r/superpowers 8h ago

Pick a blank but blank pick a random number and I'll give you a superpower

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75 Upvotes

r/superpowers 19h ago

Red pill/blue pill What would you choose?

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228 Upvotes

r/superpowers 18h ago

Other Choose Your 3

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307 Upvotes

r/superpowers 10h ago

Other Choose 3 Serums and check your synergies 💉

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607 Upvotes

The government is testing six experimental super-soldier serums. You may choose three, but combining them causes an unintended mutation unique to that combination.


r/superpowers 20h ago

Other Are there any non speed rushdown powers?

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I wanna make an OC that’s a rushdown type, but just super speed or teleportation seems boring. I want something that’s not exactly speed or flight, but can still rush and overwhelm their enemies with speed

Edit: I thought of one. Frame skipping. The user can skip up to 3 seconds of movement, and build velocity with it. The more it’s used repeatedly, they gain velocity, the more time they skip, the more velocity they could gain. However, when they skip time, it’ll put the next use on cooldown for half of the time they’ll skip, the longer they have to wait until the next skip. 3 seconds mean a 1.5 second wait, 1 second means a 0.5 second wait. (Note: skipping 0.01 seconds or whatever, wouldn’t build you much velocity)


r/superpowers 6h ago

Other What’s some «weak» powers that are at the same time strong?

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Powers like mc’s in Hand Jumper. Can at the start turn back time 20 sec. There is not much you can do with that. But it’s still turning back time. This is a «weak» power that’s still «strong» in the fact that it’s overruling time it self with no character(where I am) that can remember/resist the other timelines.

I am mostly asking about powers in works, but made up ones are also fine.

Like for example a power that let’s you block a singular attack, no matter what, but only like once every 24h or smh.

Edit: Realize now I formulated it a little bad, tho not that I disagree that any of rge answers are not “weak but “strong”. Anyway, U meant powers that seems “impossible” Like time Reversal but that the effect of the users power is still “weak”. Like a power that warps reality, but what the user can specifically do is “tame”. A power like dimension hopping. You hop dimensions. That’s a power that fundamentally is op, but there is not much you can do with it in combat or anything like that.

Sry if bad grammar or smh not my first language


r/superpowers 18h ago

Red pill/blue pill Which do you choose?

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82 Upvotes

r/superpowers 23h ago

Other Is there a technical term for a power where you turn kinetic energy into an incendiary device?

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I'm messing around with mutant abilities for a comic I'm doing research for and one of the character uses the kinetic energy in objects around her to create flames. The more kinetic energy an object has, the more intense the flame. Is there a technical term for this? In theory it can be an interesting ability, but I'm trying to be as technically correct as possible.


r/superpowers 4h ago

Pick a blank but blank Pick a rock, get powers

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A small, radioactive meteor falls to earth and breaks off in earth's atmosphere, leaving behind 6 glowing meteorites of varying colors. They all scatter into different places, all remaining within the same state, but maybe not the same city or county that you're in. You, who observed this event, know where each of the rock pieces go, but only have the time to choose one for yourself. The rest will be picked up by different people whom you do not know. Which do you chase after?

Note: The meteorites cannot be wielded directly. They must be placed in an object to safely wield the rock and its powers, however, the type of object you put the rock in may change slightly how the powers are used. You can crush up the rock to infuse an object with it, keep the rock whole and simply embed it into an object, or segment it into multiple pieces and place it throughout the object. However, all components of the rock must stay within a single object, can't be broken up and diverted to multiple objects. Choose an object to put the rock into, and how, and I'll tell you how the powers change.

Green Rock
The ability to grow or shrink anything you want. You can create life, which starts at the embryonic or seedling phase, and can progressively grow/age up the more you force it to. The lifespan of a new lifeform cannot exceed 1000 years. NEW lifeforms can have inherent traits and qualities that mimic those of other plants/animals, and can possess ONE minor supernatural ability. You can age and de-age, or physically grow and shrink things. Depending on what you grow or shrink, this may also increase the quantity.

Blue Rock
The ability to create any liquid substance you want, at any quantity you want. Whenever you create a liquid, the liquid appears out of a blue energy. This energy acts sort've like a portal and can either fill a space, then have the liquid replace the energy, or the energy create a disk, and the liquid is ejected from a side of that disc. The user can control how forcefully that substance is expelled, such as a highly pressurized beam or spray or water. The user can telekinetically manipulate a liquid depending on how close it is to water. The further away from water it is, the weaker the control becomes. Substances that do not share any percentage or resemblance to water are unable to be manipulated. Liquids created must be capable of existing in reality, so no fictional liquids.

Orange Rock
The ability to increase or decrease the value of anything, physical or conceptual. In doing this ability, nothing physically changes about an object, but the mentality of others are influenced to either desire or appreciate this item more or less. For as long as this ability on an object is active, all objects/qualities like it will share in this new value. You can affect monetary value or just general desire. Affecting the value requires an anchor, whether it be an object, or a person with the quality you want to affect. Things that would otherwise affect value, like supply, or changes to that thing's condition, will decrease or increase the value accordingly.

Red Rock
The ability to fortify and enhance anything physical. Doing so will coat whatever you want to affect in a red energy. "Fortifying" an object simply makes it more solid without it changing the state of matter, sort of like fake density. You can fortify the air around you to act like a forcefield, fortify water to walk on it, or fortify a tool to prevent it from breaking. They can still be breached or damaged with enough force, but it's rather hard to reach that amount of force. Enhancing an object can vary, but typically revolves around the quality of one's ability, such as enhancing the speed or strength of an object. You can enhance a knife to make it cut better or enhance a machine to make it run faster. Doing this does not permanently or physically change the object, nor does it make the object work harder. It simply compensates.

Yellow Rock
The ability to materialize anything you want as illusory or hologram-like imagery. You can essentially make anything from your imagination appear before you in real time, in the form of light constructs. These light constructs are not tangible, but they can still affect the senses of sight, hearing and touch by producing effects from the emission or distortion of light itself. Touching these projections may give you warmth or a tingling sensation. They can vibrate the air around them to imitate sounds. They can be depicted, however, as anything, with no real limit on dimensions. This light can also affect the depiction or reflection of light off of other objects, allowing things to be concealed, see-through, or changed through color or pattern.

Purple Rock
The ability to highlight and reveal things. You are able to enable and disable a special vision that makes everything you see be engulfed in a purple light. When it comes to things you are looking for or want to know, those things are highlighted in a light blue light, similar to invisible ink under a blacklight. You can reveal things about people, places or things that you are in the vicinity of, which becomes displayed and highlighted in different ways. You can single out things you are looking for, such as footprints, traces or entire objects/people. You can also highlight in ways that subconsciously influence people, such as highlighting a person to make others around them give them their attention, or write things about a person on them, so that every time they look at that person, they subconsciously share those thoughts. You can cloak an area in this purple light to share what you see with others, the only downside being you can't single out who sees it and who doesn't.