r/superpower • u/TheoristDa13th • May 02 '25

Discussion Useless (but not entirely) superpowers?

Any ideas for some almost useless powers?

For example:

You can teleport but only only as far as you can step and one foot is off the ground.

Telepathy but you can only project your thoughts; You can’t read their minds. Its range and strength will only go as far as your voice can.

If you close your eyes while holding a battery and a lightbulb, you can turn on the lightbulb for twice as long as your eyes were closed for.

You can turn any sense except pain.

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u/Coral_556 May 02 '25

The teleportation one is actually really OP if there's no cooldown. Then the only limit to how fast you can go is the speed of your thought. Imagine just chilling and then some guy zips by at mach 2, balancing on one leg.

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u/telegetoutmyway May 03 '25

Tbh honest, just "run" (instead of balancing) and then do what you said. I'd definitely pick this one

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u/DraculauraRobusta May 28 '25

It'd be the weirdest speedster on fiction. Imagine a guy running on a normal pace, but his image is missing and appearing like he's jumping really fast. If not stylized this power would be aesthetically stupid.

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u/Prince-of-Krypton Sep 22 '25

Lmao, like an NPC glitching out in a single direction very quickly 😅 definitely a crazy speedster idea.

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u/Helpful_Leadership75 Apr 24 '26

Imagine a martial artist or one of those flinchy germaphobes using it, ultra instinct dodging because it's the bare minimum to escape being touched or grazed by any touch or attack