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Energy sourcing
Ability to draw energy from the cores of stars or other large sources of energy, such as turning kinetic energy into physical blasts.

Magical powers
Ability to use supernatural forces to varying degrees. Often used to simulate other powers, such as mind control and elemental attacks. Note that not all "magical" superpowers are actually supernatural (Mxyzptlk's abilities, for instance, rely on a set of physics different from our dimension's), but are still so beyond our understanding of science as to be completely unexplainable.


Power bestowal
Ability to bestow powers or jump-start latent powers.


Power mimicry or absorption
Ability to copy or absorb another's powers or skills.


Power negation
Ability to cancel the superpowers of others.

Power sensing
Ability to sense or recognize superhuman powers.

Technopathy
Ability to manipulate technology. It could manifest as a special form of electrical manipulation, a special form of shapeshifting which allows physical interaction with machines, or even a special form of ESP that allows for mental interface with computer data.

Telekinesis
Ability to manipulate and control objects with the mind, often in ways not visible to the naked eye. An extremely powerful telekinetic might be able to control individual atoms.


Accelerated healing
Ability to heal rapidly from any injury; the rate of recovery varies from character to character.

Acid generation
Ability to generate acid, can be manifested through touch or as a spray.

Animal mimicry
Ability to take on the abilities of certain animals.

Biological manipulation
Ability to control all aspects of a living creature's biological make-up. This includes, but is not limited to, genetic alterations, physical distortion/augmentations, healing, disease, and biological functions.

Body part substitution
Ability to replace one's limbs or other body parts with those of another.

Bone manipulation
Ability to manipulate the bones in one's own body. This includes, but is not limited to, the generation of new bone mass, projecting bones out from the skin or rearranging one's own bones.

Duplication
Ability to create physical clones of oneself.

Temporal duplication
Ability to bring past and future versions of oneself back to the present.

Echolocation
Ability to determine location of items in the environment by use of reflected sound waves, whether generated by the character or ambient sound. Also known as sonar sense.

Invisibility
Ability to render the user unseen to the naked eye.

Invulnerability
Ability to be immune to one or more forms of physical damage or injury.

Kinetic absorption
Ability to absorb forms of kinetic energy into oneself and convert it into physical strength.

Matter ingestion
Ability to consume any sort of matter without any ill effects on the user.

Merge
Ability to temporarily merge two beings into a single being, which results in a completely new and stronger being.


Omnipotent
Where one is all-powerful.

Pheromone manipulation
Ability to generate and control pheromones which may have various effects.

Poison generation
Ability to assault others with one or more varieties of toxins, with widely disparate effects.

Prehensile/Animated Hair
The ability to animate and lengthen one's hair.


Reactive adaptation/evolution
Ability to develop a resistance or immunity to whatever they were injured by or exposed to. This effect can be permanent or temporary.

Self-detonation or explosion
Ability to explode one's body mass and reform.

Sonic scream
Ability to generate vocal sounds of a higher amplitude than a normal human.

Superhuman physical resistance
Ability to have a higher resistance to one or more forms of damage before being injured.

Superhuman reflexes
Ability to react faster than a normal human.

Superhuman senses
Ability to see, smell, taste, feel, or hear more than a normal human.

Superhuman strength
Ability to have a level of physical strength higher than that possible by a normal human.

Superhuman vision

Ability to see more than a normal human.

Night vision

Ability to see clearly in darkness.

* Examples: The Owl or Doctor Mid-Nite

X-ray vision

Main article: X-ray vision

Ability to see through solid objects.

* Examples: Peepers or Lar Gand

Telescopic or microscopic vision

Ability to magnify vision to various levels.

* Examples: Hyperion or Power Girl

Wallcrawling

Ability to cling to objects or surfaces by a variety of means.

* Examples: Spider-Man or Anole

Waterbreathing

Main article: Waterbreathing

Ability to respirate through water in lieu of a gaseous medium. Not to be confused with an ability to go without breathing or to be able to breathe an alternate air supply.

* Examples: Namor or Aquaman

Mental faculty and knowledge-based abilities

Innate capability

Ability to naturally have skills and/or knowledge typically earned through learning.

* Examples: Forge and Razorback

Omni-linguism

Ability to understand any form of language. This can be accomplished in various ways.

* Examples: Cypher or Starfire

Omniscience

Main article: Omniscience

Ability to know anything and everything.

* Examples: Infinity and Mageddon

Superhuman intelligence

Ability to have intelligence far above genius level.

* Examples: Leader or Brainiac 5

ESP

Main article: Extra sensory perception

The abilities of extra-sensory perception (ESP) and communication.

Astral projection

Main article: Astral projection

Ability to separate and control one's astral body.

* Examples: Rachel Summers or Ravager

Cross-dimensional awareness

Ability to detect actions and events in other dimensions. This is occasionally used in comics as an awareness of the fourth wall between the characters and the artist or audience.

* Examples: She-Hulk or Ambush Bug

Empathy

Main article: Empathy

Ability to read or sense the emotions and/or control the emotions or feelings of others.

* Examples: Empath or Psycho-Pirate

Mediumship

Ability to see and communicate with the dead (ghosts).

* Examples: Wicked or Lionel Zerb

Precognition

Main article: Precognition
Main article: Clairvoyance

Ability to perceive the future. It may be expressed in vague dreams while asleep, other times it can be clear and can occur at will. It may also be used as a form of "Danger sense" to show the user that they are being threatened and from what direction it is coming from.

* Examples: Destiny or Dream Girl

Psychometry

Main article: Psychometry

Ability to relate details about the past or future condition of an object, person or location, usually by being in close contact with it.

* Examples: Adrienne Frost or Abe Sapien

Telepathy

Main article: Telepathy

Ability to read the thoughts of, or to mentally communicate with others.

* Examples: Emma Frost or Saturn Girl

Domination and mind control

The ability to alter the perceptions of others, and general mind-control.

Astral trapping

Ability to cause an astral projection to stay on the astral plane, usually in one specific place.

* Examples: Shadow King

Memory manipulation

Ability to erase or enhance the memories of another.

* Example: Professor X or Zatanna

Mind control

Main article: Mind control

Ability to control the actions or reasoning of another with the mind.

* Examples: Mesmero or Maxwell Lord

Possession

Main article: Spiritual possession

Ability to take control of another person’s body via astral projection or mind transfer.

* Examples: Nocturne or Jericho

Psionic blast

Ability to overload another's mind causing pain, memory loss, loss of consciousness, vegetative state or death after having created a psionic link into that person's mind.

* Examples: Psylocke or Gorilla Grodd

Psychic weapons

Ability to create a weapon of psionic energy that can harm mentally and not physically.

* Examples: Danielle Moonstar or Wild Thing

Manipulate fundamental forces or reality

These powers may be manifested by various methods, including: by some method of molecular control; by access to, or partially or fully shifting to another dimension; by manipulating the geometric dimensions of time or space; or by some other unnamed method.

Animation

Ability to bring inanimate objects to life or to free a person from petrification.

* Examples: Selene or Mr. Mxyzptlk

Darkness or shadow manipulation

Ability to create or manipulate darkness, often by mentally accessing a dimension of dark energy (the Darkforce dimension in Marvel Comics, and the Shadowlands in DC Comics) and manipulating it.

* Examples: Black Death or Obsidian

Density control

Ability to increase the natural density of an object and/or one's self.

* Examples: Vision or Martian Manhunter

Disintegration

Ability to disintegrate matter through touch.

* Examples: Wither or Plasmus

Elemental transmutation

Main article: Transmutation

The ability to alter chemical elements, changing them from one substance to another by rearranging the atomic structure . May be limited to self-transmutation. (Also known as alchemy)

* Examples: Alchemy or Metamorpho

Gravity manipulation

Ability to manipulate or generate gravitons, or other types of gravitational interactions.

* Examples: Alex Power or Geo-Force

Immortality

Main article: Immortality

Ability to live forever. This may be complete immortality in which the character cannot be killed in any way, appears to die but is resurrected somehow, or simply an inability to age normally, or even only be killed in specific ways (i.e. decapitation).

* Examples: Mr. Immortal or Vandal Savage

Intangibility or phasing

Ability to phase through solid matter without harm.

* Examples: Kitty Pryde or Phantom Girl

Light manipulation

Ability to control, generate or absorb photons (particles of light).

* Examples: Northstar or Dr. Light

Magnetism manipulation

Ability to control and/or generate magnetic fields.

* Examples: Magneto or Doctor Polaris

Mass manipulation

Ability to increase or decrease mass in an object or person.

* Examples: Harry Leland or Star Boy

Molecular manipulation

Ability to mentally manipulate molecules and objects on a molecular level.

* Examples: Mr. M or Firestorm or Solar

Probability manipulation

Main article: Probability

Ability to alter probability, causing unlikely things to happen or likely things to not happen.

* Examples: Black Cat or Calamity King

Radiation manipulation

Ability to generate, manipulate or have immunity to toxic radiation.

* Examples: X-Ray or Captain Atom

Reality warping

Main article: Reality warper

Ability to change or manipulate reality itself.

* Examples: Franklin Richards or Mister Mxyzptlk

Sound manipulation

Ability to manipulate sound waves.

* Examples: Klaw or The Fiddler

Time manipulation

Ability to effect the flow of time, slowing, accelerating or even stopping it.

* Examples: Sway or Zoom

Classical elements

Ability to control or manipulate the classical elements.

Air and wind manipulation

Ability to control, generate, or absorb air or wind.

* Examples: Wind Dancer or Red Tornado

Cold and ice manipulation

Ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature, can be used to control, generate, or absorb ice.

* Examples: Iceman or Killer Frost

Earth manipulation

Ability to control earth; sand, stone, rock, lava, dirt, or minerals.

* Examples: Dust or Terra

Electric manipulation

Ability to control, generate or absorb electrical fields.

* Examples: Electro or Black Lightning

Fire and heat manipulation

Main article: Pyrokinesis

Ability to control the kinetic energy of atoms to generate, control or absorb fire.

* Examples: Pyro or Fire

Plant manipulation

Ability to accelerate the growth of, control or animate plant life.

* Examples: Gardener or Poison Ivy

Water and moisture manipulation

Ability to control, generate or absorb water.

* Examples: Hydro-Man or Garth

Weather manipulation

Ability to control or mentally affect the weather. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena (rain, tornadoes, lightning, etc.) or control the intensity of the weather.

* Examples: Monsoon or Typhoon or Sarah Rainmaker

Energy manipulation

Main article: Energy

These powers deal with energy generation, conversion and manipulation. In addition to generic energy, versions of these powers exist that deal with such things as light, sound, electricity, nuclear energy, and "darkforce".

Concussion beams

Ability to generate or transform various forms of energy into a "solid" or concussive beam of energy.

* Examples: Cyclops or Gunfire

Energy blasts

Main article: Energy blast
See also: Heat vision

Ability to expel various forms of energy from the body.

* Examples: Havok or Ray

Energy constructs

Ability to create complex shapes (such as giant boxing gloves or cages) or even functional machinery (such as fire extinguishers or laser rifles) out of solid energy.

* Examples: Cerise or Jade

Energy conversion

Ability to absorb one form of energy and convert it into another form of energy.

* Examples: Dazzler or Bishop

Force field generation

Main article: Force field (science fiction)

Ability to generate a shield of energy produced as a form of protection.

* Examples: Radius or Argent

Transportation or travel

Dimensional transportation

Ability to create wormholes, portation "discs" or other spatial portals for transport between two non-adjacent locations

* Examples: Blink or Spot

Electrical transportation

Ability to travel through electrical conduits (such as power lines, or telephone lines). Can enter through devices such as televisions, electrical poles or computers.

* Examples: Atom or Air Wave

Omnipresence

Ability to be present anywhere and everywhere always.

* Examples: Eternity or The Source

Summoning

Ability to summon objects or beings for assistance.

* Examples: Magik or Kid Eternity

Superhuman speed

Main article: List of characters who can move at superhuman speeds

Ability to move at speeds faster than a normal human.

* Examples: Quicksilver or The Flash

Teleportation

Main article: Teleportation

Ability to move from one place to another without occupying the space in between.

* Examples: Nightcrawler or Misfit

Time travel

Main article: Time travel

Ability to travel back and forth through time.

* Examples: Kang the Conqueror or Chronos

Miscellaneous

The following powers could be manifested in any number of ways.

Flight

Main article: Flight
See also: Gliding and Levitation

Ability to lift off the ground, to ride air currents or to fly self-propelled through the air.

* Examples: Characters with flight

Different forms of flight include:

Energy propulsion methods

* Cosmic energy control
o Examples: Ms. Marvel
* Energy aura projection
o Examples: Sunfire or Looker
* Gravitational manipulation
o Examples: Gravity
* Magnetic levitation
o Examples: Magneto or Static
* Sonic repulsion field
o Examples: Siryn
* Telekinetic power
o Examples: Justice or Match
* Thermo-chemical energy
o Examples: Cannonball

Physical propulsion methods

* Insectoid form
o Examples: Wasp or Insect Queen
* Wind current control
o Examples: Storm
* Wings
o Examples: Angel or Northwind

Illusion
Ability to alter or deceive the perceptions of another. Can be sensory, a light or sound-based effect, or an alteration of mental perceptions.

Shapeshifting
Ability to change appearance or body structure.

Types of shapeshifting include:

* Animal morphing: Ability to take on animal forms. May be able to take on the abilities of the altered form.
* Elasticity: Ability to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine.
* Inorganic: Ability to transform completely into an inorganic substance while retaining organic properties.
* Liquification: Ability to turn partially or completely into a liquid.
* Size shifting: Ability to increase or decrease one's size.
* Sublimation: Ability to transform into a gaseous, mist, or fog-like form.
* Transformation: Ability to transform into substance touched.

2007-06-28 10:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Azure Z 6 · 0 3

These are supernatural powers of Buddha and other Arahats from Buddhism. You can choose what you want.

Super-normal Powers -Abhinnas

1. Supernormal Powers for producing miracles(Iddhividha)

2. The Divine Ear like that of the devas(Dibbasota)

3. Power to read the minds of others (Paracitta vijanana)

4. Knowledge of Former existences( Pubbenivasanussati)

5. The Divine Eye (Dibba-cakkhu)

6. Higher psychic power which can eradicate defilements (Asavakkhaya)

2007-06-28 17:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There is no such thing as a cool supernatural power that any human can have or achieve.. For all supernatural power carry a heavy price that must be paid for by the processor of those powers... I don't care if the price is minor like a headache or a constant nose bleeding... It is a price that has to be payed... And there are many that has payed that price with their very lives, Just to save one person.... And there is nothing cool about that...................................................................

2007-06-28 19:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 1 0

To be invisible and be able to walk through walls, to be able to focus and go to any place I would like, before I go to sleep to able to ask my dreams a question and get an answer/dream vision in my sleep or to be able to make things vanish.

2007-06-28 23:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by blesnme 3 · 0 0

being able to go invisible to life objects with your mind no matter what they are to turn objects into anything you desire with just the power of your mind and to talk to animals but the best one would be to talk to God and get a conversation going between the two of you

2007-06-28 22:00:42 · answer #5 · answered by billc4u 7 · 0 0

I'd like to have the same powers as Jean Grey from x-men.

2007-06-28 17:57:02 · answer #6 · answered by You wish 4 · 0 0

Hearing people's thoughts can be freaky, but having dreams that come true is a good warning of what's to come.

2007-06-28 17:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by nita5267 6 · 0 0

The ability to walk between planes of existance whenever you wish.

2007-06-28 17:37:01 · answer #8 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 1 0

I'm born with the powers to hear people and know the future of those who die and are about to die.

2007-06-28 17:37:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i would like the ability to fly.of course ill be scared to death of using my power tho but it sounds really cool.lol

2007-06-28 17:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

being able to channel your spirit into animals

2007-06-28 17:29:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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