Worst Super Power Ever?

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Arrers

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Hardcore_gamer said:
Arrers said:
The power to make your arm fall off so you can use it as a club.
Why do that when you could just use that very same arm too punch people? lol
That's the beauty of its uselessness.
 

confernal

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gillrobin said:
Not quite the Bruce Banner thread http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.113917?page=2

but more what would be the power you just wouldn't want or would be distinctively underwhelmed if u got it.

For me talking to animals would be pretty dissapointing, but then Flight just isn't unique anymore, and martial arts masters aren't exactly super heroes...

I believe that invisiblity would be pretty bad since all somebody would need is thermal sensors and a gun to kill you.... also when you say "talk to animals" do you mean just to chat with them like a normal person or control them because with the ability to control them... you could do some serious damage.
 

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Agayek said:
The ability to make my fingernails grow or shrink on demand.
That could acctually be effective in certain situations. How about something like creating pimples on yourself on demand?
 

ThrobbingEgo

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confernal said:
I believe that invisiblity would be pretty bad since all somebody would need is thermal sensors and a gun to kill you.... also when you say "talk to animals" do you mean just to chat with them like a normal person or control them because with the ability to control them... you could do some serious damage.
"I'm being mugged. Random grizzly bear, could you, ya know, maul this guy?"

"me rather lick self."

Just talking to them would be pretty useless. Also, I can't really see what the more useful animals would be doing in an urban environment. I mean, most people hate pigeons, but they don't exactly strike fear into the hearts of criminals or anything. The little yappy dogs that old ladies keep in their apartments aren't exactly a threat. And, away from the ocean, you're only going to get minnows and trouts. You can't get sharks, squids, and crazy poison jellyfish things from a local pond.
 

Rochnan

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I would say the power to hear everything you read in the calm and soothing voice of Morgan Freeman. But at least that could...will make you the most relaxed person on the planet.

Do you guys know the story of king Midas? Everything he touched turns into gold? But his food also turned to gold, before he could eat it? That part sucked.
 

ThrobbingEgo

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Rochnan said:
I would say the power to hear everything you read in the calm and soothing voice of Morgan Freeman. But at least that could...will make you the most relaxed person on the planet.
Why, you could enlarge your penis for cheap. My, my. Isn't that something?
ToChaos said:
Agayek said:
The ability to make my fingernails grow or shrink on demand.
That could acctually be effective in certain situations. How about something like creating pimples on yourself on demand?
Better: super herpes.
 

Ergoemos

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I have and always will stand behind the idea that intangibility alone is the worst power possible to have in the real world. The first time you turn intangible, one of two things will happen:
1) You are affected by gravity and pulled into the nearest gravity well.
2) You are not affected by gravity and the planet, solar system, and universe rotate out from underneath you.

In order for intangibility to actually work, you must have an additional ability that anchors you to the near by magnetic field, or some such.

Without this ability, then turning intangible is the most useless power, even less so than something like insta-suicide, since that at least will leave a trace behind, and make for an interesting story.
 

Redingold

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How about...the ability to serve anybody. Sure, it would be awesome, but it won't actually work on bank robbers, people mugging you, etc.
 

Dr. Odd

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The ability to turn small appliances on and off with your mind. Yeah, I suppose it would be nice to have when your making breakfast, but other than that... Eh.

Ooo, or better yet how about this one: the ability to become fat at will. Sounds like it could have potential, right? But there's a catch: you can't just become skinny again. To lose weight, you'd have to work it off. That would suck.

Another one: the ability to talk to chipmunks and platypi. The Chipmunks would never have anything interesting to say. They'd just talk about nuts all day long, which just makes you feel uncomfortable. And the platypus would just complain all day about how it looks like a platypus. No fun there.
 

KSarty

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Meltman from Action League Now comes to mind. "With the power to...melt!"
 

Kif

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The ability to curl my tongue, seriously it's never gotten me anything, money, girls, fame... nothing!
 

Arkhangelsk

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Power of the Hulk. Turn into a monster every time your heart rate goes up. Gee, that'll be good for your sex life.
 

arc101

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The ability to only read the minds of slugs... here is a preview...
*DON'T STEP ON MEEEEE... phew that was close... ooh, cabbage leaf*
 

Jerious1154

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NeutralDrow said:
Turning yourself into a dotted line. And it will be to my eternal shame if anyone gets that.

RavingPenguin said:
melting, not your environment but yourself.
Im on a creative dryspell...
Meltman! With the power to...MELT!
"But I'm Dotted Line Girl, how can you see me?"
"Any idiot can see a dotted line!"
...I watched too much Rugrats.

The ability to never lose your balance. EVER.