It's a common icebreaker question that pretty much everyone has considered once in their life—if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Many would like to be able to fly or turn invisible, while others would prefer super speed, but there are plenty of bizarre superpowers featured in comic books that you might not be aware of. Sadly, some of them are quite useless in the grand scheme of things, as some characters are gifted the powers of super-humming or super-kite-flying. Let's take a look at some characters from comic books who have the most useless superpowers.
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00:00The comic world is littered with characters possessing various god-like abilities, but
00:05for every hero or villain with powers like these, there are characters who couldn't even
00:10receive the short end of the stick without getting a splinter.
00:13Here's a look at some of the most useless superpowers.
00:17Spot
00:18A Spider-Man villain with the ability to create tiny interdimensional doorways from the spots
00:23on his body, Spot uses these doorways to do things like confuse Spider-Man into punching
00:29himself in the face, which is hilarious, come on now.
00:32However, while the randomness of his spots does have the benefit of confusing Spider-Man's
00:37Spidey-sense, his power is otherwise useless in any kind of fight since he's just a normal
00:43guy, and a normal guy punching Thor or Captain America is going to do exactly nothing.
00:55Friendly Fire
00:56A DC hero wannabe who fought alongside a team of good guys known as Section 8, Friendly
01:02Fire had the ability to shoot powerful concussive laser blasts from his fist strong enough to
01:08blow someone's head clean off.
01:11This sounds really impressive, except for the fact that his name was all too fitting,
01:15because his powers only seemed to work on his friends and himself, which we learned
01:21when he accidentally blew his own head off.
01:25Down-and-down
01:27Bailey Hoskins
01:28Literally described as the worst X-Man ever, poor Bailey Hoskins is a mutant with the ability
01:34to detonate his body at will.
01:36One problem, though?
01:37He doesn't have the ability to actually survive his own explosion, which means if he ever
01:43uses his power, he'll just wipe himself out of existence.
01:46Professor X feels so bad for Hoskins, he gives him a suit of power armor so he can actually
01:52help out during fights, and presumably to stop him from, like, blowing up the Empire
01:58State Building or something.
02:00Whoops.
02:01The Wall
02:02A regular kid, Joshua Waldemeyer, was laying bricks one day — you know, totally normal
02:07stuff the kids do — when a freak accident caused him to fuse with a wall.
02:12He then went on a confused rampage, battling Spider-Man with his wall-like powers at a
02:17baseball game.
02:18Well if it isn't the wall-crawling creep!
02:21Here's one wall you'll never crawl, you red and blue buffoon!
02:26Spidey finally defeated him by — well, actually, they both just got kicked out of the stadium
02:31by Morgan Freeman.
02:32Lucky I didn't slap him with a $50 fine!
02:38I can be pretty stupid when I wanna be!
02:41Considering it was a Mets game, they were probably the lucky ones.
02:45Ten-Eyed Man
02:47This guy's a Batman villain with secret eyeballs hidden in his fingertips.
02:51In real life, this would make Ten-Eyed Man a wreck of a human being who only knew how
02:56to communicate via screaming.
02:58In comics, however, it makes him powerful enough to square off against a man who has
03:02a file in his desk detailing how to kill Superman.
03:05Hint, it involves six.
03:08Ten-Eyed Man
03:11To be clear, Ten-Eyed Man has no superpowers beyond having ten eyes, all of which are located
03:17on his fingertips.
03:18Hell, he doesn't even have regular eyes to back up these extra eyes because he was blinded
03:23in an explosion.
03:25Despite this, Ten-Eyed Man decided to inexplicably become a supervillain and antagonize Batman,
03:32and he even managed to beat the Dark Knight once, despite the fact that he has to blind
03:37himself to throw a punch.
03:38Bet you didn't see that coming.
03:41Wraith
03:42Invisibility should be a cool power, but for the sad sack known as Wraith, there's just
03:46another way to get beat up.
03:49See, his mutant powers only partially manifested themselves, causing only his skin to become
03:54invisible, something he has no control over.
03:57Naturally, a terrified mob nearly pummeled him to death before the X-Men intervened,
04:02because honestly, that's just gross.
04:05Armed Falloff Boy and the Legion of Substitute Heroes
04:08In the far future, the Legion of Superheroes protects the known universe from all threats
04:13with their incredible powers.
04:15And then there's the Legion of Substitute Heroes, which is made up of all the rejects
04:19who tried out for the real team but didn't make the cut because their powers were stupid.
04:24Perhaps the most infamous of the Substitute Heroes is Armed Falloff Boy, who has the power
04:30to detach his own arm and then beat people with it.
04:33He's joined the Luminari such as Color Kid, who can change the color of any object, and
04:38Infectious Lass, who can spontaneously generate infectious diseases, sometimes by accident.
04:45Hey, not everyone can be wonderful.