Unconventional Powers Writing Prompts

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Your city does not have a resident superhero, yet it has a lower crime rate than any city with a hero. This is mostly your doing, since you have made it your mission to hunt *anyone* with superpowers out of the city, be they hero or villain.

300 upvotes20 comments

"Wait... So this whole time, you weren't under my mind control?"

266 upvotes22 comments

When you learned that you were teaming up with a magical girl, you expected a tiny preteen in a dress with sparkles. Not a 6’4 behemoth wearing bright pink body armor wielding a machine gun.

239 upvotes0 comments

In a world where superpowers are bought at the store, two teens drop 20 bucks to raid the dollar bin.

235 upvotes25 comments

You were made fun of as a male with a 'feminine' superpower growing up. Who's laughing now considering you are now the most powerful and richest superhero?

227 upvotes41 comments

You're one of the most feared supervillains. Your superpower? You can fully control one atom at a time.

184 upvotes21 comments

I don't care if it perfectly describes your powers, its a stupid superhero name and I won't call you by it.

156 upvotes20 comments

A reversal of the usually fantasy. A girl with the power of at will invisibility sneaks into the men’s locker room. Unbeknownst to her, one of the guys has heat vision, and rather than ratting her out decides to tease and show off to her.

146 upvotes8 comments

People are born with powers based on the body part their energy manifested in. These are referred to as cores. An eye core is clairvoyant, a leg core can run at super-speed and hand cores are telekinetic, etc. You don't know your best friend's core location but whenever you ask they blush.

145 upvotes5 comments

After the standard superpower test, two childhood friends couldn't keep their hands off each other due to how much they heavily fetishize the other's superpower.

132 upvotes12 comments

You found out you can create rules that people are forced to follow, you take off on a journey to change the world to your liking, but the limits of the ability are making it harder than you thought.

114 upvotes0 comments

Everyone wakes up with magic one day. Their superpowers depend on the job they held before.

113 upvotes9 comments

“It doesn’t matter what your power level is, you can’t survive a nuclear bomb”

95 upvotes15 comments

You are the bane of every telepath, with a completely unreadable mind. Not because you have any special powers, but rather because your mind is such a mess of mental illnesses and psychological disorders that just attempting to read it is torturously painful.

94 upvotes5 comments

Your powers are... strange. Enhancing other supers is a common ability, and technically you're the strongest in that category but the fact that you're only power is to passively boost whoever made you orgasm last means that you're either being kidnapped by a villain or being "recruited" by hero

92 upvotes8 comments

In a world where superpowers exist, you have a very strange one. Whenever someone makes you cum, their own power is boosted by 50% and the effect stacks. The result of this is that both supervillains AND superheros kidnap you for hours, for their own "uses".

88 upvotes23 comments

When the test revealed his unique power to be ultimate mind control, everyone assumed it was only a matter of time before he became a supervillain. So when the world's #1 superhero asked that he be delivered to her palace of solitude, he was naturally apprehensive & gagged. Then .....

83 upvotes9 comments

Three horny college students have received superpowers but they don’t know about each other’s powers. One can turn invisible, one can shapeshift, and one can stop time. They all use their powers in perverted ways. The college starts having incidents.

80 upvotes6 comments

Her "superpower" wasn't very super. If anything, it made it harder for her to fight. She frequently ended up being captured and serving the villain instead of fighting. But being a hero was her dream, and something as small as "a complete inability to fight crime" wouldn't get in her way.

76 upvotes15 comments

Alanna is an expert interrogator with the power to withhold a man’s orgasm with her mind. She keeps criminals on the edge for hours until they confess. You’ve been framed for a murder you didn’t commit, and she’s had a vibrator against your cock for 6 hours now. Who will cave first, her or you?

69 upvotes4 comments

"Hey, attitude!" I shout at my thirteen year old daughter. "Ok" she replies with an eye roll, then turns to unleash the full force of her pre-teen snark on the burglar, obliterating him in an instant.

66 upvotes3 comments

When she gains the superpower to clone herself, she decides to become her male best friends one girl harem, whith each clone Dressing and acting differently.

63 upvotes5 comments

A supervillain with the power to manipulate sex drive. An entire city brought to their knees by their own base instinct. You are their hero, Celibate Man.

62 upvotes3 comments

The armor gives her powers, but being trapped in it has made her miss the finer details of life. Real food, rather than the armors direct energy to nutrient transformation, Sleep instead of the armor keeping her brain and body in perfect condition all day every day. But what she misses most...

62 upvotes7 comments

Her power to create duplicates of herself was useful for *much* more than just heroics...

61 upvotes6 comments

In a world of supers, people’s powers often came in when they turned 18. The powers lily got though were…not what she was expecting. She was gifted with perfect thighs, and the ability to heal people by squishing them between them, but it only works if she’s bottomless.

58 upvotes2 comments

In a world where superpowers are common, exceptional normal people are simply thought to have superpowers and thus don't stand out. One exceptional person had a test done years ago to prove their normalcy; upon needing to show the test again, they realize the result has changed.

53 upvotes2 comments

You are a superhero, except you don’t save anyone. You help people save themselves.

51 upvotes11 comments

The mean girl at my school just got the power to warp reality and is using it to turn the school into her own personal playground… “ugh, y’know, jocks are not in right now… how about you turn into dumb little femboys~?” She’s been doing weird stuff to everyone… except… me for some reason…?

39 upvotes7 comments

The year is 2050 and some weed strains have grown strong enough to unlock superpowers within people for the extent of the high. After finding 4 vapes, you and your 3 best friends are trying to "Obtain" more of this government-controlled weed.

38 upvotes10 comments

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