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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#101: Sep 16th 2012 at 11:09:04 PM

You accidentally cut someone with your vision.

The power of hydrokinesis.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
WaitDidIDoThat HAHA OH WOW from wait, where am I again? Since: Sep, 2012
HAHA OH WOW
#102: Sep 19th 2012 at 6:58:54 AM

only works with your urine

ability to turn into SCP-682

edited 19th Sep '12 6:59:50 AM by WaitDidIDoThat

No seriously, it's kind of shooting sparks everywhere and it looks like it's on fire
Tre 82123 from the front to the back, that's where I was at (Unlucky Thirteen) Relationship Status: Singularity
82123
#103: Sep 19th 2012 at 8:18:28 AM

You'd be stuck in existence forever, right down to the cell, and even if you were at a point where you wanted to die, you never, ever could.

The ability to shoot subservient bees from your hands. tongue

oh, that's why I need this binary mind //
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#104: Sep 19th 2012 at 9:21:35 AM

You can't create matter, and all those bees are produced from your flesh and blood. Just one swarm gets rid of your hands entirely. Also they're subservient but not intelligent enough to distinguish you from things to sting. And all they want to do is build a hive, anyway, not randomly sacrifice their lives to sting people.

The power to summon delicious grapes from the grape dimension, in any location.

edited 19th Sep '12 9:22:14 AM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#105: Sep 24th 2012 at 7:54:40 AM

The grapes are sour.

Super Weight class 7 IRL

In porto perse vitulus est.
Noaqiyeum Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they) from the gentle and welcoming dark (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
#106: Oct 2nd 2012 at 5:35:38 PM

Reality itself becomes a triviality to you, shallow in its mutability and ephemeral upon your whim. Simple pleasures give way to intellectual pleasures, storytelling, devising puzzles on a grandiose scale, which give way in turn to simply stimulating your brain to experience pleasure constantly. Pleasure becomes pointless. You begin to experiment with joy, with fear, with despair, with surprise.

Surprising yourself proves increasingly difficult. You consider rewriting yourself, to improve your imagination, to forget or selectively ignore things you've prepared for yourself, or even alter entirely the kinds of stories you prefer to tell, just to switch things up. You are apprehensive about this for a long time, as you have already perfected yourself in your own eyes and question the transition in identity that would occur. Apprehension is a delightful feeling for a while but eventually gives way to further ennui, without satisfactorily answering the question for yourself.

Your first change is to give yourself confidence in whether or not your identity remains intact. After all, making yourself feel pleasure by default was a step in this direction in the first place. And you can't know whether or not you've already done this anyway, and even if your identity is somehow subsumed or eradicated in the process it's not as if you could be unsatisfied. And so you change. Now the games are about yourself - you are the protagonist, and the antagonist, and the trickster, and ultimately as the game goes on all the shallow side characters and mooks as well, as you put yourself in increasingly convoluted casts and situations to at least temporarily alleviate your own entropic malcontent.

The process is endless - timeless, really. You can do everything, and so you do - out of desperation to find something that is not maya.


Mortality.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#107: Oct 2nd 2012 at 9:14:04 PM

You die. If you are unlucky, very soon due to things like illness or accident.

The power to instantly and controlledly conjure up well-made cake anywhere.

In porto perse vitulus est.
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#108: Oct 2nd 2012 at 11:16:10 PM

It is consistantly the wrong kind of cake for the situation. You need a delicious cake? Too bad. You get a gluten-free, vegan cake. You need a cake for a child's birthday party? Too bad. You get a boob cake (like what you can get at any erotic bakery).

The power to make anything funny.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#109: Oct 2nd 2012 at 11:27:42 PM

You have no control over the power. Things that should not be funny are made funny. After attending a funeral, you are branded "a colossal jackass". This is also hilarious, somehow.

Projection Magic (see Archer and Shirou of Fate Stay Night for an example).

PhysicalStamina so i made a new avatar from Who's askin'? Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
so i made a new avatar
#110: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:16:04 AM

You can only "project" bad movies.

Awesome rap skills.

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#111: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:19:56 AM

You can only rap in nonexistant languages.

Touch typing

In porto perse vitulus est.
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#112: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:22:39 AM

You can only type in Armenien.

Being an Omniglot.

PhysicalStamina so i made a new avatar from Who's askin'? Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
so i made a new avatar
#113: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:22:53 AM

You have no fingers.

The power to go to bed.

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#114: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:25:19 AM

You can never get back up.

The power to never get ninjaed in forums.

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#115: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:26:04 AM

[up][up]Despite being in bed, you cannot sleep. You are instead distracted by a billion other things, such as all the myriad ways that this power could be ruined more effectively.

[up]Well, this is ironic. Instead of being ninja'd, you gain uncontrollable precognition so you are instead reverse-ninja'd every time you post. Every one of your forum posts is immediately before the one that it is responding to, without fail.

The power to be wherever you have to be, whenever you have to be there.

edited 3rd Oct '12 12:27:55 AM by CompletelyNormalGuy

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#116: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:33:55 AM

You are, however, always completely inappropriately dressed.

The power to kill a yak, from two hundred yards away. WITH MIND BULLETS!

Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#117: Oct 3rd 2012 at 12:40:27 AM

It only works on yaks. Also they explode causing huge collateral damage.

ability to speak any language.

In porto perse vitulus est.
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#118: Oct 3rd 2012 at 1:10:02 AM

While you can speak any language, you cannot understand any language. Sure you know what you're saying, but you have no idea how people are responding.

The ability to shoot pretzels from your fingertips.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#119: Oct 3rd 2012 at 1:29:38 AM

You soak up some of the sodium each time you fire. Can you say "hypertension"?

Any gun you wield gains Bottomless Magazines.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#120: Oct 3rd 2012 at 1:51:28 AM

All guns you use also turn into nerf guns. Good for nerf games, only hilarious when the big bad arrives in his humongous mecha.

Ability to eat ice cream without brain freeze like 2/3 of people.

edited 3rd Oct '12 2:04:42 AM by Jusamies

In porto perse vitulus est.
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#121: Oct 3rd 2012 at 9:27:20 AM

You do not experience the pain of brain freeze. However, all you've done is remove the pain sensation, not the cause of the pain; you end up eating too much ice cream and suffer brain damage as a result.

The power to transform anything into a doorstop.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
WertyYertrew <33 from on a bus. Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
<33
#122: Oct 3rd 2012 at 10:27:05 PM

It only works on little wooden wedges and extremely lengthy books.

Technomancy.

but the future refused to change. the miracle never happen.
PackieIX movie elitist from Brisbane Since: Oct, 2012
movie elitist
#123: Oct 3rd 2012 at 11:21:21 PM

You live in 12th century B.C.

indestructable left arm.

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.
PhysicalStamina so i made a new avatar from Who's askin'? Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
so i made a new avatar
#124: Oct 3rd 2012 at 11:40:32 PM

Your right arm is incredibly frail.

The power to give great speeches and relate with people.

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#125: Oct 4th 2012 at 6:18:18 AM

It's called charisma. Which, as far as abilities go, isn't really all that special.

You can send any non-living object you touch to a personal pocket dimension, and retrieve it instantly with a click of your fingers.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...

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