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And not obvious ones like Rogue's inability to touch.

Super hearing. Do you really want to hear every stomach gurgle and stifled fart of every person you pass? Every gross chewing noise?

I'd rather hear it than smell it, if we're going for horrible

Yeah ia but is "super smell" even a superpower that any super hero has?

Yes. Most animalistic heroes. Wolverine for a specific example. Vixen or Animal Man could pick it up, but they have control of what animal abilities they have, so wouldn't have a huge problem with unwanted smells most of the time.

I'm pretty sure the Silver Age Superman did, just because literally everything about him was super.

Ha, you say that now... just wait until I introduce you to Mr. I-like-to-aggressively-suck-my-snot-back-while-you're-trying-to-enjoy-your-morning-yogurt.

I don't know, I'd still rather hear him sniff than smell his feet while eating

Mind reading is to me both the best and the worst. On the one hand, it would mean you could help more people and you would know a whole lot more. On the other hand, it would mean you hear all the bad thoughts of people, including ones about you.

Also you'd constantly have to consider your words so you don't come off as a creep.

I feel like if your power was mind-reading, you'd either become an isolated misanthrope and eventually go insane, OR you'd develop an extremely zen view of people, and develop a very deep, abiding love for the people you chose to have in your life.

Actually, now that I think about it, that would make a kind of cool story: one mind-reader who went the dark way, and one who went the light way. And eventually they meet...and then whatever happens from there.

And if you were known to have it, you would probably be shunned--understandably, since it would be horrible to not even have privacy inside your head.

Transforming into any animal.

That would only suck, for me, if you couldn't choose the animal. If you could choose, you could just stay in forms you like. If it was random, though? No.

Or if there was a time limit and you got stuck.

Tobias, morph out! Morph out!

All super senses, really.
Hearing what people think.
A lot of premonition-type, anything more than a vague sense of something bad is going to happen.
Even the good ones, like super strength or flying, would suck if you had no control.

Flying would also suck for people like me with vertigo and/or a fear of heights. I'd never actually use the power even if I had it because I'd get sick every time. Planes are bad enough.

That is a FANTASTIC story idea. People with superpowers that can't use them because it triggers a phobia...

I always wonder in scifi how no one ever seems to have a fear of heights or vertigo. Maybe they have treatments, but some of the ones really make me think that there must be some very miserable people in this universe.

What if it was less flying (because you'd need wings, right?) and more floating? You could just kind of skim along a few feet from the ground. I'm not afraid of heights but I hate turbulence and roller-coasters and bumpy roads; if I hit an unexpected thermal updraft while flying I'd probably puke.

Having wings or some other visible super power.

I feel like you'd get kidnapped by the government and become a test subject, and kept hush-hush.

I think it would suck to have healing powers - I mean, healing other people. If you told other people, they'd probably think you're a quack or a con, and if you tried to prove it, you'd spend the rest of your life with people challenging it and trying to prove you a fraud.
But how could you go through life with the power to help people in pain, and not use it?

And if people believed you, you would be inundated with requests to heal people, and how do you prioritize, as you can't heal everyone? Is the mother with breast cancer more important than the firefighter in a coma or the child who has a faulty heart? Or whatever maladies you choose for whomever you choose. Even if you didn't publicize your talents so that you were swamped with requests, how would you decide for yourself who to use it on and go about doing it? I would feel so guilty every time I heard about someone dying as if I should have done something to prevent it.

Bringing people back from the dead, unless maybe you're literally right there when their heart stops for a second. Also unless you can also heal whatever they died from and fix any post-mortem damage... well, yuck.

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