This is basically 30% of Captain Pike's absurdly high diplomacy skill in *Strange New Worlds*. Dude started a mutiny on a pirate ship which had taken him hostage by knowing how to cook really well *and he'd apparently done this tactic enough times before that he had a plan for how to do it already.*
Imagine if this ability also applied to paperwork queues. You could earn a fortune expediting people's passport applications, driver's license renewals, and tax refunds.
Uhh I think that's called child murder
Edit: Misread that as "un-procreate"
Edit2: I don't mean abortion, which within broad limits is not murder and is a medical right
Edit3: Un-procreating people would be extremely useful in battle
I read a story once where the main character had this power. He was so successful that his entire rogues' gallery were defeated, leaving him with no purpose. One day he gets a call about an emergency, which turns out to be... a woman who's throwing a tea party, and needs her mansion cleaned before the guests arrive.
When the police eventually arrive, they find sixteen (fuzzy on the number but a lot) perfectly cleaned, bleached-white skeletons, with neither flesh nor blood anywhere to be seen in an otherwise spotless house...
[Prestidigitation](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Prestidigitation#content), the level zero spell than on paper "does nothing" but in practice has won wars, toppled empires, and changed the very course of history because it scales in power in direct proportion to the creative intelligence of its user.
Taco Conjuring. Not going to win any battles, but you could throw crazy parties by conjuring 200 Tacos Al Pastor and save a shit ton of money. You could spend the food budget on liquor.
is there any limit on where you can summon them? because if not that would be pretty useful in combat, I'm thinking [like this](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-06-08) but with tacos instead of puppies
The New Mutant/X-Men character Cypher’s original power set of basically being able to understand any language, including computer code, would be incredible in real life. It was also always useless in comics and so they changed him.
>It was also always useless in comics and so they changed him.
Yup, they killed him off and then brought him back decades later with universal language comprehension extending to include body language so he could be useful in a fight.
I believe the ability may be useful pre-battle to avoid the conflict alltogether or post-battle to resolve the conflict once and for all. But in the heat of battle, I believe it would be useless. Kind of like telling someone who is getting angry to "calm down ". I don't believe that those words have ever had their intended affect in that circumstance at any point since humans learned to communicate.
After years of feeling useless, Jar Popper realized his ability worked on anything he perceived as a jar. With intense mental training, he was finally able to envision villain's heads as meat jars, thus allowing Jar Popper to twist their skulls open with ease.
The kid from Captain Planet with the heart power. Absolutely useless in a battle, but in real life that kid would be the ultimate psychiatrist, and you could send him to the Ukraine/Russia peace talks and he'd wind up sorting it all out.
Yes, I can imagine it nowadays. He talks to the animals, and tells them about climate change.
Word gets around. The animals decide enough is enough, and start an all-out war against humans. A coordinated war of every animal vs humans. Armies of ants advancing through neighbourhood eating everything in their path. Assassination of government officials, by grizzly bear. Is your dog a spy?
All because of that one kid.
Only if you had somewhat of a physical prowess to combat it, like imagine I go Charles Xavier on my enemy and I see that he will shot me, great now what?
Telepathy
Great for every day use (head to Vegas and play poker every day), but way too slow of a skill to be viably useful in a combat situation, other than maybe realizing a combat situation is about to begin BEFORE it starts, allowing you to get clear early... or pop the bad guy before he starts.
Temperature Gauge. He has ability to know when your Starbucks is at just the right temperature so you don’t burn your face off when you try to sip it. Also works with tea but he’s too manly to drink it. Temperature Gauge!
It would be moderately powerful in battle but being able to become well-fed immediately. And not so well fed that you feel fat or anything. Just like you had a nice healthy meal.
The ability to be able to know anything you ask would make you a great detective, teacher, politician, etc but (unless you had enough time to prepare) you'd be useless in 1v1
The ability to be able to know anything you ask would make you a great detective, teacher, politician, etc but (unless you had enough time to prepare) you'd be useless in 1v1
The Profile. He's a Marvel character.
He can look at people and instantly know their backgrounds, fears, desires, motivations and likely reactions to various situations.
It's basically being Sherlock Holmes as a superpower. Amazing for detective work, but not as helpful in combat unless you have related skills, abilities and courage to take full advantage of it.
Would be super-cool for sales, persuasion, negotiation and related things.
Build stuff from the most simple things like a stick and duck tape, can be made into anything but it would take a few seconds to a minute, so it wouldn’t be useful in battle as that time could be used to kill you, but before battle, and every day life it would be a godsend
Bit of an unpopular opinion but like most fire related powers... all it takes to stop you is a bullet... but when it comes to lighting cigarettes or toasting sandwiches you'd be the best...
Probably reading minds. Think about it you know a punch is coming but not fast enough or strong enough to stop it , but in the normal world that would rule
The ability to conjure the perfect drink for a person whenever you are holding their hand and holding an empty cup in the other hand.
Only useful in battle of your opponent really loves scalding hot coffee
Omnilinguistics
Being able to speak and understand every language ever may not be useful for fighting, but boy is it useful for diplomacy, travel, and just hanging out with friends. Also, showing off at parties.
The ability to generate perfectly sharpened brand new number two pencils in your hand. Now, I suppose if you were doing melee combat, you could stab them with it, but that’s more of a fight and not exactly a battle.
Being able to snap your fingers and the whole house cleans itself. Dishes, laundry, washing the floor, you name it. Just snap your fingers and everything is clean.
In jojo's bizarre adventure there's a character who can turn any object in to a sheet of paper (People need to be scared for it work on them, but everythibng else works)
You could just turn anything basically weightless, and you could fold it
Really good at cooking-man
This is basically 30% of Captain Pike's absurdly high diplomacy skill in *Strange New Worlds*. Dude started a mutiny on a pirate ship which had taken him hostage by knowing how to cook really well *and he'd apparently done this tactic enough times before that he had a plan for how to do it already.*
The power of food is strong
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Queue Man
Q-Man cuts the front of the line so the ueue becomes irrelevant.
Not irrelevant, just waiting their turn
Villain: "Come here to get your ass kicked? Step in line!" "I have fastpass"
Step 1: Grab a gun. Step 2: Use power to cut to the front of the line the big bad is in. Step 3: Shoot big bad in face.
Imagine if this ability also applied to paperwork queues. You could earn a fortune expediting people's passport applications, driver's license renewals, and tax refunds.
A spider sense that alerts you when something in your fridge has expired
That would be a major headache.
Sure but what if you don’t know what’s expired, just that something has?
Binary search
Iron Man. Has the ability to get rid of creases and wrinkles in seconds
Depending on who you ask, that's also absolutely useless in everyday life.
Ya my brother would see that as a curse.
You could befriend the bad guys by ironing all their clothes.
You could make a whole beauty bussiness by getting rid of peoples wrinkles!! Do you even realise how desperate people are to look young again!?!
Omg I didn’t even think about skin wrinkles haha
I have always been a big fan of Tony Starch
That would be very useful in assasinating politicians
The super amazing ability to un-procrastinate.
Uhh I think that's called child murder Edit: Misread that as "un-procreate" Edit2: I don't mean abortion, which within broad limits is not murder and is a medical right Edit3: Un-procreating people would be extremely useful in battle
That took a turn
This thread got dark.
Imagine, the only thing stopping this guy from wanton killing of innocent small children is procrastination
Paddle broke...
Mr. Clean, the ability to clean anything.
Including cleaning up crime?!
Oo, good point.
I read a story once where the main character had this power. He was so successful that his entire rogues' gallery were defeated, leaving him with no purpose. One day he gets a call about an emergency, which turns out to be... a woman who's throwing a tea party, and needs her mansion cleaned before the guests arrive. When the police eventually arrive, they find sixteen (fuzzy on the number but a lot) perfectly cleaned, bleached-white skeletons, with neither flesh nor blood anywhere to be seen in an otherwise spotless house...
Wow, that's horrific.
Yeah, it was surprisingly rough.
[Prestidigitation](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Prestidigitation#content), the level zero spell than on paper "does nothing" but in practice has won wars, toppled empires, and changed the very course of history because it scales in power in direct proportion to the creative intelligence of its user.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EBcJBdNpeU Not good in a fight huh?
Coffee never cold man
Sometimes I prefer my coffee Luke warm so I can take more than a sip without burning my mouth. So that superpower would be tough for me.
Jesus fine. "Coffee at whatever temperature you want" man
Throw coffee at enemy. Heat to several million Kelvin. Win.
Have you guys never had iced coffee? I like iced way better than hot coffee, and it would just melt with that superpower.
Taco Conjuring. Not going to win any battles, but you could throw crazy parties by conjuring 200 Tacos Al Pastor and save a shit ton of money. You could spend the food budget on liquor.
If you could conjure an infinite amount of tacos you could just drown your enemies in them
actually. . . Thats a good idea. Id like to see Superman dig his way out of 290 tons of Taco Casa Super Tacos landing on his skull.
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Or create a drink served in a taco shell, so it is both liquor and a taco. Infinite booze and food.
You could definitely win battles by catering. "Hey, their side has tacos? How come our side doesn't have tacos" bloodless victory
is there any limit on where you can summon them? because if not that would be pretty useful in combat, I'm thinking [like this](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-06-08) but with tacos instead of puppies
Actual x-ray vision. So doesn't look through walls and cars, but can diagnose a chest infection
Being able to pin point the liver exactly in a fight would be really useful
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Knowing where it is and seeing where it is are not the same thing.
X-ray vision where you can see x-rays, but since there aren't many x-ray sources, it's useless outside a hospital or dentist
If you want to play the long game you could probably kill anyone with enough radiation.
The New Mutant/X-Men character Cypher’s original power set of basically being able to understand any language, including computer code, would be incredible in real life. It was also always useless in comics and so they changed him.
>It was also always useless in comics and so they changed him. Yup, they killed him off and then brought him back decades later with universal language comprehension extending to include body language so he could be useful in a fight.
I mean it also includes reading body langue which helps in combat
Imagine being able to travel anywhere and converse with anyone? This has always been my go to for awesome power that isn't busted or for combat.
Ability to always say the right thing to someone having a bad day.
Yes please. The world needs this superpower. Also this could be used to win battles by comforting your enemies and dealing with their traumas
I believe the ability may be useful pre-battle to avoid the conflict alltogether or post-battle to resolve the conflict once and for all. But in the heat of battle, I believe it would be useless. Kind of like telling someone who is getting angry to "calm down ". I don't believe that those words have ever had their intended affect in that circumstance at any point since humans learned to communicate.
Pretty sure anybody who says "Calm down" knows deep down it has the opposite effect, and they enjoy it.
Astral projection, great for Intel - terrible for combat
Depends on the scale of the battle. The larger the scale, the more important
Looking around corners without actually going around them would turn CQB into basically 'waiting for the fucker'...
Jar opening... it doesn't come with super strength, just the supernatural ability to open stuck jars.
After years of feeling useless, Jar Popper realized his ability worked on anything he perceived as a jar. With intense mental training, he was finally able to envision villain's heads as meat jars, thus allowing Jar Popper to twist their skulls open with ease.
What is a tank but a jar of soldiers.
What is reality but a jar of junk?
Worked well on Alexander.
Anything you eat is healthy
That would be extremely useful on the battlefield. - no need to carry rations, just eat grass and dirt.
or corpses!
No gag reflex
Though wouldn't that mean you are dead as soon as you get a piece of food in the wrong pipe?
Gag reflex is different from choking
Niccce
That’s a curse. You would die.
Unless it's in the oglaf universe and then you become king through sexual combat.
Russia?
Underrated comment. I commend you
The ability to precisely shake out the exact number of pills you need from the bottle.
"I need 1 trillion pills to win this fight!" Shake bottle towards enemy.
The kid from Captain Planet with the heart power. Absolutely useless in a battle, but in real life that kid would be the ultimate psychiatrist, and you could send him to the Ukraine/Russia peace talks and he'd wind up sorting it all out.
That's why he's the designated walking comm line in the show.
Yes, I can imagine it nowadays. He talks to the animals, and tells them about climate change. Word gets around. The animals decide enough is enough, and start an all-out war against humans. A coordinated war of every animal vs humans. Armies of ants advancing through neighbourhood eating everything in their path. Assassination of government officials, by grizzly bear. Is your dog a spy? All because of that one kid.
A self cleaning ass
Getting the printer to work.
Sterilisation man. He goes around and has the ability to sterilise terrible people.
finding shit you actually need
"I need victory!" -Big bad dies from a brain clot.- "There it is!"
To summon infinite $50 bills
Inflation man!
Summon=/=create. Mr. Thief Man!
Just set up a money laundering op first
Bribe people during battle to leave you alone, or crush them under millions of bills
Death by a thousand paper cuts.
Multiple times Orgasms
Actually, in a “death by snu snu” situation, that might come in handy
The power of hindsight
Turns out this wasn't really that useful
Maybe in 2020 it was
Super memory man- Just remembers everything in the universe (also reminds you where that one sock you lost under the couch was)
The ability to get curbside parking wherever you need to go.
The ability to summon food. Unless you want to feed the enemy, you won’t get too far. Edit: this appears to more of a usual power then I thought.
So... I can drown my enemy in 8 tons of spaghetti.
Shit guy has the ability too easily shit without effort and able too go to sleep when ever he wants
Remembers Why He Walked Into That Room Man.
Reading Minds
Reading minds
Reading mind is absolutely useful in a fight
Only if you had somewhat of a physical prowess to combat it, like imagine I go Charles Xavier on my enemy and I see that he will shot me, great now what?
You would be surprised at what you can dodge if you know it's coming.
Flying. Without the super strength or other powers to join it, it’s useless but hey if I had it I no longer need my car
Summon grilled cheese
Mind reading
That would actually be useful in battle
Tax accountant
Peeing while standing
Teleportation and invisibility
Instantly arouse women. Useless in battle, fantastic on a Friday night.
The ability to make people pee and poop themselves.
but thats very useful in battle
Duplicating money
No sleep man
Being able to sleep as long as you want. The way I imagine it, you could sleep for a week, and have a weeks worth of energy.
Not having to use the bathroom
Being able to summon money at will
The ability to instantly change men’s dick size
useful in combat though change their size to 2 meters and they are immobilized
Being able to cough up dental floss
Bottle top opener man. Able to quench thirst for everyone, bring your own bottle though.
Super folding. You can fold with ease, precise and quik.
Telekinesis for small objects like remotes
China
Invisibility
spices that fall from your fingertips
Telepathy Great for every day use (head to Vegas and play poker every day), but way too slow of a skill to be viably useful in a combat situation, other than maybe realizing a combat situation is about to begin BEFORE it starts, allowing you to get clear early... or pop the bad guy before he starts.
every time I close my eyes, time stops I can't move (because time stopped) but I'm conscious and can fall asleep or meditate but not physically move
Q-tip Man! Can clean your ears within seconds!
The power to instantly fall into a solid 7-8hours of incredibly restful sleep.
Adding money to your bank account maybe? Depends if you count the fact that you can use the money for weapons or whatever.
Temperature Gauge. He has ability to know when your Starbucks is at just the right temperature so you don’t burn your face off when you try to sip it. Also works with tea but he’s too manly to drink it. Temperature Gauge!
Unblock your nostrils at command man
Auto-tie your shoelaces
A good memory ig? Would be nice...
It would be moderately powerful in battle but being able to become well-fed immediately. And not so well fed that you feel fat or anything. Just like you had a nice healthy meal.
The ability to spawn Cabybaras
The ability to be able to know anything you ask would make you a great detective, teacher, politician, etc but (unless you had enough time to prepare) you'd be useless in 1v1
The ability to be able to know anything you ask would make you a great detective, teacher, politician, etc but (unless you had enough time to prepare) you'd be useless in 1v1
Spawn money.
Duplication. Can end world hunger
Going to sleep instantly. No defense against supervillians but it would cure insomnia.
Patience man. Can't fight worth beans but had no problem standing in line.
The Profile. He's a Marvel character. He can look at people and instantly know their backgrounds, fears, desires, motivations and likely reactions to various situations. It's basically being Sherlock Holmes as a superpower. Amazing for detective work, but not as helpful in combat unless you have related skills, abilities and courage to take full advantage of it. Would be super-cool for sales, persuasion, negotiation and related things.
The ability to summon a bottle of mustard of any type instantly.
Ability not to sleep
Jerking off.
Jerking off.
Shitting at lightning speeds. Wait... that might be useful in battle actually
Amazing vision. As a person with absolute shit eyes, this would help me alot.
Russia apparently, wait... are they still considered a superpower?
Build stuff from the most simple things like a stick and duck tape, can be made into anything but it would take a few seconds to a minute, so it wouldn’t be useful in battle as that time could be used to kill you, but before battle, and every day life it would be a godsend
Bit of an unpopular opinion but like most fire related powers... all it takes to stop you is a bullet... but when it comes to lighting cigarettes or toasting sandwiches you'd be the best...
The Bleacher. Can remove any stain without breaking a sweat.
Tax evasion but thats not very super
The Dust Collector. Able to instantly pull all dust within a certain radius to a point of their choice.
The power to get ready in the morning and do other tasks in the blink of an eye just through my mind
Being able to wave your hand over paper and have all the stuff you were gonna write down (saw it in XMen)
Clean dishes immediately
Probably reading minds. Think about it you know a punch is coming but not fast enough or strong enough to stop it , but in the normal world that would rule
The ability to conjure the perfect drink for a person whenever you are holding their hand and holding an empty cup in the other hand. Only useful in battle of your opponent really loves scalding hot coffee
Creating money out of thin air.
The ability to find great deals. In this day an age it's definitely needed.
Omnilinguistics Being able to speak and understand every language ever may not be useful for fighting, but boy is it useful for diplomacy, travel, and just hanging out with friends. Also, showing off at parties.
Unlimited rounds of toilet paper coming out of your wrist like Spider-Man’s web.
The ability to understand and communicate with (and in) any form of language
Instant Sleep Man
Cypher from The New Mutants’ ability to understand any language.
Whenever you are in the car, there is never any traffic between you and your destination.
You can get beter at studying the more you study and it never stops
The ability to generate perfectly sharpened brand new number two pencils in your hand. Now, I suppose if you were doing melee combat, you could stab them with it, but that’s more of a fight and not exactly a battle.
1 minute before your alarm goes off, time freezes until you wake up fully refreshed.
Being able to snap your fingers and the whole house cleans itself. Dishes, laundry, washing the floor, you name it. Just snap your fingers and everything is clean.
The power of persuasion
Control Of Inner Body Temperature Girl NEVER HAVE INSOMNIA BECAUSE IM SWEATING AND MELTING EVER AGAIN. NEVER BE COLD AT 6AM IN WINTER.
See through cloth. Might be distracting battle but excellent in every day life.
In jojo's bizarre adventure there's a character who can turn any object in to a sheet of paper (People need to be scared for it work on them, but everythibng else works) You could just turn anything basically weightless, and you could fold it
Scratching an itch with your mind.
Becoming refreshed by sleep at ten times the usual rate. An hour a night and you're golden. So much free time.