Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd the powers you want to
hear about them and we are happy to oblige today we’re chatting restrictions.
Powers aren’t unlimited and sometimes what causes them to either stop working completely
or how they need to be implemented can range from amusing to bizarre.
Some of my favourite things to talk about you know on top of darkness!!
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 superheroes with weird power restrictions part 2.
Let’s get started.
Also we’re going to have some fun and hope around the timeline so some of these restrictions
have been taken off but they existed at one point and we’ll never forget.
Number 10 Thor a.k.a Donald Blake (Hammer) – So this is a classic weakness from the
early days of Thor and it involved part of Thor’s punishment.
So back when Thor first debuted in 1962 he was cast down into the body of Donald Blake
without his memories but his hammer was cast down too in disguise as a walking stick.
And when Blake picks it up and strikes it down he becomes thor it was later retconned
that Thor and Donald blake were the same person cause if not we would have some castiel level
terrifyingness on our hands.
Here’s the thing initially if the god of thunder was separated from Mjolnir for more
than 60 seconds he turned back into Donald Blake.
Also if we were early enough he also forgot he was Thor those fights must have been really
awkward but for the most part it was just a weakness to place his foes on a more level
playing field against a god.
Yeah the 80s and Simonsons run really revolutionized the character by finding the perfect balance
of earth shenanigans and godly happenings for Thor.
Honeslty the asgard stuff for thor is way more interesting to me than him hanging out
with us lowly mortals I do that everyday, I want to read about something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)
Number 9 – Green Lanterns and yellow.
Going back in time once more to Green Lantern and the silver age we’re leaving alan scott
alone and talking about Hal Jordan and beyond until the whole parallax thing retconned it.
Well it started earlier after the destruction of the central power battery when Kyle became
ion and there was the whole oh it’s an imperfection long story short it just felt like they were
embarrassed by the weakness and wanted to make it cool.
I loved the yellow weakness so the rings just wouldn’t work on anything yellow coloured
and that involved hal’s forcefield.
There are some great hal getting knocked out by yellow objects like people throwing lamps
at him.
That time from that actually really sad arc where he knocked himself out on a sign and
the story was called the sign.
The more modern and memetastic yet awful all star batman and robin where batman painted
an entire room everything in it himself and robin yellow.
So that Hal had no recourse.
It was glorious now new recruits start off not being able to affect yellow but with training
they can overcome.
No, no give me ridiculous restrictions they already increased how long it holds a charge
let me have this and while you’re at it give me Hal.
I want the Hal who knocked himself unconscious by slipping on a bar of soap while getting
out of the shower.
Number 8 – Pureheart – Pureheart the powerful from archie comics we talked about him recently
on our powers no one understands series which if you haven’t checked it out yet be sure
to do so after this.
So Archie comics had and now as of 2019 one more has done runs where in archie and the
gang are superheros.
Archie is pureheart a hero operating off of his ph level of his pure heart.
So if he has any impure thoughts even just one for a blip powers gone.
What makes this restriction odd isn’t the component plenty of heroes have emotion or
though affected powers, no it’s the question what exactly is pure.
The examples in the comics are things like him accepting a kiss on the cheek from someone
who was grateful for being saved.
He didn’t ask for it they gave it so is accepting gratitude impure what kind of standard
does archie have to hold himself too.
It’s too much.
Also he can’t get jealous and we know archie that’s just not possible for him.
Number 7 – Winged Victory – Astro City, I’m getting it on more and more lists.
I’m playing the long game.
I will get my astro city video.
She first appeared in Astro City #2 (Sep. 1995) and she’s really interesting.
She is a deconstruction of wonder woman.
And her powers are granted to her by the council of Nike which is a group of successful women
who have overcome adversity and sought to empower an ordinary woman with the ability
to be a hero and create a difference.
The only thing is over time their feminist ideals have become warped to an extreme to
the point where they only want Winged victory saving women, at crime scenes she is to save
the women first and they threaten her with depowered when she starts to ask questions
about whether they are sending out the right the message.
They also strongly disapprove of her relationship with the Samaritan even though he is always
respectful and never barges in or assumes she can’t do something and stands back during
interviews not only so the council don’t get mad and think he’s stealing cred but
also cause he has no time it’s seriously sad how little time he has his big dream in
life is to have like an hour to himself just to fly around in the sky and do nothing.
So Winged Victory she needs to make sure she keeps the council happy though in more modern
issues they have mellowed kinda especially as winged victory is a passionate advocate
for their case championing and I quote political, legal and social emancipation of women.
Astro city is interesting read it…please.
Number 6 – NorthStar And Aurora are both members of alpha flight the state funded Canadian
superhero team.
Which to be honest if we really had a superhero team it totally would be state funded.
So when they first debuted their powers were tied together so they had to be together in
physical contact holding hands to operate.
However that was quickly modified to they had to stay in proximity and touch occasionally
like a high five and nowadays it’s just a boost.
Can you imagine having to take your siblings with you crime fighting even if they had powers
all the time.
It would be so irritating even if you liked them.
Number 5 – Rogue – Ok seriously think about it.
Not even the whole she can’t touch people cause that’s not a restriction that’s
how her powers work.
What the restriction is sis that she can’t use them to their full potential.
Rogue first debuted in Avengers Annual #10 (1981) and was initially a villain in fact
how she gained her super strength and flight was through a confrontation with Ms Marvel
wherein she held on too long and absorbed her power permanently and also elements of
her personality, for a time it was driving her insane and professor x had to help her
untangle her mind.
If Rogue holds on too long she could find herself subsumed which was played with in
the recent infinity war lead up tie in wibbley woblley timey wimey stuff wherein in ine universe
Rogue had held onto Captain Marvel for so long their powers and personalities had just
full on swapped.
So she needs to be careful wear a timer maybe.
Number 4 – Captain Britain – Captain Britain first debuted in Captain Britain #1 (October
1976) Brian Braddock boasts a wide array of powers that were initially mystical Also Psylocke
is his sister his twin actually and oh boy the history there yikes.
So Modern captain Britain has a similar restriction to pure heart only his is self esteem.
His power level is dependant on how he feels about himself and I quote the limits of Captain
Britain's powers are now tied into his emotions.
So if he's feeling very determined and confident, then he's very powerful, but if he's losing
it then he'll really be losing it.
He's as strong as he used to be, and he can fly, and that's all due to his magical nature,
not to his costume.
I've always seen him as something like the Shazam Captain Marvel, a hero formed through
magic.
Which means the subjective nature of what he can now do feels apt to me.
As he himself says about great feats depending on whether or not he can gather all his courage
together, he says: "well, I am Captain Britain."
So I guess we can all just boo him from the sidelines and that’s that.
Number 3 – Longshot – Longshot first appeared in Longshot #1 (September 1985) he’s another
marvel character with luck powers there’s a lot of those running around.
Unlike most Longshots is centred around good luck for himself rather than bad luck for
other people.
I mean dominoes kind of work that way but hers are more that she’s psinically subconsciously
affecting her environment and upping her skills.
So the thing with longshots good luck is that it’s impacted by the positive aspects of
his personality.
And it’s also tied a bit to his actions cause I guess some writers had a hard time
with just his personality so like if he does something bad it will affect his luck but
that’s not a personality trait but I digress.
So no bad days for longshot it’s not allowed cause if so he’s going down in a fight hard.
What will happen is his powers will either shut down entirely or they’ll backfire and
cause him bad luck.
Here’s the thing for someone who’s used to having good luck all the time.
Suddenly having no luck must feel like bad luck.
You get me.
Number 2 U Go Girl – she first appeared in X-Force #116.
But most will know her from the xstatix series.
As they spun off from their appearance in x-force where they were meant to be a media
friendly version of the team only for the real x force to return an issue later with
the heading the real x force.
U-Go Girl is Edie Sawyer and her power was teleportation the good kind too the long distance
let’s just go and we’re not going to end up in the middle of the wall kind.
The only problem it left her exhausted to the point where she needs to take stimulants
to function.
Had to, she died.
Not from that though.
She actually has to take these stimulants while using her powers so if she doesn’t
have them you’re not going anywhere or well you’re not going far.
Number 1 – Larfleeze – Yes Larfleeze and yes he counts LArfleeze is the orange lantern
yes there singular.
He first debuted in Green Lantern vol. 4 #25 (Dec. 2007) and played a decent sized portion
in blackest night and has since made the leap over to the new 52 and rebirth.
LArfleeze has all the powers of lanterns the constructs etc however orange is the emotional
spectrum colour for avarice so he hoards all the rings and just clutches his power battery
rather than having a lantern chant.
You know their charge up pep talk in brightest day in blackest night no evil shall escape
my sight let those who worship evil’s light beware my power green lantern’s light.
His creed is just Mine.
LArfleeze would undoubtedly be more heroic if his natural inclinations towards greed
weren't being increased by the power battery.
His very source of power is his restriction.
Sad, a tragedy.
And those were ten more heroes with weird power restrictions, it’s always fun to talk
about these little character quirks.
Let us know who we missed and who we should talk about down below.
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