I am writing a story about a superhero-type story and I need help with powers.
List of SuperpowersGeneric Physical Superpowers1.Superstrength
2.Speed
3.Durability
4.Agility/reflexes
5.Healing/regeneration
6.Supersenses a.Sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch
b.Sensing danger (spider-sense)
c.Sensing other types of events (dishonesty, murder, etc.)
7.The ability to remove senses (like inflicting blindness, etc.)
8.Longevity/immortality
Forms of Transportation1.Climbing/wall-crawling
2.Swimming/water-breathing
3.Flight
4.Teleportation
5.Exceptional leaping (e.g. the Hulk)
6.Phasing/intangibility
Time-Based Abilities1.Temporal manipulation (like The Matrix)
2.Time travel
3.Prophecy
Elemental Control/Manipulation
1.Basic elements (fire, water and/or ice, earth, wind)
2.Electricity
3.Light
4.Darkness and/or shadows
5.Gravity
6.Magnetic forces
7.Radiation
8.Energy
9.Sound
10.Nature
Generic Mental Abilities
1.Skills and/or knowledge a.Popular categories: science, mechanical, computer/electronics, weapons-handling/military, driving, occult/magical.
2.Super-intelligence
3.Resourcefulness (“I’m never more than a carton of baking soda away from a doomsday device”)
Psychic Superpowers
1.Telekinesis (moving objects mentally)
2.Telepathy (reading minds)
3.Mind-to-mind communication
4.Mind-control
5.Possession (total mental control)
Memory manipulation (may include creation/alteration/deletion)
7.Mentally generated weaponry/objects
8.Mindblast
9.Ability to locate someone mentally
10.Forcefields
11.“Psychometry”–the ability to learn things about the past or future of an object by touching it
Biological Control
1.Acid/poison
2.Controlling plants and/or animals
3.Shapeshifting (animals).
4.Shapeshifting (people)–mainly useful for disguises/stealth.
Miscellaneous Talents
1.Elasticity
2.Self-destruction
3.Self-liquification
4.Gaseous form
5.Growth/shrinking
6.Self-duplication
7.Invisibility
8.Absorbing someone else’s powers
9.Negating someone else’s powers
10.Luck manipulation (good luck for hero and/or bad luck for enemies)
11.Illusions
12.Pocket space–the ability to hold and remove objects so that only the user can retrieve them. It could be used for carrying really heavy equipment, hiding valuable and/or stolen and/or highly explosive goods, concealing weapons, smuggling candy into movie theaters, removing a hostile explosive, etc.
13.Ability to control density
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