The Thing's intelligence seems to have been completely unaffected by his transformation. He has had a great deal of experience at hand-to-hand combat.

When aflame, the Human Torch is enveloped by a low-intensity flame (reddish, approximately 780 degrees Fahrenheit), which ranges from 1 to 5 inches from his body. The energy used to support this low-level plasma is small; only when the Human Torch wills his flame to a higher level does the majority of surplus energy within the AR-HP complex become involved. In its plasma state, the Torch body is no longer solid; projectiles that are not melted pass harmlessly through his body.

The Human Torch can generate shapes composed of fire from any point on his body (he usually employs his hands to "sculpt" the flames). He can form fire into long streams, spheres, or even more complex shapes like sky-writing. These flame-objects will only retain their shape as long as he concentrates upon them. The objects will only burn for about three minutes before expiring unless the Torch continues to infuse it with energy. The temperature of these fiery projections is generally around 2,800 degrees (near the melting point of iron).

The Human Torch's plasma has a high hydrogen content, and is surrounded by an exuded cloud of mono-atomic hydrogen atoms. This hot cloud provides sufficient positive buoyancy for him to float. With mental stimulation of his flame, he can provide enough lift to carry around 180 pounds. By forming a jet from his feet, directed behind him, he can achieve speeds of up to 140 miles per hour.

The Human Torch is able to release all of his body's stored energy in one intense, omni-directional "nova-burst" (about 1,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is similar to the heat-pule of a nuclear warhead detonation, with an area of total devastation of about 900 feet in diameter. This violent discharge uses his entire reserve of energy at once, and causes him to immediately revert to his solid state afterwards. He generally requires at least twelve hours to recover from this energy-exhausting feat.

At an average rate of expenditure of energy, the Torch can maintain his plasma state for about 16.8 hours before he is forced to revert to his solid state. The Human Torch's physical condition (health, injury or exhaustion) also limits his flame's duration.

The Human Torch has the ability to mentally control the ambient heat energy within his immediate environment even when not in his plasma state. He can reduce objects temperatures to about thirty degrees Fahrenheit, raise them to several hundred degrees, or extinguish open flames. His radius of influence is about 80 feet. The heat-energy he takes from the environment is absorbed into his own body and if he takes in a critical amount he will uncontrollably phase-change into his plasma state.

The Human Torch's flame is supported by the presence of oxygen, and thus is extinguisjed in low air-pressure or vacuum. The Torch's flame can be inundated with smothering materials, such as water, sand, fire-fighting foam, and heat-resistant blankets. If hit with small amounts of water, up to about five gallons, the Torch can sublimate it to steam. More water than that would extinguish his flame, and he would have to wait until he could evaporate the residual moisture before re-ignition. The Torch's light output is mostly in the infra-red and far infra-red region of the spectrum and is invisible to the unaided eye. Less than 10% of the total power output is in the visible portion of the spectrum. Thus the torch is dimmer than one would expect of so powerful an energy source.

The Human Torch is unaffected by heat and flames including his own, even when part of him is plasma and the rest is not. His flesh cannot be scalded or burner by any heat source whose level is below that of his maximum output.

The Blob's body has several unusual properties in itself. The first is that it's overall invulnerability. The fast-tissues that comprise the Blob's epidermis are able to absorb the impact of rifle bullets, cannonballs, bazooka shells and even torpedoes.

The larger of the projectiles recoil from his body at one half the force of impact. The smaller ones imbed themselves in his layers of fat-tissue, enabling him to eject them by merely flexing his muscles. The Blob's nerve endings do not relay any tactile perceptions which are near the threshold of pain to his brain. The fat-tissue of his epidermis is resilient enough to revert to its normal shape within seconds after deformation caused by impact. It is virtually impervious to physical injury. The Blob's skin accnot be punctured, lacerated, burned, frost-bitten or ravaged by any skin disease, due in part to the skin's great elacticity and toughness and in part to the highley accelerated rate at which skin cells grow and replace themselves. It is not yet known if there is an upper limit to the Blob's ability to absorb impact. While he could easily survive a head-on collision with a bus travelling at a hundred miles an hour, and even a highly ferrous meteorite fifty feet in diameter falling on top of him at terminal velocity, it is not known whether he could survive a collision with an object travelling at near-light speeds.

Further, it is not known whether his skin's imperviousness to heat could survive the 11,000,000 degree heat at ground zero of a multimegaton atomic blast. Although the Blob's skin is virtually invulnerable, his eyes, nose, mouth and ears are probably not.

Among his many accomplishments include the independent development of the first practical time machine (capable of sending up to a ton of matter forward, backward, and sideways through time), and the development of the molecular-level shrinking device (utilising the Pym particle which he independently discovered). His experiments in bionics have produced such cybords as Darkoth (the "Death Demon") and the Dreadknight. He has not yet explored the potential of his maternal heritage, the arts of magic.

Doctor Doom's armour is able to generate an invisible, kinetic energy/dimensional-shunt force field capable of withstanding porjectiles of any man-made kind, temperatures from 1,400,000+ degres Fahrenheit (which exists only in the heart of a nuclear weapon detonation) to -410 degrees Fahrenheit. (50 degrees above "absolute zero", the theoretical point at which molecules almost come to rest), and all frequencies of raidation within the electromagnetic spectrum. The only form of energy that might penetrate the field is psionic. The force field is not able to totally shunt inertia into a "waste" dimension, and therefore renders von Doom affected by a maximum of about 5% of any impact to the field. The residual energies of falling several building storeys, or being hit by a vehicle at 60 miles per hour is still considerable, and injury is still a possibility. (A nuclear weapon would send Doctor Doom flying at an unpredictable speed). The force field, which can be activated cybernetically by mental command, extends approximately five feet from all points of his armour, and can be extended to a maximum of 8 feet in radius at slightly reduced effectiveness. Because the force field is invisible, visible light can penetrate it. The force field can generate a quarter-wave-out-of-phase counterpart to itself which can refract the visible spectrum into the 'waste' dimension, rendering it harmless.

The Ringmaster has been trained since childhood in various athletic skills required of circus performers, such as acrobatics, although he is by no means a master of any of these skills. He has only a rudimentary knowledge of hand-to-hand combat.

Usually the Ringmaster uses the hat device to cast his victims into a hypnotic trance. In a deep trance the victims are physically paralysed and are unaware of what is happening. When they awake from the trance they have no memory of what happened to them. In a medium trance the victims are unable to act independently of the Ringmaster's commands; their reaction time is slowed and they cannot think creatively. In order to ensure complete control over a victim, the Ringmaster must put him or her in a trance. The Ringmaster can will the trance to last for a certain period of time, as measured by the victim's own subsconscious sense of time, or he can induce a trance that will last indefinitely until the victim is awakened by an external force, such as another person or a loud noise.

The Ringmaster can also use his hypnotic device to affect people's minds while allowing them to retain their independent wills. For example he can hypnotically create illusions, causing people to see and hear something that is not happening. In escaping the police he has hypnotically induced them to miss him every time that they fire their guns towards him. The Ringmaster usually gives specific commands to his victims verbally, but he can also project them mentally through the hat device without saying them aloud. He almost never verbally commands a victim to become entranced but instead transmits the command mentally.

The hat is also equipped with projectors that transmit bright lights through a spinning disc mounted on the front of the hat. The projectors cause everyone, in the vast auditorium, who is looking in the Ringmaster's direction to see a nearly blinding, everchanging pattern of light in the shapes of spinning, spiralling circles.

The Ringmaster activates the disc and light projectors by mental commands picked up by the hypnotic device. The lights do not themselves hypnotise the victims, but they do daze and disorient potential victims, using making them feel too dizzy to resist the mind-control mechanism's power. The stars on the Ringmaster's costume are made of a highly reflective material which increases the light's effect on spectators. People with sufficiently strong wills can resist the Ringmaster's power if they do not watch the lights.

Travelling along with Ringmaster in his circus of crime are the following nefarious characters:

Cannonball
(Jack Pulver) American acrobat who specialises in being shot out of a cannon

The Clown
(Eliot "Crafty" Franklin) An American who uses a number of gimmicks such as a trick can, unicycle and jugglers balls.

Fire Eater
(Timas Ramirez) Spaniard who swallows frames and exhales them through his mouth without injury.

The Great Gambonnos
(Ernesto Gambonno, Luigi Gambonno) Italian acroboats and aerialists.

Live Wire
(Rance Preston) American who does fancy rope tricks with an electrified lariat.

Princess Python
(Zelda DuBois) French woman who performs with a twenty five foot boa constrictor.