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to: navigation, search The cover of World's Finest #142,
featuring the Composite Superman, a character with over 20
different powers, in action. Art by Curt Swan.  Superpower is a
popular culture term for a fictional superhuman ability. When a
character possesses multiple such abilities, the terms super
powers or simply powers are used. It is most frequently used in
pulp magazines, comic books, science fiction, television shows
and film as the key attribute of a superhero.  The concept
originated in pulp magazines and comic books of the 1930s and
40s, and has gradually worked its way into other genres and
media.   There is no rigid definition of a "superpower". In
popular culture, it may be used to describe anything from
minimal exaggeration of normal human traits, magic, to near-
godlike abilities including flight, superstrength, projection of
destructive energy beams and force fields, invulnerability,
telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, supe