Greetings nerdy list afficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we are once more
talking super powers now not all heroes have them but for those that do they are a powerful
weapon in their arsenal however some powers are a bit less conducive to cool than others
some may say dumb.
Now of course as always caveats you can make almost any power seem really cool if you write
it in correctly but at first glance these abilities may be these less than stellar.
I’m Sasha and these are the top 10 dumbest superhero super powers.
Let’s have fun with this it’s a good time no shade intended except to batman’s chair
all the shade there always.
Number 10 – Empathy Empathic powers tend to flounder when they are on their own hence
in the superhero world you will often find them paired with other abilities for example
while empathy may be a large part of Raven’s abilities it is not the only part she can
also influence emotions and also her soul self and whole host of demonic abilities all
of this is cause if you just have empathic abilities you run into the Deanna Troi situation
I’m sensing hostility captain now knowing someones emotional state would be an asset
but without even telepathy to back it up you’d still be kind of guessing like are they mad
because of what happened in your battle or negotiation or because the store ran out of
hazelnut milk you don’t know.
Also you can’t just yell it out hold up titans he’s sad.
It’s a very I know something you don’t know maybe kind of power however as soon as
you partner it up with something else it goes up a whole other level.
Number 9 – Immortality – Now being immortal doesn’t always have the guarantee of coming
with eternal youth or lack of pain or disease or even not being able to die.
People just assume.
But what if you’re immortal and just becoming a prune, or you get sick and then you’re
just sick forever living as one massive tumor, or you can still die painfully but then get
resurrected again this one needs back up super strength, youth, Lazarus pits anything.
And you still need to contend with the existential dread of losing all those you care about and
your connection to humanity if you feel like you can’t keep up with music after like
a decade imagine keeping up with people and trends after a century full time job could
you stay good or do you think you’d get a little weird if you were immortal.
Me full louis du point du lac Cabin full of books life goals.
Number 8 – Precognition – Now precognition sounds like a great ability you can see the
future and then you can change it but no think about it either way you’ve been Cassandrad
so you see the future and you change it well that means the future is fluid so how good
was your prediction in the first place did you change it or would it always have changed
or the other option the future is inevitable no matter what you do you are hurtling towards
that timeline heck maybe even you trying to change it sets you on that path.
Great well what good was knowing then, it’s more useful if you can change things but then
you have to live in a world of all these shifting potentialities I guess it would also depend
on how strong the ability was like what if you were seeing things you couldn’t exactly
place like somebody brushing their teeth, but evilly but with no other clues.
Then someone might try to steal you and that might set off a civil war 2 or a minority
report it’s a whole thing more trouble than it’s worth.
Number 7 - Colour Manipulation – So when we’re talking about this we’re talking
mostly about the colour kid who can change the colour of any object at will.
Now cool for your career and an interior decorator extraordinaire but for your crime fighting
career less so.
So he once used this to mask a maguffin so that the villain couldn’t find it but I
mean this is a stop gap measure he also tripped someone case he blended an object into a the
floor.
So distraction at best annoyance at worst.
Now you could work this but you’d have to be one think on your toes colour manipulator.
So many other careers children’s entertainer that would be another good one teach the young
ones all about mixing colors.
Number 6 – Omniscience – So omniscience sounds great you know everything but it tends
to freeze a person in place a bit enraptured by all the knowledge they have especially
if they have a certain chair . To quote Batman I am never getting out of this chair.
3 Jokers joe chill sitting next to green lantern on a couch construct.
Hal having to give Bruce his ring to will himself out of the knowledge chair is still
one of the most hilarious things ever.
Also you can kind of plan for everything if you know everything so it also gets a bit
less interesting on that front as well.
This is why with rare exceptions this tends to be a fleeting ability and then the hero
is left trying to grasp at the straws of the knowledge they once had.
Also it tends to be shown as pushing heroes away from their heroic natures for knowledge
is power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Number 5 - Organ Rearrangement – Now this is great in battle, someone’s going in for
a kill shot just relocate your heart or whatever needs be that being of course if it can happen
quickly is it like organ teleportation or more like the slow progressive slog of it
through your body can you feel it that would be really gross if you could.
However when else do you need this I mean aside from pranking purposes terrify your
friends and family where’s your heart how are you alive surprise ma I’m a mutant.
The thing for characters who have this ability is it usually isn’t brought up until absolutely
necessary so you get a lot of deus ex organ rearrangement.
Number 4 – Charisma – Bur charisma is not a power you say some people are just charming,
but in the comic book world some people are more than charming they may have magnetic
personalities or other abilities that make them appealing to others sometimes pheromones.
The thing with this ability is it puts you in a position where you have to question their
interactions like do these people like them cause they’re nice or because there’s
some sort of influence going on it veers pretty far into the realm of manipulation if used
and away from heroic territory and then you end up with starfox never go full starfox,
cause essentially then you’ve just gone purple man.
Just let people have baseline charisma that’s fine average charm can feel like a super power
anyways.
Number 3 - Power Ring – Now the Power Ring is a fantastic weapon and one that is immensely
powerful I mean with it the limits are literally only ones imagination however sometimes the
constructs can get a little silly.
People creating whole trains and cars around themselves and the like plus without the ring
not all the lanterns have backups not even some extra martial arts training.
Simon Baz carried a gun for a bit but that didn’t go over well also a couple of issues
into having it he shot and killed sinestro thankfully they were already in the realm
of the undead so it didn’t have a permanent effect but still he would eventually be convinced
he didn’t need it.
Kyle has some crazy constructs cause he’s an artist so the idea is that he would naturally
have these really intricate designs because of his artistic nature ok tell me that during
a hostage situation under hostile fire.
Really cool weapon not always used to the best of their abilities.
Number 2 - Eye Boy – So eye boy is covered in eyes, eyes everywhere you can see everything
from all directions so one would assume your brain would also be honed to accommodate this
newfound skill but also you’d be so vulnerable all over so many places for people to poke
and they don’t even have to come for you, you could just fall eyes smushed.
This is a huge surveillance advantage but you have to make sure your eye person doesn’t
get rushed into combat or it could go very poorly very quickly.
Now for eye boy they amped these powers up gave the poor kid a break and he can see more
than just the average human with all those eyes he can see things like magic and people’s
personalities so it’s like an extra perception on top of just having more eyes.
Aura tracking just whole host of things to make up for what would otherwise be just being
ten eyes man but all over your body.
Number 1 – Niceness Vibes – Feel the vibe man . This was an ability particularly highlighted
by the third Goldstar who just wanted the universe to be a kind and decent place which
made him the arch enemy of lobo and the two would regularly get into dust ups.
Gold star was even drawn to be the opposite of Lobo he can encourage people to be nice
cause he emits niceness vibes but they most certainly do not work on the main man.
Gold star would routinely get his butt handed to him cause the writers did not like him
and were just waiting for the day he would fade into obscurity which isn’t very nice
see his vibes don’t work at all.
Ok so those were ten “dumb” super powers share some powers you think are lack luster
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