Cool SuperPowers

[ultimatespyder20]

So I was thinking last night, I was tring to think of some kind of really cool superpower for a villian. I came up with a few things, but them I was like, "I'll ask some people on CBR and see what they think is a cool superpower." So here I am. A power I thought up was; So a guy puts on this suit that takes in solar energy and converts it into some sort of energy blast that he can shoot from his hands. Please list your thoughts, and some cool superpowers you like.

Alec

[the invincible ironfran-cis]

How about this: the power to fill burglars with doubt as to whether or not they're robbing the right house.

[Haunt]

So I was thinking last night, I was tring to think of some kind of really cool superpower for a villian. I came up with a few things, but them I was like, "I'll ask some people on CBR and see what they think is a cool superpower." So here I am. A power I thought up was; So a guy puts on this suit that takes in solar energy and converts it into some sort of energy blast that he can shoot from his hands. Please list your thoughts, and some cool superpowers you like.

Alec


how about a villain who can generate duplicates from severed body parts? or one who can psionically solidify air?

[the invincible ironfran-cis]

You know what you never see--a guy who can make cheeseburgers from thin air. Maybe the Molecule Man?

How about a guy who can stare at you, not causing you penance, but could give you excessive complusive disorder and severe terrets instead.

"Can't fight: must wash hands. Damn it! Fart nose!"

[Leebenhouse]

How about, a guy, that has his own country....

Crap, Stan Lee Did it.

A guy that eats planets?

Stan Lee Did it.

A guy that can control metal...

Stan Lee Did it.

Ehh, most of the good powers are taken, just come up with a cool remix. Or variation. Just think twisted version of the good guy. Or his opposite. See Unbreakable, by M. Night Shalaman.

[kel25]

Intangibility and Invisibility. Do I really need to explain how abusive this combo is?

[Miss Kitty Fantastico]

As a matter of fact I've been pondering interesting power-choices, for a fanfic I may or may not ever get around to writing. I've come up with a few that, if not yet fully worked-out, at least have interesting promise. Not being a huge expert on Marvel I don't know if these have been tried before - but what the heck, it's not like you never see superheroes doubling up on powers:

Lens: can shift mental 'processing power' from one sense to another - one-to-one (decreasing hearing to correspondingly increase visual acuity) or many-to-one (slight decreases in various senses to enhance a single one). She'd make a great CSI - she'd just need to take a few passes at a room to see every detail, smell every sense, and so on. There's the potential for her to be pretty good in a fight - shunting perception away from less useful senses like taste and smell and pain to boost sight, hearing, balance and body awareness - but without having actual super-strength or speed, she'd still be limited enough to make it interesting. Strikes me as the kind of thing that'd be a mutation, rather than an artificially-created superpower. Also entirely 'passive', so it'd be real easy to hide from people. And you get the interesting question of, if she's so good at perceiving available details, does that mean she's never had to really intuit anything? She could seem very insightful, but if she had little data to work with it might turn out that she's actually very inexperienced at interpreting that data.

Faith: a projective empath - what she says, others believe. All sorts of potential for abuse and angst: imagine she got pissed off at someone, over a trifling matter, and told them they were worthless, just as an insult - and they immediately jumped in front of a car and died? She'd be left severely screwed up, hating her powers, yet unable to switch them off, and having a lifetime of using them for comfort and material gain still tempting her. Like an addict who wants to recover, but with the added problem that no-one can actually argue with her - no-one can force her to wise up, she has to do it all by herself.

And Midas (metaphorically, that is - no gold involved), a villain: she destroys anything she touches. A really tricky one to work out, this one - in theory she'd be awesome in combat, because you couldn't shoot her, punch her, hit her with anything, or use kinetic energy in any way. But the logical problems are considerable - there needs to be some way for her to breathe (without disintegrating the oxygen molecules), walk (without making the ground blow up), wear clothes (though the handy thing with fanfic is you can have a character naked without actually breaching a PG rating, unless you get all descriptive)... It'd be convenient for it to be something she does consciously, and can turn on and off, but the idea of it being constant and involuntary, a person who cannot be touched by anything - psychologically, that's kick-ass for character angst. There's also the problem of energy weapons - if they work against her she's too easy ('cause zap guns are pretty common in the MU), but if they're as ineffective as physical contact, she's practically invulnerable, which makes defeating her a real pain in the butt. Also further logical problems, about potential inability to absorb heat, reflect light, and so on. Call her a work in progress :rolleyes:

[Haunt]

Intangibility and Invisibility. Do I really need to explain how abusive this combo is?


the Ghost (iron man villain) beat you to it.

[the invincible ironfran-cis]

As a matter of fact I've been pondering interesting power-choices, for a fanfic I may or may not ever get around to writing. I've come up with a few that, if not yet fully worked-out, at least have interesting promise. Not being a huge expert on Marvel I don't know if these have been tried before - but what the heck, it's not like you never see superheroes doubling up on powers:

Lens: can shift mental 'processing power' from one sense to another - one-to-one (decreasing hearing to correspondingly increase visual acuity) or many-to-one (slight decreases in various senses to enhance a single one). She'd make a great CSI - she'd just need to take a few passes at a room to see every detail, smell every sense, and so on. There's the potential for her to be pretty good in a fight - shunting perception away from less useful senses like taste and smell and pain to boost sight, hearing, balance and body awareness - but without having actual super-strength or speed, she'd still be limited enough to make it interesting. Strikes me as the kind of thing that'd be a mutation, rather than an artificially-created superpower. Also entirely 'passive', so it'd be real easy to hide from people. And you get the interesting question of, if she's so good at perceiving available details, does that mean she's never had to really intuit anything? She could seem very insightful, but if she had little data to work with it might turn out that she's actually very inexperienced at interpreting that data.

Faith: a projective empath - what she says, others believe. All sorts of potential for abuse and angst: imagine she got pissed off at someone, over a trifling matter, and told them they were worthless, just as an insult - and they immediately jumped in front of a car and died? She'd be left severely screwed up, hating her powers, yet unable to switch them off, and having a lifetime of using them for comfort and material gain still tempting her. Like an addict who wants to recover, but with the added problem that no-one can actually argue with her - no-one can force her to wise up, she has to do it all by herself.

And Midas (metaphorically, that is - no gold involved), a villain: she destroys anything she touches. A really tricky one to work out, this one - in theory she'd be awesome in combat, because you couldn't shoot her, punch her, hit her with anything, or use kinetic energy in any way. But the logical problems are considerable - there needs to be some way for her to breathe (without disintegrating the oxygen molecules), walk (without making the ground blow up), wear clothes (though the handy thing with fanfic is you can have a character naked without actually breaching a PG rating, unless you get all descriptive)... It'd be convenient for it to be something she does consciously, and can turn on and off, but the idea of it being constant and involuntary, a person who cannot be touched by anything - psychologically, that's kick-ass for character angst. There's also the problem of energy weapons - if they work against her she's too easy ('cause zap guns are pretty common in the MU), but if they're as ineffective as physical contact, she's practically invulnerable, which makes defeating her a real pain in the butt. Also further logical problems, about potential inability to absorb heat, reflect light, and so on. Call her a work in progress :rolleyes:


Well that sounds interesting to me.

If it helps you at all--just to know some obscure details from the MU--there actually was a character like your Midas in an old issue of Ironman in the 80's. He was a mutant named Termite. Just a regular looking guy--but with a cheesy green costume; and he could disintegrate stuff by touching it. Jim Rhodes (War Machine later) in his manic state nearly killed him, until the Scarlet Witch intervened.

There was one even a character called Midas (also in Ironman--early 100's). And I think he did actually turn things to gold; or was obsessed with gold.

But I wouldn't let that get you down. Honestly, no one has heard seriously from either of these lame villians in twenty years (at least).

I like what your doing.

Personally, I think serious female characters are needed. I guess guys just don't know how to write for women. If it were me: I wouldn't just try to make the character some kind of fantasy girl. You'll notice that in the art aspect a lot--big bosoms, etc.

I think a strong female character could be an older woman--sexy in an elegant sort of, wise, powerful way. Not super strong. That's been done too. More like a real brain--mental powers. The ability to lift buildings with her mind. The most powerful woman on Earth. Someone that isn't even bothered by a toss of Thor's hammer at her head--she'd just wave her hand like swatting a fly, indifferently.

[kel25]

the Ghost (iron man villain) beat you to it.

Bah and I thought I was being original. :evilsmile

Never heard of him though. Considering I don’t read Avengers or Iron Man much it’s no surprise.

[Haunt]

Bah and I thought I was being original. :evilsmile

Never heard of him though. Considering I don’t read Avengers or Iron Man much it’s no surprise.


you should pick up an issue of the Iron Man:Inevitable mini that just ended a week or so ago. Ghost was one of the 3 bad guys and he was really funny in it. his whole thing is that he hates big business and the corporate world. so he designed his intangibility/invisibility suit to commit industrial sabotage. he is usually paid to do this but it was revealed that he accepts the money so that no one will think he's insane (which he is).

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=43000963717%202

[Bobster777]

I would love to have powers like Captain Atom (DC). It would be do have all the nuclear power encased in steel. I would want to have full control of it though. I wouldn't want to be giving innocent people cancer or anything like that.

[Clint Barton]

How about the power to shoot wads of cotton from your fingernails?

[Bobster777]

Ha ha, yeah, I would love to see that.

Wolverine vs.....Cotton Boy.

[the invincible ironfran-cis]

Now wait just one cotton-pickin minute!

That almost sounds kind of gross. Like a fungus or something. Could be a ladies nail design expert on the side:)

[The Mighty Musnud]

I always thought it would be cool if somebody could shoot gravel from their eyes!

[Clint Barton]

The ability to smell like fava beans (at will) would be a cool superpower as well.:D

[littleredhat]

the best super villen concept I ever heard of(I don't know the name of the guy) was this guy who was a nazi made of radioactive bees.:D

[whassup_bun]

Midas (metaphorically, that is - no gold involved), a villain: she destroys anything she touches.

What happens when she touches herself? Does she explode? :confused:

[filthysize]

A guy who causes malnutrition?

[Llamablaster]

I always said the best super power would be a tail.

Not like a cool prehensile tail like Nightcrawler has, but like a little dog's nubbin tail.

When the hero/villain asks you "What's your super power?" You walk up and show them the little tail.

And then while they're doubled over with laughter, you shoot them.

[DDM]

What happens when she touches herself? Does she explode? :confused:

She's immune to her own power. It's why Dazzler is not blinded when she "dazzles" people or Phoenix is not burned by the Phoenix Effect she manifests.

[Loestal]

the best super villen concept I ever heard of(I don't know the name of the guy) was this guy who was a nazi made of radioactive bees.:D

You talkin bout Swarm?

[Expletive Deleted]

Not really Marvel-centric, so . . .

[Lord of Denial]

A guy who has the ability to split himself into seperate beings and each as a different superpower. One has invisiblity, one has intangiblity, one can shapeshift and one has telepathy.

[jim1175]

Like Madam Web?



Well that sounds interesting to me.

If it helps you at all--just to know some obscure details from the MU--there actually was a character like your Midas in an old issue of Ironman in the 80's. He was a mutant named Termite. Just a regular looking guy--but with a cheesy green costume; and he could disintegrate stuff by touching it. Jim Rhodes (War Machine later) in his manic state nearly killed him, until the Scarlet Witch intervened.

There was one even a character called Midas (also in Ironman--early 100's). And I think he did actually turn things to gold; or was obsessed with gold.

But I wouldn't let that get you down. Honestly, no one has heard seriously from either of these lame villians in twenty years (at least).

I like what your doing.

Personally, I think serious female characters are needed. I guess guys just don't know how to write for women. If it were me: I wouldn't just try to make the character some kind of fantasy girl. You'll notice that in the art aspect a lot--big bosoms, etc.

I think a strong female character could be an older woman--sexy in an elegant sort of, wise, powerful way. Not super strong. That's been done too. More like a real brain--mental powers. The ability to lift buildings with her mind. The most powerful woman on Earth. Someone that isn't even bothered by a toss of Thor's hammer at her head--she'd just wave her hand like swatting a fly, indifferently.

[Erebus]

The power to summon Willie Nelson at will would be pretty awesome.

[jim1175]

A guy who is super strong like Superman, but has osteoporosis and has to be very careful not to break himself…. I call him Frustration-Man, He fights crime with his senile chiropractic friend – Forgetful Bones, together they work to rid the world of criminals and degenerative disease.

[jim1175]

Okay How about "The Itch"... His power is that he can afflict people with an insatiable itch. Think of what he could do to the Juggernaut.... Inflicting a horrible itch on the Juggernauts Head causing him to rip his own helmet off to scratch, thereby negating his own power.... Copyright pending on this character!

[Rachel Grey]

Lust Bunny, Mistress of Pheromones.

[SteelTownr]

I always said the best super power would be a tail.

Not like a cool prehensile tail like Nightcrawler has, but like a little dog's nubbin tail.

When the hero/villain asks you "What's your super power?" You walk up and show them the little tail.

And then while they're doubled over with laughter, you shoot them.

That's the guy that George Costanza played in Shallow Hal.

Mark B.

[howyadoin]

I think an awesome superpower would be the common sense to use the search function. Imagine, never having to be embarassed for starting a thread that'd been done a hundred times before.

[the invincible ironfran-cis]

I think if anyone proudly proclaimed that they had the proportionate strength and speed of a human sized "bologna" that would sound pretty damn lame!