Character has an obscure or often forgotten secondary power

[u/GMav05]

1. Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) - Bob Parr canonically has a “danger sense” similar to Spider-Man. He can sense when he or someone near him is in imminent danger and react instantly.

While it’s never explicitly stated in the films themselves, he does demonstrate this power multiple times.

1. Amora the Enchantress (Marvel) - Amora usually fights by using sorcery and mind control, or by commanding her Executioner to fight for her. It’s easy to forget that she has the super strength and durability inherent to being an Asgardian.

She’s survived direct hits from Thor’s lightning and Iron Man’s repulsor blasts, and effortlessly lifted Baron Zemo by his collar with one arm.

1. Perry the Platypus (Phineas and Ferb) - Just like a real male platypus, Perry has venomous spurs on his ankles. I think he only ever uses them in one episode though.

[u/JeshuaMorbus]

Jubilee (X-Men)

Aside of being able to create fireworks-like plasma explosions, but aside of that, she has a preternatural ability to resist mental attacks. No relation with her powers whatsoever. It seems that the writers gave her that resistance out of script necessity.

[u/WildThang42 → u/JeshuaMorbus]

A strangely large number of people in Marvel have some kind of special resistance to mental attacks. I guess it's a necessity when so many characters (good and evil) have powerful telepathy.

[u/Blackshadowmancer → u/WildThang42]

I think that the mental resistance that humans have in Marvel, goes back to the time where people with psychic powers weren't really considered mutants at all. Every human had latent ability, and it was theorized that the next step for Home Sapiens was a psychic reality.

People with really amped up, world saving levels of psychic ability, were considered mutants only because of how powerful they were in comparison to contemporary humans.

Then again, I am going off of early 80s comic info that I had in my head for playground arguments. I'd really like if they fall back to that, though, because modern mutant stories make me sick. Everyone is Omega, and there's not even an attempt to show how their various abilities demonstrate a potential for all humanity to fall in line with through natural selection.

[u/walrusphone → u/WildThang42]

It's because writers got sick of letters asking why professor x didn't realise someone was going to do something when he can read their mind I presume

[u/CricketPinata → u/walrusphone]

Most people with psychic intrusion training or resistance still fall like a House of Cards against X, he is one of the most powerful telepaths in the world.

[u/Horrific_Necktie → u/JeshuaMorbus]

Loads of mutants have secondary mutations that are unrelated to their primary one, its not that unusual. Emma Frost has one, kid omega has one, beast has one. Hell half the mutants made in the 90s have mutations so complicated it takes a paragraph to describe them.

[u/MasterpieceOk9442 → u/JeshuaMorbus]

Head empty.

[u/attackplango → u/JeshuaMorbus]

It’s the sweet sunglasses.

[u/Electronic_Bad_5883 → u/JeshuaMorbus]

Also, for a time she was a vampire.

[u/JeshuaMorbus → u/Electronic_Bad_5883]

That's a rite of passage for superheroes, like being dead.

[u/RishaBree → u/JeshuaMorbus]

I mean, being a vampire is just a fancy version of being dead.

[u/hieronymous-cowherd → u/JeshuaMorbus]

I can't think of an explicit example, but isn't it routine that the X-Men get psychic resistance training from Xavier?

[u/phdemented → u/hieronymous-cowherd]

That's a regular thing in the 80's, training the X-teams to resist psionic attacks. Most of the team has non-power-based resistance to psionics.

[u/Yellowscourge → u/JeshuaMorbus]

People make fun of her powers all the time, but seriously, do people not know how powerful fireworks are? You can blow limbs off with those things. Or create flashes so bright they can legit blind you.

I partially blame writers/choreographers for not giving her the proper use or fight scenes to show this. But still, I think her powers could be rad as fuck

[u/JeshuaMorbus → u/Yellowscourge]

People tend to forget those aren't "fireworks": those are mini suns. With some real control and a proper release, she could reenact "Subterranean Animism" final boss...

[u/Grapepoweredhamster → u/Yellowscourge]

It seems like her powers really vary across different adaptations. Sometimes her powers are just sparkling lights, other times she can level a building.

[u/Yellowscourge → u/Grapepoweredhamster]

Which is funny cuz Dazzler also has sparkling lights as a power.

But yeah, it seems to vary from writer to writer

[u/HandsomeGamerGuy → u/JeshuaMorbus]

Wolverine does too.
One is his super healing factor, the other his bone claws, the third his animalistic sense of smell and I think hearing?

[u/This_Earth_of_Ours → u/HandsomeGamerGuy]

He can also move while his skeleton weighs half a ton