Sometime last year, I was watching a person play a super hero arcade fighting game in the comic book shop I frequent. Each hero had a number of different moves, which essentially translated into different ways of using several powers or abilities. This game mechanic had parallels that I could see in comic books. Heroes don't have tons of different powers; they tend to have a few important powers, but they use these in diverse ways. What separates a novice hero from a more experienced one was not the number of his powers, but rather the way in which the hero would use his original powers.