Super powers that you thought were cool but came with a weird quirk

[R.P.D rookie]

I just got through talking to someone who said it would be cool to squirt lit gasoline out of the gas pump all over the place to which I responded, "Yeah it would be.....if you were immortal....or could stop time the instant everything was about to blow". And then I thought about that time stopping deal.


And THEN I thought about Guldo from the Ginyu Force and how he could stop time, but he could only do it by holding his breathe. So, here we have an ability that some could say by far is the coolest thing possible (even for fiction) but the downside to it is that the user is in poor shape and can only hold his breathe for 10 seconds roughly and the only known person that can do it.

So what other characters have powers like that that make you say "Cool but what the hell?"?

Post up!

*holds breathe

[Higher-Jin]

old school green lantern weakness to yellow

[Stabby]

Being able to turn garbage into trees.
Shadows into robots.
Shadows in golems.
Whistles into lasers.
Towels into metal, but only while holding your breath.
Turning rings into rockets.
Electricity into sugar.

Man, Law of Ueki was a good show.

[Hoonyo]

Man, Law of Ueki was a good show.Was it really?

[Black Chanler]

the animorphs 1 hour rule was failry gay

[blackstar14]

The super power I always wanted was to be extremely fast. Like circle the world 4 times in a millisecond (not necessary, but still cool). But then I thought about it and figured that if I was granted that wish it would really work out all that well because the it would 1.rip my skin off and kill me 2. increase my heartrate to the point it would explode 3.make me feet hurt like a bitch (not as bad as the other two but bad enough)

[Million]

And THEN I thought about Guldo from the Ginyu Force and how he could stop time, but he could only do it by holding his breathe. So, here we have an ability that some could say by far is the coolest thing possible (even for fiction) but the downside to it is that the user is in poor shape and can only hold his breathe for 10 seconds roughly and the only known personThen there's the other factor of apparent rapid aging. If you used this power too much, you would age much faster than everyone else. Soon you're 51 while your friends are still 20s....that would suck. I'd need to have immortality to offset this drawback.

10 seconds is plenty of time. That's time to steal something, cop a feel on a hot broad, look and/or videotape up a skirt, and easily win fights...or just walk away from them.(*that would be cool....from the other person's p.o.v., suddenly you disappeared if you do that..and they don't realize they just missed 10 seconds.)

Superspeed requires a heighted durability factor, or just pure invincibility...the human body is too pitifully weak to survive too many mistakes while moving at ridiculous speeds....actually, it's too frail to even survive super speed in the first place. One would also need super-fast thought process and reflexes to keep up with a super fast body. Actually, that would go with it by default....it's impossible to move faster than you can think. So naturally, a super-fast human already should have super-fast thought process

Martian Manhunter's weakness to fire was just pure assjuice lame. Here's a guy that's about on par with Superman, supposedly....he's Superman plus psychic powers! That should be AMAZING right there....but nooooo...they just had to write in some weakness, and they went with fire of all things. So basically, he's a would-be god who can be seriously threatened with a LIT CANDLE. Get the hell outta here with that.

[Murt!]

Mastermind from the X Men had a kickass power of illusions, I'm sure it had some kind of crappy sideffect.

the animorphs 1 hour rule was failry gay

Tobias thought so too.

[Magulorist]

Well, as corny as it seems it does make a good plot device.
Unlike most japanese cartoons were they dont understand the concept of a weakness. Most action shows is just new enemy, new move. I have never seen a show were they dont follow this formula. Naruto, one piece, slayers, DBZ, pokemon, bleach, and others.
Where as in an american cartoon, its... actually i dont remember any other show besides a show made by bruce timm so my opinion is very limited but i'm pretty sure they dont use that formula stated above.

[Damacy]

Marvel Gladiator's got everything, but only as long as he keeps up his confidence.

Gladiator: "You can't touch me. Matter of fact, I passed through the center of your sun on my way here."
Gambit w/ Rogue on his arm: "Psh. That mohawk's gay."
Gladiatior: "NOOoooOOO!! Words, my only weakness! How did you know?!?"

[Murt!]

Well, as corny as it seems it does make a good plot device.
Unlike most japanese cartoons were they dont understand the concept of a weakness. Most action shows is just new enemy, new move. I have never seen a show were they dont follow this formula. Naruto, one piece, slayers, DBZ, pokemon, bleach, and others.
Where as in an american cartoon, its... actually i dont remember any other show besides a show made by bruce timm so my opinion is very limited but i'm pretty sure they dont use that formula stated above.

You're right though, whenever supporting characters are introduced in those shows, they are considered powerful. (See Vegeta, Tenshinhan, Sasuke) then when they face a villain, they look like a scrub, and gradually the people surrounding the main character get proportionately weaker while he/she gets stronger. Countless manga/anime are guilty of this.

[Fudd]

I always thought that a cool power would be the ability to laugh at will and being able to control the duration and strength of the laughing fit.
You can pretty much get out of any social situation with that shit. Not to mention, you could potentially beast at Poker. Just laugh really hard at every single hand you get and you'll be impossible to read.

As for a drawback, I forgot what I determined it to be, but for the sake of this thread, let's say every time you handled a liquid, it would spill. I imagine this would be such a pain in the ass because you'd have to drink everything out of a straw and every trip to the bathroom for a piss would take like 40 minutes, including cleanup time.

[Weecho]

Aquaman!!! With the power to....ummmm.....to talk to fish. :confused:

[Dios <-X->]

So... Captain America was on Spideys team on spiderman TAS when he summoned the greatest heroes on earth to battle the sinister 5.


" only ONE man has what it takes to take on the red skull....Captain America !.."

Now....first off.....why is that? Why only the cap? In that exact scene they showed each other fighting.....Cap and Red skull....were just wrestling....gripping hands like no homos....wtf....is that.

Red skull...whats his power? Whats Cap Americas power? As far as i know, he is like spidey, Really strong....but not that strong....spidey can lift cars and shit, cap is just Built like Hulk Hogan....at least spidey can climb on walls and spidey sense.....so WTF is with Red skull and Cap? Whats makes Cap so important?

Couldnt he just called someone like....iono....War Machine? So him and iron man could Lvl 3 Duo team attack Proton cannon the planet all day long?

iron man was fucking shit up while the sand beasts were attack everyone, Storm and iron man FTW, of course, the ones with unfly powers did all the damage, rushing them down.

What did cap do? He ran, she throw is little shield, and hopped on there heads, and hit them with his shield, and it didnt even faze em.

What, A , Joke.

[Murt!]

Remember that Red Skull has the same Super Soldier formula Captain America has, making them equals.

[DS]

Superspeed requires a heighted durability factor, or just pure invincibility...the human body is too pitifully weak to survive too many mistakes while moving at ridiculous speeds....actually, it's too frail to even survive super speed in the first place. One would also need super-fast thought process and reflexes to keep up with a super fast body. Actually, that would go with it by default....it's impossible to move faster than you can think. So naturally, a super-fast human already should have super-fast thought process




Well, when it comes to the Flash your metabolism is fucked with majorly when running at high speeds seeing as how you end up burning up the calories you just took in about 5 seconds ago.

Also, another thing with the Flash is that running too fast can be too horrible for you. You can either run yourself to death(like Barry did in Crisis On Infinite Earths) or you can run yourself into the future or the past.

Wouldn't you age faster as well seeing as how you're moving faster than everyone else? So many drawbacks to speed.

[R.P.D rookie]

Million, when Guldo freezes time, he stops the flow of time itself yet he's able to move freely outside of it. I don't think you would age at all given that you just broke time.

[denjin]

So... Captain America was on Spideys team on spiderman TAS when he summoned the greatest heroes on earth to battle the sinister 5.


" only ONE man has what it takes to take on the red skull....Captain America !.."

Now....first off.....why is that? Why only the cap? In that exact scene they showed each other fighting.....Cap and Red skull....were just wrestling....gripping hands like no homos....wtf....is that.

Red skull...whats his power? Whats Cap Americas power? As far as i know, he is like spidey, Really strong....but not that strong....spidey can lift cars and shit, cap is just Built like Hulk Hogan....at least spidey can climb on walls and spidey sense.....so WTF is with Red skull and Cap? Whats makes Cap so important?

Couldnt he just called someone like....iono....War Machine? So him and iron man could Lvl 3 Duo team attack Proton cannon the planet all day long?

iron man was fucking shit up while the sand beasts were attack everyone, Storm and iron man FTW, of course, the ones with unfly powers did all the damage, rushing them down.

What did cap do? He ran, she throw is little shield, and hopped on there heads, and hit them with his shield, and it didnt even faze em.

What, A , Joke.

Fuckin' hilarious.

Why all four of the Fantastic Four?

Throw a Thor in there and be done with it.
Or, for people that actually like Spider-man, then just throw in Doctor Strange.

[R.P.D rookie]

running too fast can be too horrible for you. .



I almost wanna sig that.:rofl:

[mr. newbie]

how in the hell does runnign fast make you age faster? if i go on the treadmill for an hour i dont gain wrinkles. someone better give me a really good explanation because it sounds like bs to make the falsh have a weakness. run into the future? can the flash run faster than the speed of light? if he can i swear there is no reason he shoulds lose to anyone.

[Bob the Bastard]

Throw a Thor in there and be done with it.


Fuck Thor, he's a pussy in his own comic. I hate how super powered motherfuckers get the shit beat out of them till they realize that they are going to have to take off the kid gloves....

[The Iron Sheik]

I can't help but think of the allies and villians of the Tick.

Chameleon...strength, can blend into any color he lands on. Weakness? Plaid. lol.

[Return of Shiki]

10 seconds is plenty of time. That's time to steal something, cop a feel on a hot broad, look and/or videotape up a skirt, and easily win fights...or just walk away from them.(*that would be cool....from the other person's p.o.v., suddenly you disappeared if you do that..and they don't realize they just missed 10 seconds.)



But how could you videotape something if time (including everything else but you) is frozen.

I see some drawbacks to the time freeze.


It's like that episode of Dexter's Lab where he slows down time for everything and everyone but him so he could do all of his homework one hour before school. Or maybe it was he sped up so fast that everything else seemed in slow motion. I forget...but, it's practically the same anyway.

Problem was...he couldn't write because it caused too much friction which burned up his paper.
He couldn't cook breakfast because the microwave was still moving slow.
He couldn't even pour milk because it didn't flow fast enough.
He couldn't take a shower because the droplets of water moved too slowly.
You get the idea.

[Murt!]

But how could you videotape something if time (including everything else but you) is frozen.


Well by that logic, your clothes couldn't move because they're not really part of you. I believe the rule pertains to anything or anybody you touch.

[Return of Shiki]

So say if you touch a camera...does that mean if you press the button the flash will automatically take place?

[Stanman]

Hmmm having the guldo power could either be really annoying or really awesome while swimming.

[DoublexxCyclone]

Wouldn't you age faster as well seeing as how you're moving faster than everyone else? So many drawbacks to speed.

Well according to einsteins theory of relativity. Moving at a higher velocity than normal ppl would actuclly slow down aging. note the twin thought experiment when one twin gets in a rocket and travels through space and the other is left on earth. when the space travelling twin gets back he finds his twin many times older than he is. Given its a thought experiment, but it is Einstein's. So i'll go with that rather than some random srk'er

[The Damned]

the animorphs 1 hour rule was failry gay

It was two hours actually IIRC.

Martian Manhunter's weakness to fire was just pure assjuice lame. Here's a guy that's about on par with Superman, supposedly....he's Superman plus psychic powers! That should be AMAZING right there....but nooooo...they just had to write in some weakness, and they went with fire of all things. So basically, he's a would-be god who can be seriously threatened with a LIT CANDLE. Get the hell outta here with that.

Actually, Martian Manhunter is even more broken than "Superman plus psychic powers". He has Professor X level psyschic powers, Vision/Kitty Pryde level intangibility, and, the deal breaker really, Morph level shape-shifting.

In addition to that, he's not even weak to lit candles anymore if that story where his evil side came out and brainwashed every villian hasn't been retconned yet. He's only weak to flames larger than that.

Ye gods...only cartoon Amazo is more broken off the top of my head.

Marvel Gladiator's got everything, but only as long as he keeps up his confidence.

Gladiator: "You can't touch me. Matter of fact, I passed through the center of your sun on my way here."
Gambit w/ Rogue on his arm: "Psh. That mohawk's gay."
Gladiatior: "NOOoooOOO!! Words, my only weakness! How did you know?!?"

Hahaha. Nice.

This is exactly why Cassandra Nova beasted his ass so easily.

Aquaman!!! With the power to....ummmm.....to talk to fish. :confused:

Fucking Superfriends cartoon making everyone think that the "real" Aquaman has shitty powers.

The current Aquaman can stand near the bottom depths of the ocean. Do you know how durable that makes him considering the pressure?

Also, the power to control anything aquatic is nothing to scoff considering sharks, whales, and giant squid can attack anything that needs to travel on three-quarters or so of the planet that's water.

In addition to that, after that whole fucked up time travel JLA arc a few years back, he now has some time of magical powers or at least had some. I think he could control any type of water, including that in people's bodies. I also vaguely remembering him either being able to control people because their brains "evolved from fish" or something.

*shrug*

Hmmm having the guldo power could either be really annoying or really awesome while swimming.

Have fun while the water potentially turns to a solid around you.


As for awesome super powers that come with a weird quirk, the person that came to mind was Blackbolt of the Inhumans.

He has an awesome power. Seriously, he's defeated quite a few cosmic threads, including Gladiator himself, merely by fucking whispering.

That's what makes his power so quirky. He's so damned strong that he has hold back all the time, including that meditation thing that someone mentioned he has to for an hour per day so that he won't obliterate something by mumbling in his sleep. That takes an inhuman amount of control.

I mean, I talk to himself way to much. To know that if I did that even once, even in the lowest possible tone, and that it would obliterate my room would be astounding. It'd be rather suffocating, even if I'd use my powers for "Great Injustice".

So, Blackbolt gets even more respect from me.

[DoublexxCyclone]

Hmm...super power with wierd quirk. Well im not sure if this is a superpower, but in the later chapters of naruto when naruto goes kyuubi, he shortens his lifespan. thats a pretty sucky drawback. Also a funny one is Ranma turning into a girl when in contact of cold water. Oh look its raining... Uh...why do i have boobs???.... and where'd my penis go?

[Million]

Vision/Kitty Pryde level intangibility, and, the deal breaker really, Morph level shape-shifting.heh, yeah...I neglected to mention that...Superman+psychic powers is already an absurd level of power. Morphing and intangibility just put him into the "just plain ridiculous" category. But the fire weakness is just lame. It really seems like they couldn't come up with something good or interesting, and just threw their hands up saying "I dunno...FIRE?!" "Yeah...fire."

Actually, the super psychic powers would offset that. Personally, I would remove the thought of fire from anyone who is my enemy....if it is psychically erased from the array of possibilities of attack within their mind....I become completely impossible to beat. So yeah...MartianManhunter's deal is too good now that I think of it.

Here's a weird deal: Tanooki Suit Mario. Apply this to real life---you gain the ability to fly, but only with a running start....you also can turn into an invincible statue, but since you're a statue, you can't move(so it would naturally be more of a defensive tactic...and even then it has a short time limit), but you have to wear that suit to get the powers...and that suit would look silly in real life...people would assume you're a furry with superpowers. **and it doesn't even conceal your identity! Tanooki suit doesn't even cover your face. Then technically, according to the game's rules...you'd lose the suit if a bad guy merely touches you.

Turbo Teen's power was just stupid--he turns into a sports car if cold(or hot? I can't remember which) liquids touch him. I always wondered...how much would it hurt if he crashed while in car form? Or....if someone scraped the paint job? Would that damage remain when he reverts back to human form? Who the hell even came up with such a dumb power?

[FighterX]

This is exactly why Cassandra Nova beasted his ass so easily.

I remembered that his weakness was first discovered when Gladiator fought Cannonball. One they found that out, it was all over.

[EvilKing]

Reading is an awesome superpower. It's drawback is that sometimes i can't help it and i read stupid shit like this thread :bluu:


haha, just kidding, i actually like this thread quite a bit.

I don't know if any of you have ever read the Rising Stars comic but...

Invulnerability.:
In that comic, one of the dudes has incredibly strong skin, and bullets and sharp objects can't get through it.
So, basically you could start shit with ANYONE and they'd get tired of punching you and you wouldn't even feel it. He coudl stab you and break his fucking knife. Shoot you and the bullet would bounce right off.

The drawback to this was HUGE, however. This man could not feel ANYTHING from the outside of his body. The only thing he could enjoy was eating, so he ate and ate and got wicked fat. The power proved to be pretty fucking useless in the real world.

spoiler, even though it's in like page 5 of the first isue.





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The dude gets peaced out with a fuckin' plastic bag.

[J-ride]

old school green lantern weakness to yellow

No see, that one actually made sense because the Guardians (or whatever the guys who ran the Corps were named) were yellow. But the weakness to wood, well that makes absolutely no sense at all.

[Livewireo]

No see, that one actually made sense because the Guardians (or whatever the guys who ran the Corps were named) were yellow. But the weakness to wood, well that makes absolutely no sense at all.

Thats because you dont read things, like comic books. First, the Guardians arent yellow. They are blue. The reason the ring was weak to yellow was because the Guardians imprisioned the avatar of fear, Parallax, in the Central Battery. Parallax was yellow. Second, Alan Scotts ring was weak to wood because the original bearer of the ring in that sector was a tyrant. The guardians punished him by making his ring weak to wood so that Chinese peasants could destroy him with spears and sticks and shit.

heh, yeah...I neglected to mention that...Superman+psychic powers is already an absurd level of power. Morphing and intangibility just put him into the "just plain ridiculous" category. But the fire weakness is just lame. It really seems like they couldn't come up with something good or interesting, and just threw their hands up saying "I dunno...FIRE?!" "Yeah...fire."

They probably had to think of something extremely common that could weaken him because he was so powerful. "But livewireo," you say, "Superman's weakness is kryptonite!" Yeah, but fucking everybody has kryptonite. I think I found some mowing my lawn yesterday.

[Yasashiyama]

snip about Blackbolt
So when he speaks random explosion happen or is it that whatever is in front of him is destroyed? If it's random there would be the serious drawback of killing yourself and everyone else in the destruction.

[maxx]

No see, that one actually made sense because the Guardians (or whatever the guys who ran the Corps were named) were yellow. But the weakness to wood, well that makes absolutely no sense at all.
no it doesnt make sense since they tried to streamline dc again and blamed his weakness on yellow to the parasite creature...which caused him to go insane and bad..it was the gayest explanation next to

oh why is jason todd alive?..oh i see...superboy punched reality..that totally makes sense

the scifi channels invisible man...he could turn invisible by his watch..but if he was invisible too long he'd turn evil.

[Livewireo]

So when he speaks random explosion happen or is it that whatever is in front of him is destroyed? If it's random there would be the serious drawback of killing yourself and everyone else in the destruction.

Its not random explosions. Its like a cone of destructive sound starting at his mouth and expanding outward. Think Banshee but cranked up to 11.

[thurst]

Martian Manhunter's weakness to fire was just pure assjuice lame. Here's a guy that's about on par with Superman, supposedly....he's Superman plus psychic powers! That should be AMAZING right there....but nooooo...they just had to write in some weakness, and they went with fire of all things. So basically, he's a would-be god who can be seriously threatened with a LIT CANDLE. Get the hell outta here with that.

you should check out "the burning" arc in JLA, martian manhunter w/o fire weakness = fucking beast

[Oni_Ryu]

Speaking of Guldo, what about Captain Ginyu's power? Swapping bodies with someone sounds pretty cool, but of course when he did it with Goku, he didn't know how to completely control Goku's powers. Then of course theres the whole accidentally swapping with something retarded like a frog.

Talking about DBZ reminds me of Yu Yu Hakusho. Those guys had some pretty bad ass powers (thats why i liked it more than DBZ, everyone brought something different to a fight.) Sure if you had those guys' skills no regular person could mess with you, but just imagine if you fought someone else with a different power, would you be at an advantage or a disadvantage?

I've always wanted to see what would happen if Yusuke and Hiei went at it at full force, wonder what Yusuke would do against Hiei's dragon. Would Yusuke even be able to survive Hiei's flame attacks?

[Bob the Bastard]

Actually, Martian Manhunter is even more broken than "Superman plus psychic powers". He has Professor X level psyschic powers, Vision/Kitty Pryde level intangibility, and, the deal breaker really, Morph level shape-shifting.

In addition to that, he's not even weak to lit candles anymore if that story where his evil side came out and brainwashed every villian hasn't been retconned yet. He's only weak to flames larger than that.

No he invulnerable to all flame as long as there is no "emotion attached to it, meaning if a building is on fire, he has no weakness to it unless it was arson for example. Still gayed up, but whatever....


Fucking Superfriends cartoon making everyone think that the "real" Aquaman has shitty powers.

The current Aquaman can stand near the bottom depths of the ocean. Do you know how durable that makes him considering the pressure?

Also, the power to control anything aquatic is nothing to scoff considering sharks, whales, and giant squid can attack anything that needs to travel on three-quarters or so of the planet that's water.

In addition to that, after that whole fucked up time travel JLA arc a few years back, he now has some time of magical powers or at least had some. I think he could control any type of water, including that in people's bodies. I also vaguely remembering him either being able to control people because their brains "evolved from fish" or something.

*shrug*


That was from the 1st white martian JLA story arc. He was able to give a white martian a seizure because of the "basil ganglia" part of his brain inherited from his marine ancestors.

[The Damned]

Actually, the super psychic powers would offset that. Personally, I would remove the thought of fire from anyone who is my enemy....if it is psychically erased from the array of possibilities of attack within their mind....I become completely impossible to beat. So yeah...MartianManhunter's deal is too good now that I think of it.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking really. He can lobomotize anyone with fire powers or merely brainwash them; hell, the woman that he was dating in that arc was a villianess who was flame-based IIRC. Anyone with immune to mind-powers you can just have other absurdly powerful people, like Zatanna (does even have weakness besides having to "kaeps sdrawkcab") or Firestorm (who basically seems to fuck with the Peirodic Table since either Firestorm seems capable of turning anything into anything else), deal with (read: magically brainwash or kill) them for you.

Even lamer is something I forgot to mention. In that same arc, the fire-weakness was said to be something purely psychological. It was a basically faux weakness placed there by the Guardians of Oa since, in the paraphased words of Azrael from the "Naruto 7.0": "Oh shit! Natural Martians are broken! Tournament ban!"

What makes it lame is that it seems like in the "tournament ban" sense, the Oa Guardians (or whoever did it) should just killed them all like Itachi considering the present-day Martians. J'onn should be a god, and the White Martians still have absurd mental powers rivaling his, speed rivaling Wonder Woman's, and probably strength as well. Hell, that's who they were able to go around physically kidnapping and physically lobomotizing people--I think they eat brains or something--for so damned long.

Way to go, Guardians. :rolleyes:

Bastard EDIT: Ah, right.

Nice to see you. How's LS?

Tanooki and Turbo Teen. *snip*

Heh. Nice memory. What was Turbo Teen from again? Was it his own cartoon? I know a lot about older stuff, but I'm not that old. So I don't think I ever got the chance to watch it; it doesn't help that I don't get Boomerang for free anymore like in the dorms, either.

Anyway, with the Tanooki Suit you reminded me about someone from another video game, but I'll mention him at the end.

I remembered that his weakness was first discovered when Gladiator fought Cannonball. One they found that out, it was all over.

Pretty much. Doesn't make him all that beatable unless you have Psychic powers or your own incredibly useful powers, like Blackbolt who briefly stunned (or was it KO'ed) by whispering in his ear; it should prove to you how powerful Gladiator regularly is if he can survive that.

You also reminded me of two things:


Cannonball seems to have all the luck in the family. It would certainly explained what happened to poor Icarus.
I should really go find that Blackbolt appreciation thread on that other forum.


So when he speaks random explosion happen or is it that whatever is in front of him is destroyed? If it's random there would be the serious drawback of killing yourself and everyone else in the destruction.

No, Livewireo was pretty much correct as far as I know. It's a cone of destruction...that goes to 11.

I think Blackbolt's rather durable anyway, but I forget in what sense.

the scifi channels invisible man...he could turn invisible by his watch..but if he was invisible too long he'd turn evil.

Quick correction, IIRC. Darren (or was it Dorian?) Gray (Grey?) didn't need a watch to turn invisible. He could turn invisible any time, it's just that he had to potentially deal with that "Quicksilver Madness" thing that you alluded to when he "turns evil". Yeah, that's not really a weakness though, just generally bad for everyone else since he becomes homicidal; it might be a weakness, however, if he got even more insane as time went on, I forget.

Anyway, I could explain how generally invisibility in reality would actually be bad, but I won't bother, especially since Million would defend it, if only for voyuer purposes.


Anyway, I remembered four quirky powers, but I think I'm only going to talk about one for right now:

Rozencrantz from Vagrant Story. IIRC, he had the awesome ability, thanks to the Dark, to able to immune to any magic. That is kick-ass, especially considering how broken magic is. *hguoc*Annataz*hguoc*

There were, however, of course some drawbacks or, more precisely, at least in terms of the "bigger" weakness, loopholes. You obviously couldn't be healed by magic, though if you had that power to today in a world where Magik...er magic was rampant, then you'd okay (if only left to the idiocy of doctors).

The bigger weakness is the "loophole" that while magic can't directly hurt you, it can still use the environs to hurt you. So Golems, necromantic zombies, and conjured summons can still kill or at least hurt you. A fireball of size won't hurt you and neither would resulting explosion, but the building collapsing on top you would still potentially smother and bury you. You can't be directly poisoned via magic, but you can probably be poisoned if the same spell affects maybe your soup or something.

It's still kick ass though. And the very least, you can use it to kick Zatanna's overpowered ass (and maybe do more with it).

[FighterX]

Pretty much. Doesn't make him all that beatable unless you have Psychic powers or your own incredibly useful powers, like Blackbolt who briefly stunned (or was it KO'ed) by whispering in his ear; it should prove to you how powerful Gladiator regularly is if he can survive that.

You also reminded me of two things:


Cannonball seems to have all the luck in the family. It would certainly explained what happened to poor Icarus.
I should really go find that Blackbolt appreciation thread on that other forum.


Whoa. Didn't know that BB did that to Gladiator. Also, what happened to Icarus?

Now, on a totally unrelated subject....I don't know why, but my sense of humor just kicked in. Imagine a Black Bolt parody of "Whisper" by the Ying Yang Twins.

Lord, I need help. :rofl:

[maxx]

Quick correction, IIRC. Darren (or was it Dorian?) Gray (Grey?) didn't need a watch to turn invisible. He could turn invisible any time, it's just that he had to potentially deal with that "Quicksilver Madness" thing that you alluded to when he "turns evil". Yeah, that's not really a weakness though, just generally bad for everyone else since he becomes homicidal; it might be a weakness, however, if he got even more insane as time went on, I forget.

Anyway, I could explain how generally invisibility in reality would actually be bad, but I won't bother, especially since Million would defend it, if only for voyuer purposes.




oh ok..sorry im mixing the original material the shows based on. This cheesy ass movie that was actually on mst3000.

But your right...dope show though.

i find turning evil as a weakness..since u could potentiall kill the people you love.

[Million]

...interesting...Super leaf Raccoon Mario:
-Just like Tanooki Suit Mario...but even less useful. It's even less of a disguise, and there's no invincible statue possibilities. Also...flight by itself is such a lame power. One would need super speed and thus super durability or invincibility to make it cool.

Turbo Teen was an early to mid80s cartoon. It came on CBS saturday mornings....after all the good stuff went off.

DBZ. Saiyan "Oozaru" or giant ape form. --this isn't worth much to me if I couldn't control it. Apparently only Vegeta was in control of his actions in that form. What good is a super powerful giant beast mode if I lose control of what's going on, and can't remember anything that happened during it? It's similar to how some werewolves were portrayed in tv shows and movies....if I don't have control over it...and have no hope of ever learning how to control it...there is no point.

[The Damned]

*snip*

Weird that no one mentioned Captain Ginyu yet. Maybe it's because his power's only good if you're dying or want a better body or want briefly bang someone. Of course, except in the dying case, you have to deal with the person in your body causing trouble for you, especially since there's no way to safely transfer. Think about it. Ginyu basically impaled himself before being able to do it for a tactical advantage.

As for the Yu Yu Hakusho thing, I think Yusuke would probable have a higher chance of winning, if only because 1) humans have more general potential (yes, yes, I know Yusuke's other part) and 2) it seems that Yusuke has been able to keep with Hiei's speed since the battle with Seiryuu, at least when it comes to tracking Hiei.

However, I wouldn't be able to tell you since Cartoon Network fucking cut off the series during the last battle with Shinobu.[/is still pissed about that]

I don't know enough post-Shinobu to say anything else.

i find turning evil as a weakness..since u could potentiall kill the people you love.

"I love no one!"[/angst]

But, seriously, other than that, it's not really a weakness. Especially if they're nowhere nearby or already dead. The only other detrimental part is that now that I think about, I vaguely remembering getting more insane over time. "Oddly" (read: this is sarcastic since it always happens when people go "evil"), Quicksilver Madness Dorian tended to use his powers in more interesting ways than Dorian, like when he was going to shoot his partner and he merely turned both of his arms invisible so that no one could see where he was aiming.

Whoa. Didn't know that BB did that to Gladiator. Also, what happened to Icarus?

Now, on a totally unrelated subject....I don't know why, but my sense of humor just kicked in. Imagine a Black Bolt parody of "Whisper" by the Ying Yang Twins.

Lord, I need help. :rofl:

In order (there are some spoilers concerning the second response, Icarus-wise):















Yeah. Blackbolt did that in that appreciation thread I was talking about. I have to find that link again though. Basically, it was like.

Blackbolt: *flies up to Gladiator and whispers* Bitch.
Gladiator: HOW DID YOU KNOW?! *melodramatically faints while still floating in mid-air*
Blackbolt: *smirks as he flies back down kick someone else's ass*
Jay Guthrie is dead. He was killed by Stryker with Nimrod assist, though more personally than a lot of the other New Mutants. It was Stryker himself that actually shot him, and since his powers weren't active.... Additionally, I think Nimrod further bludgeoned him to death. Yeah, I don't think Sam knows, with all the kids that have been dying in New X-Men general though, it's not that surprising, especially since Sam himself got shot and was critically wounded. I wonder how Paige will take it though.
That "Whisper" thing would probably be hiliarious. However, I don't listen to the Yin Yang Twins (or any type of rap), so I couldn't tell you. It sounds hiliarious though.


I think I'll talk about another de facto Sci-Fi character next.

[Bob the Bastard]

Bastard EDIT: Ah, right.

Nice to see you. How's LS?



All good. Fucked up though that pretty much all discussion of limitations of powers and other powers you'd need in conjunction with the aforementioned powers is a common topic of discussion between LS and I.

[Dasrik]

The power to manipulate anything made out of paper.

The drawback is that I'd be the main character in a spectacularly shitty anime.

[R.P.D rookie]

The power to manipulate anything made out of paper.

The drawback is that I'd be the main character in a spectacularly shitty anime.



Still hating on Read or Die, I see.:rofl:

[Panicked]

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There's an "article" on wikipedia that details the strength of the significant characters in every arc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_YuYu_Hakusho_demon_ranks

[Disciple of Ryu]

I'd say vamparism. You get immortality, super strength, super speed, the ability to change into a wolf,bat, fog, the jedi mind trick, and the ability to repair any injury aside from decapatation. Hell, the only thing you need to eat is blood, and you can just hang out with a bunch of goth chicks and you have free food 24/7. The Drawback? 10 seconds in the sun and you die. That's just lame.

[makmak!!!]

How about the mask? Does stanley really remembers what he's doing while wearing it?
You can almost do everything with it but haven't seen someone totally control themselves while wearing it.

[Spoonz]

I always thought wolvies healing power was pretty cool, but then it occured that he could be tortured for infinity because of the fact that he feels pain. They could pretty much do what they did to whistler in blade 2 , torture the fuck outta him then have him heal and do it again...and again.

[denjin]

Yeah, but fucking everybody has kryptonite. I think I found some mowing my lawn yesterday.

Hahahhahaha! Good shit.

Not a big Thor fan, just saying they could've brought in other guys.

On the Martian Manhunter thing.

You guys gotta read something from DC called "Earth 2."

Spoiler coming up:



















Spoiler:
Essentially, they have a Superman from the other universe. Slight changes. He's also evil. Anyway, their Superman has heat vision.

J'onn fuckin' owns him hands down. Superspeed and telepathy is already ridiculous. You don't even need to add that other shit in. Their Superman doesn't even lay a hand on him.

Another example of the power of J'onn: Jean Grey can walk around as someone else if she just messes with everyone's mind. Which J'onn can do, oh and he can ALSO shapechange. Ridiculous.

[axeman61]

I'd have to agree with Disciple of Ryu on Vampirism. That just sucks.

Especially the vampires in the Blade movies. All their weaknesses are in my damn house right now. Except for that blood clot liquid in the first movie.

Old School vampires (screwed by garlic, holy water, crosses, and the sun) had it the worst.
I mean, crosses for fuck's sake. If they had the tubgirl picture as a weakness, I'd get it. Not crucifixes, just plain-ass crosses. How can a mutated plus sign be a weakness? HOW? The worst part is substitution. Anything looking like a cross hurts. That means:
-If you pulled off a girls skirt and she had on a black thong, that would be cool. If she had a black tattoo of maybe a sword or something to make the T-back look like a cross, you howl in pain and your cover's blown. Good luck taking a bite out of that ass.
-If people decide to play fight with popsicle sticks in front of you, the wrong shape will have you on the floor.
-If there was a vampire war, the human side could win with POGO STICKS!

[Million]

ah, but even the relatively weak Mr. Dandridge from Fright Night said this about the crosses and such: "You have to have FAITH...for this to work.....Mr. Vincent." I'd imagine that if it's just a half-ass symbol that unintentionally looks like a cross...and has no appropriate meaning/intent behind it...the vamp should be just fine.

heh, I love that movie. I have the dvd.

but yeah...the garlic weakness would be incredibly stupid. If Vampirism was for real, and the garlic weakness was also real and a factor in it...I'd actually have to think about whether or not to become a vampire. Pizza is a wonderful thing...I can't go on without pizza and other italian foods. A life without garlic bread to go with my spaghetti?! Ooooh that's gotta hurt the soul. :sad:

[Latinofighter]

I'd have to agree with Disciple of Ryu on Vampirism. That just sucks.

Especially the vampires in the Blade movies. All their weaknesses are in my damn house right now. Except for that blood clot liquid in the first movie.

Old School vampires (screwed by garlic, holy water, crosses, and the sun) had it the worst.
I mean, crosses for fuck's sake. If they had the tubgirl picture as a weakness, I'd get it. Not crucifixes, just plain-ass crosses. How can a mutated plus sign be a weakness? HOW? The worst part is substitution. Anything looking like a cross hurts. That means:
-If you pulled off a girls skirt and she had on a black thong, that would be cool. If she had a black tattoo of maybe a sword or something to make the T-back look like a cross, you howl in pain and your cover's blown. Good luck taking a bite out of that ass.
-If people decide to play fight with popsicle sticks in front of you, the wrong shape will have you on the floor.
-If there was a vampire war, the human side could win with POGO STICKS!

lol, that is so tru. anybody watch dusk till dawn 3? somebody had a american red cross truck outside, he simply closed the door, and the vampires starting running away. i don't know if i could have all those powers, and not play xbox if it was tilted the wrong way, i need my xbl fix

[roninwarrior24]

The Elder Scrolls games are pretty good when considering the strength/weakness ratio. The Atronarch sign, for instance: You have way more magic power than you normally would, and you absorb half of the magic cast at you (meaning THEY DON'T WORK), but you never restore magic over time, meaning you either have to get hit a lot by magic, or drink a lot of potions.

The Darkness attack in Final Fantasies could also count, to a lesser extent. Attack every enemy you see, but lose some of your life.

[valaris]

I'd say vamparism. You get immortality, super strength, super speed, the ability to change into a wolf,bat, fog, the jedi mind trick, and the ability to repair any injury aside from decapatation. Hell, the only thing you need to eat is blood, and you can just hang out with a bunch of goth chicks and you have free food 24/7. The Drawback? 10 seconds in the sun and you die. That's just lame.


The best thing though is protection from STD's. You can fuck whatever you want.

[TheDarkPhoenix]

WTH no one said rogue? She should have been like 1st on the list.... Also proteus and blackblot. Blackbot power sucks badly....No being able to whisper with out blowing hecka stuff up. The thing, and cable and Deadpool have it bad it bad to. Both have virus/sicknes that they can't get rid of or have to use the powers to keep in check.


Rogue powers sucks because she always has to worried about killing someone taking on there thoughts, and traits and the no "physical contact" love life.

Proteus(sp?) because he has to have different host because he burns out bodies to quick.

[Million]

I think Proteus' power is worth it though. That's the guy who can warp reality itself, right? That far outweighs having to find a new body on a frequent basis. Also, wouldn't this imply he's immortal, or at least has a much longer life span than a normal human? I'd love to take just immortality if all I had to do was switch out for a new body once the old one gets old and diseased or damaged.

yeah, Rogue has kind of a bum deal. It would suck even more in our world, where there are no other super powered beings to take powers from....unless I could steal animals' abilities...like steal superior vision from birds and eagles, I guess...or extra strength proportionally from insects? eh, still it's not worth it...knowing you cuold really NEVER, ever fuck someone for more than a few seconds before they die from it. It would be funny, but still...they're dead after those 2 seconds...and unless you're into necrophilia...well that's no fun.

damn...can't even kiss with that stupid Rogue power....not even a kiss? can't even cop a feel! Ridiculous.

[Ojigishirou]

Well... you could use a condom if you got rogue powers.

Problem solved. Then there's the fact you gotta where gloves constantly if you wanna touch shit. So... coping a feel ain't impossible. Kissing is a problem, I admit. But I remember some movie where some dude put some plastic shit on his lips so he would get poisoned so that could probably work.

Confirmation?

[TheDarkPhoenix]

Well... you could use a condom if you got rogue powers.

Problem solved. Then there's the fact you gotta where gloves constantly if you wanna touch shit. So... coping a feel ain't impossible. Kissing is a problem, I admit. But I remember some movie where some dude put some plastic shit on his lips so he would get poisoned so that could probably work.

Confirmation?
If you wrap yourself in full plastic maybe, one mistake and its gg...

[Million]

Teleportation itself is a problematic situation. It's only good if there's the "molecule displacement clause", meaning that if I happen to teleport to a spot where there is already an object or another person or animal...my form takes priority, and the other thing bursts apart or is otherwise destroyed.(which makes for an interesting way of killing things) Imagine how much it would suck if you had this great power...but you were scared to use it because you might accidentally teleport yourself into the middle of a table or a couch, or a stray animal, some dogshit, a sign, etc. (it would be nice though...no more need for buying gas for my car that often...I just teleport....and because of that, I could literally wait until the last possible second before I go in. 5pm comes, and I am instantly home....or lunchtime hits, I can just teleport to a beach in Florida and watch some hot broads in thongs....the possibilities are amazing, and they reach far beyond theft and voyeurism.)

Kangaroo Man--a lame old villain, I think from Marvel. His power? He had super jumping. That was IT. Nothing else...he could just super-jump. Imagine if this was all you had...that's pitiful unless it would translate to super fast running and superpowerful kicking...and even there, that's 3rd tier superpowers at best. It would suck even more if you don't have the necessary super durability, as your body will take more of a hit when coming down from super high jumps. that would be an asanine way to die too: "well, he had this ability to super jump...so he jumped over a building one day...and died from the resulting impact."
Anyway, I have a Wizard special publication that was called The Dark Book, which was all about villains. Kangaroo was on their top 10 list of worst/lamest villains of all time, alongside people like Crazy Quilt and Kite Man.

[denjin]

Spawn: Use your abilities and damn yourself. Someone mentioned something similiar to this with another character.

I'd LOVE to have the suit he got though.

[box]

Impulse has super speed powers.

When he got shot in the kneecap by Deathstroke, the doctors couldn't sedate him with any anesthetics because of his super fast metabolism.

So they had to get the bullet out of him and do surgery on him while he was awake.

Ouch.

[brophog]

how in the hell does runnign fast make you age faster? if i go on the treadmill for an hour i dont gain wrinkles. someone better give me a really good explanation because it sounds like bs to make the falsh have a weakness. run into the future? can the flash run faster than the speed of light? if he can i swear there is no reason he shoulds lose to anyone.

You're in serious need of a physics lesson in relativity. The world you take for granted does not apply as a constant with respect to speed. Your example of a treadmill, at the speeds a human would run them at, is extremely poor in respect to the speeds at which the Flash would run.

[Khiempossible]

daredevil.

super power: sight
quirk: he's blind.

what the fuck kind of super power is that. he's basically a normal person now.