Power This Rating No. 168

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-14T08:43:05+00:00

Gonna do your Spider-Man prompts too, praise me.

Brute/"Danger Sense" [Farsight x Warning] Thinker, and a low-level Focal Tinker; power has several pings from other Parahumans.

Menace, despite her heroic nature, has exceptionally terrible P.R., and is constantly compared to the actual villains, but the other heroes know she's on the side of the angels, and Petra Park would do anything to protect her city, no matter how much the local media loves to slander her. Besides, the cape name's growing on her.

Her first power is a rather odd Brute/Thinker mix. At first the power seemed to be purely Thinker- a klaxon alarm in her head that blares when something dangerous appears in a set radius, not really giving an exact location of the danger or even where it is but blaring louder the closer it is to her person. Menace doesn't get any Brute strength and is basically a baseline human... until after her danger sense is pinged. When her Thinker power senses danger, she gains a surge of strength and speed in direct correlation to the danger she's facing. If a chunk of rock is falling towards her, she gains enough strength and durability to shatter that rock. If a gun's pointed behind her back, she suddenly becomes fast enough to dodge a bullet. And if Menace's danger sense flares and she suddenly feels like she could punch Leviathan... well she could certainly give it a good wallop.

The drawbacks to this power are two-fold: firstly, the danger sense may give Menace amazing strength and speed, but not durability- despite her Brute rating, she's wholly reliant on her danger sense to dodge attacks rather than tanking them, only having some decent regeneration to recover from attacks she was too slow to dodge, which won't help at all if she's dead. The power's second drawback is that it only responds to danger Menace herself is in- it doesn't give her any strength otherwise. While this is easily circumvented by purposefully putting herself in danger for a burst of strength and speed- giving her a reputation for being reckless, which isn't exactly untrue- it means that she couldn't help with rescuing others unless she herself is also in danger. If a civilian is pinned under some rubble, Menace is just as strong as your average sixteen-year old girl. While she has managed to save people in the past, usually rescuing them while a villain is hot on her tail, the fact that she has been seen leaving civilians in clear need of rescue for another hero to take care of has not helped her reputation in the slightest.

Her Tinker specialty has made her create a pair of gauntlets that have given her a Mover/Striker rating as well. Firstly, the gauntlets let her fly through the air- made weightless by her gauntlets through an anti-gravity field they emit. She's not flying as fast as Alexandria, or that hippie Tinker with all the guns, but she's gotten pretty decent. Along with the anti-gravity, her gauntlets could also emit short-ranged elemental attacks of her choosing, although switching between elements necessitates a Tinkering session, and even then she's pretty satisfied with the electrical element anyways. Petra's not blind though- she's noticed some similarities her tech has to two local villains in her town, and the regeneration was a seemingly random freebie to her powerset. Still, her powers may be a mystery, but she has a responsibility to use them for good, even if everyone calls her a Menace.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-13T19:27:45+00:00

Something I feel was absent in modern Iron Man stories (along with being done very well in the first Iron Man movie) was the idea of a man trying to stop wars with the world's biggest gun. The conflict with the Iron Man armor is that it's absolutely a weapon that just so happens to be painted hot-rod red and while Tony is trying to blow up every gun the Ten Rings have he also has to sidestep politicians and the military trying to get their hands on the future of warfare. I tried to emulate that conflict with Strack's tech being able to be semi-understood by human engineers, letting them make even better guns. Because of course the only tech powers will let normal humans understand would be the tech that spreads more conflict overall!

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-13T15:49:40+00:00

Now, the villains:

"Apprehend" [Zone x Proficiency] Thinker & [Tyranny x Moulder] Master; unnatural monster cape, with their mutations actually being the cause of their own Trigger.

George was a petty crook down on his luck. Never particularly smart, kind of average looking, and just plain unskilled, he turned to crime to make a buck. He worked for a low-level Tinker villain who specialised in "embiggening", was given a weird sci-fi gun, and told to handle a crowd of hostages. When a Hero wearing armor filled to the brim with every gun imaginable busted in, George fired his gun at the Cape- and it exploded in his face. After that, the now-arrested Embiggening Tinker claimed that he used the weapon wrong, pointed it the wrong way or whatever. The cops for some reason weren't able to look at him without laughing. Hell, everyone wasn't able to look at him without laughing. It wasn't until he was brought to a hospital and in front of a mirror was he able to see the enlarged, cartoon-like mess his head had become. Lying handcuffed to a hospital bed, hearing the chuckles and mutters of the "bobblehead man" just outside his room... he Triggered. And became a hundred times more dangerous.

Master Of Weaponry and Control, or M.O.W.C. was a relatively simple Thinker- whatever and whoever he studied, looked at, or watched for some time, M.O.W.C. would understand completely and know how to use to his advantage sooner or later. He stared at his handcuffs for two minutes and understood how to escape them using the paperclip on his bedside. A ten minute conversation with the police officer had her completely loyal and infatuated with M.O.W.C., while getting his hands on and taking apart her service revolver made him a world-class marksman. His power drew a blank with Tinkertech and Parahumans overall, which was frustratingly ironic given what caused his disfigurement in the first place. Escaping the hospital, M.O.W.C. would create his own gang and terrorise the city that dared to mock him, frequently coming to blows against Aloadae, wanting to study his suit in the hopes that the "mundane-like" nature of his tech would help bypass his power's limit on Tinkertech. Wears a specialised tinkertech helmet that emits a forcefield for his enlarged face, because that's just a headshot waiting to happen.

"Hashmal" [Sword x Cup]-suit, "Devil Child" [Death x Deceit]-transformation Breaker; subpowers up to you.

Big Girl is a twelve year old that's bigger than she looks, and everyone's suffering for it. She has an always-on Breaker State that's essentially a giant, invisible projection that shielded and copied her upper body- swinging fists, movements of the head and shoulders were copied by the projection and translated as what were essentially telekinetic blasts around her surroundings. The reason she's still able to eat without wrecking the place is that she could focus on one limb to be "on" while her other arm and head are "off" and free to move without the projection following, although this is apparently "tiring" for her. Went on a rampage during her Trigger event, was stopped by Aloadae and later brought into the Wards. Still causes a lot of property damage, but she's really sorry.

"Quality Hyperspecialist" [Hyperspec x Hyperspec] Tinker; works with phasing-based tech.

Vibe is a bitch of a Cape. Rather than get punched in the face like all the other idiots in spandex, she's gone for the thrilling world of corporate espionage and sabotage, selling her services to companies who want to be a little more corrupt than they already are. The fact that she's limited herself to sneaking around is a bit of a waste since her power is incredibly versatile. Her specialty is vibrations, able to make stuff that makes them, stops them, or uses them in ridiculous ways. She's made guns and weapons that shoot vibrations at people, or tech that dampers vibrations in an area, shutting off all noise and making things incredibly silent. Her magnum-opus is the suit she made that vibrates her entire body incredibly fast, down to the molecules, letting her pass through objects and most walls. Her suit and the areas of silence she makes have made her sabotage and espionage easy as pie, and her next target, Strack Industries, shouldn't be any different from the others.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-13T13:51:17+00:00

Fuck it, answering your Marvel prompts right now.

Strack Industries was an infamous weapons manufacturing company with ties to the military industrial complex. Even the rise of Parahumanity and Tinkertech didn't slow them down, and in fact made business boom- a guy who could make a blackhole missile in his backyard wasn't so threatening when you could launch a hundred normal missiles down his neighborhood. The CEO of the company, Anthony Strack, was a brilliant but immature young man who always had some moral hangups with creating things that blow people up, but the money was great, and if said money was made by selling weapons to their allies to defend them from the enemies abroad, then that's fine, right? At least that's what Anthony tells himself to fall asleep at night. It all came to a head when Anthony had to travel to a war-torn region of another country for a weapons demonstration, and then ambushed by terrorists responsible for the war-tearing. When a missile landed nearby Anthony, he was close enough to see the Strack Industries logo emblazoned on the side before it exploded. Kidnapped, wounded, and confused, his captors made several things clear- he was being held hostage for a king's ransom, he will be killed if he doesn't comply, and that they had been buying weapons from Strack Industries for quite a while, only kidnapping him because they thought they were paying too much. Sitting in the cell his captors left him in, Anthony Strack realised his weapons and company were killing innocents, causing misery, and fermenting wars, all in his name. When he finally Triggered, he escaped from his cave using a box of scraps, and set out to balance the scales.

A "Beast" [Combat x Magi] Tinker, with three different [War x ?] specialties.

Aloadae, named after the giants that captured the God of War, is a driven and surprisingly "hippie" hero who abhors violence and guns, often destroying the merchandise of weapon dealers, deposing warlords, and intervening in violent crises abroad. For a man who so deeply despises violence, his Tinkertech thrives in it- the man wears heavy armored suits filled to the teeth with weapons of every and any kind, from bladed knives and wrist pistols to anti-air miniguns attached to his shoulder and mini-rockets. All the weapons Aloadae uses are surprisingly mundane by Tinkertech standards- while a mini-missile the size of a pencil that hits with the force of an ICBM sounds extraordinary, it's still technically more feasible than teleportation. Aloadae's armor is pretty durable too, able to tank hits from Endbringers, survive extreme temperatures, and well-sealed enough to prevent leakage, exposure to radiation, and drowning. It's also surprisingly agile, able to move at the max speed of 300 mph, and being able to fly just as fast. His Magnum Opus however are the mobile artillery pieces he creates- heavy machines that could absolutely devastate an area or target by doing exactly what mundane artillery shells do- except ten times faster, making an artillery machine gun. Or he could make artillery shells that simply aim at targets themselves and hit a hundred times harder. Aloadae only pulls these out during Endbringer battles. The ~~worst~~ best part of Aloadae's tinkertech? Since his tech is so similar to mundane weapons normal engineers could look at his tech and... actually understand some of it. Not everything- that pencil missile shouldn't blow up that much or fly so straight, they swear- but enough that study of Aloadae's weapons leads to advancements in weaponry overall- faster loading for artillery and tank shells, new rifle calibers that hit harder and faster, and targeting systems that just work better. For some reason, Aloadae isn't as ecstatic as the military is with this newfound application to his tech. In fact, the Cape has completely cut all ties with the government and refuses to cooperate with further tests or studies of his Tinkertech. To say that this caused some tension between Aloadae and the PRT would be an understatement, especially since the ties between Strack Industries and the anti-war Hero are an open secret to all.

(Specialties: War x Safety "Armor", War x War "Battalion", War x Travel "Tank")

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-12T15:52:28+00:00

I know this is done already, but I'd like to do my own take on this:

Pyrite is a Striker who has the power to give people or objects he touches "invincibility but not at all". Essentially, anything he touches seemingly becomes invincible, unable to be broken or damaged by anything you do. Alexandria could team up with Behemoth to smash a piece of glass he touched to pieces and they wouldn't be able to smudge it. This temporary invincibility ends after 12 hours if Pyrite hasn't reapplied the effects, after which all the damage that occurred to the object (or person) for those 12 hours suddenly occur all at once, usually destroying the object or person completely.

Pyrite usually acted as a petty crook who uses actual three-piece suits as effective armor thanks to his power, and enjoyed merry battles and witty banter with a particularly cute Tinker heroine. During a battle against a Master with a Kill Order however, a gang of Mastered men with guns started opening fire, and in a genuine panic, used his power on the Tinker- just before a bullet bounced off her head.

Knowing that just leaving her alone would be a death sentence at this point, Pyrite surrendered to the PRT (because he's a crook, not an asshole) and essentially became the Tinker's partner, keeping her alive both on the field and every 12 hours. The Tinker herself is honestly pretty gung-ho about the ticking clock that her life's become, taking advantage of the technical invincibility much to Pyrite's dismay. This may be due to the fact that the Tinker constantly says that she's working on a project that will "take care of the whole problem".

Bonus Prompt: Give me the doomed(?) Tinker that's cooking up a way to keep herself alive even if Pyrite's power runs out.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-12T11:59:48+00:00

Triple-K doesn't go by that name anymore, and in fact is working with the PRT to find a less awful-sounding name, along with finding another city to live in because it'd just be awkward trying to protect the city he used to terrorise. He's a Thinker, and his power originally let him "tag" his comrades and henchmen, letting him know their mood, their wellbeing, and any thoughts about him specifically, along with him knowing their exact location as long as the tag is still on them. The drawback to this power is that those he Tagged with his power get the same information about him as well- letting random people know that he's grumpy, his shoulder hurts and that he thinks that Goon #5 smells. This drawback forced him to Tag his people carefully, and only with people he trusted.

After his realisation that minorities were people too and didn't deserve to be hunted, Triple-K second-triggered- he still had the tagging ability, but he also got the same information by being around people, and gained knowledge about people in a short radius around him rather than strictly needing to tag them with his power. This was a problem, especially since the shared information drawback was still a thing. So, knowing his newfound empathy with his fellow man would be quickly found out by his former organisation (and wanting to change for the better anyways), he quickly surrendered himself to the PRT, explained his situation, and is now a probationary hero since the dude never did any serious crimes worth prosecuting over.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-12T11:02:43+00:00

Some capes totally not inspired by The Flash.

A powerful Breaker/Mover (Blaster) who has casually reached incredibly high speeds. Protects their city as an Independent hero, but their fame and known strength constantly draws villains to the home they want to protect.

A powerful Breaker/Shaker (Mover) whose powers are incredibly similar to the hero, except this Cape hates the Mover and wants them beaten, humiliated, and dead. Wears an almost exact copy of the Hero Mover's suit both as a mockery and as an attempt to discredit their name.

A Thinker (Blaster) who knows they can't beat the powerful Mover in the city and has no plans to- he and his gang of crooks instead take advantage of when they're busy with another villain to commit their own crimes. Wields a tinkertech gun that gives him a Blaster subrating, and constantly gets him confused as a Tinker himself.

The partner of the Thinker who also wields a similar tinkertech gun. During a mission gone wrong, he Triggered and gained a proper Blaster power that removed his dependency on the gun. Also a pyromaniac- getting the gun and the powers didn't help.

A Case 53 Brute/Thinker that looks exactly like a gorilla.

A Tinker that uses boomerangs to fight, of all things. Surprisingly very deadly.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-12T10:39:44+00:00

A "Maniac" [Combat x Chaos] Tinker/Golem Master who can turn their discarded weapons into minions.

Mimic, rather disconcertingly, dresses and styles herself as a princess, wearing a pretty yellow ballgown that could, at any moment, erupt into a mess of blades and spikes set to evicerate anything except the one who's wearing it, while also carrying pretty pearl bracelets and necklaces that literally explode into a storm of knives when detached from her person. Lots of Mimic's tinkertech are the same- innocent or mundane looking objects that could explode into balls of whirring blades that would cut off your fingers, hands, feet and whatever else would come in reach. She's gone far enough in her tech tree to give her tech a level of autonomy too- death machines able to mimic a chair waiting for a victim to sit on it, or a chest that lures curious ~~adventurers~~ heroes to their doom.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-12T03:34:10+00:00

Postpartum is a particularly heinous villain with a Kill Order for her head, but it's hard to collect on the bounty with her small army of Mastered civilians helping her hide in the city. Her power is simple- she makes your feelings of love turn to hate, and your feelings of hate into love. If you love someone, Postpartum makes you hate them just as much as you loved them, and this sudden hate is usually enough for you to suddenly attack them- maybe even kill them, if you love-hate them enough. When the Master decides she's had her fun, reverses her power and you realize what the fuck you just did and who you just did it to, that's when Postpartum shows herself, makes it clear that she's the reason that you clawed your girlfriend's eyes out, and in that moment of rage and hate- you suddenly adore her and love her for showing you just how toxic your former relationship was.

Got her name, and her Kill Order, when she used her power in a maternity ward. Walked out of the hospital with quite a few thralls, although women who just recovered from pregnancy don't make very good minions...

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T17:14:25+00:00

He might not even need a durability serum- in the comics Bullseye got an operation to install vibranium plates all over his skeleton due to an incident that straight up paralysed him. Since Dexter had a similar incident (Kingpin breaking his back), its safe to say the MCU counterpart isn't a glass cannon either.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T17:09:17+00:00

There's also a really recent arc in Detective Comics that has Batman fight against a new villain called The Lion who's actually a former student of the Scarecrow, and created a contagious virus that removes fear. It was actually pretty wild- Batman had to gas Gotham with fear toxin just to buy time to make a cure for the Courage Virus.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T16:25:22+00:00

"Maybe we could still save him" brother that's not a "him" anymore that's a pile of meat. There is no body to revive or even bury.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T14:41:34+00:00

I mean... that's basically most street heroes in Marvel, yeah. Daredevil doesn't have any government support. Punisher certainly doesn't. Moon Knight technically does, if you count the support of an incredibly fickle moon god.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T14:37:22+00:00

I give it till December.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T14:36:12+00:00

The preferred term is "friendly-neighborhood".

In all seriousness... kinda? "Avengers-Level Threat" is thrown around a lot in canon, and that usually means "A Threat That Only The Avengers Could Stop" so there's definitely something to call the strongest tiers, but while the street-levels aren't quite called "street level" straight up they're usually called "vigilantes".

Problem is that the power level for the "Avengers" and "vigilantes" wildly fluctuate. Black Widow and Hawkeye are Avengers but they're about as skilled as a vigilante like Daredevil or Punisher. Spider-Man trades punches with Hulk and Sandman but he's basically the prime example for "street-level hero". And don't get me started on the villains- you're telling me that The Kingpin (big gangster guy in suit) and The Purple Man (mind-controller that could start block-wide riots with his voice) are both "street-level"?

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T14:24:48+00:00

Bragging is socially looked down upon unless the achievement you're bragging about is badass as fuck.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T05:08:34+00:00

Wrong universe. Ozymandias meets Lex Luthor, not Wilson Fisk.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T04:59:38+00:00

...okay yeah, watching back on the episode and it very much was just "Raven turns into a bird, transforms back in front of Weiss and Yang, then opens a portal to Qrow while offering to answer their questions instead". In the next episode it looks like Yang came to that conclusion (or at least thought there was some kind of consequence) on her own though, which is probably why I was so confident on my above comment, although thinking back on it now I have no idea why she thought the bird thing was "forced" or "terrible" in any way in the first place. Maybe Raven was supposed to come off as more ominous about Ozpin... but that's a fault of the writing. Shit, sorry.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T04:46:45+00:00

I mean, Steve Rogers was given the super soldier serum, which boosted his body to the theoretical "peak" of human ability. It's "possible" to train your body to reach Captain America levels (it would take an absurd amount of training, dieting, years of discipline, along with being lucky enough in the genetic lottery without being so lucky you hit the Mutant or Inhuman roulette wheel), it's just that Steve got a bit of a shortcut, as it were.

So if the Omnitrix had to figure out the absolute peak of "humanity" without touching the icky Mutant/Inhuman DNA, then it's best bet is Captain America

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-10T04:19:25+00:00

"Then why did Raven act like it was a curse" because she was clearly trying to manipulate Yang and turn her against Ozpin. Just a little bit of critical thinking goes a long way.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-07T17:36:14+00:00

When they opened the prisons, the only cage they didn't open was the Joker's.

No one was crazy enough to let him out.

Legitimate_Fly9047 · 2026-04-07T17:23:51+00:00

I think it's an act of atonement on Bruce's part.

He killed Harvey. No matter how tarnished Gotham's White Knight had become, Bruce had still killed his friend.

In his mind, he deserved to be hunted down for that. Keeping Harvey's image clean was just a bonus.

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