Powers
- Hypnotic eyes that can defeat opponents by staring
- Famous throughout history and able to depend on the help of others
- By talking to animals, able to gather information and use animal's abilities
- Powerful lollipops (particularly hard-to-get cinnamon) provide superhuman strength and other special abilities
- Punching, often very rapidly
- Time travel (using a special lollipop and a grandfather clock)
- Indestructibility — Herbie is often unaware he is even being attacked (at times muttering "Something...?")
- Fly, but doing so by walking upright. In addition to being able to walk on air, he can walk underwater. Herbie can also fly underground and often breaks through walls
- Invisibility — early on, Herbie could become invisible, but stopped using that power by the third Herbie issue
- Magic — visiting the Unknown, a mysterious spirit world
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Famous quotes containing the word powers:
“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
*nglorious, of his mortall sting disarm’d.
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
Pleas’d, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 13:1.