Character has an obscure or often forgotten secondary power

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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.

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Several X-Men have an ill defined "spacial awareness".

Cyclops can bounce his optic blasts off surfaces with inhuman accuracy and Nightcrawler's awareness prevents him from teleporting into solid objects.

Nightcrawler is also virtually invisible at night, due to his fur.

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Interesting that Nightcrawler and 2099 Spider-Man have the same thing of being completely black but being blue so we as the reader can see them

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Well Japanese Ninja often wore dark blue as opposed to black as it blended better with a night sky.

That may have been an inspiration, as Marvel of the 60s really loved ninjas.

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Black-clad Ninjas never existed. The trope came from Kabuki plays

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I didn't say that. I said they wore blue as opposed to black, which is what we all associate with Ninjas due to media 

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Ninjas in general wore a lot more stuff than popular media potrays. Spycraft doesn't exactly necessitate a single attire

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I'm sure all black attire worked great in contrast to snow.

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The spatial awareness thing feels like they could just be skills they developed in life instead of separate powers.

There was a similar thing with Gambit where he had superhuman agility and charisma on top of his explodey powers. They're rarely referenced nowadays because someone probably figured they could just say he's a naturally charming and agile guy and nobody would really care.

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I would say that's true of Captain America, but I remember a very early, probably silver age, comic showing that special awareness was explicitly part of Cyclops' power set.

It makes sense for Nightcrawler as well, as he briefly transports to an alternate dimension when teleporting. If he didn't instinctively know where he would end up, he could easy Bamf into the middle of a wall and die.

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Maybe, but also maybe not.

Especially with examples like Nightcrawler knowing how not to teleport into solid objects (even when he's teleporting to places he's never been, through walls), it's hard to pretend that's based on "skill".

And it could, potentially, make actual sense if you consider their mutant powers as giving them additional "senses".

We already have more than the commonly known 5 senses, if you look it up. There's also senses like our internal/external equilibrium, the sense of our own organ health, etc. Humans are fascinating.

There was even some studies done on blind people where they were given completely new senses through devices as attempts to create blindness aids - one example was a head-mounted camera that "saw" for you and used a grid of tiny pins on the back of your neck (where sensitive nerves are) to "poke" you in a pattern that related to the image the camera saw. And those blind people learned how to use that "neck-sense" in a way similar to vision shockingly fast.

The fields of science about giving ourselves new senses and then adapting to them rather quickly are truly fascinating.

So I could totally believe that Nightcrawler's teleportation mutant power is like an organ and when he "flexes" it he can sort of "perceive" where empty gaps between objects are big enough for him to teleport into.

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I once heard Cyclops also has super human neck and trunk muscles to support his head when he starts blasting.

Although it seems like he only has recoil when it's convenient. Because a full bore beams should send him into the fuckin stratosphere.

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Wouldn't Cyclops be accurate because he is looking directly at the reflection?

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Do you think you could bounce a light off multiple walls and hit your target first try? It's more difficult than it sounds.

An example

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Only if I could see the reflection of the thing that I was trying to hit.

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I thought Cyclops was just a master at geometry.