History PlayingWith / HeartIsanAwesomePower

** Toy Soldier has [[BizarroElements elemental control over plastic]]. People often forget just how common plastic is in modern society, and many varieties of it are [[MadeOfIndestructium surprisingly strong]].

** Rainblast can change the color of an object close or near to him. While the ability to grab attention or sneak away is rather nice, changing the color of something rapidly tends to cause [[SensoryAbuse headaches and seizures.]] Not to mention that he can do things like [[EyeScream blinding an enemy by turning their coroneas opaque]] or erasing and rewriting text.

** Diana "DJ" Jowski has the ability to broadcast music into the minds of people nearby. This can be used to inspire allies, calm down a crying child... or used to play music [[SuckinessIsPainful so painfully awful that the bad guys agree to surrender if she'll just stop playing it.]] She later realizes she can use this ability [[INeverSaidItWasPoison to play tunes she knows will get a reaction out of people, such as a national anthem making a spy stand at attention.]]

** Gaea [[GreenThumb can make plants grow ten times as fast]]. This has no real crimefighting potential (as ten times the regular speed is still way too slow to trap enemies), but she can make money hand over fist running a nursery, and then use the money to support charitable causes.

** [[CaptainErsatz JakeEbony]] can melt people’s faces with a guitar riff. Turns out it’s a lot more survivable than you may think.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The usefulness of Robed Ranger’s power varies from episode to episode: sometimes he can [[GoodHurtsEvil utterly annihilate]] an EldritchAbomination with [[CareBearStare a friendly glance,]] sometimes he can only make [[PsychoForHire StabLockey]] feel really, really happy at getting to [[PsychoKnifeNut chop him up.]]

* '''Enforced''': It’s an Aesop about making lemonade when life gives you lemons.
* '''Lampshaded''': “Beaten... by the power to turn into a HAMSTER? [[VillainousBreakdown MY EXISTENCE IS NOTHING BUT SHAME!!]]"

** Everyone underestimates the abilities of Robed Ranger... Once.
** Emperor Evulz sends [[TheDragon his right-hand man Gragus]] out to fight Robed Ranger, in order to teach [[TheStarscream him]] a lesson in [[BreakTheHaughty humble pie.]]

* '''Discussed''': “The more [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway obscure and seemingly worthless]] the power, the more dangerous it inevitably becomes [[FridgeBrilliance when you look back over it.”]]

-->“Wait, he can make people happy? How’s that going to help him?”\\
“Just keep watching and you'll see...”
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The main themes on the show revolve around creativity and imagination, and use of powers like this form it’s main foundation.

* '''Played For Drama''': Rainblast's power to change color really quickly makes him a walking seizure risk... To friend, foe, and innocent bystander alike. He seems weak because using his powers to their full effect runs the risk of ''massive'' collateral damage, and when he does cut loose, it's not pretty, and he's ''definitely'' not happy about it.

** Occlusion has the ability to form an invisibility sphere around himself . While the invisibility is somewhat useful, the real application of this power is to [[RequiredSecondaryPowers deflect ALL the electromagnetic radiation ]] of any kinds away from himself, making Occlusion completely immune to [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], ShockAndAwe, PlayingWithFire, radiation, both of the normal and [[ILoveNuclearPower crazy-space]] kinds, and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Cosmic Doom-Blasts From The Very Gods Themselves]]

* Ignidious can only control fire that's already present, not create it out of thin air. This means he can draw fire from the sun to immediately incinerate his enemies to a crisp.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The usefulness of Robed Ranger’s power varies from episode to episode: sometimes he can [[GoodHurtsEvil utterly annihilate]] an EldritchAbomination with [[CareBearStare a friendly glance,]] sometimes he can only make [[PsychoForHire StabLockey]] feel really, really happy at getting to [[KnifeNut chop him up.]]

** Gaea [[GreenThumb can make plants grow ten times as fast]]. This has no real crimefighting potential (as ten times the regular speed is still way too slow to trap enemies), but she can make money hand over fist running a nursery.
** Geyser can create a continuous stream of water, but it's not a powerful stream, coming out in about the same speed and quantity as water from the faucet. This is useful for waterboarding.

* Gaea [[GreenThumb can make plants grow ten times as fast]]. This has no real crimefighting potential (as ten times the regular speed is still way too slow to trap enemies), but she can make money hand over fist running a nursery.

** [[HarmlessVillain Monkey-Master]] never thinks to use his powers on people or giant space gorillas, despite the fact they are within the limits of what is defined as a primate.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then he's possessed by [[TheLegionsOfHell Legion]], who abuses his powers to horrifying effect.

* '''Averted''': Every power on the show is as initially useful as it looks.

** [[MagicalGirl Star Girl]] has the power to "reveal the true heart" of people. Sounds useless, until you notice that villains tend to have a HeelRealization before they can attack her, hero teams function better when she's around, bad guys she fights are more likely to [[HeelFaceTurn join the side of good]], and her mere presence forces people to drop the ConflictBall and avert PoorCommunicationKills. She may not have a very offensive power, but she's an invaluable teammate.

** Diana "DJ" Jowski has the ability to broadcast music into the minds of people nearby. This can be used to inspire allies, calm down a crying child...or used to play music [[SuckinessIsPainful so painfuly awful that the bad guys agree to surrender if she'll just stop playing it.]] She later realizes she can use this ability [[INeverSaidItWasPoison to play tunes she knows will get a reaction out of people, such as a national anthem making a spy stand at attention.]]

** Even if a power is useless, the required secondary powers behind it could be quite powerful.

** Captain Awesome has a conventionally powerful super power, but it's on the level with your normal WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway because he's too dumb to think of ''any'' ways to use it.

** Rainblast can change the color of an object close or near to him. While the ability to grab attention or sneak away is rather nice, changing the color of something rapidly tends to cause [[SensoryAbuse headaches and seizures.]]

** Toy Soldier has [[BizarroElements elemental control over plastic]]. People often forget just how common plastic is in modern society, and many varieties of it are [[TonkaTough surprisingly strong]].

** Toy Soldier has [[BizarroElements elemental control over plastic]]. People often forget just how common plastic is in modern society, and some varieties of it are designed to withstand quite a bit of damage.

** Toy Soldier has [[BizarroElements elemental control over plastic]]. People often forget just how common plastic is in modern society, and some varieties of it are designed to withstand quite a bit of damage.

** Toy Soldier has [[BizarroElements elemental control over plastic]]. Plastic is ''everywhere'', and some varieties of it are designed to withstand quite a bit of damage.

** Occlusion has the ability to form an invisibility sphere around himself . While the invisibility is somewhat useful, the real application of this power is to [[RequiredSecondaryPowers deflect ALL the electromagnetic radiation ]] of any kinds away from himself, making Occlusion completely immune to FrickinLaserBeams, ShockAndAwe, PlayingWithFire, radiation, both of the normal and [[ILoveNuclearPower crazy-space]] kinds, and [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Cosmic Doom-Blasts From The Very Gods Themselves]]

** [[MagicalGirl Star Girl]] has the power to "reveal the true heart" of people. Sounds useless, until you notice that she can use her power to ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' [[AndShowItToYou "reveal" someone's heart]] by simply [[MindManipulation willing her victims to rip out their heart from their chest]]. It's not limited to human hearts and animal hearts either, she can "reveal the true heart" of anything with a "heart", be it [[CutTheJuice a machine's CPU]], [[NukeEm an atom of any matter]], or even [[EarthShatteringKaboom the core of a planet...]]

** Clara Chandelier's power of turning metal into glass is mildly awesome. She can break your gun, break your car, break your computer, break your shield, break your robot, break out of prison, make you noticable trough walls... she can turn out the lights, or improvise a weapon... It still doesn't measure up to more normal special abilities, but creatively applied it has a variety of uses.

** [[MagicalGirl Star Girl]] has the power to "reveal the true heart" of people. Sounds useless, until you notice that she can use her power to ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' [[AndShowItToYou "reveal" someone's heart]] by simply [[MindManipulation willing her victims to rip out their heart from their chest]]. It's not limited to human hearts and animal hearts either, she can "reveal the true heart" of anything with a "heart", be it [[CuttingTheJuice a machine's core]], [[NukeEm an atom of any matter]], or even [[EarthShatteringKaboom the core of a planet...]]