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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** Betsy Braddock, who spent most of her superhero career as [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]], would become the next ComicBook/CaptainBritain in 2019. The original is her twin brother Brian, who unlike her, isn't a mutant, and thus had no innate superpowers before being empowered by the Amulet of Right to become a [[SupermanSubstitute Superman-esque]] FlyingBrick. Betsy on the other hand, ''does'', and she retains them fully. Add the magical Amulet on top of that, and you've essentially got someone who has two distinct power sources at once with her innate mutant abilities and her magical empowerment. For the former, she's the third most powerful {{telepath}} in the world, can create powerful forcefields, psionic weapons, read minds, control minds, and use a variety of special TK-based abilities. For the latter, she can [[{{Flight}} fly]] at [[SuperSpeed vastly superhuman speeds]], [[SuperStrength benchpress over 500 tons]], is practically [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] to most forms of normal damage, and can [[BarrierWarrior manipulate a nigh-indestructible forcefield]] for both offense and defense.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'', like Build, combines pairs of powers from a varied assortment of random stuff. He doesn't mix-and-match as other Riders do (it's not clear if he even ''can''), but the pairs tend to be odd on their own. For example, his default pair merges a grasshopper with a steam train. His theme is UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}, so his ability to combine reflects alchemical compounding. His allies also combine pairs of powers, but instead match specific categories: Valvarad pairs vehicles with "Occult" creatures (cryptids and {{Youkai}}) and his combos aren't much better than Gotchard's; while Majade has mythical creatures and astronomical objects, which actually tend to make thematic sense.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'', like Build, combines pairs of powers from a varied assortment of random stuff. He doesn't mix-and-match as other Riders do (it's not clear if he even ''can''), but the pairs tend to be odd on their own. For example, his default pair merges a grasshopper with a steam train. His theme is UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}, so his ability to combine reflects alchemical compounding.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler has a long list of minor powers, making him something like a poor-man's-Spider-Man, plus a prehensile tail and shadow-camouflage and some other minor perks. By far his most powerful ability, however, is a seemingly unrelated teleportation power.

This does ''not'' include abilities gained by learning them or some other method of choosing them, as something that can be learned is only random if the ''character'' wants to study random things. This means most magical abilities are excluded unless it happens to "natural" magic that a character is born with.

** The DVD mentions the hero Meta Man, who possessed flight, super strength, X-ray vision, a sonic scream, magnetic manipulation, partial invisibility, and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the ability to communicate with aquatic mammals.]]

** [[TheLeader Garnet]] has [[{{Seers}} precognitive abilities]], a RocketPunch, [[ShockAndAwe electrokinesis]], can swim in lava, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers summon her]] CoolShades [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers or a pair of diving goggles]]. The latter at least appears to be a stock Gem ability, as one universal Gem power is shapeshifting, which they use to create their clothes. Granted, Garnet's powers come from two ''[[OppositesAttract very]]'' [[OppositesAttract different gems]] in a perpetual FusionDance, and she doesn't simply have the skills of both. She's shown Ruby's strength and Sapphire's visions, but not Sapphire's levitation, and the electrokinesis is her own unique ability which results from combining Sapphire's ice with Ruby's fire.

* ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'': The Quiz is a supervillain who has ''every power you haven't thought of''. Fighting her involves desperately naming superpowers so she can't use them.

* ''Comicbook/SheHulk2004'': Danger Man was a hapless worker in a nuclear plant who was caught in an industrial accident that made him bigger, stronger, and more powerful. And also gave him energy blasts, the ability to breathe underwater, and he can have a meltdown if he gets angry. His head and hands glow and have KirbyDots surrounding them. Although he's also a huge subversion of the whole "radiation accident" origin; He's not a superhero and doesn't want to be. He's still a hapless worker in a nuclear plant, but now when he rolls over in bed he crushes his wife, tears his clothes up with one false move because he's so strong, and gets stared at on the subway because of how obvious his situation is. He doesn't even really have a codename; it's just that his real name is [[StephenUlyssesPerhero Dan Jermain]].

** Francis Klum, the third [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Mysterio]], had the powers of teleportation, telepathy and telekinesis. When Characters/{{Daredevil|MattMurdock}} asked how it was possible for a teleporter to also be a telepath, [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]] suggested that Klum was "teleporting" thoughts and suggestions into people's heads.

** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}: HealingFactor, [[WolverineClaws retractable claws]], enhanced smelling and hearing, adamantium skeleton, and in some cases animal empathy/communication. It's explained that Wolverine is the [[SuperPowerfulGenetics product of two mutant families]]. His mother's family has long been "cursed" with bone claws and mindless animal rages, while his father has the regeneration and enhanced senses. [[LamarckWasRight Wolverine gets all of them]]. The adamantium is added, much later in his life, by government experimentation. They'd been wanting to do it for a long while to produce {{Super Soldier}}s, but adamantium is poisonous -- a test subject who could heal away the ill effects was perfect. Early on, he also had a weird immunity to being detected by mechanical devices like motion sensors, thermal imagining cameras, and robots. This quietly disappeared decades ago and hasn't been mentioned since.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]]: Telepathy and turning to diamond.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]]: He has a long list of minor powers, making him something like a poor-man's-Spider-Man, plus a prehensile tail and shadow-camouflage and some other minor perks. By far his most powerful ability, however, is a seemingly unrelated teleportation power.

*** [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]] is a massively powerful telepath and telekinetic, and sometimes called 'the One True Phoenix'. Additionally, she's a [[TimeMaster Chronokinetic]] of awe-inspiring power, being the one behind Kate Pryde's mental time travel in ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast''. She also later used this power to send Scott and Jean to the future on their honeymoon to raise baby Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}}, and one future self became Mother Askani, matriarch of the Clan Askani, a bunch of weird, predominantly female psychics who pretty much wrote the book on psychic time travel, and even later used it as part of the famous 'Cross-time caper' story in ''{{ComicBook/Excalibur|MarvelComics}}'', which involved the titular team bouncing around a lot of alternate timelines.
*** Nathan Summers a.k.a. Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}} is also an incredibly powerful psychic, probably even stronger than Rachel when uninhibited by the techno-organic virus. His birth, after all, was engineered by Mister Sinister to destroy Apocalypse. Even under normal conditions, he's proved capable of using his powers to teleport, as well as 'step between moments', essentially stepping out of time. As Saviour Cable, when the virus was switched off, he became a PhysicalGod capable of holding up a giant island city, fighting the Characters/SilverSurfer and repairing everything they were destroying in the process. As he remarked while smashing the Surfer's board, "I didn't turn myself into everything I ever fought against, a god, just to come up short!"
*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], the baby of the bunch, and Cable's ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' counterpart, was explicitly artificially engineered by that world's Mister Sinister to kill Apocalypse, and has fair claim to being the strongest of the family. Aside from massive scale PsychicPowers, he's also capable of: {{Psychometry}}, [[{{Seers}} Precognition]], AstralProjection (including making astral forms solid, something he did on pure instinct... to Professor Xavier, who was on the verge of becoming ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}, who promptly used that particular trick to wreak havoc. Can you say NiceJobBreakingItHero?) creating psychic armour powerful enough to hurt [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] and the [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]], then later allow the Hulk to beat up Thanos), [[TimeMaster stop time]], and [[DimensionalTraveler teleport between universes]]. This isn't a complete list, either. At the higher end, he was a fully fledged RealityWarper, and it was a running plot point in his series that he was genuinely afraid of waking up to find that he'd accidentally rewritten the world around him. By the time of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', he'd not only got the RealityWarper part under control, but was powerful enough to effortlessly imprison Apocalypse and Kitty Pryde, keep Magneto (who has a very well-documented history of MindControl resistance), Angel, Blob, and Omega Red on a psychic leash - though Angel is suggested to have joined him of his own free will, and effortlessly trounce an entire X-Men team that included Jean Grey, Iceman, Psylocke, and Storm... all simultaneously. Oh, and he won an extremely one-sided fight with Legion that lasted for about as long as Nate took to complete a brief [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]], before having a long and pleasant chat with Jean Grey while almost all of the above, plus Emma Frost and the Stepford Sisters were hammering away at his psychic shields, then created an entirely new plane of existence - the ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan''.

** Downplayed in ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'', where the Riders ''can'' equip two powers like in ''Double'' and ''Build'', but the {{Transformation Trinket}}s are much rarer and harder to acquire here. As a result, they generally only manage to get one powerset that becomes their default, and don't really have the luxury of experimenting with combinations. They best they can do is that they might enhance it with a second "Boost" Trinket if they manage to get a hold of it; but Boost is AwesomeButTemporary and only good for one battle before needing to be earned again.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'', like Build, combines pairs of powers from a varied assortment of random stuff; his default pair is a grasshopper and a steam train. His theme is UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}, so his ability to combine reflects alchemical compounding.

** Harry, being the son of Thor (and cousin of Jean Grey), and thanks to a lot of meddling by Doctor Strange, initially appears to have won the SuperpowerLottery big time - he's an Omega Class psychic (though not on Jean's [[spoiler: (or Maddie's)]] level), he's developing SuperStrength, and his magic is set to be supercharged. However, for the first book, until chapter 60, [[TheCallPutMeOnHold only the magic actually appears]] - and even then, he's got a lot to learn, only really mastering [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]]. When the others start to appear, he's BlessedWithSuck:
*** His PowerIncontinence makes his PsychicPowers are a danger to himself and everyone else around him. Even after he's got training, his inexperience in psychic combat gets [[CurbstompBattle brutally exposed]] when he goes up against someone that he can't overwhelm with raw power. Up until chapter 60, he's basically a physically fit young teenager. After, his SuperStrength starts coming in (often randomly) and he lives in mortal fear of accidentally [[{{Fingore}} crushing someone's hand into paste]] or worse. Until chapter 70, the ''only'' power that works reliably is his magic, and even then, he's still basically a MasterOfOneMagic.
*** Oh, and his mother's protection takes the form of [[spoiler: a fragment of the Phoenix Force, which Lily merged with, and has previously used to speak through him, resurrect him, and destroy everything in sight]] - by the sequel, he's figured out how to tap into it, though everyone with a lick of sense says that this is a Very Bad Idea.
*** By chapter 70, his powers stabilise, and by the sequel, he starts using them with far greater confidence, skill, and creativity, e.g. using his PsychicPowers to mimic the abilities of a FlyingBrick.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk has SuperStrength, is [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], can create a stunning sonic boom with his hands, [[HealingFactor regenerates]], okay, all fit sort of with the "unstoppable force of rage" idea. However, some of his other, lesser-known powers include seeing, and HITTING, ghosts and astral projections, and homing in on the site where the gamma bomb that created him went off. And [[SuperIntelligence supermath]], the ability to automatically reduce collateral damage when levelling down entire cities. Officially, this is explained as Bruce being a 'hypermind', able to analyze and predict the consequences of his actions near-instantaneously (after all, he was a brilliant scientist before being turned into the Hulk). Hulk is also highly resistant to telepathy and mind control (it's mentioned that he was the only one who wasn't affected by the CosmicRetcon that wiped out everyone's memory of Characters/TheSentry, and neither [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]] nor Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} can MindRape him), occasionally capable of absorbing radiation, and has limited reactive adaptation. He's shown adapting to being able to breathe underwater and survive for a fairly considerable time in the vacuum of space (while still needing to breathe eventually). [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Hulk]] takes it a step further, adapting to the atmospheres of Mars and Venus after limited exposure. Then ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender'' adds ResurrectiveImmortality (again, fitting with "unstoppable force of rage"), which is followed by LivingLieDetector in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk''.

* ComicBook/MartianManhunter: SuperStrength, Flight, {{Intangibility}}, {{Invisibility}}, ShapeShifting, {{Size Shift|er}}ing, {{Telepathy}}, [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]], Nine Senses, EyeBeams, the ability to strain gold from seawater, the ability to create ice cream cones with the power of his mind, the power to animate clothing, underwater breathing, and control over magnetism. Oh, and fire is his KryptoniteFactor. Yes, ''even though'' he has heat vision.. And the explanation for all this? He's Martian. That's it. All of this comes originally from [[SwissArmySuperpower only two power sets]]. In his earliest appearances, [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]'s SuperStrength, {{Intangibility}}, {{Invisibility}}, and SizeShifting, were all explicitly defined as variations on his Martian ShapeShifting, and his {{Telepathy}}, [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]], and supersenses were initially described as manifestations of Martian Psychic Powers. His Flight was described at one point during this period as shapeshifting his density to the point he is lighter than air and then using his psychic powers to propel himself along. And these two power sets were standard [[LittleGreenMen Martian]] abilities in the old [[SpaceColdWar 1950s SciFi flicks]] in which [[ScaryDogmaticAliens extraterrestrials]] were metaphors for the RedScare who could hide in plain sight (ComicBook/{{Martian|Manhunter}} Shapeshifting) and spy on anyone (ComicBook/{{Martian|Manhunter}} Psychic Powers).

** ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Kon-El/Conner Kent has Kryptonian powers ''and'' tactile telekinesis, though he started out with just the tactile telekinesis and developed the Kryptonian powers as he aged.

** Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}}: Telepathy and turning to diamond.

** ComicBook/{{Legion|MarvelComics}}: Son of Charles Xavier. The simplest way to define Legion's powers is "Infinite" -- as far as has been ascertained, he possess ''every single mutant power that has ever or could ever manifest''. Unfortunately, he is BlessedWithSuck in that he also suffers from a truly ''massive'' case of SplitPersonality disorder, having dozens, hundreds, perhaps even ''thousands'' of alternate personalities, each of which has control over one particular power (or small batch of powers). His most well-known/iconic personality, which is the closest we know to the original, is a full-blown RealityWarper with secondary powers including [[TimeMaster the ability to control time]], [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], teleportation and {{Telepathy}}, which also counts for this.

*** Nathan Summers a.k.a. Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}} is also an incredibly powerful psychic, probably even stronger than Rachel when uninhibited by the techno-organic virus. His birth, after all, was engineered by Mister Sinister to destroy Apocalypse. Even under normal conditions, he's proved capable of using his powers to teleport, as well as 'step between moments', essentially stepping out of time. As Saviour Cable, when the virus was switched off, he became a PhysicalGod capable of holding up a giant island city, fighting the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and repairing everything they were destroying in the process. As he remarked while smashing the Surfer's board, "I didn't turn myself into everything I ever fought against, a god, just to come up short!"

** Jack-Jack can shape-shift, turn into metal or a goblin, phase through walls, fly, set himself on fire, eat wood, and shoot EyeBeams, and that's just what we've seen so far... and he's a ''[[GooGooGodlike baby]]''. WordOfGod goes that he has so many powers precisely because he is a baby. When he grows up, he will make his choice of powers.
*** In the sequel, Edna reveals that Jack-Jack's actual power is [[KeystoneSuperpower "molecular self-manipulation."]] In essence, his "only" power is VoluntaryShapeshifting, but his shapeshifting can be used to actually ''give himself'' other powers like EyeBeams or flight.

** Jesus himself also counts. As described in the Bible, he does a lot of health-related miracles: {{healing|Hands}} the sick, raising the dead, exorcising demons, miraculously providing food, etc. But he can also control the weather, walk on water, kill fig trees with his mind, and [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2017:24-17:27&version=NIV make sea creatures pay his taxes for him]]. And then there's the stuff he gets up to in the Apochrypha...

* Several characters from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' (to save on space, unless noted all of these characters have SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and SuperToughness):

** Sogiita Gunha, one of the Level 5 Espers, apparently has several disconnected superpowers, including [[SuperToughness indifference to pain]], creation of explosions of almost any variety, SuperStrength, a HealingFactor, and an ability to deflect electricity to name a few. This is in direct violation of known laws of espers, and the researchers working on him are continually frustrated by the mysterious nature of his power, especially since he isn't interested in learning more about it.
** Touma Kamijou has an AntiMagic right hand called Imagine Breaker, a HealingFactor, and a SpiderSense. It later revealed Imagine Breaker seals a dragon, or possibly multiple entities inside his body that he can unleash on his enemies when Imagine Breaker is cut off, and he eventually becomes a {{Weredragon}}.

** '''Triumph''': Has a HealingFactor, HeroicBuild, and [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic blasts]]. [[spoiler: His parents bought the powers from the mysterious power-sellers.]]
** '''Arbiter''': Can [[{{Omniglot}} learn any language almost instantly]], [[BarrierWarrior create force fields]], and [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic blasts]].

** The Makuta have no fewer than ''42'' different powers to call upon, though many do have overlap: for example, the ability to use [[ShockAndAwe general electric blasts]] as well as ChainLightning, or the abilities to [[MakeMeWannaShout launch sonic blasts and power screams]] as well as silence an entire area of all sound. Plus [[CastingAShadow control over shadow]], their own MaskOfPower, a CannibalismSuperpower (though they don't always gain the victim's powers), and since they're EnergyBeings, they can inhabit robots or {{Soulless Shell}}s. There's a reason most of the Makuta characters in the Karda Nui storyline had to be nerfed [[spoiler:if only to better hide the twist that [[ILetYouWin they always intended to let the heroes awaken Mata Nui]], with their nerfs serving to better fool the heroes (and the audience).]]

* The Tane of ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' all have this going on, reflecting both BizarreAlienBiology and their [[Literature/{{Jabberwocky}} origins]]. The Jabberwock has "[[EyeBeams eyes of flame]]", the "whiffling" of its wings creates a small windstorm, and it can "burble" to [[BrownNote confuse]] or [[MakeMeWannaShout kill]] opponents. The Bandersnatch has quills that cause extreme pain, can drive a person mad with a stare, and is a superb tracker, and some types are "frumious" and set themselves on fire [[TurnsRed when angered.]] The Jubjub Bird adapts to attacks, has a stunning screech, and its bite is a OneHitKO.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Apart from the "ghost powers" he is supposed to have, like {{Flight}}, {{Invisibility}}, and {{intangibility}}; he also has various powers like energy blasts, SuperSpeed, SuperStrength, a [[MakeMeWannaShout supersonic scream]], [[DoppelgangerAttack duplication powers]], and... [[AnIcePerson ice powers]]. Among [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands others, many of which were only used once or twice]]. On occasion, he's even been shown to have fire powers to go with the ice ones. The concept of "[[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]]" covers enough bases in popular culture for most of these to be easily handwaved in some way, and on top of that, ghosts in this universe can apparently [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower manipulate their ghostly energy in ways that let them do... a lot of things]].

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'': Both dormant and awake ''lamberos'' possess an array of powers, including PsychicPowers (the bulk of the powers, which includes MindReading, the ability to sense other ''lamberos'', [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory-wiping]] either completely or just specific memories, making others [[HearingVoices hear voices]], and [[MindRape mind-raping]], which can be lethal), shooting [[ChargedAttack Charged Attacks]] of energy that can range up to fifteen megatons in an awoken ''lambero'', [[MakingASplash water]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] powers, TeleportationWithDrawbacks, and HealingHands. Orchid doesn't have all of the powers as an awoken ''lambero'', but she suffers from PowerIncontinence either way and is a PersonOfMassDestruction that is capable of destroying the entire planet.

** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Callisto's SuperSpeed and the ability to detect other mutants ''and'' the nature of their powers, apparently at any distance (she ''was'' how Magneto found the caravan transporting Characters/{{Mystique}}). It's the result of telescoping the powers of several Morlocks into one character for the movie.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series: Some have Riders whose power ''is'' to mix-and-match, as they own modular {{Transformation Trinket}}s that allow them to use multiple powers at a time regardless if they make thematic sense:
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' can match one of three fighting styles (BareFistedMonk, MartialArtsStaff, and TheGunslinger) with one of three ElementalPowers (BlowYouAway, RubberMan, and PlayingWithFire) for a total of nine combinations, plus a handful of upgrade combos.

** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' uses ''Double''[='s=] system of mixing and matching two halves, but here one half is based on an animal or some other organic being and the other half is machine-based. Every half has a matching counterpart that it's especially effective with, but these matches very, very rarely make any sort of thematic sense. For instance, he ''could'' use Phoenix and Fire Truck together since both are related to fire, but Phoenix works best with Robot and Fire Truck pairs with Hedgehog. It's later explained that the randomness is because the powers were created by an alien who was unfamiliar with Earth and questioned a human about it.[[note]]Specifically, the questions were "name thirty things you love" (which ended up being the organic powers) and "name thirty things that can kill those things you love" (the inorganics; which started out with weapons until the human realized the implications of the question and he started just making up random stuff).[[/note]]

*** In the sequel, Edna reveals that Jack-Jack's actual power is [[SwissArmySuperpower "molecular self-manipulation."]] In essence, his "only" power is VoluntaryShapeshifting, but his shapeshifting can be used to actually ''give himself'' other powers like EyeBeams or flight.

*** In the sequel, Edna reveals that Jack-Jack's actual power is "molecular self-manipulation." In essence, his "only" power is VoluntaryShapeshifting, but his shapeshifting can be used to actually ''give himself'' other powers like EyeBeams or flight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

* ''Comicbook/SheHulk2004'': Danger Man was a hapless worker in a nuclear plant who was caught in an industrial accident that made him bigger, stronger, and more powerful. And also gave him energy blasts, the ability to breathe underwater, and he can have a meltdown if he gets angry. His head and hands glow and have KirbyDots surrounding them. Although he's also a huge subversion of the whole "radiation accident" origin; He's not a superhero. He's still a hapless worker in a nuclear plant, but now when he rolls over in bed he crushes his wife, tears his clothes up with one false move because he's so strong, and gets stared at on the subway because of how obvious his situation is. He doesn't even really have a codename; it's just that his real name is [[StephenUlyssesPerhero Dan Jermain]].