10 Worst Superpowers Of The 21st Century

11. Dishonourable Mention: The Five Lights

For a new generation of mutants, these guys really set the bar low. There was the speedster who prematurely aged every time he uses his powers. There was the blue-skinned girl who flew around naked and turned into goop if she reached a certain speed, or even if it was particularly windy. There was the feral mutant whose power of adaptive evolution left him with a vocabulary of five words (unless he needed to eloquently defend himself in a court of law). There was the artist who turned into a full-on, Akira-inspired body horror. The only member of the team with a decent power set was the temperature-controlling Idie, who left halfway through to join Wolverine and the X-men.

With the cancellation of their series, and their role in the Marvel universe circumvented by the events of Avengers vs X-men, the Five Lights have been reduced to little more than background characters for the X-men. But, for a time, they even beat the Great Lakes Avengers as the team with the worst powers going.