Unconventional Powers Writing Prompts

Your superpower is that you can conjure anything in your palm provided it only costs a dollar or less. You have been relentlessly mocked for having such a useless power until you realize just how usefull it can be

“Your superpower is: you can converse with exactly three people who have passed away.” “I choose Albert Einstein, George Washington, and my late father” “that’s only two, you can choose one more”.

When your power had finally manifested, they were quick to dismiss it as some cruel joke, laugh it off, forget you ever existed... and then to never bother keeping tabs on you. After all, if you can't "mind control" anyone without their explicit consent, you might as well be powerless.

You are a superhero known for wearing a signature ring. While everyone believes it to be the source of your powers in reality it actually dampens them, allowing you to safely use your powers. Today you woke up and could not find your ring.

Super powers have started to appear in the general population. However, unlike comics, there are no secondary powers to make one immune to the actual physics of one’s power. This has led to some interesting case studies.

One day, magically, everyone across the world was given a superpower of their choice. Now, 5 years later, it seems your unconventional choice is paying off far more in life than your flying, super strong and mind reading friends.

Your superpower can completely nullify the powers of any other superheroes in your vicinity. You expected the government or supervillains to be after you, but you never would have thought that some heroes would voluntarily seek you out.

You have a single superpower, and you're not even aware of it. You're a Jinx. Specifically, you're a consequences based Jinx. If something someone will do is going to negatively affect you, bad luck afflicts them in such a way that they can't perform that action. The supers community all know.

Anonymous "Hero" donates human kidneys, blood, eyeballs, and various organs to the hospital every week. The number now tallying in the hundreds. Doctors and news outlets are wondering where they acquire them from and whether it is ethical to use them. Surprisingly, its not a serial killer.

You've just learned of the exact date of your death, and no matter how hard you try to die before said time you somehow miraclously survive. So to make use of this "gift" you decide to try and become the world's greatest stuntman

In a world where every human has a unique superpower, yours is largely laughed at. The ability to untangle anything has come in handy for untying shoelaces until you discover a new way of using your power that makes you formidable against your former superiors.

Your superpower is "epic fail". Whatever you attempt to accomplish, it always fails in the most spectacular manner possible. You thought it was a curse, until you finally realized how to control it, and now, no one can stop you.

Due to a glitch in the system, whenever you lift a heavy object you gain 1 point in Intelligence instead of Strength. Reading a book, however, gives you 1 point in Intelligence as well.

You're not a hero, you're an anti-hero, most of the hero league doesn't like you, but you get the job done and they have no real evidence of you killing villains. When the arch nemesises of all the major heroes die, all eyes turn to you.

When you were a kid, you were granted the power to read minds. You used it to learn from the smartest students in your class. Now, you decide to use it on the dumbest student in your class. It moves so quickly you can’t understand what they are thinking.

After the war, everyone in the world was granted a wish by forces beyond. Some wished for money, some wished for love. Others used their wish to be given the strength of superman or the speed of the flash. I was the only one that wished to have the power to grant other people’s wishes.

Humanity has developed a serum that gives a superpower at random. It becomes the norm to sell them for insane prices to the elites of society. You have just won one in the lottery but the power you awaken to is more… unique than you were expecting.

You have a strange power: When you yell ’Cut!’ from the top if your lungs, everyone presents turns into ’actors’, ’crew’ with ’equipment’ pops into existence and the area you are in turns into a set. Usually you do this when you’re bored but this time you do it to avoid an unwanted marriage.

You have the power to teleport 1 cubic centimeter of matter within a certain vicinity around you. The person holding you hostage thought your power was useless, up until they started screaming and clutching their eye because there was a 1 cubic centimeter sized hole in it.

You were shamed for having a weak power called Fabric Manipulation. However it didn't exactly specify which fabrics you can manipulate.

Most tech based heros are rich and handsome philanthropists, except Dale he's just got too much creativity, free time, liquor, and access to junkyards.

People always assumed that you're powerless. In reality, you're just very good at hiding your power especially since your power allows you to do that. Why bother letting anyone know about your power when you have no intentions of becoming a hero (or villain).

When I was offered the power to make metal objects attracted to me, I was expecting magnet powers. I was not expecting my toaster to start making advances.

On a random day everyone is given a super power based on what they were doing in that moment, people who were reaching for something can now stretch like elastic, people who were running now have super speed. You really wish you were doing something else when it happened...

In a family of superheroes, you're the only one without any. Your siblings tease you so much that you go to a treatment center that gives people powers, even if you risk your life on a seemingly debunked treatment.

You're Captain Obvious! The hero with an ability that's considered useless as you only state the obvious..... At least it was considered useless until people realized that what may be obvious to others may not be to them. Now you have your own talk show.

You, a warrior mage, lost your sight in battle. You’re able to use magic to see, but doing so drains your powers. You’re always having to choose whether to save your powers to see, or to cast spells. One day, caught in an attack, your combat skills alone aren’t enough. You close your eyes.

Your only superpower is that you can give mind-blowing orgasms with a touch. The other heroes tend to stay away from you and the media doesn’t like to talk about you, but you’ve pacified some of the biggest criminals in the city simply by visiting them on a regular basis.

Youve gained an odd new power. No matter what you do, say, or ask, its treated as proper and reasonable. Ask someone to strip? "It is a little warm today". Grope random strangers. "Oh, sorry. Need better access?" Etc.

Everyone you touch turns into stone for a day. Recently a group of people beg you to touch them so they could be sculpted into the perfect body.