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101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

Started by Dossta Sep 28, 2012 6 posts Locked

  1. 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #1
    This is a fun idea I was kicking around with a friend.  I wanted to make it a full 101 before releasing it to the main site, but ran dry at 80.  Please help me finish!

    As a superhero or mutant, you have gained the power to:
    [list type=decimal]
    Run twice as fast when naked
    Make any candle burn with the power of two lumens   
    Know the full ancestry and family history of a person you don't know
    Know whether a plane will crash after it has taken off
    Change your ears to any shape imaginable
    Teleport – but only to work
    Time travel – but only to next Monday.
    Accurately predict the score of any amateur mini-golf match
    Predict the last three finishers of any horse race
    Make anything taste like garlic
    Gain control over one atom at a time
    Change the message in anyone's fortune cookie
    Change wine to water
    Change silver to lead and gold to tungsten
    Become completely nonbouyant
    Increase or decrease the temperature of a room by 5 degrees
    Make one other person believe that they have super powers
    Instantly identify the source of any smell
    Sweat Gatorade
    Instantly gain as much weight as you like (you still have to work it off)
    Make yourself invisible to one person at a time
    Talk to pigeons
    Hear what dogs are saying, but be unable to speak back
    Turn any carpet to shag
    Grow a tail (it has to be cut off)
    Get a song stuck in someone else's head
    Make anyone say an inappropriate word by pointing at them
    Locking eyes with someone for a few seconds will cause them to urinate uncontrollably
    Change anyone's keyboard layout to DVORAK
    Make anyone .5 inches taller or shorter, but only when concentrating on that person
    Give anyone an ice-cream headache
    Excrete a pheromone that makes you utterly repulsive to members of the opposite gender
    Speak puns in any language
    Always know the location of the nearest public restroom
    Emit a weak radioactive field
    Bend all your joints backwards
    Observe someone else's dreams
    Use your saliva as a weak glue
    Rearrange your facial features
    Re-size any clothing to fit you perfectly
    Make anything smell like wet dog
    Slightly increase the effect of gravity around you
    Make yourself test positive for any drug
    Perfectly imitate the sounds from a modem, car alarm and microwave
    Know your enemy's biggest personality flaw
    Make any stain permanent
    Infuse water with the scent of  pineapple
    The ability to predict the results of any game played on a Tuesday
    Attract lighting strikes
    Increase someone's blood alcohol content through kissing
    Forget the past hour of your life at will
    Always land on your feet
    Instantly turn milk to yogurt
    Make your own hands super slippery
    Know the middle name of anyone you encounter
    Decrease the denomination of any bill by touching it
    Run as quickly backwards as you can forwards
    Make any liquid instantly become room temperature
    Make a sound that will attract every cat within a half mile radius
    Force all your body hair – including that on your head – to fall off at once
    Drink salt water safely
    Always remember if you're forgetting something
    Always know where true North is
    Predict to the minute the next rainfall
    Always look like the wind is blowing through your hair, even indoors
    Change the color of your urine
    Transform into a minnow
    Know if someone is watching you
    Remember anything you read, but only for a day
    Sprout daisies under your feet as you walk
    Piss weak beer
    Teleport one inch in any direction
    Flap your arms so fast you can hover for up to five seconds
    Set your own hair on fire
    Shed your skin like a snake
    Slow time down, but only for yourself
    Jump twice as high as a normal person
    Grow feathers in place of hair
    Predict any coin flip, as long as you've touched the coin first
    Create a two square foot spot of shade
  2. Re: 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #2
    [list type=decimal]Redirect the glare of the sun with your hand like a mirror
    Make a clock run backwards (not time, just the clock)
    Psychic for only immediate wants (not for anything important, best used in a McD's and you will know the order a moment before they actually order it. Only works on insignificant wants that will be almost immediately verbalized)
    Create a Marilyn Monroe upskirt wind at will. (with effort can cause cape flapping breeze for effect)
    Extend belly to beyond largest pregnant size
    Hear baby monitor chatter when close enough
    Pour a cup of water from finger daily
    Cause someones vision to pinpoint/fog momentarily 
  3. Re: 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #3
    1: Twitter Roleplay Skills
    2: Always mistaken as a prostitute
    3: Always get blamed for Farting
    4: Women you are sexually attracted to only find you cute in a sexual manner.
    5: Can make others taste that Benadryl aftertaste
    6: Your touch makes soda go flat
    7: Your strolen comment upvotes are worth 1 extra XP
    8: You pee lava
    9: You automatically know if a male is circumcised is not
    10: Your dandruff is cocaine
    11: You can immediately kill someone's arousal
    12: Immediately tell if water is hard or not
    13: Know what color underwear any person was wearing- yesterday
    14: Your poop teleports to random locations
    15: All salad your prepare tastes burnt
    16: Can regrow snail shells by touch
    17: Can post cute cat photos on facebook purely by thinking about it
    18: Police Radar Guns list you as going 20 MPH faster than you really are
    19: Your inner Chi is shaped like a penis
    20: You have prehensile hair
    21: Pigeon control
    22: Any gun you fire has a localized bullet-time affecting only bullets you shoot
    23: You fail upwards
  4. Re: 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #4
    My friend and I go through this idea every so often. We always called it, "Worst. Superpower. Ever."

    1) The ability to fill a room with confetti.
    2) The ability to un-salt food.
    3) The ability to make any pillow explode in a burst of stuffing.
    4) The ability to fart rainbows.
  5. Re: 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #5
    Some of these could actually have some use, and I'd totally date a girl with "Increase someone's blood alcohol content through kissing"
  6. Re: 101 Useless or Trivial Super/Mutant Powers!

    #6
    Oh, most of these could probably be useful under the right circumstances.  The key is that they should ideally be too specific or too embarrassing to be a fall-back 100% of the time.  Trivial probably is a better word.

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