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Let's Think Up The Worst Possible Super Powers
The Joker
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Ok, you've just been tossed inside of a nuclear reactor, but you've survived. Not only have you survived this terrible ordeal, but you've been granted amazing super powers! Just one problem, the power you have is either completely useless, incomplete, or does more harm than it ever will good. What's your super power?
The ability to burst into flames, like the human torch. But with no resistance to flames or heat, so you just burn to death once you activate your powers.
The ability to turn into liquid. But it's just regular, non-sentient liqud, and doing it basically kills you.
The ability to burst into flames, like the human torch. But with no resistance to flames or heat, so you just burn to death once you activate your powers.
The ability to turn into liquid. But it's just regular, non-sentient liqud, and doing it basically kills you.
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I said useless powers. Not powers so devious that you could cause suffering for millions.
Servo, that power actually sounds useful.
I think it was on Fairly-Odd Parents or Simpsons: was more delicious than useful.
As for something original, I had a dream when I was a kid where I turned into a dog, but ate some road kill and got really sick.
"Why would you want to raise your own cholesterol?"
"...So I can lower it again."
The former and it was "Meat Vision".
As long as you aren't able to control it, then yeah, definetly. If every single sneeze you did could eat through metal, or only random sneezes, so you couldn't even for sure make it happen when you wanted it to. That would be useless.
You have the ability to move like the Flash, but for you everything else goes slow. So what seems like a second to everyone moving normally seems like hours to you. A red light would be an eternity.
Terrible superheroes isn't the sort of thing you can rip off, broad as the idea is.
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Or maybe some type of lead/copper magnetism that attracts bullets to you.
Also, being able to hear everything on the planet and not being able to "turn it off" or filter it out.
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And they never shut up.
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Uh, well, assuming your strength grows at the same rate, I think bench pressing skyscrapers could be pretty useful against gigantic enemies. Or just plain wrecking shit for funsies. Or solving the world's hunger shortage through lactation.
This was a vegan's power in The Freshmen. He had to listen to his wheat grass scream bloody murder as he cut and ate it.
For my contribution, the ability to turn your entire body into solid steel, but with the inability to move when you're in that form.
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Only it's regular lightning, not the magical kind. And it electrocutes you.
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Human bodies would crush themselves if they grew to 60ft or other ridiculous sizes, thus making the power absolutely useless for mass destruction. You could probably grow to 10-15 ft (not sure the physics) and be relatively okay, but no super man.
Holy crap, I have a super power... call me HINDSIGHT LAD! Wait... no that's taken
That'd actually be pretty awesome if it extended to other people too. It'd be like a running commentary of "What If?"
"Hey, Tony, you should've asked for help. The world would be a better place. You suck."
That wouldn't be a bad power.
Jump out of a plane. Turn to steel. Boom.
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About every other minute if I had that power.
The power to have an insatiable appetite. You have to keep eating every minute or you die.
GFWL: studaud (for SF4)
panels like this are why I love old school-legion of superheroes
Holding an out door audition for a new member and getting a bunch of terrible applications with useless and stupid powers is a little less broad than just "bad superheroes"