3
May
2013
Friday Five – Worst Super Powers
Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a bit better with the help of a Top Five list. This week’s category: Worst Super Powers!
Not every super power is useful. I mean, I think we can all agree that money is the best superpower (see: Batman and Iron Man). But for every radioactive spider bite that gives you super strength and the ability to climb walls, there’s an mutant who can change their hair color at will, which is not great for winning fights with Magneto.
- Skin – Generation X – Wow, extra skin. Unless you can use it to make wings a la Rocky the Squirrel, it’s useless.
- Husk – Generation X – Another skin related power. Pulling off your skin to reveal a new skin underneath made of something different? Seems like a stupid and excessive way to shapeshift.
- The Blob – Brotherhood of Evil Mutants – His power is that he’s fat. That is all.
- Superman – Part of his original power set was superhuman face muscles. He would flex and contort his face muscles to form a disguise, and that’s why just wearing glasses was enough to fool people that Clark Kent and Superman were two different people. You can see why it it was quickly dropped.
- Matter-Eater Lad – Legion of Super-Heroes – Wow, you can eat anything? That seems like it will come in real handy in a fight! Ok, so maybe it would be good to eat your way out of a prison or something, but how often does that happen? It’s not really good for offense.
 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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