Some superheroes are here to save the day.
Some super villains are here to take over the world.
And some super characters, well, I'm not quite sure what they are trying to do here...
In this list, we'll be exploring some of the ladder.
The heroes and villains who maybe make us raise an eyebrow, ask WTF, or just laugh out
loud.
Today we'll be looking at the top 10 dumb Marvel super powers part 2, and some of the
characters that they belong to.
Get ready for some mutants to be thrown at you because wow, are there a lot of mutants
with strange abilities.
We could do multiple lists just on dumb weird mutant abilities from Marvel alone.
For sure.
Alright, time to count down.
10 Maggots!
This super power is just plain weird and dumb in the sense that it doesn't even really make
sense.
Maggott is a mutant and one of is abilities involves you guessed it, maggots.
Two to be exact.
The maggots are named Eany and Meany and what power do this give this once X-Men?
Well they are basically Maggott, aka Japheth's digestive system.
He discovered them with Magneto's help after originally thinking he had stomach cancer
and was about to die.
The maggots have to burrow in and out of his stomach every time they feed which is depicted
as being very painful and harrowing for Japheth.
The plus side?
He gets nourishment from what they eat which makes him powerful...?
Like what...?
How does one even come up with an idea like this?
9 Shocker
Also known as Herman Schultz, Shocker's power was one that was actually engineered by him
as Schultz is known for being a brilliant engineer.
So less super more self-made but still fully ridiculous in premise.
Shocker's ability is that he vibrates.
Yup.
Schultz, depending on the version, creates a glove or a suit which allows him to produce
intense blasts of vibrated airwaves.
His powers actually can be quite useful, allowing to pack a more powerful punch and vibrate
out his foe's grasp.
But the idea behind this one is just hilarious.
(It's no surprise that his nemesis, Spiderman, gave him the nickname of Vibrator.)
8 Made of Insects
While there are many super strong and useful heroes that are influenced by insect and insect
like abilities, some characters in the Marvel verse take this too far to the point where
is appears to become less useful.
Namely those heroes and villains who are simply made up of insects.
Swarm is one such villain, who used to be Fritz Von Meyer, a Nazi scientist who after
experimenting on bees was torn apart by them but not before they absorbed his conciousness.
So now he's a dude who can beeee defeated by bug repellent.
Likewise there is an alternate version of Spider-Man, called Spiders Man whose only
seeming abilities are that he looks like Spider-Man, has Peter Parker's consciousness but is really
just a bunch of experimented on spiders in a human shape.
Surprisingly Spiders Man at least seem to fight quite well.
And certainly is creepy.
7 Dazzler's Disco Ball Ability
You could call Dazzler the bard of the Marvel-verse.
Alison Blaire, aka Dazzler is a mutant, singer and disco queen who is able to convert sound
in light and sometimes energy.
Though the power we will be focusing on in this list is her ability to convert sound
into light.
While she can also convert sound into energy to create photonic blasts or super focused
light beams, ie lasers, one of her abilities is to just turn any sound into light, though
of course Dazzler prefers music.
Making this power useless for fighting but a pretty one for performing and turning her
into a sort of disco ball.
Sometimes she uses this ability to try and distract enemies, which granted usually works
but it also just strange and hilarious.
6 Fireworks
Yeah, we're looking at you Jubilee.
Okay, so real talk, I actually love Jubilee and had a crush on the 90s animated series
version of her but still fireworks, really?
While her powers are probably terrifying if you epileptic, they are otherwise just mostly
annoying if you are a villain or a really great party trick if you are a friend.
I mean, imagine having fireworks at all your parties.
That's a reality if you are friends with Jubilee.
If you actually need to fight some Sentinels though this power is unfortunately not as
useful.
Also Jubilee's firework power often just leads to her accidentally blowing things up.
5 Kangaroo
Frank Oliver, aka Kangaroo not only has a ridiculous power but is also just a ridiculous
character.
He is a villain from Australia who studied kangaroos and eventually developed the super
power of jumping really really high.
You know, like a kangaroo.
Cause he's Australian, get it?
Yeah, Frank is also a really unfortunate stereotype.
Marvel writers, what are you doing?
Later Kangaroo got this power levelled up when he was implanted with air jets which
also gave him super strong legs and even better jumping abilities but the whole premise of
this power is just ridiculous.
4 Cypher
Another mutant making the list, Cypher aka Douglas Ramsay has what is probably considered
one of the most useless powers in the history of mutants.
He can translate any written or spoken languages.
All in all a pretty lame abilities, especially considering he is already a pretty intelligent
person and anyone who is smart enough can learn pretty much any language.
Not to mention there is also the internet.
Cypher was introduced in the 1980s, however a time before Google Translate, Rosetta Stone
or Duolingo, and so I kind of get where the writers may have been coming from.
In 80s this idea was pretty fantastic.
Not to mention Cypher can also translate alien languages as well.
Pretty fancy.
However despite all these considerations, even in the 80s this mutant's powers were
considered a flop.
Sorry, Cypher.
3 The Power of Asbestos!
Lady Asbestos is Victoria Murdock who was originally portrayed as being a brilliant
scientist in the comics.
Not brilliant enough though it seems.
She was unsurprisingly first introduced in the 1940s as one of the Human Torch's nemeses.
She used her wits and the power of asbestos to make an 100% fireproof suit made of, you
guessed it, 100% asbestos.
Granted in the 1940s we didn't fully understand the long-term effects of asbestos, still using
it to fight the Human Torch seems pretty ridiculous.
Marvel later made a point of mentioning in one of their handbooks that Lady Asbestos
had died early, in her middle-age, from cancer.
Cause, you know, asbestos.
2 Starfox's Sexy Powers
The power of pheromones!
Don't actually do that much.
I mean maybe if you were a super villain but Starfox isn't even marketed as such.
He is marketed as a superhero with the power to sexily influence anyone he likes.
This one is dumb on the level of the writing standpoint as it leads to a slippery slope
that is best left unexplored.
Not only this but his power of "persuasion" never seems to work against an enemy.
The strange thing as well with Starfox is he actually has a bunch of useful powers enhanced
strength, enhanced healing, he can fly--I mean he's a Titan for goodness sake!
But he seems to really only like using his sexy powers which don't work in a fight...
so why do they even exist in the comics?
1 Doorman
Dumb in the most conventional of senses, Doorman is actually a member of the Great Lakes Avengers.
If you are unfamiliar with this crew of heroes, I highly recommend looking them up as many
of their members are pretty ridiculous in and of themselves.
In fact Dinah Soar from Kelly's Part 1 of this list was also a member.
As was the comical though much more useful, Deadpool.
Doorman's power might be one of the silliest.
Using darkforce energy, he can allow anyone to pass through him and also pass through
solid objects, making his abilities useful for becoming a doorway.
Yup, that's right.
One of his powers is he simply can allow you to teleport from one room to the next by passing
through him.
Who needs a door when you have a door man?
Well I hope you enjoyed this list and we didn't hurt your brain too much with some of these
incredibly silly super powers.
Yowza.
And if there are some other dumb abilities in the Marvel-verse that you love to hate
or love to love, make sure to share them with me in the comments below.
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