Power Perversion Potential / Comic Books

Examples of Power Perversion Potential in Comic Books.

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Marvel Universe:

• Alpha Flight: In her first appearance, Kara Killgrave/Purple Girl (later Persuasion) uses her newly manifested powers to try to compel Northstar into being her boyfriend. It doesn't go too far, but the perv potential is there. As a matter of fact, Kara is herself a product of Power Perversion Potential — she's the Child by Rape of the Purple Man and his first, unwilling 'lover'.
• Ant-Man:
  • Became canon for Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, who have size-altering abilities (as Ant-Man/Giant Man and the Wasp, respectively). One issue after Marvel Comics discarded The Comics Code shows◊ Janet writhing in pleasure, apparently all by herself, naked on her bed... only for a miniature, and equally naked, Hank to emerge from the shadows between her breasts and announce "Your turn."
  • Eric O'Grady, the third Ant-Man, would later use his shrinking to spy on two women showering on two different occasions. Unintended versions of this have also popped up with him ending up in the second Black Widow's top as well as being able to get a close up of the Skrull Queen's plans.
• Black Panther: The character Vibraxas: Master of Vibration, which was a bit of a Running Gag during the Christopher Priest run, and lampshaded by his girlfriend Queen Divine Justice after she first heard the name.
• Black Widow: The canonization of this trope actually led to the C-list villain "The Mandrill" basically being removed. The Mandrill is a mutant who secretes addictive sex pheromones, turning him into a Living Aphrodisiac that functions like a female-exclusive version of More than Mind Control. He's also an out-and-proud misogynist who shamelessly uses his powers to sexually exploit women for his own pleasure. He also happens to be a humanoid mandrill, for that little extra bit of squick. For obvious reasons, the character's use declined significantly over the years, and he was eventually killed off in the Hunted storyline... for a time.
• Daredevil: The Purple Man has super-pheromones, much like Daken, except a lot stronger: he can use them to make people do whatever he wants (and they can last for quite a while before they get flushed out of a victim's system). Being a villain, he uses the power for sex constantly. He's even fathered children with mind-controlled women (the first of whom left him when he fell in love with her and let her free to prove to himself it wasn't just his power forcing her to love him back; he was wrong). In Alias, the very first thing he does to Jessica Jones is force her to strip for him. Oddly, she insists that he never had sex with her, though he did compel her to love him and force her to watch him raping other women while wishing she was them (seemingly abusing the low-level superheroine to get back at his main enemy Daredevil by proxy).
• The Eternals: Starfox has the power to control the emotions of others. In one She-Hulk arc, a suit is brought against him by some, including She-Hulk herself, who may have been forced into sex with him thanks to his powers. (The man's real name is Eros, after all.)
• Fantastic Four:
  • In addition to the references in the films mentioned below, Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four has a scene in which Rubber Man Reed reveals that he's been offered a part in a porn film, but turned it down; Sue comments that now, no one but her will ever know the real reason why he's called Mr. Fantastic.
  • This appears in the 616-universe main canon as well. Scene: Sue is pissed because a social worker says that the FF's home is an unsafe environment and is trying to take her kids away. Reed comes home and starts putting the moves on Sue to relieve her tension. Cut to sometime later in Reed and Sue's bedroom. Sue is lying on the bed in a daze and says, in very wobbly text, "Have I ever mentioned what a... wonderful set of abilities you acquired from those cosmic rays?" Even Stan Lee himself brought this up in an interview with Vanity Fair.
  • Played with in the Marvel Mangaverse, in which Reed Richards bemoans how "useless" his powers are and how he only uses them to stretch his brain to make himself slightly smarter... said to a group of naked women he's in bed with.
• The Hood: What's the first thing Parker does with his demonic powers? Turn invisible and sneak into the women's locker room at a local gym.
• Runaways:
  • Karolina is in a relationship with shapeshifting alien Xavin. Xavin tries to seduce Karolina in the form of Nico, a girl Karolina had a crush on. Also, their entire relationship may not have happened without Xavin's shapeshifting, given that Xavin was introduced in a male form. He says that Skrulls can change gender at will and so have no concept of fixed gender, and remains in female form from that point onward. However other Skrulls continue to refer to him as 'Prince Xavin' and near the end of the last run of The Runaways Molly confronts him with the fact that everyone but Karolina can see that he is living a lie to please her.
  • Chase used a pair of X-ray goggles on Karolina and Nico, and it naturally had the "see underneath clothes" setting.^note It also belonged to his parents, and was already on that setting when he found it. Chase being Chase, he notably forgets to use the goggles for their intended purpose later, despite wearing them.
• Spider-Man:
  • Webs. As a matter of fact, Todd McFarlane wrote an implicitly explicit (consensual) bondage foreplay scene◊ (between Peter and his wife Mary Jane Watson) into an issue during his short run on the explicitly-created-for-him Spider-Man (no adjective) series from the early 1990s.
  • In one storyline in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man, Electro is seen frequenting a brothel with a mutant prostitute who can assume any form a customer desires. She seems to specialize in super-heroines, but mentioned that some customers with fetishes had requested rather unusual ones, even Fin Fang Foom. Her conversation with Electro is cut off by Spidey breaking into the place before he can tell her what he wants, so there's no way to tell.
  • The Chameleon, a shapeshifter and Master of Disguise, provides a very creepy example. On one occasion when he discovers Spidey's secret identity, he disguises himself as Peter with the intention of committing a Bed Trick on Mary Jane. It doesn't get further than kissing, however, as she is immediately able to tell that he's not Peter (it helps that she deliberately slips him some misinformation that the real Peter would have known to be wrong, just to make sure). When MJ calls him out on it, Chameleon then turns into a stereotypical muscular hunk, and then a sophisticated-looking older man, to show that he can take any physical visage she might fantasize about, before shifting back to his normal form with the intention of taking her by force anyway. Unfortunately for him, though, this is the moment when MJ beats the ever-loving crap out of him with a baseball bat.
• Thanos: There's a brief scene in Thanos Rising in which a Skrull shapeshifter is shown being touted as a Sex Slave.
  Slaver: Spend the night with a genuine Skrull! She can be whoever you want her to be! All decent trades accepted!
• Thunderbolts: Karla Sofen/Moonstone's powers include, among other things, complete control over the shape and composition of her suit. Which she once happily used while flirting with Hawkeye to instantly strip in front of him.
• X-Men:
  • In Uncanny X-Men #111, Beast discovers that Mesmero has abducted the entire team of X-Men and placed them under mind control, forcing them to act as performers and menial labor in a circus for the past several weeks. Jean Grey mentions that she has been "dating" Mesmero during this time. The implication of Jean's repeated rape has never been addressed on-panel. A subsequent story showing how Mesmero managed to catch the X-Men revealed that Jean's Phoenix powers flared up automatically when Mesmero tried to take advantage of Jean physically, threatening to undo his hypnosis and putting her firmly on a "look but don't touch" rule. The other women held captive by Mesmero at the time, however...
  • The highly debatable Chuck Austen run has the Polaris/Havok wedding, in which a stripper changes shape while X-Men call out well-known female superheroes. The girls are having a similarly good time thanks to Emma Frost casting illusions.
  • In New X-Men, Emma Frost uses her powers to psychically seduce Scott Summers. It is not taken well by his wife Jean Grey, the other resident psychic. Frost also uses her powers to neutralize a hostile group of reporters, male and female, by making them orgasm themselves into a faint.
  • Another issue of New X-Men reveals that the Hellfire Club employs telepathic dancers who can choose any form requested by their clients. A drunken and depressed Cyclops asks one of the women to transform into Jean Grey, who had recently broken up with him.
  • Daken is the contemporary classic example of the Depraved Bisexual because aside from the obvious claws/regeneration/bone strength he got from his father, he can also manipulate and release pheromones from himself, making people he chooses aggressive, losing their senses of perception and general thinking, or, more relevant to this trope, horny as all hell. He's tried this on female and male targets, some of whom note specifically to him that they're immune to that ability. Magnificent Bastard as he is, it goes without saying that he often uses this power to his advantage. In Dark Avengers, he also uses this on Bullseye and Moonstone.
  • X-23 spent some time after escaping the Facility as a child prostitute. Her specialty was using her claws to cut masochistic clients.
  • Uncanny X-Men #469 has Project O*N*E monitor Rachel Grey as she showers. Their technology scans everything possible, ensuring that her physical vitals are consistent with baseline species parameters. It's also noted that she's cute, too. Colonel Reyes makes an appearance and reminds his staff that they are soldiers and scientists, not voyeurs.
  • Laurie Collins a.k.a. Wallflower and her father, Sean Garrison, possess a similar pheromone-manipulating ability to Daken. Garrison took full of this, using it to seduce women such as Laurie's mother, which led to her conception. Laurie inherited her father's mutation, and her desire to avert this trope (partially due to Power Incontinence) led to her often isolating herself from other students. However, she has also used it for selfish ends herself, such as trying to make Elixir jealous by using her pheromones to seduce Prodigy into kissing her.
  • In Astonishing X-Men, when Kitty Pryde and Colossus first have sex (after his resurrection), she phases through the bed and floor when she orgasms. Not quite as useful as it could have been.
  • In one issue of Dark X-Men, Norman Osborn threatens Mystique by telling her he knows of an upper-class brothel in Dubai where the men would pay top dollar for sex with a shapeshifter.
  • One issue of Uncanny X-Men features a brothel staffed entirely by mutants who use their mutant powers to please clients, like a telepathic woman who gives them a mental simulation of amazing sex with whomever they wanted and Stacy X, who, like many other examples on this page, has pheromone powers. This being X-Men, another trope quickly comes into play when the brothel is attacked by anti-mutant extremists and all the workers but Stacy are killed.
  • Siryn/Banshee (Theresa Cassidy) of X-Force/X-Corporation/X-Factor has always had a crush on Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox). When they were working together in Paris, she was shown to be really interested in his self-orgy potential, even asking their teammate M (Monet St. Croix) something along the lines of "Come on, are you telling me you never thought about it?". Of course, snobbish as she is, Monet didn't want to continue the conversation. Later on, when the three of them were part of X-Factor Investigations, it turned out that: A) Monet was actually interested; B) Jamie actually did use his powers to improve his sex life, but in a different and more obvious way... by sleeping with both girls during the same night. Later, after Jamie Madrox married Layla Miller, it was confirmed in at least one issue that Layla enjoyed a threesome with two Jamies.
  • In Legion of X #4, Zsen comments how Nightcrawler's tail contributed to make sex with him that great.

The DCU

• Batman Beyond: The Beyond Origin revealing Micron's origins has a panel of Micron as a teenager using his shrinking powers to commit voyeurism in the girl's locker room by hiding in a box of tampons.
• Doom Patrol:
  • At the beginning of the final arc of Rachel Pollack's run, Dorothy Spinner explores a more libidinous use of her power to bring her imaginary friends to life when she decides to create a boyfriend for her imaginary friend Pretty Miss Dot by conjuring an attractive shirtless man and naming him Mr. Right-And-Cool, ready to watch them canoodle before she is forced to make them go away after she hears Cliff calling for her.
  • Keith Giffen's run retconned Mento as an abusive pervert who ended up being divorced from Elasti-Girl after it was revealed he had used the psionic powers enabled by his helmet to make Rita indulge his carnal whims.
• Flex Mentallo's final feat before reaching the headquarters of the vanished League of Leagues is to wade through a superhero orgy complete with every possible use of superpowers that crossed Grant Morrison's mind.
• The Green Lantern's power ring energy is capable of being used to create simple energy blasts and barriers, but it can also be used to create more complex constructs that the wielder can imagine and sustain through willpower, such as swords, bazookas, or clones of people. Shortly after Kyle Rayner first got his ring, while practicing how to make complex constructs with it, he made a skimpily dressed clone of his girlfriend...right in front of said un-amused girlfriend, who smacked him for being a smart-ass.
• Discussed in the "Bright Lights, Big City" arc of Karl Kesel's run in the first Harley Quinn comic. While Harley and Poison Ivy are staying in Metropolis together, Ivy decides to do some nude sunbathing on the roof. When Harley points out the high probability that Superman might happen to be passing by and catch quite an eyeful of her, Ivy scoffs that he's got X-Ray Vision, and she can't believe he wouldn't use it to get quite an eyeful of her anyway.
• A scene in the Harley Quinn (2019) tie-in comic miniseries The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour strongly implies that Vixen (who can mimic the traits of any animal) gives herself the long, prehensile tongue of a giraffe in order to orally pleasure her girlfriend.
• JLA (1997):
  • Tommy Monaghan once showed up for a JLA membership drive for the sole purpose of using his X-Ray Vision on Wonder Woman.
  • Plastic Man poses as Big Barda's dress◊, sending her into an Unstoppable Rage upon discovery. After Grant Morrison's run, Grace once admits to having gone out with him and assures Roy Harper that there were "advantages", and a later issue sees Diana bust him before he can peep on her changing.
• One issue of the Justice League International revival mini-series implies that Elongated Man uses his stretching abilities to pleasure his wife.
• Legion of Super-Heroes:
  • An event similar to the event with Jamie Madrox above showed up during the third issue of the Mark Waid reboot. Sun Boy, Element Lad and Ultra Boy, who each had an interest in Triplicate Girl, go on dates with her, and Ultra Boy asks her to use her Self-Duplication power while they're making out. She replies, somewhat surprised, that she already is. After Element Lad and Sun Boy walk in with the other two Triplicate Girls, the three male Legionnaires then discover they'd been on the date with her at the same time. All three quickly excuse themselves and head to the nearest bar.
  • A more innocent variation occurs in the 200th issue of Superboy volume one when Luornu Durgo (then going by the name Duo Damsel) is first dating Chuck "Bouncing Boy" Taine. At one point, Luornu splits into two bodies, each one kissing Chuck on opposite cheeks at the same time.
  • The fourth annual of the 1989 series, which was an installment of the Bloodlines Crisis Crossover, has a teenager from the 20th century named Jamm gain the ability to make anyone do what he tells them to, with two occasions having him use his power to make Night Girl and Shadow Lass disrobe in front of him.
• In one issue of Manhunter (DC Comics), Dylan Battles (the techie of Kate Spencer) says that he could alter her suit so that she would "feel like she was in a state of perpetual org—" before being cut off.
• The Nail: In the sequel Another Nail, Scott Free/Mister Miracle, in order to escape being tortured by DeSaad, wills his body to die and projects his disembodied mind into the Mother Box circuitry incorporated in his wife Big Barda's armor. Later Barda receives a Green Lantern ring, which she uses to give Scott an energy construct body, but for much of the story his mind remains in Big Barda's armor. He implies at one point that he enjoys the situation; while his mind is in Barda's armor, he is in constant contact with her body.
• New Gods: The Apokoliptian Sleez may have been the king of this trope (the reason why the story in question is considered a black mark on John Byrne's career). Incidentally, this doubles as a sort of inversion of Cut Lex Luthor a Check. One could say that the adult film industry is, indeed, a profitable — if controversial — business, but if you had powers of brainwashing that could enslave both Superman and Barda, forcing them to star in such a film might not be the most effective way to use them.
• Superman:
  • In Superboy (1994), the Kon-El Superboy was given X-ray goggles to make up for his lacking most of Superman's traditional abilities. As one might expect from a teenage boy, he sometimes used the goggles to see through women's clothes, at least two occasions having him use them on Tana Moon.
  • Superman's X-Ray Vision is actually discussed and deconstructed in Superman: American Alien. Clark is jokingly asked if he uses it for perverted purposes, and he explains that bodies don't exactly look sexy when they're crammed into clothes.
• Matt Cable, Abby's first husband in Swamp Thing, eventually gained a kind of limited Reality Warper power, one that he used to create psychic projections that would sexually pleasure him. This eventually led him into the clutches of her evil father, Anton Arcane. There's a reason why Matt later had a lot of bad karma to work off in bird form.
• Teen Titans: Shapeshifting Team Titans member Mirage once impersonated Teen Titans member Starfire in order to infiltrate the latter team... and to unapologetically sleep with Starfire's unaware teammate and boyfriend Nightwing.
  • Speaking of Starfire, she learns a language through physical contact with a person. If that person happens to be cute, she prefers to kiss him.
• In Watchmen, the god-like Dr. Manhattan can change size, control matter and duplicate himself. There's a scene with him and Silk Spectre where he creates two of himself in the bedroom. This creeps out Laurie, especially when she runs into the lab to find two more duplicates working on an experiment.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Her lasso of truth. Gift from the gods. Unbreakable weapon beyond mortal understanding. Really good for making your friends embarrass themselves by blurting out the truth at inopportune moments.
  • In an issue of Sensation Comics, Wonder Woman says there's an entire kink subculture consisting of men and women who want to be punched or smacked by her. She then relates a story about how she once agreed to punch a rich guy for ten million dollars, and then used the money to fund daycare centers in low-income communities.

Other

• Gadgeteer Genius The Engineer from The Authority has, in Canon, justifiably described herself as a "closet exhibitionist". As a superhero, she parades around buck naked in the Chrome Champion form which she can transform into thanks to the nanotechnology in her blood. During her on-again, off-again relationship with Jack Hawksmoor, she uses her nanotech abilities to split herself into two autonomous copies. This is while another of her bodies that she's mentally controlling is giving a lecture. One could only imagine what would happen if she got her wires crossed.
• Jules from Bazooka Jules transforms into a superpowered adult version of herself with large breasts thanks to a micro-robotic weapon that fused with her body. While her transformations only happen when she's in danger, her boyfriend hopes that she'll eventually learn to transform at will.
• Takes a dark turn in The Boys, where just about every super is a depraved hedonist with superhuman strength and endurance and the money to cover it up. Jupiter Jack turns himself invulnerable and has prostitutes beat him up, the Professor X expy is a pedophile, the Tek-Knight has a brain tumor that urges him to have sex with random objects (a donut, a cup of coffee, his butler's ear...). And every once in a while the supers announce a major threat to humanity that causes heroes and villains to face the threat together... by which they mean go to an isolated hotel for a few days of nonstop fornication, boozing, and getting high.
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comics, the entirety of an issue is spent with Buffy and Angel finding various ways to enjoy their new-found superpowers, including the phrase, "Do you want to try it flying now?"
• ElfQuest:
  • Leetah has healing powers, which are essentially flesh-shaping magic. It's been hinted at (once vaguely by the original authors, once explicitly in a Running the Asylum plotline) that she uses her powers to make sex quite interesting.
  • Various scenes and lines from the original volumes onward make it clear that elves who can Send (which is almost all of them) do so during lovemaking. It's referenced in a way that implies they consider that kind of mind-to-mind intimacy during sex to be a given.
• Empowered, being a "sexy superhero comedy", has many examples:
  • Emp's suit enhances her libido.
  • Mindf**k used telepathy to have a Mental Affair with Sistah Spooky under everyone's noses. They call it "mindfriends with benefits".
  • Ninjas have disguise jutsus... And are stated to use it for having sex under pretence. In fact, Ninjette, female ninja who is stated to be the best at it, once consummated a marriage as the groom.
  • A superhero who was turned into a robot by alien nanomachines has used his sensors to scan various female superheroes' bodies and then combined their best features in a sexy image for fapping.
  • Anglerfish said that his son, who had the same illusion powers as him, used them to get laid.
• In the Invincible comic books, Dupli-Kate, whose power is exactly what her name suggests, has a habit of using it to engage in threesomes (or more) with her lovers. In one early issue, Atom Eve accidentally discovers her boyfriend fooling around with Kate and Kate and Kate.
• In Ironwood, Ignagio Pec finds a ... unique use for a hydra's head spell, transforming his member into a multi-headed piece of Exotic Equipment to enable him to pleasure several different females at the same time.
• Burrows, a psychic from Irredeemable, uses his psychic powers to make people imagine themselves naked, and then takes "mental snapshots" when they do.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen recruits Hawley Griffin/The Invisible Man from inside a girl's school where several girls think they've been sexed by the Holy Spirit, planning to go ahead with their "virgin births".
• Red Ears: Played for laughs in a pinup page parodying Pinocchio where the Blue Fairy suggests that Pinoccchio lie a lot to make his nose grow.
• Top 10 plays a lot with this trope. Imagine what the red-light district of a city where everyone from mayor to stray cat has superpowers must be like. To quote an officer from the eponymous police precinct: "You've got splitters, stretchers, shapeshifters, invisibles, aliens...". There is apparently a huge market for mud-wrestling invisible women.
• The Ten-Seconders: Mach is a very depraved take on this; he's a Super Speedster who enjoys raping women and implies that he uses his power to make it as painful as possible.
• Already in the second issue of W.I.T.C.H. Irma has used the fact the Guardian transformation makes her older and hotter to get a date with an older boy, only to accidentally turn him into a toad when he tried some Auto Erotica. Will's reaction indicates that Irma wasn't the only one to think about it, just the first to actually do it.
  • All the Guardians later take advantage of this for missions, using their looks to distract people while they do their job.

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