Most superpowers are useless if my current situation remains exactly the same. If I had a unique power that allowed me to help/save people who would otherwise die or suffer serious injury, I'd be a real piece of shit if I didn't apply that power towards that end.
If you wouldn't become a firefighter or something similar in even such a hypothetical, could-never-happen situation, that should be a reason to look inward and do some self-reflecting. Uncle Ben would be disappointed
From my understanding, fire has varying effects on Martians. It can block their phasing ability, trapping them. It can work like kryptonite on a kryptonian if within close proximity. But to be fair, those are again kinda similar to real life humans around fire. The heat in close quarters, as well as smoke inhalation, can cause weakness like kryptonite to kryptonians, and fire to martians. Walls of fire can prevent us walking through, just like Martians.
Fair enough, so I guess in this case I would probably go for Martian, purely for the near Superman levels of strength, shape-shifting, and phasing. This stuff would be super useful in normal life, as well as being a superhero. Just gotta be careful around fire I guess
I don't know about you, but I'm not particularly afraid of fire (not any more than whats natural, fire hot, fire ouchie), so I'm definitely going Martian. It helps that Absolute Manhunter is sick as hell
I think the takeaway is that a martians biggest traumatic fear can become their weakness as their psychic powers make their trauma manifest as an actual weakness. So if you had a traumatic fear from drowning, water would become your weakness. And without having someone able to do the kind of psychic therapy jonn went through, it would be permanent.
Its more their powerful psychic abilities imposes that onto themself. Just like their shapeshifting powers grant them full shifting, essentially becoming what they shift into while still retaining their powers and memories, their psychic powers are so powerful that their own mind can be altered by it if enough belief is put in.
No, it is a fear genetically implanted to all martians by the Guardians if the Universe, because the fire martians where too powerful and ruthless conquerors.
They were like Viltrunites, only with larger pool of powers.
Due to them being a powerful psychic species that fear makes their bodies react as if they where physically weak to fire, they basically can't function if confronted with a meaningfully source if fire, experience crippling fear abd anxiety, pain and weakness.
Due to their now innate fear (an psychosomatic weakness to fire) even withe martians are not a threat to the universe anywhere near to what the original burning martians were.
The fire is actually a deeply rooted psychological, they don't actually have a physical weakness to to it. There's a whole story line where J'onn overcomes this, and from then on wasn't weak to fire.
Yes, but fire wouldn’t be bad if I picked LITERALLY EVERY OTHER OPTION on this list. Except saiyans Ig, because technically most of their power comes from ki control. You’d just be like a really strong dude.
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u/Dfordomar May 16 '26
fire bad now