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LET'S DISCUSS SUPER POWERS!
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facesforce
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CloseHmm... I notice not many of the powers mentioned really have an archlies heel...
Here is a BALANCED power:
Mystic Eyes of Death Perception
Good: If you can reach it and are athletic enough, you can kill almost anything as long as you can hit it with something, meaning snipers would always get one shot KOs or serial killers would be able to cut right through armor and even kill imaginary concepts.
Bad: It is only effective if you can actually hit the lines or points with an object. If you are out of shape or just can't reach the thing in question, you can not kill it.
SIDE EFFECTS:Can cause blindness, Insanity, Strong Headaches, Anemia, Spells of fainting, Instant Death and intense confusion.
Media used in: Tsukihime, Kara no Kyoukai and Star Wars, believe it or not.
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Perception
This is one super power that it has a good enough heel to stop it from being an overused ploy, despite it already being a Author's tool.
Here is a BALANCED power:
Mystic Eyes of Death Perception
Good: If you can reach it and are athletic enough, you can kill almost anything as long as you can hit it with something, meaning snipers would always get one shot KOs or serial killers would be able to cut right through armor and even kill imaginary concepts.
Bad: It is only effective if you can actually hit the lines or points with an object. If you are out of shape or just can't reach the thing in question, you can not kill it.
SIDE EFFECTS:Can cause blindness, Insanity, Strong Headaches, Anemia, Spells of fainting, Instant Death and intense confusion.
Media used in: Tsukihime, Kara no Kyoukai and Star Wars, believe it or not.
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Perception
This is one super power that it has a good enough heel to stop it from being an overused ploy, despite it already being a Author's tool.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I read that as "Mystic Eyes of Depth Perception" probably thirty times before figuring out what the hell you were on about. I could not figure out why the ability to magically see how far away something is would be useful or have any bad side effects.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
And now, courtesy of Yakko, it's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea.
Good idea: Setting stuff on fire
Pros: The ability to control fire and heat has almost limitless potential for destruction. With precision, you can melt enemy weaponry, burn toxic substances down to nothing, weld the joints in armor and machinery, and cook dinner.
Cons: Doesn't work underwater or in outer space. Dangerous for those who are untrained in how to use it.
Conclusion: Fantastic power for both heroes and villains. The inherent danger and unpredictability of fire makes it still interesting in a story even when the user's power level approaches borderline-omnipotence.
Bad idea: Setting yourself on fire
Pros: Opponents who use unarmed grappling moves to attack you will be at a disadvantage. You can't be set on fire any more than you are already.
Cons: You can't touch anything, you can't go near anything flammable, your opponent can easily beat you with any weapon, you can't use weapons, you will never feel the loving embrace of a woman.
Conclusion: This power is awful. It's extremely triple awful if you can't turn it on and off at will. The only good thing about this power is that it often comes packaged with fire manipualation. But by itself, without fire manipulation, it's beyond awful.
Good idea: Setting stuff on fire
Pros: The ability to control fire and heat has almost limitless potential for destruction. With precision, you can melt enemy weaponry, burn toxic substances down to nothing, weld the joints in armor and machinery, and cook dinner.
Cons: Doesn't work underwater or in outer space. Dangerous for those who are untrained in how to use it.
Conclusion: Fantastic power for both heroes and villains. The inherent danger and unpredictability of fire makes it still interesting in a story even when the user's power level approaches borderline-omnipotence.
Bad idea: Setting yourself on fire
Pros: Opponents who use unarmed grappling moves to attack you will be at a disadvantage. You can't be set on fire any more than you are already.
Cons: You can't touch anything, you can't go near anything flammable, your opponent can easily beat you with any weapon, you can't use weapons, you will never feel the loving embrace of a woman.
Conclusion: This power is awful. It's extremely triple awful if you can't turn it on and off at will. The only good thing about this power is that it often comes packaged with fire manipualation. But by itself, without fire manipulation, it's beyond awful.
How about the Heart!?
It's a story centric power... But can be cool regardless. You can basically manipulate emotions! How could this be used against a fire-tossing supervillain? Spray him with your love ray and he'll use his destructive power to make you a cup of tea and give you a warm back rub.
Downside? Useless against plants and robots, and emotionless animals like fish.
It's a story centric power... But can be cool regardless. You can basically manipulate emotions! How could this be used against a fire-tossing supervillain? Spray him with your love ray and he'll use his destructive power to make you a cup of tea and give you a warm back rub.
Downside? Useless against plants and robots, and emotionless animals like fish.
Cons: Doesn't work underwater or in outer space. Dangerous for those who are untrained in how to use it.
Can I be lame and use a Harry Potter example? He tries to use a fire spell underwater, and ends up shooting a jet of boiling-hot water (which ends up being just as effective). Not that fire works underwater, but there's no reason why you can't superheat that water >:)
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Yeah, it depends on the universe. In other cases I've seen it just fizzle.
OK.
Super-strength
Good 'cause you can punch through walls, deck robots, lift tanks, etc. Bad: You need to be careful or you might hurt someone you love and you're likely to have lots of bills for breaking things.
Super-strength
Good 'cause you can punch through walls, deck robots, lift tanks, etc. Bad: You need to be careful or you might hurt someone you love and you're likely to have lots of bills for breaking things.
yamata no orochi
184
Kind of crappy power: taking pictures of far-away places
How to use:
1.Punch a camera with your fist
2. Camera ejects picture due to your unique psychic potential
3. Picture is of far away place that is probably important
On one hand, this could occasionally be a useful method of tracking dangerous people from halfway across the world. On the other hand, each successive use of this power involves destroying a perfectly useable camera.
So yeah, I think we might have to file this away under crappy powers, because wasting cameras in this way is probably more trouble than it's worth. Thank you, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!
How to use:
1.Punch a camera with your fist
2. Camera ejects picture due to your unique psychic potential
3. Picture is of far away place that is probably important
On one hand, this could occasionally be a useful method of tracking dangerous people from halfway across the world. On the other hand, each successive use of this power involves destroying a perfectly useable camera.
So yeah, I think we might have to file this away under crappy powers, because wasting cameras in this way is probably more trouble than it's worth. Thank you, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!
Mikemc
2101
author=EmanziIn an episode of The Twilight Zone, an uneducated boy can "Bring!" anything to him if he sees a picture. He accidentally finds a picture of his dead mother in an investigator's bag and brings her remains to the house, or so it sounded like as I covered my eyes :(. I think the episode ends with him seeing the moon for the first time..
The power to bring your imagination to life litteraly
This is a good power because you could summon a man eating felix to eat all your enemies and you could imagine a super weapon that could zap your man eating felix into a sack of beans in-case he gets too hungry however this would be bad because you could lose your mind and go crazy creating all sorts of crazy unnecessary stuff. ( loose touch with reality e.t.c ) might work for a super villain.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
author=Mikemcauthor=EmanziIn an episode of The Twilight Zone, an uneducated boy can "Bring!" anything to him if he sees a picture. He accidentally finds a picture of his dead mother in an investigator's bag and brings her remains to the house, or so it sounded like as I covered my eyes :(. I think the episode ends with him seeing the moon for the first time..
The power to bring your imagination to life litteraly
This is a good power because you could summon a man eating felix to eat all your enemies and you could imagine a super weapon that could zap your man eating felix into a sack of beans in-case he gets too hungry however this would be bad because you could lose your mind and go crazy creating all sorts of crazy unnecessary stuff. ( loose touch with reality e.t.c ) might work for a super villain.
Four words: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
author=Fallen-Grieverauthor=BurningTyger"It's impossible! Lois Lane could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle his sperm? I guarantee you that when he comes during sex, he probally blows a load like a shotgun blast... right through her back. And if by chance Lois does get pregnent, what about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry his child?"
Bad: You need to be careful or you might hurt someone you love
MALL RATS!!!!
Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?
author=Fallen-Griever"If you strike me down, I shall becomemore powerful than you could possibly imaginea cloak!"
Also I'd like to add something about super power discussions that has irked me in the past. - If given the choice between (telekinesis of considerable duration/capacity) and the ability to fly you should always, always, always choose telekinesis because there's no good reason why you can't move yourself through the air with telekinesis just as well as any other object. Flight is an inferior ability to telekinesis because you can only make yourself fly. With telekinesis you can make yourself and anything else you like fly/move/whatever.
In a rpg (i don't remember which) the hero(?) could lift things he found in the room and throw them at the ennemies, it was fun!(it worked in 2 times : lifting, then throwing).
bob_esc
3654
CLEARLY the best super power EVER is...well, owning the purple crayon from Harold and the Purple Crayon. This would be incredibly useful, especially for public works projects (ie, draw the Hoover Dam or Empire State building) and if ever you got bored, draw yourself some friends!
The WORST super power ever if you could call it that belongs to a man named Biscuits. He owns a magic oven which transports him one second into the future every second. This is useless for very obvious reasons, and all of his friends have better ones. Related material
The WORST super power ever if you could call it that belongs to a man named Biscuits. He owns a magic oven which transports him one second into the future every second. This is useless for very obvious reasons, and all of his friends have better ones. Related material
