Not all superheroes are created equal. Throughout the many
years of Marvel and DC publishing comics, there have been some heroes with very
strange, or useless seeming powers. Though there are many, here is a little bit
about three of them.
Jubilee is an X-Man with the mutant ability to create bursts of coloured light
from her hands. This means that on a team including a guy with eye beams,
someone controlling all forms of weather, and a regenerating knife master, she
can make some harmless fireworks. As she was written into more and more comics,
writers found her so useless they began to “evolve” her powers so she can now
use them to smash objects. For the most part though, Jubilee was there to
dazzle the enemy.
Blue Beetle is a hero with intellect and gadgetry that rivals even Batman in
its complexity. However, Blue Beetle wields the strangest weapon, the Beetle
Gun. This gun creates bursts of light and compressed air that is used to
disorient and knock enemies over. Blue Beetle looks like he could be such an
effective crime fighter, if his gun didn’t sound like some sort of toy.
Cypher is a strange character; his ability is to understand any language
intuitively. While this means he’s an awesome translator in a world with many
alien races, it’s when he starts to use it “in the field” that it really seems
the writers were grasping at straws. In hand-to-hand combat, Cypher can “read
someone’s body language” to anticipate and respond to their attacks. He has
also “read” the structural make-up of a building in order to know how to bring
it down. I don’t really know if those things should count…
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