I just figured I'd make a topic for all those strange powerups and new abilities characters seem to possess for a little while then are never mentioned again.
Like remember Toad's ability to control frogs, or his strange breath powers, or how he could make a strange glue like ooze come from his hands?
Oh, and Magneto use to be able to astrally project himself, and he could control people though mesmerizing because he had a magnetic personality!... he also apparently opened a black hole once and used it to teleport.
On on the topic of teleportation, whatever happened to Psylocke's ability to teleport through the shadows?
Or the fact that Nightcrawler literally became invisible in the shadows.
I also seem to recall gambit has a hypnotic charm ability that made people automatically trust him, but I can't recall the last time they really used that for anything.
Juggernaut is another one that people have introduced a lot of other abilities to but he keeps going back to just being a strong guy that punches things. Most of the time people don't even remember the force-field, let alone that he can use the force-field to rapid fire projectiles and that he's shown the ability to fly before. There was also one time he fired an energy beam that shrunk Nightmare, but I'm not sure what that was about.
And I'm pretty sure at one point, Jubilee was described as being naturally resistant to telepaths.
So, any other weird powerups and lost abilities you can think of?