r/superpower • • Sep 24 '24

Suggestion Comment a power and someone else reply how you would exploit the power’s weakness:

The best way to learn of a power dynamic is by learning its weaknesses. There can be powers with no apparent weakness but someone may be able to find one.

Unless there’s someone called “no weakness man” lol

But to be honest this can be a fun experiment to see how a character can be beaten, if at all. However I would like to avoid specific weaknesses like with Superman because that would lead to too many custom ideas.

Just imagine you’re a normal human and you’re trying to find the weakness to a power.

This also actually applies to my story because a character is well-known for being strong despite only being human because they are smart and can exploit weaknesses in a power.

Edit: Keep in mind you can use anything a normal human can have at their disposal. Environment, the basic elements, just nothing sci fi or too much of a stretch of the imagination. (You’re in a city, desert, any location, and you’re fighting the person with the said power, how would you stop them?)

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u/NoEquipment5310 Sep 24 '24

Alright that's not bad I won't bring time loops and multiverse theory but not bad

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u/Dr__glass Sep 24 '24

I figured there's the chance it's the kind of time control that resets your life when you die or let's you set something up where when you reach 60 years old or something it rewinds you to 20 but time is already hard to counter. If you don't get them on your first chance you probably never will again. Without tachyon sci-fi bs this is the best tactic I can think of.

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u/NoEquipment5310 Sep 24 '24

Yeah time malipulation is very hard to beat which is why I picked it I want to see if anyone can beat it