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Batman has no inherent 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 - share a bat motif. He is also a master of magical attacks, super-speed, , often gathering information powers (including x-, 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 of high- speed winds. 3 - 4 - Thor

Iron Man possesses powered armor that gives him 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 . 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 - 6 -

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" 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, 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. . The Hulk's powerful 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 - 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 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.

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Daredevil is a blind . Wolverine is a 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 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 - 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 -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.

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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 . 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.

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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 . 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.

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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 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. Jean is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to naturally immune to the beams' force. communicate with animals.

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All incarnations of can move, She is able to will a tremendous think, and react at superhuman amount of energy into her speeds. Some, notably later versions, muscles and limbs because of her can vibrate so fast that they can walk training, endowing her with through walls, travel through time and extraordinary strength and speed. She can also lend and borrow speed. is stronger, faster and more agile than Furthermore, all members have an a hundred of the best human athletes. invisible aura around their bodies that She is a masterful athlete, acrobat, prevents themselves and their clothes fighter and strategist, trained and from being affected by air friction as experienced in many ancient and they move at high speed. modern forms of armed and unarmed combat. She possesses the ability to relieve her body of physical injury and toxins by becoming one with the Earth's soil and then reforming her body whole again. She also is well- equipped with arsenal of powerful god-forged weapons

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Hawkman uses the fictional "ninth Aquaman has a number of metal" or "Nth metal" to defy gravity superhuman powers, most of which and allow them to fly. The metal is in derive from the fact that he is adapted their costume's belt, boots, and wings. to live in the depths of the ocean. He Its abilities are controlled mentally. has the ability to breathe underwater. Their wings allow them to control their He also possesses superhuman flight, though they can be "flapped" strength and durability. He can swim at through use of shoulder motions. In very high speeds, see in near total most comic books he is known to have darkness and has enhanced hearing. slightly enhanced physical strength. He also has telepathic ability to Hawkman prefers to use archaic communicate with marine life, which weaponry particularly maces, nets, he can summon from great distances. spears, and shields rather than modern or futuristic weapons.

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Deadpool's primary power is an The possesses a accelerated healing factor, his healing wide variety of superhuman powers, factor also affects a number of his which have been shown inconsistently physical attributes by increasing them throughout the years. Many of his to superhuman levels heightening at powers are similar to those of least his endurance and stamina. Superman, including superhuman strength close to that of Superman, Deadpool's body is highly resistant to flight, invulnerability, vortex breath, most drugs and toxins. He is a superb and " the ability to see through solid assassin and mercenary, an expert in objects and the ability to project multiple forms of martial arts, an beams of energy from his eyes. The expert swordsman and marksman. He Martian Manhunter possesses the is an extremely unpredictable power of , he can also opponent. become intangible, passing harmlessly through solid objects and render himself invisible.