To follow on from the Superhero Description Sheet; I thought that maybe I needed to show you some powers.
I hope you enjoy.
Generic Physical Superpowers
Superstrength
Speed
Durability
Agility/reflexes
Healing/regeneration
SupersensesSight/hearing/smell/taste/touch
Sensing danger (spider-sense)
Sensing other types of events (dishonesty, murder, etc.)
The ability to remove senses (like inflicting blindness, etc.)
Longevity/immortality
Forms of Transportation
Climbing/wall-crawling
Swimming/water-breathing
Flight
Teleportation
Exceptional leaping (e.g. the Hulk)
Phasing/intangibility
Time-Based Abilities
Temporal manipulation (like The Matrix)
Time travel
Prophecy
Elemental Control/Manipulation
Basic elements (fire, water and/or ice, earth, wind)
Electricity
Light
Darkness and/or shadows
Gravity
Magnetic forces
Radiation
Energy
Sound
Nature
Generic Mental Abilities
Skills and/or knowledgePopular categories: science, mechanical, computer/electronics, weapons-handling/military, driving, occult/magical.
Super-intelligence
Resourcefulness (“I’m never more than a carton of baking soda away from a doomsday device”)
Psychic Superpowers
Telekinesis (moving objects mentally)
Telepathy (reading minds)
Mind-to-mind communication
Mind-control
Possession (total mental control)
Memory manipulation (may include creation/alteration/deletion)
Mentally generated weaponry/objects
Mindblast
Ability to locate someone mentally
Forcefields
“Psychometry”–the ability to learn things about the past or future of an object by touching it
Biological Control
Acid/poison
Controlling plants and/or animals
Shapeshifting (animals).
Shapeshifting (people)–mainly useful for disguises/stealth.
Miscellaneous Talents
Elasticity
Self-destruction
Self-liquification
Gaseous form
Growth/shrinking
Self-duplication
Invisibility
Absorbing someone else’s powers
Negating someone else’s powers
Luck manipulation (good luck for hero and/or bad luck for enemies)
Illusions
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.
Ability to control density
If you can think of any other powers, let me know, that would be really helpful, thank you!
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