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** Another weird power of his was the ability to see through the flow of time. This somehow resulted in him being immune to the powers of an opponent who completely rewrote reality.
** Pulling never before seen powers out of his ass is the [[Martian Manhunter]]'s shtick. And then getting lit on fire the next time said power would have been useful.
* Deathstroke's victory over a [[Justice League of America]] team in ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' can only be described as a complete and total [[Ass Pull]]. Sure, the team of heroes he fought didn't include Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman (two of whom would barely notice Deathstroke if he attacked them, and the third, Batman, would be ready for him if he did), but it ''did'' include the Flash and Green Lantern, neither of whom was portrayed as actually ''knowing how their own frigging powers worked'' during the fight. One other hero (the Atom) suddenly had his power start working 180 degrees backwards from how it had always worked before, for no reason at all. And a fourth (Black Canary) apparently just forgot that she had superpowers ''at all''. It was, in fact, embarrassing. For the writer.
* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers Disassembled]]'' and ''[[House of M]].'' The Scarlet Witch spontaneously becomes [[Physical God|omnipotent]] with no explanation. On a scale where she can annihilate the entire ''omniverse'' without really trying.
** Unless you accept her actual super power was always warping reality (like Franklin Richards). It's understandable if she always had a limit on her power (or didn't fully understand how to use them) and so she just manifested hex bolts. It took a meeting with Agatha Harkness (or rather her ghost, as it was later revealed that she had secretly died already some time ago and Wanda had unconsciously been keeping her mentor physically corporeal on the Earthly plane) near the start of Vol.3 for her to believe it was actually chaos magic and so she used it at a higher power level (i.e.: resurrecting on-and-off boyfriend Wonder Man). Though it was still always reality warping and her going crazy caused the events of Chaos (Detonating Jack of Hearts, attracting the Kree, possibly Vision's Ultron attack, etc) and then her desperation and convincing from Pietro to cause House of M.
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* Superman had pure kryptonite injected into his veins, yet was still able to overpower a villain who had been a match for him even when he was healthy.
* Silver Age [[Superman]] stories were notorious for coming up with convenient new powers for the main character all the time.
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