Questions tagged [super-powers]
For questions about the development and usage of powers and abilities beyond what is "normal" for a specific species. If you are asking "Is this realistic?" then the answer is going to be "No" unless you have a very strong background in medicine or biology and have used it.
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If I can manipulate the fundamental interactions, how do I disintegrate humans without causing nuclear explosions?
I have beings that can strengthen and weaken the fundamental interactions. They rule a modern country.
They disintegrate dissenters. Initially, they were supposed to do this by decreasing the strong ...
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What is the effective power of a God that can change only unknown things? [closed]
Suppose there is a God who created the universe, either instantly or over time, does not matter.
After the creation, he can change only unknown things and not things that became known either to ...
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How durable would a human have to be to run at mach 30
I have a character who is supposed to be able to sprint at a maximum speed of mach 30, or 10290 meters per second. I want to know how much heat would be generated by a human running at such a speed ...
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Do I need to add other passive defenses against my character's (human) lightning superpowers?
I want to give one of my characters the ability to shoot lightning from their fingers.
How do his ability work? The process itself consists of ionization through the psychokinetic movement of air ...
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How can my superhero avoid burning off his shoes?
My superhero, Fusion Man, has the ability to shoot jets of semi-molten metal from his hands and feet. The metal is generated outside his body and given an impulse by the superpowers. I have chosen to ...
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Does my airbender need to have a special structure of the components of the muscular and skeletal structure of his body?
In the previous question Does my character need to be resistant to extreme temperatures in order for him to safety use superpowers? I asked if my character needed to be resistant to extreme ...
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How long can the particles of a magical meteorite linger in the human circulatory system?
Our world. An ordinary evening. People live their own lives. Suddenly (BANG) large and smaller fragments of meteorites of different colors fell on the planet. As it turned out, these meteorites are ...
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What would happen if every particle in your body decayed all at once?
Occasionally in science fiction/fantasy/anime, you have super powered individuals who can manipulate luck/probability. Whether or not a particle decays is essentially a matter of luck. Particles have ...
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Can my "magnetism magician" push off directly from the atmosphere itself or "float" inside the Earth's magnetic field? [duplicate]
I have studied some questions about electromagnetism, but I am not a professional in this field of science.
I have an idea to make a character capable of generating powerful electromagnetic fields ...
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Can an altered quantum state explain superpowers? [closed]
One of the superheroes I'm thinking of writing is called Orion Reed, or Quantuman. His origin is that he's from a sci-fi universe with super advanced technology, and he was a scientist working with a ...
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Does my character need to be resistant to extreme temperatures in order for him to safely use superpowers?
My character has the ability to generate air currents by changing the temperature of a portion of the volume of air he controls. Simply put, it reproduces the natural mechanism of wind generation, but ...
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Question about the flight suit of the air magician and the method of flight in such a suit
The action takes place in the world of the 21st century, where some people at a conscious age periodically acquire one superpower.
I have a human character who is able to summon the wind and control ...
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Is this superhero realistic? [closed]
I have a team of superheroes I call the Bio-Enhanced Auxillary Strike Team, or BEAST. They're all military soldiers enhanced with bio-engineered formulas to give them animals powers. Each is themed ...
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What can a bear superhero use as a projectile?
In my superhero team, dubbed the Bio-Enhanced Auxillary Strike Team, or BEAST, my characters are government soldiers given bio-genetic formulas to transform them into humanoid animals that incorporate ...
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Using telekinesis to minimize the effects of g force on the human body
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In my world all the superpowered characters have specialized forms of telekinesis aka control over the movement of matter. One character is a speedster who can accelerate to the speed of ...
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