Always thought Buddy had an absolutely insane amount of potential. I mean, the sheer variety of powers... But in my opinion we've only seen a bit of this, and like some other characters (The Silver Surfer) even reading just about everything they've ever starred in won't help you much.
Before we begin this, lets take into consideration his powers are scaled to his size. He can use the sonic blasts of a Pistol Shrimp, but it'll be powerful enough to knock out a room of tough men. Ants can dart around quickly, moving so and so many lengths of their body in a second. For Buddy, that translates to about 70 miles an hour. And the ever famous rhinoceros beetle can hold 850 times it's own weight on it's back... Which translates to a normal human being holding and walking around with 76 family sized cars on his back. And, taking on the durability and damage resistance of a cockroach he's taken multiple attacks from an all out absolutely insane Superman.
Also, he can make copies of himself like bacteria.
•Copying jellyfish could give him a venomous touch;
•Copying sponges could let him reform after being torn to bits;
•Copying octopi could let him get pounded flat and recover, or squeeze himself through tiny holes;
•Copying fireflies/squid could grant him light emission powers;
•Copying sharks/rays/platypuses/eels/whatever could grant him generation and perception of electrical fields;
•Copying dolphins or pigeons could grant him perception of magnetic fields;
•Copying bees and pit vipers could grant him IR and UV vision;
•Copying Pompeii worms (the ones around underwater volcanoes) could grant him resistance to heat;
•Copying antarctic cod or certain crickets could grant him resistance to subfreezing cold;
•Copying tardigrades could let him go dormant and survive heat, cold, radiation, dehydration, asphyxiation, for hundreds of years;
•Copying Japanese honeybees could let him increase his body temperature at will;
•Copying painted turtles could grant him immortality (in the not aging sense);
•Copying a dog or wolf could grant him Batgirl-like movement-reading abilities;
•Copying a pinyon jay could grant him superhuman spatial memory;
•Copying a dolphin could grant him superhuman auditory memory and superfast sound-analysis abilities;
•Copying a sperm whale could let him project focused sonic beams;
•Copying spitting cobras or bombardier beetles or cone shells could lead to--well, I'm not exactly sure what, since he doesn't usually change physically when he copies an animal, but somehow he'd be kicking peoples' asses from a distance. Although in a fairly gross fashion.
His only limit is he needs to conceptualize them for it to work.
For instance, he can have the strength of an elephant--or the proportionate strength of an ant. And either way he gets super-strength. So if he just copies, say, the strength-to-tenth-power-of-body-mass ratio of an ant, boom--he's as strong as Superman. Ditto for speed. He could copy the proportionate strike speed of a mantis shrimp and throw punches at hundreds of mph...or he could copy the proportionate strike acceleration and throw punches at tens of thousands of mph. It's all in the description of the attribute.
cockroach's survival ability is being confused for its durability
cockroaches are famed because they've survived so many millions of years, this is mostly due to their fast reproduction rates and the fact that they eat almost anything, and not because they are especially resistant to harm
A flea's penis is roughly 2/3rds the length of its body.
That would have to be useful......
or Rhizocephalans! (Shell-less barnacles which parasitize crabs) The power to change targets' sex at will!
Remember, he doesn't need to be in proximity of the animal to use it.
When he's consciously tuned into the "planetary morphic field," or the "template," or the "Red," or whatever plot is fueling his powers today, he simply reaches in and selects whatever animal he needs.
The guy is nearly God-like.
When he and Superman fought the first time, he used the cockroaches durability to take Superman's punches.
No i think what he means is combining something like a elephants base Strength multiplied by the rhino beetles abilities THEN multiplied by an ants....or something along those lines
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Last edited by grey fox on Aug 10th, 2005 at 08:32 AM
What he means actually is even though the beetle's ability to lift 850 times is multiplied by his size. Meaning that 850 times becomes more because it it is times the fact his body 200 times bigger.
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