History SuperpowerLottery / MarvelUniverse

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange, DependingOnTheWriter, can go from "merely" one of the stronger Earth bound heroes to perhaps the most powerful superhero in mainstream comics. His powers enable him to do almost ''anything'' -- at his best/worst, he ''is'' [[AWizardDidIt the Wizard who does it]] -- as he has learnt to command the most primal eldritch energies permeating the universe and is backed up by a host of otherdimensional magical patrons. But in his own titles he needs that level of power, because his RoguesGallery is ''also'' one of the most powerful in mainstream superhero comics, consisting of multiple [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorcerers]], TheLegionsOfHell, at least one nigh-omnipotent OmnicidalManiac, and demonic [[DimensionLord Dimension Lords]] whose mere presence in our reality constitutes a doomsday event, amongst other diabolical horrors and cosmic menaces. Strange has collected and inherited artifacts that amplify his powers even further or protect him from numerous mystical dangers, and on top of all that he is a trained martial artist and a retired world-class surgeon. Put simply, there's a reason he's called the Sorcerer Supreme.

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* In ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'', Nico Minoru's Staff of One lets her do ''anything'' (with the apparent limit of resurrection being off-limits)... [[ItOnlyWorksOnce but only once]] per effect. Lately, she's gained some measure of magic ability on her own, at least enough to fly around on her own power.

* ComicBook/{{Ultron}} may be one of the most overpowered supervillains ever. His entire body is made of Adamantium and Vibranium, which means he's MadeOfIndestructium to the point where even ComicBook/TheMightyThor struggles just leaving a dent in it -- before he repairs himself anyways. He's shown more durability than freaking ''Thanos'', and that's just the tip of the iceberg. His energy blasts, at max, can wreck planets no problem. He treats some of the heaviest-hitters of the Marvel Universe as an annoyance, and went toe-to-toe with Comicbook/TheSentry and took ''no damage'' in the fight. His {{Technopath}} abilities deserve mention, as he could enslave the techno-organic Phalanx race through sheer force of will, and then used that to conquer the Kree Empire. He's so feared that even ''ComicBook/DoctorDoom'' (himself a lottery winner) has stated Ultron is the most terrifying thing that ever lived, a more than valid claim.

** Then of course, there's [[Comicbook/{{Exiles}} Mimic]], who is basically AllYourPowersCombined personified. He can copy up to five other mutants at a time, but only gets half their power. Sounds kind of weak, until you realize that the different powers interact. In his first appearance, he'd mimicked ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}}, and ComicBook/{{Colossus}}, among others. Yes, his claws were bone, and only half as long as Wolvie's. Yes, he was only half as strong as Beast. But when he [[VoluntaryShapeShifting turned himself into living metal]], those claws became much deadlier, and his animalistic strength got taken up to eleven. This is a guy who can ''rig'' the Superpower Lottery.

** Ororo Munroe aka ComicBook/{{Storm}}. Her power of WeatherManipulation has made her one of the most powerful mutants in existence granting her control over water, ice, air, heat and lightning. She has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include cosmic storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and the electromagnetic field. She has separated water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she was able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic media. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will. She also has the RequiredSecondaryPowers that grant her immunity to the effects of her abilities. This isn't even getting into her mastery of martial arts and thievery, telepathic resistance and magical potential due to her ancestry.

** Skaar and Hiro-Kala, the sons of Caiera and Hulk, inherited their father's gamma mutate powers and their mother's ability to [[DishingOutDirt control rock]], known as the Old Power to the people of Sakaar. Hiro-Kala took it to even more absurd levels, being able to fire energy blasts, project force fields and manifest a water-like substance. Eventually, Skaar had his Hulk powers taken from him by his father in his Doc Green persona and Hiro-Kala has since forsaken the Old Power in favor of using his Hulk form.

** ComicBook/ScarletWitch is pretty much all-powerful at this point, thanks to her initial [[WindsOfDestinyChange Power of Probability]] being redefined into a RealityWarper by writers apparently haunted by Laplace's demon.

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, through the effects of power inflation, has reached this point. In older stories, an injured Wolverine actually required medical treatment when his healing factor could not regenerate fast enough. Modern stories feature him being burned down to a skeleton and healing, or regenerating an entire body from a drop of blood. One storyline brought his regenerative abilities back to a more believable level, hand-waving all its previous exaggerated exploits with [[AWizardDidIt magic]].

** Ororo Munroe aka ComicBook/{{Storm}}. Her power of WeatherManipulation has made her one of the most powerful mutants in existence granting her control over water, ice, air and lightning. She has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include cosmic storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and the electromagnetic field. She has separated water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she was able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic media. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will. She also has the RequiredSecondaryPowers that grant her immunity to the effects of her abilities. This isn't even getting into her mastery of martial arts and thievery, telepathic resistance and magical potential due to her ancestry.

** Ororo Munroe aka ComicBook/{{Storm}}. Her power of WeatherManipulation has made her one of the most powerful mutants in existence granting her control over water, ice, air and lightning. She has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include cosmic storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and the electromagnetic field. She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she is able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic media. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will. She also has the RequiredSecondaryPowers that grant her immunity to the effects of her abilities. This isn't even getting into her mastery of martial arts and thievery, telepathic resistance and magical potential due to her ancestry.

** Then there's [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse's LaserGuidedTykeBomb answer to ComicBook/{{Cable}} (and thus son of Scott and Jean, brother to Rachel), with all Cable's potential and then some. Even as a barely trained teenager with an inbuilt [[SuperPowerMeltDown flaw in his powers]], he: crushed [=AoA=]!Apocalypse and left him to Magneto's lack of mercy; repeatedly treated Apocalypse's OmnicidalManiac son (a vicious PersonOfMassDestruction) as a passing annoyance even when only his telekinesis was working; accidentally resurrected two people; beat the below-mentioned Exodus to a pulp; repeatedly resurrected himself; and beat waves of superheroes. Following some training and the genetic flaw getting fixed, he treated the multiverse as his personal step ladder, [[RealityWarper reality as his play-thing]], death as a passing inconvenience, and time as an optional extra. He later got a boost [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 from the Life Seed]]. Since the Life Seed is the GoodCounterpart (broadly speaking) of the Apocalypse-creating Death Seed, capable of making AOA Wolverine into a PhysicalGod, the results were... spectacular. As in, he casually [[RealityWarper warped]] the world, effortlessly flattened multiple teams of X-Men (including a significant number of the characters on this list) while simultaneously keeping Apocalypse as a prisoner and Magneto (among others) on a psychic leash, flattened Legion (a RealityWarper in his own right) in less than five seconds after a calm [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]], and then held off all of the above minus Legion, while carrying on a calm psychic chat with Jean, and taking everyone present out in one shot, taking them to his own [[ComicBook/AgeOfXMan plane of existence]].

** The previously mentioned Exodus, Bennet du Paris, has PsychicPowers on such a scale that he could take on ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} (ironically, the one who activated those powers in the first place) and entire teams of X-Men, and call himself "Magneto's heir in spirit ''and power''" with perfect justification. He once boasted that his powers - which primarily include telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation - were so vast that ComicBook/{{Rogue}} couldn't steal more than one. He was technically right about that, too. When Wolverine and Rogue asked their resident BlindSeer what he could do, the answer they got was "Whatever he wants".

** Occasional BigBad ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}'s mutant powers have never been quite clearly defined. He's generally portrayed with immortality, super-strength, laser beams, shape-changing, regeneration (when he doesn't have NighInvulnerability), telekinesis, technopathy, and super-intelligence, and he once demonstrated minor intangibility. Essentially he has every single physical superpower, most of which ultimately could be derived just from his high-level shape-shifting. Most of his higher-end powers though come from taking advantage of Celestial technology that he discovered long ago. His default powers are immortality, super-intelligence and his bizarre skin colour; he also still had superhuman strength, speed, durability, endurance and healing, not to mention he was [[LargeAndInCharge something like 12 feet tall]], but they were nowhere near as nerfed as he is nowadays.

** Meggan Puceanu a.k.a. Gloriana won pretty big: she's got standard flying brick powers up to class 50, she's an extremely powerful shapeshifter who can take on the abilities of whatever she changes into (as shown when she turned into a female version of the Silver Surfer) and might be TheAgeless because of it, a powerful empath who could sway demons in the Hell Realms (they ended up becoming her BadassArmy in her [[HellHasNewManagement conquest of and escape from Hell]]) and an elemental who can touch off volcanoes. The only two caveats are, 1) she's powered by magic, making her rather less powerful outside of Britain, 2) until recently, her shapeshifting was at least partially dictated by the perceptions of others, and it was implied that this extended to her emotional state - for example, her husband Brian was worried when she came on to him one time because he thought that she might not be making the choice of her own free will (as it turned out, she was), 3) equally until recently, she was something of a ManicPixieDreamGirl, making it a little difficult to get her to focus.

** Vulcan, emperor of the Shi'ar and the infamous "Third Summers Brother", plays with this. While he was born with a very powerful EnergyAbsorption ability, and technically was always an Omega-level mutant, originally he was not as crazy strong as he would later become -- rather, like other mutant Superpower Lottery winners described above such as Iceman and Jean Grey, his potential initially laid fallow. But then [[ComicBook/HouseOfM M-Day]] happened, depowering several million mutants, and the energy backlash work him up while being trapped inside a dead evil mutant island floating in space (it's a long story). The sum total was that Vulcan busted out of that evil mutant island turned space rock with his powers heightened a hundredfold -- and a ''major'' case of WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity going on. After that, it took the entire Shi'ar Imperial Guard (mainly Gladiator, a high end FlyingBrick) or a sun-dipped Havok to put him down. Even ''Black Bolt'' screaming at full volume only slowed him down. And this is all despite the fact that he's barely trained, incredibly arrogant, and moments of cunning aside, a bit thick.

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': William "Billy" Kaplan (Wiccan) takes after his mother, who happens to be the ComicBook/ScarletWitch. He has both magic ''and'' the ability to [[RealityWarper warp reality]] at will. Although he's only in his teens, his power is so immense that it's pretty much just his [[UnskilledButStrong inexperience]] and [[SquishyWizard human squishiness]] holding him back from being a PhysicalGod. Thus far, he's managed to access his full power (or close to it) exactly once. He proceeded to use said power to instantly destroy an EldritchAbomination and then step outside of his own universe to make adjustments at will, and he did it all with about as much effort as most people use to edit a text file. He's also going to form Utopian dimensions from scratch at some point in the future, so not only can he warp reality, he will one day be able to ''create it''.

** ComicBook/{{Iceman}} at his full potential is not just AnIcePerson, but has full control over moisture itself. This includes absorbing bodies of water to increase his size, teleportation (not quite, but close enough) by traveling through water vapor, physical immortality, since he can reconstitute his body from ''any'' source of moisture, and he even killed a villain by drawing the water from her body.

* James "Jimmy" Marks, aka Hybrid, introduced in ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight''. A HalfHumanHybrid of human and Dire Wraith, he inherited his father's VoluntaryShapeshifting power, but rarely bothers to use it. He prefers to rely on his powerful affinity for BlackMagic, {{Telepathy}} and [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]], the latter of which is implied to stem from his having inherited an X-Gene from his human mother. He has shown an ability to do virtually anything he can imagine, from controlling people like puppets to manipulating the weather to aging people into dust to driving them absolutely insane to "basic" telekinetic attacks by controlling his environment. Worse, try to fight him and you'll find he's [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], both from inherent SuperToughness and the ability to telekinetically reinforce his own molecular structure, and if you somehow destroy him, then he can literally will himself back to life, even if this means [[FromASingleCell reconstituting himself from scattered molecules]].

* ''ComicBook/TheEternals'', created by Creator/JackKirby, are an entire race of people who each won the Superpower Lottery at birth. Each and every one of them is born with their own innate ComboPlatterPowers, in the form of cosmic energy that suffuses them. Basic Eternal powers include: CompleteImmortality, [[MadeOfIron invulnerability to most forms of harm]] (including disease, poison, and extremes of heat and cold), a HealingFactor (for anything they're not invulnerable to), EyeBeams, the ability to [[WaterIsAir breathe underwater]], SuperStrength, [[FlyingBrick flight]], {{Telepathy}}, [[MasterOfIllusion casting illusions]], MindControl, {{teleportation}}, and, last but not least, [[BalefulPolymorph transmutation]]. And that's just the base power set. Some Eternals have trained themselves to use cosmic energy in different ways.

* James "Jimmy" Marks, aka Hybrid, introduced in ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight''. A HalfHumanHybrid of human and Dire Wraith, he inherited his father's VoluntaryShapeshifting power, but rarely bothers to use it. He prefers to rely on his powerful affinity for BlackMagic, {{Telepathy}} and [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]], the latter of which is implied to stem from his having inherited an X-Gene from his human mother. He has shown an ability to do virtually anything he can imagine, from controlling people like puppets to manipulating the weather to aging people into dust to driving them absolutely insane to "basic" telekinetic attacks by controlling his environment. Worse, try to fight him and you'll find he's [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], both from inherent SuperToughness and the ability to telekinetically reinforce his own molecular structure, and if you somehow destroy him, then he can literally will himself back to life, even if this means [[FromASingleCell reconstituting himself from scattered molecules]].

** Then of course, there's [[Comicbook/{{Exiles}} Mimic]], who is basically AllYourPowersCombined personified. He can copy up to five other mutants at a time, but only gets half their power. Sounds kind of weak, until you realize that the different powers interact. In his first appearance, he'd mimicked ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}}, and ComicBook/{{Colossus}}, among others. Yes, his claws were bone, and only half as long as Wolvie's. Yes, he was only half as strong as Beast. But when he [[VoluntaryShapeShifting turned himself into living metal]], those claws became much deadlier, and his animalistic strength got taken UpToEleven. This is a guy who can ''rig'' the Superpower Lottery.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk has unlimited strength, accelerated healing, the ability to breathe underwater, dynamic durability, and the ability to leap as high as Superman, and unlike Supes he has a high resistance to MindControl. He also has a number of minor abilities like absorbing gamma radiation and seeing ghosts and astral forms. As a bonus, Bruce Banner is one of the smartest men in the Marvel Universe, to the point where ComicBook/NormanOsborn decided he preferred fighting the Hulk. Come ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', he adds ResurrectiveImmortality to the list. Note that most of these powers are directly proportional to his anger level, which will normally steadily increase over the course of a fight. The standard rule of thumb when fighting the Hulk is to hit him with everything you've got ''immediately'' and hope you can end the fight before it starts, because his powers will increase with every passing second that the fight continues.

* ComicBook/TheMightyThor, whose list of powers is pretty long even without including Mjolnir; and if he has full access to the Odinforce that week, then he's a full-blown RealityWarper. Also, the majority of other name Asgardians; even the weaker name ones tend to have a wide variety of physical powers, a magical weapon or two, and at least one schtick power. For what that matters, ComicBook/{{Loki}}, Thor's adoptive brother and arch enemy, who is a [[SorcerousOverlord master in sorcery]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]] and even in his "''SquishyWizard''" interpretation is still capable of lifting up to 30-50 tons with his bare hands - and that's '30-50 tons' as Marvel's relative power scale, meaning that he's actually capable of lifting far more than that. Killer Movies [[http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f98/t551221.html even has a list of his powers]].

* William "Billy" Kaplan (ComicBook/{{Wiccan}}) of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers takes after his mother, who happens to be the ComicBook/ScarletWitch. He has both magic ''and'' the ability to [[RealityWarper warp reality]] at will. Although he's only in his teens, his power is so immense that it's pretty much just his [[UnskilledButStrong inexperience]] and [[SquishyWizard human squishiness]] holding him back from being a PhysicalGod. Thus far, he's managed to access his full power (or close to it) exactly once. He proceeded to use said power to instantly destroy an EldritchAbomination and then step outside of his own universe to make adjustments at will, and he did it all with about as much effort as most people use to edit a text file. He's also going to form Utopian dimensions from scratch at some point in the future, so not only can he warp reality, he will one day be able to ''create it''.

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and any of [[FanNickname G-diddy's]] other Heralds. The Power Cosmic lets them accomplish basically anything he wants, up to and including massive scale reality manipulation. Since Galactus is the primary holder he can bestow or revoke the PC as he pleases.

* The ComicBook/BlueMarvel, being a SupermanSubstitute, also fits this trope. In addition to the standard FlyingBrick powers, he is a powerful and skilled energy manipulator (thanks in part to his [[GeniusBruiser PhD in Theoretical Physics]]). He can manipulate matter at a molecular level which not only allowed him to heal Monica Rambeau (mentioned above) but boost her powers as well. His physiology also allows him to age slower than normal humans.

* ''ComicBook/TheEternals'', created by Creator/JackKirby, are an entire race of people who each won the Superpower Lottery at birth. Each and every one of them is born with their own innate GreenLanternRing, in the form of cosmic energy that suffuses them. Basic Eternal powers include: CompleteImmortality, [[MadeOfIron invulnerability to most forms of harm]] (including disease, poison, and extremes of heat and cold), a HealingFactor (for anything they're not invulnerable to), EyeBeams, the ability to [[WaterIsAir breathe underwater]], SuperStrength, [[FlyingBrick flight]], {{Telepathy}}, [[MasterOfIllusion casting illusions]], MindControl, {{teleportation}}, and, last but not least, [[BalefulPolymorph transmutation]]. And that's just the base power set. Some Eternals have trained themselves to use cosmic energy in different ways.