I'd be Cables Don't Tangle Man.
You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?
3 years ago by case_when to c/asklemmy
I'd be Cables Don't Tangle Man.
You guys have alarm mans? That sounds cool
"Sir? Sir! It is well past time for you to begin your day. Yes, sir, I am well aware work, as you put it 'sucks ass', but never the less, it is time to rise and shine. I will be back tomorrow at the same time."
That'd be an S+ tier power for me.
I actually seem to have this one: Appropriately sized container man. I can find the best sized container when we have leftovers from cooking. Extra pasta sauce? This container fits it all in perfectly.
IDK man, that's toeing the line of an A-tier power.
My wife has a version of this; it's perfect liquid measurement estimation woman. She never has to use measuring cups for liquids. I've actually bothered to test this power, and it's uncanny.
All I got was hysterical kitchen blindness man. I can't see things I'm looking for in the fridge or pantry, even when they're right in front of me.
Sorry man, yours isn’t even a power. It comes default with the Y chromosome. I can be staring directly at something I’m looking for and not register that it’s right there.
A residence floormate I knew back in university also worked as a bartender at a hotel.
His one story relevant to this thread is he once poured a drink for a customer over ice without measuring it. Think scotch or whiskey. Customer said there's no way that's an ounce. They argued for a bit; my friend poured everything from the glass into a shot glass minus the ice, and it was exactly on the line. End of argument.
He admitted to me that some of that may have been water from the melted ice.
I might have this one too. Probably from that microwave accident I was involved in.
I don't know if this qualifies as "b-tier", but I'd really would like a superpower where when hearing a sound I knew exactly what made it.
I live in an old house, in the middle of a forest. Lots of weird noises both inside and outside. Being able to know if a sound I just heard requires my attention (i.e. "is that some animal messing around in my walls, or just the old wood squeaking") would be gold. The amount of times I've gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to investigate something is too damn high. After countless mice, vasps nests, birds, and various mammals deciding to move in with us, my paranoia levels have skyrocketed.
Would also sort out the "is that my kid crying, or just the draft through the vents"-question, as well as "is that normal wood settling noises, or is there more rot I've yet to find and the whole house is collapsing".
This sounds like a good premise for a horror story. You get your hearing superpower and everything is finally great, no need to get up and investigate benign noises. And then one day, you hear a sound that no matter what you do, you can’t tell what and where it’s coming from.
That would make a great writing prompt imo !writingprompts@lemmy.world
OR one simply has to wait for a prince. But you never know when the next one's coming around.
Or if his head never leaves the pillow, or comes into contact with a second pillow...
He would lose every pillow fight, but be well rested for the next one.
He said B Tier! As a lifelong chronic insomniac I’d give almost anything for that ability.
I'd be perfect departure time man. Able to determine exactly when to leave in order to arrive at your destination on time, regardless of traffic, weather, or other conditions encountered along the way.
Not a B tier power, my God you just invented the governments secret delivery method. You're planning perfect extraction and invasion strategies, nuclear fall back evacuation routes. You just became a national secret, son.
Finish a task without getting distracted after five minutes man.
I’d love to be able to finish a task witho-
Man that coffee pot is gross, better go clean it.
I too have ADHD.
Sounds more like "solves water crisis man" to me. Point your finger at the colorado river and we are all set.
Your nemesis is Nestle. They want to put you in a locked room in the desert and pump sports drink out of you.
Ah, see I assume some sort of anime rules apply to the power and the larger the vessel the more it would sap my energy.
I guess I would still need to worry about being kidnapped by nestle and being hooked up to a feeding tube and gives to use my powers anyway...
Like this?
My toes are unstubbable
And step on the cat
No-one said anything about a monkey's paw!
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Your super hero name is now "Number Two"
Can Always Find What I'm Looking For Man.
That is god teir!
This could probably uplift any path you choose to take in life.
It is like infinite luck as long as you can structure it into a need to find something then you will succeed.
Well... ok, but it doesn't work for horse flies or black flies.
I already have mine, and it frustrates my wife no end. I'm Always Finds a Parking Spot Right Near Where We're Going Man, but only if I'm the one driving. When she's driving we end up on the wrong side of the parking lot.
I've got a friend like that, we like to joke that she sold her soul to the devil for perfect parking in San Francisco.
Never had a headache? Good fucking god what a lucky bastard.
I did the opposite. I just work so much that I'm exhausted all the time.
If you're in a state of perma-exhaustion, sleep is easy
B being secondary with A as the highest or tertiary with S as the highest?
If the former, I'll be Doesn't Overthink Everything Man
If the latter, I'll go with Correct Orientation of USB drives and Cables on First Try Man
Those things just don’t make sense. How is it that they require being turned three times to fit?
I just wanna be No-health-problem man
According to some, I have one! Perfectly-folded-fitted-sheets woman. Ultimately pretty meaningless, but satisfying nonetheless.
swoon Marry me
All dust disintegrates inside a 20 foot (6m) sphere around me at all times.
Edit: forgot the measurement scale
I'm going to go with good old fashioned, "extra luck". Never know when it's going to show up, but it would definitely improve your general disposition when things tend to go your way.
Yeah, she was a high point. I can't see a whole Domino film, but she's hilarious as a supporting superhero. It helped that the actor sold it well; so nonchallant in the most extreme situations.
Hers was definitely A-tier, though. She was more like a Teela Brown - the Universe simply was not going to allow anything bad to happen to her, unless it was ultimately for her own good.
Yes, that's my pick. To be exact, I want "low-level telekinesis" aka mutant luck power like the superhero Domino. Just walking around being a casual badass, barely registering the danger I'm avoiding.
I think Stan Lee said that being lucky is the best superpower.
Or you'd lose the exact amount of times needed to maintain a proper friendship. If that was your goal.
What if you already have this power? What if you've ALWAYS had it?
B-tier power: Exact Change. Any time I want to pay for something with cash, I have the power to reach into my pocket and pull out exactly the amount of cash money needed to do so. This has no effect on anyone's money anywhere else, like wallets or bank accounts - it just magically appears.
Infinite cash is B-tier?
Infinite petty cash. you can't buy most big-ticket items with cash, like a new car or a house, and you can't spend it online, only in person. And, since you can only do it to pay for things, you can't just pull money out of your pocket forever to hoard. You might be able to trick it with the right accomplice, or just use it to buy gold and then resell it, but it's pretty inefficient.
I'll grant you the power to always grab exact change, under the supposition you have place sufficient money in your pocket to cover the bill.
Like put only a $100 bill into your pocket, and you can be guaranteed to have $5.32, exactly, to pay for your latte.
Fuck giving you infinite free money man. That's A tier.
Max of 99c.
Edit to your power: You still need dollar amounts, and if you don't have, then you don't have any change.
Eg. Cost: $4.52, and you have $5 in your pocket: you pull out $5.52, or if you have $4 in your pocket, you pull out $4.52. If you have $3 in your pocket, you pull out $3.
Delta Zero
Single square of toilet paper man
Shit-tier?
Man that is b tier. I'd been going for 18v at least
12v maybe?
I want the "Flying Insects Cannot Touch Me" power.
Once, I wanted to annihilate all bedbugs in the world with a snap of a finger (I would even learn how to snap for this very purpose), just disappear them forever at my will. A single use power, nothing more than that, and I don't care what that suppose to do to the environment.
For some reason.
Actually remembering everything I've taken the time to learn.
this would be nice. the amount of skills and knowledge I've forgotten after painstakingly learning it is too damn high.
If you mean unfailing suicide man, the it is b-tier.
If perfect kill man, then you are more powerful than any hero that fought against Thanos and you could have instakilled him.
Then again instant death man combined with absolute pasifism, i.e. will never kill anyone: back to b-tier
Just gonna pop in here, are you okay? It's totally fine if you're not. To tell the world the truth I've been going through another small depressive episode with a little bit of suicidal idealization and it seems to me like you are too. If you are, just know that the world is a better place with you in it.
Undepressable man? Optimism man? Anti-anxiety man?
That's just "normal"
Know how anything works just by looking at it, like Sylar from Heroes
God, I miss that series....
That sounds A-tier to me
How is this not an S-tier power? Did you forget that lungs are inflatable?
Control Minor Static Charges Woman. It would make housecleaning easier and my keyboards would always be clean. I wouldn't have to get near dust bunnies, I would be able to slowly guide them to the trash can.
As someone who's spent a lot of time working in a lab, the ability to control static electricity would be a godsend! There's really nothing like spending weeks preparing a new material as a fine powder, carrying it over to the weighing scales, placing a glass sample vial onto the scales, taring it, then a scooping up some of your powder with a spatula, careful not to lose a single particle, then carefully, CAREFULLY carrying the scoop of power to the sample vial -- then seeing the static blast your powder out of the spatula to coat the OUTSIDE of the sample vial, plus the scales, plus your nitrile glove...
I have trauma.
Mine, too.
Exaaactly. You get me.
I always get static shocks really bad at the grocery store! I think it's the cart wheels making a Van Der Graff generator effect. I get a zap every time I touch a shelf! It would be nice to not have to deal with that.
I just want to get the USB in the right way on my first attempt. Is that too much to ask for?
I wanted to reply with an image of USB C that appears Holy because it is your savior, but this was the closest thing I could find.
The power to always pack exactly the right things that I will need when I go somewhere.
Gets the USB-A the right way the first time man, which is really an underlying true power of like a glove man, where no matter what it is, it will always fit - like a glove.
Super useful in the coming decades!
Ooh, I'll be Always-Remembers-What-He-Was-Going-To-Buy-At-The-Store Man.
Having a hydrophobic presence covering me at all times, sans wanting to shower, drink water, etc. so I could run, bike, hike in the rain and never get wet, unless I wanted to.
Another fun one would be having the ability and skill to cook anything I want without training or recipes. However, I would gain an excessive amount of weight though.
Having a hydrophobic presence covering me at all times, sans wanting to shower, drink water, etc. so I could run, bike, hike in the rain and never get wet, unless I wanted to.
Ah the "Have a heatstroke and die superpower."
I can talk to plants so they can tell me how terrible I am as a caretaker.
i've always thought that if plants could talk they'd be unflinching hedonists who just shrug when harmed and will not hesitate to invite ANYTHING to have a fun time with them.
"ohhh yeah baby eat my fruit! spit the seeds out!"
cut to human freezing in the middle of taking a bite, staring in horror at the apple tree
“And he brought me into a vast farmland of our own Midwest And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them, it is the Holocaust" And I sprang from my slumber, drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!"”
Disgustipated - Tool
I would still chose this; can't figure out what's wrong with my dahlias.
I always thought it would be cool to be able to imitate any sound effect. Totally useless but perfect for jokes.
Have you not seen police academy? Being able to imitate sounds is highly useful.
This one might be A-tier.
A Tier? AAA ranging on Universe Killer Tier. The perfect response becomes the perfect negotiator, the perfect social infiltrator, the master manipulator. He casually gets free coffee, he cajoles his way through national secrets, he convinces his landlord that the concept of income through scarce resource stockpiling is immoral and that they should see the property as a shared commodity. Genius
"always knows the right action" is a S tier power in the superhero book "Worm."
It basically meant the person could accomplish any goal, even if it took 1000 actions.
Hmmm.... I guess never having my shoes come untied. That seems B-tier enough lol
Knowing where that super-intelligent snail and the immortal billionaire is at all times-man. I could hire myself out to one of them.
Anti usb superposition aura. Dear god that would be heaven.
Perfect Croutons man, never burnt, always crunchy
Know what to get at the store guy
No more "oh, I should have picked up another one of these" when I get home
I already have. Things break 10 times faster when I touch them.
We can certainly try
I'll take always being able to understand what people are saying, even if the voice is muffled or on a low quality recording or whatever. In conversations, I'd never have to ask people to repeat themselves.
(It doesn't mean I could understand any language or code, just that I can correctly make out the words.)
You should consider "Understands Unspoken Details Perfectly Man."
Having both of those would probably put your superpower level in the A or S tier, so you'll have to consult OP on that.
Never forget a name or face.
Oh no, I already have this super power.
Captain Hair
My knees and elbows don't hurt man.
I'll then be your sidekick: backpain-away.
I’d want the ability to swap consciousness with other people, with their consent, for a short time.
It would be interesting to see what it’s like to be colour blind, or to experience what things taste like to people who dislike food I enjoy.
Free unlimited WiFi woman.
That's called "we canceled Comcast but they're so fucking inept they never actually stopped the wifi service even though they stopped charging us"
Happened to me once. It was amazing.
Wow. Thats great!
As an American it obviously has to be no healthcare bills man.
I've got a friend with FANTASTIC health, and over the course of her life it's probably saved her a hundred thousand dollars compared to the average person
Flying, but very slowly. Enough that it isn't any more useful than walking to the destination.
I'd use it to float around and enjoy the beauty. Imagine floating around above the water and just watching the city lights, or getting up high enough to watch the sunsets.
I'd prefer to go faster so I can get to the viewpoints quickly, so maybe the limitation should just be that I can't use it for anything but sight seeing?
Until drones were a thing that would be extremely useful for land usage planning.
I'd be infinite stamina man. never get out of breath again, even while jogging
Yup. Mine would be "only need 90 minutes of sleep a day." So many years on this Earth wasted in our lifetimes, just unconscious.
Making anyone I want have an immediate and uncontrollable urge to sneeze.
If you want to be a villain, the twist is that they feel it but can't do it.
Imagine the fun we could have watching the Republican debates lol
Do they still not tangle when you hand said cables to someone?
I'd like to be able to sense the distance to the closest person to me
Thats a recipe for paranoia.
I already am paranoid that there's people near even when there aren't. With this super power I wouldn't need to speculate.
Get some glow in the dark sparkly gold ones lol
Anti ADHD powers are definitely S-tier. A-Tier would be complete control of the hyperfixation.
If I could just remember stuff, it'd be great.
I chose being able to make other people fart or burp. Well on a second thought, that's maybe C tier at best.
B Tier would be able to make people overhear their wakeup alarm. Useless against people with a good inner clock though.
I have one, “get great parking, 70% of the time.”
e-scooter man, he fears no filled parking lot as he can simply park further away and take his scooter to the store.
of course, he lives in constant fear and jealousy of walkable city man, who simply walks to the store and doesn't quite understand what a parking lot is.
Direction in a crowd man
Perfect timing
Ummm... now that I think about it, it is easier to think of a-tier ones.
as for b-tier, I guess "backseat-girl" ? For some reason, some voices would backseat me to the right places even if I didn't ask for it?
Able to summon bloons anywhere
How does this differ from prayer?
Aren't superpowers supposed to be a net positive, though? This sounds worse all around. Unless you're into that kind of thing, no judgement here.
I was thinking god would respond, but say things like, "Well there's a reason they call it the ineffable plan," or "Ugh, this is just like the time I let those humans into my garden. I've never heard the end of it," while I'm trying to solve a crime or something, and I have to try to figure information from the gripes, passive aggressive comments, and opaque metaphors.
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Being able to fall asleep and wake up exactly when I want to without an alarm man.
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