What’s strange in comics is when this doesn’t end up being an issue.
Comic books have within them superheroes who are flawless, undefeatable and noble.
Which is cool and all but doesn’t make a ton of sense.
And isn’t super relatable.
After all, to be human is to err.
Ergo why as time has gone, it has become more popular to have flawed superheroes.
Some of these flaws end up being a lack of control or experience, something we can all
relate to.
Think about it, we’ve all run into situations where we’ve struggled with our inexperience
or felt we had no control.
It can be terrifying.
And to read about other superheroes who struggle with these issues can help us to put our problems
into perspective, help us to feel humbled.
Today we’ll be looking at some of those heroes who struggle as we count down the top
10 superheroes who don’t know how to use their powers properly.
If you also fear a complete lack of control and empathize with these heroes, like me,
be sure to give this list a thumbs up.
And be sure to stick around till the end of this list where I will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Miles Morales
Whiles Miles may have grown into his powers in the comics, even going on to become some
people’s preferred Spider-Man even when compared to Peter Parker of earth 616, in
the film Into the Spider-Verse we get introduced to a less adept version of the hero.
In Into the Spider-Verse, Miles gets superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider,
as the usual story goes but he has a lot of trouble controlling these abilities.
Comically maybe even more trouble than Parker even did, though I’m sure anyone would struggle
to get the hang of spider-like abilities right off the bat.
Mmmm maybe Spider-Man Noir.
He seems like a guy who would just instantly nail it.
Miles struggles with his spider stickyness, finding it hard to control his sticking and
unsticking to surfaces.
Though thankfully he has Peter of earth 616 there to help him out with that.
But Miles can also become completely invisible in the film, a power that Peter Parker has
no idea how to help him with, as he has never possessed it.
And leaving Miles to go visible when he’d rather go invisible and go invisible when
he’d rather be visible.
Yikes.
9 Rogue
Rogue can use her abilities to adopt the powers of anyone she touches.
More than borrowing them, she is, in a sense, stealing them as well as draining their life
energy and sometimes even their memories.
We see this go awry when a young Rogue attacks Captain Marvel and ends up leaving her without
her memories and in a comatose state.
Her lack of control over her powers ends up haunting Rogue for most of her life and although
she has sometimes gained enough control in the comics to touch others without harming
them like when Professor X helped her to achieve this and she kissed Gambit, she spends most
of her time in comics unable to touch those she loves without causing harm to them.
In fact recently in the Mr and Mrs X series we learn that this side-effect of her powers
is specifically connected to her emotions.
The more she loves someone, the more afraid she gets of harming them, and the more likely
it becomes that she will harm them upon making physical contact with said loved one.
8 Jubilee
All the Jubilee fans might be upset that I’m mentioning Jubilee on this list but I promise,
it’s a compliment that she is on here.
Many people when they think of Jubilee think of quick party tricks.
They think of her accidentally blowing up an arcade game with her little fireworks powers
in the 90s X-Men cartoon.
Although Jubilee wasn’t shown to be as powerful as we’d like in that cartoon, she was still
awesome and adorable though.
One of my first crushes.
But while people may dismiss Jubilee because of animated series and even comic book moments
like the one just mentioned, the truth is she does deserve respect.
She is very powerful.
She just doesn’t have great control of her powers yet.
In Uncanny X-Men volume 1, when her good friend and mentor, Wolverine, was in danger, she
showed us some of her true potential when in an emotional frenzy she ended up destroying
Mandarin’s castle.
While she hasn’t always had the best control of her powers, there is no denying that Jubilee
with full control would be pretty unstoppable.
So it’s probably best if she still always has some work to do there.
7 Jessica Cruz
While Jessica has grown in her abilities when it comes to her powers as a Green Lantern
this wasn’t always the case.
Jessica spent a good part of her time as a superhero in disbelief and struggling to use
her ring to even fully form constructs at all.
This reason why she has struggled so much is due to her anxiety which she was riddled
with after many of her loved ones were killed by the Crime Syndicate and she went into hiding.
Add to that the fact that she never even wanted to be a superhero or have powers but was kind
of forced into it and it’s understandable why it’s been so hard for her to become
the hero that her Green Lantern ring knew her to be.
6 Citizen Steel
Nate Heyward gained his powers after striking the metallic villain Reichsmark with one of
his crutches.
He had recently had his leg amputated after a tragic football accident and used his crutches
to defend himself during a fight with the villain, after most of his family were killed
in the brutal attack.
Nate ends up stabbing him in the mouth with his crutch and Reichsmark spits up metallic
blood on him which ends up putting Nate in a coma and when he awakes, giving him super
powers.
He finds his leg has regrown but is now made of steel.
In fact his whole body is now living steel.
He can no longer feel physical pain or any sensation via touch unfortunately.
This makes it hard for him to gauge how much power he is using.
He is so strong and dangerous that he is forced to wear a containment suit to keep his power
levels in check.
We still don’t know how powerful he is!
We can expect that he is one of the strongest heroes though as he removed the top half of
his suit during the Kingdom Come story arc to successfully take down the powerful villain,
Gog.
A villain that even Superman of earth 22 could not defeat.
5 Luther Strode
Luther Strode is main character of Image Comics’ The Strange Talent of Luther Strode.
He gains his powers after being gifted enough to unlock his potential using the Hercules
Method.
His has impossibly quick reflexes, super speed and super strength.
The issue is that Luther is new to these powers and finds it hard to control them.
Everyone he goes up against he pretty much ends up killing.
At school when his powers kick in he accidentally breaks his bully’s nose during a game of
dodgeball.
Near the ends up accidentally killing someone he loves and was only seeking to protect.
While his powers appear to be a blessing at first, it is later revealed that they are
more of a curse as Luther appears incapable of not causing harm to come to those who he
most desires to protect.
4 Jean Grey
Jean actually needed help with her abilities from a young age.
Her issue is that she is so powerful that she could easily lose control of her powers
and be a danger to others.
Fortunately she had mental blocks put in place by Charles Xavier to help her not lose control
by not having access to the full strength of her powers.
Unfortunately she then later would come into contact with the Phoenix Force who would merge
with Jean in order to save her while on a mission in space with her fellow X-Men.
This would at first be a good thing, resulting in Jean becoming the Phoenix, a mighty and
omnipotent superhero.
But later the power that the Phoenix Force unlocked within Jean would turn her dark and
she would become the villain Dark Phoenix, proving that too much power can easily corrupt
even those with the best intentions.
3 Sentry
While Robert Reynolds may seem adept at using his superpowers as the Sentry, his mental
state is what often leads him astray in terms of properly controlling these powers.
Known as the most powerful superhero that the world forgot, his being erased from the
minds of those he knew has been a part of his story on more than one occasion.
One time it was even insinuated that he was so powerful that he even subconsciously caused
others to forget him without knowing it.
There is also the huge issue of Robert’s evil alter-ego the Void.
The reason why so many people had to apparently forget him in the first place.
Without the Void, Sentry cannot exist, they are two sides of the same coin.
This is all because Robert struggled to accept the darkness within himself and without internal
and mental healing this will and has continued to be a problem for Robert.
As his dark side manifests in the worst way through the Void, something that he has seemingly
no control over.
2 Chamber
Not only did Jonothon Starsmorehas the ability to emit psionic energy from his chest but
he has so little control over this power when it manifests that it actually causes him more
harm then it does help him.
He ends up blowing off his jaw and much of his chest.
Meaning he can now only talk via telepathy.
He ended up at Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters working alongside a team
of junior mutants in the Generation X series.
But to add insult to injury there was another young superhero at the school called Synch
(Sink) or Everett “Ev” Thomas who could adopt the powers of those near him.
And Ev was actually even better at using Jono’s abilities than he was, showing more discipline
in controlling them.
1 Izuku Midoriya
Deku recevied the One for All quirk from All Might, one of the strongest superheroes around.
This quirk is one the most powerful in the world of My Hero Academia and has the unique
ability of being able to passed on to another.
However it is also a difficult quirk to master because it is so powerful.
Deku himself struggles to use it as the power is so strong that it causes his bones to break
and body to be hurt as a result of channeling all that energy.
He almost doesn’t even make it into hero academy, UA High School.
However he discovers that when channelling and focusing the power through a single part
of his being, he only risks damaging that part.
And so he channels the power through his fingers, allowing him to only do damage to a single
finger for each use.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
Who are some of your favourite out of control superheroes?
Who do you think could be insanely powerful with just a bit more experience?
Can you relate to heroes who have felt inexperienced and out of control?
Yes or no?
Let us know in the comments below.
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Amy Isaacs says, “May Mayday Parker is the best spider-girl.”
I feel like there are some Spider-Gwen fans who may disagree with you but I do love Mayday.
The great thing about the Spider-Verse too is we get to have all the Spider-Girls.
I mean, why have one when you can have an undetermined, possibly limitless number of
them?
Ty the Detailer comments, “I hope Valeria has a different father just so that things
are weird for you.
Damn, everything is weird for Top 10.”
Hahaha.
Well we talk about a lot of comics and let’s be honest, there is a lot of weird things
in comics.
But oh my goodness, if Valeria’s dad isn’t Reed Richards, I’m definitely gonna flip.
Who do you think they’d make her dad if it wasn’t Reed in a twist?
Doctor Doom, Namor?
I feel like Sue is a pretty loyal lady so I don’t know how that would work.
But I imagine I wouldn’t like it.
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