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Mid-tier superpowers types:

1. Powers that are limited by their conception, like it's built into the concept they are.
Example: you can bring back to the real world anything you hold in your hands in a
dream (dreams are unpredictable and uncontrollable, so the caveat is created by
their own nature rather than by an arbitrary one).
2. Powers that are limited by a simple caveat. Example: you can move at superspeed as
long as people aren't seeing you with their eyes directly (the caveat is not too
complex, so the power seems more instinctive to understand if it were in a story).
3. Powers that have great risk but high reward. Example: You gain physical advantage
over people by the severity of the secrets you tell them (here, the secret could
potentially harm you, so they put you at a position of losing something, however the
power gained from them is good for you, you stand to gain from it, and even better,
it's stronger the more at risk you put yourself (gradients like this are usually pretty
good) and it has little ways of breaking as it related directly to the danger you put
yourself in).
4. Powers that are just not that good. Example: You can look away faster than
strangers so you get no more awkward eye contact (this one has little use and
honestly it's not very good in a story but I thought it was a good example and pretty
funny). Also: You can copy and paste (words) in real life (not necessarily weak or
useless to make it bad, just not the most powerful thing).
Shit-tier superpower types:

This will be more of a "post type" than a power type, since the powers have very
little use in a story, but are fun to think of most of the time.

1. Extremely specific ones…


a. That can do little to no impact (usually go like "you can summon a [blank] at
exactly [blank] once every [blank] months". Example: You can summon a
singular crab, only on tuesdays at 3:24 pm.
b. That devolve into personal details and aren't really a power. Example: you
can turn your ex-wife's new husband Michael into a Godzilla type monster
that only you can defeat and if you do you get her back please Sherryl take
me back I've changed I swear.
2. Ones about reddit. Example: You get some shitty green cheese next to your name
once a year which lets you karmawhore for a day (not really popular anymore I don't
think and thank god for that).
3. Ones that destroy the whole world if used. Example: Every time you say "bruh", it is
bassboosted and the earth shakes (is a reference too by the way, in case you read
this in the future forgot about some memes somehow).
4. Ones that don't work sometimes. Example: You can run through walls 50% of the
time (just a regular power but with this chance added, but also produces a funny
image of trying to run through a wall and crashing into it instead).
5. Powers that sound good if you don't think about them, but actually cancel
themselves out. Example: You can teleport anywhere you have teleported before
(assuming you haven't teleported anywhere before).
6. Powers with no use but are pretty impressive. Example: You have every copypasta
memorized and can recite them perfectly.

Just wanted to mention this one which I don't know how to categorize, but I really love
it: Every time you forget about this power, a bear enters the room and hands you $150
in cash. You need to forget something, which makes it harder, you get 150 dollars, which
isn't even that much for something you can probably only do once every month at most,
and the bear is a wonderful character that adds a lot without having to even be
described.

7. Those that are just references:


a. You're an avenger but rather than being able to fly or having super strength
you're just really good at archery.
b. You can commit suicide in a secure jail cell while under intense supervision
24 hours a day.
c. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

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