Pick Or Pass On These Super Powers To Get An Avengers Sidekick
- by Ariel_S
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Superhero or not, we all need a sidekick every once in a while. By being able to work with someone and build up a rapport with them, we're way more able to take on all the battles the world throws our way. Fighting injustice, saving cats from trees, and having someone to play tic-tac-toe with are just a few of the things that sidekicks are good for. As Avengers buffs, we know that there aren't really sidekicks for the Avengers. They work together as a true team should. That doesn't stop us from being independent superheroes, though. Just because one powerful group of superheroes has decided to fight together doesn't mean we all should. Plus, it gives us the chance to gain one of the Avengers as our own personal sidekick!
Avengers are some of the best sidekicks around. They'll stick by us until the bitter end, even if it takes all of infinity (war). The Avengers won't complain about being sidekicks either, as they're happy to help no matter what status they are. Before we find out which Avenger will be our sidekick though, we need to do a little digging into our own super powers. Pick or pass on these super powers and it'll tell us which top-5 member of the Avengers squad we'll sidekick up with.
Invisibility
The power to go anywhere and do anything without anyone ever knowing. This power could easily be used for both good and evil. An invisible person could cause all sorts of havoc, or they could save the day by sneaking up beside bad guys and zapping them silly to stop a crime.
Mind reading
Imagine: being able to stop someone from hurting another person before they even move to strike. It’s every superhero’s dream, isn’t it? Sometimes we just want to be able to read people’s minds for our own personal reasons as well. But, what if we discover a secret that was never meant to be shared?
On-demand lightning strikes
This might be a little on the nose, but we believe it’s a superpower that’s highly underrated. The ability to quickly strike someone down, or perk someone up? It’s a strong power that could mean utter and complete destruction in the wrong hands. But in the right hands, it could be a brilliant day-saver.
Super Speed
Nothing says outrageously awesome superhero like blazing speed. Breaking noise barriers and sometimes time space continuum can be a breeze with this super power. Get the groceries in a split. Run in and or out of a burning building, cats in hand.
Super Strength
Possibly the most cliché of the options on the super shelf, but the applications are plentiful. Often it comes in conjunction with other powers, but given the option, most would add strength to their arsenal.
Elastic Limbs
Imagine never truly having to reach for anything in the world ever. It's probably the least scientifically explainable of the powers, but those stretchy appendages can be used in all sorts of practical and impractical ways.
Night Vision
Normally reserved for those heroes that have a mechanical or electrical inclination, night vision would be an absolutely peachy power to pick up. Never stub your foot in the dark again? Sign me up.
Freeze Time
Pause life in a perfect moment. Or, just prior to a harmful one. The ability to freeze time, and manipulate the things around you, could win a whole lot of chess games.
Sonic Voice
Blast powerful sonic waves from your mouth vanquishing your foes, or at least knocking them over just a little bit. The powerful force of your voice means no more missed candles on that birthday cake.
Super Hearing
To have the ability to hear a pin drop from a mile away sounds like it could be pretty useful for dissolving those long commutes. No need to head into the office if the meeting can be heard from home, right?
Great Reflexes
Call it acute awareness, or precognition, the best and quickest of heroes are able to deal with, dodge, or interrupt incoming danger thanks to the gift of insanely fast reflexes. The best part? You'll never need the 5-second rule again if nothing ever makes it to the ground.
Element Manipulation
At first we had just the word "FIREBALLS!" but perhaps the better pick for a super power is the generalization of complete ability to control elements. Light every candle with fire, put out every candle with water, or air, or crush that candle with the earth.
Shapeshifting / Mimicry
Imagine if one could take the form of any other person in a split second. Generally used in the cases where espionage is involved, or sneaking past and/or through groups of people. What can be used for good or bad, mimicry is a crazy complicated power.
Iron Hide
The ability to change your skin from normal, fairly weak, and fleshy, into stone, or steel, or generally something impervious. One of the classic powers, Iron Hide also means that masking oneself in public. Just turn it off.
Laser Eyes
Everyone at some point has tried to use their eyes to burn holes into the head of that lovely human being at the coffee shop that just passed the latte paid for by your card, to another person. Laser Eyes are that, but for grown ups.
Claws
Retractable or otherwise, having claws in some form or another is an extremely varied super power, but all of the paths lead to sharp things attached to appendages that can do damage, or help the more ambitious of heroes or villains to climb walls.
Bulletproof
The super hero gig isn't an easy one, and the chances that a bad dude with a salty past and a hankering for bullet propulsion will shoot in the direction of the hero is high. Being bulletproof is a wonderful solution, and is far more applicable than just against bullets. If a bullet can't penetrate your skin, neither can a knife, right?
Mastering a Martial Art
There's no magical martial art infused spider bite that will provide this power. This is one of those short-listed super powers that is earned, learned, and slaved over. It's a choice. Or, in some cases, a birthright.
Telekinesis
No one needs to be convinced to take on the powers of telekinesis. The ability to use your mind to manipulate, control, and move anything around. The extent of how much (by weight) you can move with your mind depends on the source material, but it's a top-notch super power.
Mind Alteration
Convincing another human being that they believe something, that they see something that's not there, or just to do something altogether, all without really letting it off that anyone is behind it.
Metal Manipulation
A classic in the history of superhero literature, the ability to manipulate and control anything made out of metal from cars (though not them darn modern ones), all the way down to metal alloy microscopic particles.
Blink
No, not with your eyes. The Blink power is historically the ability to disappear in one spot, and appear in another. Whether it is restricted by your line of sight, or just something clear in memory, it's a powerful escape plan or form of travel.
Possession
Quite a bit different than mind control, possession sees its user take complete control over their target as if they were the one living that life. Normally reserved for the baddies, possession is a morally questionable, but extremely useful super power.
Animal Speech
The ability to have fundamental conversation with any and all animals would be such a freeing power to have. Imagine never having to wonder what that cat you've "saved" is thinking right before it pushed your favorite teacup off the counter to its doom.
Shrinking
Within the lore, this power can go both ways: bigger or smaller, but it's truly the shrinking that is a very strong super power. Getting through, or into things that normal humans cannot would solve so many road blocks. Shrinking in front of people also acts as virtually disappearing.
Flying
Took us long enough to get here! Much like having super strength, flying isn't normally considered a power on its own, given that it is usually paired with other powers. But the ability to fly would extremely fix the traffic issues in metropolitan areas.
Cyborg
Whether it be part of one's body, or the entire thing, becoming one with electronics is said to magnify one's abilities. Some basic perks chronicled, like scanning and heads-up display over your vision, or the ability to hack any computer on the planet.
Multiple Arms
It's more of a mutation than a power, but it definitely gives you a leg up over anyone you might have to fight. Or should we say an arm up. Above all else, having more than two arms means you don't have to choose between one ice cream flavor or another. Get both!
Plant Control
Possession, control, or speech powers are often confined to a certain range, and the ability to control plants of all kind is one of those. Image, that it becomes impossible to end that lovely plant that auntie Charlotte gifted for the holidays.
Power Mimicry
The ability to mimic another super beings power might come across like a cheap power to have yourself, but it's very versatile and can become overly complicated. Be careful that too much is not bitten off.
Healing
Most chronicled examples of healing powers are unfortunately outwards only. Meaning, you can heal others (anything living) but not yourself. It would be quite a revolution to be able to help so many of those around the world.
Future Sight
Sometimes referred to as precognition, fortune telling, or foresight, the ability to see events from the near future is as dramatic as it useful. The gift of future sight can be extremely useful when attempting to avoid disaster, or tweak your fortune. I smell lottery tickets.
Shield/Bubble
To conjure a protective shield or bubble could mean a ticket out of a very hairy situation. It could save friends or co-heroes. Some iterations of this power come in the form of summoning a hand held shield, or alternatively a dome like covering.
Intangibility
We keep putting up walls. But what if one was given the ability to pass easily through solid objects? The power of intangibility allows one to ignore physical constraints, generally without consequence.
Regenerative
Perhaps the ability that is most often associated with snarky or witty heroes, regenerative capabilities heal wounds, regrow limbs, and make it very hard to actually pass on. One could be far more daring if regeneration was possible.
Underwater Breathing
Drowning is a major fear for a lot of folks, and the power to breathe underwater means access to the seventy percent of the earth that we don't normally have the ability to behold. Gills, or otherwise, underwater breathing would be fanta-sea (get it?) come true.
Petrification
Calling all of those with hair made out of snakes! Medusa is the most commonly recognized figure with the power of petrification. It's the power to instantly solidify, mummify, or remove the life from a being.
Reality Warping
Sometimes referred to as illusion powers, reality warping is the distinct ability to make someone or something see a reality that isn't the one they're actually in. Changing someones noodles into worms in the middle of dinner will bring a smile to anyone's face... or not.
Immortality
The idea of an endless existence sounds like a very tempting power to nearly all of us. However, living forever comes with a lot more burden than one often considers. It does add a fearlessness to your good or bad deeds, the inability to be deceased.
Being Rich
Some of the bigger and most recognizable heroes have only one power, and that is a bottomless pit of finances that grants them the ability to travel anywhere, develop advances in gear, or just plainly throw money at problems until they go away.
