Like, powers that would be good for a street level hero but not really any level above street level.
Solid Manipulation
Liquid Manipulation
Gas Manipulation
Plasma Manipulation
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So like, no money generation as that'd likely fall into the territory of counterfeiting as it'd be unregulated making of currency, and no hypnosis to force people to buy products as that could be considered a form of coercion (or some other law I imagine).
So what would you say are some top tiers in superpowers that let the user get rich without breaking the law to do so?
Follow up questions if you'd be okay with it (not all of these are optional):
- Why is it your favorite "(Insert Something Here) Manipulation" power?
- What is your favorite iteration/example of the power in fiction and why?
I got Maraca Master, I'm fucking boned.
Like, powers that are difficult for people to notice, at the very least from the outside looking in, but is still a good power, but preferably not an OP one.
No "Almighty Powers", as in no powers from this category: https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Almighty_Powers
I'd claim to reveal my ability but in actuality mislead them onto how my ability works, working with what they would only have been able to see, so that they work with wrong assumptions during the battle so I can spring out a use they didn't expect me to have since they would've been actively misinformed
@Abdalla1234 Hmm... if it was concept manipulation for the concept of "down" imagine it could theoretically bleed into more than one meaning of the word. This baseline power is based upon the directional meaning of down but theoretically someone who manipulates the entire concept of down could potentially mess with the emotional meaning of down giving them a sort of melancholy manipulation in addition to their sort of gravity manipulation.
So, idea of the power is that the user can affect an object by deciding which direction is "down" for an object, resulting in them "falling down" in that direction at Earth's constant. It's based on the idea that "what direction is considered down for one person can be the same direction as up for another person on the opposite side of the planet". As an example use for the power, say the user were to affect a car, they could make "down" for the car be where the sky is, resulting at the car "falling upwards" at a speed of 9.8 m/s².
I would imagine it'd fall under a subcategory of Gravity Manipulation but I'm unsure if there's any specific power about the idea in question.
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As an example, think like a lot of JoJo stands. Most of them, at least in later parts, have more unique abilities, those abilities are generally more limited, and are also generally smaller scale, but Araki always finds fun and creative ways for those powers to be applied.
Btw, I realize that most powers can be larger scale and can also be less limited, I'm just thinking about this from the perspective of someone who wants to have smaller scale more limited powers.
I can't think of a particular power but I seem to prefer more limited and low scale powers that allow for a fun variety of potential interesting applications. Think like a lot of later parts stands from JoJo where they have more niche or specific abilities but Araki always finds weird creative ways for them to be used.
@Abdalla1234 @Godking25 Yeah, though fit, but would it be okay to ask for maybe more limited powers, either in usefulness or in scale, since a lot of those feel like, at least at a glance, that they'd practically make the user a god or at least god-like. Like, maybe a sort of power that would most likely only be powerful and/or useful if the user is quite well-versed in science but not be particularly powerful in the hands of someone who lacks much scientific knowledge.
The sort of stuff that could theoretically revolutionize science and technology as we know it if a scientifically minded enough individual were to gain the power you suggest.
Like not direct absolute mind control or anything where they would likely be like "why did they make me do that", more the kind where they'd think"why did I do that", like a sort of power that gives a degree of control over others that, from the perspective of the affected, would seem like it was just them doing it not someone else making them do it.
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Hopefully not something where it's *too* common of one in fiction, like, I'd say a lot of the elemental ones are out the window based on that restriction cuz they're quite common from my understanding, but excluding commonly occuring ones, what are some ones you imagine could be used in fun and creative ways?
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Kinetic_Abilities
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Whether it be for the protagonist, side characters, villains of the week, major antagonist, or maybe even one that affects a group or even the world, what are some powers you think could be neat ones to include in a story but you don't think are common in them?
I'd say a classic one would be something like mediumship, seeing and talking with the dead would almost certainly be mistaken for simply seeing things that aren't there and talking to yourself, but I wonder what some others could be?
I'll respond to any suggestions as to whether or not I feel like it's what I'm looking for, if that's okay by you.
@Kal-Karot Basically just meant "don't give a power you've already seen an entire power system be based around"
By a "source power" I mean a power in which all other powers in the power system are derived from and likely specific applications of. For two examples of power systems I know of with a "source power" just look at Fire Force where every power is derived from pyrokinesis and Deadman Wonderland where every power is derived from blood manipulation.
I would prefer if the power you suggest as a potentially interesting and fun "source power" isn't one you are aware being used as one in a work of fiction as the "source power" for an entire power system. I would much prefer the power you suggest being something you think could make for an interesting "source power" with potentially providing some reason behind it (though providing a reason is not necessary) without knowing for sure it could be one by straight up knowing a power system where it straight up is.