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16* In ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius'' the titular character is a ChildProdigy with an ImpossiblyHighIQ of [[SuperIntelligence 350]]. As a result, [[MySkullRunnethOver his brain is constantly firing on all cylinders]], leaving him physically unable to relax [[TheSleepless or even sleep]]. He predicts that he'll be driven mad by the time he turns 21 and only attends school in the hopes that regular human interaction will prevent it.
17* Gwen Raiden (see ''Series/{{Angel}}'' on [[BlessedWithSuck/LiveActionTV this page]]) gets a mega-massive dose of this in ''Angel: After the Fall'' when [[spoiler: having found a cure for her electrical...ness, she uses the opportunity to get close to another person for the first time. Then everything goes to Hell and the electrical doohickey keeping her powers suppressed breaks... and she [[{{Squick}} deep-fries her new friend]]]].
18* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
19** Once he gets out of prison, Steeljack discovers quickly that being a ChromeChampion is not exactly helpful in most low-level jobs (that is to say, the only jobs that will hire an ex-con with no work experience). Because his fingers are coated in steel, he can't handle fragile objects without risking breaking them, which meant he couldn't even hold down a job washing dishes or use a touchscreen device. He also weighs eight hundred pounds, which provides its own problems, like not being able to drive a car. His body has also started to corrode and rust in his old age, and the metal coating over his body needs iron supplements to keep it from feeding off itself. Oh, and he CantHaveSexEver, or at least not with someone who isn't also a superhuman.
20** Played with in the case of Hummingbird II -- she received her powers while still a fetus from the gods of Khpak Iqun, but the evil god Jabaja slipped in a curse to eventually turn her into a ''real'' bird. Though she had the option to save herself by losing her powers, she turned it down, resolving to remain a hero for as long as she can.
21* Anyone infected with the Beauty Virus in ''ComicBook/TheBeauty'' becomes thin, beautiful, and literally radiant. They can eat as much as they want and all they feel is a slightly feverish feeling. Unfortunately, they live a year or two before they blow up.
22* It's noted that while many people in the universe of ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' have superpowers due to a SuperSerum contaminating the environment, the people who act as superheroes are basically those who either got custom-made or got lucky with the SuperpowerLottery--the vast majority have powers that are largely useless, significantly flawed, or outright harmful. Mother's Milk is the most notable, as while he does have SuperStrength, he's also dependent on his mother's breast milk to not keel over from malnutrition--something which he's none too fond of admitting.
23* Tony Chu of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' has cibopathy. This is a form of PsychicPowers where he can see things relating to the past of anything he tastes; he can also absorb skills and knowledge by eating flesh or drinking blood from other human beings. What makes this suck? First and foremost, he can't turn it off -- and a lot of the visions he gets are pretty damn gross (just imagine eating a burger and getting ''all memories of the cow''). Secondly, the only thing he can eat that doesn't trigger his cibopathy is beets... and he doesn't even ''like'' beets. Finally, his powers, combined with his {{jerkass}} boss, means he has to eat a lot of stuff that is inherently gross. Like corpses, dead animals, poop...
24** His sister, Sage Chu is cipropanthropatic -- person, who can read memories of anyone nearby, who is eating same thing, as she does. Naturally she can't turn it off and [[AMindIsaTerribleThingToRead memories, that she reads tend to be quite nasty]], which forces her to eat bizarre food to ensure that no one around eats the same thing.
25* Speeding Bullet of the series ''ComicBook/CommonGrounds'' is unable to enjoy movies because they were far too ''slow'' for him, essentially a series of still frames. He learned to lip-read so that he could fast-forward them with the sound off. That led to the problem of him having read every decent book and seen every film ''ever made'' to the point of boredom, and being unable to even enjoy sex due to it taking a subjective week or two for him if slowed down to human speed -- and friction burns being involved for his partner if he actually allowed himself to move at a comfortable pace. Yeowch. The only thing that makes life worthwhile is the thought that as a superhero, he can improve the lives of others and make a lasting impression.
26* The Darkness powers in ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'', which while making Jackie completely godly, only work in the dark and stop him from enjoying one of his favorite pastimes, casual sex (The Darkness is passed down from father to son, killing the father at the moment of conception process -- which is how Jackie's father died).
27** This is somewhat subverted because Jackie has the ability to create women from the Darkness which he can sex all he likes. But this usually goes horribly wrong.
28* ''ComicBook/{{Demo}}'': Many of the characters have powers that prove more trouble than they're worth.
29** Emmy's not only an outcast and a self-imposed mute because of her CompellingVoice, but she turned her mother into an EmptyShell during an argument that got out of hand. [[spoiler: She ends up freaking out and killing a customer who was harassing her, and has to go on the run by the end of the issue.]]
30** James [=McMurray=] has SuperStrength, but unfortunately, that's a power with very little application outside of manual labour, so he's stuck in a working class life with very few prospects outside that. On top of that, he comes to realise that his so-called friends and girlfriend value him purely because of the muscle he provides.
31** John Hatfield ''cannot'' miss a shot unless he wants to. Unfortunately, this means that his army superiors, and even his wife, fully expect him to be a stone-cold killer, despite his repeated explanations that that's not why he signed on for the job. [[spoiler: He realises too late that he's not cut out for the work, and leaves, with even his own wife considering him [[ARealManIsAKiller "unmanly" for not wanting to be a murderer.]]]]
32* Happens frequently in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
33** Gladstone Gander occasionally gets this treatment: one story dealt with him trying to solve the problem of his home being cluttered by all the things he's won, a few stories have other people showing disdain for him for being effectively a cheater or a freeloader who has everything fall into his lap without having to make any effort, and in ''ComicBook/{{Ultraheroes}}'' his superhero alter ego is ''massively'' unpopular, both with the fans of the team and his own teammates. It has long since been established that Scrooge has struck Gladstone from his will because he has zero respect for someone who avoids doing any real work at every possibility. Since in the vast majority of stories he appears in he's not only a lazy freeloader, but also insufferably ''smug'' about it, most readers couldn't care less.
34** {{Defied|Trope}} by Magica: she's trying to achieve Mida's Touch, the TropeCodifier of this. But it would come from ''an easily removed necklace'', allowing her to deactivate it at will. Then played ''painfully'' straight in the imaginary stories where she succeeds and becomes richer than Scrooge... Only to find out she's just not cut to deal with the downsides of being a billionaire.
35** ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' examples:
36*** [[HumansAreSpecial Humans are so emotionally rich]] that the guns of the Evronians often fail to fully and definitely drain them with one shot, and they can recover. The Evronians being {{Emotion Eater}}s, this means that Earth graduated from InsignificantBluePlanet to ''eternal and unending buffet''.
37*** Gorthan is one of the rare Evronians who achieved a full emotional spectrum and complete free will. As he's not a member of the Senate, that instantly made him a mortal danger for his society, and his fellow Evronians tried to kill him.
38*** Xadhoom has achieved abilities that make her [[PhysicalGoddess the mightiest and effectively unkillable being in the universe, with unlimited energy]]. They're also physically painful (they literally ''burn'' her. Not that her HealingFactor allows her to notice), they gave her a massive guilt complex as she was too busy with the experiment that caused her mutation to realize that [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill the Evronians were not really coming to trade but to invade]] (and as she was the chief of the government, that meant she was responsible for the orbital defences of her homeworld being off-line when the Evronians attacked), and as the Evronian are facing an energy shortage she's permanently risking to be used as an infinite source of energy by them. [[SubvertedTrope The latter she actually likes]], as it means that once in a while an Evronian force comes to her and she doesn't have to search it before killing it.
39*** In his final appearance, the Evronian scientist Zoster obtains the same powers as Xadhoom. [[spoiler: [[PhlebotinumOverload As he lacks the necessary self-control, the power]] ''[[DeaderThanDead reduces him to nothingness]]''.]]
40* ''ComicBook/DungeonsAndDragons'' In Issue #6 Drey describes that Adric suffers a curse...the curse of being clever. This means he can always see a way out when everything seems lost, but it also means he can't save everyone, no matter how much he wants to.
41* The title character in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' derives her powers from a [[EmpathicWeapon hypermembrane]] that grants her superhuman strength, invulnerability, the ability to generate powerful energy blasts, various optical enhancements, and other abilities not yet shown. Unfortunately, it tears easily, at which point much of her power goes away. She's also incredibly self-conscious, and the hypermembrane doesn't work if she's wearing anything over it. Considering it fits like a coat of body paint (but thinner), this is a definite problem. And to top it all off, it's all but stated that the suit's faults and frailties are all her own creation, her poor self-image and chronic self-doubt sabotaging her powerhouse potential.
42** And to top it all off, she is the only one for whom the blasted thing works ''at all''. A more selfish soul would ditch the thing in a heartbeat rather than deal with the problems it has, but [[ComesGreatResponsibility all Emp ever wanted was to be a superhero...]]
43** Another character called Cinderblock is implied that his current form (a man with cinderblocks for his head and hands) doesn't have the normal bodily functions. His ability is to manipulate concrete and stone -- but he doesn't like using it because of the massive collateral damage it causes.
44* The Top Cow series ''ComicBook/{{Freshmen}}'' featured Green Thumb, a vegan whose powers allow him to hear the thoughts of plants. ''All'' thoughts of ''all'' plants. It got terrible very quickly.
45* Fred Stumbley a.k.a Mannequin from ''Webcomic/{{Henchgirl}}''. His power allows him to {{astral project|ion}} but turns his body into a very easily breakable mannequin when he does so. While it can be put back together, if he tries to go back into it before it's repaired, that damage will show up when he re-inhabits his body.
46* Max Damage from ''ComicBook/{{Incorruptible}}'' (and ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'', they're sister series, with ''Incorruptible'' being focused on Max) is super strong and extremely resistant to damage. However, this also makes him unable to feel anything. He gets stronger and tougher the longer he's awake, but it resets back to the normal human baseline if he sleeps -- and he needs to sleep just as much as any other human. If he wants to have sex, or even ''shave'', he's got to do it within the first few minutes after he wakes up. He's also vulnerable to his enemies while he's powering back up, and one of his enemies is a godlike (and ''murderously insane'' when the story starts, though we do see flashbacks to his saner days) Superman expy called the Plutonian. To be able to stand up to Tony, Max tends to stay awake for days at a stretch, making him exactly as cheerful as you'd expect such a person to be.
47* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'': Link and Zelda develop a psychic bond which makes their separation after defeating Ganon physically painful; and this will likely continue until both of their deaths.
48* ''ComicBook/MorningGlories'': Poor Hunter. His apparent "ability" is that [[ImplausibleSynchrony all clocks read 8:13]] to him most of the time and he can't hear alarm clocks.
49* The protagonist of the Top Cow one-shot ''ComicBook/{{Murderer}}'' sees/hears the thoughts of everyone around him all the time. This results in him knowing things he'd rather not (like how much his grandmother secretly hates him) and being so overwhelmed by other people's thoughts that it's hard to focus on his own. He speaks in broken fragments full of pauses[[note]]e.g. "Wife. Got sick. Lost job. No money. No food. Just want. Family okay."[[/note]] because he can't concentrate well enough to string together a whole sentence. The title comes from the fact that the only way for him to turn his power off (only for a few hours) is to be in someone's mind as they're dying.
50* Steve Rude and Mike Baron's hero ''ComicBook/{{Nexus}}'' is Horatio Hellpop, who has vast powers granted to him by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien. The problem is that he never asked for these powers, and said alien forces him to spend his life executing mass murderers, including his own father. Many of his targets are utter monsters who arguably deserve death, but others are penitents who just want to live a quiet life and put their sins behind them. Horatio is a good and decent man who hates being burdened with this task and frequently tries to escape it.
51* Comic 9 of ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}'' has the characters participate in one of their FictionalVideoGame's battlegrounds. Each side of the battle gets a commander randomly selected among the players participating. Due to its duties, all other players have to protect that commander with their lives. Gaea, the cast DirtyCoward, is of course overjoyed when she gets chosen for the position. However, DecapitatedArmy also applies to these battlegrounds, so each side will dedicate part of its troops to a StraightForTheCommander strategy. Gaea herself ends up having to protect her own life after the three strongest players of her faction effectively perform a HeroicSacrifice in order to keep her alive a little longer.
52* Mini-taur of ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'' is a superstrong humanoid at the price of being only a few inches tall.
53* ''ComicBook/PS238'' has Lyle. He can "see patterns in things", and so he can tell you everything about anything or anyone he looks at, making him effectively omniscient. The catch is that he can't turn it off, and can see these patterns everywhere. He spends most of his time in a featureless white room to keep his brain from overloading.
54* The specials in ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' all get treated pretty badly over the course of the series due to [[BewareTheSuperman the public's fear of them]], but a few of them have especially sucky powers.
55** Peter Dawson is almost completely invulnerable due to an invisible shield that lines his skin and the inside of his lungs and stomach. The shield let things like oxygen through, but kept out anything toxic. However, because nothing can actually touch his skin, he's completely numb. He can, however, taste things, so he eats a lot and becomes very obese.[[note]][[FridgeLogic Wait, if the shield lines his stomach, how can he digest anything?!]][[/note]] This disqualifies him from any law enforcement job where his power might be useful, and he ends up working a minimum wage job at a service station. [[spoiler: He's killed by having a plastic bag duct-taped over his head while he's asleep. The killer knew he'd never feel it, and he quietly suffocated.]]
56** Chandra North's power was to be the most beautiful person in the world to whoever looked at her. Which meant they never actually saw ''her'', just their own ideas of beauty. This apparently did a good number on her psyche, and probably did very little for her self-esteem (double points for that blow: her power first manifested in the middle of a high school class.)
57** Another character had the power to control any other specials, and later information revealed she was intended to lead them. The problem? She had to want to control others to use it, and was mousy... except when she was her AxCrazy alternate personality, who grew more dominant the more often she used this power.
58** Yet another special seemed to have CursedWithAwesome instead, being only able to telekinetically move very small objects, like [[FridgeHorror carotid arteries]]. This graduated to BlessedWithSuck when she learned she could indeed use it on larger areas, like the entirety of the Middle East, with [[CastFromHitPoints only one tiny side-effect...]]
59* Arson from Shadowhawk and the short-lived Regulators is always on fire. He cannot turn it off. He does not get the Human Torch's advantages like flying, nor is he nearly as strong as the Human Torch, although certainly strong enough to burn anything he touches like food, clothing, furniture, or his teammates. Unlike the real unfortunates on this page, at least he does burn himself to death.
60* In ''Comicbook/SleeperWildStorm'', the main character's power is this way: he "absorbs" his pain without experiencing it, but also has most physical pleasures muted to little or nothing. However, the real Suck Stick Hammering got applied to his off-again love interest, Miss Misery. She gets physically ill from engaging in virtuous acts, and can only relieve her condition through sadism and sociopathy. She can't even get {{Wangst}}y about it; she has to be genuinely evil or she'll wither and die with no upside to the power.
61* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'': Rick can make Sleepwalker come out whenever he's asleep. Not that this helps Rick with his falling grades, his losing his job, his being dumped by his girlfriend, or being nearly driven into a coma by Sleepwalker's frantic attempts to get out of his mind.
62* In UK's ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' the kindhearted Super Sonic regains all of super powers after recovering from his amnesia. SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, {{Flight}}, NighInvulnerability, etc.. Unfortunately for him, as shown when he saved the passengers of a derailing train, using any of these powers even ''once'' causes him to revert back into [[SuperPoweredEvilSide his]] [[AxCrazy previous]] [[TheSociopath self.]]
63* Bunnie Rabbot from ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has a laser cannon and energy shield built into her bionic arm. Very useful, but completely drains her if overused.
64* Jukko Hamaleinen of ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}: Team Achilles'' has powers which cause him nothing but pain -- he can feel the pain of every being within a 4 mile radius. This includes the people he beats up himself, including a mostly depowered [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Midnighter]] at one point. There isn't really ''any'' upside.
65* Eez from ''ComicBook/ThirstyMermaids'' has more magic than the average mermaid and can cast spells all on her own, being able to accomplish great things with training from the Aunties. Unfortunately for her, sea witches are distrusted and seen as freaks by merfolk society as a whole, made doubly so by her affiliation with [[EldritchAbomination the Aunties]]. When she turns human, she loses her magic and suffers from massive body dysmorphia from just how different her human body is.
66* Jhiaxus in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' comics [[spoiler: gains immortality as a result of being on the border between two universes, and so cannot die. This would be fine if it weren't for the hyperviolent Arcee using this to take her revenge against him. So she kills him again, and again, and again, and again..]].
67** However, this is karma paying him back tenfold. Arcee wasn't hyperviolent until Jhiaxus turned her into a her. Until he experimented on Arcee, she ''had'' no gender, just like the rest of the Transformers. He did it just to see what would happen, just because he could. So this is a bit less this, more him getting his just desserts.
68* In the original ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' comics from Marvel, Grimlock, needing to repair his fellow Dinobots, gains access to Nucleon, a "wonder cure" seemingly able to cure every ailment. However, after being confronted by [[HarmfulHealing several beings horribly deformed and maimed after their attempts to use Nucleon to heal their illnesses]] he decides to use himself as guinea pig. In the end, he becomes stronger and more powerful than he ever used to be, but [[ShapeshifterModeLock loses his ability to transform]].
69* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'': The titular super-soldiers are nine-foot tall [[TheJuggernaut juggernauts of superhuman strength]] and [[PersonOfMassDestruction living weapons of mass destruction]], but it comes with a price: being bullet-proof means anything capable of damaging them will be impossible to treat afterwards since they are immune to anesthetics and can survive even the most [[BodyHorror horrific injuries]] like having half their head blown up or being turned from inside out -- the former ''only'' died due to massive blood loss caused by a unrelated DeathOfAThousandCuts and the latter required a ''industrial drill'' to [[MercyKill euthanize him]], since he was still alive even after his heart and lungs were destroyed.
70* Sludge from ''ComicBook/TheUltraverse'' survived a murder attempt when conveniently close chemicals gave him a HealingFactor. They also combined with nearby sewage to make him a humanoid mass of slime and cancer, damaging his ability to think and speak. His touch melts and warps living creatures. He started working for a supervillain in return for a promise to kill him, since his healing factor will not let him die.
71* Velcroman from a comic by German artist Creator/WalterMoers is about a superhero all covered in velcro (not a suit, but due to a biological-nuclear accident). In a world which is completely covered with fuzz, because of a [[RunningGag biological-nuclear catastrophe]].
72* The Pantheon has to deal with this in ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'': get godly powers, live like a rockstar, die within two years -- yeah, it comes with a pretty hefty price. Then again, most of the members think that said godly powers are reason enough to enjoy this before it comes to an end.
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