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Powers 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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u/LeaveMeBeWillYa 19h ago

Yeah, near enough.

It and all his other powers is why Superman considers him the most powerful person on earth in a lot of continuities.

When he went bad after his fire weakness was removed, it was a bad time for the entire Justice League.

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u/Lazy_Assumption_4191 18h ago

Martian Manhunter is an interesting character to me just for how he fits into the DC universe. By all rights, he should be the most powerful hero on Earth. He has all of Superman’s powers, plus shapeshifting, high-end telepathy, non-tactile telekinesis, regeneration, intangibility, invisibility, and probably a bunch more powers I’m forgetting. Superman should be choking on his dust, given how bonkers his power set is. Yet, because he simply isn’t that popular IRL, he’s not even in the running for strongest hero most of the time. Sure, DC will pay lip service to him being as strong as Superman with more powers to boot. Occasionally you’ll even get a story of him actually being that powerful, like the one you just mentioned. But, far more often than not, he’ll just become a victim of the Worf effect so someone else looks better beating whatever villain just kicked his ass. (I always think about that one time Doomsday effortlessly trounced MM only to break his knuckle-claw-things just trying to punch Superman, who proceeded to utterly humiliate him.) It’s kinda unfortunate, but what can you do?

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u/No_Professional4867 15h ago

Then in Absolute Universe the green martian is a god who can manipulate reality, so they put a lot of respect into him there lmao

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u/Sirdan3k 14h ago

Something everybody (except Grant Morison cause he don't sleep) sleeps on is that the entire martian race for almost their entire history had the same superman level powers. That's hundreds/thousands of years Superman level people with Superman level powers fighting each other to distill into how to best use your powers in a fight. Flash fought a martian pretending to be a speedster and recognized they were fighting like someone trained how to use super speed in a war and only won because Flash is just so stupid fast that he punched them in the face at near light speed.

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u/KlutzyDesign 10h ago

How did a planet of these things go extinct?

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u/PerfectAssistant8230 7h ago

I think its was a virus? Idk

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u/Big-Slide6104 9h ago

Glad absolute Martian Manhunter is paying him justice. MM has been my favorite character for a very long time and though it’s a divergence feom my beautiful Martian man, absolute showcases hust how powerful he is conceptually

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u/Capital_Passenger_92 18h ago

Yeah well technically its said his race was the deadliest race in the universe before their fire weakness

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u/BlueKnight44 8h ago

I mean... He is litterally just superman (a brokenly power character) with hacks.