Superhero Powers YOU Don't understand

We all wish we had a superpower

Well, other than being able to wake up five minutes before our alarm goes off and then panic sleep for another four and a half minutes before getting up for the day

Today, we're counting down the top ten famous superpowers that don't work the way you think they do

As voted on by you, the viewer. Welcome to Total Nerd Ranked, the show where we rank dirty stuff

Number ten, Green Lantern. We all know Green Lantern. He has a ring that shoots green lasers out of it, right

and he has the ability to make shapes with his mind. Yes, we know all of you are screaming at your phones

it's willpower, they make shapes out of their willpower, which is technically true, but not the whole story

All of the various multicolored lantern cores use the emotional electromagnetic spectrum to power their rings

Yellow lanterns thrive off fear, red lanterns are powered by rage, and orange lanterns are powered by greed, so on and so forth

Number 9. Thor. Thor is the Norse god of thunder. He's also one of the most powerful Avengers

His powers include super strength, lightning strikes, and flight, sort of. Thor doesn't actually fly

He just throws Mjolnir, his magical hammer, and hangs on for dear life

And when I spun it really, really fast, it gave me the ability to fly. Fingers crossed he's got a good chiropractor because, let's face it

landing after flying through the air attached to a 50 mythical hammer has got to do a number on your spine Number eight the Flash The Flash superpower works like this

He's a dude who runs real fast, right? Wrong. Wally West, because he's the one true Flash

is the living conduit to a cosmic force of energy called the Speed Force

Take that, Quicksilver, Speed, Speed Demon, and all those other my powers that I can run fast dudes

You're all second fiddle to the one true Speedster King, the Flash, baby, the Flash

Seven, Iceman. Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman, has had a long career as one of the fan-favorite X-Men

You probably remember him as the guy who wasn't Firestar or Spider-Man

in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, but the reality is he's the guy who can turn into ice

How does this work? He alters his molecular motion, thus lowering the temperature of all things around him and creating ice

Number six, Deadpool. Deadpool is the merc with a mouth. He's a lovable, fast-talking hero for hire

He's someone who, despite having the inclinations to do good, is more often than not distracted by chimichangas

and a seemingly endless assault of, well, basically everyone in the Marvel Universe

Deadpool is known for many things. Wisecracking, his red and black suit

and his mutant healing factor. How does that work? Well, within your body, you have cells

that are constantly dying and replenishing Deadpool cells are only ever rebirthing Take Wolverine but make it dude bro or rather more dude bro Number five Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch is

doing something with her hands. She's always waving them around, doing magic-y stuff, right

But what is she actually doing? She's conjuring up probability fields. You see, she's a mutant

whose ability is to warp reality through chaos magic. So, you know, if she wants to reshape the universe, she can

And she has. Looking at you, House of M. Fingers crossed we get to see this in a movie one day

Number four, the Hulk. The Hulk is a big green meanie. He's a former scientist who got caught in a blast of radiation

and it had an unexpected side effect of whenever he gets mad, he turns into a giant green golem

In fact, the Hulk doesn't transform because he gets angry. He transforms because of adrenaline

You see, one of the byproducts of rage is adrenaline. And that, in concert with gamma radiation, gives him his size and strength

Number three, Spider-Man. Spider-Man. No, his powers don't work the way the movies showed them

He doesn't have little tiny hairs growing out of his fingertips. Instead, he has a way more scientific and way more complex superpower explanation

Electrostatic force. It alters the level of attraction between molecular boundary layers You see the electrons would normally repel one another Spidey powers have the reverse effect meaning his skin can attract surfaces Think of each of his fingertips as a tiny magnet

you know, but make it scrawny and extra-legal vigilante. Number two, Aquaman

It's an age-old joke, one everyone's made a few times, even me

Aquaman's powers and abilities ostensibly tally up to he can talk to fish

This isn't quite accurate, though, despite being a solid go-to punchline. In actuality, Arthur Curry is telepathically connected to the ocean

meaning the whole of it. And he doesn't just quite talk to fish

He telepathically can command any aspect of it. In fact, he can even do this

Number one, Cyclops. And here we are, the granddaddy of characters who people don't actually understand how their powers work

old Slim himself, Cyclops, who was thrown out of a plane as a kid

and suffered a head injury, so he can barely control his abilities. This is juxtaposed against his stern, straight-laced nature

and the fact that he shoots lasers out of his eyes. Right? Wrong

Scott Summers, a.k.a. the once-and-future leader of the X-Men, projects beams of concussive force out of his eyes

He's not shooting lasers. It's like he's punching you with beams from a flashlight

So in all the movies, when stuff is on fire and he's shooting eye beams everywhere, that's wrong

it's not how his powers are supposed to work