The Spy X Family Anime Answers An MCU Powers Question

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Spy x Family.

Telepathy is a superpower that’s very easy to make overpowered, but the Spy x Family anime shows that it is possible to work around that issue - showing how the MCU can introduce characters with similar and more conventionally strong powers without these figures being too powerful. With how lighthearted the series is, Spy x Family often doesn’t take the superpower element as seriously as an actual superhero story does. Even so, what it does do with it, specifically Anya’s telepathy, manages to balance things out far more smoothly than other superhero stories manage to do.

In stories involving superpowers of any sort, one ability that’s often depicted as being overpowered is telepathy and other powers that relate to manipulating a person’s mind. The Scarlet Witch and Druig, for example, are portrayed as two of the most dangerous characters in the MCU because their ability to read and control people’s minds has few visible limitations and can be done with relative ease. Outside of the MCU, there are also characters like Professor Xavier of the X-Men, whose mental powers are so great that the only reliable way for someone to defend themself is with the helmets Magneto and Juggernaut wear, Maximillion Pegasus from Yu-Gi-Oh!, who was able to use his Millennium Eye to read people’s minds and win nearly every duel, and Enel and Katakuri from the One Piece anime, who have Observation Haki powerful enough to completely avoid enemy attacks. More often than not, the only way to defeat someone with psychic powers is to either also have psychic powers or simply be strongwilled, but those powers are often in short supply, and since the psychic has to keep winning until they fight the hero