10 Worst Superpowers Of The 21st Century

Radiation of some form or another has played a role in superhero books ever since the threat of nuclear war became part of the collective consciousness. Bruce Banner was exposed to a nuclear blast and transformed into the Hulk. Peter Parker became Spider-man after being bitten by a radioactive spider. You get the idea.

Marvel went one step further with Hazmat in 2010. While other characters received their powers from radiation, Hazmat had the power of radiation. With no explanation to date of where her powers come from, Hazmat suddenly started giving off lethal radiation one day during a make-out session with her boyfriend. Since then, Hazmat has been wandering around the Marvel Universe, casually giving off lethal doses of radiation. Although this is treated like any other energy-based power, the fact that Hazmat’s power doesn’t have an off-switch means that she has since spent most of her life in a specially-designed containment suit and sleeping in a concrete reinforced bedroom.

Hazmat recently learned to control her powers following the events of Avengers Arena. However, dealing with a bank robbery by hitting someone with enough radiation to make them infertile is still a dick move.