The Sci Fi network's Who Wants To Be A Superhero? returns for its second season on Thursday, July 26th. If you haven't seen this show yet, here's what you should know: Contestants who have created their own superhero alter-ego live together in a "secret lair" and compete for immortality (Their superhero character's immortality in a Stan Lee comic book, that is). With the contestants battling villains such as the new mystery character Dr. Dark, Who Wants To Be A Superhero? is certainly one of the most unique reality shows on television.

Sci Fi announced the new season's superheroes and their special powers in a press release. They are:

• Basura (aka Aja De Coudreaux / Oakland, CA) enlists the help of all bugs everywhere and uses her mystical powers to turn trash into treasures.

• Braid (aka Crystal Clark / Bloomington, IL) makes herself any age, race, or gender and can turn her hair into crime-busting tentacles.

• The Defuser (aka Jarrett Crippen / Austin, TX) is an expert paramilitary superhero who uses non-violent weaponry to stop villains. He has the unique ability to function at 110 percent.

• Hygena (aka Melody Mooney / Sherman Oaks, CA) fights crime and grime making weapons from all types of cleaning utensils.

• Hyper-Strike (aka John Stork / Plainfield, VT and Chicago) is a martial arts expert with super strength and agility and he can project his Chi (life force) through his hands.

• Mindset (aka Phillip Allen / Ft. Lauderdale, FL) is a telekinetic time traveler on a mission to end all war. Originally named Omnicron, Mindset is the viewers' choice on the show winning his place by Internet voters earlier this year.

• Mr. Mitzvah (aka "Sir Ivan" Wilzig / Miami, FL and New York City) is real life Bruce Wayne who lives in a castle, this multi-millionaire's mission, under the guise of Mr. Mitzvah, is to save the lives of children.

• Ms. Limelight (aka Trisha Paytas / Byron, IL and Los Angeles) is a captivating blonde caped-crusader absorbs the powers of action stars on TV and in movies.

• Parthenon (aka Dan Williams / Orlando, Fl) is an archaeologist who gets his mystical powers from an ancient gauntlet he discovered in Greece

• Whip-Snap (aka Paula Thomas / Dallas, TX and Los Angeles) Raised in Texas, this superhero has a mastery of the whip and if her bare skin touches a villain that villain is turned into sand.

  See a photo gallery featuring last season's superheroes here.