Questions tagged [super-powers]
For questions about the development and usage of powers and abilities beyond what is "normal" for a specific species.
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Using superstrength to save falling people
In a world where superpowers exist, two office workers are trapped on the Nth floor of a burning skyscraper.
Superstrong Sam is 100 times as strong as a regular mortal. That means his muscles can ...
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Will this super flying brick meet his identical copy in another universe?
I’m writing a superhero story. The protagonist is a normal human transformed (long story) into a super-powered entity. The protagonist is unique in all of creation, according to my plot. The only ...
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What would happen if your body had more capillaries?
I'm working on a character who can emit fire from her arms and forearms. I read in a previous question that an increased amount of capillaries can increase the body's ability to carry heat away. If ...
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Does adrenaline have anything to do with explosions?
I've started a fantasy story in which the main character and some others can have access to extremely high adrenaline generation and manipulation. They would have the expected associated powers of ...
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What sorts of powers would a superhero and supervillain need to (inadvertently) be knocking down skyscrapers?
A seminal event in a story I'm working on requires a tragedy that will kill hundreds (or maybe even low thousands) of innocent bystanders. This occurs in a large American city (I haven't chosen one ...
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Will the Violet-hot Flaming Torch Annihilate Everything Around Him?
I have an OC. His body can combust and become coated in flames, but when he gets really ticked off, his fire becomes hotter and becomes violet in color.
From what I've read, violet fire is extremely f*...
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What is the largest possible gun a man with super strength can use? [closed]
To make a long story short, my world has a variety of individuals of varying talents, and along with that, malevolent monsters of the large and dangerous variety, who these people are often employed ...
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My superpowers only work at night, how do I stop criminals from just doing crime in the morning to avoid me?
I'm Superdude, I basically got all of Superman power only a 1000 times more powerful without the kryptonite weakness, problem is my powers only work at night, when the sun is out I'm a slightly below ...
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Could a creature with nonhuman anatomy still have a regenerative healing factor? [closed]
Normally in fiction users of regenerative healing factor have human or mostly human physiology. My question is whether a creature with a nonhuman body could have a regenerative healing factor. Could, ...
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What should be the after shocks off a super solider murdering a dozen protestors in broad daylight and then burning down a building they retreated to? [closed]
I guess I'm saying this because in my current story chapter, that I just wrote today, I had my main character gun down a dozen union protestors and then burn down a building the survivors were hiding ...
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Is a shapeshifter's transformation exothermic or endothermic?
I'll start by saying that whilst my scientific knowledge is pretty basic (if ever-increasing) it would be good to hear answers that can give a layman's summation as well as a more scientific ...
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If an invulnerable person dies of suffocation would anything show up in a post mortem?
Imagine a human bio-engineered to be indestructible. If they die of suffocation would there be any effects showing in a postmortem? Invulnerability in this case is defined as:
Bodily integrity is ...
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Logical/Scientific Explanation for Umbrakinesis?
I'm working on a story where the characters have elemental-based powers based on natural material/materials/phenomena found in nature. So far, each of the powers makes sense on a physical level, since ...
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How could peasants protest against superhuman kings?
In history, there were multiple theories like the Divine Right of Kings or Mandate of Heaven that stated that royalty weren't normal human beings but blessed by the Almighty himself. In my fantasy ...
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What constraint would make a teleporter only able to teleport with willing participants?
John is a teleporter. He can teleport other people/objects along with himself. Teleportation is very fast - let's say one second per 1000 miles travelled. He needs to be touching something to teleport ...
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Can a person be immune to all diseases and poisons
I have an OC, who was born with this one-of-a-kind condition. His immune system is abnormally strong, invincible really.
He's incapable of getting sick, or dying of bacteria, viruses, venoms, poisons, ...
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Toxin Adaptations
How could humans be modified to be immune to tetradotoxin, as well as be given the ability to secrete it, like a newt or pufferfish?
It appears to be possible at a minute level to be resistant to it:
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Beam Convergence?
I have a character that can release laser beams from both his hands and i just want to know if he can shoot these 2 lasers at a single point and converge causing it to become a singular stronger beam.
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How would a shrink ray work without actually “shrinking” a living being? [closed]
I’m trying to create a “shrink ray” in a Star Wars-esque technological level world. Yet I don’t want it to be rubber Clarketech science. I want it to be almost like virtual; leaning towards shrinking ...
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Virus extinction at the snap of a finger. Can life on Earth continue to exist normally? [closed]
An entity comes to me in my dream and says I now possess the power to exterminate any biological entity of my choice on Earth at the snap of a finger. Without giving too much thought, I decide to ...
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Would the Clarktech form of magic overlap with X-Men style Mutants, if both coexisting in the same world? [closed]
"any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur Clarke.
In many fictional worlds, magic can be explained by science. You can call this form of magic Alchemy, Thaumaturgy, ...
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How can being like Superman travel the world with his normal partner and to get to destination in the shortest possible time?
Let's say, there is a superhero with the powers like Superman(or Omni Man from the Invincible). How would he travel the world with his partner, for example from New York to Paris in the shortest ...
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What Would be The Least Bad Countries to Seek Refuge As a Powerful Superhuman?
Someone believes they are the only person with highly strategically useful powers. However, they can't make the best use of them without revealing themselves, so what countries would be the safest ...
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How much force would be required to destroy the Earth
say someone punched the ground (Earth) with infinite strength, how much force would they require to destroy/ vaporise the earth?
Or an easier question how much force would someone need to induce $3.2 \...
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What is the physical limitation of using blood bending (hemokinesis) to make bullets with your own blood?
Recently, I have considered making a character who is able to use what is essentially blood-bending, otherwise known by its more formal name of hemokinesis.
The problem is that this ability has one ...
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How would the world view superhumans that are more human or weaker? [closed]
When I say being more human. I'm not talking about a character being more relatable to an audience. Like Superman working in a 9 to 5 job. I'm more so talking about a superhuman character being more ...
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How would a race of people that destroyed everything they touched wear clothes? [closed]
I have created a race of naturally mutated humans called the Homo Tenibris that destroy everything they touch(with any part of their body).
The speed at which the object is destroyed is dependent on ...
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Accuracy limits of Victorian-era rifles
I have a fictional character in 1870 who is a marksman of superhuman ability; basically, he doesn't need a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight, he is a sniper with a telescopic sight, and can get the ...
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What job could someone do better with super-strength, but without actually revealing that they have it?
Being a superhero without being state-sponsored or independently wealthy is kind of a massive pain. You're essentially working two jobs, one of which is highly dangerous and doesn't even pay. So ...
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Can a superhuman swim in air?
Assume the superhuman has no powers besides super strength, speed, durability and coordination.
What would be the optimal way for them to fly without any assistance?(no gadgets, suits and additional ...
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Is this price of magic severe enough to deter most women from becoming witches in my fantasy world?
I am writing a fantasy series about witches. It's set in a high fantasy world. To get magic powers in this fantasy world, a girl has to voluntarily transform into a magical being.
The magic in this ...
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How would the world governments define a super person?
DC, Marvel, X-men...etc style people, or things, exist. Great.
Now the existence of those people would definitely change laws and many legal practices. And of course the governments of the world would ...
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Could cybernetic spinal cord implants grant superhuman strength?
In the 2018 movie Upgrade, the quadriplegic protagonist gets a cybernetic neck implant that reconnects his spine and returns his control of his limbs. However, this implant also appears to give him ...
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Are 4 magic systems too much when it comes to a modern type of world with a lot of moving parts? [closed]
I have four power systems. Superpowers Supertechnology, Magic, and the Charles Atlas Powers. All 4 systems are not original. The systems are pretty generic. The only difference is, im just putting my ...
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What would happen if a person's entire body mass was capable of working as a brain? [closed]
One of my characters in a super hero setting can have their body turn into slime. By quirk of their power, they are able to process thoughts with their entire body, effectively turning their entire ...
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How can i make my worldbuilding magical, fun and a little dark, but still maintain realism? [closed]
I'm trying to make a character, and I'm first creating their world, but I'm can't figure out whether I want it to be all magical or more realistic. Helluva Boss did this great. It took place in hell, ...
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Can demigod city be spared from divine judgement by staying neutral?
Lately more and more worshippers are becoming materialistic and are abandoning their faith emass, this has been brought up to the attention of the Olympian god who suspect it was the doing of the ...
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How can demigods living among us in the 21st century prevent losing powers?
Generations of demigod and semi-demigod have been hiding and living among us to this present day, they made a pact with the god to never reveal the existence of God or themselves in public unless they ...
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Superhero lines of income [closed]
I came up with an idea for some fanfic in the DC/Superman universe. I'm not going to use the name of any DC characters, just allude to them to try to stave off any legal issues, and I don't plan on ...
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How to defeat a pyrokinesis user using tech and science
The user can manipulate fire in many ways, and to a certain extent, he can also manipulate electricity. The fire he uses is special and can reach temperatures above sun, but the average temperature ...
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Social effects of super senses
Vampires are often depicted as having enhanced senses all around: they can hear their preys heartbeats, smell blood and approaching people from miles away, see in complete darkness, pretty much tell ...
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What's in it for the most detested and lonely god to perform his duty diligently?
In my story there is a god of misfortune that always brings bad luck to every living thing, including other gods, that get in the way. The bad luck worsens the longer or closer the individual is ...
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What could someone who is able to add to their muscle mass accomplish?
In my world I have a type of magic user who grows stronger the more they kill animals and people.
Currently I conceptualise this as a sort of pocket dimension muscle, whenever they kill a creature, ...
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Could you freeze a nuclear explosion [closed]
The character who I'm talking about is faced with certain death and has to freeze a nuclear exposition that's coming right at him, would this work, and how would it. This character has ice-based ...
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How could a human produce slime from his/her skin? Such as slime of a hagfish or slug?
Would this slime be merely just mucus secreted out of pores? Also, should this be a passive ability (for instance always covered in slime) or should it be more of an activated one?
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What would make people care about a superhero's secret identity?
A superhero appears and saves people in a city. Some people will love the superhero. Some will not. But would people actually care about a superhero's secret identity or alter ego? If so, who would ...
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Would a person adapted for super-speed be super-strong too as a side effect?
Or am I just overthinking it?
Maybe I should note that the character is like 76% magical entity, so maybe it can simply be handwaved, but I wanna check if I can blend in some science in there, too. To ...
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What would be the full range of someone if they could control the entire electromagnetic spectrum? [closed]
I am currently writing a character who discover his electro power was far more than what he used to think for most of his life and with the sudden realisation he discovers that he could fully control ...
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How to make Abilities make sense mechanically (and pseudoscientifically)?
I'm writing a fan spin-off of Uru-chan's unOrdinary, but there is unfortunately not much in the wiki about abilities and aura. Below is the unOrdinary definition of Ability and Aura mechanics with my ...
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How would Superspeed be Explained?
In the comics, superspeed,- being the ability to move (in particular, run) at speeds typically at least as fast as something like a racecar), whenever it is shown, seems to tend to have the ...
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