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the Top 10 secret superhero powers
you didn’t know about.
10 The Hulk - Resistance to Telepaths Let’s start this list off with the Hulk!
Hulk smash!
The hulk is known for being resistant to many things.
He’s one of a small handful of superheroes who could actually survive a nuclear attack.
But aside from deadly radiation, what else can Bruce Banner’s more brutal half endure?
Telepaths.
The Hulk is resistant to psychic probing from even the likes of Charles Xavier.
He’s literal impenetrable on all fronts.
Not too shabby, you big green monster.
No mind control for you!
9 Iron Man - Suit Storage Another one on this list that many of you
may already be aware of - Tony Stark is capable of storing his Iron Man suit in his body.
For those of you who didn’t know and are now trying to figure out the logistics of
how something like that is possible, here’s how that works.
Tony has had many different variations of his suit over the years, and this ability
didn’t kick in until he had developed his Extremis Armour.
Controlled by his thoughts, the suit is directly implanted in his body and stored in the hollow
portions of his bone, and is connected to his central nervous system.
It gets a bit more scientific than that, to be fair, and it’s an ability that carried
over into later suits as well.
8 Wolverine - Lie Detection While it makes perfect sense that Wolverine
would have advanced superhuman abilities, like heightened smell and hearing, it may
be a surprise to a lot of you that he’s capable of using those senses to detect when
someone is lying.
It’s a little like Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock - he’s able to notice the subtle
differences, like a change in heart beat.
The smell of sweat on a person’s skin.
Or any other physical signs of panic.
7 Superman - Super math Getting into some Pre-Crisis fun times here,
it’s no secret that the man of steel had a lot of strange powers that formed during
the silver age.
Super ventriloquism, super weaving, and of course, super mathematics.
Just tossing the word super in front of verbs eh?
Anyway, super math was essentially just him being real good with numbers.
He once counted how many beans were in a jar without using his x-ray vision.
Aside from pulling random numbers out of his butt, it’s actually nothing that regular
mathematicians couldn’t calculate off handedly.
6 Wonder Woman - can talk to animals Wonder Woman is a hero of many abilities.
But some of those powers in the past have been a tad superficial, to put it nicely.
From time to time, Diana has pulled an Aquaman and communicated with animals.
This even translated into the original Wonder Woman television show.
USE LINK EDITORS.
And, in the comics, it most memorably appears when Wonder Woman has a chat with some dinosaurs,
asking them kindly not to eat anyone.
5 The Flash - Speed Read
The Speed Force is a mighty entity, and it gives the members of the scarlet speedster
family the opportunity to pull off some pretty cool tricks.
In the Flash Volume 3 issue number 2, Barry Allen puts one of those cool abilities to
the test by re-constructing a building after speeding over to the library and speed reading
a ton of books on architecture.
Speed reading is something Bart Allen has shown us he’s capable of too - and he actually
retains what he reads, while Barry Allen just keeps it in his short term memory.
4 Green Lantern - Soul Storage Getting into some dark territory here, let’s
talk a little about the Green Lantern.
While this isn’t something we’ve seen Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner pull off, another
member of the Green Lantern corp has whipped this trick out.
When the world of Bolovax Vik was destroyed, the Green Lantern assigned to that sector,
Kilowog, stored all 16 billion of the souls who were almost lost during the destruction.
Talk about an immense use of will power!
3 Venom - Can Possess inanimate objects - agent venom
The Venom Symbiote has done some pretty neat stuff since it’s first appearance in the
amazing spiderman 252 from 1984 when it tried to bond with spiderman as his black suit when
his was destroyed.
Venom has gone from villain to anti-hero, and during his time as Agent Venom aka Flash
Thompson, there’s a moment when he’s eluded by some criminals.
Who get away in a car.
So naturally he’s like YEP I’M GONNA BOND WITH A CAR AND FUCK THESE GUYS UP.
Check it out in 2013’s Venom #36.
2 Aquaman - Super Eyes Poor Aquaman.
He gets so much flack for just being him.
So what he can communicate with aquatic life?
Or that he chooses to wear bright orange scales as his costume?
He’s still an incredibly impressive superhero, despite all the unnecessary bullying by fans.
Why’s that?
Well, aside from his unreliable strength, speed and healing abilities, Aquaman has a
few tricks up his sleeves.
Or scales?
He’s got tricks!
Like impeccable vision.
Humans are capable of visibility approximately 165-230 feet under water.
Being part atlantean, Aquaman has visibility up to about 36,000 feet.
And he’s also capable of night vision.
1 Superman - He Can
Create Miniature Supermen Getting back to that whole terrible Superman
silver age powers tidbit that we mentioned before, in at this number we have an example
of one of Clark Kent’s silly powers that likely won’t be returning to panels or the
big screen anytime soon.
Back in 1958 in Superman number 125, the man of steel discovers what he calls a midget
space ship, and immediately deducts that it’s owner must be from a tiny race of aliens.
The ship blows up, and gives Superman the ability to shoot tiny rays from his finger
tips.
Which he then realizes are actually tiny replicas of….himself.
Talk about narcissism in it’s most direct form.
And for whatever reason, aside from his invulnerability, he’s incapable of all his other powers,
and has to send out his miniature self to do all the crap he’d normally be able to
do but can’t.
Everyone then goes around saying how cute it is and he gets all defensive and insecure
about it.
Long story short, he loses the power when the tiny manifestation sacrifices himself
to save Superman by jumping on top of a kryponite meteor.
Which kind of comes out of nowhere.
And then he gets all his powers back and everything fine except his mini alien self is most likely
dead.
But deus ex machina, right?
Awesome!
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