Welcome to Top 10 Nerd!
I’m Kat jovey and today we are going to be looking at the Supernatural.
Specifically, Which superheros got their powers from the supernatural.
Just to set the bar here, supernatural would include any force beyond scientific explanation
so for instance, radioactive spiders are out.
Let’s get into it:
10) At Number 10 we have RAVEN She’s the daughter of a demon father and
a human mother.
Being able to sense and alter the emotions of others is her main power like suppressing
negativity, inducing calm or even making someone fall in love with her.
I mean, she is a teen titan so she’s gonna have respective super powers to suit the setting.
What would you do with super powers in high school?
There are offshoots from that though.
She has a soul self, that takes the shape of a bird and is solid black energy that she
can only be separated from for 5 minutes but it can travel long distances and telepathically
communicate.
It can also be a shield.
She can absorb the pain of a wounded into herself, (commitment) and induce rapid healing.
She sounds like a mage I’d want on my team.
9) At number 9 we have Buffy the Vampire Slayer She was a huge favourite of mine growing up.
She is The Chosen One from a long line of Vampire slayers.
She’s just a high school girl trying to fit in but is approached to fulfill her destiny
as the salyer.
At first she fights against it but then finally takes her place as the slayer in Sunnydale
with her Watcher and group of friends, the scooby gang.
She has mystical powers that give her superhuman strength, mind blowing agility, resilience
and does a ton of training to fight against, vampires, demons and other dark forces with
her watcher.
8) At number 8 we have SHAZAM Now technically this could be a couple of
people, but I’m talking about Billy Batson this time.
His journey to being a superhero started when he was 12.
He ends up on a magical subway car that transports him to the Rock of Eternity which is a magical
place where a wizard named Shazam is residing.
When he speaks the name Shazam he is transformed into an adult superhero with the abilities
of 5 gods.
Strength of Hercules Stamina of Atlas
Power of Zeus (which enhances his other physical abilities, gives him lightning and allows
for interdimensional travel) Courage of Achilles
Speed of Mercury (and, by extension, the power to fly)
I have to say I loved the montage of him and his friend trying to figure out his powers
in the movie.
7) At number 7 we have Sargon the Sorcerer He gets his powers from the Ruby of Life,
a gem of great mystical power.
It’s the same gem that the Spectres ring is made out of.
It’s the first object he conscious see and touches as an infant as his mom is wearing
it as a pendant so later in life on archeological digs with his father he ends up learning more
about it This includes an incantation.
He recites it while touching the ruby and gains the power to control any inanimate matter
he touches.
6) At number 6 we have Spawn A human assassin that gets backstabbed and
murdered and ends up in hell.
While there he makes a deal with a demon to see his wife just one more time.
But, this means he has to become an undead “hellspawn”.
When he gets back to earth he is missing a lot of his memory, is very disfigured and
now has magical powers but now has a sort of monitor called Violator.
He has different powers over the series but here are a couple: He has superhuman strength,
Speed, durability.
He also has a living symbiotic costume which gives him his badass looks AND some powers
to go along with it.
While wearing it it’s bonded to his central nervous system and is protected even while
unconscious by this cape, chains, spikes and skulls.
5) At number 5 we have MAGIK She was born a mutant and is actually, Colossus’s
brother.
But as a child she was kidnapped by Belasco, who was was an evil sorcerer who is granted
immortality and immense mystical power.
He brings her to limbo where he turns part of her soul into a blood stone.
His spells give her considerable magic powers like her teleportation disks.
She also ends up having access to both black and white magics, a soulsword and even has
mystical armour that makes her look like she has horns and hooves.
4) At number 4 we have the Green Lantern Now, there are a lot of Green Lanterns but
for today, let’s look at Hal Jordan for one a little more current than Alan Scott.
He started out as a test pilot who was given a power ring by a dying alien who himself
was a Green Lantern.
He derives his power from this power ring and the Green Lantern battery.
It allows him to channel his will power and emotions to making these super imaginative
constructions to fight evil with.
Examples would be making a huge boxing glove, making himself fly, create shields, swords,
lasers, become invisible, make marriages etc etc etc...i mean it’s limited to him imagination.
3) At number 3 we have Ghost Rider
He started out at Johnny Blaze, at least the first one.
He was a stunt motorcyclist and traded his soul to a devil named Mephisto to save his
surged father from dying of cancer.
On account of this he transforms into a Ghost Rider and is able to sense evil, becomes virtually
indestructible, has superhuman strength and is notoriously hard to injure.
Visually I think he’s a really neat superheroes with his hellfire for skin and floating skull
head.
He also has this sweet ride that is a fiery motorcycle that can travel faster than any
normal vehicles, can jump across wild distances (more than his former stuntman days) and can
defy usually physics by riding up a vertical surface.
He is virtually indestructible, has superhuman strength and very hard to injure, bullets
and knives usually pass through him.
The advantages of being made of hellfire.
2) At number 2 we have Wonder Woman Also knowns as Princess Diana, the daughter
the Queen of the Amazons and Zeus’s daughter.
So she is born of a very strong woman and one of the strongest greek gods.
Needless to say she ends up with superhuman gifts as well as rigorous training growing
up with the Amazons.
She gets to dawn a special suit of armour, as well as a tiara that serves as a projectile,
the lasso of truth and indestructible bracelets.
She also gets to travel around in an invisible plane and wields a magical sword sharp enough
to cut the electrons off an atom.
She can heal quickly, is super strong, very resistant to physical and magical attacks.
She can fly, run exceptionally fast, can communicate with animals and will live longer than most
humans.
The list goes on and on with her.
I mean shes related to a god.
1)At number 1 we have Dr Strange God I loved that movie.
The visuals blew my mind.
He starts out as this egotistical surgeon who likes to have peoples lives in his hands
and is at the top of his career when he gets into a car crash and his hands are ruined.
He spends all of his money on treatments and surgeries to try to get them back in working
order but nothing works.
He spends his last dollars a plane ticket and finds the Sorcerer Supreme who eventually
agrees to take him over his wing as a student.
This is where he is trained in the mystical arts and the martial arts.
He also acquires the Cloak of Levitation and the Eye of Agamotto which allows him to control
time.
This is just the tip of the iceberg though, throughout the series we see him wield a lot
of white magic, uses clairvoyance, he’s able to conjured weapons swords and axes.
There you have it.
The Top 10 Superheroes who got their power from the supernatural.
Which one is your favourite and who would you add to the list?
Comment below and let us know!
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