Superman from the Golden Age of comics, one stands out. In those distant years, Clark could change his voice at will and project it anywhere.
He sometimes used this trick to keep his identity secret, such as distracting Lois Lane with his dog named Krypto, who also had this ability.
The girl was very surprised by the talking dog.
Superman also used this skill to talk to aliens from a distance in outer space, or to teach a villain a lesson by making him believe in a talking picture of Julius Caesar.
Unfortunately, after Crisis on Infinite Earths, the writers no longer used this remarkable ability: it would be interesting to see how Superman uses an unusual talent in the modern world.
Making a mini version of yourself
Another strange ability of Superman, but from the Silver Age. In 1958, Clark Kent discovered an unusual spaceship in Metropolis. However, the superhero did not have time to explore it: the starship exploded right in front of him.
After Clark came to his senses, he realized that all his powers had disappeared somewhere. But instead of them, another appeared: now Superman could release from his palm a miniature version of himself, possessing all the lost abilities.
For some time, the Kryptonian fought criminals with the help of his new "partner", but very soon he got tired of such a life.
The hero even wanted to come up with a cunning plan to get rid of his miniature copy. Clark hoped that superpowers would return to him after her death.
However, the Last Son of Krypton did not have to suffer for a long time, and the problem was solved by itself. Several gangsters found a piece of kryptonite and used a makeshift catapult to launch the mineral at Superman. A copy of the hero sacrificed itself to save the owner. After that, Clark returned to his previous form, but he began to be tormented by the question: did his mini-version have consciousness or only carry out the mental orders of Superman Sr.
Ability to separate hands from body
The Legion of Super-Heroes exists in the 30th century of the DC Comics Universe. People with the most unusual abilities tried to get into its ranks.
Among them was a hero with the hard-to-translate nickname Arm-Fall-Off-Boy. His only power was that he could "detach" his arm and brandish it as a melee weapon.
This was not enough to join the Legion. A failed job interview happened in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #46.
In the 90s, Arm-Fall-Off-Boy was reimagined as a hero under the alias Splitter. He also had a name - Floyd Belkin. The new version also tried to get into the superhero team, but during the tests, Splitter got nervous and literally fell apart (Legionnaires Vol. 4 #43).
Such a frivolous attitude of the writers towards him is not accidental: the image of Splitter refers to the character Ear-Fall-Off Floyd, who appeared in Fandom Funnies #3 and was conceived as a parody of brave superheroes.
Ability to accurately tell time
Under the pseudonym "King of the Clock" in DC comics, several characters have been hiding at different times. However, one of the most famous versions of the villain appeared in the animated series Batman: The Animated Series under the name Temple Fugate.
He didn't have any superpowers, only the ability to plan an event with millisecond precision.
So, he managed to escape from Batman by jumping onto the roof of a passing train, accurately timing his arrival. Because of his unusual talent, Fugate was once recruited by Amanda Waller to join Task Force X to devise a plan to raid the Justice League tower to kidnap a huge robot called the Annihilator.
Later, the villain still got the ability to control time, but with the help of a special weapon: this happened in the Time Out of Joint episode of the same Batman animated series.
The very first comic book version of the Clock King is by William Tockman. He didn't have superpowers either, but that didn't stop him from joining the Injustice League and the Suicide Squad.
All other characters with this alias had powers related to time. For example, the Clock King, who led the Terror Titans in the era after the Infinite Crisis event, could see into the future a few seconds ahead.
Ability to see through fingers
The 10-Eyed Man is another obscure DC comics character from the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths era.
His real name is Philip Reardon. He participated in the Vietnam War, where a grenade hit him between the eyes. Returning home, he got a job as a security guard in a warehouse. Once the robbers decided to blow up the premises, and Philip was not far from the bomb. As a result of the incident, his war injury worsened, and he completely lost his sight.
However, a doctor named Engstrom managed to connect Reardon's optic nerves to his fingers. So the hero got the opportunity to see with the help of them.
First of all, he decided to attack Batman: it seemed to Philip that it was the Dark Knight who was behind the warehouse incident. However, the ability to see everything around and military training did not help Reardon: the superhero quickly defeated the novice criminal and sent him to prison.
There, the police put the 10-eyed man's hands in a box, and Philip lost his unique ability. During "Crisis", all traces of his existence in the DC Universe were erased. A new version of the character later appeared in the New-52 era (Batman Eternal Vol 1 #15, for example), but there is not much to say about her.
The ability to eat everything
The DC Universe Matter-Eater Lad was born and raised in the 30th century on the planet Bismall. This world had one feature: microbes once made all the local food unfit for consumption. The population had to adapt to the harsh life in order to survive, and as a result they developed the ability to absorb absolutely any material.
An unusual hero on the pages of comics has repeatedly proved that nothing inedible exists for him: he ate glass, minerals and various metals. True, comic book writers often could not figure out how these abilities could be used in combat. Therefore, the Devouring Guy spent a lot of time on his home planet and dealt with political issues.
But one day, the All-devouring guy still got his minute of fame. In Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #250-251, the hero saved the universe by eating the so-called Miracle Machine, an "indestructible" device capable of turning thoughts into reality.
