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{{trope}}
{{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''', ''[[
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
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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== Anime & Manga ==
* Mew Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has typical [[Magical Girl]] leader powers that make her a particularly useful fighter, as well as the ability to jump high, always land on her feet, and... transform into a cute helpless kitten. [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|Unexpectedly]]. This was played up in ''Tokyo Mew Mew - a la mode'' to the point where she literally had to turn into a cat after three minutes of fighting in order to let Berii take her spotlight and place as leader.
* Inverted a bit in ''[[Pokémon (
* Mokona from ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' can take people through different dimensions and works as a [[Universal Translator]]. Another of its "secret techniques" is imitating voices.
** That is not a useless technique, You never know when you are going to need doing a [[Bavarian Fire Drill]].
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** Played straight/for comedy with {{spoiler|Killer Bee}}, the host of the Eight-Tailed Beast. Being a jinchuriki gives you incredible amounts of chakra (even when not using the beast's power), the ability to transform [[Game Face|part]] or [[One-Winged Angel|all of the way into the beast's form]], and a special power depending on which one. Of what we know of, the One-Tailed lets you [[Dishing Out Dirt|control sand]], the Two-Tailed can make [[Technicolor Fire|a weird spectral fire]], the Four-Tailed can [[Magma Man|control/create lava]], the Nine-Tailed gives you a [[Healing Factor]], and the Eight-Tails... lets your body produce ink from your mouth. Despite this, the current 8-Tailed host more than makes up for it with his control over the basic forms.
** {{spoiler|Jugo}} is the originator of the Cursed Seal, giving him great durability and can make his entire body a [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]. For [[Friend to All Living Things|an entirely different reason]] he can also communicate with animals, and have them do various tasks like scouting or scattered torn pieces of clothing to through someone off their trail.
* Parodied in ''[[
* Tsugumi Ohba of [[
** [[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
== Comic Books ==
* Endemic during the [[Silver Age]] thanks to common use of [[New Powers
* Gambit from ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' used to have a power which had no practical applications but meant he could touch Rogue. Though this was useful as the two were lovers. ([[Rule of Drama|He lost it, of course]].)
** 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.
* [[
** 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.
* It's more a [[Required Secondary Powers|Required Secondary Power]], but Scott Summers, aka. Cyclops, has a natural grasp of spatial geometry: usually he uses it to bounce his eyebeams off stuff, but he has used it for other things (like throwing rocks and baseball) at least occasionally. [[Wolverine]] once noted that this means it's a very bad idea to play against Cyke in a game of pool. Captain America also has this as well for the same reason (except with his shield); one can only imagine what would happen if the two of them played pool together.
** In Cyclop's case, it's an inherent power which he's constantly practiced. Captain American developed it as a skill.
* [[
** [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|It has its uses]]. Namely, because it's so well ''known'' that she loses her powers when her suit is torn, and because she can make part of it invisible at any given time, she uses it to make {{spoiler|1=her teammate-turned-evil dWarf!}} lower his guard by faking a torn suit.
*** It also makes phone calls.
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* [[Wonder Woman]] has flight, superstrength second only to Superman, [[Super Reflexes|reflexes fast enough to block bullets]] with her bracelets (and indestructible bracelets), an indestructible magic lasso that can break enchantments and force anyone bound with it to answer any question truthfully and a razor-sharp tiara she can throw like a boomerang. Did you know she can also [[Speaks Fluent Animal|talk to animals]]? Neither did most of the people who write her comic, judging by how often she does it.
** She can also talk with trees.
* Nightcrawler of the ''[[X
* The [[Martian Manhunter]] has - brace yourself - superstrength, flight, invulnerability, x-ray vision, heat vision, superspeed, nine senses, telepathy, invisibility, intangibility and shapeshifting. He can also - brace yourself - ''create ice cream with his mind''. Needless to say, he hasn't used that last one recently (and to be fair, his [[New Powers
** Chances are, the writers started to realize that if he could create any sort of matter at will, they'd be making him ''nearly omnipotent''. Oh, and he'd overshadow [[
** Ice cream? [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]!
* In addition to being a [[Flying Brick]], one-time Avenger Starfox ([[Star Fox (
** His "pleasure power" would fall more under the realm of [[Useless Useful Spell]]. Though the ability to take an enemy out via orgasm is a potentially useful one, it's failed nearly every time he's tried to use it in a fight.
** Eventually the "pleasure power" became a lot more potent in the pages of She-Hulk, so naturally he lost it in a lawsuit.
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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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== Live Action TV ==
* Marty Hopkirk in ''[[
** An even better example would be at the start of the second season (in the remake, anyway), where he gains the ability to... ''shrink shoes''.
* Illyria from ''[[
** She actually seemed quite upset about losing that last one.
** It may be a clever in-joke, as Fred (whose body Illyria is using) talked to plants for a while after returning from a hell dimension. (They didn't talk back.)
* ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' is a show about a girl who, after being dosed by chemicals, gains telekinesis, the power to send out electric shocks, turn into a puddle (which is a lot more useful than it sounds, as she could actually move around while in water mode), change colour when upset (which isn't) and, after a [[Power Creep, Power Seep|power creep]], burp bubbles and wield super strength [[Power-Up Food|after eating curry]].
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Sylar's current set of abilities includes, among others, [[Telekinesis]], [[Psycho Electro|lightning blasts]], an incredible [[Healing Factor]], and... [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/downloads/Heroes_novel_123.pdf being a printer].
* In ''[[Misfits]]'', 'Jesus' had the powers of telekinesis and teleportation, but also walking on water and the ability to drive people mad with lust by touching them. Justified by the fact that he brought these separate powers from Seth.
* [[Jenny McCarthy]] had a show structured like SNL for a while, and one of her recurring characters was a superheroine who had the usual powers, plus the ability to blast people with quarts of snot that made them chill out.
* The comics had [[Wonder Woman]] as an [[The Champion]] of [[Complete Immortality|the amazon warriors]] with [[Super Strength]] and an [[Cool Plane|invisible plane]]. The [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman TV series]] introduced the world [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL9L_uYASrU to the way] Diana Prince could [[Everything's Better
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Solars in ''[[
▲* Solars in ''[[Exalted (Tabletop Game)|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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** [[Physical God|Suwako Moriya]] can create and manipulate earth, controls curses and the beings that cause them, and has dominion over frogs. Then again, [[All There in the Manual]] states there is at least one really huge frog in Gensokyo.
** 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
* 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.
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Slightly Damned]]'', Kieri the water angel can fly, shoot icebolts, and has [[Cursed
** Being said cute bunny restricts Kieri's ability to fight and (I think) it weakens her magic. However, it crosses into [[Cursed
* 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 ''[[
** Fanon states that her actual power is that she can fight even better then the other girls.
* During the second season of ''[[WITCH (
** 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 ''[[
** 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
* [[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.
* In ''[[The
* On ''[[Teen Titans (
** She doesn't have to kiss them. Star just finds that the [[Power Perversion Potential|most fun.]]
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