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Super Powers With A Downside

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You have a friend who you have a strong, near telepathic connection with. Together, you beat people with hammers and magical ice that can freeze them solid. The catch? You aren't in the next Super Smash Bros.

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You have a friend who you have a strong, near telepathic connection with. Together, you beat people with hammers and magical ice that can freeze them solid. The catch? You aren't in the next Super Smash Bros.

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To explain the references people are making to Darker Than Black, in that show, there are people called Contractors who are able to use special abilities, but after they use them, they are compelled to perform arbitrary actions, such as eating a certain food, doing something particular to themselves, or performing some kind of ritual. Their emotions are also dampened.
EDIT: Though some do directly have things happen to them as costs, such aging backwards some number of years.
 
Indestructibility but you feel pain as a normal human being.

Example: So if someone sets you on fire you feel like you're being burned alive.,etc.
 
This thread is well served by Global Frequency where superpowers like extraordinary strength come with the cost of needing painful and poor-fitting augmentations to the human skeleton so it can bear the added stresses.

Or Rising Stars, where the power to speak to the dead is balanced off by not being able to switch it off, resulting in constant hauntings by dead people who never shut up. I guess Sixth Sense did that too. There's also an invulnerable man who can't sense anything but flavor, so he gets fat and can't really find a job.

Concrete also frequently deals with a guy who has incredible strength and durability, but at the cost of his human form in exchange for one that can't feel the touch of others, swim, or walk on floors not designed to carry tons of weight.
 
You're immortal, but any new knowledge that you gain and any events that you experience are forgotten after 24 hours.
 
The ability to always see your home. Even though walls. You need to, for example, carefully check that when you go to the theatre that the screen faces the right way, so your view isn't blocked by your house.
 
Once you flame on you can't flame off.. lol

The ability to always see your home. Even though walls. You need to, for example, carefully check that when you go to the theatre that the screen faces the right way, so your view isn't blocked by your house.

Wat
 
Power to attract any person of your preferred gender, problem it also affects family members.
Let's not derail thread with the other issue of this power.
 
Playing the recent reboot of tomb raider and seeing her with 100 cuts/scars, made me think of having a healing factor but inability to heal tissue.
 
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