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    I think you may need a lesson on Cyclops' power. Also, I doubt the beam pushes him, so even with the more recent portal to a non-Newtonian dimension explanation I don't think he's a source of propulsion in space.

    Silver Age Magneto did this with Asteroid M. Dark Age Magneto had to take over Graymalkin, but demonstrated sufficient control over it to bring it near the Earth's surface and back into orbit. After Joseph became one with the Earth's magnetic field or something, I doubt he is able to do this, anymore.
    Then all he needs to do is sit in a chair and shoot an adamantium wall on the space ship, or shoot an invincible turbine.
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    I just saw an ad for an anime called One Punch Man which appears to combine this with a regular superhero in the form of a guy who fights monsters as a hobby
    While I absolutely love the manga, after reading it you'll see it doesn't really match the thread.
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    Dude. Do you know how many animals vets have to kill? Animal telepathy would be an awful power for a vet who actually likes animals.
    Yeah, I've worked in the field full-time for the past two years. I don't need telepathy to know how much pain some of these animals are in and that euthanasia is the best option to make them feel better. And anyway, euthanasia is performed under sedation/anaesthesia (to varying degrees, depending on what drugs that vet likes to use). You wouldn't be able to pick up any thoughts or feelings at that point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noparlpf View Post
    Yeah, I've worked in the field full-time for the past two years. I don't need telepathy to know how much pain some of these animals are in and that euthanasia is the best option to make them feel better. And anyway, euthanasia is performed under sedation/anaesthesia (to varying degrees, depending on what drugs that vet likes to use). You wouldn't be able to pick up any thoughts or feelings at that point.
    The real problem would be the day you find out you're having difficulty controlling your powers and there's a rabid raccoon (or whatever is most likely on your continent) nearby.
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    I'd like to see a spoof of Ghost Rider where instead of "the devil's bounty hunter" he's the devil's actuary or something like that
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    Quote Originally Posted by KillingAScarab View Post
    The real problem would be the day you find out you're having difficulty controlling your powers and there's a rabid raccoon (or whatever is most likely on your continent) nearby.
    That reminds me of a book I've read (I think it was by Ray Bradbury) where Martians were telepaths and because of that, if one of them was hallucinating, the others would see the same things. So they couldn't be convinced of anything extraordinary: seeing the evidence doesn't prove it's not someone else's delirium.

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    It would be instructive to read Top Ten, which is a police procedural set in a city where absolutely everyone has superpowers or crazy gadgets.

    Loads of the incidental stuff in the series (and there is loads of it[/i] shows mundane uses of superpowers because it's still a city of ordinary people.
    Link? I forsee a distinct lack of success finding this by searching for the phrase "Top Ten superpowers", "Top Ten police procedural", or any similar phrase :p

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    .(Off the top of my head, our main character would be the ultimate in humane pest control, and the remember of her team would be invaluable in nuclear reactor repair, physical rehabilitation, dog training, and research... I think I'm forgetting one)
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    Can't tell if honestly forgetting or stealth joke XD
    Is joke, yes.
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    In the webcome Grrlpower, it's noted that many supers can and do get jobs in industry or other areas, since that is so profitable. Hence, government-hired supers are paid a lot due to competition from private industry. Especially when superstrength is a partially telekinetic power, so it doesn't break stuff (you can lift a car without it breaking in half).

    I think Dinosaur Comics (Qwantz) had something about how powerful Poison Ivy could be if smart, fixing the environment, ending world hunger, etc. Might've been another comic, but I think it was them.

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    Well for a bit of mundane activity, the Flash could do a couple of things.

    A: Work in a power facility where he runs in a machine at super speeds for X amount of time and that kinetic energy is used as a renewable power source. Ex: Like a rodent on the wheel thingy

    B: Be a Delivery boy

    C: Be the guy who picks up coffee/take out at a business.

    D: Or similar to A he could just sit and vibrate inside of an area and have the heat then power a highly efficient heat engine.

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    Can't tell if honestly forgetting or stealth joke XD
    Joke. Definitely a joke. Referencing Imp by demonstrating her power is just to fun to let the chance pass.
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    So, kinda in 5e DnD, you can technically make a 3.5 mile long line of peasants, make them hand off a spear to the other, the total time would be equal to 6s making the projectile travel 3.5 miles x 6 seconds. This equals out to mach 3, or 420d6 damage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulthraun View Post
    So, kinda in 5e DnD, you can technically make a 3.5 mile long line of peasants, make them hand off a spear to the other, the total time would be equal to 6s making the projectile travel 3.5 miles x 6 seconds. This equals out to mach 3, or 420d6 damage.
    No it doesn't. In 3.5, it deals 1d8 damage plus the final peasant's strength bonus, with a -4 penalty on the attack roll because the peasant isn't proficient with spears. I'm certain it does something similar in 5e. You can't mix game mechanics and physics like that. Even if you could, I'm not certain how it's relevant to the thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulthraun View Post
    So, kinda in 5e DnD, you can technically make a 3.5 mile long line of peasants, make them hand off a spear to the other, the total time would be equal to 6s making the projectile travel 3.5 miles x 6 seconds. This equals out to mach 3, or 420d6 damage.
    I'm quoting this this in the Guns in medieval fantasy thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulthraun View Post
    So, kinda in 5e DnD, you can technically make a 3.5 mile long line of peasants, make them hand off a spear to the other, the total time would be equal to 6s making the projectile travel 3.5 miles x 6 seconds. This equals out to mach 3, or 420d6 damage.
    The ol' peasant railgun

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    Someone with the power to create illusions could make money by providing special effects for movies* or theatres.

    *assuming the illusions show up on camera.
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    I can't help but think that super speed would be helpful in all sorts of computer fields, from data entry to sysadmin. See as fast as your monitor's refresh rate allows, and type as fast as the switches on your keyboard can take it.

    Of course, you may then need a healing factor for the resultant carpal tunnel syndrome.

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    Storm of the X-Men can control Solar Wins and manipulate Ozone.She could easily fix the hole in the ozone layer and redirect solar winds away from the earth, lessening the damage the ozone layer takes going forward.
    The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" has about as much to do with the Solar Wind as the price of Swiss Chocolate has to do with the energy intake of the LHC. The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" is caused by a weather pattern over the South Pole during the Australian winter. Ozone (O3) forms in the upper atmosphere when UV light breaks apart O2 molecules and then more UV light hits said monatomic oxygen and creates Ozone. Ozone is, for various reasons, unstable and decomposes over time. Because the atmosphere over Antarctica is in darkness for 3 months and the weather keeps the same upper atmosphere in said darkness, Ozone breaks down and does not reform. The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" is a natural phenomenon that has existed about as long as there has been a continent on the South Pole.

    Now, there is a class of incredibly inert chemicals, called Chloro-Floro-Carbons or CFCs, which breaks down in the upper atmosphere and speeds the decay of ozone. They were used for a variety of things as a wonder chemical (due to their incredible inertness) for 20 - 50 years before their effect on ozone in the upper atmosphere was discovered. After it was discovered, most of the world agreed to drastically reduce their use and the "Hole in the Ozone Layer" has since returned to its normally scheduled perturbations.

    Now, Storm's powers have lots of mundane utility. The ability to call a rainstorm at will is about as close to the perfect power to promote world peace as things get.
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    Is there any downside to Storm's powers? Like, if she created a powerful enough weather effect, she could lose control?
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    She can create too powerful effects for her to control them, yes, but more importantly her powers don't escape the Butterfly effect. Any drastic local changes her powers could make can have global repercussions. So in order to get perfect weather, always, everywhere, she needs to be in total control always, everywhere.
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    Speaking of GrrlPower one of the supers in it has geomantic powers which he uses to extract gold from the earth's core which he slowly sells off to fund his opulent lifestyle.
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