Super powers that are useful that you'd reject

[nobody]

This has been done before in various places, but here are the rules:

Create a super power that would be useful, but you wouldn't want or had side effects so bad it would be worse than not having the super power. Discuss.

First up:

An Infinity Stone (a la the Marvel movies) that grants immense personal strength and invulnerability. The drawback? It's an Infinity Kidney Stone so 24/7 for the rest of your life, you feel like you're trying to pass a watermelon through your urinary track. You can't take it out because it's too large and operations to take it out don't work because you're invulnerable. The stone itself is invulnerable so sonics won't blast it apart.

 

[Runwildboys]

The power of flight, but you can only fly when you're naked, and your very sensitive to the cold.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

I would reject any and all super powers, because the person who has them will be marked for death or capture. Some would see me as the second coming and would not. He's not the second coming he has a chipped tooth and he's too short. Kill him.


But just to play along. The ability to know everyone's deepest darkest secret, when I look them in the eye. But everytime I learn someone's secret I pass out for a whole day.

 

[Runwildboys]

I would reject any and all super powers, because the person who has them will be marked for death or capture. Some would see me as the second coming and would not. He's not the second coming he has a chipped tooth and he's too short. Kill him.


But just to play along. The ability to know everyone's deepest darkest secret, when I look them in the eye. But everytime I learn someone's secret I pass out for a whole day.

As long as you're not on a cliff, it'd be worth it!

 

[The Fonz]

Time travel or being invisible

 

[Runwildboys]

You could read minds, but only of the people who don't like you.

 

[nobody]

Time travel or being invisible

Uh, what's the downside part?

 

[nobody]

You have telekinesis, but it only works on feces and it always flings it at your face when you're not ready for it.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

You have the power to summon any amount of money you want. You just snap your fingers and boom...the money is in your hand.

The drawback is that it only comes in pennies.

 

[CouchCoach]

The superpower to detect the truth. This carries it's own built in side effect.

 

[Rack]

The ability to turn invisible but when you do it you're blind.

 

[DallasEast]

Y'all know this thread's premise is custom made for many Marvel Comics mutants, right?

Copying another person's power--like superhuman strength, flight and invulnerability--but never having the opportunity to physically touch anyone else without possibly putting them in a death-life coma.

Stole that one from Rogue.

 

[nobody]

You have superspeed but not only have no resistance to friction, you and whatever you're wearing are extra sensitive to it.

 

[quickccc]

Telepathy,.. but it's so uncontrollable you cannot control migraine headaches or block out the utterly vicious or disgusting thoughts of others,

Future Prophecy -( or aka Dead Zone visual images)... ability to not only foresee others eventual deaths, (as well as your own) but also you will know and the actual date/time of the deaths.

 

[DallasEast]

Shrinking powers. There is no place on Earth you cannot infiltrate but you have allergies. Allergens overwhelm you every time you shrink, so you start sneezing so badly that you start convulsing.

 

[MWH1967]

The ability to know exactly what my wife is thinking at all times. Sheesh, I would never have self esteem again!..

 

[Runwildboys]

You have superspeed but not only have no resistance to friction, you and whatever you're wearing are extra sensitive to it.

Superspeed, but you have a very poor sense of direction and bad depth perception.

 

[DallasEast]

Superspeed, but you have a very poor sense of direction and bad depth perception.

Well, that is a death sentence for using that super power. One trip and you end up smeared all over a wall, tree, car...

 

[SlammedZero]

Power of attraction. You're the world's most good-looking male that attracts any and all women, except, you're missing the external organ part of the male anatomy.

 

[nobody]

You can shape change, but only into a goldfish and it doesn't convey the ability to breathe underwater or swim.