Greetings nerdy list afficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we’re back in
the realm of super powers looking at some that certain fans would deem lack luster our
subject today is Jubilee the member of the x-men known by most for her firework powers
which while over the years have received some major upgrades still tend to get a chuckle
out of some.
Of course as always when we do these we have our caveat that any power can be cool if handled
correctly and as always like who and what you like and most importantly have fun.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Dumbest Super Powers Jubilee Has/Had oh yes I said
had.
Number 10 - Vampirism - So there was a time in comics actually a decent chunk of time
where Jubilee was a vampire.
She was bitten by Xarus son of Dracula and that transformed her into a full fledged creature
of the night what with all the powers that entails so of course the superhuman speed
and strength classic traits like turning into vapour but we’re dealing with some cop out
weaknesses for example she has a medallion of Xarus that allows her to walk in daylight.
No it needs to be a trade off you get all these cool abilities but you lose something
as well if you’re chillin’ off of animal blood or the blood bank and walking around
during the day it really feels far less creature of the damned then you have a character who
yes is a vampire but doesn't have all that angsty pathos that comes with it.
Quentin Quire would cure Jubilee later on with a shard of the phoenix force that also
restored her mutant powers which Jubilee had lost.
Number 9 - Gymnast/in line skater now are these powers no they’re innate abilities
she trained to be able to do these things but they’ve actually been largely forgotten.
Jubilee being a gymnast was at one point a huge part of her backstory but over the years
it has faded a bit into the background.
The in line skating in particular was used as a way to make her hip and cool with the
kids cause her function was largely to be relatable in that fashion she was often lumped
into side kick territory even with her power set for example she was fused with Robin in
the amalgam universe to create a character named sparrow and she would also fall head
over heels for him in their versus series.
Hip and relatable let’s go to the mall.
Number 8 - Stroke Powers - Now Jubilee can do much more with her powers than just put
on a fancy light show even though she was doing that at the mall at the start early
on when she met the x-men no apparently Jubillee can also cause you to have a stroke by detonating
a precision spark of plasmoids in your brain this can simulate the effects of a stroke
firstly absolutely terrifying secondly how exactly this is kind of tied to Jubilee’s
power expansion as the years have gone on Jubilee has been rendered more and more powerful
almost as a direct take that to people who claim she is a useless member of the team.
Number 7 - Energy absorption so Jubilee can absorb the energy she exerts back into herself
why is this on here well it’s cause it’s very much a no duh, no brainer kind of course
her own energy won’t hurt her that would be awful it’s really only worth noting if
she can absorb other people’s energy.
Then that’s a whole kinetic energy trade off.
Number 6 - Abcissa so here we’re dealing with an alternate timeline earth 92352 in
this world Jubilee was captured by Mojo and brought to the big crunch which was to be
the collapse of the universe which would be the lead into another Big Bang.
She was a slave to Mojo in trade for him not disrupting the universes cycle.
Her powers here were a little different, she didn’t seem to have her standard plasmoids
and could instead whip the chains of her costume into loops and bind other people with them.
Is that a power or a skill well I mean if gymnastics is on here so can whipping chains.
Number 5 - Team X Vertigo to yet another world in the multiverse we go this time for a Jubillee
who could manifest several light based daggers putting her abilities in the realm of creating
solid constructs she could fight with she also was wearing a costume that led to her
code name vertigo she was part of a resistance movement against Majestrix Alanna the daughter
of charles xavier and shair leader lilandra.
Here Jubilee could also turn invisible so here her powers were much more like Dazzler’s
than her standard power set it just goes to show some mutants have powers that can be
interpreted a variety of ways.
Number 4 - X-Men Animated - So the 90s x-men is largely responsible for the perception
of Jubilee as ineffectually shooting fireworks at things especially sentinels her powers
here would regularly just bounce off of people the blob even described them as tickling so
she was used more for distraction than anything and this is the Jubillee that many flash to
when they think of the character.
Great show and nothing wrong with Jubillee in it but definitely not a power house and
that’s ok your team needs levels.
Number 3 - Wondra - So Jubilee was one of the mutants who was depowered after m day
you know no more mutants end of house of m fallout.
Jubilee was devastated at the loss of her powers and would replace them with a suit
that gave her way more powers than she had before she would join the new warriors and
get a tech suit from night thraser she would get super human strength be nigh invulnerable
and be able to fly.
So a lot of a lot this was enough to alleviate her depression over the loss of her powers
the things was this set her down a path of writers not knowing exactly what to do with
her hence how she became a vampire.
Number 2 - Immunity To Telepathy for a time a brief time early in her comic history Jubilee
had the natural ability to be resistant to telepathy she just had built in psionic shields
however this ability would be abandoned because it would run into the ok why factor and also
it seemed to slant her to having too many advantages powers and immune to telepathy
just cause, not something everyone could swallow.
She’s just special that way no stop it.
Number 1 - Subatomic nuclear potential let’s get controversial here at number 1.
Emma Frost has revealed that she believes Jubilee has the most untapped potential of
any mutant she has ever met that she is holding herself back on a subconscious level cause
she doesn’t want to hurt anyone.
Something Jubilee has admitted to a fear of her powers for example after they got out
of control and destroyed a house.
Jubillee apparently could affect matter at a subnuclear level.
Now mileage on this varies some love it all that potential take that she only has fireworks
people while others feel it’s too much calm down it’s ok if not every mutant is approaching
omega level that the power scales are sliding too far in the powerful direction.
What do you think?
I’m Sasha….