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23rd October 2006, 3:08pm
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#1 | | tired and emotional Editor
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| Useless superpowers
What do you call a superhero who's powers are absolutely useless?
I was doing some tedious and repetitive cell culture work today and was entertaining myself throughout it by inventing new superheroes in my head.
My favourite was "Indestructable Pelvis Man" who, after sitting on a radioactive chair, developed an indestructable pelvis. He's really pissed off that he didn't get a better superpower, like flight or lasers from eyes, because although the fact that his pelvis is indestructable is quite remarkable it's also remarkably useless.
What a tragedy.
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23rd October 2006, 3:16pm
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#2 | | The man from Del Monte
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| Re: Useless superpowers
How about the guy who got exposed to gamma rays and became Radiation Sickness Man, with the power to spread over a wide area- although he only gets to do it once?
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23rd October 2006, 3:18pm
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#3 | | turning water into funk
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| Re: Useless superpowers
I love the Tim burton one thats in The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. The superhero who's only power was that he could leave very dirty stains.  | |
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23rd October 2006, 3:19pm
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#4 | | Goned
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| Re: Useless superpowers
Metric Man...can extend his arms and legs out to exactly one metre. | |
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23rd October 2006, 3:20pm
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#5 | | tired and emotional Editor
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| Re: Useless superpowers
I was thinking of Tree Man too. After using a radioactive toothpick he found himself able to turn into a tree at will, while he's in tree form he's able to grow extremely slowly, photosynthesise and be nibbled by herbivores.
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23rd October 2006, 3:23pm
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#6 | | The man from Del Monte
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| Re: Useless superpowers
There were a whole host of utterly useless mutants in X-titles. A fair share got theirs - a bloody and entertaining death - in X-Statix/X-Force.
Milligan/Allred, where are you now?
don't forget Spoon Man
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23rd October 2006, 5:24pm
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#7 | | Commander
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| Re: Useless superpowers
America?
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23rd October 2006, 5:26pm
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#8 | | Moment Ruiner
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| Re: Useless superpowers
shoe man, the man who can fit his feet into any pair of shoes 
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23rd October 2006, 5:34pm
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#9 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Useless superpowers
Thumbo, who can—at will—transform all his fingers into thumbs, for short periods.
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23rd October 2006, 5:35pm
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#10 | | whispering eye Moderator
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| Re: Useless superpowers
Hair man - who can, at will, make his hair grow short or long and change the colour etc. Quite fun but mostly pointless. | |
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23rd October 2006, 5:36pm
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#11 | | Hammer Smashed Face
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| Re: Useless superpowers
The Incredible Bulk, who can expand his body to a huge mass, none of it anything other than excess body fat. | |
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23rd October 2006, 5:38pm
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#12 | | Moment Ruiner
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apathy man - he doesnt do anything, and he doesnt care
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23rd October 2006, 5:41pm
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#13 | | Changed Man V4
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| Re: Useless superpowers
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Originally Posted by Semprini The Incredible Bulk, who can expand his body to a huge mass, none of it anything other than excess body fat. | The Incredible Sulk, who after contracting cancer from a radioactive accident just can't cheer up. | |
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23rd October 2006, 5:45pm
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#14 | | Athiest Otter
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| Re: Useless superpowers
Cotton bud boy, whose arms turn into giant cotton buds whenever he sesnse someone is just out of the shower.
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23rd October 2006, 5:45pm
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#15 | | Caissa's DeathAngel
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| Re: Useless superpowers
Meg in Family Guy - when all the others get superpowers, hers is her "superamazing...power - to grow her finger nails" | |
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