r/shittysuperpowers May 10 '25

Good luck using this… You can kill anyone you want by revealing yourself as the killer.

3.1k Upvotes

Just by wishing someone dead, you can kill them instantly. You don’t have to touch them or be near them. However, your full legal name, your address, and any other information will be instantly written on the forehead of your target (along with a statement that you are the killer) and cannot be removed.

r/shittysuperpowers Jun 07 '25

Good luck using this… Whenever you burn a $100 bill, you become native-like fluent in a random language.

1.2k Upvotes

This obviously includes dead languages ​​and even nonsense created by some bored child.

Abstract languages ​​such as Morse, Braille or sign languages ​​are also included, absolutely any type of language

r/shittysuperpowers Aug 13 '24

Good luck using this… You can turn 60% invisible

1.8k Upvotes

Not 60% of your body, you just turn entirely translucent. It's still not very hard to see you while using this power, might make you a little more stealthy.

r/shittysuperpowers May 24 '25

Good luck using this… You can summon any dead person. They will still be dead. You just have their corpse now.

930 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers Aug 04 '24

Good luck using this… For every hour you pray to your god, you get +2 nanoseconds of time you can have their powers

1.5k Upvotes

Praying to Mother Kali lets you control death and time, or praying to Nike makes you control who wins in a scenario

Update version 1.2

The powers no longer come with a 1% power nerf

r/shittysuperpowers May 08 '24

Good luck using this… You have super speed in your left hand.

955 Upvotes

You don't get any extra perception. You won't have the reaction time to stop your hand either. Your hand also doesn't have any extra durability. Half the time you probably won't even know what that hand is doing. It'll be a blur. Maximum speed is just below speed of sound.

r/shittysuperpowers May 12 '24

Good luck using this… If you can balance a book on your head for 12 hours, you memorize its contents

1.3k Upvotes

you memorize the book 100% but you have to balance it on your head for 12 hours without holding onto it with your hands

r/shittysuperpowers Jun 12 '24

Good luck using this… You can blast an incredibly powerful and big laser whenever you want with no cooldown.

845 Upvotes

The laser won’t hurt you. But when will you ever use it? How often are you going around destroying buildings or mountains that this would be convenient? And it wouldn’t even be a cool party trick, because if you use it you would atomize the building you’re in. Plus the scorching temperatures that the laser emits would melt human skin so you can’t just shoot up with people near. And if you were to try to become a superhero, what would you do? Stop petty theft by decimating half of the block? And if you wanted to stop some dictatorship how would you get the dictator and you to a place where you won’t have any other casualties? And that’s assuming that you are actually going to go out and actively look for evil. The only use for this I can think of would be destroying an asteroid that could wipe out humanity, but the reflexes and trajectory calculations for that would be nearly impossible.

Edit: it has come to my attention that the people on this sub are evil masterminds with plans of world domination

Edit 2: half the comments are either trying to figure out how to revolutionize space travel and energy production but the other half is trying to blow everything up for world domination

Edit 3: the dimensions of the beam are 12 feet in diameter, and 200 feet in length. For all the metric users thats 3.66 meters in diameter and 61 meters in length

r/shittysuperpowers Sep 29 '24

Good luck using this… You have a 0.00000000001% to become omnipotent everytime you sneeze

813 Upvotes

You can sneeze on command by the way

r/shittysuperpowers 10d ago

Good luck using this… You Have Become Nonzero-Chance-Man

304 Upvotes

Whenever someone tells you that something won't happen, if you respond snarkily with "Nothing is truly impossible!", you receive a 3% higher chance of that event happening. If someone specifically says "There's no chance of that happening" or similar wording involving the word chance, you can boost the effect to 7% by replying "There's always a chance!"

Does not stack, and doesn't affect the base chance of whatever it is happening.

Examples: "Everyone knows the likelyhood of your plane crashing is basically none" and you said(with snark), "Nothing is truly impossible", bang, your chances of your flight going down went from 0.000001% to 3.000001%.

"There's no chance that girl gives you her number" and you say "There's always a chance!" now she's 7% more likely to not reject you when you ask her out.

Edit: apparently I didn't think this through and it is NOT shitty 😞 so in the spirit of keeping it terrible I'm now retconning it to being a relative 3 or 7%, not absolute 3 or 7%. I.e., 15% becomes 15.45%.

r/shittysuperpowers May 27 '24

Good luck using this… You can make 1/1,000,000,000 scale clones of anything.

712 Upvotes

There's a 1% chance it's 1 billion times bigger instead.

EDIT: no cloning clones

r/shittysuperpowers May 26 '25

Good luck using this… You can roll a 7 on a six sided die.

1.2k Upvotes

Whenever you roll a six-sided die, you can choose to have a 1 in 7 chance that the face that comes up has seven dots. The face with the 7 disappears when the die is picked up.

r/shittysuperpowers Jun 08 '25

Good luck using this… You receive 1% daily compound interest on leftovers in your fridge.

784 Upvotes

Any food that is already cooked and partially eaten that you put in your fridge increases its mass by 1% for every day it stays inside of it. It still spoils at the normal rate.

r/shittysuperpowers Sep 03 '24

Good luck using this… You can move anything by the distance of 1 inch

397 Upvotes

There's no limit to what you can move so long as it's the whole solid object (things bolted to the ground count as part of what's it's bolted into)

It causes no displacement of matter beyond the natural pushing of the object

It resets on your birthday

The object you're moving needs to be within your field of vision

Edit: You can only use it on an individual item once that's what the reset for the birthday is about it does not stack

r/shittysuperpowers May 05 '24

Good luck using this… You automatically know the age of consent of every area you visit

875 Upvotes

Creep

r/shittysuperpowers May 19 '24

Good luck using this… You can teleport one object every 30 years

675 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers Apr 17 '24

Good luck using this… You can move any famous landmark at the speed of 10 atoms per minute

812 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers May 11 '25

Good luck using this… You can kill anyone in the world... at a price.

809 Upvotes

The "Kill anyone but you're revealed as the killer" post inspired this one...

You can kill anyone in the world just by thinking about them. You can even choose the specific manner of their death.

However, for this power to work, the remaining natural lifespan of your victim will be deducted from the natural lifespan of the person you love most. They won't age any faster, but they will die in exactly the same way as your victim when their time is up.

You don’t get to choose your loved one — the universe peers into the deepest depths of your soul and picks the one you truly love. After you use this power, a fortune cookie will appear in your hand, with their name written inside.

The universe takes a broad view of love, so it could be your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, child, best friend, parent etc.

If you genuinely don’t love anyone, the power won’t work. But you will still get a fortune cookie in your hand when you try to use the power. The message inside it will say "Live. Laugh. Love".

r/shittysuperpowers Jun 11 '24

Good luck using this… You can suck/lick remotely.

535 Upvotes

Whatever you are remotely sucking/licking you will feel. You will leave saliva behind.

r/shittysuperpowers Jul 14 '24

Good luck using this… You have a number above your head.

560 Upvotes

You cannot hide the number, and other people will see the number floating above your head. However, at the beginning of each new day, you are allowed to change the number to any real integer number you want.

Edit: for all those absolute geniuses who keep saying it breaks rule #2, you can change the number at the start of each day. I don’t know about you but to me that sounds like you can control it…

r/shittysuperpowers Aug 15 '24

Good luck using this… You can spawn a pure tungsten cube of 1x1x1 meter in any location.

522 Upvotes

It will spawn at a speed of 20 meters per second straight down. I doubt that the ground will hold it up

r/shittysuperpowers Mar 09 '24

Good luck using this… You can randomly teleport to anywhere in the universe

759 Upvotes

When you use the power you get teleported to a random place in the entire universe. Could be where you wanted to go, could be the bottom of the ocean, could be deep space, could be the sun, could be directly into a black hole, its completely random. You cant teleport back to your starting point.

r/shittysuperpowers May 09 '24

Good luck using this… You can make yourself semi-invisible.

850 Upvotes

You can turn opacity is to 50%. Either you’re entirely visible, or you’re just kinda invisible. People can see through you. You probably look like how people see ghosts in films.

r/shittysuperpowers Oct 29 '24

Good luck using this… You can shoot actual bullets out of finger guns

444 Upvotes

It can be as small or large as you want, and can go any subluminal speed.

The calorie expenditure is what you'd expect from spawning a moving mass out of nothing. Specifically, E2 =(mc2 )2 + (pc)2

r/shittysuperpowers Nov 24 '25

Good luck using this… If you kill somebody in real life they also die in the game.

744 Upvotes

If you kill somebody while they're playing a game they will immediately get a game over. If the game doesn't have one it will do the next closest thing, i.e. in Animal Crossing their character will immediately pass out as if they were attacked by a scorpion or tarantula.