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Superheroes sometimes have an unintuitive combination of powers. Sometimes this is a [[Justified Trope]]. For example, anyone with [[All Your Powers Combined]] will have '''Combo-Platter Powers''' at least some of the time. Other times it is the result of either an excess or lack of thematic unity. Sometimes, combinations that look strange to modern-day Western conceptual categories made perfect sense in the culture where they originated.

This can happen through accretion, as with [[Superman]]; as a deliberate change to the character, like the [[Fantastic Four|Invisible Woman]]; or even at creation, like the [[Martian Manhunter]]. Sometimes there will be a [[Hand Wave]] as an off-hand explanation ("Secondary mutation", anyone?) or a later [[Retcon]] to explain how the powers actually work together; other times, it just happens. The most common set is the [[Flying Brick]].

This can happen through accretion, as with [[Superman]]; as a deliberate change to the character, like the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Invisible Woman]]; or even at creation, like the [[Martian Manhunter]]. Sometimes there will be a [[Hand Wave]] as an off-hand explanation ("Secondary mutation", anyone?) or a later [[Retcon]] to explain how the powers actually work together; other times, it just happens. The most common set is the [[Flying Brick]].

This does ''not'' include abilities gained by learning them or some other method of choosing them, as something that can be learned is only random if the ''character'' wants to learn it random things. This means most magical abilities are excluded.