Mister Miracle's amazing ability is that he can escape from any trap. That's it, so when the supervillain captures him and sets up an elaborate death, such as tying him to a rocket and firing him off to the sun (which they do in his debut issue), he'll be able to get away. I admit, that's pretty neat, but seriously, this guy's powers only kick in when he fails to do his job right in the first place. If he was halfway decent at fighting bad guys they wouldn't ever get to know he even had any powers. And as a sidenote, can we think of ANY superhero who wasn't able to get out of the supervillain's traps? As "powers" go, escaping from traps was as common as enhanced strength. But don't let me sell him short: he's not just good at escaping; in fact he is the GOD of escaping in the quasi-Norse "New Gods" mythology of Jack Kirby. And yeah, his real name is Scott Free. That I could not make up.