List of Powers

Abilities resulting from either induced evolution or natural selection in humans. These abilities range from enhanced physical abilities, such as strength, speed and accelerated healing, to phenomenal psychic powers, such as telepathy and telekinesis. These powers are sometimes caused by a genetic birth defect, which shows up later on in life as supernatural powers, but exposure to chemicals or radiation has also been known to cause superhuman mutations.

Power manipulation

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

Examples: Sage or Synergy

Power mimicry
Ability to copy another's powers when that power is used against you

Examples: Black Alice

Power absortion
Abillity to absorb the powers and skills of another by touch. The person with this power can't touch another person without hurting them

It is recommended that you absorb no more than 5 powers at once

Example: Rogue

Power negation
Ability to cancel the superpowers of others.


Examples: Leech or Scrambler

Power sensing
Ability to sense or recognize superhuman powers.


Examples: Caliban

Personal physical powers
Powers which affect a physical person's body.


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

Examples: Characters with accelerated healing

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

Examples: Anarchist and Man-Thing

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

Examples: Animal Man

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

Examples: Terror Inc.

Bone manipulation
Ability to manipulate the bones in ones 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.

Examples: Marrow or Spike

Cloning
Ability to create physical clones of oneself.

Examples: Characters with duplication

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).

Examples: Daredevil or Man-Bat

Invisibility
Main article: Invisibility
Ability to render the user unseen to the naked eye.

Examples: Characters with invisibility

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

Examples: Supergirl or superman

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

Examples: Strong Guy or Sebastian Shaw

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

Examples: Matter-Eater Lad or Gluttony

Merge
Ability to temporarily merge two beings into a single being, which results in a completely new and stronger being. The mutants are normally sisters or brothers

Examples: Kleinstocks or B'Wana Beast or Siang

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

Examples: Wallflower or Crimson Fox

Photographic reflexes
Ability to mimic any athletic or martial arts movement after seeing it once.

Examples: Taskmaster or Echo

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

Examples: Characters with poison

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.

Examples: Darwin or Doomsday

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

Examples: Nitro or Damage

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

Examples: Banshee or Silver Banshee

Superhuman physical resistance
Ability to have a higher resistance to one or more forms of damage before being injured. (BE SPECIFIC OF WHAT FORM OF DAMAGE YOU POCESS RESISTANCE TO)

Examples: Luke Cage or Solomon Grundy or The Tick

Superhuman reflexes
Ability to react faster than a normal human.

Examples: Blade or Midnighter

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

Examples: Sabretooth or Timber Wolf

Night vision
Ability to see clearly in darkness.

Examples: Characters with night vision

X-ray vision
Ability to see through solid objects.

Examples: Superboy or Lar Gand

Superhuman strength
Ability to be stronger than a normal human.

Examples: Superman

Undersea adaptation
Ability to adapt to conditions underwater (underwater breathing, resistance to cold and pressure).

Examples: Aquaman or Namor

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

Examples: Anole or Spider-Woman

Mental faculty and knowledge-based abilities

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

Examples: Cypher or Starfire

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

Astral projection
Ability to separate and control one's astral body. Sometimes accomplished by use of telepathy or magic.

Examples: Rachel Summers or Raven

Clairvoyance
Ability to perceive events that are taking place elsewhere or sense places that are not in view.

Examples: Mar-Vell or Captain Marvel

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
Ability to read or sense the emotions or feelings of others.

Examples: Characters with empathy

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

Examples: Lionel Zerb or Wicked

Precognition
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: Characters with precognition

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

Examples: Characters with telepathy

Domination and mind control
The ability to alter the perceptions of others and control the actions or reasoning of another with the mind.

Eamples : Emma Frost, Mastermind, Mesmero


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

Examples: Shadow King or Professor X


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

Manipulation
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: Ozymandias or Quislet

Density control
Ability to increase the natural density of an object or one's self.

Examples: Vision or Firestorm

Disintegration
Ability to disintegrate matter through touch.

Examples: Wither or Plasmus

Elemental transmutation
Ability to alter chemical elements, changing them from one substance to another. May be limited to self-transmutation. (Also known as alchemy)

Examples: Alchemy

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

Examples: Characters who manipulate gravity

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: Characters with immortality

Intangibility or phasing
Ability to phase through solid matter without harm.

Examples: Shadowcat or Martian Manhunter


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

Examples: Micromax or Black Mass


Probability manipulation
Ability to alter probability, causing unlikely things to happen or likely things to not happen. This can be described in terms of blessings and curses.

Examples: Characters who manipulate probability

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

Examples: Characers who manipulate radiation

Reality warping
Main article: Reality warper
Ability to change or manipulate reality itself.

Examples: Characters who can warp reality


Kinetic Powers

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

Examples: Mr. M or Firestorm or Solar

Sonokinesis
Ability to manipulate sound waves.

Examples: Characters who manipulate sound

Umbrakinesis
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. A character with this power may use it for various purposes.

Examples: Characters who manipulate darkness or shadow

Magnetokinesis
Ability to control and/or generate magnetic fields.

Examples: Magneto

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

Examples: Storm

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

Examples: Iceman

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

Examples: Avalanche

Electrokinesis
Ability to control, generate or absorb electrical fields.

Examples: Characters who manipulate electricity

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

Examples: Pyro

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

Examples: Characters who manipulate plants

Hydrokinesis
Ability to control, generate or absorb water.

Examples: Characters who manipulate water

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

Examples: Cable

Atmokinesis
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: Storm

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


Energy manipulation
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
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 Charging
Ability to charge inanimate objects with explosive kinetic energy

Example: Gambit

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.

Examples: Eternity or The Source

Summoning
Ability to summon objects or beings for assistance.

Examples: Magik or Kid Eternity

superhuman speed
Ability to move at speeds faster than a normal human.

Examples: Characters with superhuman speed

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

Examples: Nightcrawler

Time travel
Ability to travel back and forth through time.

Examples: Trevor Fitzroy or Hourman

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

Levitation
Ability to use the mind or another gravitional repulsion/negation method to lift off a few feet off the ground...NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH FLIGHT

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

different forms of flight include:


Avian (feathered wings)
Examples: Angel or Northwind

Bat-winged
Examples: Fallen

Cosmic energy control
Examples: Ms. Marvel

Energy aura projection
Examples: Aero or Looker

Gravitational manipulation
Examples: Gravity

Insectoid form
Examples: Wasp or Insect Queen

Magnetic levitation
Examples: Magneto

Solar flare
Examples: Sunfire

Sonic repulsion field
Examples: Siryn

Telekinetic power
Examples: Justice

Thermo-chemical reaction control
Examples: Cannonball

Wind current control
Examples: Storm

Illusion
Ability to alter or deceive the perceptions of another. Can be visual, it may be a light-based effect, a sound-based effect, a mind-affecting effect or any other effect that causes one to perceive things that are not necessarily real.

Examples: Emma Frost

Shapeshifting
Ability to change appearance or body structure.

Examples: Mystique

Types of shapeshifting include

Metamorph (limited to human forms, unable to change mass)

Animorph (take on animal forms. May be able to take on the abilities of the altered form)

Polymorph (assume any form, size, mass and appearance at will)


Elasticity:
Ability to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine.

Examples: Characters who can stretch themselves

Liquification:
Ability to turn partially or completely into a liquid.

Examples: Hydro-Man or Aspen Matthews

Sublimation:
Ability to transform into a gaseous, mist, or fog-like form.
Examples Amelia Voght or Vapor


Spontaneous combustion:
The ability to spontaneously combust and/or engulf any portion of or all of oneself in fiery plasma without harm to oneself whatsoever. AKA Magma Form

Example: Johnny Storm

Firestorm:
The ability to summon a firestorm that can cover great distances, from an acre to over a fifty thousand-mile radius.


Fire Breath:
A character can project his/her fire from his/her mouth by breathing and exhaling at will, like a dragon.


Thermokinesis:
The character possesses the ability to manipulate the heat and temperature within his/her surrounding environment. They are able to generate the heat from within themselves, manipulate the heat and temperature within the air or within or on any objects or beings around them, etc.