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Anti power, just taking away someones super powers or any one of them, imagine taking away superman's invulnerability and he burns through his eyes and brain by using his heat vision, making ice man get frost bite and having to amputate his arms, making Deadpool die of cancer by taking away his healing factor, taking away plastic man's stretch and just letting him be human mush, even anime wouldn't be safe, Naruto characters have to have some kind of invincibility by being able to breath fire and hold crazy fast spinning wind in their hands and just letting it go and what would be a tornado ball just ripping through some guy

Every group the X-Men faced had a guy with those anti-powers powers. I think Genosha was selling them wholesale.

Superman is famous for this one too - Kryptonite has the power to turn anyone into an anti-force against Superman and loads of his foes used it over the years - esp Lex Luthor and even Batman.

In fact its often over-used with him because its one of the few ways to bring him down to a normal level of superhero otherwise he's so fast and strong and has laser eyes that he's near unstoppable.

I always liked Black Cat's bad luck power. Nothing like watching a guy get killed by an escalator.

Luck is an absolutely ridiculous superpower. It's portrayed fantastically in Deadpool 2. Domino has no idea what's going to happen, she's more or less become a cheerful avatar of her powers.

The magicians presented a guy so lucky, that he's become jaded and takes everything in stride.
"did that pigeon just bring you a sandwich?
Yeah, I guess it did. You want it?"

It's one of the more entertaining powers precisely because you can't predict what's going to happen. I'd love to see a super villian create their usual intricate schemes, only to have them fall apart as their luck negates the need for their machinations. It may not necessarily even advance their short term goals, but should move them closer to their long term plan.

An underused DC power is welding dead dogs to people's faces

 lord_blackfang wrote:
An underused DC power is welding dead dogs to people's faces

Don't forget the power of defenestration too!

Defenstration sucks. 31 years on, and I still don’t have full feeling in my left hand. Which being left handed can be challenging.