Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 Nerd.
Today we’re looking at even more power restrictions you all can’t get enough and we love talking
about it.
So we’ve dug deep we’ve gotten obscure and we’re going to be given you the Top
10 Superheroes With Weird Power Restrictions Part 3.
I’m Sasha and before we get started I have to give a shout out to Eric Griffin who pointed
out that I had been remiss and forgotten larfleezes oath but kindly as I said in that comment
it’s been a long time between me and the emotion spectrum and I made the foolish mistake
of believing my memory was not failing me.
Me and all the rest of here at top 10 nerd are human, and it’s a journey side note
always be researching don’t ever just take one source and when you can read the comics
for yourselves there is absolutely no substitute for it.
We are a gateway as top on the journey.
So thanks Eric appreciate you Now let’s get to it.
Number 10 Alan Scott – Wood We’re going back to the golden age for this one and back
to the first green lantern.
Green Lantern first debuted in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940) he got his powers from
a mystic meteor which is found by alan scott a young railroad engineer it tells him to
fashion a ring which he does cause you do what glowing rocks and things on fire tell
you to.
He uses his powers to take on crime it is then that he learns that his weakness is wood.
He can create a forcefield but wood and clubs he’s down for the count.
Also this used to extend to plant based objects, but it had to quickly get specific cause well
that’s a lot of things.
Why was his ring vulnerable against wood….reasons initially for tension otherwise I mean who
could beat a man with a magic ring and the confidence to wear a costume made out of so
many colours.
Later the idea was introduced in an elseworlds story super and batman generations 2 that
the weakness was a mental block.
To which I say sure jan.
Now this was the golden age so of course it needs to regarded differently, but you know
what didn’t happen in the golden age our number 9
Number 9 Power girl - Unprocessed materials Power Girl has an intriguing history she first
appeared in All Star Comics #58 (February 1976) and Is
superman’s cousin kara zor el from an alternate universe.
She was initially from Earth 2 the realm that was said to house the golden age wartime heroes.
However over time she has been phased into the mainverse or well she was since rebirth
she’s kinda been trapped.
DC has long had a problem with deciding just how to portray her which has resulted in some
fluctuations in powers and weaknesses at first she was all kryptonian but post crisis on
infinite earths where she survived and event that was meant to clean up the timelines and
all confusion.
Which resulted in incidents such as 1997 “Supergirl” Vol.4 #16 she proclaims “sticks and stones
can really break my [bones]” why cause they didn’t know what to do they were trying
to make her different in a way aside from her rather bountiful chest.
Which boob window for life.
It was an odd period and quickly forgotten.
Number 8 - Captain Marvel Jr.
– So the Shazam family as they are now called, they started out as the Marvel family but
you know legalities.
So Captain Marvel jr debuted in Whiz Comics #25 (December 1941) he was a companion character
to Captain Marvel and meant to be relatable to readers so he remained a teenager initially.
He at first didn’t say Shazam to transform and instead he said Captain Marvel which resulted
in the dilemma that he couldn’t say his own superhero name which doesn’t sound like
too big a deal until an occurrence that would arise a decent amount.
People would ask him what it was.
You know our hero who can we say saved us.
And he’d have to be like of oh you know Captian mgjhghg.
All of this was changed when DC took over Fawcett comics assets.
And for some reason in the new 52 he was blond.
Number 7 - Geo-Force , Geo force these days is best known as oh terra’s brother but
there was a time when he stood on his own as well he first debuted in Appeared: The
Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983) Brian Markov is the prince of maldovia enhanced
by Doctor Jace to stop an insurrection by Baron Bedlam after which he joined the outsiders.
His powers as one can glean are earth based he can maipuilate the earths gravitational
field.
He can make objects heavier or lighter and can project lava blasts sometimes he can utilize
his powers a bit like Terra but that weaken his durability.
However his true weakness his restriction to be at max power he needs to be touching
the ground.
And the further he gets away from the earth the weaker he gets and his health will start
to be affected to.
So no space mission for Brian otherwise you know what happens . Number 6 happens
Number 6 – Adam Strange Earth Withdrawal.
– Adam strange first debuted in Showcase #17 (November 1958) he’s a classic he was
created because dc comics wanted a science fiction hero.
Adam Strange is an archeologist who suddenly finds himself teleported from peru to ran
through a zeta beam The beam was sent out by Sardath in hopes that it would bring intelligent
life to their world to help in their war.
Drawn into a conflict he doesn’t fully understand Strange falls in love with the beautiful alien
Alanna and comes to care for Rann more than his original homeworld here’s the thing
though he physically can’t stay on ran for as long as he wants or couldn’t rather.
Initially he would sometimes just randomly be teleported back to earth most often in
times of narrative inconvenience for maximum drama.
Cliché but it worked.
Also the environment of ran well it’s not conducive for human health if he remains on
ran for more than year without returning to earth at some point he’ll die.
Makes his marriage a little complicated but not too much.
With modern dc tech its just a hop a jump and a teleport away.
Still the kinda thing you might forget…maybe.
Number 5 - Angel Dust – Adrenaline , Angel dust is a more recent edition to the list
debuting in Morlocks #1 (June, 2002) she’s a mutant with the powers to elevate her adrenaline
levels.
When In this mode she can lift a max of 25 tons But she can only do this for a short
amount of time or she’ll exhaust and hurt herself.
So like a regular person who activates their adrenaline then only with a higher limit.
Have you seen the things a protective mom will do.
I’ve turned into the hulk more than once.
I think angel dust may just be a regular person.
That’s a joke and probably not a good one.
Number 4 Rose Wilson – Rose Wilson is the daughter of infamous DC villain Deathstroke
a.k.a Slade Wilson.
She was injected with the same serum as her father to enhance her as he was enhanced by
the HIVE.
She has increased reflexes, stamina, and strength but she was prone to bouts of psychotic rage
like gouging her own eye out.
She could also increase her abilities through adrenaline however this would leave her metabolism
unbalanced.
And it would ultimately weaken her and cause her to gets sick so it was a trade off.
Since the new 52 you can forget all that.
Number 3 - Havok – 17 hours - So Havok is cylops brother and a really prominent member
of the x-men in the comicverse.
So havok absorbs ambient cosmic energy and then discharges it in a plasma form or blast.
Here’s the thing his body is always doing this once he reaches capacity it immediately
starts emitting it, his chest will show you how much energy he has left and if he depletes
it all well he’ll be useful again in 17 hours.
17 whole hours so plan around that villains.
I mean on the one hand it’s excellent but on the other hand it’s quite the hindrance
and can be exploited.
Hence a weird restriction.
Number 2 - Wolverine – The Muramasa Blade for this we’re going to be talking about
the second muramasa blade and yes my enunciation is off in a language I do not speak.
This blade was forged utilizing a little piece of wolverine’s soul and it’s ridiculous
the sword has sliced through one of cylcops optic beams and can reduce healing factors
however according to wolverine it’s the one thing on earth that can truly kill him.
I dunno good trade off?
But if I was essentially immortal it would be comforting to know that there was something
out there to end eternity.
Seriously think about the existential terror of eternal life.
It’s scary.
And number 1 I’ve been chimping at the bit to talk about this one since the video started,
Cookies!
Martian Manhunter and cookies.
I mentioned martian manhunters love of cookies on the scary alien super heroes list we did
and now I get to elaborate.
John Jones loves Chocos which are 100% not oreos cause those are trademarked.
These chocolate cream filled cookies are completely different.
This all happened during john’s time on the justice league international.
At first it all seemed cool they were his favourite snack ok but then booster gold and
blue beetle pranked him buying up the whole town’s supply of chocos and stole his.
And well John went into withdrawal and turned into a literal monster.His intellect even
lowered and he became very hulk like.
The team had to lead him to the cookies and he ate them til he returned to normal batman
then discovered that a chemical in the cookies acted like a narcotic in Martians.
Leading to the great line you’re a junkie a chocos junkie.
Now some say this never happened as john was narrating it but to that I say how dare you.
Also the jli are fun books read them.
So those were ten more superheroes with weird power restrictions how do you feel about some
villains next sound off in the comments below.
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