nex3
@nex3

What are some interesting superpowers that aren't completely unrealistic? There are only two rules:

  • You cannot produce more energy than you can reasonably consume in calories.
  • Everything outside your body must obey the known laws of physics.

To start off with a simple example: you can't have the human torch because what exactly is the fuel for that fire, but you can channel all your energy reserves into superheating the tip of your index finger and light fires that way.


nex3
@nex3

Prettygoodman: a guy who's effortlessly in the top 0.1% of all desirable innate human characteristics and skills. Nothing superhuman, by definition, and for any given skill or ability there are a few million people better than him. But no one's nearly as well-rounded!


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kind of gross but what springs to mind is an expansion of your skin and nervous system like fungus to make like flesh constructs which could be applied like creating a less-strong limb that you can still relatively control or making an extended sentry to your body (like the joke of taking out your eye and looking around the corner), or allowing it to disconnect and making an organic web to block a door.

i think that once it is disconnected from you it'd probably be effectively dead tissue since the control center (brain) is no longer able to control it. bio-wifi would be very fun but then you'd have to be careful not to overload your brain, akin to the "pat your head and rub your stomach" but like x50. while this is vaguely gross and horrific as is, it could get even more horrific with the idea that your discarded flesh constructs could start to grow their own brains to control themselves and act independently or until total cell death have the ability to latch onto other organic things and "infect" objects like a fungus so to speak

You can shoot lasers the color of your iris from your eyes but only for a little while and you also can't see while you're doing it. If you do it for too long, the strength will diminish and the color will disappear from your eyes

There was a TV show a decade or something ago where Stan Lee (and eventually it was outsourced to one of the first people he interviewed) tried to find people with "real life super powers". The secondary host was this guy with a different gene that made his ligaments extra stretchy so he was like super flexible

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