Electrifying characters and items in Comic Books.
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- Electric Ray from Amazing Man can emit lethal electrical charges.
- In Astro City, Juice of the Irregulars is a manifestation of electrical energy who can fly and project energy bolts. White Lightning is a supervillain with similar powers.
- Guns that shoot bolts of electricity are the signature weapons of Atomic Robo and other Tesladyne Action Scientists. Justified, since Robo was created by none other than Nikola Tesla.
- Various characters from The DCU:
- Black Lightning. He can generate raw electricity which courses through his body, which he has learned to manipulate, and control to sense sources of electric energy, and administer it as a wide range of attacks with several uses; he can charge devices with electricity, and alternatively drain the energy from them into himself. So can his Super Friends Expy, Black Vulcan...and Black Vulcan's Justice League Expy, Juice. And their Static Shock expy Soul Power.
- Brother Power the Geek can release some of his absorbed energy in the form of a burst of electricity. This is enough to light a lamp.
- Captain Marvel and his family can do this by dodging their transformation lightning bolt. Captain Marvel tends to use his magical lightning as an anti-Superman weapon. His New 52 counterpart, Shazam, takes it one step further and can generate electricity directly from his hands and chest.
- The Flash's villain, Weather Wizard, as a part of his shtick. And of course, The Flash himself generates lightning as he runs.
- There's also Static. He used to be from Milestone Comics, but the Milestone characters have been integrated into the DCU. Static's powers are identical to Marvel's Magneto, except that Static is more likely to overtly include electricity in the visual effect of his powers.
- Livewire, a DCAU creation who made her way to DC canon. She has the ability to absorb, generate and project volumes of electrical energy of an extremely high voltage. She also has the ability to transform into living energy.
- Lightning Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes, as well as Lightning Lass, their Psycho Electro brother Lightning Lord, and Storm Boy. Normally, Lad, Lass, and Storm Boy couldn't all be in the Legion due to their "no two members with the same powers" rule, but a few shenanigans happened: when Lightning Lad was "dead", she joined, and when he came back, she had her powers altered to nullify gravity on objects, making her Light Lass. For some reason, when she regained her lightning, nobody demanded that one of them leave or go through another power alteration. As for Storm Boy, he had a wide variety of weather-based abilities; he didn't get in because he was using a concealed Weather-Control Machine, rather than intrinsic powers.
- As a benifit of being one of Zeus' bastard children Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark is able to wield and control a lasso that channels Zeus' lightning. She's also caused electrical storms when upset for long enough, but has less control over that.
- Maxie Zeus in some of the Batman continuities.
- Sparx (aka Donna Carol "D.C." Force — and yes, she was called D.C. before getting her powers) from Superboy and the Ravers.
- Temper (Aviva Weinberg) of the Relative Heroes is a young girl with electrokinesis.
- Penny Dreadful had the ability to absorb power and then use it to make electric attacks. This works out poorly for Bumblebee after Penny's unexplained Face–Heel Turn in Wonder Woman (1987) where Penny turns the electricity-based weaponry in Bumblebee's suit against her.
- Wonder Woman has this power in New 52 and Wonder Woman (Rebirth) continuities thanks to a Retcon where she's Zeus daughter like Cassie. In fact, Diana's bracelets act as a Power Limiter for her full lightning-powered Super Mode.
- Robin (1993): Tim's suit can discharge a "wide burst" electrical attack, though he rarely uses it and it can only be used once before being recharged. His enemy Cheater uses a defibrillator to try and kill him in a fight in a hospital.
- The F1rst Hero: In a prologue, John Hinkley Jr. is revealed to be the world's first super powered villain when he attacks Ronald Reagan's entourage with his lightening power.
- Family: Richie Odysseus has a broad application of electricity powers, using them for both shock attacks and more creative uses like chaining someone up.
- Lightning, from Jumbo Comics, can shoot electricity from his fingers.
- Various characters from Marvel Universe:
- X-Men:
- One of the principal nasty things Storm does to enemies. She has the power to manipulate the weather and, among other things, generate lightning and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena.
- Magneto can also control electricity to some degree (he almost killed Kitty Pryde with an electric shock in UXM #150), though some writers tend to forget that magnetism is good for more than just chucking metal around; electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe, after all.
- Surge from New X-Men: Academy X absorbs electricity at all times: from static in the air, electrical appliances, outlets, etc. (often causing lights to flicker, etc.) and can discharge the energy through lightning blasts from her hands or other parts of her body.
- As the God of Thunder, The Mighty Thor can summon the elements of the storm: rain, wind, storm... and lightning."FORSOOTH! When the lightning falleth, the Son of Odin be-eth in the familial dwelling!!"
- Electro from Spider-Man's Rogues Gallery can generate massive quantities of electricity, theoretically up to approximately one million volts. He can employ this electrostatic energy as lightning arcs from his fingertips, and his maximum charge is more than enough to kill a normal human. When his body is charged to high levels, he becomes superhumanly strong and fast. He can also glide over power lines by using the electricity contained therein for propulsion, and he has on occasion been shown to actually ride on lightning bolts. He can also absorb the energy of electrical equipment such as a power plant to increase his powers further. His "daughter" Aftershock
for Spider-Girl also applies. - Spider-Woman's venom blasts are bioelectrical in nature. They're not very potent as lightning powers go and are usually treated more or less like a taser.
- Miles Morales from Ultimate Spider-Man also has a venom blast power, but his are potent enough to put the hurt on villains that can lay the smackdown on all of the Avengers at once. When sufficiently stressed, his Mega Venom Blast can fry an entire building.
- Jolt from Thunderbolts. She generated bio-electricity, which she could channel into energy blasts, super strength, and super speed.
- The Incredible Hulk villain Zzzax and his Distaff Counterpart Axon.
- Striker from Avengers Academy has the basic set.
- The Living Lightning from West Coast Avengers can fly and shoot electricity after absorbing energy from a lightning machine.
- X-Men:
- Primal Warrior Draco Azul: Draco Azul is powered by electrical energy absorbed through its horn, which it can use to wreathe its punches and kicks in lightning or fire powerful energy blasts.
- Electro Man, from Rocket Comics, can fire electrical blasts and turn into electricity to travel through wires.
- Dynamo, who was featured in Science Comics and Weird Comics, can control electricity and shoot electrical bolts.
- Lash Lightning, who was featured in Sure-Fire Comics and Lighting Comics, has the ability to generate electricity.
- Steeplejack of The Surrogates can channel lightning through his suit.
- Electricia, the protagonist of The Switch Electricia, in addition to her electricity-based powers, has an entire electrical motif going on as her appearance.
- Circuit Breaker wears a suit that not only allows her paralyzed body to move, but also lets her channel electric blasts powerful enough to harm Transformers. One time she electrocuted Unicron and made him scream in pain!
- Ungrounded: One of the powers Joseph gained when he was folded to the tenth dimension and beyond was the ability to control electricity.
- Baal in The Wicked + The Divine has this. Fitting, since he is a storm god. Or at least masquerading as one.
- Wildguard: Casting Call had a few electric superheroes trying out, among them Dr. Wattage, who isn't an actual doctor but plays one on TV, and Conductra, who can generate 1.21 Gigawatts and used to be the sidekick of her father, who had the same powers.
- JumpStart, a Bounty Hunter from the future in Wildstar.
- Firebrand, from Yankee Comics, can produce destructive electrical blasts and create an energy field to protect himself.
- 9-Jack-9, the assassin villain from Zot!.
