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** Aquaman's wife Mera is no slouch in this department either. As an Atlantean, she has super strength and durability and has been shown as [[InASingleBound capable of jumping out of the water directly onto a flying plane.]] But her greatest weapon is her [[MakingASplash ability to control, manipulate and shape water to her will]]. Her feats include pushing back a tidal wave the size of a city, drawing the moisture out of a person's body, and collecting the water in a person's body to flood their lungs.

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** Aquaman's wife Mera is no slouch in this department either. As an Atlantean, she has super strength and durability durability, and has been shown as [[InASingleBound capable of jumping out of the water directly onto a flying plane.]] But her greatest weapon is her [[MakingASplash ability to control, manipulate and shape water to her will]]. Her feats include pushing back a tidal wave the size of a city, drawing the moisture out of a person's body, and collecting the water in a person's body to flood their lungs.



*** Raven started out as a SupportPartyMember for the Titans, with her abilities limited to teleportation, empathic healing and astral projection. The [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 2003 animated series]] added several abilities to her powerset to make her a more action ready character such as telekinesis, flight, shadow manipulation and other forms of sorcery. These abilities were added to comic Raven's powerset.
*** Lilith Clay initially had the power of telepathy and precognition. Over time, her powerset has been upgraded to include telekinesis and teleportation. Her ''Rebirth'' incarnation is dubbed an "Alpha-class" psionic.

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*** ** Raven started out as a SupportPartyMember for the Titans, with her abilities limited to teleportation, empathic healing and astral projection. The [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 2003 animated series]] added several abilities to her powerset to make her a more action ready character such as telekinesis, flight, shadow manipulation and other forms of sorcery. These abilities were added to comic Raven's powerset.
*** ** Lilith Clay initially had the power of telepathy and precognition. Over time, her powerset has been upgraded to include telekinesis and teleportation. Her ''Rebirth'' incarnation is dubbed an "Alpha-class" psionic.psionic.
** Beast Boy's [[{{Animorphism}} ability to take the form of any animal in existence]] is incredibly versatile to the point of being overpowered. Not only can he take the form of both prehistoric and modern day animals, but he can also take the form of mythical creatures like ThePhoenix or even sapient and non-sapient aliens like when he transformed into a Gordanian during the Starfire rescue mission to the Vegan system. Beast Boy has also shown the ability to take the form of creatures that ''[[BeyondTheImpossible don't even exist]]'', like when he chased after Madame Masque. In [[ComicBook/Titans2023 Tom Taylor's Titans run]], [[spoiler:Beast Boy develops the ability to replicate himself while in beast form]]. [[WordOfGod According to Marv Wolfman]], Beast Boy can also take the form of ordinary humans but chooses not to because it offers no advantage to him. Add in his strong healing factor and Beast Boy is a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass surprisingly formidable Titan]].
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** Starfire is a member of the Tamaranian race, aliens whose bodies can absorb ultraviolet radiation, granting them super strength, super durability, flight and the ability to survive and travel through the vacuum of space. While being held captive by the Psions, Starfire was subjected to experiments that evolved her powers to the point she can release ultraviolet energy in the form of powerful blasts called "starbolts". She can release all of her stored energy in as a powerful explosion that has been compared to a small supernova. Starfire has also displayed the ability to drain power from Kryptonians, as they also get power from the sun -- this ability was demonstrated in part nine of the ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' arc. Combine all of this with her extensive martial arts training and Starfire is easily one of the deadliest Titans around.
*** Starfire's sister Blackfire initially had all of Starfire's powers, except the flight due to a childhood disease that cost her that ability. After having her powers removed by Hawkman, Blackfire sought out the Psions to restore her powers. Not only did she regain them all but she also regained her power of flight. Blackfire's energy blasts have been noted to be considerably stronger than Starfire's and she has shown more versatility in use of her powers, like vibrating electrons. Blackfire is also an accomplished martial artist.
*** Raven started out as a SupportPartyMember for the Titans, with her abilities limited to teleportation, empathic healing and astral projection. The [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 2003 animated series]] added several abilities to her powerset to make her a more action ready character such as telekinesis, flight, shadow manipulation and other forms of sorcery. These abilities were added to comic Raven's powerset.
*** Lilith Clay initially had the power of telepathy and precognition. Over time, her powerset has been upgraded to include telekinesis and teleportation. Her ''Rebirth'' incarnation is dubbed an "Alpha-class" psionic.
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** Garth the original Aqualad originally wasn't much to write home about, simply having the standard Atlantian physical stats but not on Aquaman's level. But then he became [[SidekickGraduationsStick Tempest]] and learned magic from the sorcerer Atlan. Since then, Garth has gained the ability to not only manipulate water but also control it's temperature, meaning he can either heat water to the point of evaporation or freeze it solid. He can fire purple energy beams from his eyes, sense magical energies, travel through dimensions, wields minor telekinesis, summon demons, astral project and, if he possesses Poseidon's Trident, can travel through time.

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** Garth Garth, the original Aqualad Aqualad, originally wasn't much to write home about, simply having the standard Atlantian Atlantean physical stats but not on Aquaman's level. But then he became [[SidekickGraduationsStick Tempest]] and learned magic from the sorcerer Atlan. Since then, Garth has gained the ability to not only manipulate water but also control it's temperature, meaning he can either heat water to the point of evaporation or freeze it solid. He can fire purple energy beams from his eyes, sense magical energies, travel through dimensions, wields minor telekinesis, summon demons, astral project and, if he possesses Poseidon's Trident, can travel through time.
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** During the 1990s, Guy Gardner lost his Green Lantern powers and ventured into a South American jungle to acquire a new set of powers. There, Guy discovered that he was a descendant of an extinct alien race known as the Vuldarians. After drinking the Water of Warriors, Guy gained the abilities of flight, enhanced strength, speed, durability and regeneration. He also acquired the power to survive in the vacuum of space, could [[AdaptiveAbility could augment himself to adapt for survival]] and [[ShapeshifterWeapon could transform all or part of his body into weapons]].

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** During the 1990s, Guy Gardner lost his Green Lantern powers and ventured into a South American jungle to acquire a new set of powers. There, Guy discovered that he was a descendant of an extinct alien race known as the Vuldarians. After drinking the Water of Warriors, Guy gained the abilities of flight, enhanced strength, speed, durability and regeneration. He also acquired the power to survive in the vacuum of space, could [[AdaptiveAbility could augment himself to adapt for survival]] and [[ShapeshifterWeapon could transform all or part of his body into weapons]]. Guy lost these powers after the return of Parallax.
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** During the 1990s, Guy Gardner lost his Green Lantern powers and ventured into a South American jungle to acquire a new set of powers. There, Guy discovered that he was a descendant of an extinct alien race known as the Vuldarians. After drinking the Water of Warriors, Guy gained the abilities of flight, enhanced strength, speed, durability and regeneration. He also acquired the power to survive in the vacuum of space, could [[AdaptiveAbility could augment himself to adapt for survival]] and [[ShapeshifterWeapon could transform all or part of his body into weapons]].

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* ''ComicBook/LegionDCComics'': Captain Comet is a metahuman "born thousands of years before his time". Being an {{Expy}} of Superman - even having parents with the same name ''and'' being raised on a farm in the American Midwest - his abilities are fittingly incredible. Not only does he have powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities, but he also possesses a genius-level I.Q., a photographic memory and clairvoyance. Comet originally had superhuman strength and durability; after his resurrection his physical power was significantly diminished but his mental ones greatly increased. He also acquired the ability to teleport.



** The original ComicBook/PowerGirl is an AlternateUniverse older Supergirl. She gets Superman's full combo platter, except her KryptoniteFactor only exists in an alternate universe.

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** The original ComicBook/PowerGirl is an AlternateUniverse older Supergirl. She gets Superman's full combo platter, except her KryptoniteFactor only exists in an alternate universe. During the ''ComicBook/LazarusPlanet'' event, Power Girl gained telepathic powers but lost them during a fight with Johnny Sorrows. [[spoiler:However, she also gained the ability to punch holes in reality to access the astral plane.]]



** Maxima. On top of being near Kryptonians in all physical stats, she is able to teleport herself or others, create force fields, control over metals, manipulate inorganic matter (usually to change her clothes on a whim), EyeBeams, multiple forms of mental power, illusion projection, and telekinesis. Though this may be explained because she is a product of selective gene manipulation to produce powerful offspring.

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** Maxima. Maxima is the product of selective gene manipulation by Almeracian scientists to produce powerful offspring to rule their home planet and her powerset more than lives up to this standard. On top of being near Kryptonians in all physical stats, she is able to teleport herself or others, create force fields, control over metals, manipulate inorganic matter (usually to change her clothes on a whim), project EyeBeams, multiple forms of mental power, illusion projection, and telekinesis. Though this may be explained because she is a product of selective gene manipulation to produce has powerful offspring. telepathy that allows her to read, scan for and deceive minds and telekinesis.



** Not only does Wonder Woman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.

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** Not only does Wonder Woman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, Superman (DependingOnTheWriter at least), but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.



** Nubia, a reoccurring Amazon character, would qualify. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 pre-Crisis version]] had the standard Amazon powers of enhanced strength, speed, stamina and durability and was a well trained combatant. She also possessed a magic sword given to her by Mars which was considered the only weapon that was a match for Diana's lasso. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis]] version of Nubia had enhanced superhuman physical abilities, flight and 3000 years of combat experience due to her immortality. She could also travel to different realms of myth and possessed the ability to turn anyone [[TakenForGranite to stone]] [[DeadlyGaze with her gaze]], a power that was bestowed upon her by the Gorgons.

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** Nubia, a reoccurring Amazon character, would qualify.qualify, in at least some incarnations. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 pre-Crisis version]] had the standard Amazon powers of enhanced strength, speed, stamina and durability and was a well trained combatant. She also possessed a magic sword given to her by Mars which was considered the only weapon that was a match for Diana's lasso. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis]] version of Nubia had enhanced superhuman physical abilities, flight and 3000 years of combat experience due to her immortality. She could also travel to different realms of myth and possessed the ability to turn anyone [[TakenForGranite to stone]] [[DeadlyGaze with her gaze]], a power that was bestowed upon her by the Gorgons.

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* ComicBook/AnimalMan started off with the ability to copy the abilities of any animal near him, but after [[RetCon an epiphany that he was connected to all life in the universe]], he could take on the traits of any animal at any time from [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter any]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} planet...]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any planet at all.]]
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. That's right, Aquaman. The ButtMonkey of Franchise/TheDCU for decades, the {{Trope Namer|s}} for ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman and requiring one PlotTailoredToTheParty after another to be at all relevant, he is absolutely ''not'' as weak as common opinion believes. A combination of RequiredSecondaryPowers (he can swim like a fish and punch people while under 500+ atmospheres of pressure, which is Superman level asskickery) and FridgeHorror (he commands ''everything'' that lives in the ocean; guess where Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], and [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]] live?) have had many writers portray him as horrifically powerful and outright ''feared'' by heroes and villains alike, and for very good reasons. And that is before considering that he is also the king of a lost civilization with its own military force of (slightly weaker) super humans, giant ocean monsters and super advanced weaponry.

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* ComicBook/AnimalMan ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': Animal Man started off with the ability to copy the abilities of any animal near him, but after [[RetCon an epiphany that he was connected to all life in the universe]], he could take on the traits of any animal at any time from [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter any]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} planet...]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any planet at all.]]
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': That's right, Aquaman. The ButtMonkey of Franchise/TheDCU for decades, the {{Trope Namer|s}} for ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman and requiring one PlotTailoredToTheParty after another to be at all relevant, he is absolutely ''not'' as weak as common opinion believes. A combination of RequiredSecondaryPowers (he can swim like a fish and punch people while under 500+ atmospheres of pressure, which is Superman level asskickery) and FridgeHorror (he commands ''everything'' that lives in the ocean; guess where Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], and [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]] live?) have had many writers portray him as horrifically powerful and outright ''feared'' by heroes and villains alike, and for very good reasons. And that is before considering that he is also the king of a lost civilization with its own military force of (slightly weaker) super humans, giant ocean monsters and super advanced weaponry.



* [[DarkMagicalGirl Black Alice]] has [[PowerParasite the ability to instantly steal]] anybody's magical powers. And we do mean ''anybody''. From [[DealWithTheDevil Felix]] [[EvilSorcerer Faust]] to [[DeusExMachina the]] [[PhysicalGod freaking]] [[ComicBook/TheSpectre Spectre]].
* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle''. Jaime Reyes may be considered a combination of Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/IronMan, but he's got more than just that. His alien scarab is a DoAnythingRobot which grants him vast destructive power and a wide variety of abilities whenever he needs it. He's got SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, VoluntaryShapeshifting, {{Arm Cannon}}s, AdaptiveAbility to face his opponents, NighInvulnerability, and much, much more. To give you an idea of what else he can do, he can turn {{invisib|ility}}le when he needs to, or [[ArtificialGill breathe underwater]] whenever the situation calls for it, or make a special surfboard to ride the winds inside a tornado. His ability to adapt to any situation also deserves special mention, as he can produce ''Kryptonite radiation'', and his blasts are strong enough to harm ''The Spectre''. He once [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Held Back The Phlebotinum]] against a villain (who was kicking his ass at the time), because he refused to use any weapon that, to quote his scarab, had "theological implications".
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick power set, which enables them to go toe-to-toe with Franchise/{{Superman}} or race Franchise/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities that include SuperIntelligence, a PhotographicMemory, and the ability to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': While SuperSpeed sounds simple enough on paper, it's more like an ImaginationBasedSuperpower in the hands of an author who knows how to use his TechnoBabble. He's used his superspeed to time travel, travel between dimensions, become intangible (and make other people or things intangible), become invisible, cure himself of detrimental conditions, increase or decrease the speed of other people and objects (including turning someone into, effectively, a living statue), create whirlwinds strong enough to lift others aloft (sometimes just by spinning his arms), extinguish fires, melt large amounts of snow and ice, fly, throw lightning bolts, and power large machinery, among other things. At one point he started fabricating items from pure speed, whatever the heck that means. One of his famous tricks? Infinite Mass Punch. It's exactly what it sounds like. And it ''should'' be able to [[OneHitKO oneshot]] anybody that has a physical form, even Superman. Flash eventually ''taught'' Supes the same move.
* ''Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s'' have variously been shown to use their rings to control time, teleport, create sentient life, duplicate others, themselves, and/or their rings (which in at least one story [[WishingForMoreWishes explicitly multiplied the power they had]]), become intangible, turn themselves into Kryptonians, temporarily recreate the entire rest of the GLC and pretty much anything you can imagine. Hal Jordan once survived being killed by ''pulling his own soul back into his body''. In order to write workable stories they've slowly been depowered to "making any object they can imagine" which is still pretty awesome.

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* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': [[DarkMagicalGirl Black Alice]] has [[PowerParasite the ability to instantly steal]] anybody's magical powers. And we do mean ''anybody''. From [[DealWithTheDevil Felix]] [[EvilSorcerer Faust]] to [[DeusExMachina the]] [[PhysicalGod freaking]] [[ComicBook/TheSpectre Spectre]].
* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle''. ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': Jaime Reyes may be considered a combination of Franchise/SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/IronMan, but he's got more than just that. His alien scarab is a DoAnythingRobot which grants him vast destructive power and a wide variety of abilities whenever he needs it. He's got SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, VoluntaryShapeshifting, {{Arm Cannon}}s, AdaptiveAbility to face his opponents, NighInvulnerability, and much, much more. To give you an idea of what else he can do, he can turn {{invisib|ility}}le when he needs to, or [[ArtificialGill breathe underwater]] whenever the situation calls for it, or make a special surfboard to ride the winds inside a tornado. His ability to adapt to any situation also deserves special mention, as he can produce ''Kryptonite radiation'', and his blasts are strong enough to harm ''The Spectre''. He once [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Held Back The Phlebotinum]] against a villain (who was kicking his ass at the time), because he refused to use any weapon that, to quote his scarab, had "theological implications".implications".
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'':
** Captain Atom is at least on the same level as Superman and Martian Manhunter. In addition to {{Flight}}, SuperStrength, and NighInvulnerability, he can project any kind of energy (including light on the same wavelength as that of a red sun... or radiation identical to that of kryptonite), he's close to immune to energy-based attacks, and he can become intangible at will.
** Eve Eden aka Nightshade has a similar power set to Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.

* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': ** Captain Marvel Allen Adam from the post-''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' Earth-4 of DC's multiverse is a RealityWarper in a world where everyone else is a BadassNormal. (Doctor Manhattan was based on the original Creator/CharltonComics ComicBook/CaptainAtom; Captain Adam, in turn, is a combination of Manhattan and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to Captain Atom.)
* ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'': The final BigBad of
the standard FlyingBrick DC Comics series ''H.E.R.O.'' was a serial killer who found [[SuperEmpowering the power set, dial]], which enables them to go toe-to-toe with Franchise/{{Superman}} or race Franchise/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless turns its user into a random superhero when used, and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), gained the power to have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities any super-power he could think of. Robby Reed, the dial's original user, points the trope out, saying that include SuperIntelligence, while your average dialed hero is pretty good, every now and then the dial hands out what he calls a PhotographicMemory, "jackpot" -- and the ability bad guy in question won bigger than anyone before or since.
-->'''Robby:''' Most of the time, the dial gives you one power, or maybe a couple of related powers. This guy's going
to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
hit the superpower lottery. We're talking Superman levels of power. Nightmare levels.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': While SuperSpeed sounds simple enough on paper, it's more like an ImaginationBasedSuperpower in the hands of an author who knows how to use his TechnoBabble. He's used his superspeed to time travel, travel between dimensions, become intangible (and make other people or things intangible), become invisible, cure himself of detrimental conditions, increase or decrease the speed of other people and objects (including turning someone into, effectively, a living statue), create whirlwinds strong enough to lift others aloft (sometimes just by spinning his arms), extinguish fires, melt large amounts of snow and ice, fly, throw lightning bolts, and power large machinery, among other things. At one point he started fabricating items from pure speed, whatever the heck that means. One of his famous tricks? Infinite Mass Punch. It's exactly what it sounds like. And it ''should'' be able to [[OneHitKO oneshot]] anybody that has a physical form, even Superman. Flash eventually ''taught'' Supes the same move.
* ''Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s'' ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Green Lanterns have variously been shown to use their rings to control time, teleport, create sentient life, duplicate others, themselves, and/or their rings (which in at least one story [[WishingForMoreWishes explicitly multiplied the power they had]]), become intangible, turn themselves into Kryptonians, temporarily recreate the entire rest of the GLC and pretty much anything you can imagine. Hal Jordan once survived being killed by ''pulling his own soul back into his body''. In order to write workable stories they've slowly been depowered to "making any object they can imagine" which is still pretty awesome.



* The final BigBad of the DC Comics series ''[[ComicBook/DialHForHero H.E.R.O.]]'' was a serial killer who found [[SuperEmpowering the power dial]], which turns its user into a random superhero when used, and gained the power to have any super-power he could think of. Robby Reed, the dial's original user, points the trope out, saying that while your average dialed hero is pretty good, every now and then the dial hands out what he calls a "jackpot" -- and the bad guy in question won bigger than anyone before or since.
-->'''Robby:''' Most of the time, the dial gives you one power, or maybe a couple of related powers. This guy's going to hit the superpower lottery. We're talking Superman levels of power. Nightmare levels.
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]]'' villain Amazo, by virtue of his AllYourPowersCombined. The Franchise/{{D|CAnimatedUniverse}}CAU version became something similar through a variant of PowerCopying, and eventually becomes [[PhysicalGod a virtual god]].

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* The final BigBad of the DC Comics series ''[[ComicBook/DialHForHero H.E.R.O.]]'' was a serial killer who found [[SuperEmpowering the power dial]], which turns its user into a random superhero when used, and gained the power to have any super-power he could think of. Robby Reed, the dial's original user, points the trope out, saying that while your average dialed hero is pretty good, every now and then the dial hands out what he calls a "jackpot" -- and the bad guy in question won bigger than anyone before or since.
-->'''Robby:''' Most of the time, the dial gives you one power, or maybe a couple of related powers. This guy's going to hit the superpower lottery. We're talking Superman levels of power. Nightmare levels.
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]]'' villain
''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Amazo, by virtue of his AllYourPowersCombined. The Franchise/{{D|CAnimatedUniverse}}CAU version became something similar through a variant of PowerCopying, and eventually becomes [[PhysicalGod a virtual god]].



* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter. His full list of Post-Crisis demonstrated powers covers half the StockSuperpowersIndex (and not in a JackOfAllTrades sense: he's a FlyingBrick on par with Superman, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] on par with Plastic Man, one of the most powerful [[PsychicPowers psychics]] in the setting... and that ''still'' is only covering the meat-and-potato basics for him), and his [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version was even ''more'' arbitrarily powerful.

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* ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'': The ComicBook/MartianManhunter. His Martian Manhunter's full list of Post-Crisis demonstrated powers covers half the StockSuperpowersIndex (and not in a JackOfAllTrades sense: he's a FlyingBrick on par with Superman, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] on par with Plastic Man, one of the most powerful [[PsychicPowers psychics]] in the setting... and that ''still'' is only covering the meat-and-potato basics for him), and his [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version was even ''more'' arbitrarily powerful.



* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'', whose powers are whatever the authors feel he should have. Sort of justified in that the Spectre is more or less an extension of {{God}} (as in, the actual God, not some SufficientlyAdvancedAlien pretending to be God).
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman has so many powers that an entire title's worth of ''ComicBook/XMen'' could be fielded with them (generally include EyeBeams, FlyingBrick, NighInvulnerability, SuperBreath, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength). They also tend to be at the highest end of the power spectrum for each, rendering him immensely powerful even among other equally strong and widely powered individuals. While quite a few writers have managed to sort it out and write engaging stories with him in defiance of his closeness to being a DeusExMachina, even other characters in the setting comment on (or become envious of) his many powers. The short form: With Superman around, the ''other'' guys in the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] can probably leave Supes to do his work.

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* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'', whose ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': Creator/PeterMilligan's version. He could create hallucinations, he could create physical objects, he could change himself, he could change others, he could bring himself back from the dead, teleport, make and grow interdimensional spaces, and even travel through ''time itself''! A few reasons why this worked:
** Non-heroic comic book. That means all other characters get no gimmicks, so their character development has to be focused on ''character''. And so you had purely normal, believable personalities who were at least as interesting as the guy with the powers, or moreso.
** Shade's powers were just as often the plaything of his own issue-riddled subconscious. And the more adept Shade got at using his powers, the more colossally his fucked up mind could fashion a MindScrew.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick power set, which enables them to go toe-to-toe with ComicBook/{{Superman}} or race ComicBook/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities that include SuperIntelligence, a PhotographicMemory, and the ability to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'': The Spectre's
powers are whatever the authors feel he should have. Sort of justified in that the Spectre is more or less an extension of {{God}} (as in, the actual God, not some SufficientlyAdvancedAlien pretending to be God).
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
''ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}'': Richard Swift aka ComicBook/{{The Shade|DCComics}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman has so many powers that an entire title's worth of ''ComicBook/XMen'' could be fielded with them (generally include EyeBeams, FlyingBrick, NighInvulnerability, SuperBreath, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength). They also tend to be at the highest end of the power spectrum for each, rendering him immensely powerful even among other equally strong and widely powered individuals. While quite a few writers have managed to sort it out and write engaging stories with him in defiance of his closeness to being a DeusExMachina, even other characters in the setting comment on (or become envious of) his many powers. The short form: With Superman around, the ''other'' guys in the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] can probably leave Supes to do his work.



** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 In]] [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 several]] [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton continuities]], her parents sent her to Earth hoping that she would be protected by her incredible powers.

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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 In]] [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 several]] [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton continuities]], her parents sent her to Earth hoping that she would be protected by her incredible powers.



* Not only does Franchise/WonderWoman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.

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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': As an Avatar of [[GreenThumb "The Green"]] (the plane of existence for the hive-mind and life force of all plant-life on Earth), Swamp Thing can inhabit and animate vegetable matter anywhere, including alien plants, even sentient ones, and construct it into a body for himself. As a result, bodily attacks mean little to him, he can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach. He even grew himself a form out of ComicBook/JohnConstantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion.
* ''ComicBook/{{Touch|2004}}'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekinesis, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vixen}}'': Vixen has the same powers as Animal Man. She's also been shown to be able to duplicate the abilities of mythological animals such as dragons or even the abilities of other metahumans. The DC Universe being a FantasyKitchenSink sure helps.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Doctor Manhattan (main page picture, in center), who is basically a nascent {{Energy Being|s}} who is just discovering that he is more or less a PhysicalGod. This in a setting completely ''devoid'' of superpowers above BadassNormal. He is however also hamstrung by being omniscient along his own personal timeline, meaning he always knows the events of his past and future with perfect clarity and thus has no free will. Every action he takes is utterly deterministic because he views his future actions as having already happened. Furthermore, his mere existence has [[AlternateHistory significantly altered the course of history]] - and with the exception of some new power sources and the early adoption of electric cars, [[CrapsackWorld not for the better]]. He would go on to top all that by interfering in the DCU timeline to create the ComicBook/New52.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
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Not only does Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Woman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.



* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', Creator/PeterMilligan's version. He could create hallucinations, he could create physical objects, he could change himself, he could change others, he could bring himself back from the dead, teleport, make and grow interdimensional spaces, and even travel through ''time itself''! A few reasons why this worked:
** Non-heroic comic book. That means all other characters get no gimmicks, so their character development has to be focused on ''character''. And so you had purely normal, believable personalities who were at least as interesting as the guy with the powers, or moreso.
** Shade's powers were just as often the plaything of his own issue-riddled subconscious. And the more adept Shade got at using his powers, the more colossally his fucked up mind could fashion a MindScrew.
* Doctor Manhattan of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (main page picture, in center), who is basically a nascent {{Energy Being|s}} who is just discovering that he is more or less a PhysicalGod. This in a setting completely ''devoid'' of superpowers above BadassNormal. He is however also hamstrung by being omniscient along his own personal timeline, meaning he always knows the events of his past and future with perfect clarity and thus has no free will. Every action he takes is utterly deterministic because he views his future actions as having already happened. Furthermore, his mere existence has [[AlternateHistory significantly altered the course of history]] - and with the exception of some new power sources and the early adoption of electric cars, [[CrapsackWorld not for the better]]. He would go on to top all that by interfering in the DCU timeline to create the ComicBook/New52.
* Captain Allen Adam from the post-''Comicbook/FiftyTwo'' Earth-4 of DC's multiverse is a RealityWarper in a world where everyone else is a BadassNormal. (Doctor Manhattan was based on the original Creator/CharltonComics Comicbook/CaptainAtom; Captain Adam, in turn, is a combination of Manhattan and Captain Atom.)
* Richard Swift aka ComicBook/{{The Shade|DCComics}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.
* Eve Eden aka Nightshade has a similar power set to the above mentioned Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.
* ComicBook/SwampThing. As an Avatar of [[GreenThumb "The Green"]] (the plane of existence for the hive-mind and life force of all plant-life on Earth), Swamp Thing can inhabit and animate vegetable matter anywhere, including alien plants, even sentient ones, and construct it into a body for himself. As a result, bodily attacks mean little to him, he can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach. He even grew himself a form out of ComicBook/JohnConstantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion.
* ComicBook/{{Vixen}} has the same powers as the aforementioned Animal Man. She's also been shown to be able to duplicate the abilities of mythological animals such as dragons or even the abilities of other metahumans. The DC Universe being a FantasyKitchenSink sure helps.
* ''ComicBook/Touch2004'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekinesis, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.

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* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', Creator/PeterMilligan's version. He could create hallucinations, he could create physical objects, he could change himself, he could change others, he could bring himself back from the dead, teleport, make and grow interdimensional spaces, and even travel through ''time itself''! A few reasons why this worked:
** Non-heroic comic book. That means all other characters get no gimmicks, so their character development has to be focused on ''character''. And so you had purely normal, believable personalities who were at least as interesting as the guy with the powers, or moreso.
** Shade's powers were just as often the plaything of his own issue-riddled subconscious. And the more adept Shade got at using his powers, the more colossally his fucked up mind could fashion a MindScrew.
* Doctor Manhattan of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (main page picture, in center), who is basically a nascent {{Energy Being|s}} who is just discovering that he is more or less a PhysicalGod. This in a setting completely ''devoid'' of superpowers above BadassNormal. He is however also hamstrung by being omniscient along his own personal timeline, meaning he always knows the events of his past and future with perfect clarity and thus has no free will. Every action he takes is utterly deterministic because he views his future actions as having already happened. Furthermore, his mere existence has [[AlternateHistory significantly altered the course of history]] - and with the exception of some new power sources and the early adoption of electric cars, [[CrapsackWorld not for the better]]. He would go on to top all that by interfering in the DCU timeline to create the ComicBook/New52.
* Captain Allen Adam from the post-''Comicbook/FiftyTwo'' Earth-4 of DC's multiverse is a RealityWarper in a world where everyone else is a BadassNormal. (Doctor Manhattan was based on the original Creator/CharltonComics Comicbook/CaptainAtom; Captain Adam, in turn, is a combination of Manhattan and Captain Atom.)
* Richard Swift aka ComicBook/{{The Shade|DCComics}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.
* Eve Eden aka Nightshade has a similar power set to the above mentioned Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.
* ComicBook/SwampThing. As an Avatar of [[GreenThumb "The Green"]] (the plane of existence for the hive-mind and life force of all plant-life on Earth), Swamp Thing can inhabit and animate vegetable matter anywhere, including alien plants, even sentient ones, and construct it into a body for himself. As a result, bodily attacks mean little to him, he can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach. He even grew himself a form out of ComicBook/JohnConstantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion.
* ComicBook/{{Vixen}} has the same powers as the aforementioned Animal Man. She's also been shown to be able to duplicate the abilities of mythological animals such as dragons or even the abilities of other metahumans. The DC Universe being a FantasyKitchenSink sure helps.
* ''ComicBook/Touch2004'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekinesis, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.
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** Aquaman's wife ComicBook/{{Mera}} is no slouch in this department either. As an Atlantean, she has super strength and durability and has been shown as [[InASingleBound capable of jumping out of the water directly onto a flying plane.]] But her greatest weapon is her [[MakingASplash ability to control, manipulate and shape water to her will]]. Her feats include pushing back a tidal wave the size of a city, drawing the moisture out of a person's body, and collecting the water in a person's body to flood their lungs.

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** Aquaman's wife ComicBook/{{Mera}} Mera is no slouch in this department either. As an Atlantean, she has super strength and durability and has been shown as [[InASingleBound capable of jumping out of the water directly onto a flying plane.]] But her greatest weapon is her [[MakingASplash ability to control, manipulate and shape water to her will]]. Her feats include pushing back a tidal wave the size of a city, drawing the moisture out of a person's body, and collecting the water in a person's body to flood their lungs.
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* Eve Eden aka ComicBook/{{Nightshade}} has a similar power set to the above mentioned Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.

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* Eve Eden aka ComicBook/{{Nightshade}} Nightshade has a similar power set to the above mentioned Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.
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** Superman villain Hank Henshaw, alias the Cyborg-Superman. Originally an {{Energy Being|s}} who could infest and control all forms of technology, Henshaw upgraded his act by using Superman's birthing matrix to create a cyborg body that incorporated Kryptonian alloys and organic parts cloned from Superman. Then he upgraded again by adding Apokoliptian technology, again when he became Grandmaster of the Manhunters, and ''again'' when he joined the Sinestro Corps. The end result is a killing machine possessed of all Superman's powers, plus {{technopath}}ic control over an army of robots, the ability to instantly manufacture any Kryptonian or Apokoliptian weapon, a GreenLanternRing, and a complete inability to die. That last one is a real problem, as [[DeathSeeker he'd really like to die now, please.]]

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** Superman villain Hank Henshaw, alias the Cyborg-Superman. Originally an {{Energy Being|s}} who could infest and control all forms of technology, Henshaw upgraded his act by using Superman's birthing matrix to create a cyborg body that incorporated Kryptonian alloys and organic parts cloned from Superman. Then he upgraded again by adding Apokoliptian technology, again when he became Grandmaster of the Manhunters, and ''again'' when he joined the Sinestro Corps. The end result is a killing machine possessed of all Superman's powers, plus {{technopath}}ic control over an army of robots, the ability to instantly manufacture any Kryptonian or Apokoliptian weapon, a GreenLanternRing, Green Lantern ring, and a complete inability to die. That last one is a real problem, as [[DeathSeeker he'd really like to die now, please.]]
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* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': RubberMan is not a power that sounds particularly potent, does it? Well, it is when cranked up to eleven. Plas' abilities basically boil down to absurdly flexible and instantaneous VoluntaryShapeshifting (his only limitation being his inability to change color, though he's even overcome that on occasion), combined with an absurd threshold for punishment: Plas has survived being shot, stabbed, melted, frozen-and-shattered, spread across the sea floor for thousands of years, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riddled with rubber bullets]], and is basically immune to PsychicPowers and BalefulPolymorph due to his inhuman physiology. Famously, Batman once concluded that he was stronger than ''Martian Manhunter,'' and that if Plas ever went rogue... well, his contingency plan for that was really just a backup for his plan A: "don't let that happen". His son Offspring is noted as being even stronger, though exactly how tends to be vague (besides the ability to change color).

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* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': RubberMan is not a power that sounds particularly potent, does it? Well, it is when cranked up to eleven. Plas' abilities basically boil down to absurdly flexible and instantaneous VoluntaryShapeshifting (his only limitation being his inability to change color, though he's even overcome that on occasion), combined with an absurd threshold for punishment: Plas has survived being shot, stabbed, melted, frozen-and-shattered, spread across the sea floor for thousands of years, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riddled with rubber bullets]], and is basically immune to PsychicPowers and BalefulPolymorph ForcedTransformation due to his inhuman physiology. Famously, Batman once concluded that he was stronger than ''Martian Manhunter,'' and that if Plas ever went rogue... well, his contingency plan for that was really just a backup for his plan A: "don't let that happen". His son Offspring is noted as being even stronger, though exactly how tends to be vague (besides the ability to change color).
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* Richard Swift aka the ComicBook/{{Shade}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.

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* Richard Swift aka the ComicBook/{{Shade}}.ComicBook/{{The Shade|DCComics}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.
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* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': RubberMan is not a power that sounds particularly potent, does it? Well, it is when cranked UpToEleven. Plas' abilities basically boil down to absurdly flexible and instantaneous VoluntaryShapeshifting (his only limitation being his inability to change color, though he's even overcome that on occasion), combined with an absurd threshold for punishment: Plas has survived being shot, stabbed, melted, frozen-and-shattered, spread across the sea floor for thousands of years, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riddled with rubber bullets]], and is basically immune to PsychicPowers and BalefulPolymorph due to his inhuman physiology. Famously, Batman once concluded that he was stronger than ''Martian Manhunter,'' and that if Plas ever went rogue... well, his contingency plan for that was really just a backup for his plan A: "don't let that happen". His son Offspring is noted as being even stronger, though exactly how tends to be vague (besides the ability to change color).

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* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': RubberMan is not a power that sounds particularly potent, does it? Well, it is when cranked UpToEleven.up to eleven. Plas' abilities basically boil down to absurdly flexible and instantaneous VoluntaryShapeshifting (his only limitation being his inability to change color, though he's even overcome that on occasion), combined with an absurd threshold for punishment: Plas has survived being shot, stabbed, melted, frozen-and-shattered, spread across the sea floor for thousands of years, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riddled with rubber bullets]], and is basically immune to PsychicPowers and BalefulPolymorph due to his inhuman physiology. Famously, Batman once concluded that he was stronger than ''Martian Manhunter,'' and that if Plas ever went rogue... well, his contingency plan for that was really just a backup for his plan A: "don't let that happen". His son Offspring is noted as being even stronger, though exactly how tends to be vague (besides the ability to change color).
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* ''ComicBook/{{Touch}}'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekineses, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Touch}}'': ''ComicBook/Touch2004'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekineses, telekinesis, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.
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** And yet he is ''still'' always a victim of TheWorfEffect. "Oh my gosh if he defeated Martian Manhunter how can Superman defeat him?" Apparently the answer to this question is always "Easily". Sometimes his astoundingly WeaksauceWeakness to fire plays a role in that (in the worst instances, lighting a match is as effective against him as green kryptonite is against Supes), but other times it's just that for all his powers, Superman trumps him in the one that matters above all others: PopularityPower.

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** And yet he is ''still'' still always a victim of TheWorfEffect. "Oh my gosh if he defeated Martian Manhunter how can Superman defeat him?" Apparently the answer to this question is always "Easily". Sometimes his astoundingly WeaksauceWeakness to fire plays a role in that (in the worst instances, lighting a match is as effective against him as green kryptonite is against Supes), but other times it's just that for all his powers, Superman trumps him in the one that matters above all others: PopularityPower.



** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton In]] [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 several]] [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton continuities]], her parents sent her to Earth hoping that she would be protected by her incredible powers.

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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 In]] [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 several]] [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton continuities]], her parents sent her to Earth hoping that she would be protected by her incredible powers.
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* ComicBook/AnimalMan started off with the ability to copy the abilities of any animal near him, but after [[RetCon an epiphany that he was connected to all life in the universe]], he could take on the traits of any animal at any time from [[Comicbook/MartianManhunter any]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} planet...]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any planet at all.]]

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* ComicBook/AnimalMan started off with the ability to copy the abilities of any animal near him, but after [[RetCon an epiphany that he was connected to all life in the universe]], he could take on the traits of any animal at any time from [[Comicbook/MartianManhunter [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter any]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} planet...]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any planet at all.]]



* ComicBook/BlueBeetle. Jaime Reyes may be considered a combination of Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/IronMan, but he's got more than just that. His alien scarab is a DoAnythingRobot which grants him vast destructive power and a wide variety of abilities whenever he needs it. He's got SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, VoluntaryShapeshifting, {{Arm Cannon}}s, AdaptiveAbility to face his opponents, NighInvulnerability, and much, much more. To give you an idea of what else he can do, he can turn {{invisib|ility}}le when he needs to, or [[ArtificialGill breathe underwater]] whenever the situation calls for it, or make a special surfboard to ride the winds inside a tornado. His ability to adapt to any situation also deserves special mention, as he can produce ''Kryptonite radiation'', and his blasts are strong enough to harm ''The Spectre''. He once [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Held Back The Phlebotinum]] against a villain (who was kicking his ass at the time), because he refused to use any weapon that, to quote his scarab, had "theological implications".
* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick power set, which enables them to go toe-to-toe with Franchise/{{Superman}} or race Franchise/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities that include SuperIntelligence, a PhotographicMemory, and the ability to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
* Franchise/TheFlash has a tendency to fall into this, DependingOnTheWriter. While SuperSpeed sounds simple enough on paper, it's more like an ImaginationBasedSuperpower in the hands of an author who knows how to use his TechnoBabble. He's used his superspeed to time travel, travel between dimensions, become intangible (and make other people or things intangible), become invisible, cure himself of detrimental conditions, increase or decrease the speed of other people and objects (including turning someone into, effectively, a living statue), create whirlwinds strong enough to lift others aloft (sometimes just by spinning his arms), extinguish fires, melt large amounts of snow and ice, fly, throw lightning bolts, and power large machinery, among other things. At one point he started fabricating items from pure speed, whatever the heck that means. One of his famous tricks? Infinite Mass Punch. It's exactly what it sounds like. And it ''should'' be able to [[OneHitKO oneshot]] anybody that has a physical form, even Superman. Flash eventually ''taught'' Supes the same move.

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* ComicBook/BlueBeetle.''ComicBook/BlueBeetle''. Jaime Reyes may be considered a combination of Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/IronMan, but he's got more than just that. His alien scarab is a DoAnythingRobot which grants him vast destructive power and a wide variety of abilities whenever he needs it. He's got SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, VoluntaryShapeshifting, {{Arm Cannon}}s, AdaptiveAbility to face his opponents, NighInvulnerability, and much, much more. To give you an idea of what else he can do, he can turn {{invisib|ility}}le when he needs to, or [[ArtificialGill breathe underwater]] whenever the situation calls for it, or make a special surfboard to ride the winds inside a tornado. His ability to adapt to any situation also deserves special mention, as he can produce ''Kryptonite radiation'', and his blasts are strong enough to harm ''The Spectre''. He once [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Held Back The Phlebotinum]] against a villain (who was kicking his ass at the time), because he refused to use any weapon that, to quote his scarab, had "theological implications".
* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel]] Marvel and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick power set, which enables them to go toe-to-toe with Franchise/{{Superman}} or race Franchise/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities that include SuperIntelligence, a PhotographicMemory, and the ability to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
* Franchise/TheFlash has a tendency to fall into this, DependingOnTheWriter. ''Franchise/TheFlash'': While SuperSpeed sounds simple enough on paper, it's more like an ImaginationBasedSuperpower in the hands of an author who knows how to use his TechnoBabble. He's used his superspeed to time travel, travel between dimensions, become intangible (and make other people or things intangible), become invisible, cure himself of detrimental conditions, increase or decrease the speed of other people and objects (including turning someone into, effectively, a living statue), create whirlwinds strong enough to lift others aloft (sometimes just by spinning his arms), extinguish fires, melt large amounts of snow and ice, fly, throw lightning bolts, and power large machinery, among other things. At one point he started fabricating items from pure speed, whatever the heck that means. One of his famous tricks? Infinite Mass Punch. It's exactly what it sounds like. And it ''should'' be able to [[OneHitKO oneshot]] anybody that has a physical form, even Superman. Flash eventually ''taught'' Supes the same move.



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** Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In Supergirl vol. 6 #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. This is why her parents sent her to Earth, [[Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton apparently]].
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Earth hoping that she would be protected by her incredible powers.
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** Maxima, a Superman rogue, sometimes, abuses this nearly as badly as Martian Manhunter. On top of being near Kryptonians in all physical stats, she is able to teleport herself or others, create force fields, control over metals, manipulate inorganic matter (usually to change her clothes on a whim), EyeBeams, multiple forms of mental power, illusion projection, and telekinesis. Though this may be explained because she is a product of selective gene manipulation to produce powerful offspring.

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* ComicBook/AnimalMan started off with the ability to copy the abilities of any animal near him, but after [[RetCon an epiphany that he was connected to all life in the universe]], he could take on the traits of any animal at any time from [[Comicbook/MartianManhunter any]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} planet...]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any planet at all.]]
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. That's right, Aquaman. The ButtMonkey of Franchise/TheDCU for decades, the {{Trope Namer|s}} for ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman and requiring one PlotTailoredToTheParty after another to be at all relevant, he is absolutely ''not'' as weak as common opinion believes. A combination of RequiredSecondaryPowers (he can swim like a fish and punch people while under 500+ atmospheres of pressure, which is Superman level asskickery) and FridgeHorror (he commands ''everything'' that lives in the ocean; guess where Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], and [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]] live?) have had many writers portray him as horrifically powerful and outright ''feared'' by heroes and villains alike, and for very good reasons. And that is before considering that he is also the king of a lost civilization with its own military force of (slightly weaker) super humans, giant ocean monsters and super advanced weaponry.
-->"He could control every creature that lives in the sea. But I don't think either of you know what that really ''means''. Do you know, do you ''understand'', do you have any ''idea'' how much life there is in just one single square mile of sea? I don't think you do... and if you multiply that by ''lots'' of miles in every direction... I'd never seen anything like it in my whole life... and God as my witness, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation I hope to never see it again]]."
** Aquaman's wife ComicBook/{{Mera}} is no slouch in this department either. As an Atlantean, she has super strength and durability and has been shown as [[InASingleBound capable of jumping out of the water directly onto a flying plane.]] But her greatest weapon is her [[MakingASplash ability to control, manipulate and shape water to her will]]. Her feats include pushing back a tidal wave the size of a city, drawing the moisture out of a person's body, and collecting the water in a person's body to flood their lungs.
** Garth the original Aqualad originally wasn't much to write home about, simply having the standard Atlantian physical stats but not on Aquaman's level. But then he became [[SidekickGraduationsStick Tempest]] and learned magic from the sorcerer Atlan. Since then, Garth has gained the ability to not only manipulate water but also control it's temperature, meaning he can either heat water to the point of evaporation or freeze it solid. He can fire purple energy beams from his eyes, sense magical energies, travel through dimensions, wields minor telekinesis, summon demons, astral project and, if he possesses Poseidon's Trident, can travel through time.
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Black Alice]] has [[PowerParasite the ability to instantly steal]] anybody's magical powers. And we do mean ''anybody''. From [[DealWithTheDevil Felix]] [[EvilSorcerer Faust]] to [[DeusExMachina the]] [[PhysicalGod freaking]] [[ComicBook/TheSpectre Spectre]].
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle. Jaime Reyes may be considered a combination of Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/IronMan, but he's got more than just that. His alien scarab is a DoAnythingRobot which grants him vast destructive power and a wide variety of abilities whenever he needs it. He's got SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, VoluntaryShapeshifting, {{Arm Cannon}}s, AdaptiveAbility to face his opponents, NighInvulnerability, and much, much more. To give you an idea of what else he can do, he can turn {{invisib|ility}}le when he needs to, or [[ArtificialGill breathe underwater]] whenever the situation calls for it, or make a special surfboard to ride the winds inside a tornado. His ability to adapt to any situation also deserves special mention, as he can produce ''Kryptonite radiation'', and his blasts are strong enough to harm ''The Spectre''. He once [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Held Back The Phlebotinum]] against a villain (who was kicking his ass at the time), because he refused to use any weapon that, to quote his scarab, had "theological implications".
* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and his EvilCounterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick power set, which enables them to go toe-to-toe with Franchise/{{Superman}} or race Franchise/TheFlash, they're also TheNeedless and TheAgeless in their superpowered forms (Black Adam is [[TimeAbyss 5,000 years old]]), have powerful {{Healing Factor}}s, are invulnerable (or at least incredibly resistant) to MindManipulation, and possess vast mental capabilities that include SuperIntelligence, a PhotographicMemory, and the ability to [[{{Omniglot}} speak basically every language on Earth]]. Oh, and unlike Superman, they have no KryptoniteFactor and are not vulnerable to magic.
* Franchise/TheFlash has a tendency to fall into this, DependingOnTheWriter. While SuperSpeed sounds simple enough on paper, it's more like an ImaginationBasedSuperpower in the hands of an author who knows how to use his TechnoBabble. He's used his superspeed to time travel, travel between dimensions, become intangible (and make other people or things intangible), become invisible, cure himself of detrimental conditions, increase or decrease the speed of other people and objects (including turning someone into, effectively, a living statue), create whirlwinds strong enough to lift others aloft (sometimes just by spinning his arms), extinguish fires, melt large amounts of snow and ice, fly, throw lightning bolts, and power large machinery, among other things. At one point he started fabricating items from pure speed, whatever the heck that means. One of his famous tricks? Infinite Mass Punch. It's exactly what it sounds like. And it ''should'' be able to [[OneHitKO oneshot]] anybody that has a physical form, even Superman. Flash eventually ''taught'' Supes the same move.
* ''Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s'' have variously been shown to use their rings to control time, teleport, create sentient life, duplicate others, themselves, and/or their rings (which in at least one story [[WishingForMoreWishes explicitly multiplied the power they had]]), become intangible, turn themselves into Kryptonians, temporarily recreate the entire rest of the GLC and pretty much anything you can imagine. Hal Jordan once survived being killed by ''pulling his own soul back into his body''. In order to write workable stories they've slowly been depowered to "making any object they can imagine" which is still pretty awesome.
** Sodam Yat. Take Superman, give him a Green Lantern ring, then merge him with the Ion symbiote which makes its host practically nigh-omnipotent and you've got Sodam. Shame about the lead poisoning...
** As Kyle Rayner pointed out during the Nero arc, a GL ring can split atoms. Now imagine that power in the hands of a lunatic...
** The Blue Lanterns are explicitly more powerful then the Green Lanterns, and can bring other ring users up to their level temporarily. It helps that they have a crippling WeaksauceWeakness, though (namely, their list of powers on their own is impressive-but-useless-in-a-fight, like the ability to rejuvenate suns, and having powers that rely on the power of hope is an iffy proposition when living in a CrapsackWorld).
** And then there's the Orange Lanterns. They have all the powers of a Green Lantern, are a HiveMind Virus, and can absorb other energy constructs with ease, something even Sodam Yat has trouble with. Thankfully there's (technically) only one of them (and that one is too isolated and self-absorbed to act on his own unless goaded into it by external events).
** The Black Lantern rings offer their reanimated hosts the benefits of the standard power aura and energy constructs that most of the other rings can generate, a HealingFactor that makes Wolverine's seem reasonable by comparison, and ''immunity to magic''. This is on top of any superpowers the host might have had in life. Then again, since the ring also turns its host into a flesh-eating murderous zombie that has to (and worse, wants to) rip out hearts filled with emotion, [[spoiler: and considering the host's soul isn't brought back either,]] and that you have to be dead in the first place, getting one of these rings isn't really a case of "winning" the lottery.
** The wielders of the Indigo Light (compassion) can absorb and redirect the powers of other Lanterns of the rest of the emotion spectrum. What really sets them apart: by redirecting the power of a Green Lantern ''[[spoiler: they can remove Black Lantern rings, destroying the zombie Lanterns]]''.
** And then there's the White Light, which was the original source of the other seven colors, and can not only override any and all of them, but can bring people back to life. [[DeathIsCheap Not that that means much.]]
* The final BigBad of the DC Comics series ''[[ComicBook/DialHForHero H.E.R.O.]]'' was a serial killer who found [[SuperEmpowering the power dial]], which turns its user into a random superhero when used, and gained the power to have any super-power he could think of. Robby Reed, the dial's original user, points the trope out, saying that while your average dialed hero is pretty good, every now and then the dial hands out what he calls a "jackpot" -- and the bad guy in question won bigger than anyone before or since.
-->'''Robby:''' Most of the time, the dial gives you one power, or maybe a couple of related powers. This guy's going to hit the superpower lottery. We're talking Superman levels of power. Nightmare levels.
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]]'' villain Amazo, by virtue of his AllYourPowersCombined. The Franchise/{{D|CAnimatedUniverse}}CAU version became something similar through a variant of PowerCopying, and eventually becomes [[PhysicalGod a virtual god]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':
** There was a character in the Heroes of Lallor named Duplicate Boy. His power? To have any power he wanted. Fortunately, he was only a supporting character and rarely appeared.
** In a similar boat: Nemesis Kid, who had the power to give himself whatever power was needed to defeat a single opponent. (Didn't stop him from getting his {{neck snap}}ped by Projectra, proving that [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll all the power in the world can't beat awesome]].)
** Then there is Earth-Man (formerly Absorbancy Boy), who has the ability to temporarily absorb as many powers as he wants, turning him, in his words, into a "one-man Legion". Unfortunately for the Legion, he's a sociopathic xenophobe who wants to [[FantasticRacism wipe out all species except humans]].
* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter. His full list of Post-Crisis demonstrated powers covers half the StockSuperpowers page (and not in a JackOfAllTrades sense: he's a FlyingBrick on par with Superman, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] on par with Plastic Man, one of the most powerful [[PsychicPowers psychics]] in the setting... and that ''still'' is only covering the meat-and-potato basics for him), and his [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version was even ''more'' arbitrarily powerful.
** And yet he is ''still'' always a victim of TheWorfEffect. "Oh my gosh if he defeated Martian Manhunter how can Superman defeat him?" Apparently the answer to this question is always "Easily". Sometimes his astoundingly WeaksauceWeakness to fire plays a role in that (in the worst instances, lighting a match is as effective against him as green kryptonite is against Supes), but other times it's just that for all his powers, Superman trumps him in the one that matters above all others: PopularityPower.
** The best power he has since lost is the ability to ''gain the powers'' of whatever form he changed into! He would lose his standard set (except for the ability to shapeshift), but who cares? Used sensibly (which it generally wasn't), this gives J'onn the winning ticket in the SuperpowerLottery all by itself.
* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': RubberMan is not a power that sounds particularly potent, does it? Well, it is when cranked UpToEleven. Plas' abilities basically boil down to absurdly flexible and instantaneous VoluntaryShapeshifting (his only limitation being his inability to change color, though he's even overcome that on occasion), combined with an absurd threshold for punishment: Plas has survived being shot, stabbed, melted, frozen-and-shattered, spread across the sea floor for thousands of years, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riddled with rubber bullets]], and is basically immune to PsychicPowers and BalefulPolymorph due to his inhuman physiology. Famously, Batman once concluded that he was stronger than ''Martian Manhunter,'' and that if Plas ever went rogue... well, his contingency plan for that was really just a backup for his plan A: "don't let that happen". His son Offspring is noted as being even stronger, though exactly how tends to be vague (besides the ability to change color).
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'', whose powers are whatever the authors feel he should have. Sort of justified in that the Spectre is more or less an extension of {{God}} (as in, the actual God, not some SufficientlyAdvancedAlien pretending to be God).
* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** Superman has so many powers that an entire title's worth of ''ComicBook/XMen'' could be fielded with them (generally include EyeBeams, FlyingBrick, NighInvulnerability, SuperBreath, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength). They also tend to be at the highest end of the power spectrum for each, rendering him immensely powerful even among other equally strong and widely powered individuals. While quite a few writers have managed to sort it out and write engaging stories with him in defiance of his closeness to being a DeusExMachina, even other characters in the setting comment on (or become envious of) his many powers. The short form: With Superman around, the ''other'' guys in the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] can probably leave Supes to do his work.
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} Superman was given basically anything you could stick the word "super" in front of as a power and while modern Superman can juggle battleships, the old one could juggle '''planets'''.
** Infamous character Superboy-Prime explicitly has the Silver Age level of power while modern Superman, while ''still'' pretty darned OP, has been scaled down from "destroy a solar system by sneezing" level. The insane, godlike absolute height of Superman's power... in the body of a bratty teenager. This is not a good thing, obviously.
** Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} is Superman's cousin. She has ''all'' of his powers, and she's as powerful as him. And if that weren't enough, she has a Red Lantern Ring during the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc. In Supergirl vol. 6 #32 she says she might just be the most dangerous thing in the universe, and she is pretty right. This is why her parents sent her to Earth, [[Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton apparently]].
** Lampshaded in ''Comicbook/ManyHappyReturns'':
--->'''Kara:''' Did you hear that? People screaming... and some sort of roaring...\\
'''Superboy:''' I don't — Are you hearing...?\\
'''Linda:''' I got nothin'.\\
'''Kara:''' And now I can see it, right in Metropolis, with my telescopic vision!\\
'''Superboy:''' Her what? Is there any power she doesn't have?
** The original ComicBook/PowerGirl is an AlternateUniverse older Supergirl. She gets Superman's full combo platter, except her KryptoniteFactor only exists in an alternate universe.
** One cannot forget Linda Danvers, the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Earth-born angel]] version of Supergirl. She was a FlyingBrick with PsychicPowers (telekinesis and, for a while, pyrokinesis) and shapeshifting.
** And then there's Matrix, an ArtificialHuman version of Supergirl from another dimension. In addition to being a FlyingBrick, she was also a telekinetic, shapeshifter and could turn invisible.
** Superboy-Prime isn't the only ComicBook/{{Superboy}} to win the lottery. Time travel and an OvernightAgeUp have revealed [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Kon-El]] will develop all of Superman's Kryptonian abilities, plus his [[{{Telekinesis}} tactile telekinesis]] will develop into full-blown telekinesis with which he can affect entire city blocks--and block magical attacks, one of Superman's few weaknesses.
** There is also Kal Kent, the 853rd century Superman from ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion''. "Faster than a speeding Tachyon, more powerful than a collapsing star, and able to leap between planets in a single bound". Full Kryptonian powers "evolved into the far future" with a bunch of add-ons like telekinesis, telepathy, and ten additional senses.
** The end of ''DC One Million'' features the triumphant return of the ''original'' Superman, still alive and, after centuries of development, even more powerful than his descendant.
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} and ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}} are imperfect Kryptonian clones/counterparts. They have the Kryptonian powerset, but some powers are opposite or reversed: flame breath instead of arctic breath, freezing vision rather than heat beams, and Bizarrogirl has petrifying vision in contrast to Supergirl's X-Ray vision.
** Maxima, a Superman rogue, sometimes, abuses this nearly as badly as Martian Manhunter. On top of being near Kryptonians in all physical stats, she is able to teleport herself or others, create force fields, control over metals, manipulate inorganic matter (usually to change her clothes on a whim), EyeBeams, multiple forms of mental power, illusion projection, and telekinesis. Though this may be explained because she is a product of selective gene manipulation to produce powerful offspring.
** Superman villain Hank Henshaw, alias the Cyborg-Superman. Originally an {{Energy Being|s}} who could infest and control all forms of technology, Henshaw upgraded his act by using Superman's birthing matrix to create a cyborg body that incorporated Kryptonian alloys and organic parts cloned from Superman. Then he upgraded again by adding Apokoliptian technology, again when he became Grandmaster of the Manhunters, and ''again'' when he joined the Sinestro Corps. The end result is a killing machine possessed of all Superman's powers, plus {{technopath}}ic control over an army of robots, the ability to instantly manufacture any Kryptonian or Apokoliptian weapon, a GreenLanternRing, and a complete inability to die. That last one is a real problem, as [[DeathSeeker he'd really like to die now, please.]]
** Doomsday's power is evolution. Whatever kills him, he comes back immune to that. Beat him to a pulp? He comes back much tougher. Throw him into space? He wakes up being able to live without air. He'll even develop defenses to get around those actively attacking him -- he once was able to extend his bony knuckle protrusions and poison Superman and bellowed out fire to strike down the Martian Manhunter.
** Vartox, an alien superhero and rival of Superman in the pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} days, who once admitted to Superman that he periodically discovered powers he didn't even realize he had.
* Not only does Franchise/WonderWoman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.
** [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark]] have the FlyingBrick powers and combat training that Diana possesses as well as a magic lasso of their own each. Donna's can mind control her enemies while Cassie's can channel Zeus's lightning.
** Nubia, a reoccurring Amazon character, would qualify. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 pre-Crisis version]] had the standard Amazon powers of enhanced strength, speed, stamina and durability and was a well trained combatant. She also possessed a magic sword given to her by Mars which was considered the only weapon that was a match for Diana's lasso. The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis]] version of Nubia had enhanced superhuman physical abilities, flight and 3000 years of combat experience due to her immortality. She could also travel to different realms of myth and possessed the ability to turn anyone [[TakenForGranite to stone]] [[DeadlyGaze with her gaze]], a power that was bestowed upon her by the Gorgons.
* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', Creator/PeterMilligan's version. He could create hallucinations, he could create physical objects, he could change himself, he could change others, he could bring himself back from the dead, teleport, make and grow interdimensional spaces, and even travel through ''time itself''! A few reasons why this worked:
** Non-heroic comic book. That means all other characters get no gimmicks, so their character development has to be focused on ''character''. And so you had purely normal, believable personalities who were at least as interesting as the guy with the powers, or moreso.
** Shade's powers were just as often the plaything of his own issue-riddled subconscious. And the more adept Shade got at using his powers, the more colossally his fucked up mind could fashion a MindScrew.
* Doctor Manhattan of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (main page picture, in center), who is basically a nascent {{Energy Being|s}} who is just discovering that he is more or less a PhysicalGod. This in a setting completely ''devoid'' of superpowers above BadassNormal. He is however also hamstrung by being omniscient along his own personal timeline, meaning he always knows the events of his past and future with perfect clarity and thus has no free will. Every action he takes is utterly deterministic because he views his future actions as having already happened. Furthermore, his mere existence has [[AlternateHistory significantly altered the course of history]] - and with the exception of some new power sources and the early adoption of electric cars, [[CrapsackWorld not for the better]]. He would go on to top all that by interfering in the DCU timeline to create the ComicBook/New52.
* Captain Allen Adam from the post-''Comicbook/FiftyTwo'' Earth-4 of DC's multiverse is a RealityWarper in a world where everyone else is a BadassNormal. (Doctor Manhattan was based on the original Creator/CharltonComics Comicbook/CaptainAtom; Captain Adam, in turn, is a combination of Manhattan and Captain Atom.)
* Richard Swift aka the ComicBook/{{Shade}}. You'd think that being able to create constructs and sentient beings out of [[CastingAShadow shadows]], cause an absence of light and teleport vast distances in a short amount of time would be impressive enough. But he is also virtually unkillable (demonstrated when he survived getting his heart torn out by a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]). His powers are considered to be outside supernatural forces such as magic and continued to work when the Genesis event depowered everyone else. A future version of himself was able to create corridors through time made of shadow. It's been stated by Dr Fate that even the ''Spectre'' would have a tough time dealing with the Shade.
* Eve Eden aka ComicBook/{{Nightshade}} has a similar power set to the above mentioned Richard Swift. Like Swift, Eve can create objects and beings made out of shadow, [[ThePowerOfCreation which she's used to create living shadow homunculi and two ravens which she used to serve as scouts]]. She can make herself {{intangibil|ity}}e by transforming into a two-dimensional shadow creature and also gains super strength in this form. She is able to teleport to other locations by passing through the Land of Nightshades, her realm of origin.
* ComicBook/SwampThing. As an Avatar of [[GreenThumb "The Green"]] (the plane of existence for the hive-mind and life force of all plant-life on Earth), Swamp Thing can inhabit and animate vegetable matter anywhere, including alien plants, even sentient ones, and construct it into a body for himself. As a result, bodily attacks mean little to him, he can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach. He even grew himself a form out of ComicBook/JohnConstantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion.
* ComicBook/{{Vixen}} has the same powers as the aforementioned Animal Man. She's also been shown to be able to duplicate the abilities of mythological animals such as dragons or even the abilities of other metahumans. The DC Universe being a FantasyKitchenSink sure helps.
* ''ComicBook/{{Touch}}'': Cooper Santiago can give anyone powers with the touch of his hand, but he has no control over what those powers are. Of the three people he touches in the second issue, the first develops impressive super strength, the second merely has his skin turn fluorescent and is useless for saving lives and the third develops impressive powers of telekineses, but ones which have a negative effect on his health.

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