Non-traditional power sets
Let's brainstorm some not-so-common superpowers that aren't gimmicky to the point of uselessness.
Ideas:
>Ability to cause brain damage and temporarily boost mental capabilities while doing so.
>Exchwnge the positions of any two objects if they are similar enough in mass/volume.
>Meld into the terrain and create projections made out of that terrain's material that can fight for you.
>Ability to have touched objects shoot off at the speed of a bullet, regardless of size of object.
>Ability to create "super" chemicals inside your body and shoot them out of your fingers.
>Ability to see and hear through any human's senses within a mile.
>herbakinesis
>>48314077
Been reading Worm lately, I take it?
>>48314605
All but those last two are powers characters in Worm have.
>Ability to cause brain damage and temporarily boost mental capabilities while doing so.
Ingenue
>Exchwnge the positions of any two objects if they are similar enough in mass/volume.
Trickster
>Meld into the terrain and create projections made out of that terrain's material that can fight for you.
Both Golem and Night Hag
>Ability to have touched objects shoot off at the speed of a bullet, regardless of size of object.
Ballistic
>Ability to create "super" chemicals inside your body and shoot them out of your fingers.
Gregor the Snail
>The ability to warp around corners.
You can only move as far as you can see and you have to be able to fit around the corner so you can reappear from behind a penny or something like that
>You gain the ability to generate strong jolts of static electricity
Your muscles get bigger as special muscles that generate and store the charge form and you form a protective layer of fat to insulate you from your own powers
>You create bubbles
The bubbles can only ever be as large as a beach ball but you can make them as hard or as soft as you want and they always feel like in your hands. They don't have any other properties associated with them.
>Super intelligence
You brain partially exists outside of your body as a sort of aura of electromagnetic energy. You have the ability to focus your thoughts to come up with highly accurate predictions of future events. Doing so is dangerous because you can literally overheat your body doing so.
>>48314077
>the ability to create super-strong tethers that connect you to any object.
I thought I was being really clever with this one, until I realized I had literally just made Spider-Man.
>>48314077
>The ability to draw large amounts of gas into yourself, then exhale it with enormous force.
This ability would also protect you from the adverse effects of inhaling said gases. For example, someone with this power might be able to inhale large amounts of a flammable gas, and using a lighter, breathe fire.
The ability to force people to imitate pin-up poses. For maximum effectiveness, use pictures that are off model or feature impossible contortions.
>>48314077
>>Meld into the terrain and create projections made out of that terrain's material that can fight for you.
Bat Beyondunmelding isn't part of the ability.[/spoiler
>>48314077
>You have complete control over your body temperature, as well as immunity to extreme temperatures.
If your hands were hot enough, you could likely shape a rudimentary spear in seconds using this power.
>can change the frame of reference with which you are moving, while keeping the same speed
>>48314077
>The ability to change the weight of your body (or any part of your body) at will. you still have the same amount of strength and are no harder to injure.
>Create new joints within your body
>make like 20 joints in your arm, curl them up and then straighten
>the ultimate backhand slap
>You draw energy from things that spin
>attach a shit ton of pinwheels to yourself
>run forever
>If you touch something you can reverse its momentum
>touch the earth
>you just ruined everything way to go you fuckwit
>You can change any vegetable you touch into a fruit of your choice
>don't like veggies?
>you're covered
>>48315830
Or you know, just fucking kill someone with your white hot hands
>Your skin can absorb and store light, allowing you to illuminate a dark cavern or blind your foes with radiating light
>You lose your reflection but can now enter mirrors into a reflection world. The mirror world is like a blurry fog, the only clearly defined areas being things in other mirrors.
>You can anchor your position in spacetime rendering you an indestructable immovable object, however the planet will continue to rotate and revolve around you.
>You can gain people's memories by touch but you will lose some of yours in its place. Conversely, you can put your memories into another person, however they too will have to forget something to make room.
>Your aura gains the properties of both rubber and gum
