JUBILEE

When the Scarlet Witch whispered "No more mutants" on M-Day (House of M, 2005), Jubilee was one of the highest-profile mutants to lose her powers. No more fireworks. No more X-Men — she couldn't even stay at the Institute. She ran a halfway house for depowered mutants in Queens, got badly hurt in an Omega Red attack, and hit rock bottom. Then Night Thrasher came calling — and Jubilee came back as Wondra.

The new New Warriors (vol. 4, 2007) were a team of depowered mutants fighting the post–Civil War registration regime — and they fought with stolen tech. Night Thrasher outfitted the team with gear looted from the condemned Avengers Mansion, including reverse-engineered versions of the Wizard's Wonder Gloves. Jubilee's suit gave her superhuman strength — enough to lift a freight-train engine over her head — plus a force field, flight via hover discs, and a "ghost mode" that turned her intangible. She became the team's second-in-command and drill instructor.

The kicker: Wondra's tech powerset was arguably better than her mutant one — strength, flight, force fields, intangibility, all without the vampire curse or the fireworks' limits. She led the Warriors through battles with Grey Gargoyle, Anaconda, and Rhino, and held the team together when Night Thrasher's secrets nearly tore it apart. Her mutant powers would eventually return years later — but for a while, the girl who lost everything built herself a better arsenal out of spare parts.