The standard, recognizable super powers 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
Subcategories:
- Acid Attack
- All Your Powers Combined
- Always Accurate Attack
- Animal Eye Spy
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Anti-Magic
- Ashes to Ashes
- As Long as There is Evil
- Asteroids Monster
- Astral Projection
- Attack Reflector
- Aura Vision
- Awesomeness by Analysis
- Bad Powers, Bad People
- Bad Powers, Good People
- Ball of Light Transformation
- Barrier Warrior
- Battle Aura
- The Beastmaster
- Biomanipulation
- Blow You Away
- Born Lucky
- Bouncing Battler
- Brain Critical Mass
- Breath Weapon
- Cannibalism Superpower
- Casting a Shadow
- Chameleon Camouflage
- Charm Person
- Chrome Champion
- Clothes Make the Superman
- Cold Flames
- Combat Clairvoyance
- Combat Tentacles
- Combo Platter Powers
- Cyborg (Any cybernetics)
- Deadly Gaze
- Detachment Combat
- Detect Evil
- Dishing Out 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
- Dream Weaver
- Easily Detachable Robot Parts
- Elemental Absorption
- Elemental Barrier
- Elemental Powers
- The Empath
- Emotion Control
- Emotion Bomb
- Emotional Powers
- Energy Absorption
- Energy Donation
- Even More Omnipotent
- Extra-ore-dinary
- Extreme Omnivore
- Eye Beams
- Fake Memories
- Faux Flame
- Fertile Feet
- Fighting a Shadow
- Fights Crime With X
- Flight
- Flying Brick
- Flying Firepower
- Food-Based Superpowers
- Functional Magic
- Gemstone Assault
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
- Good Powers, Bad People
- Gravity Master
- Green Thumb
- Hand Blast
- Having a Blast
- Healing Factor
- Healing Hands
- Heart Beat-Down
- Hellfire
- An Ice Person
- I Know What You Fear
- Imagination-Based Superpower
- I See Dead People
- Immortality
- In a Single Bound
- Incredible Shrinking Man
- Innate Night Vision
- Instant Armor
- Intangibility (Also "Phasing")
- Invisibility
- Jetpack
- Ki Manipulation (Including Chi and Chakra Powers)
- Kiss of Death
- Light 'em Up
- Living Aphrodisiac
- Living Lie Detector
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
- Magical Eye
- Magma Man
- Magnetism Manipulation
- Make Me Wanna Shout (Sonic Scream)
- Make Some Noise
- Make Them Rot
- Making a Splash
- Master of Illusion
- Master of Your Domain
- Mind Manipulation
- Mind over Matter (Psychokinesis)
- Multipurpose Tongue
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling
- The Nose Knows
- Not Quite Flight
- Nigh-Invulnerability
- Omniglot
- Open and Shut
- Organ Autonomy
- Paper Master
- Pest Controller
- Playing with Fire
- Poisonous Person
- Power Copying
- Powered Armor
- Power Nullifier
- Power of Creation
- The Power of Glass
- Power of the Void
- Power Parasite
- Powers via Possession
- Powers via Weapon
- Prehensile Hair
- Projectile Webbing
- Psi Blast
- Psychic Powers
- Psychic Radar
- Psychic Surgery
- Pure Energy
- Reality Warper
- Robot Buddy
- Rubber Man
- 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
- Spring Coil
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation
- Super Breath
- Super-Cute Superpowers
- Super Empowering
- Super Hearing
- Superhero Packing Heat
- Super Intelligence, particularly at building Phlebotinum.
- Super Mode
- Supernatural Fear Inducer
- Super Reflexes
- Super Smoke
- Super-Speed Reading
- Super Senses
- Super Speed
- Super Spit
- Super Strength
- Super Toughness
- Superpower Russian Roulette
- Swiss-Army Superpower
- Talking in Your Dreams
- Taken for Granite
- Technopath
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
- Thinking Up Portals
- Time Master
- Time Stands Still
- Time Travel
- Touch of Death
- Touch Telepathy
- Touch the Intangible
- Transmutation
- Unbreakable Bones
- Vacuum Mouth
- Vampiric Draining
- Vein-o-Vision
- 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.
- Awesomeness by Analysis
- Bizarre Human Biology, of the non-superpower-giving kind.
- Toon Physics
- Charles Atlas Superpower, if they're badass enough.
- Crimefighting with Cash
- Disability Superpower
- Hyper-Awareness
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Improbable Aiming Skills
- Martial Arts
- Most Common Superpower
- Photographic Memory
- Scarily Competent Tracker
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Sherlock Scan
- Talking the Monster to Death
- 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.
