Idea Silly Mutants: The Ones with Unlucky Powers

I've decided to make a game out of coming up with mutants who weren't as fortunate as many at WA to get 'proper' superpowers. Let's begin:

- The Incredible Squeaky Toy: Her only power is to squeak like a rubber duck when hit. It's a case of GSD.

- The Amazing Acid Trip: He's perpetually causing people to go out and buy illegal drugs, simply by standing near them. It's a psychic effect.

- The Competent Cue: His amazing ability is that he tricks people into thinking he's a pool cue. They see a pool cue floating down the street and run away screaming. When he goes into pubs, they pick him up and use him to knock some balls around. When he eats or drinks, the food seems to swirl into the top of the cue. When he talks, all people hear are the sounds of billiard balls clinking together. He's got concussion from all the bangs on the head.

- The Diligent Diarrhoea Girl: Out of these miscreants, she's actually got powers. She's got Exemplar-3, she's a package-deal psychic...but she's constantly got the runs. She spends her days on a devisor-engineered loo, hooked up to IV drips to keep her fed and watered, and constantly streaming into a bowl. She'd give anything to stop for a minute and be able to scratch her bum. But no. She's got the runs.

- The Magnificent Mother: She manifested during a teen pregnancy, and now she can create...ectoplasmic babies that scream with a volume approximating a taxiing jet. Nothing else. (Don't ask me why I came up with this one: I was bored, and the court case against the Mad AC Repairman took Eight f**king hours. The worst part was that I wasn't even there. I was at home coughing phlegm into the contents of a tissue box. Damm f**king flu. But still, bored sick, I decided to come up with this particular one. Don't judge me).

Well we do see Miasma in the Whateley stories.... so hmm I don't have a code name for this one but a mutant who can only manifest the scent of rotting meat...

Ya know, if you guys are THIS bored, we've got a wiki just begging to be updated...

I know absolutely nothing about how to do anything in the area of programming. I can barely add bbc or html tags to something I wrote, and sometimes I get them wrong.

CrazyMinh wrote: - The Incredible Squeaky Toy: Her only power is to squeak like a rubber duck when hit. It's a case of GSD.

I think that Rose Bunny beat you to that one, and she's dating Razorback.

Updating the wiki is more like using a word processor, or the forum message editor. There's a WYSIWYG and everything. If you can't figure how to add links or use the formatting tools or whatever, plain text is acceptable and still is a big help, because research is like 90% of the work. Just add the data, someone else will come later and prettify it.

Perhaps the most complicated part is adding references... again, if you don't know how to do it, just put the references in the plain text (between parentheses, brackets or whatever). We will prettify it later. Just give us the data, we will figure something out.

If the page happens to be one of those big tables and you don't know how to edit the table... add the data as plaintext below the table, and someone will come and put it in the right place.

Ugly data beats no data a hundred percent of the time.

The microscenes thread had a girl that made all inanimate objects in her vicinity invisible. Including everybody's clothing. Iirc she had control issues leading to the power activating randomly.

And in canon we have puppet who's power is toxic blood, and the whole Chimerical Trait Acquisition syndrome that can occure in GSD mutants.

Um, I created a character whose entire power revolves around the manifestation of tasty baked goods?

Wasamon wrote: Um, I created a character whose entire power revolves around the manifestation of tasty baked goods?

With a little tweaking of the flavoring agents and the right training he could also become a very highly-paid assassin.

So a mutant whos ability lets him lie on a road in the sun wasn't silly enough for you?

TBF, they have probably forgotten about him, even though he appeared in two different stories (well, two perspectives of the same story, anyway). Still, the Spirit of the Tree Sloth would definitely seem to be a booby prize to most people.

They can't all be Spirit of Radio.

I should have guessed that Geddy Lee is an Avatar...

Ok I know this is an old one...
A mutant with the ability to fly North, and only north.

mhalpern wrote: Ok I know this is an old one...
A mutant with the ability to fly North, and only north.

What happens when they get there?

Schol-R-LEA wrote: TBF, they have probably forgotten about him, even though he appeared in two different stories (well, two perspectives of the same story, anyway). Still, the Spirit of the Tree Sloth would definitely seem to be a booby prize to most people.

I just realized I was confused; the student I had in mind was Dasypod, whose spirit is the Armadillo, not the Tree Sloth (mentioned in "Not in Kansas" part 4 . Not too surprising, as both armadillos and sloths are known to have serious trouble with roads - the former often falling asleep sunning on them, while sloths which are moving to a tree that is across one can take hours to cross them. Either way, they tend to end up flattened as a result.

But hey, it gives me an excuse to link to two different ZeFrank "True Facts" videos (NSFW). Score!

Actually, I can go for three and propose a useless power of having a myrmiphagous tongue - and diet.

null0trooper wrote:

mhalpern wrote: Ok I know this is an old one...
A mutant with the ability to fly North, and only north.

What happens when they get there?

they have to walk the rest of the way

mhalpern wrote:

null0trooper wrote:

mhalpern wrote: Ok I know this is an old one...
A mutant with the ability to fly North, and only north.

What happens when they get there?

they have to walk the rest of the way

I figured they were like moths around a light bulb... forever circling until they drop of exhaustion.

Not that it makes a lot of difference, but: geographic or magnetic north?

Sir Lee wrote: Not that it makes a lot of difference, but: geographic or magnetic north?

Well if I wanted to have an actual mechanism for it, it would have to be magnetic north.

mhalpern wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Not that it makes a lot of difference, but: geographic or magnetic north?

Well if I wanted to have an actual mechanism for it, it would have to be magnetic north.

I was hoping for Galactic North.

It wouldn't have to be magnetic north to have a mechanism. For example, rather than flying "north" they could actually be getting pulled to Polaris (due to alien ancestry, perhaps, or a mutant power that lets them pick up an interstellar homing beacon). At the equator their power would push them at true north, and the further north they get the more upward angle their lift would have (equal to their latitude, to be specific, +/- a degree or so since Earth and Polaris aren't perfectly aligned). Below the equator (negative latitudes) this would be a downward angle instead, which is rather less useful for flying, but perhaps more handy for general locomotion since they could get a bicycle or skates and treat the northward force like a sailor treats the wind.

Another approach would be an Avatar spirit that desperately wants its host to relocate to the exact north pole due to some sort of rotational alignment nonsense, and thus only shares its power with its host when the host is moving in that direction.

A third explanation is a sensitivity to a Great Evil that is buried at the south pole, resulting in a huge amount of powers-blocking anxiety any time they move any direction other than directly away from it.

A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

This sounds like either a candidate for Hawthorn, or ARC.

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

Don't we have an in canon siren who can't speak because every sound she makes is a sonic attack? IIRC she may be getting better.

konzill wrote:

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

Don't we have an in canon siren who can't speak because every sound she makes is a sonic attack? IIRC she may be getting better.

Yes, her name (code) is Screech. I'm not sure if we ever know her real name. She is a member of the Goths. Her BF gets eaten when he tries to gain control of Sara Waite. I think she is in at least one class (for sirens) with Vox.

CrazyMinh wrote: oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons

That's one of the things they can have. It's just a matter of having a fireproof partner, although you may also consider expanding your options by using one of the full body condoms on the market in the Whateley Universe.

Mister D wrote:

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

This sounds like either a candidate for Hawthorn, or ARC.

ARC would be overkill, but Hawthorne would be sensible so that they could have a safe place to sleep comfortably. By day they could still join the student body by wearing either an enclosed helmet or a muzzle (which would offer lighter weight and better comfort for the rest of their head, at the cost of increased discomfort for their lower face). A sufficiently creative mask might even be able to contain the flames and relay their speech through a baffle or fireproof microphone/speaker combo; expect Bane jokes.

As for eating, it depends on what counts as opening their mouth and what's going on inside while it's closed. If they can hold their jaw closed and open their lips just enough to slide in a straw without spewing fire, they could just drink liquid food. Otherwise, they could route a feeding tube through their nose into their throat and take liquid food that way. That fails if the fire is always there, lurking in their throat and incinerating everything that passes through even when their mouth is closed. In that case, the preferred solution would probably be to install an alternate access to either their esophagus or stomach, bypassing the upper bit of their throat where the fire lives, or directly into the small intestine if the fire lives in the stomach itself. That way they could continue relying on their digestive system, meaning they could feed themselves in a pinch by running normal food and water through a blender and dumping it in.

They would only rely on an IV drip as a long-term solution if none of those options were viable (e.g. their entire digestive system is borked). Compared to a feeding tube, an IV drip would be much slower (10-16 hours per day, though backpack pumps are available to allow mobility during feeding), they'd be dependent on reliable access to TPN solution, and the consequences of mistakes would be more severe (the digestive tract has a lot more tolerance for error than the circulatory system). Plus, organs that don't get used have a tendency to atrophy and cause problems down the road, so the more of their digestive system they can keep engaged, the better.

Of course, those are all mundane baseline solutions. Mutants and mages mean there may be more appealing alternatives, though likely with far less testing and study to back them up, and the potential for interesting side effects. Just ask Alyss; I think she'll know.

Basically, this would be Jonothon Evan Starsmore (Chamber), without the psionics?

Calendar Boy. His only power is to let Kristin know when it's Monday!

Valentine wrote: Calendar Boy. His only power is to let Kristin know when it's Monday!

Kristin must be busy or working extra hard at something to have missed two Mondays in a row.

A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Now, if she remembers not only the average color but actually the precise distribution of the various shades in the eye... that would mean she is a human iris recognition biometric system.

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire. Sound normal??? Well, they breath fire...everytime they open their mouths. This means that they can't speak, all the food they eat is charbroiled (Ice cream melts, drinks evaporate, bread products catch on fire), oral sex is impossible for obvious reasons (what??? It's a natural thing...for some people, whose number does not include me. I'm one of those people who a) has trouble finding a date and b) never attempts things that are just plain gross. But, that's enough about my sex life, OR ANYONE ELSES!!!), they set their schoolwork on fire when they sneeze, and they have to drink through a drip. Awesome power, but the trigger is broken.

Why wouldn't they be able to speak? Fire is mostly superheated gas, so sound should propagate through it. Granted, with some distortion, but a bit of practice should yield intelligible speak. They just have to take care not to face anything flammable when speaking.

Eating... well, yeah, things like ice cream could be a problem. But opening your mouth without breathing is not that hard. So, open mouth, insert food, close mouth, chew with your mouth shut like your mom told you... I see at most some light surface searing. Drinking is even easier, since you are sucking in instead of breathing out.

But drinking high-proof spirits would be a mistake. And I don't see a future for this one as a musician playing wood instruments. Or even brass, for that matter.

As for oral sex, this has been addressed before.

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

But he handled all the wands.

Valentine wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

But he handled all the wands.

That's usually the best way to check the quality of the wood. Some just aren't as stiff as others.

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

But he handled all the wands.

That's usually the best way to check the quality of the wood. Some just aren't as stiff as others.

And its very important to polish your wand properly

Astrodragon wrote:

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

But he handled all the wands.

That's usually the best way to check the quality of the wood. Some just aren't as stiff as others.

And its very important to polish your wand properly

F**king hell, I love you people. Such dirty minds. Such wit. Such obsession with wands.

Sir Lee wrote:

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who breaths fire.

Why wouldn't they be able to speak? Fire is mostly superheated gas, so sound should propagate through it. Granted, with some distortion, but a bit of practice should yield intelligible speak. They just have to take care not to face anything flammable when speaking.

Have you come across Flame Amplifiers?

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/May1968/Flame_Amplification.htm

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Another thought occurs, they could learn a lot of control exercises from working with the Tech-Track students, specifically Nullotrooper's Anvil.

Also the Mage-Track students on working with the Plane of Fire, Morgana, and Anvil.

There may be fire elementals that would be willing to help, just out of curiosity, and possibly a sense of kindred spirits. .

Ps, the man in this commercial just has a very heavy New Zealand accent.

You definitely have to seal your deck properly!

I thought we were talking about cards. Lol.

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PSI mutant whose only ability is to cheat in Zenner Cards.

... Lol for a card-themed PDP. Card TK, ... Dunno about the rest...

Wikiphile: Her power is to be able to quote any wikipedia article.

Valentine wrote: Wikiphile: Her power is to be able to quote any wikipedia article.

Whether she wants to or not.

At least it's not the other wiki.

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote: Wikiphile: Her power is to be able to quote any wikipedia article.

Whether she wants to or not.

At least it's not the other wiki.

Encyclopedia Dramatica or Conservapedia?

... I can't decide which would be worse.

konzill wrote:

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote: Wikiphile: Her power is to be able to quote any wikipedia article.

Whether she wants to or not.

At least it's not the other wiki.

Encyclopedia Dramatica or Conservapedia?

... I can't decide which would be worse.

TV Tropes , the wiki that never ends.

Astrodragon wrote:

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote:

Astrodragon wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

elrodw wrote: A girl who has an eidetic memory - but ONLY for remembering people's eye colors. Other than that, she has a very poor long-term memory.

So, someone who remembers people from the color of their eyes? Not that different from some types of OCD. Reminds me, in fact, of Ollivanders in "Harry Potter," who remembered everybody's wand.

Er, yess. I 'd better not comment on that....

But he handled all the wands.

That's usually the best way to check the quality of the wood. Some just aren't as stiff as others.

And its very important to polish your wand properly

In the words of an old housemate of mine , Polishing my wand in the common room is acceptable. "Polishing my wand" in the common room is not.

(Wow, that's two name drops in as many posts. Fortunately, I don't know too many other Internet-famous people.)

It is generally accepted that Cats and Dragons cannot interbreed and I should not attempt to disprove this theory, no matter how wicked the result would be.

While it is generally accepted that if it has stats it can be killed, it's less well known that if it has stats a draconic template can be applied, before, during, or after character creation.

null0trooper wrote:

It is generally accepted that Cats and Dragons cannot interbreed and I should not attempt to disprove this theory, no matter how wicked the result would be.

Well, I should hope not. The whole point of giving the cats telepathy was so that they could kill the dragons with their tiny nuclear bombs (well, disrupt them anyway, nobody is quite sure what it really does to them and no one has tried sticking around in Space₂ long enough to find out).

Donkeys, on the other hand...

I can't believe that in all this talk of relationships between cats and dragons neither I nor anyone else mentioned Lockheed and Shadowcat in all this. I seem to recall that this was sort of Lockheed's real motive for following Kitty around, though she never knew it.

Perhaps he could go commiserate with Comet the Superhorse over that, although Comet at least got to turn into a human at times and even got to kiss Supergirl on several occassions (though Kara never learned that Bill Starr was also Comet, either).

I always liked the reaction Madelyne Prior (remember back when she wasn't a villain?) had when she first met Kitty and Lockheed, at what was supposed to be Logan's wedding to Mariko Yashima (remember when they were supposed to get married? Or even just she was still alive, for that matter?). Kitty hands Maddie her handbag, asking her to watch Lockheed. As a pilot, Maddie was impressed that this young girl liked airplanes so much that she'd name her cat something like that, then opens the bag to peek in on darling little moggie...

At least she didn't scream, though she did pull Scott's tie and quietly demand that he explain about his friends to her.

Admitedly, she'd rather gotten thrown into the deep end of the pool, so this wasn't unexpected. She'd also just met Kurt shortly before (this was long after he stopped using the image generator for disguise - remember when he used the image generator for disguise?), as well as watching when Ororo flew in showing off her new punk look (remember when she had a severe emotional crisis over her faded connection to Gaea following the whole fight with the Brood out in Sh'iar space, which led her to own the whole 'official leader of the Morlocks after defeating Callisto in single combat' thing for a while?), and had overheard some odd things said by Logan and Piotr by then, IIRC including mention of nineteen-year-old Piotr's romantic relationship with the thirteen-year-old Kitty (remember when... you get the idea; mind you, it wasn't a sexual relationship, I'm not sure if it ever became one actually, and Kitty was the one who kept trying to drag him into the relationship - and into bed - in the first place), so this wasn't the only thing surprising to her that day even if it sort of pushed it over the top.

Getting back to silly mutant powers: how about one which was like the thing with Comet (who only turned human if a comet was in the sky - no, it doesn't makes sense, but whatever), where the power is specific to rather unusual conditions? I don't mean like Sunspot (who is still pretty powerful without sunlight so long as he has a charge left over) or Moon Knight (who is still a Batman-esque detective, and an ex-Marine and trained fighter, even when his enhanced strength and endurance are at their low point on the lunar cycle), I mean like Pilgrim's Pride in Super Stupor (who only had lion-related powers on Thanksgiving, and only when working together - which made the divorce rather awkward ). Admittedly, Randy Milholland slammed the idea of 'seasonal/holiday-themed superheroes and supervillains' more than once, as did the Brothers Grinn in the now-offline Supermegatopia .

That is to say, something that is amazingly powerful some of the time, but almost useless and perhaps a bit embarrassing most of the time, but still visible enough that it paints a huge target on their back all the time anyway.

Oh, and for a really cool (if disturbing) power, consider Milholland's Titanic Emo Teen Terror of Time,
Clock Blocker/Clockstopper/Clockpuncher, whose power is the ability to "Punch Father Time in the 'nads" and cause another person to have never existed:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Getting back to silly mutant powers: how about one which was like the thing with Comet (who only turned human if a comet was in the sky - no, it doesn't makes sense, but whatever), where the power is specific to rather unusual conditions?

A limitation I recall from a Champions campaign: "Only works in the back 1/3 of a darkened movie theater."

null0trooper wrote: A limitation I recall from a Champions campaign: "Only works in the back 1/3 of a darkened movie theater."

Does it also only work after midnight, when the theater is showing a 1975 cult classic, with a Floor Show and thrown toast?

Because, make-out related powers aside, that would be an epic limitation to buy Time Travel powers with. Or something to do with Reanimation, maybe.

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

null0trooper wrote: A limitation I recall from a Champions campaign: "Only works in the back 1/3 of a darkened movie theater."

Does it also only work after midnight, when the theater is showing a 1975 cult classic, with a Floor Show and thrown toast?

Because, make-out related powers aside, that would be an epic limitation to buy Time Travel powers with. Or something to do with Reanimation, maybe.

In the Space Opera campaign that came later, one of the troop transport ships we bought was named "Swift and Terrible Death-Dealing Claws of the Eternal Hunter" or something like that. Rather, that's what we told the ursoid mercenaries (from a max-G, outer ecosphere planet) that "Columbia" meant. The other ship was named "Magenta". One can draw conclusions from that.

Who knows, perhaps the powers are even activated by saying something French?
GSD side effect: They've got no fscking neck!

An empath who can read certain details of past events associated with an object, but is limited to only noting the hair style and makeup (if any) of the last three persons to touch said object.

konzill wrote: The microscenes thread had a girl that made all inanimate objects in her vicinity invisible. Including everybody's clothing. Iirc she had control issues leading to the power activating randomly.

That was mine, the poor girl.
There was also the boy who was permanently intangible and could only eat slowly or stay inside a moving car with great difficulty.
Also Sisha the cat girl who has only shown the power of being a cat.

How about a kid with extra long fingers, like three feet long. They aren't stronger, sticky or anything, just ludicrously long.

And Spoiler Man. He knows the ending of all movies, comics and books that he sees.

A mutant who can only see inanimate objects that are made from wood, or have wooden parts. Otherwise, they can't see anything. Their arrival at Whateley resulted in wood being layed underneath the pathways, and every desk and chair they sit at for their classes being replaced with wooden version.

A boy who can detect magic.
Unfortunately he's also magic.

CrazyMinh wrote: A mutant who can only see inanimate objects that are made from wood, or have wooden parts. Otherwise, they can't see anything.

And the first thing he sees in the morning? You guessed it! His bedframe, you pervs!

Astrodragon wrote: A boy who can detect magic.
Unfortunately he's also magic.

Reminds me of a set of prank spells for D&D that appeared in the only Issue of Dragon Magazine I ever bought. One of them was Detect Hand, a spell that made the caster punch himself in the face. Making Magic item identification automatic was one of the dumber rule changes in D&D over the years.

Well people don't like carrying around that pretty dagger they found in the loot of the troll they killed for a while only to discover that the person with it in their pack now has a compulsion to murder the rest of the party!!! So the game designers made magic items auto-detectable. But that isn't how RL^® works... But it is only a game, and the designers catered to the lowest common denominator.

konzill wrote:

Astrodragon wrote: A boy who can detect magic.
Unfortunately he's also magic.

Reminds me of a set of prank spells for D&D that appeared in the only Issue of Dragon Magazine I ever bought. One of them was Detect Hand, a spell that made the caster punch himself in the face. Making Magic item identification automatic was one of the dumber rule changes in D&D over the years.

I suspect that that was done in 4.0 a) to keep the MMO players happy (Skills? Those are for grinding!), and b) as a response to the insane skill checks that optimized characters could pull off once all their buffs and other bonuses were added up.

Astrodragon wrote: A boy who can detect magic.
Unfortunately he's also magic.

In the Paranoia module Creatures of the Nightcycle one of the toys R&D gives the suckersTroubleshooters is a failed Mutant Detector. The reason they thought it didn't work was, well, it said everyclone it was aimed at was a mutant, which surely wasn't right...

A kid who can fly expertly, unfortunately he also has chronic and uncontrollable air sickness.

Astrodragon wrote: A kid who can fly expertly, unfortunately he also has chronic and uncontrollable air sickness.

Conversely, we've already seen Whirlybird's problem of having the instincts to fly but (so far as we know yet) lacking the ability to.

Also, one of the main characters of Unicorn Jelly , Lupiko, was a witch who was afraid of heights, and hated using her broom.

"Hey, it's not easy having a phobia!"

(/me waits to see if anyone makes the connection with that last part to something I've mentioned in another thread)

Astrodragon wrote: A kid who can fly expertly, unfortunately he also has chronic and uncontrollable air sickness.

How about a naval officer with chronic and uncontrollable sea sickness? At one time our little floating tin can home had one of those.

I either read or heard of some other guy who left the Air Force because of air sickness, ended up in the Navy (probably to fulfill his service obligation somehow) and was fine on an aircraft carrier because it's the period of the pitching and rolling that gets you, not necessarily the absolute motion.

null0trooper wrote:

Astrodragon wrote: A kid who can fly expertly, unfortunately he also has chronic and uncontrollable air sickness.

How about a naval officer with chronic and uncontrollable sea sickness? At one time our little floating tin can home had one of those.

I either read or heard of some other guy who left the Air Force because of air sickness, ended up in the Navy (probably to fulfill his service obligation somehow) and was fine on an aircraft carrier because it's the period of the pitching and rolling that gets you, not necessarily the absolute motion.

IIRC, that was the reason why A.T. Mahan ended up at the Naval War College. His father was a Big Name in the U.S. Army, and Alfred wanted to serve but didn't want to get overshadowed, so he went to Annapolis. However, his first assignment left him hanging over the rail the whole trip. He would continue to have problems with severe seasickness for years, and it was probably part of why his career as a ship's captain was both ineffective and brief.

His father pulled some strings in DC to allow him to keep his commission, and he was assigned to work on long-term planning. The rest is history, specifically the history of the late 19th century naval arms race his books helped instigate.

The invisible boy from Mystery Men. He could turn invisible (actually insubstantial, seeing as he left his clothes behind) but only when nobody was looking at him.

EMP, who has a power costume that can turn invisible.
Unfortunately that only applies to the costume.
EMP herself remains fully visible (and nude)

Erianaiel wrote: EMP, who has a power costume that can turn invisible.
Unfortunately that only applies to the costume.
EMP herself remains fully visible (and nude)

Lol, I know that ref. She just to get a handle on her body issues!

... Technically, that's not a mutation, but equipment.

If she merged with the suit though... and turning invisible renders her skin invisible instead... Hmm...

Erianaiel wrote: EMP, who has a power costume that can turn invisible.
Unfortunately that only applies to the costume.
EMP herself remains fully visible (and nude)

While she isn't exactly what you describe here, I would say that Domoviye's microscene OC Natalie has you (un) covered. Even when she herself is covered.

To steal one from Piers Anthony. A Warper whose sole power is the ability to change the color of his urine.

Malady wrote:

Erianaiel wrote: EMP, who has a power costume that can turn invisible.
Unfortunately that only applies to the costume.
EMP herself remains fully visible (and nude)

... Technically, that's not a mutation, but equipment.

That's clearly a devisor costume and it works only for her so ... mutant

Valentine wrote: To steal one from Piers Anthony. A Warper whose sole power is the ability to change the color of his urine.

This sort of thing shows up in a recent book titled: Emily Monroe Is Not The Chosen One by Erik Schubach. The main characters superpower consists of being able to change the colour of her eyes and finger-nails. Its a fun light read.