Unconventional Powers Writing Prompts

The Wizarding World has never met someone like the speedcaster. He can summon more than 10 spells in less than 30 seconds. He says he's from another world, where there a more people like him called 'rappers'.

Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave."

Your daughter has the power to make anything she wants come true, but being only 7 she doesn’t realize this and instead thinks you’re the best dad ever. Your house is now pink, you own a horse ranch, have a cupboard full of chocolate cake, and many things more. “Thanks dad you’re the best!”

Your power is that Any insect that gets within 30 feet of you is vaporized. One day on your regular walk to work a man steps in your field and is turned to dust in the middle of the street. People start fleeing in a panic, except for a few standing about 30 ft away staring at you hatefully

You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?

When the world's most beloved superhero died defending them, the people mourned. Little did they know, the hero's secret identity was an organ donor, and people who received one of the hero's organs are starting to exhibit some of the same powers.

"A superhero fights crime as a part of a team, apparently with the ability to hit his target perfectly with whatever weapon he shoots or throws on the first try. In reality, he has terrible aim, and his actual power is to stop time. He goes through extraordinary efforts to maintain his secret."

Time slows down every time you are in danger. The more serious the danger is, the more time you have to save yourself. During one terrible car accident, you had almost a minute to react. And now, time has almost completely stopped for a whole month, and you don’t know why.

You are a superhero. Your power? ... You don’t know. One day people just started considering you a superhero and sending you to deal with the super villains of the world, who promptly surrender when they encounter you.

Like Spider-Man, you have a built-in "danger sense", but instead of alerting you of danger, it stops time around you until you're out of danger. One day, time stops suddenly, and as usual, you tried to move until time continues again, but after an hour of walking, time is still frozen.

In a world where everyone has at least one minor superpower, you were thought to be powerless... until you nearly died. It seems that you have plot armor, no matter how ridiculous the situation, you survive unscathed due to an even more ridiculous coincidence.

You live in a world where the repetition of certain acts grants special abilities. Someone who does 10,000 push-ups will gain super strength, someone who runs 10,000 kilometres will gain super speed. You are the first person in history to drink 10,000 litres of alcohol.

You suddenly realise that everytime you say something good about a certain product it becomes successful. If you liked a book or movie or song they become massive hits. You have discovered your power. You are the one true influencer.

Everyone gains a superpower when they turn 18. On your 18th birthday, you acquire what you think is the most useless power. When consoling a friend who is unhappy with their power, “Don’t worry, you’re only human. A bitter taste forms in your mouth. A lie.

The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story.

Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world.

You have the ability to heal people from any disease by simply touching them with your left hand. As your popularity grows, people begin to wonder why you are wearing a glove on your right hand.

You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you.

You've always been a sleepwalker. At first it was an unconscious act of stumbling around the house. Then actual walking. Later it became doing chores. Having fully mastered this, you're now a proficient lucid dreaming sleepwalker and a parkour prodigy. Your only weakness: waking up.

The king has the ability to see team colors. Everyone who's working towards the same goal as a group appears to be wearing the same color, regardless of what color their clothes actually are. This makes conspiring against him really, really hard.

The villain just shot you with his Superpower Suppressor! He crows with laughter as he declares his victory over you to the city, but you get right back up and take him down mid-gloat. You never had any superpowers, you're a perfectly average demon that's just playing superhero.

Among other things, you can hover 8 inches above the ground, fire a single bullet out of your hand per day, un-chew gum, sense the exact location of every sneeze within a building, and breath fire for 19 seconds every Saturday the 19th. You’re a hero with many, many mildly-useful powers.

A celestial spirit seeks to empower magical girls to protect Earth, but by accident the power is granted to a group of masked wrestlers. It's time to suplex some monsters and drop kick villains!

The villain held your power ring in their hand, “With this out of the way your powers shall no longer work, relent.” You look at them and began chuckling before breaking out into maniacal laughter, “that doesn’t give me power, it gives me empathy dipshit.”

You are able to manipulate and manifest your tattoos, moving them around your body and turning them into real-world objects. Wings, a dagger, or even something as mundane as glasses. Always at your disposal.

A hero has you cornered, thinking they are oh so clever. They have trapped a Necromancer without any access to his summons. You were never a necromancer though, it was just a fun way to practice the finer points of your telekinesis

In a world of superpowers, you're believed to be powerless, but you actually possess the unprecedented ability to stop time. However, you would much rather have everyone continue to think that you're powerless.

You are Reference-Man. Your power can be whatever you want, so long as it is a reference to pop-culture. The obscurer the reference, the greater is your power.

She is quite possibly the strongest woman on earth, and she's in love with you. You love her back, and it's terrifying

Your superpower is to "respawn" anytime you get killed or seriously injured. While initially dismissed as you're otherwise a normal human the cape scene is slowly learning to respect and/or fear you.