<p>[edit] Magical powers</p><p>Main article: Magic (paranormal)</p><p>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.</p><p> Examples: Doctor Strange or Doctor Fate </p><p>[edit] Mutation</p><p>Main article: Mutation</p><p>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.</p><p> Examples: X-Men or Captain Comet </p><p>[edit] Non-human physical feature</p><p>The power may stem from a non-human feature of the user's physical form (a creature made up entirely of fire, or of rock, for example). This is often the case with space-aliens.</p><p> Examples: Thing (Ben Grimm) or Swamp Thing </p><p>[edit] Technopathy</p><p>Main article: Technopath</p><p>Ability to manipulate technology. It could manifest as a special form of electrical manipulation, a special form of shapeshifting, or even a special form of ESP.</p><p> Examples: Network or Hank Henshaw </p><p>[edit] Telekinesis</p><p>Main article: 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.</p><p> Examples: Jean Grey or Psimon </p><p>[edit] Object-based powers</p><p>See also: List of objects in the DC Universe </p><p>Powers derived from objects (also known as artifacts), such as armor, jewelry, weapons, and wands.</p><p> Examples: Green Lantern's power battery and ring, or Juggernaut's Ruby of Cyttorak </p><p>[edit] Powers</p><p>[edit] Power manipulation</p><p>[edit] Power Bestowal</p><p>Ability to bestow powers or jump-start latent powers.</p><p> Examples: Sage or Synergy </p><p>[edit] Power mimicry or absorption</p><p>Ability to copy or absorb another's powers or skills.</p><p> Examples: Amazo or Rogue </p><p>[edit] Power negation</p><p>Ability to cancel the superpowers or mutations of others.</p><p> Examples: Leech or Parasite </p><p>[edit] Power sensing</p><p>Ability to sense and recognize superhuman powers.</p><p> Examples: Sage or Caliban </p><p>[edit] Energy powers</p><p>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".</p><p>[edit] Energy beams</p><p>The ability to generate or transform various forms of energy into a "solid" or concussive beam of energy.</p><p> Examples: Cyclops or Nexus </p><p>[edit] Energy blasts</p><p>Main article: Energy blast</p><p>Various forms of energy that are expelled from the body.</p><p> Examples: Ultron or Havok </p><p>[edit] Energy constructs</p><p>Similar to Force Fields, but far more intricate; the 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.</p><p> Examples: Argent or Songbird </p><p>[edit] Energy conversion</p><p>Converting one form of energy into another in various forms and intensity.</p><p> Examples: Dazzler or Bishop </p><p>[edit] Energy manipulation</p><p>The ability to control and generate various forms of energy.</p><p> Examples: Silver Surfer or Captain Atom </p><p>[edit] Force fields</p><p>Main article: Force field (science fiction)</p><p>Energy shields, often invisible or translucent, produced as a form of protection.</p><p> Examples: Unus the Untouchable or Meteorite [edit] Classical elements</p><p>Ability to control or manipulate the classical elements.</p><p>[edit] Air and wind manipulation</p><p>Ability to control, generate, or absorb air or wind.</p><p> Examples: Red Tornado or Wind Dancer </p><p>[edit] Cold manipulation</p><p>Ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature, often used to control, generate, or absorb ice.</p><p> Examples: Iceman or Killer Frost </p><p>[edit] Earth manipulation</p><p>Ability to control the classic element of earth; sand, stone, rock, lava, or dirt.</p><p> Examples: Terra or Sandman </p><p>[edit] Electrical manipulation</p><p>Ability to control, generate, or absorb electrical fields.</p><p> Examples: Electro or Static </p><p>[edit] Fire manipulation</p><p>Main article: Pyrokinesis</p><p>Ability to control the kinetic energy of atoms to generate, control or absorb fire.</p><p> Examples: Inferno or Pyro </p><p>[edit] Plant manipulation</p><p>Ability to accelerate the growth of, control or animate plant life.</p><p> Examples: Poison Ivy or Swamp Thing </p><p>[edit] Water manipulation</p><p>Ability to control, generate, or absorb water.  Examples: Hydro-Man or Aspen Matthews </p><p>[edit] Weather manipulation</p><p>Ability to control or mentally affect the weather.</p><p> Examples: Storm or Rainmaker </p><p>[edit] Manipulate fundamental forces or reality</p><p>These powers may be manifested by various methods, including: by some method of molecular control, by partially or fully shifting to another dimension, by manipulating the geometric dimensions of time or space, or by some other unnamed method.</p><p>[edit] Animation</p><p>Power to bring inanimate objects to life or to free a person from petrification.</p><p> Examples: Mr. Mxyzptlk </p><p>[edit] Density control or phasing</p><p>Ability to alter the density of objects or possibly even one's self. Typically manifested in two primary forms - intangibility (low density) and invulnerability (high density).</p><p> Examples: Vision or Martian Manhunter </p><p>[edit] Elemental transmutation</p><p>Main article: Transmutation</p><p>Ability to alter chemical elements, changing them from one substance to another. May be limited to self-transmutation. (Also known as alchemy.)</p><p> Examples: Metamorpho or Alchemy </p><p>[edit] Gravity manipulation</p><p>Ability to manipulate or generate gravitons, or other types of gravitational interactions.</p><p> Examples: Graviton and Freefall </p><p>[edit] Immortality</p><p>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).</p><p> Examples: Vandal Savage or Mr. Immortal </p><p>[edit] Light manipulation</p><p>Ability to control, generate, or absorb photons (particles of light).</p><p> Examples: Doctor Light or Dagger </p><p>[edit] Magnetism manipulation</p><p>Ability to control or generate magnetic fields.</p><p> Examples: Magneto or Doctor Polaris </p><p>[edit] Mass manipulation</p><p>Ability to increase or decrease mass in an object or person.</p><p> Examples: Atom or Micromax </p><p>[edit] Molecular manipulation</p><p>Ability to mentally manipulate molecules and objects on a molecular level.</p><p> Examples: Mr. M or Solar </p><p>[edit] Omnipotence</p><p>Ability to have unlimited powers.</p><p> Examples: The One Above All or The Presence </p><p>[edit] Probability manipulation</p><p>Main article: Probability</p><p>Ability to alter probability, causing unlikely things to happen or likely things to not happen. This is often described in terms of blessings and curses.</p><p> Examples: Jinx or Scarlet Witch </p><p>[edit] Radiation manipulation Ability to manipulate toxic radiation along the electromagnetic spectrum.</p><p> Examples: Radioactive Man or Captain Atom </p><p>[edit] Reality warping</p><p>Main article: Reality warper</p><p>Ability to change or manipulate reality itself.</p><p> Examples: Franklin Richards or Proteus </p><p>[edit] Sound manipulation</p><p>Ability to mentally manipulate sound waves.</p><p> Examples: Klaw or Songbird </p><p>[edit] Time manipulation</p><p>Ability to affect the flow of time, slowing, accelerating or even stopping it.</p><p> Examples: Hourman or Sway </p><p>[edit] Transportation or travel</p><p>[edit] Darkness or shadow manipulation</p><p>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 possibly be able to create solid forms or travel via this dimension. (For the ability to create the absence of light, or to control light intensity, see Light Manipulation, above).</p><p> Examples: The Shade or Darkstar </p><p>[edit] Electrical transportation</p><p>Ability to travel through electrical conduits (such as power lines, or telephone lines), often entering through devices such as televisions, electrical poles, or computers.</p><p> Examples: Atom or Air Wave </p><p>[edit] Omnipresence</p><p>Ability to be present anywhere.  Examples: Eternity or The Source </p><p>[edit] Pocket dimension</p><p>Main article: Pocket universe</p><p>Ability to create temporary pocket dimensions or access permanent 'small' dimensions.</p><p> Examples: Magik or Abyss </p><p>[edit] Portal creation</p><p>Ability to create wormholes in time or space.</p><p> Examples: Blink or Gates </p><p>[edit] Summoning</p><p>Ability to summon objects or beings for their assistance.</p><p> Examples: Shade or Kid Eternity. </p><p>[edit] Superhuman speed</p><p>Ability to move faster than usual. Often times approaching light speed.</p><p> Examples: The Flash or Quicksilver </p><p>[edit] Teleportation</p><p>Main article: Teleportation</p><p>Ability to move from one place to another without occupying the space in between.</p><p> Examples: Nightcrawler or Ambush Bug </p><p>[edit] Time travel</p><p>Main article: Time travel</p><p>Ability to travel through time.</p><p> Examples: Trevor Fitzroy or Hourman </p><p>[edit] Personal physical powers Powers which effect a physical person's body.</p><p>[edit] Accelerated healing</p><p>Main article: Healing Factor</p><p>Ability to heal rapidly from any injury; the rate of recovery varies from character to character.</p><p> Examples: Lobo or Wolverine </p><p>[edit] Animal Mimicry</p><p>Ability to to take on the abilities of certain animals either by changing into an animal, or by simply copying their abilities.</p><p> Examples: Animal Man </p><p>[edit] Biological manipulation</p><p>Ability to control biology. Biological Manipulators can heal, alter body composition and other things relating to the living body.</p><p> Examples: Elixir or Masque. </p><p>[edit] Body part substitution</p><p>Ability to replace one's limbs or other body parts with those of another.</p><p> Examples: Terror Inc. </p><p>[edit] Duplication</p><p>Ability to create physical clones of oneself.</p><p> Examples: Jamie Madrox or Ariella Kent </p><p>[edit] Echolocation</p><p>Main article: Echolocation</p><p>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).</p><p> Examples: Daredevil or Man-Bat [edit] Enhanced senses</p><p>Enhancements of sight, smell, taste, touch, or hearing.</p><p> Examples: Wolverine or Daredevil </p><p>[edit] Invisibility</p><p>Main article: Invisibility</p><p>Ability to render the user unseen to the naked eye.</p><p> Examples: Invisible Woman or The Invisible Man </p><p>[edit] Invulnerability</p><p>Partial or total imperviousness to harm.</p><p> Examples: The Tick or Thor </p><p>[edit] Matter ingestion</p><p>Ability to consume any sort of matter without any ill effects on the user.</p><p> Examples: Matter-Eater Lad or Gluttony </p><p>[edit] Natural armor</p><p>An unusually tough and durable outer shell or skin.</p><p> Examples: Luke Cage or Bombshell </p><p>[edit] Natural weapons</p><p>Physical attributes such as claws, sharp teeth, quills, webbing, and other qualities usually associated with animals.</p><p> Examples: Killer Croc or Sabretooth </p><p>[edit] Pheromone manipulation</p><p>The ability to generate and control pheromones which may have various effects.</p><p> Examples: Wallflower or Poison Ivy </p><p>[edit] Photographic Reflexes Ability to mimic any athletic or martial arts movement after seeing it once.</p><p> Examples: Taskmaster or Echo </p><p>[edit] Poison</p><p>Ability to assault others with one or more varieties of toxins, with widely disparate effects.</p><p> Examples: Copperhead or Anarchist </p><p>[edit] Reactive Adaptation/Evolution</p><p>Ability to develop a resistance or immunity to whatever they were injured by or exposed to. This effect can be permanent or temporary.</p><p> Examples: Doomsday or Darwin </p><p>[edit] Self-detonation or explosion</p><p>Ability to explode ones body mass and reform.</p><p> Examples: Nitro or Damage </p><p>[edit] Separation</p><p>Ability to separate parts of your body and have them act of their own accord.</p><p> Examples: Rockslide or Captain Marvel (M.F. comics) </p><p>[edit] Merge</p><p>Ability to merge with another person. This results in a completely new and stronger being.</p><p> Examples: Kleinstocks or Siang </p><p>[edit] Sonic scream</p><p>Ability to use one's voice in a manner of offensive or defensive ways.</p><p> Examples: Banshee or Black Canary </p><p>[edit] Superhuman reflexes</p><p>Ability to react faster than a normal human.  Examples:Midnighter or Blade </p><p>[edit] Superhuman strength</p><p>Main article: Superhuman Strength</p><p>Above normal physical strength.</p><p> Examples: Hulk or Superman </p><p>[edit] Wallcrawling</p><p>Ability cling to objects or surfaces by a variety of means.</p><p> Examples: Spider-Man or Spider-Woman </p><p>[edit] X-ray Vision</p><p>Ability to see through solid objects.</p><p> Examples: Ultra Boy or Superboy </p><p>[edit] Mental faculty and knowledge-based abilities</p><p>[edit] Omni-lingual</p><p>Ability to decipher any language.</p><p> Examples: Cypher or Starfire </p><p>[edit] Omniscience</p><p>Main article: Omniscience</p><p>The ability of knowing everything.</p><p> Examples: The One Above All or Layla Miller </p><p>[edit] Super intelligence</p><p>Intelligence far above genius level, often accompanied by the ability to invent incredibly advanced technology.</p><p> Examples: Leader or MODOK </p><p>[edit] ESP The abilities of extra-sensory perception (ESP) and communication.</p><p>[edit] Astral projection</p><p>Main article: Astral projection</p><p>Ability to separate and control one's astral body. Sometimes a form of telepathy or magic. See also Possession, below.</p><p> Examples: Professor X or Raven </p><p>[edit] Clairvoyance and clairaudience</p><p>Main article: Clairvoyance Main article: Clairaudience</p><p>Ability to perceive events that are taking place elsewhere or sense places that are not in view. Clairaudience is the auditory equivalent of this. Other remote senses are possible.</p><p> Examples: Mar-Vell or The High Evolutionary </p><p>[edit] Cross-dimensional awareness</p><p>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.</p><p> Examples: Deadpool or She-Hulk </p><p>[edit] Danger sense</p><p>Ability to sense personal danger. A limited form of clairvoyance.</p><p> Examples: Spider-Man or Ricochet II </p><p>[edit] Empathy</p><p>Main article: Empathy</p><p>Ability to read or sense the emotions or feelings of others.</p><p> Examples: Raven or Empath </p><p>[edit] Mediumship</p><p>Ability to see and communicate with the dead (ghosts).  Examples: Lionel Zerb or Wicked </p><p>[edit] Precognition</p><p>Main article: Precognition</p><p>Ability to perceive the future. Sometimes it is only expressed in vague dreams while asleep, other times it is clear and occurs at will and when awake.</p><p> Examples: Blindfold or Destiny </p><p>[edit] Psychometry</p><p>Main article: Psychometry</p><p>Ability to relate details about the past or future condition of an object, person or location, usually by being in close contact with it.</p><p> Examples: Longshot or Adrienne Frost. </p><p>[edit] Telepathy</p><p>Main article: Telepathy</p><p>Ability to read the thoughts of, or to mentally communicate with others.</p><p> Examples: Captain Comet or Professor X </p><p>[edit] Domination and mind-control</p><p>The ability to alter the perceptions of others, and general mind-control.</p><p>[edit] Astral trapping</p><p>Ability to cause an astral projection to stay on the astral plane, usually in one specific place.</p><p> Examples: Shadow King </p><p>[edit] Mind control</p><p>Main article: Mind control</p><p>Power to control the actions or reasoning of another.</p><p> Examples: Maxwell Lord or Professor X [edit] Possession</p><p>Main article: Spiritual Possession</p><p>Ability to take control of another person’s body via astral projection or mind transfer. A specialized form of Mind Control.</p><p> Examples: Nocturne or Jericho </p><p>[edit] Psionic blast</p><p>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.</p><p> Examples: Moondragon or Psylocke </p><p>[edit] Psychic weapons</p><p>Ability to create a weapon, like a knife or grenade, of psionic energy that can harm mentally and not physically.</p><p> Examples: Psylocke or Wild Thing </p><p>[edit] Miscellaneous</p><p>The following powers could be manifested in any number of ways.</p><p>[edit] Flight</p><p>Main article: Flight See also: Gliding and Levitation </p><p>Ability to lift off the ground, to ride air currents or to fly self-propelled through the air. Different forms of flight include:</p><p> Avian (feathered wings) o Examples: Angel  Bat-winged o Examples: Fallen  Cosmic energy control o Examples: Ms. Marvel  Energy aura projection o Examples: Aero  Gravitational manipulation o Examples: Gravity  Insectoid form o Examples: Wasp or Insect Queen  Magnetic levitation o Examples: Magneto  Solar flare o Examples: Sunfire  Sonic repulsion field o Examples: Siryn  Telekinetic power o Examples: Justice  Thermo-chemical reaction control o Examples: Cannonball  Wind current control o Examples: Storm </p><p>[edit] Illusion</p><p>Main article: Illusion</p><p>Ability to alter or deceive the perceptions of another. Usually 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.</p><p> Examples: Mastermind or Brainwave </p><p>[edit] Shapeshifting</p><p>Main article: Shapeshifting</p><p>Ability to change appearance or body structure.</p><p> Examples: Metamorpho or Mystique </p><p>Other types of shapeshifting include:</p><p> Animal morphing: Ability to take on animal forms. May be able to take on the abilities of the altered form. o Examples: Beast Boy  Elasticity: Ability to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine. o Examples: Plastic Man or Mister Fantastic.  Liquification: Ability to turn partially or completely into a liquid. o Examples: Aspen Matthews or Hydro-Man  Size shifting: Ability to increase or decrease one's size. o Examples: Giganta or Hank Pym  Sublimation: Ability to transform into a gaseous or mist form. o Examples Amelia Voght or Vapor </p>