Levitation: He has been seen levitating when he was trying to further frighten Spider-Man in the episode, "Nightmare on Christmas.".However, this ability only works on magic practitioners. Power Negation: He was able to negate the mystical powers of Doctor Strange once.Illusion Casting: Nightmare is also able to make several copies of himself, though Doctor Strange can quickly disband these illusions.
Once he dug into Peter Parker's true insecurities, created a nightmare based on them, he uses the psychic energy generated from his fears to further empower himself. He also grows bigger & attains more power.
Reality Warping: In the Dream Dimension, Nightmare is far stronger than the real world, he masters over the Dream Dimension and can change & reshape it at will.Pyrokinesis: He has shot fireballs from is hands, while attacking Doctor Strange.Ergokinesis: He was also able to generate green energy blasts.He was even able to turn the entire Goblin Arena upside-down in an attempt to further frighten Spider-Man. Telekinesis: He was able to push Spider-Man onto the Goblin King's throne with just a small hand gesture.During the episode, " Nightmare on Christmas," he was able to dig into Peter Parker's true insecurities, create a nightmare based on them & use the psychic energy generated from his fears to further empower himself. Telepathy: He was able to dig into Peter's memories in order to bring out the memory of his Uncle Ben's death.Superhuman Durability: He was unaffected by Spider-Man's physical strikes, despite Spider-Man having superhuman strength.Superhuman Stamina: He has no need for sustenance for survival, though he needs the psychic energies of fears in order to increase his powers.Superhuman Strength: Nightmare has incredible demonic superhuman strength, as he is able to hurl Strange over.He may also be very difficult to kill since he is a demon. Immortality: As a demon, he is ageless & immune to illness.Demonic Physiology: Nightmare is a demon, who reigns from hell, and controls his very own part of a dimension called the nightmare dimension.Before Spider-Man and Nightmare can hit the ground after the bridge collapses, Spider-Man is awakened by Nova. Spider-Man turns the tide against Nightmare and defeats him. Spider-Man states that he will never give up being Spider-Man as Nightmare attacks by feeding off of Spider-Man's fears, insecurities, and nightmares. Nightmare did Spider-Man a favor by showing him what life would've been like if he wasn't Spider-Man. Nightmare poses as Spider-Man's bad conscious where he manipulates Spider-Man's dreams in order to help Spider-Man. After that, Nightmare was sealed into a box by the combined efforts of Strange, Spider-Man, and Iron Fist. Iron Fist defeated the Shou-Lao dragon Nightmare. After he was slammed through a wall, Nightmare grew weaker of his weakness that was realized by Spider-Man that he becomes weaker after the victim realizes that it's a nightmare. Nightmare was in shock when Spider-Man didn't show any fear. He scared Strange into believing him that he was powerless, Nightmare grew bigger and conjured up the nightmare of Spider-Man. After Iron Fist and Spider-Man appeared in the dream world of K'un-Lun, he transformed into Shou-Lao and tried to scare off Iron Fist and pushed Spider-Man to Strange. When Doctor Strange brought Spider-Man and Iron Fist to the Dream Dimension, he approached them with Dreamstalker and send the Dreamons after them and fought against Strange. Nightmare confronted Doctor Strange on his attempts to escape the Dream Dimension.Īfter a while, Nightmare escaped the Dream Dimension and induced New York residents into an endless sleep and fed on their nightmares.