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Aquaman’s best-known power is talking to fish. He doesn’t really talk to them, though. Rather, he communicates with them — and also controls them — using telepathy. Because he’s half Atlantean, belonging to a race of undersea humanoids who evolved amphibious abilities when the ancient kingdom of Atlantis sank into the ocean, he also has super strength, super swimming skills and the ability to breathe underwater. Thanks to his magic trident, he can even manipulate water and control the weather.

Green Lantern belongs to an intergalactic crime fighting force known as the Green Lantern Corps, created by the Guardians of the Universe, immortal beings who live on the planet Oa at the center of the universe. The Corps endows each of its members with a green power ring that gives them superpowers to fly, translate all known languages and create “energy constructs” — manifestations of virtually any object they can imagine that are made of hard green light.

Gotham City’s most infamous cat burglar and jewel thief, Selena Kyle, made her debut as Catwoman in 1940 in the first issue of Batman. Although she was originally conceived as a villainess, over the decades she evolved to be a more complex and ambiguous character who is sometimes good and sometimes bad — whichever serves her self-interest at any given moment.

In the comic book stories, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen and Wally West have carried the mantle of the Flash. Though they all wear a red shirt with a lightning bolt on it, the latter two are the only ones to have worn the iconic Flash uniform that includes a small lightning bolt inside a white circle on the chest. For them, it’s a literal as well as figurative expression of their powers, which they acquire when lightning strikes a laboratory and douses them with chemicals.

Booster Gold is a self-absorbed hero from the future. When he joins Justice League International — a satirical corporate take on DC’s Justice League — he forms an iconic friendship with wisecracking inventor-turned-hero Blue Beetle. (Not Jaime Reyes, who is the star of DC’s 2023 Blue Beetle movie, but rather Ted Kord, an earlier incarnation of the character.) Known more for their antics than their abilities, they join Batman and Robin as one of the most iconic pairs in the DC Universe.