ITT: powers that are a villain thing
ITT: powers that are a villain thing
telepathy
Mind control is an obvious one, kinda hard to be a good guy if you're forcing other people to do your bidding.
thermonuclear rape
Professor X can do it
fear inducement
Necromancy and life absorption
does mystique ever actually use her powers like this
He's a good guy?
sir this the power that villain the thing yes
What? Speak English.
Purpleman style mind control
life force stealing
Batman.
*Kilgrave
Spider-Woman can do that, but rarely does.
death touch (obviously)
Elixir has death touch, and he's one of the X-men.
Being a pyro
Sure, some heroes have fire powers, but it doesn't really make a lotta sense considering you gotta be pretty creative if you're not just burning shit down/people alive
Turning into a monster
No wonder the only fire hero I know died in both of his fights.
Poison
A few times
blood bending
x-men
I rest my case.
verification not required
when?
shekel clipping
Is that fat Iron Man?
Invisibility but only if it’s the character’s sole power. If it’s part of a larger set of powers (like it’s part of being half ghost or doing ninja shit) then it’s fine but just being to turn invisible is a way to escape from responsibility which naturally turns people into dickheads. It’s why the One Ring turns you invisible, it’s a more subtle way of corrupting someone into evil as opposed to giving them the power to explode the heads or summon demons.
If you notice, when they’re trying to sell Professor X as a cool dude who just wants to empower oppressed teenagers, they focus on him using his telepathy to talk to people because that shows his interest in bringing people together. When they want to suggest maybe he’s kind of a skeevy asshole who likes watching teens sweat, they focus on using his telepathy to READ minds, violating other people’s privacy. When they want to show he can be an outright dickhead who trains child soldiers that’s when they bring the out and out mind control to the forefront.
The exact same power as the protagonist but there's a twist: they're not so different from you or I
miss martian
But what if you force everyone to behave and be good
There'd be no theft, rape, or murder
While it can be a minor Hero power more often than not self cloning/duplication seems to be a villain coded power.
I think powers like invisibility and weaker shapeshifting usually work for the team scumbag types. Like it's a coward's power is the whole schtick, you build them up as the unreliable crack up then the pay off is they put themselves in the line of fire despite having the perfect ability to get away with it scott free.
Obviously the downside is no free will.
Super Rape
And when they want to whitewash it all as 'ok when we do it', they write Krakoa.
Mystique isn't a villain
flying
coin shaving
the downside is no free will
Just for bad people.
Allison/Number Three/Rumor in Umbrella Academy isn't a villain but she's not quite a "good guy," either and that's her power.
Like... both? Cuz Rogue could arguably be said to have life absorption powers and she's very much not a villain or bad guy. And Klaus/Number Four/Seance could be argued to have necromantic powers. He's less bad than Allison but still not quite a "good" guy. He's an ambivalent guy.
See above.
In DC, there's Apollo, Jack O'Lantern and Celsius. Marvel has the Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider and likely others.
Monster Girl.
lol
Multiple Man from Marvel. Also Multi Man from those ancient-ass HB cartoons.
Only thing I can think of that I've never seen a good guy have is the ability to change /other people's/ forms against their will and even there, I can, as a member of the International Wizard of Oz Club, think of one example where it was used for good, though in non-canon media. In the books, Mombi, The Wicked Witch of the North, receives the kidnapped baby princess Ozma from the Wizard and hid her by transforming her into a boy she named Tippetarius and kept him as a slave (yes, the Wizard is not exactly a good guy in the books). In the Oz meets Game of Thrones TV series Emerald City, Mombi is less wicked and is protecting Ozma/Tip from Princess Langwidere of Ev, the neighbouring country. They conspired with Glinda and the Wizard to invade Oz and install him as ruler.
In the books, she ascended the throne of Ev after King Evoldo sold his entire family into slavery to Roquat the Nome King in exchange for everlasting life but, racked with guilt, he committed suicide, allowing Langwidere to take the throne. General Jinjur is the one who takes over Oz with her all female army to force men to do the cooking.
Sorry for my diatribe. Once I get started taking Oz, it's hard to stop.
the thing is Rogue used to hate the ability cause of how uncontrollable and dangerous it is. The reason it's mostly an evil power is cause to knowingly drain someone of their lifespan, bio-energy or so on is essentially murder that also selfishly benefits you
national subversion
what is she actually doing?
Can't argue with that.