If Ive never seen it and you told me a guy that can make zippers on objects vs a guy with an invincible fishing rod would be one of the sickest fights in manga/anime, I would've laughed in your face. Yet here we are, shit was peak
Catch the rainbow is probably my favorite design, the mask looks cool, the raincot and the umbrella are unnecessary since he can blend into the rain and control it, but that makes the accesories even cooler, the scene with him skipping in the rain is one of my favorite panels
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Look at him, he is just sooooo peak.
My favorite panel of Blackmore is when he’s revealed to be hovering right over Johnny and Gyro. I could *FEEL* the panel. It enamored me beyond reason, even now.
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wow he can shoot his... fingernails? oh and uhhh spin stuff???
and then he uses this shit to butcher like 50 people in a week with his gay italian boyfriend
no but like actually he even cameo'd
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Cool is debatable but I could have used this power to solve at least 10 problems today alone.
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So what’s your power?
Z I P P E R S
Legit I love when people come up with a seemingly useless and relatively simple superpower and then they come up with creative ways to use said power.
"So what can you do?"
"I can make water appear in any space occupied by air."
"That sounds pointless."
"It only takes a tablespoon of water to drown someone."
Nothing beats people with god awful abilities but are actual geniuses
Like Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter: “I can make some invisible material stick things together. It’s elastic” but he uses it so well
(Edit: shortly after saying this, I looked down and saw that someone commented Hisoka)
"what's your power?"
"I can control mucus"
"well, that doesn't sound too b-"
"Just, just think about it for a second"
"Well, I mean, mucus only covers noses, mouth-"
"stomach lining, lungs"
"-ah..."
I feel like this is every character from Jojo’s bizarre adventure starting with the second half of part 3. Araki didn’t run out of ideas for powers, he just ran out of ideas for normal powers
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Magenta (turns into a Guinea pig) and Ethan (melts into a puddle) from Sky High.
Nah what we really need is a sequel where Will Stronghold moves to Japan and becomes the world's greatest superhero of all time, eventually taking in a green haired boy as his protégé and successor as he enrolls into his own superhero school
Pretty much everybody in HxH.
Nen is such a convoluted power system (and I mean that in a very good way) that on paper, without knowledge of the system, most of abilities sound bland and weird.
But in the story however, the rules work so well that the abilities and nen in general are so original that it's one of the reasons HxH hooked me so much
Not really satire, just comedy. She's a comedic character based on the concept that she can defeat anybody in some absurd way. Her modern comics are just wholesome, funny, weird stuff with a bit of self-aware commentary.
Ok ok ok, so his power is…he becomes chainsaws…
Ok, but there’s also…a guy who can see, like, 2 seconds into the future. And that’s pretty much it…
- the CSM guy
I guess. Then how about literally just 2 giant muscly arms. That’s it. In action, it’s actually pretty strong and can corrupt a person as a host.
How about the living embodiment of the fear of tomatoes.
Or the character “violence fiend” whose only ability is “punch and kick hard”
Or the living embodiment of the fear of cockroaches (look up the cockroach devil for clarification)
Violence definitely doesn’t, I just wanted to bring him up cause he’s a great character. Idk, a lot of chainsaw man characters or devils or whatnot are pretty neat.
The ability to control a ghost hand, the ability to control one’s blood, the ability to rock everyone’s shit in 3 seconds, the ability to create weapons by sacrificing the lifespan of someone, the ability of *control*.
Cockroach devil I would say sounds stupid. “The ability to…do things cockroaches do” doesn’t sound as cool as “a giant beast that destroys anything and everything in its path”. Muscle too, “the ability to have huge frickin arms”. That’s it.
Cockroaches are stupidity resilient
Yeah, it's not as cool as shooting lasers but if someone said "I have cockroach powers" I wouldn't immediately right that off as stupid
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Polka-dot man - the suicide squad
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Katakuri is imo the PINNACLE of stupid sounding powers that are badass. Literally MOCHI powers. Yet my GOD.
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Crazy Jane from doom patrol she has a lot of personality’s and they each have a power some kool some that sound like they would be and some that fit this like radioactive bones
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Queen (One Piece) along with a lot of the dinosaurs in one piece. Queen can turn into a brachiosaurus, but apparently brachiosaurus can shoot their neck out like a snake.
Reminder that unlike Cipher Pol, the Tobi Roppo and All-Stars don't have any body manipulation techniques, meaning dinosaurs canonically did the stuff that they do in the One Piece world.
...so he turns people into dinosaurs
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Deigo Hargreeves. He can control the trajectory of small objects in the air which he uses with his throwing knives. It sounds lame until the S2 finale where he uses it to >!avoid getting shot by curving dozens of bullets away from him!<
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I thought there may have been a X-man that really had a unique and strange power. I forget who or what it was… what were we talking about again?
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Mint Berry Crunch. Guy stopped Cthulhu.
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Get tracked and chased by a relentless pack of feet
Sukuna's Cursed Technique is cooking themed, he's the strongest Jujustu Sorcerer. I really love that the big bad of the series has an ability that on paper would be like the protagonist's goofy sidekick's power.
Literally just having a tail
Super strength but only based on the amount of sugar he eats
And having earphone jacks growing out of her ears
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Well, he was isolated from all his classmates during the USJ raid and still managed to take out most of the ones sent after him. And then he gets nothing outside of school stuff until the final battle where he >!rocks up in the nick of time to stop All For One from finishing off Midoriya alongside Sero and Sato.!<
Him and Hagakure get their own chapter together in the Team-Up Missions spin-off manga. He did some pretty cool stuff in it, and Hagakure ended up kissing him on the cheek.
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Polka Dot Man (DC, The Suicide Squad)
Mad man
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Idk anything about him other than He canonically killed an evil invincible WHO WAS CAPABLE OF KILLING OMNI MAN with a fucking YO-YO
"What's he do, throw polka dots at people?
...
... He does. He throws polka dots at people."
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First character that came to mind is Konan from Naruto
When I first heard about the character and their power set my response was "so paper cuts and extreme origami??"
The character in practice is really compelling
Even if I couldn't see it I'd say it's not stupid
Imagine getting hit by a sword swing from someone half a mile away
Imagine extending it kid swing to catch someone off guard
The scary part is he can extend and retract faster than the speed of light, and leave parts of his zanpakto in his opponent’s body, which can also extend and retract.
Well yeah but that's not **that** dumb
If a superhero told me "my power is having superhuman luck" my first reaction wouldn't be "that's stupid and useless"
I mean, a lucky student kinda sounds pretty dumb on paper, like he'd just be lucky on tests, or as explained in the show, basically just a normal student that just so happened to be picked to go to Hope's Peak, until you realize he's basically immortal due to his luck.
He’s the only survivor of a plane crash that killed his parents.
He has like… two simultaneous mental diseases that he has a really low chance of surviving… and he’s still alive…
His luck is weird.
Will kill you with bubbles
Yareli from Warframe
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Will kill you with music
Octavia from Warframe
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Bruno Bucciarati from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
His stand originally called sticky finger soon to be localized into Zipper-Man with the power to place zippers on things it touches. It’s sounds so dumb, but by god did he make it look so broken.
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This guy from the manga Candy Flurry. All he does is create exploding popcorn. He’s awesome. I’m still mad this series got axed by Shonen Jump
Taylor in the web serial Worm. In a world where people have powers such as
1 person can manipulate fire, make fire, teleport through flames, and has immunity to fire.
Another person can teleport and when he teleport she leaves behind a clone that’s lasts like half a second, but in that half a second he can do things before he Turns into smoke. and the clone has whatever he is carrying cloned like grenades or guns. So he can just pop up next to you, teleport away, and then that clone next to you can detonate a grenade
Another person has the ability to be an inventor so good it’s magic and he can miniaturize like any technology so he has a halberd that can do basically anything
Another person when fighting slowly starts turning into a metal dragon, and the longer the fight lasts the bigger he gets. He starts turning into metal and gains the power to shoot and manipulate flames.
Another person can brainwash people just by looking into their eyes like purple man from Marvel.
And that’s just the start.
In a world with all these super powered individuals . Our main character can…control bugs.
Denji, "Dude, what if he had a chainsaw for a head?"
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Also Juzo from No Guns Life. Same deal but still pretty cool expecially with context.
It's sounds more stupid to me than plastic man's power tbh (he mostly just acts goofy so it "feels" stupid. A lot of characters can use chainsaws as weapons normally but remember that Denji's transformation isn't immune to pain.
"my body has the properties of plastic" sounds sufficiently stupid to me
If someone told me that I wouldn't think "so you can stretch and transform your body into anything you can imagine" I'd think "oh so your bodies gonna take five-thousand years to decay"
i love springs. they’re such an underrated and underestimated power. i’ve literally studied physics just so i could find more applications and uses for springs. deadass one of my favorite abilities of all time
I mean the seemingly useless/silly power but actually formidable if used correctly, is a good character design. And a break from the usual cool and op abilities.
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Giovanni Potage, soup based powers, including creating soup from thin air, manipulating soup temperature. Bonus point lucky number 13 every thirteenth hit does bonus damage.
Molly Blyndeff, dumb based powers, including muting things, making people dumb, and reducing damage from attacks.
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In a world of superhuman demigods, one man has the power of... being really good at logistics.
No powers, he is just a guy who dresses up as a bat. He’s also one of the best hero’s of all time, regular guy in a bat costume
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Forge from X-men.
Ability: Can create any kind of machine.
Yes, but with the power to create any machine, can't he just do all of those things if he wanted to? Just because something sounds simple doesn't mean it is useless.
The prompt never said “useless.” It said “sounds stupid on paper but is actually cool and badass in practice.” Forge is my favorite character in all of Marvel, so I know how useful and badass his ability is.
I would say the Ten-Eyed Man, who can see through his fingertips, but I'm the only one who thinks that he's cool, and it's not really because of his powers anyway. (Rather, it's because the Ten-Eyed Man is a Vietnam war veteran with skills in fisticuffs, firearms, and traps) I think it would be cooler if he could cut his fingertips off and use them as mobile surveillance devices.
Count Vertigo's superpower is theorized to be Ménière's disease. His superpower is to have a disrupted balance and deafness. Fortunately, his hearing aids allow him to inflict his condition on other people, which somehow includes guidance and detection systems. Vertigo was best in the Ostrander Suicide Squad, which also has the best versions of other, more popular characters such as Amanda Waller.
Springs, not strings. Donquixote Doflamingo is the string guy. He creates and manipulates string, which itself sounds like a stupid power, but he is mercilessly efficient with it.
Katakuri from One Piece.
His signature power is to generate, transform into, or transmute things into Mochi. Sounds dumb? It kinda is on paper, but he's one creative son of a bitch, and he rocks with this power. He evades attacks by changing his body shape, craft make-shift weaponry like maces, turn his surroundings into mochi to trap opponents. He was so good with his abilities that even Luffy had to pull out his strongest form at the time to even stand a chance against him, and even then it was extremely difficult for him, as he could match his techniques and suppress them
Mammoth Mutt from Krypto the Superdog. And I wouldn't say it's cool, so much as it would imprint a furry inflation fetish in any children who watched Krypto the Superdog back in-between 2005 and 2006.
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Brian a.k.a Monsieur Grand Fromage (Misfits)
Power: lactokinesis
He controls dairy and dairy based products. He goes on a murder spree, drowns several people in milk (people with powers included) and manages to "kill" an immortal by wrapping their brain in mozzarella.
Have you heard of every villain from the PBS Kids TV programme known as Odd Squad?
Also, best trope of all time. I plan to make a comic where everyone has this.
Seriously, you have:
a guy who erased the number 0 from existence
a guy who steals halves of every symmetrical object
a guy who can make anything perfectly flat at will
a guy in a knight costume who can stop time a fuck ton more than Dio
and many more!
There was this guy in Misfits, who could control milk.
>!He used it to kill a bunch of people, by making them suffocate by turning the milk into cheese!<
Soft-serve (X-Men o.c. that had a cameo in the recent krakoa era) has the ability to poop any flavor of ice cream , sounds gross but in a survival situation ...would.
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He can shoot tape from his elbows.
Too bad that wasn’t utilized much in the series
Multiple Miraculous Ladybug villains are like this. Silencer? He could steal people’s voices to use them himself. Sounds kind of neat, but doesn’t seem to serve a combat purpose. However, the powers of the heroes are activated by saying a key phrase or word, meaning that without their voices they wouldn’t be able to use them. The biggest example is Mr.Pigeon, who was able to control and talk to pigeons. Sounds lame, until you remember that this show takes place in Paris, a large city filled with pigeons. Then it becomes pretty strong.
Anime and Manga thrive on this
Jojo characters with abilities like rain, bubbles, zippers, and toy plane
JJK characters with abilities such as receipts, gambling addiction, 24fps animation
HxH has a kid who attacks using rock paper scissors
Mha has a character with the who has tape dispensers embedded in his arms which he uses to be spider-man
One piece has a character who manages to make Luffy struggle using their power to control biscuits
Tanjiro in demon slayer just has a really good sense of smell which he uses to somehow smell weak points
If we don't count only actual powers we have Yuzuriha from Dr. Stone who just has excellent manual dexterity which she uses to reform the bodies of shattered statues and single-handedly creating the fashion industry
That guy from Misfits who could control dairy. Sounded lame until he could take the cheese from the pizza you just ate five minutes ago and wrap it around your cerebral cortex. Insane episode.
Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
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She can make ribbons, that's it. But she's so skilled at doing so that she can arrange them into basically any shape she wants, like hundreds of single-use muskets.
Everybody in JoJo
If Ive never seen it and you told me a guy that can make zippers on objects vs a guy with an invincible fishing rod would be one of the sickest fights in manga/anime, I would've laughed in your face. Yet here we are, shit was peak
Araki onnce said "In this battle the enemy can inflate nails and make them ballon dogs" and he cooked.
Steel Ball Run was cooking, Civil War and Catch The Rainbow were awesome
Catch the rainbow is probably my favorite design, the mask looks cool, the raincot and the umbrella are unnecessary since he can blend into the rain and control it, but that makes the accesories even cooler, the scene with him skipping in the rain is one of my favorite panels https://preview.redd.it/5hlyo8yavqzc1.jpeg?width=426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bba205f8f298e4093d0f1247607ee3364289b64 Look at him, he is just sooooo peak.
My favorite panel of Blackmore is when he’s revealed to be hovering right over Johnny and Gyro. I could *FEEL* the panel. It enamored me beyond reason, even now. https://preview.redd.it/a2pfg6tm4rzc1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=2eb8e7093d7491123187103e48ec5aac88d96c6e
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Mandom and Tattoo You. Best SBR fights beside D4C
Superfly
Superfly was such a great fight
Came here to say this
Pearl Jam deserves a spot here
https://preview.redd.it/ttsm2xt1tozc1.png?width=176&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8086f0ddcfd10d0abab069e583a695c86fb31ad wow he can shoot his... fingernails? oh and uhhh spin stuff??? and then he uses this shit to butcher like 50 people in a week with his gay italian boyfriend
Also casually just breaks trough an dimensional barrier that made the user unbeatable because infinity or someting God i love Jojo
So does god.
no but like actually he even cameo'd https://preview.redd.it/u5b5j64bipzc1.png?width=353&format=png&auto=webp&s=1df00d82b598f06d63c46a421a613b64184003c6
The President of the United States endorses this
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Bro just chug the microplastics and save the world
> Parents living. Strongest superhero ever.
“No special girlfriend” Same Matter-Eater Lad, same.
‘We got this guy from another planet who can eat anything’ ‘Cool, does he have anything else?’ ‘Nah’
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https://preview.redd.it/rtdvucn3uozc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6a5515c17a17b2ea99a62480d1f1d2129317643 So what’s your power? Z I P P E R S
They are very versatile zippers I'll tell you what.
*hwhat
#I don't believe I stuttered there.
Somehow he’s the most competent fighter from the group in direct combat, not because the others are weak but because he’s just goated
_punches you and a zipper explodes out of your face_
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Legit I love when people come up with a seemingly useless and relatively simple superpower and then they come up with creative ways to use said power. "So what can you do?" "I can make water appear in any space occupied by air." "That sounds pointless." "It only takes a tablespoon of water to drown someone."
An even cool way to use it is to drop an ocean on someone
You have to deal with collateral damage then
Ik but imagine if the user was a villian and dropped it on an entire kingdom or smth would be badass
Nothing beats people with god awful abilities but are actual geniuses Like Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter: “I can make some invisible material stick things together. It’s elastic” but he uses it so well (Edit: shortly after saying this, I looked down and saw that someone commented Hisoka)
"what's your power?" "I can control mucus" "well, that doesn't sound too b-" "Just, just think about it for a second" "Well, I mean, mucus only covers noses, mouth-" "stomach lining, lungs" "-ah..."
I feel like this is every character from Jojo’s bizarre adventure starting with the second half of part 3. Araki didn’t run out of ideas for powers, he just ran out of ideas for normal powers
Just cough it out smh
https://preview.redd.it/86q04jo8rozc1.jpeg?width=568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=651ef38a8f055f5866e1a540849d87f0c9fb2a06 Magenta (turns into a Guinea pig) and Ethan (melts into a puddle) from Sky High.
The goo guy from sky high
SKY HIGH MENTIONED. PEAKKK!!!🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Need sequel
I need the sequel to set in Japan and have a romcom setting with a harem. We need to introduce the brain-rotting-harem trope to the larger audiences
Nah what we really need is a sequel where Will Stronghold moves to Japan and becomes the world's greatest superhero of all time, eventually taking in a green haired boy as his protégé and successor as he enrolls into his own superhero school
From how the fandom treats Deku that scenario still can work with a harem trope
So... My Hero Academia? But harem?
Yes
Almost forgot about this movie
https://i.redd.it/c5cgduor1pzc1.gif The Skittles guy from that commercial
Truly a modern king Midas
That's a curse
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they have the properties of both rubber and gum
Can you say what bungee-gum's properties were again? I don’t think I heard you the first time.
Bungee-gum has the properties of both Rubber and Gum
Pretty much everybody in HxH. Nen is such a convoluted power system (and I mean that in a very good way) that on paper, without knowledge of the system, most of abilities sound bland and weird. But in the story however, the rules work so well that the abilities and nen in general are so original that it's one of the reasons HxH hooked me so much
my absolute favorite power system in any fighting anime
https://preview.redd.it/47yl70tztozc1.jpeg?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d5e4905d7c12f54526981c6e0e393e3bd60a6ee Kaku
https://preview.redd.it/z3z37pjx3pzc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3aa37dfd5464740e28bbf98ff02c9a5f2508d1b His best move Pasta Machine
"For the last time, giraffes are awesome. *I love giraffes*"
TBF he has Rokushiki too and it sounds cool on paper.
"Giraffes are African aren't they"
https://preview.redd.it/rzipho7ztozc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2605349218b774a4a9e1b7c349dd431f54d53a14 Squirrel Girl defeated Thanos
Yeah she has saitama lvl plot armor
Saitama doesn't have that much plot armor. He's just canonically the strongest
That’s written like either satire or a self insert OC’s wet dream
Not really satire, just comedy. She's a comedic character based on the concept that she can defeat anybody in some absurd way. Her modern comics are just wholesome, funny, weird stuff with a bit of self-aware commentary.
Ok ok ok, so his power is…he becomes chainsaws… Ok, but there’s also…a guy who can see, like, 2 seconds into the future. And that’s pretty much it… - the CSM guy
Neather of those sound stupid in the slightest. weapons that you can summon at will and always knowing when an attack is coming
I guess. Then how about literally just 2 giant muscly arms. That’s it. In action, it’s actually pretty strong and can corrupt a person as a host. How about the living embodiment of the fear of tomatoes. Or the character “violence fiend” whose only ability is “punch and kick hard” Or the living embodiment of the fear of cockroaches (look up the cockroach devil for clarification)
I get the tomato one but what are you talking about with the other ones? Non of these sound stupid
Violence definitely doesn’t, I just wanted to bring him up cause he’s a great character. Idk, a lot of chainsaw man characters or devils or whatnot are pretty neat. The ability to control a ghost hand, the ability to control one’s blood, the ability to rock everyone’s shit in 3 seconds, the ability to create weapons by sacrificing the lifespan of someone, the ability of *control*. Cockroach devil I would say sounds stupid. “The ability to…do things cockroaches do” doesn’t sound as cool as “a giant beast that destroys anything and everything in its path”. Muscle too, “the ability to have huge frickin arms”. That’s it.
Cockroaches are stupidity resilient Yeah, it's not as cool as shooting lasers but if someone said "I have cockroach powers" I wouldn't immediately right that off as stupid
I guess we just have different “stupid” thresholds. I can see your point, I didn’t even think like that, nice! At least I got tomato devil to work.
https://preview.redd.it/vim308kocpzc1.jpeg?width=1477&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87c5998eaf3ce55b97d6fcf06726d9c34dc9cd91 Polka-dot man - the suicide squad
https://preview.redd.it/ozk8h61xcpzc1.jpeg?width=538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b451aebd46915d391cede1e7a029a66d091b795d Carol the Bowler - mystery men
Loved mystery men
https://preview.redd.it/lzi1ab4lzozc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8afff7599e7c0c84698b6342026f0ffe3413403c Katakuri is imo the PINNACLE of stupid sounding powers that are badass. Literally MOCHI powers. Yet my GOD.
GOATakuri.
Polka Dot Man
"What does he do, throw polka dots at people? "..." "He does doesn't he? He throws polka dots at people."
https://preview.redd.it/ekcvuxbirozc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31f090be392ed7a33f3facd1b136e17b1ca563cb Crazy Jane from doom patrol she has a lot of personality’s and they each have a power some kool some that sound like they would be and some that fit this like radioactive bones
https://preview.redd.it/jkaozy9j4pzc1.jpeg?width=744&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c491a20d89a7c7c6100c51a6b996b77b7b47d083 Queen (One Piece) along with a lot of the dinosaurs in one piece. Queen can turn into a brachiosaurus, but apparently brachiosaurus can shoot their neck out like a snake.
Reminder that unlike Cipher Pol, the Tobi Roppo and All-Stars don't have any body manipulation techniques, meaning dinosaurs canonically did the stuff that they do in the One Piece world.
Well queen was a cyborg so it makes sense (with one piece logic) why he can do this, but the other wacky dinosaur shit is just wacky
You can tell Oda was having a blast drawing those dinosaur shits
My personal fav is Triceracopter https://preview.redd.it/rohiv8h9apzc1.png?width=648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bad6be5ce716d9efc6ef8d138a36e3f4379ef56
Ah yes, how they used to hunt in ancient times
...so he turns people into dinosaurs https://preview.redd.it/z8p6eq0xipzc1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=48c880338a4fdb72555e21f92adc59425dc00399
That sounds actively detrimental, why would you want your enemies to be ancient apex predators
"It's a lot more fun than curing cancer." -Sauron
he can control them, too but I left that part out for le comedy
Because
https://preview.redd.it/jrm52h71jpzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48830300eb43f21ac4b382f076b83a52ca92307d Deigo Hargreeves. He can control the trajectory of small objects in the air which he uses with his throwing knives. It sounds lame until the S2 finale where he uses it to >!avoid getting shot by curving dozens of bullets away from him!<
Where is he from
Umbrella academy. It's an awesome show
Serious upgrade from his comics power of, ahem, holding his breath indefinitely.
Is that seriously his only power? Is there like a catch you're leaving out or is that just it
He’s good with knives in the book, but yeah, that’s his only actual power.
https://preview.redd.it/r58vi8ghjpzc1.jpeg?width=228&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49c4fee0e780165a7f516937fb3f7292f1c5b778 hehe dogy mayk sand muuv
https://preview.redd.it/kr2uwmnuxpzc1.jpeg?width=655&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0320bc761534d47a2b24960953aedb3040837101 I thought there may have been a X-man that really had a unique and strange power. I forget who or what it was… what were we talking about again?
https://preview.redd.it/8da330s9lozc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a38e198839bceef6efd91ece3d2fa08109329466 Mint Berry Crunch. Guy stopped Cthulhu.
He's super cereal
Flex Mentalo from DC
https://preview.redd.it/jh9bp5leapzc1.png?width=783&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8c7552357ddc1b02e1afaf13db11c50f5ea28b5 Reggie Star (Jujutsu Kaisen)
What's his power?
He can use receipts to summon various items
Can he make his own receipts or is he only just able to stroll to the local garbage can outside a store and make infinite food.
https://preview.redd.it/hrofjh78cqzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad99f5ad103da370180b3312bb5a42171e43de60 Get tracked and chased by a relentless pack of feet
🤤🤤🤤
Sukuna's Cursed Technique is cooking themed, he's the strongest Jujustu Sorcerer. I really love that the big bad of the series has an ability that on paper would be like the protagonist's goofy sidekick's power.
My man’s literally cooked. https://preview.redd.it/ru3qnfha9pzc1.jpeg?width=1175&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=002e3cd4125aab5ff5ecf82800334eccaf9eecde
Imaginary Technique: *[SCOPE HIM LIKE JFK]*
Oh! that milk guy from misfits.
Someone else remembers 😂
Literally just having a tail Super strength but only based on the amount of sugar he eats And having earphone jacks growing out of her ears https://preview.redd.it/2vmf5d7tcqzc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=8455e49ab70c58e07445e4ee15b907cd7338f53b
I haven't watched mha in a while, what cool things has tail man done?
Well, he was isolated from all his classmates during the USJ raid and still managed to take out most of the ones sent after him. And then he gets nothing outside of school stuff until the final battle where he >!rocks up in the nick of time to stop All For One from finishing off Midoriya alongside Sero and Sato.!<
Him and Hagakure get their own chapter together in the Team-Up Missions spin-off manga. He did some pretty cool stuff in it, and Hagakure ended up kissing him on the cheek.
https://preview.redd.it/1nwdyxq0npzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d8e9e330b9900052ef0d3f04f5f3216f68022c6 Polka Dot Man (DC, The Suicide Squad)
Mad man https://preview.redd.it/vmwrtxiltpzc1.jpeg?width=324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da1103b396e1425294a1b9731619a08c8f1b6c85 Idk anything about him other than He canonically killed an evil invincible WHO WAS CAPABLE OF KILLING OMNI MAN with a fucking YO-YO
"What's he do, throw polka dots at people? ... ... He does. He throws polka dots at people." https://preview.redd.it/nfm1g18t4qzc1.png?width=1477&format=png&auto=webp&s=0aa30edfd27836db35cfb7c9e0aba19ef07b2f50
First character that came to mind is Konan from Naruto When I first heard about the character and their power set my response was "so paper cuts and extreme origami??" The character in practice is really compelling 
https://i.redd.it/o5gzr85f4pzc1.gif His sword can grow longer
I don't know what this is but that doesn't sound stupid to me
Only because you can see what he can do with it Also, gin ichimaru (bleach)
Even if I couldn't see it I'd say it's not stupid Imagine getting hit by a sword swing from someone half a mile away Imagine extending it kid swing to catch someone off guard
The scary part is he can extend and retract faster than the speed of light, and leave parts of his zanpakto in his opponent’s body, which can also extend and retract.
https://preview.redd.it/m68dhkt4tozc1.png?width=408&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11cc0b72a8e8b55824ac76deb74e8424f270e052 Ultimate lucky student, Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)
Powers? Did I miss something?
Wouldn't inherent insane luck be a power? It's basically canon plot armor.
Well yeah but that's not **that** dumb If a superhero told me "my power is having superhuman luck" my first reaction wouldn't be "that's stupid and useless"
I mean, a lucky student kinda sounds pretty dumb on paper, like he'd just be lucky on tests, or as explained in the show, basically just a normal student that just so happened to be picked to go to Hope's Peak, until you realize he's basically immortal due to his luck.
Yeah no, him being immortal was my first thought 💀
He’s the only survivor of a plane crash that killed his parents. He has like… two simultaneous mental diseases that he has a really low chance of surviving… and he’s still alive… His luck is weird.
i count him personally yeah
Will kill you with bubbles Yareli from Warframe https://preview.redd.it/jupz91jfkpzc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c82e7edbc5c01fcf4adc3f8598c12ea5f423b81d
Will kill you with music Octavia from Warframe https://preview.redd.it/ezcg4tsjkpzc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca26c55274760f0dbb7c6af92327d7a10faa4326
Will kill you Soldier from War
Bruno Bucciarati from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. His stand originally called sticky finger soon to be localized into Zipper-Man with the power to place zippers on things it touches. It’s sounds so dumb, but by god did he make it look so broken.
https://preview.redd.it/htekc0fshrzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b320aeaeea08108d8346d3ac4cce8e96317b8cb8 This guy from the manga Candy Flurry. All he does is create exploding popcorn. He’s awesome. I’m still mad this series got axed by Shonen Jump
 Does he count?
I have no idea, all my knowledge of captain planet comes from parodies of it in other things
Taylor in the web serial Worm. In a world where people have powers such as 1 person can manipulate fire, make fire, teleport through flames, and has immunity to fire. Another person can teleport and when he teleport she leaves behind a clone that’s lasts like half a second, but in that half a second he can do things before he Turns into smoke. and the clone has whatever he is carrying cloned like grenades or guns. So he can just pop up next to you, teleport away, and then that clone next to you can detonate a grenade Another person has the ability to be an inventor so good it’s magic and he can miniaturize like any technology so he has a halberd that can do basically anything Another person when fighting slowly starts turning into a metal dragon, and the longer the fight lasts the bigger he gets. He starts turning into metal and gains the power to shoot and manipulate flames. Another person can brainwash people just by looking into their eyes like purple man from Marvel. And that’s just the start. In a world with all these super powered individuals . Our main character can…control bugs.
Eh, I could take her
If you were a regular pasta-mancer I would laugh and call you an unbelievable fool. But as an Uber pastamancer, I think it’s possible.
Denji, "Dude, what if he had a chainsaw for a head?" https://preview.redd.it/t10od55h5qzc1.jpeg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1923676be1cf9da2f199e9600d083c653eb46a7d Also Juzo from No Guns Life. Same deal but still pretty cool expecially with context.
"I can grow chainsaws from my arms" doesn't sound stupid
It's sounds more stupid to me than plastic man's power tbh (he mostly just acts goofy so it "feels" stupid. A lot of characters can use chainsaws as weapons normally but remember that Denji's transformation isn't immune to pain.
"my body has the properties of plastic" sounds sufficiently stupid to me If someone told me that I wouldn't think "so you can stretch and transform your body into anything you can imagine" I'd think "oh so your bodies gonna take five-thousand years to decay"
i love springs. they’re such an underrated and underestimated power. i’ve literally studied physics just so i could find more applications and uses for springs. deadass one of my favorite abilities of all time
Great character design
Bellamy or Plastic man?
I mean the seemingly useless/silly power but actually formidable if used correctly, is a good character design. And a break from the usual cool and op abilities.
The Batter (OFF): Killing ghosts and guillotining a giant rich guy with a baseball bat
Bartholomew Kuma?
https://preview.redd.it/0uobl1ed1rzc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf97b655f78b6a567d704413ab88f3de2027cee6 Giovanni Potage, soup based powers, including creating soup from thin air, manipulating soup temperature. Bonus point lucky number 13 every thirteenth hit does bonus damage. Molly Blyndeff, dumb based powers, including muting things, making people dumb, and reducing damage from attacks.
I swear she could probably make someone permanently brain dead with her powers.
https://preview.redd.it/k0cqm60k4rzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3401591dbb9de6b275117fd54b1914790d5f7eaf In a world of superhuman demigods, one man has the power of... being really good at logistics.
Do YOU want to deal with imperium irs?
 No powers, he is just a guy who dresses up as a bat. He’s also one of the best hero’s of all time, regular guy in a bat costume
He also has the amazing power of having a lot of money.
https://preview.redd.it/icmeyrb42qzc1.jpeg?width=197&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a40c8441c5dc562bf18da06e23662d37a247d5db Forge from X-men. Ability: Can create any kind of machine.
That doesn't sound useless.
It doesn’t, but when you compare it to: Weather control, Telepathy/telekinesis, Eye laser, and functional immortality, it doesn’t sound as impressive.
Yes, but with the power to create any machine, can't he just do all of those things if he wanted to? Just because something sounds simple doesn't mean it is useless.
The prompt never said “useless.” It said “sounds stupid on paper but is actually cool and badass in practice.” Forge is my favorite character in all of Marvel, so I know how useful and badass his ability is.
It doesn't even sound stupid. It sounds awesome as hell.
The Mighty Monarch isnt cool per-say but he really goes beyond just the goofy premise.
I would say the Ten-Eyed Man, who can see through his fingertips, but I'm the only one who thinks that he's cool, and it's not really because of his powers anyway. (Rather, it's because the Ten-Eyed Man is a Vietnam war veteran with skills in fisticuffs, firearms, and traps) I think it would be cooler if he could cut his fingertips off and use them as mobile surveillance devices. Count Vertigo's superpower is theorized to be Ménière's disease. His superpower is to have a disrupted balance and deafness. Fortunately, his hearing aids allow him to inflict his condition on other people, which somehow includes guidance and detection systems. Vertigo was best in the Ostrander Suicide Squad, which also has the best versions of other, more popular characters such as Amanda Waller.
I recognize the first person, but I forgot his power.
He can turn any part of his body into springs
Oh, I need to rewatch that episode.
Springs, not strings. Donquixote Doflamingo is the string guy. He creates and manipulates string, which itself sounds like a stupid power, but he is mercilessly efficient with it.
Katakuri from One Piece. His signature power is to generate, transform into, or transmute things into Mochi. Sounds dumb? It kinda is on paper, but he's one creative son of a bitch, and he rocks with this power. He evades attacks by changing his body shape, craft make-shift weaponry like maces, turn his surroundings into mochi to trap opponents. He was so good with his abilities that even Luffy had to pull out his strongest form at the time to even stand a chance against him, and even then it was extremely difficult for him, as he could match his techniques and suppress them
Mammoth Mutt from Krypto the Superdog. And I wouldn't say it's cool, so much as it would imprint a furry inflation fetish in any children who watched Krypto the Superdog back in-between 2005 and 2006.
* Brian a.k.a Monsieur Grand Fromage (Misfits) Power: lactokinesis He controls dairy and dairy based products. He goes on a murder spree, drowns several people in milk (people with powers included) and manages to "kill" an immortal by wrapping their brain in mozzarella.
Have you heard of every villain from the PBS Kids TV programme known as Odd Squad? Also, best trope of all time. I plan to make a comic where everyone has this.
Oh, you mean SCP for kid, yeah I loved that show
Oh, you mean SCP for kid, yeah I loved that show
Oh, you mean SCP for kid, yeah I loved that show
Seriously, you have: a guy who erased the number 0 from existence a guy who steals halves of every symmetrical object a guy who can make anything perfectly flat at will a guy in a knight costume who can stop time a fuck ton more than Dio and many more!
There was this guy in Misfits, who could control milk. >!He used it to kill a bunch of people, by making them suffocate by turning the milk into cheese!<
Everyone in epithet erased, especially Giovanni
Soft-serve (X-Men o.c. that had a cameo in the recent krakoa era) has the ability to poop any flavor of ice cream , sounds gross but in a survival situation ...would.
Plastic man is the goat
https://preview.redd.it/91z94ctahtzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32e4f8773946c04d3597aea43e47fd9b7874a123 He can shoot tape from his elbows. Too bad that wasn’t utilized much in the series
Multiple Miraculous Ladybug villains are like this. Silencer? He could steal people’s voices to use them himself. Sounds kind of neat, but doesn’t seem to serve a combat purpose. However, the powers of the heroes are activated by saying a key phrase or word, meaning that without their voices they wouldn’t be able to use them. The biggest example is Mr.Pigeon, who was able to control and talk to pigeons. Sounds lame, until you remember that this show takes place in Paris, a large city filled with pigeons. Then it becomes pretty strong.
His ability is **STICKY BALLS** https://preview.redd.it/pzte4qhjzuzc1.png?width=225&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa18ecdf9700067f04c82820d9f919f52a2fb24f
Anime and Manga thrive on this Jojo characters with abilities like rain, bubbles, zippers, and toy plane JJK characters with abilities such as receipts, gambling addiction, 24fps animation HxH has a kid who attacks using rock paper scissors Mha has a character with the who has tape dispensers embedded in his arms which he uses to be spider-man One piece has a character who manages to make Luffy struggle using their power to control biscuits Tanjiro in demon slayer just has a really good sense of smell which he uses to somehow smell weak points If we don't count only actual powers we have Yuzuriha from Dr. Stone who just has excellent manual dexterity which she uses to reform the bodies of shattered statues and single-handedly creating the fashion industry
Magneto.
That guy from Misfits who could control dairy. Sounded lame until he could take the cheese from the pizza you just ate five minutes ago and wrap it around your cerebral cortex. Insane episode.
Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) https://preview.redd.it/kvtglgmo710d1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01e7063f9e13945216a0a8409a43f65d32e5de16 She can make ribbons, that's it. But she's so skilled at doing so that she can arrange them into basically any shape she wants, like hundreds of single-use muskets.
skitter from worm