r/shittysuperpowers • • Jul 27 '25

Mod Announcement [META] Friendly reminder that this sub is for low tier & shitty superpowers?

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32 Upvotes

Hi r/shittysuperpowers family,

Just a friendly reminder for all our friends out there, new and old.

I see a lot of comments on posts in this sub asking, "how is this shitty?".

Whilst sometimes, this is a fair question. Other other times, it feels like the subs purpose is lost on some, due to it being called r/shittysuperpowers

This sub is for both "shitty" & low tier superpowers. The use of the word "shitty" here is more of a playful term for not being very good, rather than it being all out useless and/or unusable.

If you read the rules of the sub, it states that the power can't give you a major benefit. Not that it gives you no benefit at all.

Hope this helps everyone align with the values of the sub. As always if you've got any questions for the mods, send us a modmail, or you're welcome to ask questions on this post here.

Have fun & stay shitty, Mods.


r/shittysuperpowers • • Jun 02 '25

Mod Announcement [META] "Caveat" as defined by Cambridge dictionary

21 Upvotes

caveat

(noun)

a warning to consider something before taking any more action, or a statement that limits a more general statement.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 16h ago

Literally Just a Warcrime You can banish children out of demons

73 Upvotes

Whenever a homo sapiens under the legal age of 18 years old is considered possessed by the local dominant religion, you can scream at the child to destroy its body and release the demon, so it can either become a wandering spirit or be forced to enter someone else, unless a banishment ritual against that demon gets performed. at least they don't have to spend time in the underworld.

It doesn't work on non-possessed or 18+ people


r/shittysuperpowers • • 2h ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can summon 1 random insect every 24 hours.

3 Upvotes

The insect can be any currently living species of insect on Earth. When you summon it, it will appear in your hand (if you don't have hands it appears on your shoulder.) The insect will never harm you but you can't choose what insect you summon that day and you can't control it any more than you can a regular insect. The insect is just there now. It is not otherwise special or immortal, it behaves as any other member of its species would and has the species' average lifespan.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5h ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can speak a specific sentence of any european language every fortnight

3 Upvotes

Choose a sentence, be able to copy in any European language


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3h ago

Oddly specific You give people explosive diarrhea when you lie to them.

2 Upvotes

But only if they are looking you in the eyes.
But no really the moment the lie comes out so does the diarrhea.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 1d ago

Oddly specific Your tiredness is reversed.

41 Upvotes

Let me explain:
You get sleepy from things that would make other people more awake.
And you get more awake by things that would make others tired.
For example, if you drink a coffee, you get sleepy, but if you take a sleeping pill, you get more awake.
This of course gets into the extremes. Taking cocaine will straight up knock you out. Tranquilizer or anesthesia would make you wide awake.

Technically this would probably also mean:
If a normal person doesn’t sleep for a long time, they get tired, and eventually pass out.
You on the other hand, will get even more awake, the longer you stay awake, until at one point you cant sleep with a fried head that is running on overdrive.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 1d ago

Good luck using this… You can change other people’s future by looking into it.

9 Upvotes

You can look into other people’s future.
Doing so, will change their future.
This in return means, you don’t know their future anymore, just what it would have been, if you haven’t changed it.

I’m sure someone will come up with a way to make this usable.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 2d ago

Oddly specific You can vibrate as much as you want

96 Upvotes

It takes very little energy you just shake at whatever frequency if you want


r/shittysuperpowers • • 2d ago

Yeah, this is shit You can convince anyone from Mongolia that you are an electrician.

21 Upvotes

You are not one.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 2d ago

Good luck using this… You can identify Asbestos by smell

15 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Literally Just a Warcrime You can add any unskippable ad of your choice to any call to 999, 911, 000, 112, etc.

27 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can make anyone have completely the wrong emotional reaction to a movie. They can watch Schindler's List and react like it's Mamma Mia, or watch Dumb And Dumber and treat it like Lord Of The Rings.

10 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Good luck using this… You can move stars at the speed of light

83 Upvotes

seemingly overpowered, but it’ll either take centuries for you to see its affects or you move the sun and throw the earth all out of wack.

You can’t move parts of stars or go any slower than light speed, and man-made fusion artificial ‘stars’ don’t count


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Good luck using this… teleporting your self anywhere on earth

3 Upvotes

You can teleport anywhere on earth that a person of your size can safely occupy. Only your body teleports, nothing you are holding or wearing will teleport with you. you will rematerialize at your destnation in your birthday suit(naked) all medical necessary devices internal or external go with you including glasses. cool down is 30 minutes. teleporting more that 3 times per day will trigger a 48 hour reset. Becareful how you use this.

edit: redefine medical device.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 3d ago

Oddly specific Microsoft always matches destination formatting on any copy/paste

2 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Oddly specific The sun can’t hurt you.

107 Upvotes

This does mean that you can look at the sun. With a telescope even.

It can’t hurt you even when they throw you into it.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Goofy ASF You can pee through others

27 Upvotes

Basically your bladder contains a magical one way portal that connects to every living being urethra so when you activate the portal and pee instead of coming out of you the pee will come out from anyone you want


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Oddly specific The longer you rip up a hangnail, the bigger the real item you can summon

8 Upvotes

1in of hangnail length ripped = 3 grams of any real item, could be just gold or like a 3 gram electronic peice, it could be food, literally anything from real life.

It will activate only in 1 inch increments to spawn on the palm of your hand after youve ripped the hangnail and turned your palm up.

No numbing agents or drugs, it will only work when your are in your usual natural state


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Good luck using this… You can make the odds of something round up or down to five in the highest non-zero decimal place.

4 Upvotes

That is, if the odds of something happening are 1.1% or 9.5%, you can make them 5%. If the odds are .001%, you can make them .005%. It is suggested that you actually know the odds of the thing before adjusting them, because the odds will go to 5 in the first significant decimal place, whether that is an increase or a decrease.

Only works on things with a less than 10% chance of happening. Also only works on things that are genuinely a matter of chance (eg dice rolls, coin flips) rather than things under mostly conscious control (eg risk of injury).


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Oddly specific You can make paper taste like whatever you draw on it

58 Upvotes

You have to personally draw all of it, not print it or color in the lines someone else drew. Though you are allowed to trace or use similar tricks to copy someone else's drawing, as long as the entire image on the paper is your handiwork.

Once you have done that, exert a small effort of will, and the paper will taste like whatever you drew. The quality will depend on the quality of the drawing, EG a badly drawn clip art style apple will probably taste like a bruised Red Delicious or something, while a photorealistic drawing of a Fuji apple will taste exactly like a perfectly ripe Fuji apple.

The paper is still, well, paper, with all that implies in terms of texture and nutritional value, and whatever you drew on it with is still whatever it was, so I would advise using food safe drawing materials.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Goofy ASF You can remove one letter from the English language

19 Upvotes

Anyone attempting to use the banished letter will explode with the force of an atom bomb with the shockwave removing all clothes in the vicinity.

an example: I OVE you

attempting to use L will vaporize all clothes on the Eastern seaboard


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You have the power to know what the last video game any game company will make

10 Upvotes

You only get, the name, the genre, the trailer, and how loved or hated it will be.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 4d ago

Good luck using this… You have Wolverine claws with minimal healing factor

0 Upvotes

Also your claws popping out will sever your hands major blood vessels and nerves bundles causing your wrists to become ragdoll. You heal faster than normal people but only by 10% - you will still bleed out before you get to use your claws.


r/shittysuperpowers • • 5d ago

Oddly specific The power to masquerade(pretend to be) as any individual in the known history and present of humanity on the internet, with 50% of the people who see my online masquerade, believing me utterly, and the other 50% not.

12 Upvotes

Gonna pretend to be Gandhi on twitter and say that club penguin is the greatest game in existence