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Beardyman is, of course, joking: it's not his namesake hairstyle that bestows on him superhero properties.
It's his mouth-muscle defying beatboxing skills.
Described as a comedian, musician, "multivocalist" and inventor, Darren Foreman, 33, found fame while studying product design in the United Kingdom after a YouTube video of him went viral.
Mouth magic
"There's a lot of different ways of making sounds with your mouth," he tells CNN. "Generally, people tend not to use them. But beatboxers have honed in on all those things.
"For example, your lips alone can go ..."
Clips, buzzes and hisses, made with his mouth closed, all follow.
He uses it on stage for live-looping (recording and playing back audio samples in real time), layering up his sounds to create the impression of an entire band.
Foreman conceived the Beardytron_5000 as an answer to the frustrating problem that humans -- unlike the lyrebird -- do not have two voiceboxes, and so cannot sing two notes at a time.
But even with the Beardytron, there are limits to his superpowers.
"I gave up trying to mimic everything quite a while ago because you can't mimic some noises with the human mouth -- like the piano. You just can't do it."