Poll of the Day > Are there any super heroes with absolutely useless powers?

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Like something like, a dude who all he can do is take a crumbled piece of paper and perfectly straighten/flatten it into regular paper... or whatever, mundane restoration. He uses it to keep his AC from breaking and his keyboard from getting sticky.

...I know, that's silly, but I'm insightful - not creative.

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Jubilee?

If I remember correctly, they turned her into a vampire to make her more interesting?

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https://www.goliath.com/comics/10-worst-super-powers-ever-created/

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There are ones who have almost useless powers, but that's not their main power. It would be hard to be a superhero whose only power is useless, although you have people in those universes with useless powers.


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I like the comic where Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are jsut trying to play video games and things keep happening

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He isn't an actual working hero but one time in XMen there was a student at Xavier Institute that found out his Mutant power is he can explode his body to cause massive damage like a huge bomb. But also he will stay dead if he ever uses his power

There was a dude that had the power to be able to rip off his arm and beat people up with it. I believe he tried to join the Avengers or Justice League(can't remember if he was Marvel or DC), but got rejected because his power was so useless.
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lihlih posted...

There was a dude that had the power to be able to rip off his arm and beat people up with it. I believe he tried to join the Avengers or Justice League(can't remember if he was Marvel or DC), but got rejected because his power was so useless.

Arm Fall Off Boy. That was DC I think, in the Future setting. He tried to join the Legion of Super Heroes, which is the Justice League equivalent in the year 3000

It seems like with such super powers, such shows are parodying themselves. "Super" power, huh.

But it seems like a lot of the hero universes are getting kind of "meta" or self-deprecating lately. Not that I'm even very into them to really know, that is just how it has been seeming - I don't know why.

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There's a few of them on Misfits. Like the chick that makes men want to rape her or something like that.

Joseph Joestar's stand is also fairly useless in combat, and only had one enemy to fight in Stardust Crusaders.
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KarsUltimate posted...

Joseph Joestar's stand is also fairly useless in combat, and only had one enemy to fight in Stardust Crusaders.

Go make me a Hamon Eggs Sandwich Overdrive

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Lokarin posted...

Go make me a Hamon Eggs Sandwich Overdrive

I'll be sure not to make it too salty.
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Arm-fall-off Man. Yes, that's a real character and not an exaggeration or anything.

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Whatever power it is that Dog Welder has.

Okay, it probably isn't a power.
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Radioactive Meg from the Family Guy

Porn parody Superheroes with their horny powers.

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Ok, but how many of these useless heroes have cool stories? Seems like most of them are throwaway gags

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Lokarin posted...

Ok, but how many of these useless heroes have cool stories? Seems like most of them are throwaway gags

Super hero Comics usually focus on the people out fighting villains and saving people. So... the answer to your question is none

If someone is going to have an adventure without useful powers, they just write them as non powered people. I've never seen someone with a useless power who also had adventures. Every example I know of only exists to be a joke

Lokarin posted...

Ok, but how many of these useless heroes have cool stories? Seems like most of them are throwaway gags

Well, it's been some time, but in Misfits I think their powers were the result of an electrical storm or something. Only some of them were really beneficial. But anyway they were prisoners caught somewhere unfortunate during transport or whatever and I fricking forget the details.

Joseph was just kind of a shadow of his former self (he never even cared to use his powers to age gracefully like a regular hamon user), so they had to make him like that.
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Moist comes to mind.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/moist/4005-77551/

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I believe there was a movie made with this as the concept, all of the main characters having useless powers. I haven't actually seen it myself but I remember being told one of the guys had the power to turn invisible, but only when absolutely no one was looking at him, including things like security cameras.

Reigning_King posted...

I believe there was a movie made with this as the concept, all of the main characters having useless powers. I haven't actually seen it myself but I remember being told one of the guys had the power to turn invisible, but only when absolutely no one was looking at him, including things like security cameras.

ya, Mystery Men - that's something like what I'm going for.

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Ogurisama posted...

https://www.goliath.com/comics/10-worst-super-powers-ever-created/

I mean, there's pretty much no such thing as a useless super power, since any "power" implies you now have something before that you didn't before. Hell, Doorman would be a really useful person to have for a bank robbery or something.

Now, fucking lame powers? Sure.

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Now that I think about it, there's definitely some lesser monsters and heroes from One-Punch Man. I can't really think of anyone but like Hedoro Jellyfish right now, who's basically powerless but can engulf objects IIRC. But King definitely has no power but probably luck and an abnormally powerful heart, and he's the "strongest man on Earth".

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I mean, there's pretty much no such thing as a useless super power, since any "power" implies you now have something before that you didn't before. Hell, Doorman would be a really useful person to have for a bank robbery or something.

Now, fucking lame powers? Sure.

No, you really can have crippling powers, whether they harm you or another.

Another female example is Kagerou from Basilisk. She exudes poison like all the time, uncontrollably. What this means is she cannot get intimate with anyone without causing them to die. So she is tormented by this sad state of affairs.

Tenzen from that same series is able to come back from death, but it drives him a little more insane every time. It causes him that much pain
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The power to see really really far/zoomed in, but it's active all the time.

The power to change the color of objects, but only slowly a slight shade at a time (takes an hour to change from orange to yellow for instance, and the larger the object the longer it takes (the above is to change an orange to yellow).

The power to whisper long distance but only to somewhere you can see and you can't control the direction (it just continues forward in the direction your facing).

The power to change the channel on a tv without using a remote!!! (or alexa etc now).

The power to communicate with rabbits, but only if both the rabbit and you are drunk.

The power to fart out of your mouth.

The power to multiply your pee output allowing you to pee 3-4x as much as other men.

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That kid that Wolverine had to kill in the cave

The power to control your partners moans/noises during sex.

The power to peel off wallpaper, but only if it's be applied in the last year. You can peel off wallpaper that is older then 1 year but it takes extreme concentration and causes massive migrains (each year of age over 1 has a 5% chance of causing an anurism that kills you).

The power to reverse the direction water flushes down a toilet.

The power to make an apple float or not float in a tub of water.

The power to erase a message on a chalk board without an eraser or touching it with your hands.

The power to reverse sneeze (you can pull the sneeze back in after sneezing if you do it right away).

The power the think outside the box, literally, if your inside a box you stop thinking at all and just stand there. If you are right NEXT to a box, you are much more creative and learn faster. If you are SURROUNDED by boxes, you actually are very smart indeed.

The power age faster, you can increase the rate you age at, but you can never decrease it afterwards.

The power to walk backwards as fast and in as much control as you walk forwards.

The power to feel emotions slowly, normal emotions, happiness, sadness etc, can be stretched out to last much longer than normal, but they are not as intense.

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

That kid that Wolverine had to kill in the cave

that was supes sad and why I made that other super hero topic

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JixHedgehog posted...

Jubilee?

If I remember correctly, they turned her into a vampire to make her more interesting?

Her powers are actually OP, and the vampire thing was unrelated and only for a brief period of time.

Zikten posted...

He isn't an actual working hero but one time in XMen there was a student at Xavier Institute that found out his Mutant power is he can explode his body to cause massive damage like a huge bomb. But also he will stay dead if he ever uses his power

One of the former War Horsemen blew his own hands off when he tried to clap iirc, so Apoc upgraded him.

KarsUltimate posted...

Well, it's been some time, but in Misfits I think their powers were the result of an electrical storm or something. Only some of them were really beneficial. But anyway they were prisoners caught somewhere unfortunate during transport or whatever and I fricking forget the details.

Huh. There was a comic were a storm gave people wonky powers, too. Was wondering if the two things were related but I guess now.


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KarsUltimate posted...

No, you really can have crippling powers, whether they harm you or another.

That's pretty much Doom Patrol, where everyone's power is a mix of Immortality experiments and severe PTSD from said experiments.

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X-Men will probably be the best source of those. Only the best mutants get to be "X-Men" or work for Magneto. Some are outcast and miserable, like the Morlocks.

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Zeus posted...

Her powers are actually OP, and the vampire thing was unrelated and only for a brief period of time.

Alot of people think she is weak because of one of the x-men cartoons where she is basically being saved all the time etc.

In the comics she "mostly" avoids using the full strength of her power, but basically she could create a blast equal to a nucleor bomb (or larger) AND be immune to the blast herself (not sure if she can actually absorb a nuke that she doesn't make).

She also can make and control very small blasts including creating them inside someones head/heart etc, so in theory she could kill just about anyone, even someone who regens like wolverine (Because she should be able to make EVERY cell of wolverines body literally explode).

She could in theory be one of the most powerful mutants if her powers were fully realized (before she lost them etc).

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KarsUltimate posted...

There's a few of them on Misfits. Like the chick that makes men want to rape her or something like that.

Joseph Joestar's stand is also fairly useless in combat, and only had one enemy to fight in Stardust Crusaders.

Hey hey, he fought two enemies at least. The weird arm thing and the magnet girl

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Zeus posted...

Huh. There was a comic were a storm gave people wonky powers, too. Was wondering if the two things were related but I guess now.

I haven't heard of it. What was the title?

But I thought it was almost like Mutant X (at least in that it was one of the few non-Marvel group of young people with powers thing), except it's British, and can be found on Hulu. I really haven't watched that much tbh, but it's different all right.

KodyKeir posted...

That's pretty much Doom Patrol, where everyone's power is a mix of Immortality experiments and severe PTSD from said experiments.

That's not a comic, is it? I can't tell if it rings a bell or not.

Webbernet posted...

Hey hey, he fought two enemies at least. The weird arm thing and the magnet girl

Oh yeah. But I meant like solo fight. But I am just glad Avdol got one more fight there. Dude was starved after missing so much of the journey (and he really only gets one solo fight too, if you don't count Jotaro).
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KarsUltimate posted...

That's not a comic, is it? I can't tell if it rings a bell or not.

Under DC, they started a streaming exclusive show that is going into its third season too, try to stick around after the Donkey Fart (Alan Tudyk is Brilliant as the opening season villain) .

I never read the comics myself, but there is an extensive catalogue going back to 1963.

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KarsUltimate posted...

Joseph Joestar's stand is also fairly useless in combat, and only had one enemy to fight in Stardust Crusaders.

But utility wise it was essential. Although I must say he handles himself better in his setting, than the average human does post Saiyan saga in Dragon Ball.

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Some of the kids in My Here Academia

Sticky kid, big hands, tail

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KarsUltimate posted...

No, you really can have crippling powers, whether they harm you or another.

True, but that's to to my point, as those powers aren't "useless", just "crippling/detrimental." Always creating poison around you can have a use, after all, even if it's more of a burden 99% of the time.

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