10 Incredibly Useful Superpowers Heroes Forgot They Had

9. Nightcrawler's Invisibility

Magneto X-Men
Marvel Comics

Kurt Wagner may have a tail, pointy ears, blue fur, and the ability to teleport, but the X-Men's Nightcrawler also has the power to become invisible.

The only problem is, Nightcrawler tends to often forget about this particular skill.

While Kurt is busy going *bamf* from place to place courtesy of his teleportation abilities, this multi-layered hero scarcely even remembers to try out his invisibility ability. Granted, this ability itself has been tweaked over the years, from outright being able to become invisible, to only being able to become invisible in darkly-lit places. But still, there's a power there that Nightcrawler is overlooking.

To be fair to this fan favourite X-Men, he's not the only member of Xavier's mutants who hasn't always made the most of his skillset - with the huge ensemble cast of the X-Men characters, not to mention the ever-changing creative team writing the various X-Men-driven comic book titles, at times resulting in not every hero making the most of every ability that they have available to them.

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