Superpowers with painful or inconvenient flaws

So Sup Forums, I'm imagining a series that follows a group of powered teens that have powers that fuck up their lives. Not in a social sense like in X-Men but in a physical or mental way. Like a dude with x-ray vision that only has x-ray vision. So he's effectively blind. Anyone have any examples of this or ideas of their own on the subject?

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This way you can humanize characters through suffering instead of personality disorders or the standard grab bag of race/sexuality novelty.

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super smelling at taco bell

A guy whose super power is that when he punches someone really hard that they turn into a door. The harder the punch the fancier the door. Imagine the social stigma that would permeate from taking a door to prom.

>Walks in with a brass chased french door
>user you monster, this has to stop.

>super knowing the contents of a foodstuff.

A guy who can set himself on fire like the human torch, but his body can only digest charcoal.

being an 8ft tall humanoid crab whose superpower is being able to comprehend and speak any known language.

Superspeed, but with all the metabolic concerns that result from using it.

Being able to shapeshift, but only into JarJar Binks.

>Superspeed, but with all the metabolic concerns that result from using it.
what would those be though?

You'd burn up your body's store of energy fairly quickly, leaving you passed out if not worse after a super sprint

Touching anything turns them into skittles
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Almost any superpower without comic book physics is at the very least inconvinient.
Super-strength? Well, make sure your bones are also super, or they will break once you try to lift anything heavy above your head. And good luck trying to lift something large, you are much more likely to a) break a piece of it off, b) make a hole in it and sink into it or c) sink into the ground under its' weight.
Super-speed? Better get a very good lay of the land, because as soon as you run faster than sound, you will become deaf, faster than light - blind.
And super speed is not a very good power for saving people either. Remember Quicksilver scene in Apocalypse? Forget it. Unfortunately, inertia is a thing, so the moment you try to pick someone up at super-speed and move them away from danger, all the soft parts inside them turn into mush. That is, if they survive the impact of your arms moving at super-speed. The same goes for stopping. And that is all assuming you yourself is immune to inertia.

Invisibility would make you blind

Constant diarrhea!

>Not in a social sense like in X-Men but in a physical or mental way
but that's like half the xmen. cyclops has lasers permanently shooting out his eyes, rogue cant touch someone without (almost) killing them. a lot of batman villains come to mind like clayface, killer croc and also every batman beyond villain

>as soon as you run faster than sound, you will become deaf
That's not true. You wouldn't be able to hear anything behind you, but you wouldn't be deaf to things in front of you. Because of the Doppler effect they'd be really high pitched, but the sound would still reach you.

>faster than light - blind.
Something similar, but there are far more pressing issues with moving faster than light

Shapeshifting. They can't revert from a shapeshift and have to manually change themselves to look like their original form. Over time, they forget some details, more and more with each change, until they no longer remember what they look like. Photo's barely help, as they're either outdated or don't give enough info. Eventually they become nothing more than a copy of someone else or multiple people's features as one person, rather than being who they once were.

The uncontrollable ability to have your bodyparts detonate like C-4 when they're removed from the whole. Explosions are relative to the mass of the body piece being lost, so skin cells just smoke a little, but loose teeth could take your hand off. Waste like urine and shit don't count.

There was an X-files episode about this. One kid with superspeed gets a bone fractures throughout his body and exhaustion, body strain the level an old man would have, stuff like that.

A hot babe with a super nice ass. I mean an ass so fine that you'd jizz at the mere imprint on a pair of jeans. An ass so mighty that wars are fought over it. Only it comes at a price. Super lactose intolerance. The mere sight of dairy would cause her to spontaneously combust.

Uh, the Doom Patrol?

Lots of Worm superpowers are like that.

Crawler. Can regenerate from any damage at insane rates, but any regenerated matter is "improved" to make him more resistant to that type of damage. At this point he no longer resembles a human.

Bitch. Can turn dogs and wolves into car-sized monsters, but her power doesn't give her any direct control over them. She has to train her combat dogs to obey her even when they are turned into monstrous adrenaline-fueled living tanks. The power gives her intuitive understanding of dog behavior to help her with that, but it overwrites her intuitive understanding of [i]human[/i] behavior, resulting in clusterfuck.

Canary. Has a power to sing really good and exploits it commercially. Turns out that her songs put everyone who heard enough under mind control for a short time, and she only figured it out after telling her ex to "go fuck yourself". The result wasn't pretty.

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Guy can read minds, but he can't be exact about it and if he stays in a head for too long he'll pull other things back into his own. Memories, opinions, ideas, even things like turn ons and such, he'll have trouble differentiating his own from ones that he's inadvertently pulled from others. Random flashes of deja vu, getting hot for feet when you're pretty sure you didn't like that before, getting really mad at the mention of a certain sports team even though you were never a big sports fan, etc. It can be more personal.

Really, you just have to follow powers to their conclusion rather than handwaving it all, and it becomes any powered cape.

Super strength? You will never have a physical relationship, depending on the tier os strength you have. You grab or hug people just a little too hard occasionally in real life; now imagine that just a little too hard can crish steel, and you just killed a loved one. That few seconds you lose control during orgasm? Supergirl either just splattered your lower body with her thighs, or Superman jerky-reflex thrusted Lois Lane's lower body into her chest cavity.

Even something as cool as super senses; imagine everyone smelling like piss, shit, rotting flesh, and everywhere smelling a thousand times stronger to the point you wouldn't be able to just not go insane. You know how animals stay away from strong perfumes and shit? That, except much worse. Car fumes would smell and hit like mace.

That's just Chew. It's good, but it's already a thing.

super healing. at only speed *10.
It's not that great. still plenty of time to feel the pain. And you can still die.

Hell, shapeshifting already takes a lot for granted in terms of internal organ consistency. If you can't return to default, things are gonna get fucked on that end real quick.

Having a stand that beats you up when summoned, but universe Deus ex machina you out of your situation or the outcome you want. The harder the beating the better the results.

Damn that is an old meme.

You turn in to a door or they do? Why would you punch your date?

"Lucky"
Everyday he randomly gets a new super power but loses the previous one, anything from talking to fish to flight. As the day goes on the power gets weaker and weaker as the new one begins to manifest.

Midas touch is pretty shitty if you have the power on your whole skin.
>always sleep on rock hard materials
>clothings become either too hart to move or too soft and shred
>falling into any liquid = death.
>food has to be put directly inside your mouth
>easy electrical incidents
>literally every criminal and government want to use you.

the Bait:
the power to breath underwater through your skin, but your sweat becomes charged with your body "taste" and predatory creatures gets attracted to you immediately, be it sharks, piranhas, bu also out of the water creatures like mosquitos, cats, and so on.

That would actually pretty balling edgy super villian and a pretty good use of the "I make stuff go boom" cliche power.

>body covered in scars from slicing of flesh
>a couple of nails missing
>bald spots from yanking hair out and using it.

Gain all the abilities of god, but human mind can't handle the vast possibility/strain of such an act that you go mad, or destroy all of reality from the sheer overload of information and power.

>get power of God
>realize his canon powerset is knowing at every moment who is masturbating. can make dead bush burn and sculpt moderately big stone tablets, lightning, locust and plagues that can easily be countered by modern medicine and science. Also you create golems and they disobey you in less than a week.

gold isn't rock-hard
I mean as far as metals go, gold is much better to sleep on than most alternatives

I guess it's still gold fibers and all so it's probably kinda soft but without elastic properties.

>so skin cells just smoke a little
They would e cloaked in a constant haze of smoke, sounds pretty neat.

Rogue can't have sex unless her boyfriend has a latex fetish.

Kitty Pride would accidentally phase through her clothes in public, or get partway stuck in walls in all of my totally canonical memories.

>Accidentally reads any SJW, Hobson, or politician's mind
>New horrible opinions or fetishes

eternal life through self reincarnation. when you celebrate your 16th birthday, your body forms a crysalis and a month later you emerge as your 6 year old self. the process doesn't make you 100% amnesiac but all sort of knowledge aquired is blurry, like you didn't used it for 20 years.

weird. I like it.

>Become a professional shota porn actor
>No officer I just have the body of a 6 year old my mind is actually 600s year old.

>Like a dude with x-ray vision that only has x-ray vision. So he's effectively blind.
>has to carry around an X-ray flashlight to see anything
>can't read books unless they're printed with metal-impregnated ink