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Introduction
Nitro is.....around, pretty much. He's (partly) responsible for killing Captain Mar-Vell due to long-term cancer and started one of the biggest events in Marvel history, but if you were to sit the average fan down and ask them about anything he's actually done, they would probably not even know where to start. This is NOT going to help that at all, but it does provide feats so you can't really complain.
Durability
Takes a beating and energy blast from Penance (Penance- Relentless #6)
Scan 1/2/3/- Brawls with Legacy Genis-Vell, staying mostly on par with his offence (Cosmic Powers #4)
Scan 1/2/3- Slaps up Omega in their first encounter, with them being more even in the second (Omega the Unknown #8)
Scan 1/2- Tanks multiple shots by Mar-Vell, with him admitting that Nitro is far too much for him to put him down (Captain Marvel #34)
Explosions
Scan 1/2/3/4- Nitro's main powers are that he can explode....then rebuild himself molecularly right afterwards. This allows him to essentially keep repeating that process until whatever is in front of him is KO'd or dead, as seen here he does the former to Mar-Vell in their first encounter. (Captain Marvel #34)
Scan 5- Mar-Vell states that had he been a fraction of a second later, he could be dead
Scan 6- Nitro's main weakness is that anything that can obscure or somehow stop him from rebuilding his form from the mist made from the explosion causes him to essentially be defeated, as seen here when he gets trapped in a air-tight container. (Captain Marvel #54)
Scan 1/2/3- Almost kills Spidey from a indirect blast, as well as using his powers to destroy a massive amount of webbing at once (The Spectacular Spider-Man #55)
1/2- Arath (his thing is that he can absorb powers) with Nitro's borrowed power destroys a entire small town (Sub-Mariner #1)
Scan 1/2- Arath with Nitro's powers is able to stun a dehydrated Namor (he does this with a sub-power that we'll cover shortly) (Sub-Mariner #5)
Being exposed to real nitro doesn't dissipate his body (The Spectacular Spider-Man #55)
Scan 1/2- Causes a massive blast to kill dozens of people and hurl cars all over the place (Daredevil #26)
Scan 1/2- Causes Skids to fall unconscious after blocking one (New Mutants #46)
Scan 1/2- Could've killed weakened Hercules had they kept fighting as admitted and shown on panel (Heroes for Hire #2)
Creates a isolated beam that kills the Punisher before time is changed (Cage #4)
Kills a bunch of guards (Captain Marvel #34)
Scan 1/2- Knocks Iron Man around, with Tony ultimately exploiting his explosions by forcing him to blow up over and over (Iron Man #15)
Scan 1/2- Lands a huge one in New York, which appears to at least stun the likes of Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, etc (Secret Empire #0)
Scan 1/2- Sends Legacy Genis-Vell flying (Cosmic Powers #4)
Scan 1/2- Sends Luke Cage flying and forces a building to collapse. Later on they brawl evenly, with Cage having to rely on cheap shots and even then needing Punisher to shock him from the back to knock him out (Cage #4)
Sends Nightmask flying (Starbrand & Nightmask #2)
Scan 1/2/3- Sends Penance flying with multiple explosions, but can't crack the guy (Penance- Relentless #6)
Limb Exploding
Does so to nearly knock out Mar-Vell while in a scrap: essentially it is a smaller explosion but more concentrated to just his fists in this instance (Captain Marvel #54)
Causes a external object to explode (Iron Man #15)
Scan 1/2- Creates a small explosion to avoid getting shot (Cage #2)
Explodes his fist to stun Omega (Omega the Unknown #8)
Uses it to climb a wall (The Spectacular Spider-Man #55)
Scan 1/2- Overwhelms Iron Fist and one shots him despite his hand being damaged from the exchange (Heroes for Hire #3)
MGH
Scan 1/2- Blows up a massive chunk of Stanford (Civil War #1)
Scan 3- Is confirmed to have killed over 600 people in the blast (Wolverine #43)
Scan 1/2/3/- Rips Wolverine to a skeleton alongside a squad of fodder, a helicopter and a forest, though he gets gutted by Logan after gloating too long. It should be noted that this is dubbed "MGH" as that's short for Mutant Growth Hormone, which is what he was using to enhance his powers. (Wolverine #43)
Statements
Hits with the maximum force of 250 pounds of TNT (Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #9)
Could be one of the most dangerous beings on Earth if he wasn't crazy (New Avengers- Most Wanted Files)
Has become more inconsistent due to either age or prolonged chemical exposure, though this seems to be trying to retcon the MGH stuff as him needing it to keep up his usual rate of powers rather than a amp to his base form, so take it with a pinch of salt. (All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Update #1)
Strength
Knocks around some regular people. Obviously there are more feats like this, but pretty much all of his other relevant showings have already been seen in the Durability section and the like. (Captain Marvel #34)
Conclusion
Nitro is weirdly inconsistent, but seems to stay within the mid tier section despite jobbing and high-ends. His power-set is unique and he's a bit of a nightmare for more conventional characters who can't get around his consistent spamming of explosions.
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