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 did in his first appearance), 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 had any powers at all. By the way, I sell him short: he's not just good at escaping; he is the GOD of escaping, in the quasi-Norse "New Gods" mythology of Jack Kirby. And yeah, his name is Scott Free. That I could not make up.