X-Men vs My Hero Academia, which property is more unique with its powers/abilities
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Because "you can give physics the whole middle finger" is a qualifier for a class of power in universe. And once you're at that level of power there's a whole bunch of other narrative questions that have to be answered (depending on your particular power) that it's just a lot more convenient to say "Cyclops isn't outputting more energy than he takes in, he's... shooting punches from the punch dimension through his portal eyes."
Breaking physics all willy nilly is the reason Bobby Drake (Iceman) can't die anymore.
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That whole Summers corner of the X-Men is one big OP game of one-upmanship though. Its like so many mutant/clone storylines there so whenever you gotta roll out a new plotline involving one everyone else around gotta level up around them. My favorite is the classic of Cable: he's one of the most powerful mutants ever but has to extend all his powers keeping a disease at bay so its just big guns rawrrr, lol
Because when a character has been around for sixty years and under the control of dozens of different people, at some point someone wanted to go there. They wanted to dig into the science behind the punch dimension, or they wanted to tap into the mysticism of Spider Totems.
Manga's strength is that, for the most part, it's guided by a single author with a vision. It's why manga can (in theory; lol Dragon Ball) tell a complete story and come to an end.
Western cape comics' strength, by contrast, is that it's a neverending frankenstein of different cooks throwing stuff into the pot. Sometimes the stew comes out off, but don't worry: it'll be something new next season. And if fans didn't like what happened, there's no need to dwell on it.
Are you really asking us to compare a nearly 60 year old franchise to an 8 year old one in terms of unique powers?
X-Men has been around for about 6 decades and had hundreds, if not thousands, of comics dedicated to the story of these characters. With new mutants popping up all the time. This is without getting into Alternate Universe stories or mutant appearances in other non-X titles.
Ha, basically. Tape-from-his-elbows Guy, Headphone Jack Lass, and The Jeans Whisperer are certainly nothing if not unique.
X-Men. Been around too long.
Because of this thread I googled some weird X-Men abilities and saw a guy who has a star for a brain and then his twin who's brain is a black hole.
Because of this thread I googled some weird X-Men abilities and saw a guy who has a star for a brain and then his twin who's brain is a black hole.
I will hear no disrespect for Glob Herman, not everytime but usually if a writer uses him they have more in mind for their overall run then "look cool powers".The X-men have a character who is literally made of wax.
It's an eighties "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" explanation, which used a lot of complex multiverse psuedoscience to try and make different characters powers seem "scientific." Colossus, for example, exchanges every carbon atom in his body for an ionic osmium atom from another dimension.
Before that, the explanation for Cyclops's power was the much simpler "he's constantly absorbing sunlight which his body converts to eye beams."
If we compare it to mainstream X-Men exposure (basically the movies) then i would say i find MHA more varied. Obviously if we dig into the comics then we can find all kinds of powers in the X-Men continuity. However, MHA suffers from something i see in virtually any anime/manga where people have singular superpowers(like for example, bungou stray dogs): everyone seems to have super strength and durability as a baseline, even if their powers have nothing to do with it. This seems to be less common in western comics, unless were talking about "peak-human" characters that usually pull all kinds of absurd feats.
MHA does have a lot of weird characters in it (manga head guy is really wtf), but they're usually completely secondary/tertiary characters.
It's X-Men by sheer virtue of how ongoing it's been.
That being said, MHA does have some creative abilities that gets relegated to the sideshows (Manga Fukidashi's onomatopoeia quirk comes to mind) and also some really fucking stupid ones. Anime viewers still haven't gotten to it yet but I'd really like to know how and whether X-Men has done a character similar in a stupidly convoluted powerset to Star & Stripe.
That being said, MHA does have some creative abilities that gets relegated to the sideshows (Manga Fukidashi's onomatopoeia quirk comes to mind) and also some really fucking stupid ones. Anime viewers still haven't gotten to it yet but I'd really like to know how and whether X-Men has done a character similar in a stupidly convoluted powerset to Star & Stripe.
As ludicrously powerful? Easily and absolutely. As bizarrely narrow and specific? Certainly. Both at the same time? Maybe not, actually.
The thing with New Order is that it had a weird limitation while also being ridiculously powerful.Isca's power is pretty much one note
Isca's power will do however much of whatever it has to do to get her the W. Whether she likes it or not.
I like that even her teammates try to get Isca off the board because who knows what the fuck her power will do
If anyone says MHA, they have to be kidding. With countless mutants across tons of series going back to the 60s with an issue count in multiple thousands, MHA cannot even come close to competing. Just look at how many X-Men comics there have been.
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Anyway, just google "weird" or "unique" mutant powers or look through lists like this:
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I would say X-Men beats any other superhero/superpowered franchise for unique powers just due to the sheer number of mutants. The only thing that might compare would be JoJo, I think.
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Anyway, just google "weird" or "unique" mutant powers or look through lists like this:
Which is the weirdest mutant power ever shown in x-men comics?
Answer (1 of 2): Weirdest right? I guess, the following are some of them: 1. Eye-Scream Eye-Scream's only mutant power is an ability to transform himself into any ice cream flavor. So, weird right? This mutant has appeared only once in X-Men comic book in 1983. 2. Ugly John Well, its quite...
I would say X-Men beats any other superhero/superpowered franchise for unique powers just due to the sheer number of mutants. The only thing that might compare would be JoJo, I think.
"Ridiculously powerful but with a weird limitation" describes Moira McTaggert pretty well.
X-Men for sure, given how long the X-comics have been around and how many mutants there are that have been featured in the X-books. But MHA does surprise me with some powers that are so unique and haven't been already used by Marvel. Horikoshi had to have brainstormed for quite a while to come up with a few things that haven't really been done before.
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I feel like my life is worse knowing this is not internet gremlin fanfiction
If it's any consolation, she doesn't actually "poop" the ice cream. Instead, her butthole is a portal to the ice cream dimension.
The tape and earphone jacks aren't really that unique beyond the specific flavor since generating sound waves isn't that uncommon and the tape is basically just a worse version of Spiderman's webs which is such an iconic power you'll find tons of copies. There's only a very small amount of really weird powers in MHA if we're being honest. I can name a bunch of manga with more diverse and interesting power systems than MHA, but I think this is also in part because MHA exists to be an homage to comics in many ways and thus wants to focus first and foremost on getting a bunch of the more "iconic" power types shown off, so it's aping off existing material and icons intentionally a part of it's aesthetics
Isca's power is pretty much one note
Darwin meets Domino ? I like it
...is Nico Minoru a mutant ? xD
I always loved her "she can cast any spell, but can only cast the specific spell ONCE." Like if she want money she can't ever repeat the same amount
I think she just have magical powers =/
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I saw that you were the person who replied and immediately became panicked and drew a blank. I'm gonna have to think hard before answering because I know whatever I post, the person with the encyclopedia-like knowledge of comics is gonna be like "Nah, here's just the first three which come to mind that already do that," lol.
Yeah, in terms of shonen powerup asspulls...
Iceman was originally a kid who created ice/snow, and he was immune to cold, and he created slides made of ice so he could skate around on them at relatively high speeds, and he threw snowballs with ice chunks in them at the bad guys, and he disguised himself by covering himself in snow so he looked like a living bipedal snowman.
Then they upgraded his "covered in snow" disguise to "he can literally transform himself into a clear, human-shaped block of living ice".
And then "He's an Omega Level Mutant now" which means that he can create ice walls that are dense enough to stop The Incredible Hulk, and he can instantly drop the temperature around him to absolute zero (colder than outer space), which means that he can tank a nuclear bomb, because he can instantly freeze and stop the atoms inside an active nuclear explosion (which he's fast enough to react to), and he doesn't really even need to do that (not for himself at least), because if he's damaged/injured (or completely destroyed), he can regrow himself by growing more ice, and he can't die so long as water exists for him to regrow in (and maybe beyond that, so long as water comes back into existence).
And he's just one of the Mutants who have been classified as Omega Level, due to power creep.
Does that mean her actual poop gets transported to the ice cream dimension?