The standard, recognizable superpowers shared by many a hero (and villain) with no risk of becoming cliché or being seen as lame.
Can be strengthened by the presence of friends or turning evil. Tend to develop with puberty, manifest when you turn 16, or reflect your personality. Can be turned off under the right (er, wrong) circumstances or exchanged. May even get you put in a special category.
May be temporarily stolen or given up. Upgrade at your own risk. Required Secondary Powers not included.
Tropes
- Acid Attack: Produce acid and use it to inflict damage.
- Adaptive Ability: The ability to easily learn how to counter an attack after taking damage from it.
- All Your Powers Combined: Combining the powers of a group of people.
- Always Accurate Attack: Attacks always hit.
- Animal Eye Spy: Seeing through an animal's eyes.
- Animalistic Abilities: Abilities that are based on animal abilities, like having gills to breath under water.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: A super based on an animal.
- Anti-Magic: The ability to nullify magic and other super powers.
- Ashes to Ashes: The power to manipulate ash.
- As Long as There Is Evil: Power driven by humanity’s darker side.
- Asteroids Monster: A creature that splits into smaller versions of itself when destroyed.
- Astral Projection: The power to detach your soul/spirit from your body.
- Atomic Superpower: Powers based on radiation and nuclear energy.
- Attack Reflector: The ability to send an opponent’s attack back at them.
- Aura Vision: Sensing the energy of other beings.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: The ability to use observation and calculation to make inferences or predictions; may or may not be supernatural in nature.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: Certain powers are associated with a lack of morals.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Characters with abilities traditionally associated with evil, but aren’t evil themselves.
- Ball of Light Transformation: The ability to turn into a bright sphere of energy.
- Barrier Warrior: Being able to materialize your own shields.
- Battle Aura: A glow emitted by a character around their body before battle.
- The Beastmaster: Controlling and commanding animals.
- Biomanipulation: A broad classification of powers involving the manipulation of biological life forms.
- Bloody Murder: The ability to use blood as an offensive weapon.
- Blow You Away: The ability to manipulate winds.
- Born Lucky: Having impossibly good luck.
- Bouncing Battler: A character with excellent jumping capabilities.
- Brain Critical Mass: High intellect usually leads to strong psychic powers.
- Breath Weapon: A beam, typically elemental-based, spewed out of the user’s mouth.
- Cannibalism Superpower: Gaining powers through eating others.
- Carbon Skin: A character’s durability is represented by carbon-related imagery.
- Casting a Shadow: The ability to manipulate darkness.
- Chameleon Camouflage: Blending in by perfectly replicating the appearance of the background behind you.
- Charm Person: A form of hypnosis that compels the target to do whatever the user wants them to.
- Chrome Champion: Having a metallic body.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Clothing that gives powers.
- Cold Flames: Non-traditional fire, usually with cold or non-damaging properties.
- Combat Clairvoyance: A battler that can see into the future.
- Combat Tentacles: Tentacles used for combat.
- Combo Platter Powers: Having a wide range of different superpowers.
- Compelling Voice: The power to control people with your voice.
- Complete Immortality: A character who cannot die, ever, under any circumstances.
- Cyborg: An organic being with robotic parts.
- Deadly Gaze: The ability to immobilize targets by looking at them.
- Detachment Combat: Being able to break into sections, with all separated parts still being sentient.
- Detect Evil: The ability to detect the presence of evil.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Manipulating rocks and dirt.
- Do-Anything Robot
- Does Not Know His Own Strength
- Domain Holder
- Dragon Rider
- Dreaming of Things to Come
- Dreaming of Times Gone By
- Dream Spying: Seeing another person's dreams.
- Dream Weaver: Manipulating another person's dreams.
- Easily Detachable Robot Parts
- Elemental Absorption: Absorbing the elements.
- Elemental Barrier: Barriers made from elements.
- Elemental Powers: Powers based around the elements.
- The Empath: The ability to feel the emotions of others.
- Emotion Control
- Emotion Bomb: Causing a person to be overwhelm with emotions.
- Emotional Powers: Powers fueled by emotions.
- Energy Absorption
- Energy Donation: Giving energy to another.
- Energy Ring Attack
- Even More Omnipotent
- Evolutionary Pressure Cooker: A way of creating a stronger creature.
- Extra-ore-dinary: The ability to manipulate metal and metallic objects.
- Extreme Omnivore: The ability to consume anything.
- Eye Beams: Shooting beams from the eyes.
- Fake Memories
- Faux Flame
- Feather Fall: Something that slows your fall.
- Fertile Feet: Plants growing because a person is walking.
- Fighting a Shadow
- Fights Crime With X
- Flight: Flying in the sky.
- Flying Brick
- Flying Firepower
- Food-Based Superpowers
- Functional Magic: Magic that works.
- Gemstone Assault: Attacking with gemstones.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
- Goo It Up
- Good Powers, Bad People
- Gravity Master: Manipulating gravity.
- Green Thumb: Manipulating plants.
- Hand Blast
- Having a Blast
- Healing Factor: Healing really fast.
- Healing Hands
- Heart Beat-Down
- Hellfire
- An Ice Person
- Ideal Illness Immunity: Can't get sick.
- I Know What You Fear
- Imagination-Based Superpower
- I See Dead People: Seeing ghosts.
- Immune to Drugs
- Immune to Fire: The ability to survive being set on fire.
- In a Single Bound: Super powerful jumping.
- Incredible Shrinking Man
- Innate Night Vision: Being able to naturally see in the dark.
- Instant Armor
- Intangibility: Also known as "Phasing".
- Invisibility
- Jetpack
- Keystone Superpower
- Ki Manipulation: This includes Chi and Chakra powers.
- Kiss of Death: Killing with a kiss.
- Light 'em Up: Manipulating light.
- Living Aphrodisiac
- Living Lie Detector
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
- Magical Eye
- Magma Man
- Magnetism Manipulation
- Make Some Noise
- Make Them Rot
- Making a Splash
- Master of Illusion
- Master of Threads
- Master of Your Domain
- Meta Power: Super-trope dealing with powers over other powers.
- Mind over Matter: Also known as Psychokinesis. The power to lift things with your mind.
- Multipurpose Tongue
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling
- Nigh-Invulnerability
- The Nose Knows
- Not Quite Flight
- Omniglot
- The Omniscient
- Open and Shut
- Organ Autonomy
- Paper Master: The power to manipulate paper.
- Person of Mass Destruction
- Pest Controller
- Petal Power
- Playing with Fire
- Poisonous Person: A person with poison powers.
- Power Copying
- Powered Armor
- Power Nullifier: Neutralizing someone's power.
- The Power of Creation: The power to make anything.
- The Power of Glass
- Power of the Void
- Power Parasite: Stealing powers and/or life force from another person.
- Powers via Possession
- Powers via Weapon: Superpowers via a weapon.
- Prehensile Hair
- Projectile Webbing
- Psi Blast
- Psychic Powers
- Psychic Radar: Sensing other people and objects with the mind.
- Psychic Surgery
- Pure Energy
- Reality Warper
- Resurrective Immortality
- Robot Buddy
- Robot Superhero
- Rubber Man
- Sand Blaster
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes
- See the Invisible
- Self-Duplication
- Semantic Superpower
- Shatterpoint Tap
- Shock and Awe
- Shockwave Clap
- Single Substance Manipulation
- Sizeshifter
- Soul Power
- Space Master
- Speaks Fluent Animal
- Spider-Sense
- Spike Shooter: Shooting spikes.
- Spring Coil
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation
- Super-Breath: Super strong breath.
- Super-Cute Superpowers
- Super-Empowering: Being granted super powers.
- Super-Hearing
- Superhero Packing Heat
- Super-Intelligence, particularly at building Phlebotinum.
- Super Mode
- Supernatural Fear Inducer
- Supernatural Sealing
- Super-Reflexes: Reacting with intense speed.
- Super-Scream
- Super-Senses
- Super Smoke
- Super-Speed: Running and moving incredibly fast.
- Super-Speed Reading: Reading impossibly fast.
- Super Spit: Very strong spit. Can also be elemental.
- Super-Strength
- Super-Toughness
- Superpower Russian Roulette
- Swiss-Army Superpower: Using a single powers in multiple ways.
- Talking in Your Dreams
- Taken for Granite: Turning people to stone.
- Technopath
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
- Thinking Up Portals: The power to make portals.
- Time Master
- Time Stands Still: Stopping time.
- Time Travel
- Touch of Death: Killing with a touch.
- Touch Telepathy
- Touch the Intangible
- The Transmogrifier
- Transmutation
- Unbreakable Bones
- Vacuum Mouth
- Vampiric Draining
- Vein-o-Vision
- Vibration Manipulation: Powers revolving around vibrations.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting
- Walk on Water
- Wall Crawl
- Weather Manipulation
- Weaponized Teleportation
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
- Winds of Destiny, Change!
- Wreathed in Flames
- X-Ray Vision
- Your Heart's Desire
Subtracting all of the above equals a Badass Normal. Though Badass Normals do have the option of attaining:
- 90% of Your Brain: The mind/brain version of Charles Atlas Superpower.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Taking poison over time to become immune.
- Awesomeness by Analysis
- Bizarre Human Biology, of the non-superpower-giving kind.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: An otherwise "ordinary" character gets superhuman abilities through mundane training.
- Crimefighting with Cash
- Disability Superpower
- Hyper-Awareness
- Hypnotic Eyes
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Improbable Aiming Skills
- Martial Arts
- Photographic Memory
- Scarily Competent Tracker
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Sherlock Scan
- Talking the Monster to Death
- Toon Physics: Defying reality for the sake of humor.
- Uninhibited Muscle Power: The strength version of 90% of Your Brain.
- World's Strongest Man, at least among Muggles.
For information on how to obtain them, see How to Give a Character Superpowers.