Superhero Writing Prompts

You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you're about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you.

"How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal but that can't be all" "Well you'd be surprised how many artifacts will grant you ultimate power in exchange for your life."

You are the villain's right hand man and you are the true power behind their criminal empire. The villain would never have achieved their status as a super villain without you, so when the hero finally arrested the villain, nothing actually changed.

"You think I'm trying to get revenge for my father that was the king or lord or whatever title you could pull out of your head? No, my father was one of those incompetent and harmless guards you killed!

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.

You were once an adventurer but when was turned to stone. Your party tried to save you but it was too late, so they place you in the center of a town they founded, now years later an army marches onto that town and with every once of willpower you try to move…and with groan you take a step.

A Supervillain from the 30s flung into the modern day tries to continue their life of villainly. But finds their ransoms are laughably small, their riddle traps are foiled by boxes the civilians carry and their plan to kill the global elite is getting a lot less pushback than expected…

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!

Your boss at the newspaper company is starting to notice he's never seen you and the local superhero in the same room together. You're actually just a terrible employee.

You are the child of two famous superheroes and their nemesis has kidnapped you in the hopes of getting under their skin. A week later your parents still haven't come to rescue you.

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 own a construction company that especiallise on supervillians hideouts, you make tones of money and usually work in paradise islands, but dealing with your clients and keeping their ideas within OSHA standards is not an easy job

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.

You work at a retirement home for superheroes who've gotten too infirm and senile to continue their work. The hardest part of the job is keeping them here, instead of gallivanting off on a foolhardy quest to relive their glory days.

You were sure your girlfriend knew your secret identity, so you were happy to flirt with her both in and out of costume. But today she confessed to cheating on you. With you.

You are a supervillain who's in reality much, much more powerful that any of the heroes. Your "villainous schemes" they stop are in reality just small, unimportant parts of a bigger picture that is beyond their comprehension. Today they found out and it is finally time for you to drop the mask.

'Dragon' isn't the name of a particular creature, but a title granted to any being that attains a certain level of legendary power. Anything can become a Dragon, from a wyvern to a human, to a stag, or even a cat. Write a story about an unlikely Dragon.

I’ve seen quite a few posts making fun of the trope where the hero refuses to kill the villain despite killing the villain’s mooks. So, how about a story where the hero refuses to harm any of the people working for the villain but is perfectly willing to kill the villain themself.

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.

A hero's work never ends. You became a litch out of necessity. The next hero would not be summoned for another thousand years and you were old. You planned to stay around long enough to pass the safety of the world on to the next.

Bruce Wayne decides to get therapy and contacts well-respected Dr. Quinzel, eventually revealing his secret identity to her. He didn’t expect to accidentally acquire a sidekick.

You are a supervillain with healing powers. The only reason your labelled a supervillain because the American healthcare system is intimidated by you

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.

After you, as a superhero, decided to reveal publicly your secret identity, your high school days bully decided to turn criminal since he could beat you. It genuinely doesn't occur to him that you were faking taking his beating way back then.

You just found out you’re a superhuman. You have everything that comes with that, super strength, speed, and the ability to not need to eat or sleep. This is good until your friends start realizing you haven’t eaten in a while, causing them to have a surprise intervention.

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

You're a superhero, you would consider yourself C-list at best power-wise but the greatest superhero team in the world keeps calling you back to help with big villian disasters. Oddly enough your memories of each event are vauge at best. one day you figure out why

"Yes, but just because I *can* crack reality open like an egg and reign as a galactic conquerer doesn't mean that I *want* to. I want to be the silly nemesis of a street level hero"

Your secret identity has been found out by the villain, instead of using it against you, the villain goes to your Hero Association and files a case against them for "Child Endangerment" due to the fact that you are 12.