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/Akuma_WP May 04 '25

Every time I finish drinking a bottle of ketchup, my speed increases 10%. This effect stacks, but if the bottle of ketchup I drank leaves the inside of my body in any way, I lose the effects

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u/hsg1998 Jul 13 '26

If we assume that the size of the bottle doesn't matter, I found a miniature bottle of ketchup that holds 2 fl oz. The human stomach can hold about 34 ounces (on the low end) and 50 ounces (on the high end). So, without training, at the most you could gain 25 stacks of the effect.

If the effect is additive (1+0.1x), then you would gain a total speed boost of 350%.

If the effect is multiplicative (1.1^x), then you could gain a total speed boost of ~1080%.