Super Powers for a Story

[Masterblack06]

So I'm writing a story and I'm looking for cool or unique superpowers. The MC's power is already set in stone and will be revealed soon, but I need some more for his friends, enemies and the like. These are the powers I have so far
Tracking - Can track anyone with a mental map that the person has touched within the last 24 hours
Death Speaking - Can talk with spirits
Summoning - can summon an object no bigger than 4 feet to their hand from anywhere but the object cannot be alive and needs to be specific (i.e just saying gun, won't do anything)
Explosion Generation - Can make objects explode by saying their name but has to be specific (i.e saying red shirt won't do anything)
Shadow Stealth - Can hide in Shadows of any size but you cannot bring objects in with you
Block Control - can create unbreakable cubes no bigger than 4x4x4 and no smaller than 1x1x1
Rotation - Able to Spin objects up to a top speed of 365 RPM
Eating - Able to eat any form of matter that is non-living
Vibration - Shake things
Optimization - On touch, the object will run at 100% efficiency without breaking. The more complex the object the more things that need to be touched. Does not work on living beings
Hardness - The ability to make non-organic things softer or harder at will on touch

So throw me what you got, but put a limit on it that makes sense, the characters in the story range from around 12 years old to 45

 

[GregSteve]

Immunity- user can become immune to 3 or more whatever you want abilities(physical damage, poison, heat, etc )for 15 minutes minutes

Kinetic Energy Manipulation Field- can control Kinetic energy of inorganic objects within a certain range

Celestial Avatar- users can draw on borrowed powers of different gods and entities they've made a pact with to a lesser extent

 

[Masterblack06]

Immunity- user can become immune to 3 or more whatever you want abilities(physical damage, poison, heat, etc )for 15 minutes minutes

Kinetic Energy Manipulation Field- can control Kinetic energy of inorganic objects within a certain range

Celestial Avatar- users can draw on borrowed powers of different gods and entities they've made a pact with to a lesser extent

I like these, especially the last one. I have a ton of good ideas for that kind of power

 

[GregSteve]

I like these, especially the last one. I have a ton of good ideas for that kind of power

I wrote a comic a while back that went no where so these were a few I really liked

 

[El Hermano]

Mass and size container - Can shrink objects in size, but they still retain their original mass. The field is phase-through and can absorb some of the kinetic energy its impacts release. Not exactly that original on the surface, but my old diea for a more original spin on it included a character that actually shrinks entire planets/stars and uses them like yo-yos. Every time he swings them at someone they're subjected to being hit with basically the entire mass of a planet/star. He can release said celestial objects at will for greater AoE.

 

[Cryso Agori]

Maxwell's Demon

Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867 in which he suggested how the second law of thermodynamics might hypothetically be violated.[1] In the thought experiment, a demon controls a small door between two compartments of gas. As individual gas molecules approach the door, the demon quickly opens and shuts the door so that only fast molecules are passed into one of the chambers, while only slow molecules are passed into the other. Because faster molecules are hotter, the demon's behaviour causes one chamber to warm up and the other to cool down, thereby decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics. This thought experiment has provoked debate and theoretical work on the relation between thermodynamics and information theory extending to the present day, with a number of scientists arguing that theoretical considerations rule out any practical device violating the second law in this way.

The wielder of this power can isolate two places connected together (i.e "two rooms"). The wielder takes the place of the "Demon", capable of freezing or heating up either of these two places.

 

[Masterblack06]

I wrote a comic a while back that went no where so these were a few I really liked

They are good ideas

Mass and size container - Can shrink objects in size, but they still retain their original mass. The field is phase-through and can absorb some of the kinetic energy its impacts release. Not exactly that original on the surface, but my old diea for a more original spin on it included a character that actually shrinks entire planets/stars and uses them like yo-yos. Every time he swings them at someone they're subjected to being hit with basically the entire mass of a planet/star. He can release said celestial objects at will for greater AoE.

This sounds dope. I'd have to tone it down a bit but it can definitely work

Maxwell's Demon



The wielder of this power can isolate two places connected together (i.e "two rooms"). The wielder takes the place of the "Demon", capable of freezing or heating up either of these two places.

This is a bit more complicated to try and do

 

[Papa Nier]

Scattering - Can disperse your body into smaller fragments.
Communing - Can summon the ghosts of the deceased.
Hallucination Projection - Brings into reality whatever the user hallucinates.
Personality Rewrite - Can entirely rewrite a person's or the user's personality.
Reality Hacking - Can hack reality as if they were hacking a game.
Lactokinesis - Can manipulate dairy-based products.
Object Inversion - Can turn people and objects inside-out.
Motion Mimicry - Can mimic motions of other people and objects like swinging on a vine without needing a vine.
Freedom - You are free and completely immune to every law, rule, fate, predestination, concept, limit, and any other type of cosmic, spiritual, mental, physical jurisdiction.

 

[Masterblack06]

Scattering - Can disperse your body into smaller fragments.
Communing - Can summon the ghosts of the deceased.
Hallucination Projection - Brings into reality whatever the user hallucinates.
Personality Rewrite - Can entirely rewrite a person's or the user's personality.
Reality Hacking - Can hack reality as if they were hacking a game.
Lactokinesis - Can manipulate dairy-based products.
Object Inversion - Can turn people and objects inside-out.
Motion Mimicry - Can mimic motions of other people and objects like swinging on a vine without needing a vine.
Freedom - You are free and completely immune to every law, rule, fate, predestination, concept, limit, and any other type of cosmic, spiritual, mental, physical jurisdiction.

Hrmmm I think I can make some of these work

 

[Example]

Electricity Manipulation: The ability to manipulate electricity flowing through different sources, such as wires, inside currently working machines, etc.

 

[Gordo]

The ability to transform…but into a duck?!

It’s kind of a useless power but there’s gotta be some humor involving one of the side characters

 

[Papa Nier]

Curing - Can remove any illness, mutation, disease, or any induced conditions.
[Dis]corporealization - Can transform others or yourself into non-corporeal or corporeal, also works on non-corporeal beings.
Non-believer - Becomes immune to the powers and effects of others as long as they don't believe.
Object Shifting - Can transform into or assume a form with object-like abilities, traits, powers, and skills, like changing their arm into a laser cannon.
Kinetic Regeneration - Regenerate your wounds when hit by anything with a form of energy.
Time Stasis Field - Can generate a time stop field around people or objects.
Spatial Warping - Can warp reality by manipulating space, such as making a small house big as a mansion on the inside than on the outside.
Light Heat Energizing - Can absorb light and heat to enhance yourself to superhuman level.
Golden Touch - Can transform matter, objects, or living beings into gold with a touch.
G-Force Empowerment - Instead of being harmed, you are enhanced by the stress and strains caused by g-force.

The ability to transform…but into a duck?!

It’s kind of a useless power but there’s gotta be some humor involving one of the side characters

A duck that can lay egg grenades like in Banjo & Kazooie

 

[Cryso Agori]

A tokusatsu power. Where the hero or villain can turn into a Kamen Rider expy.

 

[Solar Sailor]

Spatial Awareness : Being able to perceive and understand spatial distances around the user. The scope may vary, but the power allows the user to never be caught completely off guard.

Astral Projection: Being able to project your consciousness outside your body, be it to the material or to separate planes of existence.

Mind Walking/Dream Walking: The ability to Astrial project your consciousness inside the mind of another being, be it human or not.​

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Possession: Being able to take over the body of another living being with your own spirit.​

Magnetic Assignment: Being able to apply magnetism to any another object. Causes two or more objects to attract or repel each other.

Soul Vision/Soul Perception: Being able to see spiritual entities yourself.

Ice Vision: Being able to freeze anything you can perceive with ice.

Fire Phasing: You can pass through any piece of matter you chose, but whatever you pass through also burns.

Healing Touch: Able to heal anything you touch.

Petrification Touch: Being able to turn anything you touch to stone.

 

[Masterblack06]

I will mention that the setting is sort of similar to mha but everything's not nearly as shitty a d the teachers will actually, you know, teach. But yeah keep in mind these are kids just becoming teens we got going on here

 

[Cryso Agori]

Hm, I feel we should make some weakness for these powers. Just to make things you know fair, unless the power is specifically designed to be as broken as possible.

Since MHA is one of the inspirations you could have weird weaknesses or things like how Lida's fuel for his engines is orange juice.

 

[Solar Sailor]

With Astrial Projection, and its subcategories, it leaves your body vulnerable to attack.

With some like Healing Touch and Petrification Touch, you need physical contact for it to work. And you’re still a squishy human

Soul Vision allows you to see, but that doesn’t mean you can touch those souls.

Fire Phasing, well you can’t controlled the burning fire once it starts. You’re not a fire bender. So collateral damage is a big hazard.

 

[Masterblack06]

I think the easiest way to come up with a weakness is to have a way for the power to work in an everyday setting.

For example, the MCs father can speak with the dead, so he works at a coroner's office and help solves crimes. However the person needs to be recently deceased otherwise their spirit will be too far gone to answer his questions

 

[Irradiance]

Exception Creation - The ability to create an exception to something. How abusable the exception is, is proportional to how 'absolute' the thing the exception is created in was. E.g. an object that was literally unbreakable will get the exception that it can be easily broken if you just shout "Break!" while attacking it. An object that can be broken, but could withstand nuclear weapons, might instead get the exception that it can be easily broken if hit with a copper weapon. A simple bulletproof vest could just get the exception that it can easily be broken by a 2.31cm long glass bullet hitting the wearer between the third and fourth rib.
It's a good power for a supporter-type character, possibly as support for a character with a Creation-type power like Momo.

Ability Reversal - Reverses the effects of all abilities in a certain range around the user. E.g. Healing causes damage and Fire Attacks turn into Water Attacks. Also reverses stats, with the user as fixpoint i.e. everyone stronger and faster than them will end up weaker and slower within that range. However, everyone originally weaker and slower than them will end up boosted to be faster and stronger than them.

Perfect Servant - The power allows the user to succeed in whatever they are doing (within reason) just as long as a certain preselected person (the 'master') has ordered them to do it. This power is basically a writing challenge. If the user and master cooperate it's easily an extremely broken power, so they generally should have a dysfunctional dynamic that prevents them from effectively doing so.

Anti-Surprise Attack - Negates any attack the user didn't notice coming. Can be abused by the user wearing a blindfold + headphones to not see any attack coming, but at the cost that the user's only way to attack is to trash everything around them at random.

 

[GregSteve]

Dungeon Master- user can use dice rolls to make situations go in his favor but if the roll is bad he can't roll for 5 minutes and summons a creature that helps their enemy, sort of luck manipulation

Alley Cat- user has cat-like agility, speed, hearing etc but when they transform they invoke one of their 9 lives that give them a special add on power and personality shift only issue is its random which one it is