This is the big one for me. Before One Piece, the power of Elasticity was a joke. It be used more for restraint or like sneaking under a door or reaching something far away. But with One Piece, we see just how crazy powerful complete mastery over elasticity can be.
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Top 10 Superpowers Made Cooler By Manga or Anime
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Replication (Naruto)
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This is another one made cooler through anime. Often a villian's power, a lot of times it's just an illusion or just a strength in numbers type of thing where they just kind of pile on an opponent or used to trick someone to going after the fake. Anime and manga tend to make the matters more tense with this power or in Naruto change rules all toget
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Transformations
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Enhanced Strength
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While super strength has always been cool in general and easy to imagine. Back in the days you have to admit it wasn't done very visual and often times unrealistically. Anime and manga would be one of the first to visual convey real world physics in their displays of strength like gripping metal or how the ground gets torn up by the force or buckl
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Enhanced Speed
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Another power that was easy to understand but again, when you see it done, it was always kind of boring. Often times the speed was use to disarm bad guys or tie them up. Even they way they looked when running didn't really leave and impression of being super fast. But in anime and manga, you really felt how power and killer super speed could be. In
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Phasing
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Another power that seemed pretty harmless in early US comics and cartoons. Characters just kind of float there or seemed they couldn't touch anyone else in return. Anime took a more realistic and darker approach with this power. Not only did they show off the speed and real mobility in shows like Read or Die, but with full mastery of the skill also
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Energy Projection
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Pretty much the hallmark of Japanese abilities. Back in the days, things like fire, lightning, heat vison etc. They were often reserved for inanimate objects. Metal a beam here. Power a motor there. Or when they were used on people, they either be used on people like Superman and someone with shield, harmlessly being blocked. But anime and manga sh
