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[Orbis Tabula]

i've always though it would be cool to take away all light from a certain distance from you, like everything goes dark and stuff, like a team of bad people go to rob a place and one of them makes the whole house completely dark even in daylight

You should look up Worm. It's a Web serial about super heroes and one of the main characters has this power.

 

[FlowersisBritish]

OP you should check out JoJo's Bizzare adventures. In part 3 they introduce these things called Stands that are essentially super powers. Why might you like it? Because all the "Superpowers" are unique, used cleverly, and gimmiky as hell. That's what makes them so great.

Some examples:
A character that heals whatever he punches, so he breaks through a wall to escape and the wall heals itself up when he's through.
A character who can hide things in folded paper.
A kid who steals your soul in a game of rock paper scissors.
A character that can go to parallel dimensions by wedging himself between two surfaces.

 

[Bold One]

Control plastic

 

[The Incarnation]

The power to turn any YouTube comment into reality.

 

[toythatkills]

The power to turn any YouTube comment into reality.

Pure supervillain.

OP you should check out JoJo's Bizzare adventures. In part 3 they introduce these things called Stands that are essentially super powers. Why might you like it? Because all the "Superpowers" are unique, used cleverly, and gimmiky as hell. That's what makes them so great.

Some examples:
A character that heals whatever he punches, so he breaks through a wall to escape and the wall heals itself up when he's through.
A character who can hide things in folded paper.
A kid who steals your soul in a game of rock paper scissors.
A character that can go to parallel dimensions by wedging himself between two surfaces.

Reminds me of some of the weird powers in Misfits.

There was a guy that could control milk and other lactose products, "lactokenesis". Turned out pretty useful/evil when

Spoiler

he figured out he could choke/drown people by bringing their stomach contents up into their throat.

Hah, yeah, this is the sort of thing I was hoping it'd be! Rather than "oh, it's this again."

 

[……forgetit]

sword arms

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Pretty lame when you see it.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Ability to turn people into King of Queens characters.

 

[Sinfamy]

Ability to tell jokes so funny it kills people from laughing.

 

[Nealand Liquor]

Sweat mayonnaise.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Super Peed. The jet from your schlong is so strong it can go through an engine block at 150 paces. It could tear human flesh apart like a hot yellow knife through room temperature butter. Also comes with super tendons and super back-up spines as standard... y'know, so you don't get blasted back.

Virulent Gurning. Whatever face you can pull, if someone sees it, their face pulls the exact same expression.

The On-i. Able to turn things on or off with the blink of an eye. Traffic lights, cars, TVs, radios, the internet, The On-i is a master of all appliances and machines. Also able to delete emails with a mere thought.

Shitmancy. Able to manipulate and bring faecal matter to life, even when it's still inside someone. Poo is his/her puppet. Also able to divine the future through the medium of fudge dragons.

Money Divining. Able to locate money that has been dropped on the street, both notes and coins. Works with foreign currencies too.

Warden Rib Cage. The wielder's rib cage is able to swing open, unleash meaty tentacles that grab and shrink down their target (wizard did it), and contain them inside their chest. They have to let them go after 24 hours or the wielder will digest them (wizard did it again).

Hair Suit. Able to grow hear anywhere on their body through pure will. The hair cannot be controlled and it takes the normal amount of time for it to grow. They can't get rid of it once it starts growing there though.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

The superpower to create black holes... limited to the micro variety. Basically the power alone is worthless, the mass of the micro black hole being too insignificant to really hold themselves together, let alone cause any noticeable harm. However someone knowledgeable enough could potentially cultivate the power in ways to produce energy through radiation.

 

[Manmademan]

Ability to tell jokes so funny it kills people from laughing.

I have just the guy for you

 

[Ric Flair]

My eyes can morph into little versions of me that crawl out of my eye sockets and roam around. The only problem is the little versions of me fully embody my pervy-ness, so the other heroes in the room need to constantly stay on me about not doing something totally perverted in a scenario that calls on tiny heroes to be used (such as crawling into a key-hole or something of the sort)

 

[weekev]

Can cook anything in 5 minutes, and I mean anything, a full roast dinner, beef wellington, popcorn and they do it only using milk and a finger.

I think I'll call him the Milkelin man (a play on the Michelin man -> Michelin star)

 

[Sinatar]

Ability to tell jokes so funny it kills people from laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbnvkMRPKM

 

[SliceSabre]

Able to control time.

No not actual time but merely the time being displayed on clocks.

 

[Indrid Cold1]

Atomic farts

 

[Manmademan]

Able to control time.

No not actual time but merely the time being displayed on clocks.

A forgotten character from the Golden Age of comic books, Mister Midnite first appeared in Silver Streak Comics in 1939. While many writers were dreaming up cool powers for new superheroes to cash in on the success of Superman, the brains at little-known Comic House Publishers came up with Mister Midnite (alias "wealthy young sportsman" Neal Carruthers), who possessed a unique power. When he called out "Stop, time!" he could stop time? Well, not exactly. He could only stop clocks. He only lasted two issues, perhaps because his publisher realized that there was only so much you can do with that power. Fortunately, he never had to battle Uri Geller.

.

 

[Slayven]

Ability to manifest fictional items in reality

Any tech, weapons, vehicles, etc. from any movie, show, game, literature at your disposal

Reader is able to make what he reads reality

 

[Thatonemoor]

.

Pretty lame when you see it.

You will never be able to leave RazorFist alone will you?

 

[Slayven]

You will never be able to leave RazorFist alone will you?

what is crazy is there has been like 4 razorfists, why?

 

[weekev]

Super Peed. The jet from your schlong is so strong it can go through an engine block at 150 paces. It could tear human flesh apart like a hot yellow knife through room temperature butter. Also comes with super tendons and super back-up spines as standard... y'know, so you don't get blasted back.

Virulent Gurning. Whatever face you can pull, if someone sees it, their face pulls the exact same expression.

The On-i. Able to turn things on or off with the blink of an eye. Traffic lights, cars, TVs, radios, the internet, The On-i is a master of all appliances and machines. Also able to delete emails with a mere thought.

Shitmancy. Able to manipulate and bring faecal matter to life, even when it's still inside someone. Poo is his/her puppet. Also able to divine the future through the medium of fudge dragons.

Money Divining. Able to locate money that has been dropped on the street, both notes and coins. Works with foreign currencies too.

Warden Rib Cage. The wielder's rib cage is able to swing open, unleash meaty tentacles that grab and shrink down their target (wizard did it), and contain them inside their chest. They have to let them go after 24 hours or the wielder will digest them (wizard did it again).

Hair Suit. Able to grow hear anywhere on their body through pure will. The hair cannot be controlled and it takes the normal amount of time for it to grow. They can't get rid of it once it starts growing there though.

Join them all together and get them to take on the avengers, what. a. team

 

[Manmademan]

Flavor master.
Can identify all ingredients and flavors in whatever is consumed.

good news!

Superhuman Sense of Taste: Daredevil's sense of taste enables him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there are at least twenty milligrams of that substance present.

Join them all together and get them to take on the avengers, what. a. team

One of those is an X-man already, and beat SHIELD pretty much by himself.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Join them all together and get them to take on the avengers, what. a. team

Haha! Who do you see them matched up against?

One of those is an X-man already, and beat SHIELD pretty much by himself.

Dafuq? Who travelled through time and ripped me off?

 

[super-famicom]

Can turn sound into green waves, like physical waves you can see.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Make anyone shit themselves.

 

[SliceSabre]

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Oh wow and I thought I was onto something.

 

[Slayven]

Make anyone shit themselves.

There is a character whose ability is to teleport shit from anywhere in the world to him. Fecal Matter

 

[Timeaisis]

Keeps food hot.

Keeps food cold.

Can juggle anything.

Can juggle food while keeping it at the appropriate temperature for consumption.

 

[Regiruler]

Can make anybody else forget anything he wishes

Would probably be hard to put a heroic take on though.

I would have thought a character like that would bring about a large stack of books or something.

 

[Slayven]

Can juggle anything.

You don't know about the Death Throws? A team of evil jugglers

 

[PeskyToaster]

Keeps food hot.

Keeps food cold.

Some sort of Hot Coldman?

 

[weekev]

Haha! Who do you see them matched up against?



Dafuq? Who travelled through time and ripped me off?

I mean Super Peed, is clearly the leader, I guess he'd probably need to split his stream and take on Captain America and the Hulk at the same time.

Money Divining could take on Iron man, because Iron Man is a greedy fucker so he wouldn't be able to resist the random Nickels and dimes that he finds in the street.

Virulent Gurning could take on Black Widow cos I reckon shes a bit vain so would react pretty badly to losing her looks.

Shitmancy would take on Thor cos he would love to play with god poo.

Warden Rib Cage could take on Hawkeye and every time he tries to escape by shooting his bow and arrow he could flip open the cage and the arrow could skewer another of the heroes.

Hair Suit would randomly be the brains of the whole operation and could map out the attack by using a hair plan on his back to show the map and the route everyone was to take.

 

[Slayven]

Can make anybody else forget anything he wishes

Would probably be hard to put a heroic take on though.


I would have thought a character like that would bring about a large stack of books or something.

They blinded him so now he uses a braille tablet.

 

[Screaming Meat]

I mean Super Peed, is clearly the leader, I guess he'd probably need to split his stream and take on Captain America and the Hulk at the same time.

Money Divining could take on Iron man, because Iron Man is a greedy fucker so he wouldn't be able to resist the random Nickels and dimes that he finds in the street.

Virulent Gurning could take on Black Widow cos I reckon shes a bit vain so would react pretty badly to losing her looks.

Shitmancy would take on Thor cos he would love to play with god poo.

Warden Rib Cage could take on Hawkeye and every time he tries to escape by shooting his bow and arrow he could flip open the cage and the arrow could skewer another of the heroes.

Hair Suit would randomly be the brains of the whole operation and could map out the attack by using a hair plan on his back to show the map and the route everyone was to take.

Cut this man a cheque!

 

[Manmademan]

Haha! Who do you see them matched up against?

Dafuq? Who travelled through time and ripped me off?

Hijack has the ability to control machinery to an indeterminate degree. Started with simple on and off, snowballed from there. Shield was less than amused when they discovered he can't be shot, since guns won't work against him. Last seen controlling sentinels by himself and sending SHIELD helicarriers on an uncontrollable joyride down the eastern seaboard.
Quite possibly the most broken Xman ever invented.

Another one of yours is pretty close to Mondo, from the original Generation X run back in the 90s.

Mondo is capable of taking on the properties of any organic or inorganic material with which he comes into contact. When using his power, Mondo is able to grow in mass with an assumed proportionate growth in strength to superhuman levels.

Mondo can absorb matter into his body, gaining the mass, appearance, and other properties of the matter in question. This change will remain until Mondo's body "digests" the organic matter, which is then disintegrated.

Mondo is also able to use his power to travel through organic matter, such as dirt, and can appear instantaneously in the immediate vicinity of where he entered the earth.

 

[Thatonemoor]

They blinded him so now he uses a braille tablet.

I've always wondered why Reader doesn't just write "I regrow my eyes" in braille and read his eyesight back.

 

[PSqueak]

Perfectly efficient body functions:

Everything you eat, intake, or other wise consume has nutritional value, nothing generates waste, you never have to pee or poop, can't be poisoned, peak athletic capabilities.
Basically Matter Eater Lad taken to his logical extreme.

Meta-abstract concept control:

Ability to alter reality by changing abstract thoughts and concepts, ie, making puns changes warps reality to reflect the pun.


Hyper problem solving:

A subset of super intelligence, allows to in a fraction of a second calculate every possible outcome to a given situation in order to take the best solution literally possible.

 

[Timeaisis]

Hair Suit sounds like a real winner.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

Keeps food cold.

Keeps food hot.

The Human Thermos?

 

[zeemumu]

Chances are that JoJo has thought of any remaining superpowers and given them to Stands.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Hijack has the ability to control machinery to an indeterminate degree. Started with simple on and off, snowballed from there. Shield was less than amused when they discovered he can't be shot, since guns won't work against him. Last seen controlling sentinels by himself and sending SHIELD helicarriers on an uncontrollable joyride down the eastern seaboard.
Quite possibly the most broken Xman ever invented.

Those rat bastards!

Another one of yours is pretty close to Mondo, from the original Generation X run back in the 90s.

Oh, I remember Mondo. The Gen X run in AoA was easily my favourite. He's way more powerful than my guy. I was thinking more of a PG rated:

 

[NeonBlack]

On misfits there was a guy that could control dairy products. Sounds harmless, until he started killing anyone that ate it.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

There is a character whose ability is to teleport shit from anywhere in the world to him. Fecal Matter

Seems like he takes a lot of shit.

 

[JC Lately]

The power to teleport the dog shit people leave on the sidewalk and lawns while walking their fucking mutts (instead of bagging it as required by law) directly into the owner's home. Preferably directly onto their bed. Or inside their work shoes. I'm not picky.

EDIT: ironic that I post this right after fecal matter guy.

 

[Manmademan]

Perfectly efficient body functions:

Everything you eat, intake, or other wise consume has nutritional value, nothing generates waste, you never have to pee or poop, can't be poisoned, peak athletic capabilities.
Basically Matter Eater Lad taken to his logical extreme.

Meta-abstract concept control:

Ability to alter reality by changing abstract thoughts and concepts, ie, making puns changes warps reality to reflect the pun.


Hyper problem solving:

A subset of super intelligence, allows to in a fraction of a second calculate every possible outcome to a given situation in order to take the best solution literally possible.

Pretty sure Midnighter has this.

Many writers have referenced Midnighter's trademark ability to predict the unfolding of a battle before it starts. Early in Ellis's run on The Authority, the character was described as having a mental combat computer, with neural-inductive implants, which he uses to run through a given combat situation millions of times in his mind, almost instantly covering nearly every possible result before the first punch is even thrown. This allows for the perfect response and counterattack, such that if Midnighter can possibly win a battle, he will. Ellis portrayed the Midnighter delivering a monologue on this ability to intimidate opponents; Keith Giffen later had the character distribute a business card to this effect, to save time. Issue No. 7 of the Midnighter solo series, written by Brian K. Vaughan, showed the character using this ability regressively, to visualise the desired outcome of a battle and work backwards logically to achieve it. The stand-alone Authority graphic novel Human on the Inside, by John Ridley, suggested the ability was reactive, and required an opponent to make a first move to define the possibilities for a response. Though this is contradicted by numerous earlier, and later comics. Midnighter was also unable to use this ability against the Joker due to the latter's extreme insanity.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Hair Suit sounds like a real winner.

The possible applications of his/her power are limited.

At best.

 

[DrArchon]

Chances are that JoJo has thought of any remaining superpowers and given them to Stands.

Yeah, I was gonna say. So many of the later Stand powers are so abstract and wonky that anything cool that I could think of was done better by Jojo years ago.

 

[Manu]

It's not entirely novel but I got the idea for a new super hero rewatching Stir of Echoes.

Name: Murder Vision

Essentially a reverse ability of what Kevin Bacon experiences. It's also riffing on Minority Report somewhat but without the tech amps.

The character gets completely random and unsolicited visions, either through dream or whenever of vague acts of murder before they happen. He doesn't know when they'll occur or necessarily to whom but he has to go on a mystery-solving adventure before it's too late. Using the ambiguous clues he's obtained from his vision (usually rudely jotting down on a pad next to his bed?). I dunno. I don't ready comics so I just riffed on that.

This is basically what Doyle (and later Cordelia) did on Angel.

 

[The Berg]

The power to summon dancing skeletons