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Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.
Finally a plausible power.
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
It only works when your eyes are closed.
Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.
Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect
What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...
tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.
Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.
They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.
The ability to speak and translate between any languages
Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.
First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor
The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
You were born without fingertips and can't do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.
Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.
Immunity to internet-reply-based side effects
But Everyone loves you. Oh... wait....
The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity
It's all rotten.
Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.
Ability to controls technology with my mind.
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The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!
I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.
Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they'd make after taking your mom/dad on a date
Ability to eliminate others side effects.
They transfer to you
You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry
Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger
The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time