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Swiss-Army Superpower

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Swiss-Army Superpower	comment	Sometimes a power seems limited. While talking to fish, super speed, and superhuman parkour skills are most definitely special abilities that could prove formidable in certain, very specific situations, much of the time they appear to be near-useless novelties. Or so it would seem to those who lack imagination. See, characters with Swiss Army Super Powers are able to apply their narrowly-defined abilities in an amazing array of situations. Solely because their insight is so great, the Swiss Army Super Powered are always expanding the potential utility of their powers. What sets the Swiss Army Power apart from similar power tropes is that the defined base ability never changes. The user simply becomes aware of aspects of their power they didn't think of before. The base rules don't change, only the application of those rules does. This blend of flexibility and limitation is convenient for the writers because it allows them to get their heroes in and out of a host of sticky situations while avoiding complaints from fans that they've pulled a new power out of a character's ass. It still has a semblance of consistency. However, this also depends on how creative a writer can be about it. Often confused with Combo Platter Powers where a character is simply given multiple unrelated powers rather than using variations on a theme (like Superman's Flight and Laser Eyes, or Emma Frost's telepathy and diamond form.) Reality Warper, by definition, is a Swiss Army Superpower. Elemental Powers, especially electric ones, are often treated this way as is Biomanipulation, but even seemingly simple abilities like Super-Speed and Super-Strength can be given a wide variety of applications for a writer willing to think outside the box. This is very common when Required Secondary Powers are acknowledged in-universe. In some cases, they can even eclipse the primary ability in usefulness. Named after Swiss Army Knives, which are pocket-sized sets of 8 - 10 undersized tools that can do everything. Expect Forgot About His Powers to occur on multiple occasions. Compare Green Rocks (which do this stuff at the whim of the writers, rather than serving a specific character), New Powers as the Plot Demands (for cases where new powers are the result of Ass Pull), Repower (for situations when a character has their powerset either expanded upon in a "nonlinear" way, or reimagined entirely from the ground up), Adaptive Ability, Swiss-Army Weapon, and Adaptive Armor. When a weak-sounding power has this, then it's Heart Is an Awesome Power. Semantic Superpower, Keystone Superpower, and Imagination-Based Superpower are also related.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_11fd6993	comment	Cole from inFAMOUS has electricity powers, but they're of the Static Shock type below: he can use electricity to create shackles that hold people to the ground, electric hand grenades, a physical shield that converts projectiles to energy, hover jets, mini electric rockets, small shockwaves, drop with a large electric shockwave, blades of electricity, heal others, summon a lightning storm and, particularly egre... oddly, eventually time travel. In the second game, he can develop ice or fire powers via a transfer from another conduit. He can create giant icicles to launch himself into the air or launch himself at enemies as a fiery phoenix.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Mami Tomoe has the power to create and manipulate ribbons. Aside from the obvious uses of binding and bludgeoning her enemies, she also somehow figured out how to shape them into "ribbon constructs", including functional musket rifles and bullets. In The Rebellion Story, she can make her ribbons phantasmal (so she can negate Homura's Time Stands Still powers by being in physical contact with Homura when she activates them) and can even shape them into a perfect duplicate of herself that explodes when damaged.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_1367cea0	comment	Skitter in Worm spends the entire series coming up with new ways to use her power (control over insects) to deal with the various challenges she faces. Generally, she discovers that while an individual insect is weak, she's never using individuals, but an entire swarm. She can locate every individual within her power's range and track and control them perfectly, string lines of spidersilk stronger than steel in the way of opponents, and use her swarm to disguise her location when she fights.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_15c6ea11	comment	In the earlier Wonder Woman comics, the titular heroine's emblematic lasso serves as more than a vaguely fetishistic Lie Detector. Over the course of a DC Showcase anthology, she used it as an impromptu propeller, an emergency roller coaster track extension, an electrical conduit, another propeller, a drill, and some sort of sonic dinosaur repellent. She also uses it occasionally to actually snag things — specifically, a nuclear missile, all of Paradise Island, and a lightning bolt.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Magneto, variously an enemy and an ally of the X-Men, has powers to control magnetism. Although it's become far more stabilized as of late (usually), over the years, his powers have been used for a whole host of things that are dubiously related to actual magnetism. Creating a force-field to block fire/optic blasts/rocks comes first and foremost to mind, but he's also shown the ability to: control non-magnetic metals (though may be a misunderstanding about what is and isn't magnetic); levitate someone by controlling the trace molecules of iron in their blood (only slightly more realistic was the time he ripped the iron OUT of someone's blood); block telepathy by controlling the electrical impulses in his brain, or read someone ELSE'S mind by "sensing" their own; hack into computers; at least once, when "supercharged", was able to project a hologram, since "light is just another aspect of the electro-magnetic spectrum". He can move things without a trace of anything ferrous by "negating the gravimetric lines of force", as he put it the first time we saw him fly. Ever since Polaris sent Krakoa blasting off agaaaaaain that way, the powers of Magneto and Polaris have gone from "move stuff that's metal" (useful, but underutilizing a power with more possibilities) to, as one message board comment put it, "do anything as long as he mentions magnetism while doing it". On an island where his powers were a bit stronger than usual, he once created a portal to go save his daughter. How does magnetism let you Stargate a couple continents away? (Though, to be fair, no one In-Universe had any idea how he did it either.) Essentially, writers decided that "Magnetism" was too limited for a major villain, so they expanded it to "Electromagnetism". Unfortunately, they found out later that electromagnetism is almost infinitely broader than magnetism since it's one of the fundamental forms of interactions the universe. Lifeguard has the superpower of spontaneously developing whatever additional superpower is required at any given moment, although only if somebody's life was in danger. Somebody other than herself, and the power to save a particular life and the power to kick the enemy's butt aren't always the same. Darwin has the power to develop any power he needs to survive. Submerge him in water, he grows gills; blast him with lava, he's immune to heat and pressure. This power is entirely involuntary; as a child, he attempted suicide by leaping of a building only to discover that he had become elastic and simply bounced when hit the ground. It should be noted that Darwin's power only did what would let him survive a fight, not necessarily win, such as when he ended up in the path of the Hulk during World War Hulk, and he spontaneously gained the power to teleport to the next state over. Cypher of the New Mutants has the widely-mocked ability of omnilingualism. He can instantly understand and speak any language, which sounds really limited, but creative writing has allowed Cypher's ability to prove very useful. The baseline is language, and anything related to it is available for Cypher to take advantage of. Apart from ordinary languages on Earth, he can use alien languages, dead languages to cast spells, and crack computer encryption via secret codes. He's also a tech genius because he can understand mechanics and computer languages with no effort. After he died in 1988 via a Heroic Sacrifice, and then came back to life over twenty years later, Cypher's abilities were expanded even further. He became an expert fighter by reading body language and copying various fighting styles (not unlike Taskmaster). Furthermore, his ability allows him to develop complex computer systems through languages he developed, which proves a vital tool in establishing the status quo in X-Men (2019) by creating an entire network for the land of Krakoa, the refuge for mutants everywhere, and he develops a unique language that only mutants can understand that is psychically transplanted to all residents.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_222c2051	comment	The Intersect 2.0 in Chuck. It has all the original powers of the 1.0 in addition to granting combat skills, spoken languages, surgical skills, weapon skills, dance skills, extreme sports knowledge... and that's just in the first four episodes! Strange how just knowing how to do something automatically makes you a pro at doing it, completely ignoring physique and muscle memory, which are necessary for many of these feats. This gets even better with the showdown between Chuck and Shaw, when the latter gets the Ring version of the Intersect. The latter even uses it to get martial arts skills, even though he's an experienced spy and already has considerable skills in hand-to-hand combat.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_26042b84	comment	Trauma from Avengers: The Initiative can become anybody's worst fear, literally — he doesn't just take on the appearance of their greatest fear, but the abilities as well. If their fear happens to be Thor or the Hulk, well... that person should run. Also, he became a therapist. Turning into your patients' greatest terrors and making them face it is an intriguing method.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_2ade1ae9	comment	Nobles in Nobilis have control over one aspect of reality. Total control. To give just one example: in this campaign, the Power of Halloween uses her abilities to, among other things: conjure Gothic horror castles, produce a pair of white gloves (and the rest of the Mickey Mouse costume), summon a baroquely Halloweenish crown, have a chat with some spiders, unleash a swarm of skeletons, intensify the power of a werewolf, ride Dracula's carriage to the North Pole, blot out the Sun, seal doors by dropping Frankenstein-monsters in front of them, and deflect a cruise missile with a shield of concentrated darkness.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_2fee008d	comment	Drills for the titular robot in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann can do absolutely anything. You'll find drills used as bullets, shields, lances, whips, means of propulsion, machine assimilation adapters, and shockingly enough, even actual digging tools.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Naruto is able to get this use out of shadow clones, which he can use for everything from a multi-hit combo, to learning new techniques in hours, to extending the length of his Super Mode. Once Naruto finally get the hang of his Fox Mode his Rasengan variations became limited only by his imagination. Same goes with Sasuke's Chidori and Amaterasu/Susanoo combo. Although for sheer power, Sasuke's Chidori is still weaker than his teacher Kakashi's version, Raikiri (despite Sasuke being stronger than Kakashi by this point), Sasuke does all kinds of things with Chidori that Kakashi never dreamed of.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash is a famous application of this trope. The Flash's one power of "running very quickly" worked for a while, but eventually, the writers found out that there's only so much you can do with one power. To this day, the Flash still gets new powers to keep his stories from becoming dull. Likely the most infamously outdated is the "vibrate through matter" power (based on actual scientific speculations of the time about a vibrational frequency to reality and then heavily leavened with Weird Science), which can make any modern physicist cry. There's also the famous Infinite Mass Punch, in which the Flash exploited the fact that while the Speed Force means the theory of relativity doesn't apply to him, it does apply to the guy he's punching. In the Golden Age Flash's first appearance, he was able to use his powers to catch bullets and be effectively invisible, both of which are non-obvious uses of the power. Since then, various Flashes have gained the ability to speed up healing beyond natural bounds (their own and other people's), accelerate chemical reactions, vibrate through objects and make them explode, accelerate objects by running past them (for example, turning a pile of lumber into a flock of superspeed missiles flying in formation with the hero), and causing objects to ignite by carrying them really fast, then retracting the hero's friction-protection aura... Some of the more outrageous abilities that the Flash has claimed as being based on speed include melting his own body then reforming it as a mirror and creating highly articulated casts that allowed him to run with broken legs out of Speedforce energy.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_397e9ed2	comment	Luminosity Bella has a mental shield that negates any vampire power used on her, if that power is mental in nature. So Edward can't read her mind, for example. Jasper's power of emotional manipulation is apparently a manipulation of the body, not the mind, so it works on Bella, until she convinces herself that it shouldn't work, and then it doesn't. Later, she has been torn to bits and set on fire. By thinking something along the lines of "My power protects my mind, but my mind is useless without my body!" she manages to repair her own body and put out the fire with her mind. Elspeth's power is telling the truth, with words or visions. She manages to extend this to showing people arbitrary visions and making people's skulls runneth over.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_4522fd1	comment	Chaka of the Whateley Universe has one power. She is the Mistress of Ki. In about a year in-universe, she has gone from someone who could use her ki to make herself a black belt in her style of martial arts, to someone who is a threat even among the other students at Superhero School Whateley Academy. She can now learn a new ki technique just from watching someone else use the technique. Once. Even if the person is using it on her at the time.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_48a3d632	comment	Once in the old animated series, he makes a motorboat entirely out of web. No, not a sailboat, a motorboat. The series is notoriously bad about this; he once makes a parachute, which is relatively plausible, but another time, he makes a sword.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_4b6f8e36	comment	Songbird of the Thunderbolts combines her super-screaming with a gizmo that creates "solidified sound" out of it. She usually makes wings that allow her to fly, and Spontaneous Weapon Creation or creating barriers are also common.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_4d51eaea	comment	Magic Ex Libris has libriomancy, the power of pulling items from books. Meaning a given libriomancer has access to everything from a phaser, to a healing potion, to Excalibur, to a lightsaber. There are few hard rules, no true Necromancy, no time travel, no unlimited wishing, libriomancy damages books so they need to be rested after some uses, can't be used on comic books or videogame guides, and libriomancers can lock books that are too dangerous, to keep people from making The One Ring or such. Still, a libriomancer is ultimately limited only by their imagination and knowledge of literature.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_4dd54482	comment	Ben 10: Alien Force: Gwen is yet another prime example of the magic-users-can-do-anything variety. Originally her powers were traditional magic, only limited to pronouncing a spell correctly. Manifesting right from the get-go of the Time Skip series where her magical abilities have received a drastic increase. Twice in the first episode she states, "Hey, let me try something," and proceeds to defy logic. On the other hand, her powers most of the time were "1001 uses for pink glass"; until Ben 10: Ultimate Alien where she uses regular spells more frequently(for whatever power couldn't be explained through pink glass). All expressions of her power are labeled under magic, which the show defines very complexly. Ben, in Alien X form, which can literally do anything, though he never ever uses it for other reasons. Namely, it paralyzes him afterward while he and the other two personalities debate what to do.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock's electricity in the animated series did things lightning bolts simply should not do. Like carry people and sensitive equipment with bolts of lightning without damaging them, as well as creating forcefields. He regularly pulled out some new, increasingly infeasible trick about every other episode. This was an intentional change from the pilot, where his abilities were more realistically shown to be limited to exerting magnetic fields on metal objects to make them fly forwards or backwards or to give people an electric shock by touching them. Indeed, he's shown as being the underdog in his battle against Hotstreak because unlike Hotstreak he can't "shoot" his electricity as energy-blast lightning bolts — he had to make creative use of his environment while Hotstreak just kept flinging fire at him. The writers apparently reneged on this because while more interesting than generic "lightning blast" powers it did make him kind of unimpressive for the audience of a kids' superhero show. Given comments within the show itself (like Static switching over to "microwave mode" when facing off against an ice-controlling Bang Baby or patching into the signals being sent along phone lines), it seems like the writers went the Magneto route and gave Virgil the power to control the entire electromagnetic spectrum, which is enormous. The show also had Shiv, who could form solid energy constructs from his hands similar to a Green Lantern, but from both hands and without the ring.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: Matsuri's wind ninjutsu has a enormous variety of uses even beyond the typical gusts and Razor Wind. He can move it around him to increase his speed, fly by lifting up large objects or a glider suit, or make it still so he can detect foes through illusions. He's solidified it to make shields and stepping stones, and his mother once made ropes that hold a person stationary. Matsuri even integrated wind into his exorcism rituals, which basically suck the evil spirits out of a person's body.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: John Egbert gets access to the ability to control the movement of not just air and wind, but the abstract concept of breath and soul. He uses this to save his life by turning his own body into wind as a villain goes to impale him, just in time to reappear behind the villain completely unharmed for a surprise attack. Roxy is the Rogue of Void. The Rogue Class means she has the power to steal her aspect, but Void represents nothingness, which means that she has the "ability to steal nothing". She naturally assumed that her powers are useless, but later found out that she can make imaginary objects real by stealing the essence of nothingness from them. Which means that she can conjure any object from nothing as long as she can properly visualize it. Including the Matriorb.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel's Iron Man has Nanomachines in his blood — in the present-day comics, they're limited to letting him control his armor, but they apparently used to be a lot more general-purpose, including forming swarms of shape-shifting insectoids that can pick locks, disable nuclear bombs, hack into any computer, and transform into an iPod.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_53bd0aaf	comment	John in With Strings Attached has complete control over water, to the point where he can actually change the physical properties of water, which lets him do pretty much whatever he (or the Kansael) can come up with.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_59303db8	comment	A Certain Scientific Railgun: We see Misaka use her power, control over electricity, to perform all types of feats from attaching herself to a concrete wall, using surrounding pieces of steel as cover, and using iron sand to create a chainsaw whip sword, as well as various other uses. Most Espers in fact have shown some degree of this as long as they are a bit creative with it. For example, Teitoku Kakine, the Number 2 Level 5, has an ability called Dark Matter that creates matter that doesn't exist in our universe and defies the laws of physics of anything it come into contact with. Among other things we have seen him merging it with mundane matter (like air, for example) to create physics-defying barriers (meaning its vector equation is ridiculously complicated), use said barrier to reflect and refract light to create over 2500 forms of radiations, and merging Dark Matter with objects to detonate them into oblivion. Much later, he can even create human flesh and organs to regenerate his body from damage, allowing him to come back from nothing but molecules. He also used this to create entire armies made of Dark Matter to fight against Accelerator and fellow Level 5 Esper Mugino.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_5999b1ec	comment	Bink, from the Xanth series, has the magic talent of protection from anything magical. Since the land where he lives is almost entirely infused by magic, this basically means his talent can do anything, including bringing a person with the power to locally reverse time over just before he inhales poison gas, getting a Sufficiently Advanced Alien to voluntarily re-seal itself, and dipping him and his friends and family in a youth spring when they get old, all without revealing the talent's existence. The only thing that keeps Bink from becoming an omnipotent god-being is that the talent is completely outside his conscious control. That and both the fact that a sufficiently powerful Magician or demon could force his talent to reveal itself by acting overtly (as Trent did in A Spell For Chameleon) and the fact that his power is useless against non-magical attacks. (A normal punch in the face or a thrown rock). However, if the being causing the attack is itself magical, the talent will still kick in: a human could theoretically kill Bink by dropping a large rock on him, but a demon couldn't even if the rock itself is entirely non-magical. His talent can occasionally be very weird about defining harm. Being put into a trance in the middle of a war? Not magical harm! (Apparently, his talent either knew he'd be removed from the trance before anything more permanent happened to him, or would've intervened at the very last second to prevent such harm.) His power is even implied to be able to affect its own source and the SOURCE OF ALL MAGIC! The most confusing and roundabout part of this power, is that it is purposefully confusing and roundabout. To those not in the know Bink just seems to be incredibly lucky, because his power sets things up to seem like coincidence whenever possible because if someone knew how it worked, and that Bink could be harmed by non magical means, then if they then used such means, then the root cause of that harm, would be his own MAGICAL power, so it only lets itself be revealed when that won't ultimately harm him- Magician Trent mentioned above became friend with him later, and was the first to puzzle out this aspect, potentially because Bink's power knew that having Trent as an ally would be the best for Bink in the long run.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_5b0f2776	comment	Redo of Healer has protagonist Keyaru's Healing ability be used for pretty much anything...especially since with enough practice, the concept of "healing" can be stretched out to an unimaginably-creative degree. Of course he can use the powers to restore someone to former health, but because healing requires the wielder to know everything about the person to restore them to a previous state, he also gains access to some of the people's powers and strength (which also gives him access to their spells). Time rewinding is also not off the table, since it counts as restoring the world to a previous state. Precisely how he managed to travel backwards through time before the so-called "heroes" found and took advantage of his former naivete to prepare for their inevitable betrayal towards him, only this time... he's more than prepared for it.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: Vanessa has the power to use magical thread. She can use her magic to entangle enemies, control someone like a puppet, temporarily keep broken bones in place and close open wounds, and, at its peak, have power over the Red Thread of Fate, making destiny favor her close comrades to have them avoid any attack so long as her cat is nearby. Thanks to mercury being liquid metal and his sheer precision with his magic, Nozel Silva can shape it with great versatility. He's been seen using it to form spears, shields, bullets, swords, an eagle to fly on, and even a giant cage to trap enemies.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_60af9dd	comment	AT fields become this in Asuka Quest, via Spacebattles and cutting-edge physics. They're not only shields, they're blades, platforms, railguns, degenerate matter creators, potential inducers of a Reality-Breaking Paradox, and more. Asuka also figures out a subset of AT fields (dubbed IFF fields) that block only what she wishes to block, allowing her to do fun things like pulling cores out of Evangelions, disintegrate things or cause them to explode by blocking certain particles, electron rip, and much more.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_61d4e874	comment	Scattered throughout Conker's Bad Fur Day (and its remake) are large platforms emblazoned with a giant capital "B." Pressing the aforementioned button while standing atop them does something appropriate to his situation — ranging from consuming copious amounts of alcohol, morphing into an anvil, merely jogging his memory, or pulling out a projectile (itself ranging from knives and guns to slingshots and toilet paper).
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_69071a1b	comment	Mutants & Masterminds, as a superhero system with a great deal of freedom in customization, has several powers that have immediately apparent game breaking possibilities, such as Transform, which at its highest level is simply described as "Transform anything into anything else."; Nemesis, which allows you to simply choose an opponent and temporarily gain powers that will help you defeat them; and Adaptation, which can immediately grant you powers in reaction to a hostile environment, including effects attacking you. One of the most ridiculous is simply Boost, which, by applying its effect to itself recursively, could, in theory, temporarily grant you any power at maximum rank. Of course, that's if your GM lets you get away with that one. Pretty much any game with customizable superpowers needs a GM willing to veto Game Breakers. As of 3rd Edition, Variable is the main repository of these, essentially giving the player a stock of points to do whatever they want with and that they can change on the fly. Its weakness is that a) it still can't exceed the Power Level of your character, and b) the power is expensive and the points you get out of Variable are less than the points you put into it. The idea is that you can instead put limitations on the power so that it reflects more basic abilities and also doesn't leave you with fewer points — for instance, a shapeshifter might have Variable (limited to physical traits), and a mimic might have Variable (limited to the traits of people I have touched). "Array" powers tend to fit into this category, effectively giving the player multiple different powers for a lower cost, at the downside of them not being usable at the same time. The game notes that while sometimes they refer to vague powers like Functional Magic, other times they represent simple applications of powers — for instance, a fire-based hero might have a single-target blast, an area-of-effect attack, or a wall of fire to block people off. "Power Stunts" can give a character one of these temporarily, though it wears them out in the process.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: While Iron Man has different armor for different situations, what pushes him beyond Swiss army knife into this trope is the "Extremis" Bio-Augmentation, which makes him a Technopath able to hack into anything remotely with his mind and summon as many suits of his armor as he needs. His armor also counts as this trope; during Civil War (2006), it's revealed that his armor records the fighting styles of anyone nearby, and (presumably only if the database is large enough) counter their every attack. He demonstrates this while fighting Captain America. Ultimate Marvel's Iron Man has Nanomachines in his blood — in the present-day comics, they're limited to letting him control his armor, but they apparently used to be a lot more general-purpose, including forming swarms of shape-shifting insectoids that can pick locks, disable nuclear bombs, hack into any computer, and transform into an iPod.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_6c148044	comment	Green Lantern (1941): The Sportsmaster has the ability to be an Instant Expert at any sport or sport-related skill, no matter how obscure, competing at a world-record level. He needs it, too, having Green Lantern as an enemy and all.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, Lifebinding can be used to enhance any physical or mental trait of the user, or anything that's a part of their physical self. A Lifebinder can gain enhanced strength, speed, hearing, scent, other senses, reflexes, fortitude, Aura Vision, healing, memory, perceptive scans, grip, jumps, charisma, intellect, swordsmanship, sunforged swords, and only the Light knows what else.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_78ec49bd	comment	In the Young Wizards series, if it exists, you can call it here. And a lot of things exist in this galaxy.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_7a0fa029	comment	In Zatch Bell! Gash's Zagurezemu spell acts as this at times. Despite its stated purpose of making things explode on contact with Zakeru or Zakeruga, it has been used to supercharge Baou Zakeruga, act as a homing beacon, and split Baou Zakeruga in four. The last time even Kiyomaro wasn't sure what it would do.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_7abc4637	comment	In Magical Girl Raising Project, most of the girls' power are described with Exact Words, which leads to many creative uses of their powers: Snow White's powers are more versatile than most people are led to believe. Her power is "to hear the thoughts of those in need", which lets Snow White hear her opponents thoughts if they are stressed enough, which unsurprisingly happens a lot in combat. In Restart, she's capable of using her powers to interrogate people for information by scaring them. Pechka in Restart has the ability to make delicious food after she touches something for five minutes. Doesn't sound very useful in a combat situation. And yet, when she's pinned down by Melville, Pechka uses her power to turn the entire ground ten meters in diameter around her into soup to escape.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_7ceff43d	comment	This is explored in Super Powereds. Some Supers are fairly limited in their abilities. A good number have the standard Super-Strength / Super-Toughness combo, which is pretty much limited to Good Old Fisticuffs. This tends to be just fine for them, who focus on combat training. However, as pointed out by Coach Persephone, in the real world, bad guys are rarely so obliging as to engage in hand-to-hand combat with a Hero. This is why alternative training is for those students, whose abilities are not directly focused on combat. One of the first assignments Persephone gives them is to try a new application of their power. Some are more successful than others (e.g. Alice tries to levitate just her foot instead of her entire body, but it doesn't work). Vince has Energy Absorption, which, initially limits him to fire and electricity, and he's at a disadvantage when faced with An Ice Person (since cold is the lack of energy, he has nothing to absorb). As he learns, however, he grows more proficient with absorbing other kinds of energy, and there doesn't appear to be a limit on how much and how many different energies he can absorb. Professor Fletcher, notably, seems to be the opposite of The Flash in that his primary power is lightning, allowing him to turn into, absorb, and control electricity. He has also learned to use this to give him Super-Speed. Also, Alice later learns that her real power isn't flying, it's being a Gravity Master, with flying being the most basic manifestation. Then there's Globe, who is a Reality Warper, which means that he's effectively a god in a spherical area about 20 feet in radius, being able to do pretty much anything he wants to the molecules in that area.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_7d985ff1	comment	Epithet Erased: One of the three stats is Creativity, representing an Inscribed's ability to come up with clever new uses for their Epithet, and in terms of actual effectiveness, it generally seems to be the most powerful. Sylvie can put people to sleep and summon things out of dreams. The applications for this range from unleashing an army of imaginary sheep to psychologically traumatising people to falling asleep to give himself a Super Mode. Molly's "Dumb" epithet mostly focuses on reducing the power of things. She uses this to negate summoned/empowered effects, nullify damage, shut down sound, and even temporarily reduce people's intelligence until they'll believe whatever she just said. Giovanni has managed to turn the ability to summon and manipulate soup into a reasonable offensive and defensive toolkit that allows him to protect not just himself but his friends. Sure, the "offensive" part of that toolkit is mostly throwing orbs of soup, but even though it's only the "lavacid" he keeps insisting it is if you're very generous with definitions, that's still boiling hot liquid! Inverted with Gorou, whose Imagination is so bad he can't even make his Epithet do what it does - his "Bluster" epithet would presumably allow some amazing wind effects if he used it well, but the most he's able to get out of it is being able to exhale very hard.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen (2013): Elsa's ice powers prove useful for offensive and defensive fighting, creating and sustaining living snowmen, architecture, walking on water, and that's just the first movie.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_843d1304	comment	The book ends too soon to fully explore it, but this seems to be the gist of Fat Charlie Nancy's power in Anansi Boys. Having inherited from his father (The Trickster God, Anansi) the nebulous power of 'stories', he's able to essentially warp reality any which way as long as he can sing it into a plausible story. Of course, stuff like 'miraculous recovery from mortal wounds' or 'evil god is permanently sealed in a can' make for excellent stories... To a lesser degree, but much more explored, is his brother Spider's power, which basically amounts to 'convincing'. A key skill for a Trickster, obviously, and he's not shy about using it in the straightforward way. But he can also enable someone to walk on water just by convincing them that they can, make a house inaccessible by convincing the street that it doesn't exist, convince a door in a boring row-house in London to lead to a grand condo in Brazil, or access secure files by convincing the computer that he's got the password. It doesn't work on ornery mothers-in-law, however.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_87e00d8e	comment	Jinx of Teen Titans (2003) has the power of bad luck, which proves to be incredibly versatile.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_8ba4613a	comment	In Death Note, Light does so well in figuring out imaginative new ways to use the Note — whilst adhering to its rules — that even an experienced user like Ryuk is surprised by what it can do. But then, it is mentioned in the series that not even a given Joe Random Shinigami knows what all the Death Note is capable of.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_927d32e6	comment	Half of the point of Playing for Keeps, really. Characters using their supposedly useless superpowers to do amazing things is what the entire last third of the audiobook is about.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, the teachers of U.A. High School encourage this in their students. They explain that getting into the habit of overly narrow applications of one's powers limits their potential and causes glaring weaknesses in their fighting abilities. Despite being introduced as being an equivalent to Shigaraki's "Decay" ability, Overhaul's Quirk is one of the most versatile in the series. On top of the ability to disintegrate someone at a touch, Overhaul can heal beyond even what Recovery Girl can do, regenerate any injury that does not affect his hands, reshape concrete and stone (it's implied this goes for any other solid material), fuse his body with other people's (allowing him to access their Quirks), and seemingly reverse death in some instances.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_980c3316	comment	Shazam!: In the Post-Crisis stories, Captain Marvel has learned that the lightning bolt he uses to change can have other uses. For instance, it can break spells imposed on the Marvels in their human form, and can power up equipment if it's hardy enough to absorb so much energy suddenly. It's a powerful attack if they say their magic word close to an enemy and dodge the resulting bolt, causing it to hit their opponent instead, as seen in Kingdom Come and homaged in both Justice League Unlimited (in which Marvel loses because he fails to dodge it) and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (as a heroic brutality and a grab move). It can even be used as a Magical Defibrillator, providing there are two Marvels, one to call down the lightning, and one to absorb it safely; otherwise this works the same as the attack. That, or have a physiology that can stand up to the power of the lightning (which is how Black Adam saved Atom Smasher, whose body regrows itself when he changes height and so could deal with the power).
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: XLR8's sole power is Super-Speed, which beyond just letting him run really fast, allows him to Walk on Water, pull off Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, appear invisible to the naked eye because he's too fast to be seen and create a devastating whirlwind by running around in a circle.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: This is considered to be necessary for any skilled Devil Fruit user. By Word of Oda, Devil Fruit powers don't grow any stronger over time but their users can learn to use them in all sorts of new ways. Main character Luffy has the ability to stretch, which he's used to increase his blood flow to greatly increase his speed, blow into his bones to give himself the strength of a giant in a limb, and combine the two. It's hard to say which is more surprising, in retrospect, about Luffy: that there are so many plausible uses for being made out of rubber, or that someone as stupid as Luffy can think of them. Then there's Kuma's ability to push, which he's used to push away attacks, push the air to create air bullets, push away pain (and push the pain into somebody else), push himself to essentially teleport, and push opponents away from himself to wherever he wants. Viola from the Dressrosa arc can form "goggles" with her fingers. This gives her x-ray vision (perfectly logical), clairvoyance (still logical), telepathy (a reasonable extension of eye powers) and the ability to make her tears into giant whale figures to crush her enemies with (chalk that one up to a Japanese pun). Donquixote Doflamingo is great at showing how utterly versatile strings can be. Offense? Cutting, Whips, Bullets, Puppetry... Defense? Web Shields, Decoys... Mobility? String roads attached to the clouds... Healing? Internal wound stitching... All of the above examples except Luffy's fruitnote It's actually the Human Human Fruit, model Nika are Paramecia Fruits, meaning that the powers they grant don't have any fixed pattern; it's not surprising that some of them would be extremely flexible. However, there are also example of Logia (Elemental Powers) and Zoan (Animorphism) being used in very creative ways: Enel (sometimes spelled "Eneru") is a Logia-type who like all Logia-types has the ability to create, become, and manipulate an element; in his case, lightning. While he does use it to attack, and like most Logia-types reflexively becomes intangible against physical harm, and should something nullify his intangibility and knock him out his power can act as a Magical Defibrillator, but his most dangerous attribute is his ability to 'hear' electromagnetic waves; this combined with his observation Haki (which boosts a person's senses and sensory-processing capabilities to an insane degree) means that he knows everything that happens within a completely absurd radius, making it essentially impossible to plot against him since he's also as fast as a bolt of lightning. He also uses lightning bolts and strong magnetic fields to heat and sculpt metal respectively, though how he does that with gold is anyone's guess. Tony-Tony Chopper is a reindeer that gained the ability to transform into a human, which as a side effect gave him human intelligence. The fruit, strictly speaking, only lets him access a full-human form and a hybrid form (in addition to his original, full-deer form) but his human intelligence, combined with medical training, let him develop drugs to create additional forms that are distorted in useful ways (such as having extra-strong arms, extra-fit legs for jumping, massive horns, and huge amounts of thick fur to block attacks). Marco ate a Mythical Zoan that lets him become a phoenix, a bird made of blue flame. Not only does this give him Flight and the enhance physique that all Zoans gain, but most physical attacks simply pass through his phoenix form (similar to a Logia), and any injury he sustains can be healed rapidly when he is in flame form. He can also transform his body parts selectively, even summoning blue flames only over wounds to heal while otherwise fully human. The Amazon Lily arc brought prominence to the previously-hinted-at ability called "Haki" (basically weaponized force of spirit) by showing us just how many different powers can be created by using it. Over the course of one battle, we saw Haki users: enhance attacks to the point that hair can shatter stone, bypass Luffy's rubber defenses with impact blows, read attacks ahead of time, harden one's body to block any attack, and create a wave of awesome capable of knocking out dozens at a time. And the fact that these are all powers that other, unrelated enemies had over the course of several unrelated arcs makes one wonder how many other applications there are for Haki.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_a4516177	comment	Konoko from Oni has a "hyper-evolved" form of cancer that actually replaces tissue up to and including entire organs as they are stressed or damaged, with the attributes needed to survive the stress or damage. That is, if the damage in question doesn't immediately kill her: she regenerates fast enough to survive in acid and be immune to invasive surgery but being stuck in a grinding machine is still fatal. Justified in that said symbiote was designed specifically to make the host capable of survival in a catastrophically polluted Earth. On the other hand, the symbiote is not entirely sane and may try to hijack the body, with the Daodan Imago form Muro transforms into implied to be the result.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_a4e1e41a	comment	In Juxtapose, Izuku's Quirk, "Minor Banishment", lets him delete 10 g of matter from existence for as long as he's touching the object, knows its structure, and its location. It's derided for how limited it is, but he later finds that it has far more applications than he could have ever imagined. To date, he has learned how to cut through virtually anything with it, can perform Psychic Surgery on brain tumors and kidney stones, move at Super-Speed by manipulating the air around him, and even fly.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering players often complain about this in white's role in the color pie. Other colors kill creatures or return them to their owner's hand; white removes them from the game. White can destroy enchantments, something red and black cannot, and blue has to "bounce and counter". Even vampirism is sometimes a white ability, as the lifelink (when this creature deals damage, you gain that much life) ability shows. However, it is the one colour that has no card drawing (with a few enchantment-oriented exceptions), which balances it very well.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_aab02655	comment	His armor also counts as this trope; during Civil War (2006), it's revealed that his armor records the fighting styles of anyone nearby, and (presumably only if the database is large enough) counter their every attack. He demonstrates this while fighting Captain America.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_aad9b544	comment	In Tales of Maj'Eyal, the Stone Wall spell at a high enough level produces a temporary 3 by 3 cube of walls at the target location, doing significant damage to enemies caught in the effect. This can be used to temporarily block off a passage, block projectiles, take a few turns out of the fight to rest and heal, or trap a single isolated enemy.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In the first 2 parts of the series "channel Life Energy through organic materials" sees a staggering number of uses and personal variations. And after Stands are introduced in the 3rd part, users will find a lot of different ways of using their powers. Josuke's Crazy Diamond has the ability to repair things. He's broken a slab of pavement and repaired it in an upright position for some quick cover, he's wrecked a motorcycle to get around an obstacle and then fixed it right after to keep up the pace, he's "fixed" projectiles sent after him to return them to sender, and by the end he even makes homing missiles by "fixing" his own dried blood to send it (and the glass shards it dried on) towards a bloodstain he left on the villain's suit. Giorno Giovanna's Gold Experience in particular is noted for an especially versatile Stand. It revolves around giving life to things, and beyond the obvious healing applications, can also transform inorganic objects into plants and animals, speed up the life cycle of certain living things, and hit people to speed up their thought processes and disorient them. Jotaro manages to invoke this despite not even really having a power that he knows about beyond his Stand existing at all. Star Platinum, Jotaro's stand, has a range of two meters, Super-Senses, Super-Speed, Super-Strength, high precision, and the famous Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs; also, like most stands, it's an intangible manifestation of the user's soul. Jotaro abuses this latter fact to steal exercise equipment, beer, and magazines while locked in a jail cell, talk to people underwater (through Star Platinum's mouth), poke people with the force of a gunshot by thinking all his Stand Power into Star Platinum's index finger and extending it to the edge of his range, increase his durability by having Star Platinum block attacks from inside his body, stop and restart his own heart by phasing Star's hand through the body, draw incredibly detailed pictures in the span of about a minute, see microscopic and far-off objects, and perform brain surgery on a malevolent Puppeteer Parasite. Part 6's Jolyne Kujo's Stone Free probably has the most unimpressive power out of the main jojo's parts up until her introduction, but has an extreme and expansive amount of abilities she can perform with her stand. While its power is simply to manipulate strings, but this allows Jolyne to use it to eavesdrop on distant conversations in the form of sound vibrations through her string by the same principles behind the tin can telephone but also converse through them, slice people with the sharpness of the strings, pickpocket small objects, weave a tight net instantly strong enough to stop bullets to protect herself, create a large net to capture enemies, tie people up for various uses, mainly pulling them in range or choking them, stitch her wounds, deploy a "string barrier" to detect movements over a large area, create complex patterns to the point where Stone Free can make a portrait, swing from place to place, pick a car lock to start the engine without the key create a net strong enough for her to run on and counteract an enemy's ability to turn things inside-out by meshing affected areas of her body into a MÃ¶bius strip. And that's not even getting into the fact she can unravel most of her body or her stand's body to increase her stand's effective range or minimize damage against herself! Weather Report's stand (as his name suggests), can control weather. This power is pretty versatile as it is, but Weather still manages to take it further by stretching the definition of what could be considered "weather". For example, he can summon rare and freaky weather occurrences, like animal rains — a rare phenomenon where small animals are picked up by high winds and subsequently dropped from high altitudes. Because of that, he can conjure rain of frogs and freely choose which species of frogs it will be — including highly poisonous south american frogs. And then when he unlocks his memories and regains Heavy Weather... well, let's just say it's not pretty. Similarly to Hamon in the first two parts, Steel Ball Run has the huge variety of Spin techniques. Essentially, a certain technique lets one imbue objects with incredible rotational momentum; this version of the Zeppeli family uses Spin-imbued steel balls pressed to the skin to stimulate nerves and muscles for anesthesia and cures similar to acupressure. Gyro uses the same steel balls to power up his horse's hind legs in order to make a dangerous jump, twist the wrists of people pointing guns at him (causing them to shoot themselves), kick up dust, and deliver disproportionately damaging blows to enemies. Johnny, who is paralyzed from the waist down, first uses the Spin to mount his horse: he convinces it to lick him in such a way that he is imbued with Spin, letting him flip himself up onto its back.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b4726fcf	comment	In Star Impact, Lily's gloves, Heartbeat Hero, let her buff up any part of her body to massive proportions, which is unique among glove powers for having many different applications which combine to make her an effective Lightning Bruiser: Its most common application is buffing up a single arm for a hefty combo-finisher, but she can also buff up both arms to better hold a guard. By bulking up her legs, she can dart in and out of her opponent's range to perform withering hit-and-runs, or for a quick getaway out of her opponent's range. Buffing up her torso lets her withstand body blows better, which she takes lots of since she prioritizes protecting her face. She can also buff up her face for these purposes if need be. If so inclined, she can combine all of these and bulk up her entire body into Heartbeat Superhero form — where just one good punch sends Aster flying. She can also perform a Heroic Heart Attack, where, in this form, she buffs up a single arm even further.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man's Projectile Webbing and Spider-Sense are sometimes treated this way; for example, using the webs to make anything from shields to swim fins to hang gliders, or using the spider-sense to sense which wire to cut on a bomb. Once in the old animated series, he makes a motorboat entirely out of web. No, not a sailboat, a motorboat. The series is notoriously bad about this; he once makes a parachute, which is relatively plausible, but another time, he makes a sword. Not to mention that the webbing, at various times in the comic, has served as an electrical conductor and an electrical insulator. It's been shown that Spidey has different chemical compositions for his webbing, and if he knows he's going to be facing someone like Electro, he uses the insulating kind. In one case, he mixes up a batch that takes advantage of the whole "spider silk is stronger than steel" thing and slaps it on his uniform to use as armor. Unfortunately, he then had to fight a villain who not only fire and ice powers, but a modicum of common sense; a few near-miss fireballs melted the armor, and a blast of ice locked Spidey in a suit-shaped coffin. He smashed out of it easily enough but that was the last time that idea showed up. Though he's never put it in use due to Thou Shalt Not Kill, Spider-Man points out to Kingpin once as he's beating the life out of him that he could kill him (and potentially many others) easily and very painfully any time he wants by shooting webs inside someone's lungs and forcing them to slowly suffocate to death as their respiratory system turns into a bunch of useless tissue and webbing. Silk's webbing has similar properties to Spider-Man with the added advantage of being organic and capable of being spun into clothing.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b500f0c4	comment	Izuku's Quirk in Raindancer, "Liquid Body", allows him to produce, manipulate, and become water as he pleases. This renders him Nigh-Invulnerable to physical injury because he can pass through virtually any attack or simply disperse into droplets if he's ever smashed or crushed. He can also manipulate the temperature of water at will, flash freezing foes, shaping his limbs into razor-sharp ice blades, and manipulating clouds by drawing in or releasing moisture. He can also pressurize his water to slice through objects at a distance, fly by manipulating his own liquid form, and shield himself and others from oncoming attacks with barriers made of water. He can also heal nearly any of his own injuries simply by turning into liquid and reforming. As if he needed anything else, all of the water he makes is drinkable and he never runs out. Not bad for such a "simple" power.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b5c89107	comment	Carrie has them in Carrie, though not in any of the film adaptations (Carrie (1976) or Carrie (2013)), where telekinesis is only applied to move physical objects. Carrie of the book can invade bodily processes to stop her mother's heart or implant thoughts, and read the thoughts, memories, and entirely life history of Sue at the end, which suggests she can do it to anyone.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night Shirou is able to apply his limited repertoire of spells in a variety of unique ways, from recreating a sword he saw in a dream to imitating the fighting skills of an opponent by synchronizing with copies of their weapon. The second route ultimately reveals that all of his already versatile abilities are actually just aspects of his only real magecraft, his Reality Marble Unlimited Blade Works.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_ba4778e8	comment	Silk's webbing has similar properties to Spider-Man with the added advantage of being organic and capable of being spun into clothing.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: Cosmic Boy has the ability to control and sense magnetic fields, which has over the years been used to allow him to "fly" without a flight ring, create a personal force field, yank people around by the iron in their blood (though he usually avoids this, since the internal damage can kill them), and operate as a computer-hacking Technopath which makes him incredibly effective in the computer driven setting in which he lives. He can, and has, locked people out of their own buildings and systems without anyone even having a chance to realize he's using his powers.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_beacd636	comment	Bomberman 64 and its sequel give Bomberman the ability to do this with his bombs. Unlike the 2D games where bombs are only used to blow things up, in 64 Bomberman can use them as platforms and utilities for solving puzzles.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_c346fa94	comment	Cypher of the New Mutants has the widely-mocked ability of omnilingualism. He can instantly understand and speak any language, which sounds really limited, but creative writing has allowed Cypher's ability to prove very useful. The baseline is language, and anything related to it is available for Cypher to take advantage of. Apart from ordinary languages on Earth, he can use alien languages, dead languages to cast spells, and crack computer encryption via secret codes. He's also a tech genius because he can understand mechanics and computer languages with no effort. After he died in 1988 via a Heroic Sacrifice, and then came back to life over twenty years later, Cypher's abilities were expanded even further. He became an expert fighter by reading body language and copying various fighting styles (not unlike Taskmaster). Furthermore, his ability allows him to develop complex computer systems through languages he developed, which proves a vital tool in establishing the status quo in X-Men (2019) by creating an entire network for the land of Krakoa, the refuge for mutants everywhere, and he develops a unique language that only mutants can understand that is psychically transplanted to all residents.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_c41a1960	comment	The Incredibles: Elastigirl, being able to stretch any part of her body to great lengths, is able to shapeshift into many different shapes and forms. These include taking the form of parachute or hang-glider, flattening herself, or making herself extremely tall. Violet can use her force fields in a variety of situations. She can surround herself, other people as well as objects to protect them. She can also use them as weapons, widen gaps in walls so they are big enough to go through, and even cast them as projectiles to shatter falling objects.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_c4282b71	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle has her magic. Not unusual for unicorns... however, she seems to specialize in all kinds of magic. An early episode has Spike comment that they've discovered twenty-five types of spells she can cast, ranging from teleportation and telekinesis to giving somebody a mustache, and she's still learning new ones as the series progresses. This is in contrast to other unicorns, who have only a little magic to match their special talents, as well as standard telekinesis and light-generating powers. Twilight's special talent is magic. It's heavily implied she isn't unique in this sense. Many Unicorns have specialized in magical wizardry over time, such as Star Swirl the Bearded. Trixie was introduced moments after Twilight explained her special talent, suggesting she is similar (though less practiced). Most unicorns posses magic, they just don't specialize in it. Rarity has telekinesis but dedicates her life to clothes, and only seems to bother with telekinesis and Gem finding. Similarly, flight is extremely useful, but a lot of Pegasi (Fluttershy, Bulk Biceps, Scootaloo) simply specialize in other things.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_ca540ab0	comment	Great Lakes Avengers: Ashley Crawford, better known as Big Bertha, has the unique mutation of swelling her fat cells at will. In addition to letting her change size, Bertha's power grants her Super-Strength, Super-Toughness (to the point of being Immune to Bullets and completely absorbing the impact of a speeding truck at her fattest), and fantastic jumping ability. In her civilian form, she is even able to exploit the Most Common Superpower trope by selectively swelling the mass of her breasts and curves, making her a successful (and extremely wealthy) plus-sized model.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Hisoka has two special abilities: Texture Surprise, which allows him to reproduce any image on a surface in perfect lifelike realism, and Bungee Gum, which allows him to give his Battle Aura the properties of rubber and sticky gum. The ways he can use these seemingly mundane and unimpressive abilities are staggering. With Texture Surprise, he can conceal injuries or fake documents directly under the nose of observers. With Bungee Gum, he can create bungee lines to repel and adhere to any surface, use his aura to grab opponents and pull them in to lay down a beating, attach his aura to opponents and then to other objects to make said object strike opponents at high speed, use his aura to both trap and shield himself from oncoming projectiles, create prostheses for lost limbs that (combined with his texture surprise) make him seem like he was never hurt at all, or wrap his aura around his lungs and heart so that they can expand and contract, allowing himself to come back from the dead.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	In Tsukihime, Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are a lot more multi-purpose than you might think at first. This is because not only can he kill anything that's alive... he can kill inanimate things too. In the original Visual Novel, he killed a hallwaynote it collapsed, the groundnote cracked and nothing ever grew there again, poisonnote it cured the poisoned, a vampiric infectionnote the person stopped turning into a vampire, and various locking mechanismsnote they fell apart.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_ef7b3325	comment	The Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four learned the cause of her Invisibility: force fields, the shape and placing of which she could manipulate, in a variety of useful ways such as in an offensive attack (think invisible, bullet-shaped forcefields — ''mind bullets'', that's Telekinesis, Kyle!), carrying herself in the air as a mode of transportation, or putting air bubbles in the bloodstream of someone's brain... Related to her invisibility, more recently she's been able to use it to change the colour of her hair and, to an extent, her skin (i.e. making it look like she's got dark hair and a tan), as a method of disguise. However, this comes with the downside of requiring headache inducing concentration. Even before that, she was capable of feats like blinding a person by turning their optic nerves invisible.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f00d733b	comment	Most supernatural characters in the New World of Darkness have set lists of powers they can learn. For Mages, these are more like examples and guidelines. "Rote" spells are easier to cast (larger dice pool for casting, lower Paradox risk), but if you can convince the GM that you ought to be able to do something with Arcana X at level Y, you can.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f1fbeee0	comment	Destroy the Godmodder: The ability to control fish and fish-based products with your mind should be pretty useless... most of the time. A limitless supply of fish oil definitely helps matters though.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f349915b	comment	In the Dragonlance SAGA system that came out in the late nineties, all magic was divided into Schools of Sorcery or Sphere of Mysticism. The spellcasting system was freeform, so a creative player could use what schools of sphere they knew to create nearly any effect they could think of. So a person with the Spiritualism sphere(which deals with controlling incorporeal undead) could have spirits lift them up so they could fly.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f5fec525	comment	The Poets from The Long Price Quartet have access to this power. Any abstract concept they can describe with absolutely no ambiguity becomes theirs to control in the form of the Andat, bound avatars of the concept. So, the poet who controls Stone-Made-Soft can at will alter the hardness of any and all stone everywhere. The poet who controls Clarity-Of-Vision has complete control over all beings' clarity of vision. However there are limits. The andat are constantly seeking to escape by playing on their captors' mental weaknesses. If an andat escapes it must be described in a completely new way to be bound again.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f6a54e75	comment	The Power of the Keyblade in the Kingdom Hearts series is defined as being capable of open any lock. This extends from things as small as treasure chests, to things as grand as the keyhole that leads to the heart of the world itself. It can also be used to lock or unlock a person's heart, leading to a variety of dangerous effects. In Kingdom Hearts II, Hades exploits this by tricking Sora into using the Keyblade on a barrier placed by Zeus himself. It falls easily, allowing Hades access to the Underdrome. By the Final Mix+ rendition of the second game, though, it starts getting weird, where the Optional Boss "Lingering Sentiment" demonstrating the Keyblade's ability to transform into a whip, a buckler, a humongous bow, a humongous cannon, what seems to be a humongous drill bit, an airspeeder, and a floating pickaxe. And then later games give the Keyblade the abilities of a hoverboard, a bow, wings, gauntlets, pleats, floating shields, chains, shrapnel, claws, fantastic firearms, and a heart manipulator/extractor. At this point it would be easier to list the things the Keyblade can't do.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Kurama has the ability to control plants. He just happens to have the seeds for different demonic plants on him that allow him to do pretty much anything, from flying to trapping enemies in Lotus Eater Machines. Kuwabara can make a sword out of Pure Energy. The majority of the fights that he wins are done so by manipulating said energy in slightly different ways, letting him do things such as: trap four monsters by impaling them and connecting the ends around a tower, pole vault over wide gaps, extend his sword to hit an opponent who moved too quickly, and, when faced with a villain who can move his vital organs around to prevent any hit from being fatal, expand his sword into a giant tennis racket shape to completely pulverize the guy.
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Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fbaae86c	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fbaae86c	comment	In Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, the magic of House Amethyst have been used to grant super-strength, create constructs like claws, shields...
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Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fbaae86c
Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fe1b5414	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fe1b5414	comment	Mob Psycho 100: In this world, Psychic Powers are about more than just lifting things with your mind. These powers are refined by each esper, and they can learn new techniques unrelated to the ones they already know (such as Teruki's pyrokinesis and Mob's Chlorokinesis), meaning any esper could potentially learn just about any psychic technique with enough effort.
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Mob Psycho 100 (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fe1b5414
Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fe225cd4	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Swiss-Army Superpower / int_fe225cd4	comment	The Chronicles of Amber's Merle gets hold of a magic ring that taps into so many mystical sources, it can do just about anything, thus letting him thumb his nose at the agendas of both the Pattern and the Logrus, as well as his interfering relatives.
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Swiss-Army Superpower	processingCategory2	Superhero Tropes
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Captain Marvel (Kelly Thompson) (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Elongated Man (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Guardians of the Galaxy (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Guardians of the Galaxy (1969) (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Invisible Woman (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Mighty Avengers (2013) (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Plastic Man (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Scion (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Shazam! (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Spawn (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Super Young Team (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
The Flash (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Ãœber (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Wonder Woman (Comic Book) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Friendly Foreign Exchange Student Spider-Man! (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
A Better Class of Criminal (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
A Waterbending Quirk (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Intercession (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Lord Doom (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Mischief In Musutafu and Other Such Tales (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Odaliaverse (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Raindancer (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Sect (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Skittering Campione (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Superwomen of Eva 2: The Ultimate Rush (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Superwomen of Eva: Lilith's Herald (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
The Soulmate Timeline (Fanfic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Dragonball Evolution / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Marsupilami (Franchise) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
A Certain Magical Index / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Am I Actually the Strongest? / int_76b744c7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Dragonlance / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Hidden Talents / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Horus Heresy / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Magic Ex Libris / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Playing for Keeps / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Roxy Was Here / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Shadow of the Conqueror / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
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Black Cat (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Black Clover (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Candy Flurry (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Chained Soldier (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Karneval (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Kekkaishi (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Kinnikuman (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Lost+Brain (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (Manga) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Leyline (Roleplay) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Puella Magi Adfligo Systema (Roleplay) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Weaverdice Tongju (Roleplay) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Kamen Rider BLACK RX / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
The Cape / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Battle High (Video Game) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
DC Universe Online (Video Game) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Digital Devil Saga (Video Game) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Fiend Folio (Video Game) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
MARVEL SNAP (Video Game) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
The Descended (Webcomic) / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
The Backyardigans / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower

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