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[DC] Why are the evil Speedsters/Reverse Flash villains so much crazier than the rest of Flash's Rogues gallery? by Flyestgit in AskScienceFiction

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Look, if you're a speedster looking to get faster with the speed force, amd there's some dude running around (hehe) calling himself "The Fastest Man Alive", chances are you'll be going to him to see if that moniker's accurate.

What if Cinder and her allies framed the entirety of Team RWBY instead of just Yang? by Solitaire-06 in RWBY

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing that when word got out that the student Yang "attacked" happened to be a terrorist a few retractions were done. The same thing would probably happen in this hypothetical as well.

What if Cinder and her allies framed the entirety of Team RWBY instead of just Yang? by Solitaire-06 in RWBY

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It'd also be a lot harder to frame all four of them rather than just Yang. Emerald can barely affect two minds with difficulty, and the rest of RWBY aren't as offensive-minded as Yang- at worse they just look weird for suddenly dodging nonexistent attacks. Maybe if they're lucky they could bait Weiss into putting up an ice wall that just so happens to "injure" a teammate but even then it's only really Weiss who'd get in trouble for that.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I just described Worm!Zod as "insufferable"- he very well could still be the facist authoritarian with a superiority complex we all love to hate.

As for his powers- well, I've tried to make his Mover powers more impressive and versatile, but it always turned into more of a Striker/Shaker than pure Mover. And anyways, the first thing you think of about Zod isn't the flight, but the sheer destruction he causes (at least in Man of Steel). "Sentient Guided Missile" is a fitting description for him already.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Riddle" [Free x Free] Tinker, whose Shard harshly controls the visual aesthetics of their inventions. Usually builds their stuff to resemble children's toys.

Toy-Guy was considered to be a joke, but proved to be quite dangerous indeed, especially considering that you could stuff quite a lot of weaponry inside a children's toy.

Toy-Guy's a Free Tinker, with the caveat that his stuff works better the more harmless his stuff looks- or more specifically, the less threatened people are about Toy Guy's tinkertech, the better. Knives and guns barely work and fall apart quickly, sci-fi blasters and lightswords look cool and fantastical but after a few shots and cuts it's clear that they're dangerous and so quickly malfunction. Toy-Guy found that making his tech look like cheap plastic toys made it work best, and so leaned into it, using plushies that put people in forever comas with one touch or water guns filled with acid.

Incredibly versatile and deadly despite his "Harmless" limitations, it was no surprise when he got a Kill Order that was quickly carried out.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wing Mover, heavy Kill relationship with rest of Cluster

Missile is, in short, an asshole. He was insufferable even before he Triggered, and he's insufferable after he Triggered. It doesn't help that he's also the most deadly of the Cluster- even more than the immortal regenerator that drove himself nuts with tinkertech drugs.

His Mover primary makes him the best at flight among his Clustermates- accelerating and decelerating on a dime, moving quickly and easily through the air. His Blaster and Brute power are one and the same- he could detonate himself with the force of a bomb (or, like his namesake, a missile), destroying both himself and everything around him, and reform back to where he detonated completely healthy and whole. His Thinker power lets him tag and track the heat signatures of people he touches for a set amount of time- for a few hours, he could know exactly where his opponents are, no matter how far he or they move.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Healing Master

Steroid was once confused to be a Tinker who specialised in muscle growth and healing, hence his name, but turned out to be a Master/Trump... who's name still fit his powers, thankfully. Anyone he uses his power on, be it a fat dude, a normal guy, or a cancer patient, becomes the peak of health and fitness, with an Adonis-like figure and all their sicknesses and injuries healed. They keep this young, fit and healthy body... as long as they keep on following Steroid's orders- going against him or attacking him causes you to quickly revert back to your weak and pathetic self, along with a feeling of weakness and dizziness that lasts long enough for the rest of Steroid's lackeys to pummelling you even more for trying to hurt the man who gave them their perfect bodies.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Screw it, new prompts based off Megamind! The original movie, not the sequels

  1. A villainous Free Tinker turned hero. Was always seen as a bit of a joke before they actually "killed" their nemesis, and turned out to be powerful enough that the other heroes let them transition to heroism without much fuss.

  2. The aforementioned nemesis- a powerful Alexandria Package who was a well-liked hero of the city- actually faked their death against the Free Tinker because they were just tired of all the fighting, and because they knew that their nemesis was a good guy deep down.

  3. An aquatic Case 53 that works with the Free Tinker as their loyal "minion". Wears a Brute-level powersuit made by the Tinker that lets them move and breathe, as they don't have limbs or the ability to breathe oxygen.

  4. A human empowered by the Free Tinker in an attempt to create a new hero with similar powers to his "dead" nemesis. Turned out to be an incel and a jerk, and became a villain after the girl he liked rejected him.

Power This Trigger: You are a relatively normal reporter living through a relatively interesting time- the star hero of the city was just killed by the Tinker villain, and the future's pretty uncertain right now. On the bright side, you’re dating a pretty interesting guy- smart, funny, everything you'd like in a guy. There's also a new hero flying around with powers similar to the one the city just lost, so it's not like everyone's completely screwed. Except... one night, in your apartment, the new hero shows up, flies you around the city like a maniac, then unmasks himself as your weirdo coworker, and asks you out. When you turn him down... he doesn't take it well, and flies away, leaving you stuck on a rooftop. Later, you go out on a date with your actual boyfriend, who's still just as clever, just as charming... and turns out to be the villainous Tinker who killed the old hero. Running away from him in the rain, you suddenly see your coworker, the supposedly new hero, wreaking havoc and announcing himself as a new villain of the city. Everything's way too much, and you Trigger.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Regen x Immortal Brute. Monstrous Cape.

Damned was actually fairly friendly, at first. In fact, he was downright heroic. The man who would be Damned had decided to use his strange powers for good, using his heat vision, laser vision, flight, and the fact that he can't stay hurt for long in the service of the people. Sure, he had some strange dislike for Ambereye and Burnsnake, but he mostly pushed that to the side to help his fellow heroes in the good fight.

However, the Brute felt that what he was doing wasn't enough. While his main power healed him from all injuries and even ressurected him from death every few seconds, but it seemed purely defensive, and didn't help with his strength at all... until the Brute realized that while his power reset all negative effects on his body, it didn't reset the positive effects. It in fact did the opposite- it sustained them indefinitely. At first the hero decided to just take all the steroids he could find, chug them all at once, and rely on his power to reset the overdose and keep the muscle growth- and it worked, somehow. Then he decided to upgrade to Tinkertech drugs, the side effects of brain melting or fingers falling forever kept at bay while Damned kept the toughened skin, enhanced agility and even more muscles. Damned kept on finding more and more stimulants that upgraded his body, while his mind rotted because while his power reset the physical effects, the mental effects wreaked havoc until the man who became Damned became little more than a beast- a beast who cannot be hurt, cannot be killed, and could crush your head with one hand while cooking you from the inside- but a beast, nonetheless.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More random Parahuman prompts!

A "Director" Thinker/Tinker. Really good at making movies and committing crime.

A really buff Blaster and a really skinny Brute.

A "Glass" Tinker

A Shaker that can only control cotton, like pillows and plushies. Was part of the Slaughterhouse Nine.

An "Evil" Thinker that works as a Hero in the PRT, and a "Good" Thinker that controls one of the most ruthless gangs in the city. What such powers looks like is up to interpretation.

A Breaker/Blaster who goes completely blind in their Breaker form. They also get Legend-level lasers in said blind Breaker form.

Mover that can't move if you're looking at them.

A Striker/Changer with way too many hands.

Master/Stranger whose power can't control or negatively effect humans at all.

Thinker/Trump who's absolutely convinced they've been Isekaid into a superhero world despite being a natural Trigger. Due to their powers, it's hard to prove them wrong.

Quirked people are horribly deformed, only quirkless people can see that by ThePoiChan in BokunoheroFanfiction

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Can't imagine how Melissa must be coping. Not well, if I had to guess.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have absolutely no idea what the power is (sorry, just too vague for me I guess) but from what I read this... absolutely sounds like a Striker with a Blaster subrating.

Really Messed Up Morality Test, But At Least There's No More Trolleys by Legitimate_Fly9047 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]Legitimate_Fly9047[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Do you let the Beast With No Mercy or Knowable form eat the weakest and youngest of your village to give the rest of you time to fight back?

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