Invisible Woman, Dazzler, Songbird, and Tarot have extremely unique powersets.
While Invisible Woman's power to turn invisible is shared, the ability to make invisible things visible, and to project invisible forcefields are very unique in a universe where you generally see flashy energy constructs. The movies never quite got this right, because most audiences would need a visual stimulus but the forcefield power is one of the few that we are explicitly told is not visible in-universe (telepaths, such as Charles, Jean Grey, Emma and presumably pre-psi-knife British Psylocke being the others whose energy manipulation couldn't be seen though you'd see a representation on-panel. In the original series, when Prof. X or Marvel Girl used their powers, the artists showed wiggly lines instead of psionic blooms on their foreheads. Presumably, it wasn't until Jean manifested the Phoenix energy signature (w/ and w/o the PF) that she specifically modulated her energy output to be along the visible EM spectrum)
Dazzler's core power is sonic transduction - she turns sound into photons (i.e light). Overly complicated, but much more interesting and quirky than straight up photon or energy projection. This power can be pretty disastrous since this is a visual and not audio-based medium, so Claremont and others had to resort to a lot of descriptive writing to convey what her voice and band sounded like. But still, the unlimited nature of her transduction power is what attracted Galactus to her and he made her a herald because she was one of the few superhumans whose base power was limitless.
Songbird (f/k/a Screaming Mimi) had a fairly unique power - the carapace she wore allowed her to create energy constructs out of the sound she produced with her voice. Unlike Siryn/Banshee II or Banshee, her constructs could be a bit fancier, and unlike Dazzler, there was less difficulty visualizing or understanding her powers because she essentially did basic voice modulations (i.e. hitting high notes and repeating them to create sonic battering rams is easier for a non-musician to understand than why some sounds didn't fuel Dazzler's powers and/or why she was very powerful in one issue based off a radio playing, but portrayed very weakly in another issue where she is in a concert).
Tarot has a very unique power as well - she had other abilities, but her main one shown on panel was the ability to manifest quasi-physical beings out of visual depictions. These beings had limited ability to act on their own without her directly controlling them since they responded to her will.
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