What is the most obscure super power?

Question

Of all the super heros that you know of which one has the most unheard of and lameist super power?

Answer 1

You know, I'd MUCH rather be Aquaman and talk to fish than be either of these guys from the Legion of Super-Heroes:

Fortress Lad and Arm-fall-off Boy. Yes, you heard right. Their powers are, respectively, "being the original Legion of Super-Heroes clubhouse", and, well, "the ability to make his arm fall off." I'm not kidding here.

(By the way, Aquaman gets no respect. A guy who gets his hand cut off and replaces it with a harpoon is a badass in my book.)

Answer 2

Obscure Super Powers

Answer 3

Although not superheros by definition, these characters do have lame super powers. One is Brent in PVP that can summon a violent panda that quickly attacks him. There is a character in Searching For Group that can summon a huge wolf that quickly attacks him.

The show the Tick had some "real" super heros with lame superpowers (on purpose). The Tick, himself, has the ability to make things more dramatic with his Drama Power.

Answer 4

Well, you'd need to check with the Legion of Superfluous-Heroes, but when last I checked, their roll-call is not finished, so it is indeterminate that you could choose between them, as we don't know if a quorum is or isn't present.

I always liked Aquaman, the issues in his own title near the end of it's run where he spent a year and a half looking for his kidnapped wife (OK, it was a bi-monthly, but still) by Steve Skeates & Jim Aparo were vastly entertaining. Mmm, Aparo. Early Aparo, true, but so promising & well-done even then.

And it is untrue that he is lame; he swims extremely quickly at the bottom of the sea, so when he is on land, he no longer needs to deal with all the water pressure and is therefore a power house of strength & speed.

Furthermore; talking to fish is a useful skill if you need underwater surveilance. Fish are *everywhere* underwater. Nobody ever rags on Hawkman for talking to birds; they, too, are *everywhere* in the atmosphere.

Now, if you want , let's talk about The Fly...

Answer 5

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Grow-Arm-Hair-Lad, of the Directory to a Nonexistent Universe. (It was a one-shot spoof on Marvel Directory and DC’s Who’s Who.) Even when all the other heroes in his (nonexistent) universe were summoned to meet a cosmically powerful entity, GAHL was left behind!

His name tells you his only power. He lied to his mother and told her they were having a school play, “Ginger’s Amazing Hanging Lips”, to get her to sew a costume with the initials on the chest. Then he swiped his father’s cordless shaver and kept it in his pocket so he could shave his arms after every time he used his super power, and nobody would ever suspect that he was Grow-Arm-Hair-Lad!

As if anybody would care.

27 MAR 07, 0545 hrs, GMT.

Answer 6

I must agree that Aquaman has the lamest super power, unless someone decides to take over the world's oceans. However, Aquaman is still infinitely better than Batman, who has no powers what so ever.

Answer 7

Well we got Big Bertha. A super-model (the run way kind, like Tyra Banks or Paris Hilton) who has the ability to grow to the size of a large huge fat woman, then shrink back down to her super-model size again.

Flat-Man: Who is a ... man that is ... flat ... he is thin and flat.

Mr. Immortal: Man who dies and comes back to life in 2-10 minutes. He dies, we see him die, he feels it, but he just comes back to life. Kinda like the elf in Drawn Together.

Squirrel Girl: The ability to talk to squirrels. She also has sharp finger nails and buck teeth! With her squirrel army she once defeated Dr. Doom. Literally. I am not kidding, look it up.

These are all marvel comic book characters.

DC itself is full of lame superheros. Super-Man use to have a ton of them.
He could create a projector screen with his super mind.
He could create a mini verison of himself from his finger tips, which it died saving the city and his thoughts were "If he dies while saving the city then tough luck for him".
He had super-knitting powers. Not Kidding.
God that's only a few of them.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

The lamest power has to be Aquamans ability to talk to fish under water...I mean come on summoning fish ?!!!! what kinda lame azzed power is that anyways. ??

Answer 10

The power to grow your nails really fast-Meg Griffin, Family guy.