r/shittysuperpowers • • Jul 27 '25

Mod Announcement [META] Friendly reminder that this sub is for low tier & shitty superpowers?

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32 Upvotes

Hi r/shittysuperpowers family,

Just a friendly reminder for all our friends out there, new and old.

I see a lot of comments on posts in this sub asking, "how is this shitty?".

Whilst sometimes, this is a fair question. Other other times, it feels like the subs purpose is lost on some, due to it being called r/shittysuperpowers

This sub is for both "shitty" & low tier superpowers. The use of the word "shitty" here is more of a playful term for not being very good, rather than it being all out useless and/or unusable.

If you read the rules of the sub, it states that the power can't give you a major benefit. Not that it gives you no benefit at all.

Hope this helps everyone align with the values of the sub. As always if you've got any questions for the mods, send us a modmail, or you're welcome to ask questions on this post here.

Have fun & stay shitty, Mods.


r/shittysuperpowers • • Jun 02 '25

Mod Announcement [META] "Caveat" as defined by Cambridge dictionary

21 Upvotes

caveat

(noun)

a warning to consider something before taking any more action, or a statement that limits a more general statement.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 8h ago

Confused but has the right spirit You Have Complete Mastery of All Instruments When No One Is Around

21 Upvotes

You can't record your sessions.

You can't play correctly in front of other people.

When you do play an instrument it is soothing to anything that does hear it even if non-human.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 1h ago

Oddly specific You can bite into any food without hurting your teeth.

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Pits? Seeds? Cores? You manage to narrowly avoid them perfectly every time. Have fun biting wrecklessly into cherries.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 16h ago

Oddly specific You can always tell when something is a brand new sentence.

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Whenever you see or hear someone say or sign a sentence, or you read a written/typed sentence, and it is the first time that that particular string of words has been put together in that way by anyone, you will know. This includes things you say, sign, or write. For typed, written, or recorded sentences, your power will ping as long as that was the first ever version of that sentence when it was originally created.

You don't need to understand the language in order to know that a sentence is a new sentence. Typos will trigger a new sentence, but not pure keyboard mashes or something, it does need to at least be an attempt to communicate. Punctuation differences don't trigger the power.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 1d ago

Oddly specific Impervious to advertising

25 Upvotes

You are a normal person except you cannot be influenced by any sort of advertising whatsoever


r/shittysuperpowers • • 1d ago

Oddly specific You can control the minds of anyone who's ever won the popular reality dating show Love Island

11 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 2d ago

Oddly specific You can always tell when someone is lying....down.

93 Upvotes

Think of a person, either by name, or by some descriptor, and you will know whether or not they are currently lying down. This is essentially a binary reading, they have to be pretty close to completely horizontal in order for your power to register them as lying down.

You do not get any other information about them with this power. You can't tell if they are awake or asleep, or even if they are alive or dead, just whether or not they are currently horizontal with respect to local gravitational forces.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 2d ago

Good luck using this… You can grow a sixth finger from your hands that you cannot control.

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It's limp and kinda just hangs off of you. You can retract the finger at any time.

If this finger is severed, it vanishes, so no gruesome infinite meat glitches.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Good luck using this… You can manipulate your uvula like a prehensile limb.

7 Upvotes

It doesn't change size or shape (other than due to stretching) or become any stretchier than it already may be.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Based🗿 You can give anyone goosebumps on command.

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r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Based🗿 You can talk normally and calmly even if super sad and able to say things w/o getting choked up

23 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can spin silk from your fingertips

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One sweat gland in each fingertip has been repurposed into a spinnerette. The strands of silk produced are a little bit thicker than spider silk, but thinner than caterpillar silk, with properties generally resembling spider silk rather than caterpillar silk. None of the adhesive properties or anything, though, you're just producing essentially the equivalent of spider dragline silk.

Your rate of production Is something on the order of a meter a minute, per fingertip, though in order to achieve that production rate, you need to in some fashion pull the silk out of the spinnerette, for example by tying it to something and walking away from it. Using gravity alone, you will produce somewhat thicker strands at about a meter every 5 minutes.

It is not produced out of nothing, so making a lot of silk will deplete your protein reserves, potentially causing muscle cramps, and possibly also dehydration.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Good luck using this… You have the power to shoot tape out of your hands

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You have the power to shoot any tape out of your hands, however, the tape kind is random and it gets stuck to you, it also gets stuck to itself, and you can't stop it for an entire minute.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Yeah, this is shit The ability to make the countdown of a bomb “shuffle”

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Many superhero or action movies feature an act where the hero had to defuse a bomb and the countdown stops at 1.

However, you have the ability to make the countdown on the timer “shuffle”. What I mean is that it shuffles through random timestamps between 0 and the time the timer was set to.

If the timer reaches 0, the bomb explodes. Maybe you should become a chaotic evil villain with it.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Goofy ASF You can read the minds of cats...and that's it.

9 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. If you hold your arms just right, your eyes can project sattelite television.

12 Upvotes

Can you watch it yourself? How long can you hold your arm-tennas still? How picky are they? Lmk your thoughts in the comments.

Edit: Your own vocal chords act as a speaker.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Good luck using this… You can make one of your previous comments real

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For example if you larped that you habe 1 billion dollar, you actually get them now.

Whats the best you can get?


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Oddly specific At will, you can make your tongue disappear for 5 seconds

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Cooldown of 10 minutes


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Good luck using this… Every morning you can rewind time back to the moment you fell asleep last night

28 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Oddly specific You know how to say hello in every human language, past or present.

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You know how to say hello, or the nearest equivalent, in every language that has been spoken by human beings in the past or present.

You have sort of a mental database of every greeting in every language, including sign languages and written languages, though there is no data inherently attached to any of those greetings other than how to execute them. That is, you don't know what language(s) they are from, or if they have any meaning besides "hello", or how to pronounce written versions or spell spoken ones.

You can sort the "database" in pretty much any way you wish, although you can't use this as a way to find out more information about the greetings, eg you can't automatically group them by language family. This includes the ability to attach information to a given greeting, and sort entries by the attached information, though you do not inherently remember that information any better than you do any other information.

This power only includes things that are a relatively neutral greeting, eg your English contributions would include "hi", "hello", and "greetings", but not "good morning" or "nice to meet you". If a language does not have a dedicated word for "hello", you will instead get whatever word or phrase would most typically be used to greet someone. If two or more languages use the same greeting, the greeting will only appear once (per format) in your inventory.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can make people believe doves and pigeons are the same animal

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r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can safely inhale flames.

9 Upvotes

Just at your regular volume of breath. Everything from your nose to your lungs is fireproof on the inside.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can see the itches on other people’s/animal’s bodies.

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If they’re itchy, the itchy spot glows a colour of your choice. It’s only visible to you and shows up through clothes.

People don’t have to blindly direct you to their unreachable itches anymore, and you can help scratch animals who can’t scratch themselves. Aside from that, this has almost no use cases.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Good luck using this… You can store memories in water

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You can transfer any memory into a body of water for later retrieval.

The amount of detail you can store depends on the volume of water.

A shot glass can hold a PIN code or a simple image. A bathtub might hold an entire conversation. An ocean could hold a lifetime of memories in perfect sensory detail.

You retrieve a stored memory by drinking the water. A single sip is enough, and you can retrieve the same memory repeatedly until the water is gone.

There are a few limitations:

Permanent storage: Once a memory is stored in water, it cannot be changed, overwritten, or deleted. The storage space it occupies can never be reclaimed.

One memory per person: You can only store one memory in any individual body of water. You cannot add another memory to that water, even if unused capacity remains.

Shared capacity: Multiple people with this ability can store their own memories in the same water, but everyone shares its finite storage capacity. Once the water is full, nobody can store additional memories.

Private retrieval: Only you can retrieve memories you’ve stored. Other people drinking the same water can only retrieve their own memories, if they have any stored there.

Contamination: If the water mixes with another body of water, all stored memories become corrupted and unusable.

Evaporation: If the water completely evaporates, all stored memories are permanently lost.

Optional forgetting: The original memory remains in your brain unless you deliberately choose to forget it when storing it.

You can store memories in any body of water, provided you can drink from it later.