Superman Possesses Extraordinary Powers, with the Character
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1 - Superman 2 - Batman Batman has no inherent superhuman Superman possesses extraordinary powers. To compensate for this he relies powers, with the character on his own scientific knowledge, detective traditionally described as "faster than skills, and athletic prowess. In the stories a speeding bullet, more powerful than Batman is regarded as one of the world's a locomotive, and able to leap tall greatest detectives; if not the world's buildings in a single bound". For most greatest crime solver. Batman uses a large of his existence, Superman's famous arsenal of specialized gadgets in his war arsenal of powers has included flight, against crime, the designs of which usually super-strength, invulnerability to non- share a bat motif. He is also a master of magical attacks, super-speed, vision disguise, often gathering information powers (including x-ray, heat-emitting, under the identity of Matches Malone, a telescopic, infra-red, and microscopic notorious gangster. Additionally, the vision), super-hearing, and super- Batman has been repeatedly described as breath, which enables him to blow out one of the greatest martial artists in the air at freezing temperatures, as well as DC Universe. exert the propulsive force of high- speed winds. 3 - Iron Man 4 - Thor Iron Man possesses powered armor that gives him superhuman strength and durability, flight, and an array of weapons. Iron Man's standard Thor possesses a very high resistance offensive weapons have always been to physical injury that approaches the repulsor rays that are fired from invulnerability. Thor also possesses his palm. Other weapons include: the keen senses that allows him to track uni-beam projector in its chest; pulse objects traveling faster than light and bolts , an electromagnetic pulse hear cries from the other side of the generator; and a defensive energy planet. Thor has the ability to travel shield. Stark also has super-humanly through time. He has incredible acute sensory perceptions as well as stamina and the ability to regenerate extraordinary awareness of the wounded portions of his body. Thor physical processes within his own body has superhuman speed, agility, and reflexes, enabling him to deflect bullets with his hammer. Like all Asgardians he has immunity to all Earthly diseases and some resistance to magic. 5 - Hulk 6 - Captain America The Hulk possesses the potential for limitless physical strength depending directly on his emotional state, Captain America has no superhuman particularly his anger. He has the powers, although as a result of the ability to absorb energy from Super-Soldier Serum and "Vita-Ray" multiverse that provides him with his treatment, he is transformed from a frail increased bulk and apparently limitless young man into a "perfect" specimen of strength. His durability, regeneration, human development and conditioning. and endurance also increase in His strength, endurance, agility, speed, proportion to his temper. He is reflexes, durability, and healing are at resistant to most forms of injury or the zenith of natural human potential. damage. The Hulk's powerful legs He cannot become intoxicated by allow him to leap into lower Earth alcohol, drugs, or impurities in the air orbit or across continents and he has and is immune to terrestrial diseases. displayed sufficient superhuman speed. 7 - Hellboy 8 - Ghost Rider His obvious powers are his Projecting hellfire as a weapon is his superhuman strength, healing factor, main form of attack. Hellfire is a and endurance. He also has the innate supernatural flame which typically ability to comprehend ancient and burns the soul and not the body, but magical languages. Hellboy's ultimate also could be used as regular flame. power lies dormant within his giant, He also possesses supernatural stone hand. Hellboy has a high degree strength and endurance, as well as of resilience to injury. Hellboy carries a almost total invulnerability to physical variety of items in his utility belt and damage. Any damage he does take is jacket that can be used against various quickly recovered, as Ghost Rider is supernatural forces. He has been made of pure hellfire, which he can known to carry holy relics, horseshoes, use to immediately regenerate any lost various herbs, and hand grenades. He limbs or holes in his body. When riding also often fights hand-to-hand. their bikes, the vehicles can travel faster than conventional motorcycles and can maneuver impossible feats. 9 - Daredevil 10 - Wolverine Daredevil is a blind superhero. Wolverine is a mutant with a number Although blind, the character's of both natural and artificial remaining four senses function with improvements to his physiology. His high levels of superhuman accuracy primary mutant power is an and sensitivity, giving him abilities far accelerated healing process, typically beyond the limits of a sighted person; referred to as his mutant healing few know that the hero cannot see. factor, that regenerates damaged or Daredevil is a master of martial arts. destroyed tissues of his body far Daredevil's signature weapon is his beyond the capabilities of an ordinary specially-designed billy club, which he human. His skeleton was reinforced created. Disguised as a blind man's with the virtually indestructible metal cane in civilian garb, it is a multi- adamantium., giving him strength and purpose weapon and tool. agility. Wolverine's mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of his body, including pronounced, and sharp fang-like canines and three retractable claws housed within each forearm. 11 - Green Lantern 12 - Spiderman Spider-Man has the ability to cling to Each Green Lantern wields a power walls, superhuman strength, a sixth ring that can generate a variety of sense that alerts him to danger, effects, sustained purely by the ring perfect balance and equilibrium, as wearer's imagination and strength of well as superhuman speed and agility. will. The greater the user's willpower, He has the ability to shoot webs from the more effective the ring; the ring his wrists. He also has mechanical can construct green solid-energy that web-shooters. This mechanism ejects can be used to attack, defend, or to an advanced adhesive, releasing web- grab targets, create force-field fluid in a variety of configurations, generation, rendering target invisible including a single rope-like strand to and produce light and beam. The ring swing from, a net to bind enemies, a also helps him to fly and time travel single strand for yanking opponents into objects, strands for whipping foreign objects at enemies, and a simple glob to foul machinery or blind an opponent. 13 - Human Torch 14 - Invisible Girl Human Torch’s primary power is the ability to envelop his body in fiery plasma without harm to himself, in which form he is able to fly by providing thrust behind himself with his own flame, and to generate powerful streams and/or balls of fire. Invisible Girl can render herself wholly He can also manipulate his flame in or partially invisible at will. She can such a way as to shape it into rings and also render other people or objects other forms. He has the ability to invisible by mentally bending all control any fire within his immediate wavelengths of light. She can also range of vision. Additionally, he is able mentally generate a psionic field of to absorb fire/plasma into his body invisible force apparently drawn from with no detrimental effects. He also hyperspace, which she manipulates for has shown the ability to detect heat a variety of effects. Most commonly, signatures. she generates near-indestructible invisible force fields around herself or other targets. She can shape her psionic force fields into invisible constructs, usually simple shapes such as barriers, columns, cones, cylinders, darts, discs, domes, platforms, rams, ramps, slides and spheres. 15 - Silver Surfer 16 - Catwoman Silver Surfer wields the Power Cosmic, granting him superhuman strength, endurance, senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universe's ambient energy for a variety of effects. Catwoman's favored weapon is a whip. The Surfer can navigate through She wields both a standard bullwhip interstellar space, dimensional and the cat o' nine tails with expert barriers, and hyperspace, which he can proficiency. She uses caltrops as an enter to exceed the speed of light when flying on his board, and has even anti-personnel weapon and bolas to proven capable of time travel on entangle opponents at a distance. In several occasions, even able to make addition, Catwoman has been shown others time-travel with him. The Surfer sustains himself by converting matter to have various items to restrain her into energy; does not require food, victims. water, air, or sleep and can survive within nearly any known natural environment. 17 - Jean Grey 18 - Cyclops Her telekinetic strength and skill are Cyclops has the power to emit beams both of an extremely high level, of energy from his eyes described as capable of grasping objects in Earth orbit and manipulating hundreds of an "optic blast." The beams are components in mid-air in complex tremendously powerful and can be patterns. She uses her telekinesis to used to rupture steel plates and often lift herself and others giving her the ability of levitation and flight. She pulverize rock. In addition varying the also uses her telekinesis to create beam width, height, and intensity, durable shields and energy blasts. Cyclops has demonstrated a high Jean's telepathy allows her to read, influence, control, and communicate degree of skill and accuracy in with the minds of others, project her manipulating his optic blast. Cyclops is mind into the astral plane, and able to reflect the beam off hard and generate telepathic force blasts that shiny surfaces. Cyclops' body is can stun or kill others.