10 Worst Superpowers Of The 21st Century

1. Beak

Hazmat Mettle, Avengers Academy
Marvel Comics

There was an obvious imbalance of power in the first X-Men team in the 60s. While Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and Beast fought off their enemies, Angel did little more than fly around and occasionally drop something on someone's head. Although he had his uses for reconnaissance missions, the character wasn't able to keep up in most of the battles the X-Men found themselves in. 

At one point, Professor X even started equipping his winged student with a bazooka, just so he could do something useful in a fight.

Flash forward to 2001, and New X-Men managed to introduce an even more useless avian mutant to the Xavier Institute. Not only did Beak lack Angel's good looks, but he couldn't even fly. Beak was the perfect demonstration of just how much being a mutant could suck. In addition to being unappealing to look at, with his backwards legs and disturbing, toothed beak, his hollow bones actually made him more vulnerable. As a result, Beak was less than useless in a fight.

It's not all bad news, though. Despite his unappealing appearance, he managed to find love with insectoid teammate Angel II, and the pair even had babies. Horrific, human-insect-bird babies.

Who did we miss? Whether ridiculously over-powered, or just plain ridiculous, let us know who you think should be on the list and why.

In this post: 
Hazmat
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

With a (nearly) useless degree in English literature and a personal trainer qualification he's never used, Freddie spends his times writing things that he hopes will somehow pay the rent. He's also a former professional singer, and plays the saxophone and ukulele. He's not really used to talking about himself in the third person, and would like to stop now, thanks.