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[pikachu17]

Inspired by this thread.
The rules are simple. Figure out how to use the superpower the poster above you posted in a successful career as a super-villain or super-hero, and then suggest another power you don't think would have much use.

Spoiler: An example (click to show/hide)

Power:Being a perfectly average human being.

The stronger humans in general get, the stronger I get, as I am now perfectly average.
I would try to make the human average in everything higher, thus empowering myself.
I would continually have an average amount of money, so I would effectively have infinite money.
I would be indestructable, as long as the average human is uninjured.
I also have slight amounts of any superpower a human has.
Sure, I'd be average, but in a setting with lots of superpowerful human, I would have lots of small powers, enough to be better than everyone in something.

I'll start:
The power: The ability to instantly repair broken windows(Not the computer OS).

[wierd]

You know all those "in case of emergency break glass" fire extinguisher and fire axe containers in buildings all across the world?

Guess what happens when you can never actually break the glass, because some evil villain instantly repairs it again?


The power to emit a refreshing cloud of floral rose essential oil.

[Glass]

Not necessarily a super-villain, but as a thief, you could break open windows to get in and out of buildings, and repair them afterwards to cover your tracks.

If you want to actually hurt people, you could carry a bunch of window panes around, slip them around peoples' bodies, and repair them, presumably cutting off any body parts that intersect the glass.

For supervillainy, you could fit these around entire buildings to destabilize them, or hold important people hostage, tied up with a windowpane around them.


If we're talking the OS (which you said you're not but may as well) then you can probably make a killing in IT.



Power: When you're waiting for something to happen, time fast-forwards for you until it happens. It doesn't fast-forward for anyone else, though.

EDIT: Goddamned ninjas.
Gimme a sec to do a power for the previous poster...

Ok.
As either a hero or a villain, emit a cloud of the scent strong enough to send whoever smells it into coughing fits, unable to do anything.
As a villain, this allows you to do as you please.
As a hero, this allows you to take down evildoers nonlethally.

EDIT2: As stated, my power submission is "When you're waiting for something to happen, time fast-forwards for you until it happens. It doesn't fast-forward for anyone else, though."

[TricMagic]

Hero: TimeStopper: Wait until Criminal Scum breaks into a place you know they will hit, then take them out.

White-Collar Villain Kinda: Wait until you Bank Account reaches certain digits, or play the stock market, waiting until a Bear Market to begin on your stocks, and waiting for a major Bull Market to Begin.

General: Wait until General Space Travel begins to shoot to the future, and play off your power as a basic check, like waiting to learn of a shuttle launching to it's death, and then stopping that launch before it happens.


Edit: Super Power. The Power to Die Instantly. Just you, no one else.

[pikachu17]

Find a way to give your power to other people and make them use it.

Power: The ability to eat muffins ten times faster than everyone else.

[Puppyguard]

You win every muffin eating competition, then amass large amounts of cash and fund superweapon research and development.

Power: The ability to look over shoulders without being noticed by the person whose shoulder you are looking over.

[TricMagic]

Install cameras everywhere to look over everyone's shoulders.

Power of the Heart.

[pikachu17]

Give your enemies heart attacks. If you're a villain and the power works like that, make everyone fall in love with you, and make everything on earth your pawn.

Power:The ability to survive decapitation and put your head back on, but ONLY decapitation and you suffocate if you don't get your head back on.

[Imic]

When the Hero is in your lair, find him and lead him to a specific spot, where a trap goes off, and your head gets cut off. Nothing else. The Hero gets closer, and goes to inspect the corpse, at which point, you stick the head back on and, getting the jump on him, stab him in the throat.

The ability to instantly produce a single loaf of Bread of any pre-existing variety, with around a one hour cooldown.

[TD1]

Start small. Feed the local hungry. Form cult - ask, and thou shall receive the divine miracle of bread. Use Bread Cult members to steal large amounts of food. Attracted by the sustenance, membership grows. As does your status as divine in popular thought.

With this as your base, take over the world.

Power: the ability to vomit for one second per day

[birdy51]

Get caught by the police? That's alright for Vomit Man, who can trick the police easily that he's ill and needs to go to the hospital by vomiting all over their shoes.

Power: Feather Generation. The power to spontaneously grow feathers from one's fingertips. At full length, they fall off harmlessly to the floor. Interestingly enough, they can be any size of feather that one might wish; from the tiny sprigs of a hummingbird, to the mighty floofs of an ostrich. Ostrich feathers do take longer however...

[Glass]

Grow Skarmory (you know, the Pokemon) feathers and use them as claws. Or grow feathers made of arsenic and stuff to poison your enemies.
Hey, you never said what kinds of feathers they had to be, or what they had to be made of.

Power: Whenever you're going to do something you'll regret, someone else at the edge of earshot will coincidentally tell somebody else "you're going to regret that".

[VoidSlayer]

Power: Whenever you're going to do something you'll regret, someone else at the edge of earshot will coincidentally tell somebody else "you're going to regret that".

Use this as part of a super villain group to counter stealthy heroes.  Just keep regretting things rapidly while moving and everyone nearby will keep saying "you're going to regret that", revealing their location so your henchmen or fellow villains can shoot them.

Also useful in search and rescue as a hero.

Probably a better way as a lone villain/hero but couldn't think of anything.

Power:  You always know the exact location of the nearest Beanie Baby to your current location.

[Imic]

Strategically place small beany babies around your lair, in vents, in anything thta could be used as a hidden passage, as often as possible in the way of someone crawling/walking.
Keep moving, and if you sense any movememnts, you can easily find and kill the intruder.

The ability to instantly turn any body part into a fully controlled and identical Cybernetic version, or grow cybernetic body parts wherever a biological one may be missing, for whatever reason.

[Nirur Torir]

Power: Whenever you're going to do something you'll regret, someone else at the edge of earshot will coincidentally tell somebody else "you're going to regret that".

Spend $1000 on lotto tickets. If you'd lose, you'd regret it, and not do so, and could try again next week.

The ability to instantly turn any body part into a fully controlled and identical Cybernetic version, or grow cybernetic body parts wherever a biological one may be missing, for whatever reason.

I am now a factory for advanced high-tech goods with no inputs and minimal maintenance. Just sell the parts and become fabulously wealthy.

You sneeze whenever someone is talking about you.