We know not all powers are known or some are lesser known so I have posted this list in hopes of helping people find unique powers to use. Please keep in mind we reserve the right to not allow certain powers or request the modification of others to keep things balanced and fair. Also while we attempt to allow everyone to have the power they want if we get too many people with similar powers we may request you try to find another unless you can make the usage truly unique. Thank you To make it easier for new people to see what powers are already in use please check this link https://gia-xmenrpgforum.iftopic.com/t81-power-usage#409 Abilities resulting from either induced evolution or natural selection in humans. These abilities range from enhanced physical abilities, such as strength, speed and accelerated healing, to phenomenal psychic powers, such as telepathy and telekinesis. These powers are sometimes caused by a genetic birth defect, which shows up later on in life as supernatural powers, but exposure to chemicals or radiation has also been known to cause superhuman mutations.
Power manipulation
Power bestowal
Ability to bestow powers or jump-start latent powers.
Examples: Sage or Synergy
Power mimicry
Ability to copy another's powers when that power is used against you
Examples: Black Alice
Power absorption
Ability to absorb the powers and skills of another by touch. The person with this power can't touch another person without hurting them
it is recommended that you absorb no more than 5 powers at once
Example: Rogue
Power negation
Ability to cancel the superpowers of others.
Examples: Leech or Scrambler
Power sensing
Ability to sense or recognize superhuman powers.
Examples: Caliban
Personal physical powers
Powers which affect a physical person's body.
Accelerated healing
Ability to heal rapidly from any injury; the rate of recovery varies from character to character.
Examples: Characters with accelerated healing
Acid generation
Ability to generate acid can be manifested through touch or as a spray.
Examples: Anarchist and Man-Thing
Animal mimicry
Ability to take on the abilities of certain animals.
Examples: Animal Man
Body part substitution
Ability to replace one's limbs or other body parts with those of another.
Examples: Terror Inc.
Bone manipulation
Ability to manipulate the bones in ones own body. This includes, but is not limited to, the generation of new bone mass, projecting bones out from the skin or rearranging one's own bones.
Examples: Marrow or Spike
Cloning
Ability to create physical clones of oneself.
Examples: Characters with duplication
Echolocation
Ability to determine location of items in the environment by use of reflected sound waves, whether generated by the character or ambient sound, (Also known as Sonar Sense).
Examples: Daredevil or Man-Bat
Invisibility
Main article: Invisibility
Ability to render the user unseen to the naked eye.
Examples: Characters with invisibility
Invulnerability
Ability to be immune to one or more forms of physical damage or injury.
Examples: Super girl or superman
Kinetic absorption
Ability to absorb forms of kinetic energy into oneself and convert it into physical strength
Examples: Strong Guy or Sebastian Shaw
Matter ingestion
Ability to consume any sort of matter without any ill effects on the user.
Examples: Matter-Eater Lad or Gluttony
Merge
Ability to temporarily merge two beings into a single being, which results in a completely new and stronger being. The mutants are normally sisters or brothers
Examples: Kleinstocks or B'Wana Beast or Siang
Pheromone manipulation
Ability to generate and control pheromones which may have various effects.
Examples: Wallflower or Crimson Fox
Photographic reflexes
Ability to mimic any athletic or martial arts movement after seeing it once.
Examples: Taskmaster or Echo
Poison
Ability to assault others with one or more varieties of toxins, with widely disparate effects.
Examples: Characters with poison
Reactive adaptation/evolution
Ability to develop a resistance or immunity to whatever they were injured by or exposed to. This effect can be permanent or temporary.
Examples: Darwin or Doomsday
Self-detonation or explosion
Ability to explode one's body mass and reform.
Examples: Nitro or Damage
Sonic scream
Ability to generate vocal sounds of a higher amplitude than a normal human.
Examples: Banshee or Silver Banshee
Superhuman physical resistance
Ability to have a higher resistance to one or more forms of damage before being injured. (BE SPECIFIC OF WHAT FORM OF DAMAGE YOU POCESS RESISTANCE TO)
Examples: Luke Cage or Solomon Grundy or The Tick
Superhuman reflexes
Ability to react faster than a normal human.
Examples: Blade or Midnighter
Superhuman senses
Ability to see, smell, taste, touch, or hear more than a normal human.
Examples: Sabretooth or Timber Wolf
Night vision
Ability to see clearly in darkness.
Examples: Characters with night vision
X-ray vision
Ability to see through solid objects.
Examples: Super boy or Lar Gand
Superhuman strength
Ability to be stronger than a normal human.
Examples: Superman
Undersea adaptation
Ability to adapt to conditions underwater (underwater breathing, resistance to cold and pressure).
Examples: Aquaman or Namor
Wall crawling
Ability cling to objects or surfaces by a variety of means.
Examples: Anole or Spider-Woman
Mental faculty and knowledge-based abilities
Omni-lingual
Ability to understand any form of language. This can be accomplished in various ways.
Examples: Cypher or Starfire
Omniscience
Ability to know anything and everything.
Examples: Infinity and Mageddon
Superhuman intelligence
Ability to have intelligence far above genius level.
Examples: Leader or Brainiac 5
Astral projection
Ability to separate and control one's astral body. Sometimes accomplished by use of telepathy or magic.
Examples: Rachel Summers or Raven
Clairvoyance
Ability to perceive events that are taking place elsewhere or sense places that are not in view.
Examples: Mar-Vell or Captain Marvel
Cross-dimensional awareness
Ability to detect actions and events in other dimensions. This is occasionally used in comics as an awareness of the fourth wall between the characters and the artist or audience.
Examples: She-Hulk or Ambush Bug
Empathy
Ability to read or sense the emotions or feelings of others.
Examples: Characters with empathy
Mediumship
Ability to see and communicate with the dead (ghosts).
Examples: Lionel Zerb or Wicked
Precognition
Ability to perceive the future. It may be expressed in vague dreams while asleep, other times it can be clear and can occur at will. It may also be used as a form of "Danger sense" to show the user that they are being threatened and from what direction it is coming from.
Examples: Characters with precognition
Psychometry
Ability to relate details about the past or future condition of an object, person or location, usually by being in close contact with it.
Examples: Adrienne Frost or Abe Sapien
Telepathy
Ability to read the thoughts of, or to mentally communicate with others.
Examples: Characters with telepathy
Domination and mind control
the ability to alter the perceptions of others and control the actions or reasoning of another with the mind.
Examples: Emma Frost, Mastermind, Mesmero
Astral trapping
Ability to cause an astral projection to stay on the astral plane, usually in one specific place.
Examples: Shadow King or Professor X
Possession
Main article: Spiritual possession
Ability to take control of another person’s body via astral projection or mind transfer.
Examples: Nocturne or Jericho
Psionic blast
Ability to overload another's mind causing pain, memory loss, loss of consciousness, vegetative state or death after having created a psionic link into that person's mind.
Examples: Psylocke or Gorilla Grodd
Psychic weapons
Ability to create a weapon of psionic energy that can harm mentally and not physically.
Examples: Danielle Moonstar or Wild Thing
Manipulation
These powers may be manifested by various methods, including: by some method of molecular control; by access to, or partially or fully shifting to another dimension; by manipulating the geometric dimensions of time or space; or by some other unnamed method.
Animation
Ability to bring inanimate objects to life or to free a person from petrification.
Examples: Ozymandias or Quislet
Density control
Ability to increase the natural density of an object or one's self.
Examples: Vision or Firestorm
Disintegration
Ability to disintegrate matter through touch.
Examples: Wither or Plasmus
Elemental transmutation
Ability to alter chemical elements, changing them from one substance to another. May be limited to self-transmutation. (Also known as alchemy)
Examples: Alchemy
Gravity manipulation
Ability to manipulate or generate gravitons, or other types of gravitational interactions.
Examples: Characters who manipulate gravity
Immortality
Ability to live forever. This may be complete immortality in which the character cannot be killed in any way, appears to die but is resurrected somehow, or simply an inability to age normally, or even only be killed in specific ways (i.e. decapitation).
Examples: Characters with immortality
Intangibility or phasing
Ability to phase through solid matter without harm.
Examples: Shadowcat or Martian Manhunter
Mass manipulation
Ability to increase or decrease mass in an object or person.
Examples: Micromax or Black Mass
Probability manipulation
Ability to alter probability, causing unlikely things to happen or likely things to not happen. This can be described in terms of blessings and curses.
Examples: Characters who manipulate probability
Radiation manipulation
Ability to generate, manipulate or have immunity to toxic radiation.
Examples: Characers who manipulate radiation
Reality warping
Main article: Reality warper
Ability to change or manipulate reality itself.
Examples: Characters who can warp reality
Kinetic Powers
Psychokinesis
Ability to mentally manipulate molecules and objects on a molecular level.
Examples: Mr. M or Firestorm or Solar
Sonokinesis
Ability to manipulate sound waves.
Examples: Characters who manipulate sound
Umbrakinesis
Ability to create or manipulate darkness, often by mentally accessing a dimension of dark energy (the Darkforce dimension in Marvel Comics, and the Shadowlands in DC Comics) and manipulating it. A character with this power may use it for various purposes.
Examples: Characters who manipulate darkness or shadow
Magnetokinesis
Ability to control and/or generate magnetic fields.
Examples: Magneto
Aerokinesis
Ability to control, generate, or absorb air or wind.
Examples: Storm
Cryokinesis
Ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature, can be used to control, generate, or absorb ice.
Examples: Iceman
Geokinesis
Ability to control earth; sand, stone, rock, lava, dirt, or minerals.
Examples: Avalanche
Electrokinesis
Ability to control, generate or absorb electrical fields.
Examples: Characters who manipulate electricity
Pyrokinesis
Ability to control the kinetic energy of atoms to generate, control or absorb fire.
Examples: Pyro
Chlorokinesis
Ability to accelerate the growth of, control or animate plant life.
Examples: Characters who manipulate plants
Hydrokinesis
Ability to control, generate or absorb water.
Examples: Characters who manipulate water
Chronokinesis
Ability to affect the flow of time, slowing, accelerating or even stopping it.
Examples: Cable
Atmokinesis
Ability to control or mentally affect the weather. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena (rain, tornadoes, lightning, etc.) or control the intensity of the weather.
Examples: Storm
Photokinesis
Ability to control, generate, or absorb photons (particles of light).
Energy manipulation
These powers deal with energy generation, conversion and manipulation. In addition to generic energy, versions of these powers exist that deal with such things as light, sound, electricity, nuclear energy, and "darkforce".
Concussion beams
Ability to generate or transform various forms of energy into a "solid" or concussive beam of energy.
Examples: Cyclops or Gunfire
Energy blasts
Main article: Energy blast
Ability to expel various forms of energy from the body.
Examples: Havok or Ray
Energy constructs
Ability to create complex shapes (such as giant boxing gloves or cages) or even functional machinery (such as fire extinguishers or laser rifles) out of solid energy.
Examples: Cerise or Jade
Energy Charging
Ability to charge inanimate objects with explosive kinetic energy
Example: Gambit
Energy conversion
Ability to absorb one form of energy and convert it into another form of energy.
Examples: Dazzler or Bishop
Force field generation
Main article: Force field (science fiction)
Ability to generate a shield of energy produced as a form of protection.
Examples: Radius or Argent
Transportation or travel
Dimensional transportation
Ability to create wormholes, portation "discs" or other spatial portals for transport between two non-adjacent locations
Examples: Blink or Spot
Electrical transportation
Ability to travel through electrical conduits (such as power lines, or telephone lines). Can enter through devices such as televisions, electrical poles or computers.
Examples: Atom or Air Wave
Omnipresence
Ability to be present anywhere and everywhere.
Examples: Eternity or The Source
Summoning
Ability to summon objects or beings for assistance.
Examples: Magik or Kid Eternity
superhuman speed
Ability to move at speeds faster than a normal human.
Examples: Characters with superhuman speed
Teleportation
Ability to move from one place to another without occupying the space in between.
Examples: Nightcrawler
Time travel
Ability to travel back and forth through time.
Examples: Trevor Fitzroy or Hourman
Miscellaneous
The following powers could be manifested in any number of ways.
Levitation
Ability to use the mind or another gravitional repulsion/negation method to lift off a few feet off the ground...NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH FLIGHT
Flight
Ability to lift off the ground, to ride air currents or to fly self-propelled through the air.
different forms of flight include:
Avian (feathered wings)
Examples: Angel or Northwind
Bat-winged
Examples: Fallen
Cosmic energy control
Examples: Ms. Marvel
Energy aura projection
Examples: Aero or Looker
Gravitational manipulation
Examples: Gravity
Insectoid form
Examples: Wasp or Insect Queen
Magnetic levitation
Examples: Magneto
Solar flare
Examples: Sunfire
Sonic repulsion field
Examples: Siryn
Telekinetic power
Examples: Justice
Thermo-chemical reaction control
Examples: Cannonball
Wind current control
Examples: Storm
Illusion
Ability to alter or deceive the perceptions of another. Can be visual, it may be a light-based effect, a sound-based effect, a mind-affecting effect or any other effect that causes one to perceive things that are not necessarily real.
Examples: Emma Frost
Shapeshifting
Ability to change appearance or body structure.
Examples: Mystique
Types of shapeshifting include
Metamorph (limited to human forms, unable to change mass)
Animorph (take on animal forms. May be able to take on the abilities of the altered form)
Polymorph (assume any form, size, mass and appearance at will)
Elasticity:
Ability to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine.
Examples: Characters who can stretch themselves
Liquification:
Ability to turn partially or completely into a liquid.
Examples: Hydro-Man or Aspen Matthews
Sublimation:
Ability to transform into a gaseous, mist, or fog-like form.
Examples Amelia Voght or Vapor
Spontaneous combustion:
The ability to spontaneously combust and/or engulf any portion of or all of oneself in fiery plasma without harm to oneself whatsoever. AKA Magma Form
Example: Johnny Storm
Firestorm:
The ability to summon a firestorm that can cover great distances, from an acre to over a fifty thousand-mile radius.
Fire Breath:
A character can project his/her fire from his/her mouth by breathing and exhaling at will, like a dragon.
Thermokinesis:
The character possesses the ability to manipulate the heat and temperature within his/her surrounding environment. They are able to generate the heat from within themselves, manipulate the heat and temperature within the air or within or on any objects or beings around them, etc.
