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{{quote|''So far, I've established that she can [[Super Strength|hit like a Mack truck]], [[Time Master|selectively alter the flow of time]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and possibly]] [[Talking to Plants|talk to plants.]]"''|'''Spike''' on '''Illyria''', ''[[Angel]]''}}
We've all heard of the [[Superpower Lottery|standard superhero power deal]], of people with phenomenal cosmic powers,<ref>[[Aladdin (Disney film)|itty bitty living space not mandatory]]</ref>
[[Rule of Funny|Mostly just because it's funny]] to list someone's powers as [[Naruto|"energy manipulation, one of the greatest healers in the world, super strength and...]] [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|can talk to slugs"]], instead of just "energy manipulation, healing and strength."<ref>This is a reference to Tsunade from Naruto.</ref>
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Of course [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]] can also apply, which means this power can allow nasty surprise or emergency exit if no one ever takes it into account or it's just too wildly out of line to suspect. Which means the character is "multiclassed" as a [[Spoony Bard]] or [[Lethal Joke Character]] and standalone versions of these are avoided.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Combo-Platter Powers]], [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]].
{{examples}}
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* Tsugumi Ohba of [[Death Note]] [[Word of God|said that]] Shinigami, among [[Nigh Invulnerability|intangibility]], [[Flight]], [[Evil Eye|the ability to see names above people's heads]] can also... taste. It should be noted that they don't need to eat.
** [[Fridge Brilliance|...Thus explaining why Ryuk loves to eat apples]].
* The skill set of Negi in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' includes various [[Blow You Away|wind]] and [[Shock and Awe|lightning]] spells, [[Status Buff
** Negi has a secondary one involving {{spoiler|his artifact, which borrows the powers of his partners. This includes [[Telepathy]], [[Anti-Magic]], a [[Great Big Book of Everything]], etc. It also includes a [[Magical Girl]] staff that allows him to [[Extreme Graphical Representation|surf the internet]].}}
** Then there's Jack Rakan, whose portfolio includes [[Super Strength]], invincibility, ability to [[Crazy Awesome|disregard the laws of physics]], and... can [[The Nose Knows|locate enemies with alarming precision by the scent of their panties]]. Which [[Panty Thief|he stole right off of them]].
* Luca of ''[[Saint Beast]]'' gets flight, strength, and the ability to read minds via his fingertips. In a different story one might be able to find meaningful uses for this, but in the actual series the only thing he can use it for is to read his boyfriend's
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** He also had a "charm" power, which everyone except [[Chris Claremont]] completely ignored.
** Rogue herself, when still possessing [[Ms. Marvel]]'s powers, had a latent [[Spider Sense|seventh sense]] that allowed her to detect danger. She used it perhaps twice in the comic books. [[Ms. Marvel]] herself rarely used the power, either.
* [[Superman]] used to have the power of Super-Ventriloquism, which he used surprisingly frequently. Also whenever Superman used to use his powers to do something more efficiently writers would call it Super-<Insert Thing Here>, so "weaving at Superspeed" became "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140119081037/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=36&Itemid=53&limitstart=4 Super-Weaving]".
** His "Super-Breath" is used only sporadically (volcano eruption, "Fire Wall of Doom"). Supergirl once complained (to herself) how "lame" this power was.
** Don't forget the infamous "Rebuild The Great Wall Of China Vision" from the movies.
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** And the "throw a cellophane S-shield to wrap around you and then dissolve" power from the second.
*** This was clearly a Kryptonian gadget, not a power. Like the multiple copies of himself and the reversed [[De-Power]] chamber, it was traps he had set up to frustrate his opponents until they fell for his last ploy.
** Of course, [
*** The worst case of which is a simple multiplication, which Supes calls "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140408220709/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=676:high-school-math-is-a-super-power-apparently&catid=36:stupor-powers-index&Itemid=38 Super-Mathematics]" ''while he gets the answer wrong''.
**** Well, if he had gotten the answer right, it would've just been normal mathematics. Super mathematics! 10 times better than normal mathematics!
***** [[Tom Lehrer|It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it!]]
* A very bizarre version of this in ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
** I've never read Legion, but it sounds like if all you can do is bounce, mastery of angles is [[Required Secondary Powers]], as it helps you weaponize the bouncing much more effectively. See Cyclops and Cap below.
* [[Spider-Man]] got one of these in "The Other" powerup mini-arc before Civil War. He gained such powers as seeing in the dark, tracing vibrations through his weblines, poison stingers in his arms... and the ability to identify the species of any spider on sight. At least he didn't end up shooting webs out of his behind.
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*** Super-sticky sounds lame until Spidey uses it to ''rip {{spoiler|Sasha Kravinoff}}'s face off''.
*** Wall crawling is by far his most commonly used power, and the primary reason he's associated with spiders. It also keeps his mask on and clothes together even if they're ripped to shreds.
* [[Sub-Mariner|Namor the Sub-Mariner]] had super strength, could fly, could breathe both air and water, could charge his body with electricity, had telepathic control over undersea life... and could puff himself up like a puffer fish. The latter powers (thankfully) haven't been seen since his reintroduction into Marvel in the 1960s.
* The [[Hulk]] has super-strength and durability... and the ability to see astral forms. Which is more useful than you might think, but not ''that'' much more useful.
** To be even more obscure, he can also always sense his location relative to the place he was "born" in the gamma bomb.
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* [[Daredevil]]'s sonar super-hearing is used relatively often. His super-touch is mentioned relatively frequently, as well. Every once in a while, his super-smell will be referenced and useful. But rarely does his super-taste, which apparently allows him to analyze even trace ingredients of food, work its way into a story.
* [[Savage Dragon]] has superhuman strength, invulnerability, a healing factor, superhuman aim, superhuman agility, and... the ability to speak any Earth-based language. He didn't even realize he had this power until he met someone who spoke Mandarin.
* Even [[Squirrel Girl]], whose primary abilities push [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]] to new levels, gets in on this act. Her useful abilites include [[Talks to Squirrels]] and [[Super Reflexes|Squirrel Agility]], but she also has lips that taste like hazelnuts.
== Literature ==
* Angel from ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' has [[Flying Brick|Super Strength, Flight,]] Telepathy, borderline [[Mind Control]], and... can talk to fish.
** Don't forget Nudge, who can sense stuff about people through what they've touched (
*** It was probably pointed out that being magnetic and having to touch computers (to get passwords) don't mix.
* The Sleeper from ''[[Wild Cards]]'' gained a new form and powers every time he woke up. However, one power stayed with him: He could generate sad piano background music by saying [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|'Play it again, Sam']].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Solars in ''[[Exalted]]'' are blessed by the Unconquered Sun. What sort of powers does this give them? They can become awesome at just about anything, fight well enough to kill gods, dodge attacks that are undodgeable, make a person do almost anything with their powers of persuasion, learn the most powerful sorcery in existence, and even shape primordial chaos into concrete reality. But there are two abilities they all have in common: the power to make their foreheads glow, and to know the time of day at will. Hey torches and watches are fiddly and expensive!
** In ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'', Marena used the light-from-the-forehead thing, and Misho was implied to be using it as well. So far, though, nobody has had occasion to use the time-of-day thing.
*** Radiating sunlight is also very helpful when dealing with vampires, if you learn the right charm.
* Not uncommon in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', if the player is quirky enough. Some of these simple powers and feats can actually break the plot if the DM doesn't plan ahead. (Like the ability to make nigh-instant gather information checks, or a [[Bag of Holding]] that can swallow enemies whole.)
* Some [[Dungeons
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** Yuuka Kazami is a youkai with incredibly high levels of strength, endurance and magical energy, and the original creator of Marisa's [[Kamehame Hadoken|Master Spark]]. Her actual power is [[Green Thumb|manipulation of flowers]], which is referred to as "more of an extra".
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]: The Devil's Playhouse'', Max has the power to see the future, teleport, [[Astral Projection|astrally project]] himself and others into films or slides, [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshift]], force words into other people's mouths, compress into a tiny space, read minds, [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|destroy elder gods]], [[Dream Stealer|eat nightmares]], [[Reality Warper|warp reality]], and produce an Nutritional Information list of any food item he looks at. This last power isn't even necessary to beat the game.
* In [[Spyro the Dragon]]: Enter the Dragonfly, Spyro can [[Breath Weapon|breathe]] fire, ice, and ''bubbles''. The Bubble Breath is entirely useless except for trapping the [[MacGuffin]] dragonflies. Later game "A Hero's Tail" featured Water Breath, which couldn't kill any enemies and was only useful for solving a few puzzles.
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* In ''[[Slightly Damned]]'', Kieri the water angel can fly, shoot icebolts, and has [[Cursed with Awesome|a curse]] that let her turn into a cute bunny.
** Being said cute bunny restricts Kieri's ability to fight and (I think) it weakens her magic. However, it crosses into [[Cursed with Awesome]] when Kieri becomes unhittable due to small size and increased rabbity agility. After all, Toski did refer to it as a gift!
* In ''[[Something
* Dave's kernelsprite, from ''[[Homestuck]]'', was prototyped with an impaled crow. This gives him wings & flight, an always available sword, energy beams, insight into the secrets of the game, and apparently [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006244 the ability to deface posters from a distance while someone is writing on them].
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== Western Animation ==
* All three ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' are [[Flying Brick|superstrong and can fly]], can shoot [[Eye Beams]], and have several other cool powers. Blossom also has freezing powers, Bubbles can speak any language (including animal languages), and Buttercup can... roll her tongue like a taco.
** Fanon states that her actual power is that she can fight even better then the other girls.
* During the second season of ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', the girls gained some interesting secondary powers. Among the quirkier of their new powers, Irma gained the power of persuasion and the ability to turn people's clothes pink.
** This is used to great effect to annoy the muscular Knight of Vengeance Frost who apparently doesn't believe that [[Real Men Wear Pink]]. Considering Irma is the comic relief of the team this could almost count as [[Personality Powers]].
* Lampshaded in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', where the villains split the 12 talismans between the four of them, letting them rob banks with super strength, laser eyes, and the ability to turn cops into chickens, among other things. Finn, however, gets the powers of astral projection, motion-to-the-motionless and balance (spiritual, sadly). Luckily, he complains enough so that comparatively-[[Badass Normal]] Hak Fu trades with him... and then he makes a ''second'' trade with Ratso when this gives him flight and ''two'' healing powers (which later turns out to not actually be redundant).
** The show partially subverts this, as the form-shifting talisman (the above-mentioned turn-people-to-animals one) is made MUCH more useful than it would be in other shows. Such as when Jade turns Jackie into a
* ''[[The Fairly
** They also turn out to have immunity to magic, which becomes a problem when he wants to hit the [[Reset Button]].
* ''[[South Park]]'' featured Captain Hindsight. Not only can he fly, but he also has... extraordinary hindsight. This is treated as [[Cursed with Awesome]].
* [[Lilo and Stitch|Stitch]] has super strength, a super-retentive brain (can learn any language, alien, human, or otherwise, in a very brief time period), agility, quick
* [[Superman]] has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5N-jh8ars8 precise muscle control.]
** Actually more useful than you might think. If he didn't have precise muscle control, he wouldn't be able to be [[Secret Identity|Clark Kent]] convincingly.
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