What's lousy about being able to influence the roll of a dice? You could make bank in vegas . How about the ability to make bread land butter side up? The ability to change the freezing/boiling point of a liquid by +/- 3 degrees. The ability to speak in any accent, but when using an accent not your own you gain a lisp/stutter. The ability to drink coffee out of a tea cup and tea out of a coffee cup. The ability to tell if a cup is half full or half empty. The ability to change the channel without a remote.
The ability to dissipate clouds. The ability to make lightbulbs flciker on and off. The ability to say hi telepathically (Only hi). The ability to make someone else cry for no reason. The ability to taste music. The ability to touch sound. The ability to make anyone spontaneously become fat. The ability to turn food into lightbulbs.
@Patrick Wow, that's a mouth full! The dice influencing isn't useless in general, but for fighting crime. It could also gain you some bad acquaintances.
The ability to make things slightly damp. XD (Stolen from Moist, in Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog.)
The ability to make things slightly damp. XD Everyone has that. Just build a sweat and rub something on your face. I think a good power would be the ability to handle extremely spicy food!
The ability to change any coloured paint to red. The ability to make leaves fall from trees. The ability to sense how many floors a building has while inside it. The ability to be invisible when seen through glass.. The ability to know all of the ingredients of anything you eat.
The ability to eat and digest ceramic The ability to see through your ears The ability to clean things by licking them.
Sorry that I haven't posted this yet. I was just about to go to bed when I remembered this. @crashnburn BRILLIANT! Anyway, this is one of my own powers that I thought up. Inspired by all of you thinkers! I intend on using some of your ideas in the actual story, I just don't want to post one person's and make the others feel bad. Name: Shamus O'Connor Appearance: Jolly, but rough. Prefers to wear a sweater, jeans, a tilted fedora (green), and dress shoes. Red, medium length, straight hair. Side burns form into a buzzed mustache/beard. Profession:musician/songwriter/poet Power: the ability to rhyme more easily than not Side Effects: easily sent off track when rhyming about unrelated objects; annoys certain people; causes head aches after talking too much
Time Stop But only you can notice it, and also you get stopped too, only able to deactivate the time stop, to resume you cannot do nothing while time stopping.
The Sebaceous Avenger: Able to pop any zit within a one mile radius. Mammoth Man: Can lift anything no matter how heavy--as long as it's an elephant or shaped like an elephant. The Seamstress: Has the ability to push an ordinary needle through any material without the aid of a thimble.
What a great idea for a book. Some I just came up with: - Ability to highly caffinate any drink or food - Ability to appear in other peoples dreams - power to fit unlimited things into a suitcase/ bag - clean a room/ place/ clothes with the power of their mind - grow tiny wheels out of any bodypart - turn their hair into flowers these might be getting silly now, I'll stop
Those are awesome! My only problem is intertwining science. My book is sci-fi, I am trying to make these the result of science. I am trying my best, some of it is a pinch of magic (I guess I will explain it as a new found chemical/law). Any ideas on how to explain making bunnies come from hats scientifically? Or something equally ridiculous? I really want to work with these.
I suppose you could have your hero yank the rabbit from a parallel universe, but I haven't the foggiest idea why it could only be done through a hat.
Have you watched 'Misfits' it is a British comedy drama about a group of teenagers doing Community Service who all get imbued with 'super powers' after a strange storm. There are powers that are useful but they also encounter others with bizarre powers and they all have a terrible time - highly entertaining and very black humour. The more useless powers include - the ability to manipulate dairy products, the ability to inflict baldness and the ability to inflict std's.
