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superheroes with powers they forgot they had part one minus the Judo but no reaches like
that today so get excited.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Superheroes With Powers They Forgot Part 2 featuring copious
amounts of superman so get excited.
Let’s get started
Number 10 Superman – Phasing Superman has had a wide host of abilities since his creation
in Action Comics #1 in 1938 however not all his forgotten abilities come from the golden
age where it wasn’t uncommon for him to do something one issue and then just never
do it again.
But when it comes to phasing this one he’s used rarely and fans actually argue about
whether he should be able to do it at all.
So there is a panel of Superman phasing out of the way of Doomsday's fist this is post
death of superman which raises a lot of questions about that fight but that’s a rant for Kelly.
So some fans feel that Clark is not fast enough to phase through things while others note
that back in the day he used to lightly vibrate his molecules when photographs were being
taken so he wasn’t recognised so he can do it he just doesn’t.
So conceptually Clark should probably be able to do this but he just doesn’t, he forgets
he has so many other things that and if we add that to him we’re getting into Martian
manhunter turf stepping on his and the flash’s territory.
It would be cool if it was something he can do but it takes a lot of effort so he doesn’t.
Doomsday’s worth the effort.
Number 9 – Thor All Tongue Yet another character who can speak any language I am envious of
this skill.
So this just doesn’t come up a lot although really with what a global hero thor is you’d
think it would.
So this isn’t exactly like Aquaman what the all tongue is, is that the listener will
hear Thor in their native language so he’s like a walking universal translator essentially.
It does come up and has even done so fairly recently but if you were to ask most people
to rank Thor’s abilities and name them all this one may not come up.
Thor isn’t exactly known for his negotiating skills whether you feel that’s fair or not
is a mileage may vary thing.
He is protector of the nine realms so that means he can’t just punch his way through
everything.
So no matter where you are in the world you’ll be able to hear Thor’s dulcet tones in your
own native tongue take comfort in that.
Number 8 – Spider-Man Controlling Spiders – To me my spider minions.
Yeah I’m glad Spider-Man not only forgets about this but it was retconned away he could
also talk to them for a bit.
I mean does whatever a spider can but spiders can’t summon spider hoardes.
So Peter could briefly do this when his powers were enhanced kaine parker one of Peter’s
lingering clones from the neverending clone saga can do this.
So this would be useful few people have the wherewithal to stand there while they’re
covered in spiders but it also dives into too far territory for a lot of fans the same
reason they didn’t like the organic webbing or the pincers some of this comes from way
earlier arcs when spidey would keep mutating and it would horrify him that kind of stuff
lingers.
Spidey is meant to be a more relatable hero and summoning an army of spiders not too relatable.
It’ll pop up every now and again but for the most part it’s forgotten.
Number 7 – Batman Accelerated De-aging now I hear you, you cretin which is a real thing
I was called the other day I’m feeling old school and sophisticated now ok so this is
specific to an arc it’s a Morrison thing from when Batman died in final crisis of course
we all knew he’d be back so it was hardly the most suspenseful occurrence.
So after Bruce was hit by dark sides omega beams it looked like he died but really he
was sent back in time and had to go on an epic quest through different period like as
stone age batman, pirate batman pilgrim batman no matter the era he was batman to fight his
way back to the present.
However he spent time in these time periods so he technically should have aged so an explanation
was derived for why he didn’t come back an old man and that was that travelling though
time had granted him temporary de aging abilities.
Now as a concept this isn’t that weird a build up in time travel energies is a good
way to add a heretofore unseen ability.
It’s how the silver agent is granted powers in Astro city it’s also the source of the
Samartian’s abilities partially.
However when it comes to Batman this is a we need to explain a plot hole that people
would have ignored anyway kinda deal.
We all Bruce is like perma stuck In between 32 and 35.
Number 6 – Superman Mini version – So this is a one issue thing specifically Superman"
#125 and it involved superman being able to shoot miniaturized versions of himself out
of his hands this was because after an encounter with an alien ship Superman lost his powers
except for his invulnerability and he could shoot a mini version of himself who had his
missing powers.
So this is just a fun little adventure but one that is most often forgotten in the modern
era except for on lists like this.
Can superman do this again imagine the looks on the rest of the justice leaguers faces
priceless entirely worth it.
Number 5 – Green Lantern Rings and subconscious mind probing.
So Hal has mentioned his ring could do this a couple of times like in issue 175 when he’s
talking to the flash Barry Allen during his whole I’m about to go on trial for killing
the reverse flash thing he mentions that he could use his ring to subconsciously probe
barry’s mind to see if he did it or not but he doesn’t.
Um what also it’s not seen like it’s a restricted action or anything, do we’re
just having to operate on every lanterns moral compass.
How does the ring even do that do you just will it, the mind makes it real.
This would be really useful if it was regularly employed but it’s one of those things I’m
kinda glad seems to have been forgotten, would you trust guy with this ability.
Jessica Cruz that’s a lot of responsibility.
Number 4 – Wonder Woman and Superbreath, now wonder woman will do this on occasion
but it’s not first up in her arsenal that’s for sure.
Like superman Wonder Woman also has an increased lung capacity that she can use for super breath.
So she can create huge gusts, put out flames just blow over her enemies should she so choose.
In all fairness clark doesn’t use this ability much either it was even a joke in super sons
where Clark’s son Jon would sometimes forget he had freeze breath.
And be like oh yeah I forgot I had that.
So wonder woman seems to forget she has this ability that or well the writers forget it
really depends what type of wonder woman you’re going for she varies a lot depending on who’s
writing her some have a hard time with her base traits and this includes female writers
just because you’re a woman doesn’t mean you can write woman being a woman isn’t
a super power I wish it was., actually no I don’t being a hero is a lot of responsibility
villain life is the life for me.
Number 3 – Magneto Sleep Induction – Oh yes what can’t magneto do by manipulating
the iron levels in your blood well one of the things he has done is use it to knock
people out they say induce sleep but really you’re being knocked out, you would think
he would do this constantly but like ripping out wolverine’s skeleton we don’t see
this very often.
Remember in that x-men video when he drew the iron out of that guys blood.
Like I said In part one the variance in magneto’s power and what he can do can be something
to behold.
Still magneto master of sleep induction I dunno has a good ring to it, give the people
what they want.
Magneto knocking people out with magnetism.
Number 2 – Superman Hypnosis – So it was down between this and his amnesia kissing
ability when he could kiss people and make them forget his kiss was just that god, but
also back in the day Clark was meant to have some latent low powered hypnosis ability.
And for a time he had glasses that were Kryptonian tech that enhanced those abilities this was
usually so that you could explain why no one could tell that clark was superman cause there’s
really not that much difference glasses a curl sometime snot even a curl.
I’m convinced they all know and are just humouring him so that he doesn’t feel bad
about his terrible secret identity hiding skills.
So Clark could stare at you with his Kryptonian eyes and special glasses and make you believe
he was plain mild mannered unassuming Clark Kent and also that he totally turned in all
his articles.
I’m just adding that I mean when did he write anyone else remember when he was an
actual broadcast anchor working for Morgan edge.
Weird times Number 1 Green lantern rings and energy doubles.
Listen when you have a magic space ring controlled by your own will it can get pretty creative.
One of the things the ring could do was mimic a form of astral projection so you could send
a copy of yourself ahead faster than the speed of life but it’s not really useful it can’t
alter it’s surroundings it can only be perceived by the guardians or another ring bearer but
anything your double learns will be transmitted back to you and what are you doing while all
this is going on why you’re just there motionless open vulnerable waiting to be killed.
The guardians do this but lanterns themselves not so much.
It could be strategically useful but if you’re just going to be inert anyway might as well
go there.
This one is not the coolest lantern ability and is often forgotten but hey you never know
when you need an astral projection force ghost.
So those were 10 superheroes with super powers they forgot about let us know who else forgot
about stuff down below or the last time you saw this ability use if it was recently yay
they remembered.
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