r/superpowers

I'm writing a story where a serum gives people abilities limited to their own body, such as enhanced strength or healing. The problem is I can't think of any others and Google gives me answers that break the rules I've set up (and have decided to stick to). Anyone have any suggestions?

so hers a fun idea you pick your top three superpower you want but it has to be from a movie that came out the same year you where born and explain why as an example mine are (no redo once you pick one its gone)

1: Tony Starks intelligence (Iron man)

2: the ability to curve bullets (Wanted)

3: Hancocks biology (Hancock)

Are these posts welcome here, twin? I feel like my content fits this subreddit.

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Pawn (pawn): for every drop of blood shed from her a clone of her appears, this cloning technique also is passed to clones.  Limit:120,000, each clone lasts up to 30 min. - 1 hour depending on temperature of surrounding environment. She is actually the blood, so there is no “main” clone. technically the blood is her body and the bodies are like dead skin cells.

AND HOW WOULD YOU MAKE IT WORK.

Whatever power or power set you want from an existing character is yours. You can attain it at any level that character has shown it from weakest to strongest as you like. This can be something as simple as super strength or the full powers of the Hulk.

The catch is you will meet that character and need to contest them to keep the power in some way. If you gain Hulk’s powers you may need to beat him personally in a fight to keep them. If you lose the powers go away forever. Not all characters need ti be fought. You can beat them at a game or puzzle or simply convince them you should have it. As long as they agree you deserve it or concede the contest you win.

What are you getting, who is it from and how do you keep it? For the sake of some fairness you are given a full hour to test out the abilities so you aren’t completely out of sorts.

I'm gonna list every ability idea I had that i felt was missing something or was just too "boring" and hopefully someone can improve on it and make it more interesting/unique, or just give your own take on the ability.

Concept Re-creation: The idea is that the user could manifest a physical object/thing that represents an existing concept. I didn't like this one because it felt too strong, and too hard to actually come up with ways to use it.

Meta-String Manipulation: Basically string manipulation, but instead of actual string, its an entirely new material that works like string. I thought this was boring because its just string manipulation.

Plot Armor: Once an episode/chapter is at 2/3, of the way done, the user gains plot armor, they can still get hurt but reality will shift itself to prevent them from taking fatal damage, the user is also aware they are inside a piece of media. I kind of like this one but I feel like its missing something.

Soul Harvester: The user gets a very cool ghost buddy that can turn into a scythe for them to use, the main gimmick is that everytime they kill someone it powers up the ghost. I think its a cool idea but something about the condition of killing others feels redundant, it also makes the user heavily reliant on the ghost.

Scratch Ink: Everytime you touch ink you enchant it with your hands, if you put ink on something it will scratch whatever the ink was on but only if you command it to. I don't know whats wrong with it but it just feels kind of boring.

I have the ability to put any item back into it's manufacturers original packaging with ease, sometimes better than the manufacturer did. Things like sleeping bags, air mattresses, the big blow up bounce houses for the kids. Pretty much anything that needs to be rolled or folded back up to be put away neatly.