As for the Marvel universe, Victor Mancha is supposedly at some point in the future going to kill every superhero in that universe, so I suppose they all have a weakness to a cyborg son of Ultron.
Yup. Odin moved the enchantment from Thor’s hammer Mjolnir to the new Stormbreaker, allowing Bill access to a non-monstrous form. It was a win-win move.
In regard to Aquaman, I seem to remember an old Justice League issue that had the heroes trapped in some sort of complex and they’d been tricked into separating. Aquaman was already into his “need water” time and came across a swimming pool full of liquid. He dove in and realized it was alcohol, not water, and just made the water he still had on his body evaporate more quickly.
I always wondered why the dumbass couldn’t SMELL the difference before he took the plunge…
Mr. Incredible–
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Well if it was vodka he wouldn’t have been able to smell the difference.
It sounds to me like you’re thinking about an episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The Atlantean in question was the Submariner, not Aquaman.
A web search reveals that the episode in question was “7 Little Superheroes.”
RE The Tick
Arthur once told the villain Toy De Force (disguised as a psychiatrist) that the Tick was easily distracted by shiny things. The Tick was once shot in the teeth with a highpowered sniper rifle. He talked funny for a while.
Daredevil- Sensory overload, bombard him with sound, scent, and vibration from all directions.
Wolverine-Really strong magnets. His skeleton is adamantium.
Spiderman- The Green Goblin developed a gas that neutralizes his spider sense for several hours. One of the Goblins developed a gas that neutralized all his powers for a while. Venom and Carnage do not activate his spider sense at all.
Batman- Take Alfred hostage
Luke Cage- Not really invulnerable. His skin is only as hard as steel. Armor penetrating bullets, etc can hurt him.
Superboy (the cloned one)-Not invulnerable, but surrounded by a forcefield. The field only repels kinetic attacks. Fire can hurt him.
Especially now that he’s dead.
JThunder I didn’t read Day Of Vengance, Infinite Crisis, Identity Crisis, and haven’t read any issues of 52. So, this might happen quite a bit.
Zatanna- (Ignoring that atrocious miniseries which reworked her into crap) Must be able to speak to work her magic.
Thanks everyone. My son, 8, is just getting into comics and is intrigued by the idea that all the supes have a weakness. Maybe I should worry that that’s a facet that he’s wondering about.
My own additition of the list is Jean Grey can lose control and become The Phoenix if overstressed. And Storm is claustrophic; but how would you use that against her?
I think it was a mop.
And actually Zan could be reasonably powerful, written properly. I’m embarrassed to admit that I have some old Superfriends comics in which he actually thought things through before transforming. One in particular had in changing in Jack Frost and using Jack’s power to freeze things.
Jayna, on the other hand, was problematic. Also in the SF comic, the senior Leaguers were training the Twins in the use of their powers; Superman was hovering in mid-air and told them to figure out a way to move him. Jayne turned into a Kryptonian horse and knocked him on his ass. All well and good–except if you can turn into a kryptonian, why would you ever bother becoming a hawk?
Well, they don’t all automatically have a weakness along the lines of Green Lantern–>yellow.
I don’t think it works that way anymore. Actually, technically, I don’t think it ever did since the original Phoenix freak-out wasn’t really Jean Grey at all.
Besides, I think Jean’s dead this week.
Nope. Sponge.
In an old (circa 1970s) issue of Fantastic Four, the Frightful Four were looking for a new member, and held auditions. They got a long line of losers (who were dropped off in the South Bronx when they failed), but one flying guy, sort of a proto-Arthur, right down to the bulbous eye-hiding goggles, looked like the Real Deal. Until The Wizard pulled out his lighter to light his own cigarette. The Flying Guy immediately collapsed, unconscious. Seems his weakness was flame. It was so obviously (and hilariously) a dig at the Martian Manhunter that I forgave the whole silly episode.
That’s Ultra Man.
He’s been a “tryout” for both villains & heroes.
Comic relief in each appearence.
Captain Ultra. His “ultra potential” was released by an alien psychiatrist. However, he retains his fear of fire and an ego that hungers for public acclaim.
One Marvel-Year In Review included a super olympics. One of the reporters covering the event noted that Captain Ultra attempted to compete in every event.
In another issue, Janet Van Dyne had a best and worst dressed list. She noted Captain Ultra was always on her worst list and suggested he “give up a color already”
Ultra Man? Do you perhaps mean Captain Ultra?
I haven’t followed GL in a long time. Could someone please explain this? I would think (if you’re one of the beings setting it up) that you’d want the rookies’ weakness to be green objects, so it would be easier for the GL Corps regulars to deal with them, should they get out of hand.
Ah. Long story short, there was a yellow weakness worked into the rings for a while. Original story was that there was a villain (Syndrome? Pretty sure it was an “s” name) who was trapped in the power crystal on the planet (Oa) from whence the Green Lantern Corps originated. His malign influence weakened the Green Lantern’s control over the part of the spectrum he was trapped in (in this case, yellow).
Post-Crisis, that’s been replaced with yellow being a “Rookie Weakness” deliberately implanted by the Masters of Oa (or whoever the bosses of the GL corps are) to control new Lanterns. In other words, it’s because it is not designed for the Corps to take advantage of, but the Masters.
The Corps recently learned that the yellow weakness wasn’t a flaw in ring design, or an intentional feature to hobble the GLs, but because there’s an ancient fear demon (Parallax, he possessed Hal Jordan for a while) imprisoned in the central power battery. Yellow represents fear as green represents willpower, so GLs couldn’t handle yellow. Now that they know what the deal is, Green Lanterns can confront their fears and overcome them, and thus handle yellow objects. But that’s not easy, and rookie GLs have a hard time with it.
Ah, Menocchio sounds rather more informed than me. At least he knew the name of the villain (Wonder where I got Syndrome from?)