20 Interesting Real-Life Superheroes with Incredible Abilities

Garry Turner, Stretchy Skin

There’s a wide array of elastic superheroes – Plastic Man, Mr. Fantastic, the Elongated Man – capable of transforming their rubbery bodies into any number of shapes. The real-world equivalent of this is Ehlers-Danos Syndrome, a genetic condition that causes bones, cartilage and skin to grow uncontrollably throughout your life. Because his skin doesn’t contain the right amount of collagen, Turner can stretch and manipulate it in a number of extremely unsettling ways. It’s also capable of being molded into other shapes like Silly Putty. The one bad thing? If you stretch it too far, it could just tear right off. Yikes.