Powers and Abilities
Damage can generate a power charge that enhances his strength, durability, speed, and reflexes to superhuman levels. If he doesn't use the energy in the aforementioned manner he is forced to expend it in a discharge, most notably the time he started another Big Bang during Zero Hour (although he only gained the energy necessary to do this thanks to other heroes such as Green Lantern, the Ray and Waverider absorbing and converting Parallax's energy into something that he could then process). The aged Damage in Young Justice: Sins of Youth had the ability to fly. While the current Damage cannot harness this ability yet, he can "leap" by firing his energy at the ground, sometimes traveling great distances, as shown most recently in Justice Society of America #8. At one point in his ongoing series it is implied that he potentially possesses all of the powers of the heroes whose DNA he shares. Towards the end of his ongoing series a middle aged man in unusual clothes is shown several times quietly observing Grant. Although the series was canceled before this plotline could be addressed it is strongly implied that this man was a future version of Grant and he is shown possessing powers, including flight, which the current version of Damage does not.
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