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Magic The Dark Mark as produced in film.   Harry Potter
In the fiction Harry Potter series created by J. K. Rowling, magic is depicted as a natural force that can be used to override the usual laws of nature while still being approached entirely scientifically. Many magical creatures exist in the series,...
Ron Weasley
Minerva McGonagall
Nico Minoru
George Weasley
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Flight Fliegender Vogel Quotation Subject Peter Pan
Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement either through the air (or movement beyond earth's atmosphere, in the case of spaceflight) by aerodynamic generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy. ...
Exhibition subject Karolina Dean
Superman
Aurora
Northstar
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Work Avoidance     Wally  
Skateboarding A skateboarder performing a frontside lipslide Sport Y.T.
Skateboarding is the act of both riding on and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder or a skater. Skateboarding is a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation....
Computer Game Genre
Superhuman strength   Molly Hayes
Superhuman strength, also called super strength, super-strength or enhanced strength, is an ability commonly utilized in fiction. It is the ability for any creature to be stronger than normally possible given their proportions. Characters with super...
Xavin
Superman
Spider-Man
Bender Bending Rodríguez
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Mutant   Character Species Quentin Quire
A mutant within the Marvel comic book, particularly those of the X-Men mythos, is an individual who possesses a genetic trait called an X-gene that allows them to naturally develop superhuman powers and abilities. Mutants are members of the...
Moira MacTaggert
Vulcan
Isolationist
Solar Absorption Physiology     Karolina Dean  
Shapeshifting Viktor Vasnetsov. The Frog Tsarevna. 1918   Xavin
Shapeshifting is a common theme in folklore, as well as in science fiction and fantasy. In its broadest sense, it is a change in the physical form or shape of a person or animal. Other terms include metamorphosis, morphing, transformation, or...
Gumby
Odo
Sauron
Swamp Thing
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Levitation     Darth Vader
Levitation (from Latin levare, to raise) is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position, without physical contact. It is also a conjuring trick, apparently raising a human being without any physical aid. The...
Darth Maul
Yoda
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Luke Skywalker
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Salesman     Leopold Bloom  
The Force Darth Sidious (Chancellor Palpatine) using the Force, or more specifically, the Sith technique of Force Lightning   Darth Vader
The Force is one of the main concepts in the fictional Star Wars universe, created by George Lucas. First mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, it is integral in all subsequent films in the series, as well as the Star Wars "Expanded...
Darth Maul
Yoda
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Luke Skywalker
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Fire breathing Dragons breath, where the fire breather lowers the torch and continues to feed a full sized flame.   Trogdor
Fire breathing is the act of creating a large flame by spraying, with one's breath, a flammable liquid upon an open flame. The flame is usually held an arm's length away and the spray should be both powerful and misty. This art is said to have...
Dragon
Godzilla
Read the alethiometer     Lyra Belacqua  
Telepathy Ganzfeld   River Tam
Telepathy (Greek τηλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια, patheia meaning "to be affected by",) describes the purported transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses (See Psi). The...
Darth Vader
Darth Maul
Yoda
Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Psychokinesis The medium Eva Carrière photographed in 1912 with a light appearing between her hands.   Lucy
The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche", meaning mind, soul, heart, or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis", meaning motion; literally "movement from the mind"), also known as telekinesis (Greek + , literally "distant-movement"), sometimes...
Elizabeth Dehner
Ness
Doctor Occult
Mysterio
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Imagination Hannes Bok cover for the first Imagination Magazine Sam Lowry
Imagination was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine launched in October 1950 by Raymond Palmer's Clark Publishing Company. The magazine was sold almost immediately to Greenleaf Publishing Company, owned by William Hamling, who published...
X-Ray Vision     Superman
In science fiction stories, X-ray vision has generally been portrayed as the ability to see through layers of objects at the discretion of the holder of this superpower. People often pretend to have this ability through the use of X-ray glasses,...
Meteor Man
Krypto
Metamorphmagus     Nymphadora Tonks
In the fictional universe of J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series, a metamorphmagus (meta-MORF-ma-gus) is a wizard born with the ability to change their shape at will. Only one such character has been introduced, so details about the power are...
Extra-sensory perception     Elizabeth Dehner
Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the purported ability to acquire information by paranormal means independent of any known physical sense or deduction from previous experience. The term was coined by Duke University researcher J. B. Rhine to denote...
River Tam
Jean Grey
Professor X
Life extension     Ra's al Ghul
Life extension refers to an increase in maximum or average lifespan, especially in humans, by slowing down or reversing the processes of aging. Average lifespan is determined by vulnerability to accident and age-related afflictions such as cancer or...
Gymnastics Sport Harley Quinn
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique ...
Olympic discipline
Accelerated healing     Godzilla  
Iceman
Spider-Man
Superman
Spawn
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Superhuman speed Steve Austin running   Sonic the Hedgehog
Super speed is the ability to travel (typically running) at speed much higher than the average speed for that form of travel. Super speed is generally associated with superheroes, as well as with many other fictional characters. For a list of...
Paul Atreides
Rodan
Knuckles the Echidna
Leto Atreides II
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Degree Pastor Veal
Character Gender Jim Halpert
Musical Artist
Camera Uncompressed Format
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Invisibility An example of how an object could appear to be invisible through the use of mirrors   Rodney Skinner
Invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be invisible (literally, "not visible"). The term is usually used as a fantasy/science fiction term, where objects are literally made unseeable by...
Motoko Kusanagi
Invisible Woman
Hades
Ghost
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Superhuman vision     Supreme  
Steve Austin
Regeneration Sun flower sea star regenerates its legs   Claire Bennet
In biology, an organism is said to regenerate a lost part, if a substitute for the loss grows from the rest of the organism, and the substitute is a copy or almost a copy of the old lost part. Regeneration of a lost limb occurs in two major steps,...
Alucard
Wolverine
Amazon
Alexander Anderson
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Time travel Analogy to a wormhole in a curved 2D space (see Embedding Diagram) Book Subject Hiro Nakamura
Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or...
Film subject Wally West
Mister E
Legion
The Shrike
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Freeze Time     Hiro Nakamura  
Nigh-invulnerability     The Tick