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Thought this was a fun idea. Basically this thread is about finding people who have a certain Power/Ability, it is incredibly niche, useless, self-destructive or just really weak. Or maybe it's useful, but they're really bad at using it. (Not just being unable to draw out its full potential, I mean "actually worthless" levels of incompetency)
For example, Scolippi from JoJo's Stand, Rolling Stones has Death Manipulation, but he can't control it in any way, it just foresees the deaths of people who are fated to die, which prevents from dying until that moment, but it tries chasing them down and give them a peaceful death. Not only has this ruined Scolippi's life, but Rolling Stones is completely useless offensively AND defensively. Another example is Kaido Wataru, whose Dimensional Travel can only be done in an incredibly risky motorbike maneuver and has basically no practical use whatsoever.
Abilities that are useless on their own but become useful when coupled with another of the character's powers should preferably not be suggested, since they aren't actually useless for the character. Also, if a character has a useless showing of an ability, but also simultaneously has access to a more powerful version of the same P&A, this should preferably not be suggested unless that only happens in a later key or is only accessible via optional equipment, in which case it's fine.
So yeah, feel free to suggest any really stupid and lame abilities any character might have, and I'll add them to this list.
For example, Scolippi from JoJo's Stand, Rolling Stones has Death Manipulation, but he can't control it in any way, it just foresees the deaths of people who are fated to die, which prevents from dying until that moment, but it tries chasing them down and give them a peaceful death. Not only has this ruined Scolippi's life, but Rolling Stones is completely useless offensively AND defensively. Another example is Kaido Wataru, whose Dimensional Travel can only be done in an incredibly risky motorbike maneuver and has basically no practical use whatsoever.
Abilities that are useless on their own but become useful when coupled with another of the character's powers should preferably not be suggested, since they aren't actually useless for the character. Also, if a character has a useless showing of an ability, but also simultaneously has access to a more powerful version of the same P&A, this should preferably not be suggested unless that only happens in a later key or is only accessible via optional equipment, in which case it's fine.
So yeah, feel free to suggest any really stupid and lame abilities any character might have, and I'll add them to this list.
- Absolute Zero
- Absorption
- Abstract Existence
- Acausality
- Accelerated Development - Missile (Ghost Trick) - Ghosts' powers develop erratically through time. However while Missile's will change somewhat they will mainly become really weak and useless.
- Acid Manipulation
- Acrobatics
- Adaptation
- Additional Limbs - Xavier: (Xavier Renegade Angel) - Has had extra limbs exactly once for the sake of a gag.
- Adhesive Manipulation - Koriel Number 12 (Baroque) - Certain pieces of equipment may be Adhesive, which prevents Number 12 from removing them. Basically the only positive is that they can't be stolen or forcibly removed by others.
- Afterimage Creation - Tanzra & The Lord of Light (ActRaiser) - Followed by a trail of afterimages. Completely useless.
- Age Manipulation - Gamall - Can slow down her aging with a Keeper Glyph. Unfortunately this is completely redundant as she just prolongs her lifespan by draining people's lives instead.
- Air Manipulation
- Alternate Future Display
- Animal Manipulation - Hunter Slugcat (Rain World) - Makes more powerful predators spawn and makes them more aggressive towards the hunter, with even otherwise neutral species trying to kill it on sight.
- Antimatter Manipulation
- Astral Projection
- Attack Reflection
- Aura - Maids such as Lunamaria (I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace) - Their aura is not only completely useless but only visible to other Maids.
- Automatic Translation
- Avatar Creation - The Lord of Light (ActRaiser) - Can only be used on statues built in their image. Not useless and in fact an important tool of theirs, but it's a pretty big restriction especially when considering SBA.
- Awakened Power
- Berserk Mode
- Beyond-Dimensional Existence
- BFR - Vector (Marvel Comics) - Can push himself and others nearby through the fabric of space and Self-BFR himself.
- Biological Manipulation - Ant-Man (Scott Lang, Marvel Comics) - Can shrink his own organs to feel sick
- Black Hole Creation - The Player (Combat Warriors) - Has no control over the black hole and is very likely to be killed by it.
- Blessed
- Blood Manipulation
- Bodily Weaponry
- Body Control - Father (Fullmetal Alchemist) - Can make his facial features appear and disappear. Normally useless, particularly so given who has it.
- Body Puppetry
- Bone Manipulation
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- Breath Attack
- Broadway Force
- Camouflage
- Causality Manipulation
- Chaos Manipulation - Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda) - Causes vague and unusable amounts of discord and disaster.
- Chi Manipulation - Karate Kid (Earth-Prime, DC Comics) - Can make people fall asleep by manipulating their chakra, however this seems to be unusable in combat.
- Clairvoyance
- Cloth Manipulation
- Conceptual Manipulation
- Construction
- Corrosion Inducement
- Corruption - Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda) - Can only corrupt certain small animals, and only at night.
- Cosmic Awareness
- Creation - Fil Necati (Kral Şakir) - Can sometimes create watermelons from his nose.
- Crystal Manipulation
- Curse Manipulation - The Living One (Arcanum) - Has access to various weapons that subtly undermine them in various ways while wielded, sometimes permanently.
- Cyborgization
- Damage Boost - Bonus attack users from Puzzle and Dragons - Bonus attack requires setup to use, it can't be boosted by multipliers, it has no element so it can't hit for weakness exploitation, and only does 1 damage total, though that damage can't be resisted.
- Damage Reduction
- Damage Transferal - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - Can only transfer damage to an ally, which is still useful but not a restriction the power usually has. Additionally there's a decent bit of danger involved in casting Sorceries at all given it can make casting future spells harder and eventually cause Chaos Revenge.
- Danmaku
- Darkness Manipulation
- Data Manipulation
- Death Manipulation - Scolippi (JoJo) - His Stand, Rolling Stones, is not controlled by him, it just senses future deaths of those nearby and tries to kill them before that fate can happen. This has ruined Scolippi's life and has no use in combat.
- Deconstruction
- Density Manipulation
- Dimensional Manipulation
- Dimensional Travel - SCP-507 (SCP Foundation) - Will randomly teleport to other dimensions against his will.
- Disease Manipulation - Koriel Number 12 (Baroque) - Can give others (or himself) a stomachache, which lowers stats a bit and doesn't do much else.
- Dream Manipulation
- Duplication
- Durability Negation
- Ectoplasm Manipulation
- Earth Manipulation - Mevolent (Skulduggery Pleasant) - Can only turn himself into a stone statue for a random amount of time, which could be decades.
- Elasticity - Nephilem - When shrinking back into a fetus, which allows him to crawl through small spaces, the Nephilem becomes very bouncy. This mostly makes control harder.
- Electricity Manipulation - David (Battle For Dream Island) - Can yell loudly enough to emanate small sparks.
- Elemental Manipulation
- Empathic Manipulation
- Empowerment - Lunamaria (I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace) - Can temporarily increase her Maid Power, which is completely useless as detailed in "Aura", which also leaves her exhausted.
- Energy Manipulation
- Energy Projection - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - If a character fails to cast spells repeatedly in one day, they will suffer Chaos Revenge, which has a variety of negative effects, including emanating a powerful burst of energy that hurts all nearby, which is usually going to be your party members. You can't even use it strategically since there's only a 1/6 chance of it happening on a Chaos Revenge.
- Enhanced Senses - Gorilla (Real World) - Slightly better hearing and smell, otherwise roughly at human levels.
- Existence Erasure - Pandora (Street Fighter X Tekken) - Can only erase itself.
- Explosion Manipulation
- Extrasensory Perception
- Fate Manipulation
- Fear Manipulation - Employee (Lobotomy Corporation) - Can only be used when they're driven insane, and they have resistance to Madness Manipulation which only becomes better with their equipment. This madness will also cause them to commit suicide.
- Fire Manipulation - Jimmy (Fangs) - Will be set on fire when exposed to silver or entering a church.
- Fissionism
- Flight - Father (Fullmetal Alchemist) - Despite being gaseous in nature, Father is stuck inside his flask and will die if it's broken, as such this doesn't have any use.
- Forcefield Creation
- Fragrance Manipulation - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - Can make a target smell of manure until next dawn. This has basically no use and there's a decent bit of danger involved in casting Sorceries at all given it can make casting future spells harder and eventually cause Chaos Revenge.
- Free Movement
- Fungus Manipulation
- Fusionism - Koriel Number 12 (Baroque) - Can fuse with God upon finding their physical location, which is through a long, difficult dungeon, and he also needs to take special precautions to not go insane in their presence.
- Genius Intelligence
- Gravity Manipulation - The Trickster (Thief) - Gravity is warped in some rooms of his mansion.
- Hacking
- Hair Manipulation - Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo No Psi Nan) - Can swap hairstyles with others.
- Healing
- Higher-Dimensional Existence
- Hive Mind
- Holy Manipulation
- Homing Attack
- Ice Manipulation
- Illusion Creation
- Immersion
- Immortality
- Incorporeality
- Information Analysis - Morphman - Needs to stand close to an enemy and have them stand still.
- Information Manipulation
- Inorganic Physiology - Bubble (Battle for Dream Island) - Still vulnerable to things that IP would normally protect from, and also has the same durability a bubble would despite her AP.
- Instinctive Action
- Intangibility - Father (Fullmetal Alchemist) - Despite being gaseous in nature, Father is stuck inside his flask and will die if it's broken, as such this doesn't have any use.
- Invisibility - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - Can only render a small weapon invisible and only until they draw it, upon which it must rapidly draw blood or the caster takes damage. Additionally there's a decent bit of danger involved in casting Sorceries at all given it can make casting future spells harder and eventually cause Chaos Revenge.
- Invulnerability
- Large Size
- Law Manipulation - Hamazura Shiage (To Aru) - As a level 0 esper, these abilities cannot be observed at any level above that which only an electron microscope can see.
- Life Manipulation - God of Creation and Preservation (Baroque) - Can keep someone alive after impaling them, which it seemingly doesn't even do on purpose.
- Light Manipulation - Monarch of Pointland (Flatland) - Can cause a glow when he speaks. However as he is completely immobile and cannot see the 3D world this glow is even more useless than the average light would be.
- Longevity
- Madness Manipulation - Employee (Lobotomy Corporation) - Can only be used when they're driven insane, and they have resistance to Madness Manipulation which only becomes better with their equipment. This madness will also cause them to commit suicide.
- Magic
- Magma Manipulation
- Magnetism Manipulation - Raz (Psychonauts) and Hat Kid (A Hat in Time) - Can only attract a few select collectables.
- Marksmanship
- Martial Arts - Velma Dinkley (Velma) - Her achievements are in women's self defense classes, which are generally less effective than proper martial arts training.
- Mathematics Manipulation
- Memory Manipulation - Tōya Kagari (XBlaze) - Passively erases his own memories.
- Metal Manipulation
- Mind Manipulation - Meng Xia - The ability will only be activated when she is near the inevitable death (being in coma for three years due to car crash in Meng Xia's case). It is not combat-applicable and it actually won't affect the "real world".
- Morality Manipulation
- Multilocation
- Multiple Selves - Xavier: (Xavier Renegade Angel) - His snake hand is alive, and other severed body parts can regrow into snakes.
- Nanotechnology
- Necromancy
- Nigh-Omniscience
- Non-Physical Interaction
- Non-Standard Breathing
- Nonexistent Physiology
- Omnipresence
- Omniscience
- Organic Manipulation - Koriel Number 12 (Baroque) - With a certain item, can make himself or others secrete a mysterious liquid. Has absolutely no practical effect.
- Pain Manipulation
- Paper Manipulation
- Paralysis Inducement - The Soul Blazer (Soul Blazer) - Can only be used against enemies too strong for him to hurt, which isn't useless, in fact it is quite handy, but he needs to strike them with one specific sword rather than other, more powerful ones which might allow him to actually inflict damage.
- Peak Human Physical Characteristics
- Perception Manipulation
- Petrification - Tiamat (Spelunky) - When she dies, Tiamat will be petrified.
- Photographic Memory - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - Through a Profession (which they can only have 2 of, and many give very important buffs so you're sacrificing a lot for this), the Accused can memorize everything they hear with a successful Willpower roll. Not only does that have a chance of backfiring (Willpower rolling can cause the die to degrade and become smaller, and if it does so too much the character panics), but it's really not an impressive talent at all given that literally every character can do this as long as the person playing them pays attention.
- Physics Manipulation
- Plant Manipulation - Hunter Slugcat (Rain World) - Makes more powerful predators spawn and makes them more aggressive towards the hunter, with even otherwise neutral species trying to kill it on sight.
- Plasma Manipulation
- Platform Creation - Sans (Undertale) - Sans' platforms aid Frisk in avoiding his attacks and have no other purpose.
- Plot Manipulation
- Pocket Reality Manipulation - Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) - Unaware of her ability to create closed spaces. Not combat applicable and can be harmful to her world.
- Poison Manipulation - Commander Rimanah (E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy) - Passively releases a chemical substance that forces certain insects to flee from him. These insects are basically a complete non-threat and not even particularly common.
- Portal Creation
- Possession
- Power Absorption
- Power Bestowal
- Power Mimicry
- Power Modification
- Power Nullification - The Soul Blazer (Soul Blazer) - Only works on magma attacks, and since it's cast by a light shone around the soul orbiting him, sufficiently fast ones still have a chance of reaching him.
- Precognition - Miyama Kaito (I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace) - Can only sense whether the "baby castella" dish prepared by Kuro will be good or bad.
- Preparation
- Pressure Points
- Probability Manipulation - Hamazura Shiage (To Aru) - As a level 0 esper, these abilities cannot be observed at any level above that which only an electron microscope can see.
- Psychometry
- Purification
- Quantum Manipulation - Hamazura Shiage (To Aru) - As a level 0 esper, these abilities cannot be observed at any level above that which only an electron microscope can see.
- Radiation Manipulation
- Rage Power - Trina Riffin (Grojband) - Her power gets amped to ridiculous extents, however it only lasts about 20 seconds and she couldn't aim worth jack with it.
- Reactive Evolution - JC Denton (Deus Ex) - Lockpicks automatically modify their shape to that of the lock. This isn't useless but I think it's fair to say it's much worse than actually becoming stronger in combat, especially when it still takes multiple to open most locks.
- Reality Warping - Deathtoll (Soul Blazer) - While immense in scope, Deathtoll needed to make a business deal with the King of the world to actually use these abilities. Presumably, he can't otherwise.
- Reconstruction
- Regeneration - Hundun (Spelunky) - When his heads are destroyed, the holes they made in Hundun's shell close. Unfortunately, he is also incapacitated if his heads are destroyed.
- Resistance - Tingle (Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland) - Resistance to Healing. 'Nuff said.
- Resistance Negation
- Resurrection - Miss Chalice (Cuphead) - Chalice needs someone to take a bite of her cookie to swap places with her, and even then it only lasts a few minutes before they're automatically swapped again.
- Retrocognition
- Sand Manipulation
- Sealing - Phalanx (Ghosts 'n' Goblins) - Can only seal himself away.
- Self-Destruction - Electrode/Voltorb (Pokémon) - Will explode on a hair trigger such as a light bump or even a touch, when absorbing electricity (which it feeds on) or just to amuse itself. This still knocks it out.
- Self-Sustenance
- Sense Manipulation
- Shapeshifting - Sissel, Yomiel and Missile (Ghost Trick) - Ghosts can shapeshift at will. However, they are also invisible and must meet very specific circumstances to let others see them.
- Size Manipulation
- Sleep Manipulation - Kamen Rider Wizard (Kamen Rider) - Can only make himself fall asleep.
- Small Size
- Smoke Manipulation - Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo No Psi Nan) - Can censor things with puffs of smoke.
- Soul Manipulation - Deathtoll (Soul Blazer) - While immense in scope, Deathtoll needed to make a business deal with the King of the world to actually use these abilities. Presumably, he can't otherwise.
- Sound Manipulation - SCP-4494 (SCP Foundation) - Sound speakers will channel SCP-4494's name as dramatic whispers.
- Spatial Manipulation - Young (Anodyne, Second Key) - The Swap Tool can be used to literally swap pieces of the environment, however in this key Young doesn't have the strength to use it that way and can only use it to move blocks in one specific puzzle.
- Statistics Amplification - God (Epic Battle Fantasy) - Passively boosts his enemies' stats.
- Statistics Reduction
- Status Effect Inducement
- Stealth Mastery
- Subjective Reality - Hamazura Shiage (To Aru) - As a level 0 esper, these abilities cannot be observed at any level above that which only an electron microscope can see.
- Summoning - The Accused (FLEAUX!) - If a character fails to cast spells repeatedly in one day, they will suffer Chaos Revenge, which has a variety of negative effects, including summoning a creature from another dimension which drags them away, which is effectively just instant death. There's slightly more useful through still mediocre summoning Sorceries (specifically, summoning a rat to guide you through a dungeon and fireflies to act as a source of light), but Sorceries are hard to run into while their negative effects are universal.
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics - SCP-504 (SCP Foundation) - 504 is a tomato that will sense bad jokes and punish them by flying into the one making them at high speeds. If it doesn't hear a joke, it's just a harmless tomato.
- Supernatural Luck - Bennett (Genshin Impact) - Bennett is extremely unlucky, to the point that earthquakes have sometimes split the ground under him, entire teams have abandoned him because of his bad luck rubbing off, his enemies (whom he picks to be much weaker than him as he'd otherwise not stand a chance) basically never miss and a thunderstorm conjures up instantly just to ruin what would have been a pleasant day for him.
- Supernatural Willpower
- Surface Scaling
- Technology Manipulation - Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo No Psi Nan) - Can upgrade PCs to Windows 10.
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy - Garrett - Only capable of hearing telepathic conversations, but cannot communicate through them.
- Teleportation
- Temperature Manipulation - Uiharu Kazari (To Aru) - Can keep the temperature of something she's wrapping her hand around stable. Since she has to directly touch it it doesn't even work on extremely hot or cold objects.
- Text Manipulation - SCP-4494 (SCP Foundation) - All text mentioning SCP-4494 will be changed to make it look stylish and dramatic.
- Thread Manipulation
- Time Manipulation - Pietro Wilson (SCP Foundation) - Needs to acquire one specific SCP, then find another one and kill himself to rewind time.
- Time Stop
- Time Travel
- Toon Force
- Transduality
- Transformation
- Transmutation - Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo No Psi Nan) - Can carbonate any drink.
- Underground Mobility
- Underwater Breathing
- Unholy Manipulation
- Vector Manipulation
- Vehicular Mastery
- Vibration Manipulation - Candy (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) - Caused some shaking in a shop.
- Void Manipulation
- Water Manipulation - Chuck E Cheese (Nintendo Games) - Just a water gun.
- Weapon Control
- Weapon Creation - Woof (Death Road to Canada) - 1% chance to create nearly worthless throwable poop when barking.
- Weapon Mastery - Spear Thrower (TABS) - Decent at throwing spears, but only carries one at a time and needs a few seconds to spawn another, has no tactical thinking or other means of combat.
- Weather Manipulation
- Zero-Dimensionality
- A DECENT AMOUNT OF ABILITIES - SCP-076 (SCP Foundation) - Can only be achieved through being in the chamber of the Bloom with SCP-073 present alongside SCP-076-2.
- A LOT OF ABILITIES - Straizo (JoJo) - Has access to Hamon which gifts him with over a dozen abilities, but using it will instantly kill him.
- EVEN MORE ABILITIES - The Peasant (UnderMine) - The entire Curses section is entirely negative for The Peasant.
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