Find your favourite! The "Where's Waldo" of superpowers

[icon_uk]

Found a link to this on another site, and think it's rather fun...



(Click on the image to go to the page it's from, where you can buy a wallchart version if you're interested)

I have to give props to whoever made this, a LOT of work has gone into it! (And I am slightly pleased that the hero in my icon gets an entry, plus that whoever did this was geeky enough to remember Starfires similar power, to absorb languages through physical contact (usually kissing). (and I still want to see a scene in the X-Titans universe where Cyborg puts a call through "Kory? You have a visitor, friend of Kitty Pryde's, kid named Ramsey. He said something about offering you some language lessons, I've never seen a kid so KEEN to educate!" )

Also love that Robin is there under the "Performing arts" sub-category.

It sort of reminds me of the old "Mutant X" TV series (Oh Jesse Kilmartin Forbes March, you may not have got as flashy a role as Brennan Mulwray Victor Webester did, but you were so damned CUTE!... ahem, I digress) where EVERY power was classified as one of four groups

Feral - Animal-like powers
Psionic - Any and all telepathic, empathic or telekinetic powers
Elemental - Manipulates energy or a particular form of matter - Electricity, heat, cold, light etc.
Molecular - Ability to alter ones own being (or matter in proximity) - Intangibility, shapeshifting, invulnerability etc

And basically described any power that was required as one of those. It's surprising how earely needed to use the "It's a hybrid of two" to explain away other abilities.

And from a sort-of comprehensive list, how about a completely generic legality scan, as from 1984 comes a one-shot which probably counts as one of the first truly meta-comics out there!



 

Comments

[kirke_novak]

There's a superhero called Gibbon.
Ok.

[halloweenjack]

Old Spider-Man character. The kind of guy who's so pathetic that even he admits he's a loser.

[karunya]

This was TRULY amazing. I saved it to enjoy again later.

[zenbro]

Nifty! But I don't see chroniton-manipulators, like Sway and Tempo. Boo!

I want this in periodic table format.

[icon_uk]

True, time manipulation should be there I feel.

[zenbro]

Also missing -

Possession: Karma and Jericho
Pheromone manipulation: Wallflower, Persuasion, Stacy-X, Daken
Empathy: Empath
Psionic Image Materialization: Tarot (former Hellion), Leon Nunez (mutant tattoo artist to Ink)
Dust and Rockslide should be in the same group as Sandman (although I'd rename their group Mineral or something).
Magma, Rictor and Avalanche should get a Geological group (unless they go under Force Control)
Magik and Lila Cheney should also be in the Teleporter group.

I think about this stuff way too much.

[zenbro]

Technopathy: Madison Jeffries. He's somewhere between Cypher and Forge.

[wonderwomanhero]

right click save

[ian_karkull]

The Internet: Combining extensive knowledge of comics, anal retentiveness and graphs into one perfect shitstorm of nerdyness.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know if I'd call it a "shitstorm"-- maybe if we ended up having a big fat flame war over what should or shouldn't be on that chart, now...

[zenbro]

Nerdy infographics are the Creamy Goodness of the Internet.

Inception: The Architecture

[proteus_lives]

Ooh, saving this.

[nezchan]

So this is a diagram of powers Magneto can draw on, depending on what the plot requires?

[suszarka]

I kind of love that being an 'Evil Genius' is a superpower in itself.

Saving this, so, so awesome.

[icon_uk]

"I'll have you know, I studied Mad Science at HARVARD!"

[espanolbot]

The Shade's there but no Cass, boo!

[icon_uk]

True enough... out of curiosity, where would you categorise her? A subset of omni-lingualism perhaps?

(Now replying to the RIGHT person)

[runespoor]

I'm ridiculously upset that bad-ass normals are included.

[icon_uk]

Usually under a particular set of exotic skills they are recognised as possessing to a near superhuman extent; acrobatics, tactical genius, etc.

[ejne7]

That is a thing of beauty, though the "Mastery of puppetry > Puppet Master" bit made me laugh.

A couple things

[sigmund_droid]

Man I don't recognize a TON of those DC characters, are they all from the legion of superheroes or something? Like chlorophyll kid?

Both the entries for Stilt man and Big wheel are hilarious (lower left hand)

Anyone see an entry for Taskmaster and Echo?

Re: A couple things

[icon_uk]

Chlorophyll Kid is a member in good standing (as much as that means) of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Yeah, photographic reflexes should be there, but aren't AFAIK

[red_menace]

This is awesome, but the "Mimic Animals" node has a depressing lack of Vixen, unless I'm overlooking her.

[icon_uk]

As noted this isn't an exhaustive list of who has which powers, just examples of those who do.

[punishermax]

Out of all the powers out there I would like to fuck with Time powers the least. Sure, stopping time is sweet and all but time travel can go fuck itself. I'd probably end up killing my great great great great grandfather and casing some temporal paradox and end up destroying the entire universe.

Fuck that noise.

[icon_uk]

A Sound of Thunder made an impact on me too!

[skyblade]

I wonder if Doug Ramsey took a look at that list, was like "Same branch as Starfire? Score!"

[icon_uk]

Or, in my head-canon;

I wonder if Koriand'r took a look at that list, was like "Same branch as Cypher? Score!"

[silvercatmon]

Self Replication has Jamie Madrox and Multiple Man. Unless there is another Multiple Man or maybe one is a Dup who split off and became either Madrox or MM, depending on who you decided is the original.

[icon_uk]

It seems apt he's on there twice. Not sure if there's another Multiple Man, maybe in the DCU.... There's Multi-Man from the old Impossibles cartoon I suppose.

[ogrebear]

Great find icon_uk!

I was somewhat surprised not to see Wolverine under 'Super Healing' and should he not also have 'Super Cameo Role' somewhere on his C.V. like Batman did for a while?

Good to see my fav Beast get a category to himself though!