Listing the number of ways to get Powers in the Marvel Universe,..

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A. Go for a Joy ride into space and:

1. Have you and your buddies get bombarded with cosmic rays.

2. get experimented on by aliens just passing through who either:
A. bring you to the peak of their opinion of perfection.
B. They decide you are "Broken" and "fix" you.
C. They maximize your potencial as a being,...

3.
Make a deal with an Alien to do whatever he wants as long as he spares your planet.

4. get absorbed by a creature who can destroy all that is because it heard you whining as you were falling back to earth.

B. You are dealing with scientists and their "why not?" devices and:

1.
You arrive at almost ground zero to save an idiot teen from being cooked by your homemade Gamma bomb.
(and get caught in the blast.)

2. You decide that being a Janitor is not good enough so you put yourself in the path of gamma radiation.

3.
You figure if you can't beat em,.. join em and give yourself a milder form of gamma that changes your hair color.

4. You let someone use Ionic energy on you to gain Superpowers to allow you to whoop a thundergod and his buddies.

5.
You injest particles that give you the ability to change size.

6. You take a bath in chemicals that gives you strength beyond belief.

7.
You get a serum and "vitai rays" to make your 98 lb weakling frame into peak human goodness.

8. You injest a root that along with your families natural immunity to the poison in the root enhances you physically.

9. You get caught in a kinetic explosion.

10. You get bit by a radioactive something and gain it's primary abilities.

11. You get subjected to dna splicing that gives you the attributes of some other creature.

12.
You get a blood transfusion from a relative with super powers.


Hmmn,... This may take longer than I thought,.....
 
I REALLY expected folk to add to this,..................:oldrazz:
 
you get given abilities by a god or diety..

thunderstrike,captain britain etc etc
 
Union Jack said:
you get given abilities by a god or diety..

thunderstrike,captain britain etc etc
You jump into a battle between Thor and the Wreaker,... and demand that Thor grant you the powers of????

OKAY,... I think it would be funny.
 
i was thinking more of like captain britain who died and merlin resurrected him and gave him the power of captain britain...or union jack who was given the power of pendragon by the green knight to fight the rising evil.
 
exposing yourself to any form of radiation covers a good number of heroes
 
Don't forget

1. Mutancy

2. Your mother has a lab accident while pregnant with you that causes you to have regenerative tissue and brain cells everywhere in your body.

3. You yourself actually are an alien.

4. Your parents practiced black magic practices in part of an evil plot and when you ran away you ended up taking some of their cool toys with you.

5. Some mysterious kind of totem or ancient force chose you to be its representative.

6. Your mother was bitten by a vampire while pregnant with you.

7. The Ancient One teaches you mystic arts for seven years.

6. Your mother was bit by
 
You get bit by a radioactive rat with herpes.
 
That happened to me. Now I am Captain Herpes... :csad: :csad: :csad:
 
Docker said:
You get bit by a radioactive rat with herpes.
Okay,..

Lets START with legitimate - actually happened - type - empowerments.

I MEAN,.. I KNOW that Odin and Loki have granted powers to mortals for different reasons,.. Heck,... Beta-Ray Bill is a GREAT example.

V.
 
You're in the midst of doing something incredibly life-threatening/stupid and just so happen to also get hit by lightning.
 
Varient you listed them all. The thread will die quickly if that's the case. Lighten the thread up with crazy ways heroes got there powers. I.E. a kid gets stung by a nuclear bee but is allergic to bee stings, right? Dude dies due to the sting and comes back a superhero. That's hot right?
 
i thought this thread was going to be about listing ways to retcon bendis' powers into the marvel universe. silly me.
 
Docker said:
Varient you listed them all. The thread will die quickly if that's the case. Lighten the thread up with crazy ways heroes got there powers. I.E. a kid gets stung by a nuclear bee but is allergic to bee stings, right? Dude dies due to the sting and comes back a superhero. That's hot right?
My bad,.. carry on,....
 
You are "killed" by a benevolent being by accident and it/they bring you back out of guilt while putting you to work.

.

You are given a item of great power that over time will become a part of you.

.

You are given an item of great power by a short lil blue dude and told that you are now the protector of EVERYTHING.
 
You suffer horrible injuries that neccessitate the use of some technological fix by converting part of your body to machine form.

You get a transfer of Skree organs.

Exposure to Terregen mists.

Being of Atlantean descent.
 
your mother fell in love with a bull and you're a minotaur as a result.
 
Franklin Richards said:
Didn't Cloak and Dagger just take some drugs?

I love that one. :up:


:thing: :doom: :thing:



Yeah, so did Sentry..................and Captian America.:o
 
Helloooo?

You lose one sense and the others become hightened to a superhuman level?
C'mon.

Or you're just a freak whose special abilities manifest when you hit puberty.
 
Vanguard07 said:
your mother fell in love with a bull and you're a minotaur as a result.

Creepy.

Oh and let's not forget . . . You're simply the product of a God's one night stand with a human.

That sounds somewhat DCish, though.:dry:
 
oh yeah, you can use your natural powers to plunder the mind and powers of others.
 
Quimby2999 said:
Creepy.

Oh and let's not forget . . . You're simply the product of a God's one night stand with a human.

That sounds somewhat DCish, though.:dry:

That sounds like freakin Hercules.
 

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