Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Eli's creators, for all that I love their creations, were not-great at describing said MGH-fueled powers. *Supposedly,* his powers from MGH were not the same as those he got later from his grandfather's super-soldier-serum-enhanced blood, but since we literally know nothing other than he had enhanced hearing once, because he said so, and that he didn't have super-strength at another point, because he was criticizing Hulkling for not being able to bust down a door, it's a great mystery.
Along with whether or not Hulkling has any powers from Mar-Vell's side of the family, or why Billy has changed from someone who can fly and shoot lightning to a spellcaster to a reality manipulator, or what the hell Jonas could do with a body made out of a future-tech suit of Iron Man armor... (In theory, it would start with flying and shooting repulsor rays, but the hot second the Iron Lad armor turned into a Vision-body, it stopped shooting repulsor rays and started phasing through walls, as if the writers didn't remember that Jonas wasn't actually in the Vision's body...).
I love the characters, I really do, but, gosh, the writers didn't seem to have the first idea what they could do, in a story bible sort of sense, and it doesn't terribly surprise me that other writers aren't chomping at the bit to use them, given how fuzzily defined they are (except of course Kate, who has no powers, and, perhaps not coincidentally, gets more post-Young Avengers follow up appearances...).
I often wish there was still some sort of 'Handbook to the Marvel Universe' going on, or that the writers of the comics played some sort of superhero RPGs like Mutants & Masterminds, or MMOs like City of Heroes, so that they would consider, at least briefly, the characters on a mechanical level. Figure out what can they do. Figure out what *can't* they do. You don't have to tell *me,* the reader, any of that, but it should be available for other writers, so that they can write these characters consistently.