Summary
- Reality-warping and omnipotence are unparalleled abilities in the Marvel universe, limited to a select few god-like beings.
- Unique powers like intangibility and cosmic awareness offer fascinating storytelling opportunities and exceptional strength.
- Overpowered abilities like energy absorption and reality warping can shape the fabric of the universe in profound ways.
The Marvel Universe possesses an astonishing array of superpowers, but some heroes and villains are especially powerful compared to others. In the company’s history of comic books and movies, they’ve produced unique and intriguing characters, including some who can alter, change, and manipulate the course of history to break the laws of nature.
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From Scarlet Witch’s reality-altering powers to Quicksilver’s superspeed, some abilities can break the boundaries of human imagination. With decades of abilities under its belt, Marvel’s most overpowered superpowers are regularly used to drive creative stories or fights, and the best ones tend to leave fans craving for more and anticipating what comes next.
Updated on January 16, 2025, by Blaise Santi: There are literally hundreds of powers throughout the Marvel Comics universe, but only a few are so powerful that they in turn make their users overpowered. Some of them are as simplistic as super-strength or super-speed, but there’s loads of other superpowers that aren’t just rare within the Marvel universe, but also incredibly niche. These additional powers may not encompass a lot of characters in the fictional comic book world, but the ones who do possess them are notably some of the strongest canonically. Plus, take a look at some of the other noteworthy heroes that possess each of these 20 overpowered super-abilities!
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Intangibility
It’s Not Hard To See Why This Power’s Great
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Description | Has the power to enter a state in which they can pass or “phase” through solid matter without harm. |
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Related Powers | Astral projection, levitation, invisibility |
Heroes | Vision, Monica Rambeau/Spectrum, Kitty Pryde, Cassandra Nova, Marc Spector/Moon Knight, Tommy Maximoff/Speed, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman |
Lots of the strongest powers in the Marvel universe feature heroes who can harness power at an atomic or molecular level. For some of them, this includes intangibility, which allows an individual to phase through solid matter as if it was nonexistent. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is most notably used by Vision, as he can pass through walls with ease.
The X-Men character Kitty Pryde is also a prominent user of phasing as her primary mutation, which also allows her to create intangible clones of herself, as well as selectively choose with parts of her body are intangible at any given moment. For other heroes like Monica Rambeau, intangibility allows her to harness power from light and energy, and she can even turn invisible, too.
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Necromancy
Death Means Nothing To These Characters
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Description | Can communicate with, manipulate, or reanimate the dead. |
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Related Powers | Chaos magic, witchcraft, sorcery, technomancy, voodoo |
Heroes | Thanos, T’Challa/Black Panther, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Vlad Dracula, Mephisto, Marc Spector/Moon Knight, Null the Living Darkness, Death, Erik Killmonger |
There are few powers that are more fearsome to the Marvel universe than necromancy. This ancient form of magic allows users to harness so-called “death energy” from corpses. Aside from powering very harmful spells, necromancy can allow Marvel magicians to not only speak with the dead, but resurrect or control them like puppets.
This was especially dangerous in the hands of characters like Thanos, who had a particularly tense relationship with Lady Death. Thanos has used necromancy to summon armies of the dead to aid him in his conquests, while other characters like Mephisto have used it to manipulate and torture others. As King of the Dead, T’Challa himself has also been shown to have control over deceased spirits.
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Weather Manipulation
They Bring The Thunder… Literally
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Description | Has the power to manipulate and exert influence with all the natural forces responsible for weather, such as the wind, the rain, the temperature, the air pressure, etc. |
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Related Powers | Flight, light manipulation, gravity manipulation, matter manipulation, geokinesis |
Heroes | Ororo Munroe/Storm, Thor, Jane Foster, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Silver Surfer, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Beta Ray Bill, Vlad Dracula |
Ororo Munroe, a.k.a Storm, is one of the most iconic characters from the X-Men, and she’s also one of the strongest Marvel characters canonically. Storm’s mutation allows her to control the weather, which can range from summoning lightning indoors all the way to creating massive earthquakes and infernos. However, she’s not the only Marvel character who can manipulate the weather.
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Weather manipulation falls into a similar category as powers like geokinesis, which is control over Earth. Characters like Thor and Jane Foster are notable heroes who can summon lightning. Even the Scarlet Witch has been seen using spells that can suddenly change the surrounding weather. Simply put, you don’t want to mess with any of these heroes when they’re having a bad day.
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Power Mimicry
A Superhero’s Greatest Nightmare Is Themselves
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Description | Has the ability to mimic and copy the powers of others around oneself. |
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Related Powers | Power absorption |
Heroes | Yelena Belova, Annie LeBeau/Rogue, Marc Spector/Moon Knight, Hope Summers, Venom, Calvin Rankin/Mimic, Super-Skrull |
What’s more of an overpowered skill than stealing other people’s powers? There aren’t many in the Marvel Comics universe who are capable of power mimicry, the act of temporarily copying the abilities of others. Power mimicry is done in many ways, whether it’s by physically touching someone, as seen with the mutant Rogue, or the Adaptoids, which can copy an opponent’s abilities by learning.
One such example of how powerful power mimicry can be is Yelena Belova, who briefly in the comics joined the organization A.I.M. to become a Super-Adaptoid antagonist of the Avengers. In this form, Yelena was capable of utilizing any power that she had been previously attacked with. However, other characters like Super-Skrull can only specific abilities, such as The Fantastic Four’s.
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Spider Physiology
These Heroes Do Whatever A Spider Can
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Description | Has the traits and abilities of a spider, including proportionate strength, wall-climbing, organic webbing, and heightened senses |
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Related Powers | Poison generation, Symbiote biology, appendage generation, camouflage |
Heroes | Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman, Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider, Cindy Moon/Silk, Gwen Stacy/Ghost Spider, Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 |
It’s surprising just how many characters in the Marvel universe happen to have the abilities of one specific animal. Leave it one of Marvel’s most popular superheroes, Spider-Man, to popularize spider physiology in the comic book universe. Peter Parker isn’t the only character in the multiverse to have found himself empowered by a radioactive spider-bite.
Among these heroes’ more common superpowers include wall-climbing, web creation, and super-strength proportionate to a spider. Some versions of Spider-Man can also create poisonous venom, possess enhanced claws and fangs, and are able to grow an additional number of limbs, which can make them absolute threats in combat.
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Self Sustenance
It Helps To Not Need A Lunch Break
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Description | Does not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep to survive |
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Related Powers | Immunity, self-sanitization, healing factor, perpetual nourishment |
Heroes | Nebula, Marc Spector/Moon Knight, The Beyonder, Colossus, Silver Surfer, Jane Foster/Thor, Thanos |
This rare ability is often possessed by heroes who aren’t quite living, whether it’s because their bodies are primarily made of a non-flesh material, or because they possess powers that are godlike in nature. Self-sustenance essentially means that these heroes can survive all on their own, without the necessities most living beings need to live day-to-day.
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In the case of Moon Knight, he’s really the avatar for the Egyptian god Khonshu, meaning that he has all the abilities and powers of the omnipotent moon deity. Nebula, on the other hand, was granted god-like qualities akin to her adoptive father, Thanos, after overcoming a trial given to her by the Witches of Infinity.
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Energy Absorption
These Characters Have Thick Skin, Literally
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Description | Can physically absorb any kind of energy (kinetic, electromagnetic, psychic, etc.) to manipulate or re-distribute it |
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Related Powers | Energy conversion, energy propulsion, power charging, force field projection |
Heroes | Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Victor von Doom, Danny Rand/Iron Fist, Namor, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Black Bolt, Vision |
Energy absorption is a little different from energy projection, in which beings can create their own energy to attack or defend themselves with. Energy absorption allows beings to take in energy from the outside world, whether it’s used against them or just there, and re-distribute it offensively or defensively. One popular example of this is Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman.
Because the cells of Sue Storm’s body were altered in outer space, she’s able to manifest the energy inside of her to create force fields and turn herself invisible. Other heroes, like Carol Danvers, can absorb light and kinetic energy in order to sustain herself or to power-up photon blasts, making her one of the biggest cosmic threats in the Marvel universe.
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Dimensional Travel
Sometimes Your Own Universe Gets Boring
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Description | Has the ability to travel between parallel universes |
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Related Powers | Teleportation, time travel, fourth wall breaking, portal creation |
Characters | America Chavez, Loki, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Franklin Richards, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Shatterstar, Wiccan, Kang the Conqueror, Deadpool, She-Hulk |
Despite the simplistic name, dimensional travel is one of the more complicated superpowers in the Marvel universe. The ability involves an individual leaving their own reality for another universe, which can be done through teleportation or the creation of portals. One example of this in Marvel Comics is America Chavez, a teenager who creates star portals.
Other characters, like Kang the Conqueror, acquire the ability to traverse dimensions through technology, with Kang relying on his Time Chair. A different version of dimensional travel is breaking the fourth wall, which characters like Deadpool and She-Hulk are capable of in both their comic iterations, as well as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Sorcery
Magic Is Real In The Marvel Universe
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Description | Accessing powers beyond the laws of science through the use of spells, energy manipulation, and magical objects |
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Related Powers | Reality warping, mind control, witchcraft, Chi manipulation, necromancy |
Heroes | Loki, Wanda Maximoff, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Agatha Harkness, Victor von Doom, Wiccan, Illyana Rapustin/Magik, Thor, Clea, Mephisto |
Sorcery comes in many shapes and sizes in the Marvel world. Different types of magic can be used by characters like the Scarlet Witch, Stephen Strange, and Loki. In the case of Wanda Maximoff, she’s capable of both witchcraft and Chaos Magic, which she learned from her mentor Agatha Harkness, to grow stronger and more formidable as a magic user.
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Stephen Strange possesses abilities of more typical sorcery, though he is even more powerful after being named the Sorcerer Supreme. Other forms of magic within the Marvel universe include Chi, wielded by characters like Iron Fist and Power Man, and god-like sorcery, which is often abused for nefarious purposes by characters like Loki.
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Healing Factor
No Pain, No Gain
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Description | Can recover from injuries at an accelerated rate, which often includes decelerated aging, immunity to disease, and immortality. |
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Related Powers | Appendage regeneration, wound transferring, biological manipulation, pain tolerance |
Heroes | James Howlett/Wolverine, Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Eric Brooks/Blade, Raven Darkholme/Mystique, Wade Wilson/Deadpool, Angel, X-23, Spider-Man, Bruce Banner, Ghost Rider |
The healing factor is a unique yet incredibly powerful superpower possessed by many in the Marvel universe. Characters with a healing factor are able to heal from wounds at an accelerated rate, sometimes including regeneration, resurrection, even immortality, and slow aging. It’s particularly a trait of many mutants, from Wolverine to Angel, and even Deadpool.
Other characters make use of the healing factor through other means, such as Blade and Morbius taking advantage of their vampiric qualities to drain others of their life force. While these characters are able to live longer and are generally harder to kill, the blessing can also sometimes be a curse.
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Superspeed
How To Be As Quick As The Flash
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Description | Capable of running or moving faster than the average member of their species |
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Related Powers | Superhuman reflexes, inherent navigation, healing factor |
Heroes | Makkari, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Hank McCoy/Beast, Monica Rambeau/Photon, Thor, Jack Russell/Werewolf, James Howlett/Wolverine, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel |
Characters like Quicksilver and Makkari are well-known examples of their kind. Quicksilver, brother of the Scarlet Witch, is the fastest character in the Marvel universe. His ability grants him the speed to move at incredible velocities that transcend human imagination, and can launch fast attack movements, easily avoid obstacles, and save people in the nick of time.
Makkari, a member of a superhuman race The Eternals, also possesses this ability, and being an Eternal, grants her access to cosmic energy that enhances her speed, allowing her to travel around the earth in mere seconds.
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Super Strength
Hulk Smashing Their Way Out Of Problems
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Description | Can lift weights disproportionate to their own mass, with increased stamina, mass, and durability |
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Related Powers | Invulnerability, healing factor, energy absorption, transformation |
Heroes | Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Ben Grimm/The Thing, Apocalypse, Hercules, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Rogue |
Bruce Banner, also known as The Hulk, possesses incredible strength and power which grows immeasurable whenever he gets angry, and the angrier he gets, the stronger and more powerful the Hulk becomes. While he’s capable of some pretty monumental feats in the Marvel universe, The Hulk is no anomaly in terms of showing off immense strength in the comics.
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Characters like the Hulk and Jessica Jones most times tend to easily overpower their rivals, making them unstoppable forces in battle, as they leave a path of destruction in their wake. This makes them powerful opponents to their enemies in the Marvel Universe. However, super-strength is also inherited by Marvel heroes like Spider-Man, Rogue, and Ben Grimm, a.k.a. The Thing.
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Time Manipulation
If You Could Turn Back Time…
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Description | Has the power to manipulate time, travel through it, or temporarily freeze it. |
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Related Powers | Dimensional travel, temporal rewind, decelerated aging, clairvoyance |
Heroes | Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Kang the Conqueror, Gabriel Summers/Vulcan, Adam Warlock, Franklin Richards |
As the wielder of the Time Stone, Doctor Strange possesses the ability to manipulate the fabric of time. This also grants him the ability to time travel, moving from point in time to another. He can correct past mistakes, which tends to lead to devastating consequences. He can also freeze moments in time and predict various possibilities of certain future events.
Another famous character who has this ability is Kang, who used it to its fullest potential, primarily to satisfy his need to be the absolute conqueror of the multiverse, rewriting the past and predicting future occurrences with precise accuracy. In the Marvel universe, the ability to manipulate time opens up countless possibilities for surprising plot twists.
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Telekinesis
We All Wish We Could Move Objects With Our Mind
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Description | Has the ability to harness psychic energy to move, manipulate, or control objects/people at a distance |
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Related Powers | Telepathy, healing, teleportation, reality warping, force field projection |
Heroes | Erik Lensherr/Magneto, Druig, Betsy Braddock/Psylocke, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Agatha Harkness, Jean Grey, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Apocalypse |
Characters like Magneto and Jean Grey possess the ability to move objects in their environment with unstoppable force without physical contact. With just a thought, Jean Grey can move objects, creating an unbreakable shield and reforming her surroundings at will, and her transformation into the phoenix escalates her telekinesis powers to a cosmic level.
Magneto uses another form of telekinesis, magnetic manipulation, which allows him to control metals, create powerful magnetic fields, and generate electromagnetic pulses. This power allows its wielders to use amazing abilities to change the course of events in the Marvel universe.
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Telepathy
Get Inside The Mind Of A Superhero
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Description | Has the ability to read or control the minds of living beings |
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Related Powers | Telekinesis, healing, empathy, reality warping, clairvoyance, psychic wave manipulation |
Heroes | Charles Xavier/Professor X, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Apocalypse, Moondragon, Wanda Maximoff, Cassandra Nova, Stephen Strange, Psylocke |
The ability to read thoughts, minds, and emotions is known as a very powerful ability in the Marvel Universe. A lot of characters, like Professor Charles Xavier, possess this unique power, but none as strongly as Jean Grey, an omega-level mutant. Her abilities started manifesting when she witnessed her childhood friend being hit by a car.
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As a result, Jean Grey could only access the thoughts and emotions of other people, but as she grew, the extent of her ability transformed rapidly, as she could have mental conversations, control people’s minds, and read the memories of others. No other telepath comes close to Jean Grey’s limitless psychic abilities, not even Charles Xavier.
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Molecule Manipulation
For Molecule Man, It’s In The Name
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Description | Has the ability to change or control matter at a molecular level |
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Related Powers | Elemental transmutation, weather manipulation, reality warping, telekinesis, shapeshifting |
Heroes | Sersi, Owen Reese/Molecule Man, Loki, Sentry, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Wanda Maximoff, Jean Grey, Franklin Richards |
This ability allows its possessor to alter and control the nature of molecules of objects or particles, down to a subatomic level, transforming them at will. For most superhumans in the Marvel universe, molecular manipulation manifests as the ability to transmutate matter, as seen in the Eternal known as Sersi. Other beings like Loki can also use a version of this power to shapeshift.
Molecule Man, also known as Owen Reece, possesses this power in a major way. His power is beyond mere telekinesis, as he can transform the very nature of objects into new forms or erase their existence. As these superheroes gain more knowledge about their powers, they can create destructive force fields, beams of energy, and even portals to allow them to traverse great distances.
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Cosmic Awareness
This Power Comes With A Heavy Burden To Bear
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Description | Has enhanced consciousness to perceive information across the universe |
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Related Powers | Omnipotence, clairvoyance, hyper awareness, cosmic manipulation |
Heroes | Carol Danvers, Silver Surfer, Adam Warlock, Death, Deadpool, Stephen Strange, Phylla-Vell |
It takes a lot of effort for a hero like Carol Danvers to be aware of what’s going on across the galaxy. Her “seventh sense” connects her consciousness to the cosmos itself. Other heroes, like Silver Surfer, have full understanding and awareness of events happening across the multiverse. This ability grants him unlimited insights into universal threats, phenomenal events, and the very essence of reality.
This power also grants characters telekineses, telepathy, and unparalleled strength. These cosmic figures are often much more powerful than your typical Marvel heroes, having powers that reach beyond the cosmos and make them the defenders of Marvel’s various universes. Cosmic awareness can also be conflated with fourth-wall breaking in the case of characters like Deadpool.
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Energy Projection
These Characters Can Be Explosive
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Description | Can harness and emit energy in various forms for offensive or defensive measures |
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Related Powers | Elemental projection, psychic energy manipulation, molecule manipulation, astral projection |
Heroes | Jean Grey/Phoenix, Remy LeBeau/Gambit, Ikaris, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, Wonder Man, Stephen Strange, Wanda Maximoff, Miles Morales, Johnny Storm |
Jean Grey, an Omega-level mutant, is known to be one of the most powerful mutants in the X-Men series. From the ability to read and control minds, manipulate objects in her surroundings, communicate telepathically, and create protective force fields, one of all that stands out is her ability to harness and unleash cosmic energy at an alarming scale.
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When she becomes a magnificent phoenix, she surpasses every mutation in their ranking. These abilities make her a formidable force to be reckoned with in the multiverse among teammates and rivals alike. Other superheroes with this ability in the Marvel universe include Remy LeBeau (a.k.a. Gambit), Carol Danvers, and the Eternal Ikaris.
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Reality Warping
Gaslighting Taken To An Extreme Level
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Description | Has the ability to alter reality either through shape-shifting matter itself or casting illusions |
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Related Powers | Molecule manipulation, absolute creation |
Heroes | Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Billy Maximoff/Wiccan, Galactus, Death, The Beyonder, Franklin Richards |
Reality warping is the ability to change and manipulate reality itself, bending it to the will of its possessor. The Scarlet Witch uses this ability on several occasions to change key events and history in the Marvel universe. In “House of M,” Wanda suffers a mental breakdown and creates an alternate reality in which mutants are the dominant species, subsequently leading to Magneto rising to power.
Reality-warping can also be a cosmic force to be reckoned with. The Beyonder uses his powers to create universes and to bend reality to his will, as seen in the iconic Secret Wars saga when he creates a patchwork planet called Battleworld to make characters from different realities fight for his amusement. This power makes Beyonder, and all other characters with it, nearly omnipotent.
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Omnipotence
Only A Select Few Can See Everything
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Description | Refers to beings that are considered all-powerful and god-like. |
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Related Powers | Omniscience, absolute creation, |
Heroes | Uatu the Watcher, Shuma-Gorath, Arishem, The Living Tribunal, Molecule Man, The Beyonder |
This ability, similar to that of The Presence in the DC universe, grants its possessor absolute dominance over everyone and anything. Like beings such as The Watcher, The One Above All is the possessor of such a power, and he cannot be defeated by anyone or anything. The One Above All is the ultimate source of creation of everything in the Marvel multiverse.
The One Above All prefers to observe the experience of its creation through many eyes, and it rarely interacts with morals. When it does, it is through different guises. It is all-powerful and is above all cosmic powers and unreal entities in the Marvel universe.
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