A small part of me cried when I read that.

And remember: Brand New Day didn’t erase the changes made during the JMS run. It’s just that no one remembers the changes. The quasi-magical origin still stands.

Although now that I know about Super-Sticky, I might have to revise my opinion.

Some new powers are just plain silly, while others would’ve worked had they been introduced early enough in a character’s history. Being able to talk to birds (for example) would be a very handy power, and would justify the odd code name in Black Canary’s case … although getting them to help her fly is a little iffy. Still, I suppose if I could talk to birds, I’d ask them to fly me around once in a while. (At least, I’d ask Gandalf’s giant eagle friends.)

Talking about Ms. Frost and Canary brings a flip-side list to mind, Brian: Top Five Coolest Secondary Mutations/Powers. I’d put Emma on that list, and Canary too — her scream didn’t come along till, what? The ’70s? (Late ’60s?) She’d been around for 20 years by then. But it works. (Of course, now they get away with the separation by saying they’re two different characters, mom and daughter, but pre-Crisis, she was supposed to be the same B.C.)

What other character had a cool additional power grafted/bestowed upon them? Hmm. I liked Aquaman’s hook/harpoon hand, but I”m not sure if that counts.

I’m pretty sure invisible Girl/Woman’s force field’s came later, right? In order to beef up Sue’s powers. (I’m not enough of an FF guy to know for sure.) And I also don’t think Poison Ivy had the ability to control plant life in her original appearances, but again, I don’t know for sure.

His glasses, made from pieces of his baby rocket, constantly emitted a low-level hypnosis that made people just see him as a (kind of pathetic) normal guy rather than as, well, Superman in glasses.

you are correct sir

(Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed, I love you!)

Then there was Bishop in X-Treme X-Men who all of a sudden developed the power to be able to tell where he was. Yes, that random. They X-Men got teleported somewhere. They all said, “Where are we?” And Bishop says ,” I have the ability to figure out where I am. It is one of my powers.” Gotta love the whole secondary mutation phase of the X-Men.

If Superman could do that, why is his primary disguise a pair of glasses?

Exactly. Which is why i think it deserves a place on this list: it’s so silly that it actually undermines the premise of the character’s secret identity!

I think its been said that that is exactly why he did it.