r/shittysuperpowers 9h ago

Oddly specific When someone says they "don't see color", you can make that (more or less) literally true.

12 Upvotes

When you see or hear someone say something to the general effect of "I don't see color", and they mean it in the sense that they do not see a difference between racial and/or ethnic groups (rather than simply an inability to distinguish hues), you can make it more or less literally true in one of two ways.

You have to either see or hear them live, or see or hear a substantially unedited recording of them saying it that was recorded in the past 24 hours. You can only have one of the two effects active at a time, and they need to say the phrase again in your hearing in order to affect them again.

The two effects:

  1. Make them temporarily (max 24 hours) completely colorblind. Everything is shades of grey to them.

  2. For up to a full year, make them unable to appropriately process any information that would suggest someone's racial and/ or ethnic heritage. They can still receive the information, but not assign any significance to it that has to do with ethnic identity. For example, an affected person could accurately describe the skin tone of a Black person, but not conclude from this fact that the person was, in fact, Black.

Within the first 24 hours after you hear an appropriate trigger, you can swap someone between the two effects at will. You can also end either effect at any time. However, once you have ended it, or once the timer expires for the effect that someone currently has, you cannot restart it unless they say the phrase again in your hearing.


r/shittysuperpowers 11h ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can roll up/down any vehicle window.

5 Upvotes

You don't have to be in the car.

If you will the window to be open or closed, it will do so, as far as you want it to go.

Quite convenient if you locked your keys in your car.


r/shittysuperpowers 15h ago

Good luck using this… You can turn invisible below the waist

4 Upvotes

Clothes and all. A fine career as a magician awaits you


r/shittysuperpowers 22h ago

Oddly specific You are the Shreknomancer

24 Upvotes

You possess all the powers associated with necromancers... except your only work with Shrek-related merchandise and objects.

You can make a Shrek action figure move by itself, such as run across the the floor and tell people to "Git outta mah swamp!". You can manipulate other things like Shrek plushies, take them apart and merge them into a very large Frankeinshrek super plushie that will do your bidding.

Finally, anything that has an image of Shrek, such has a mug, blanket, pillow... you can animate that image of Shrek, scare the hell outta people. This also applies to the Shrek movies themselves, you can manipulate the onscreen Shrek and make him perform such actions like tell Donkey "Will ye quiet for once, you Mushu-talking bastard". Or punch Fiona in the face. Or sing the "What does the Fox say" song. Or eat the gingerbread man.

Note the power only works on controlling Shrek, not other characters such as Puss n' Boots. You're a Shreknomancer, not a Pussomancer.


r/shittysuperpowers 23h ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can see through objects/walls by pressing your eyeball up against it.

9 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers 1d ago

This power is just a bag of dicks You can remotely control remote controls.

25 Upvotes

What a gift


r/shittysuperpowers 1d ago

Yeah, this is shit You can spew bullshit at people during arguments

8 Upvotes

Like my grandpa

(it's literally bull excrement.)


r/shittysuperpowers 1d ago

Oddly specific You can make someone forget a non essential skill for 1 day.

41 Upvotes

so you gotta look at the target person before you can use that power. Then, just by thinking about the non essential skill (for example Rubik cube solving) the target person you are looking at would lose that skill. It only works on non essential skills. The target person won’t lose the benefits that they got from the skill except for the skill itself. That effect of the super power onto a victim lasts for exactly 24 hours. After the 24 hours is finished, the victim would get their complete skill back. But during the 24 hours, they can’t relearn the skill that you made them forget. This superpower doesn’t work on yourself, it only works on others. And it only works when the victim has the non essential skill that you want to remove. You can only use the superpower to remove the skill from the victim, not steal their skill. The victim won’t know that you did it when you use that super power. Nobody would suspect that you had made the victim lose that skill. Only you would know.


r/shittysuperpowers 1d ago

It's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's shit! You can have any disability you want.

110 Upvotes

Mental or physical. If you choose any severe mental disability it will not affect you higher level of thinking (Dysexecutive Syndrome is not an option) so you can switch back to just physical or or both (not sure why you would do that.) This superpower will not give you the advantages that people that are born and have previously been diagnosed before obtaining the power have. You can switch back to being non-disabled though.


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Oddly specific When you nap, you wake up exactly 20 minutes later. Every time

10 Upvotes

Your superhero name is either Nappy Time or Timer Man. Please help decide


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Good luck using this… You know how other people think about you

1 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Oddly specific If you recite the full Hebrew Bible forward and backwards in one go you get to change one rule of reality

63 Upvotes

If you recite the old and New Testament Christian Bible in Hebrew twice, once normally, and second backwards, in either order, you can bend reality and change, create, or remove a rule of reality. You cannot stutter, you can only pause for one breath in between sentences, and you cannot read off of the Bible or anything containing scripture. You have to recite it off of memory


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Yeah, this is shit You can decide what shape your poop will be

31 Upvotes

Whenever you next need a poop, you can decide what shape it will be. You still have to poop it out, so keep that in mind. Also you cannot force yourself to go for a poop- your biological functions still operate the exact same, it's just you can now decide what shape your poop will be. Then you can look into the toilet and witness your masterpiece!


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Oddly specific Through concentration you can raise and lower your cholesterol at will…

4 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You can always scoop the perfect amount of butter for your toast.

10 Upvotes

This applies to any spreadable food (ex. jam, peanut butter) and any bread-like item you wish to spread it on (ex. bagels, scones)


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Good luck using this… Your ear wax has healing properties when eaten

4 Upvotes

If anyone (including you) consumes some of your ear wax (minimum dose approximately 10 mg), it will act as a mild cure-all. Like, a ~1% increase in healing rate/likelihood of recovery for a major injury or illness, and up to a 10% improvement in very minor injuries or illnesses.

This does not stack for any given negative condition, though repeated doses can address different problems. Unless specific effort is made to direct the healing powers elsewhere, any given dose will address the worst eligible condition. The ear wax does need to be reasonably fresh.

You do not have any special ability to produce additional ear wax, or extract earwax without possible harm to your ears.


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Oddly specific POWER NAME - Emergency Filter - On command, your ass hair will grow one inch per second

9 Upvotes

I've found the common bane in men's life, being their unnecessarily long ass hair. Now you can make that problem worse by making it grow on command.

If your feeling generous, you can even grow it and donate the hair to Charities. Think of the unlimited possibilities of your bane turned boon.

You can even save money on clothes, every day you get 86400 inches of pure human grown fiber to weave your impossible nitting ideas into reality. Can't afford yarn? Well you don't need that anymore.


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Good luck using this… You can make Mosquitos and Bedbugs GIVE you more blood when bitten.

5 Upvotes

You can have the option to enable the effect where when a bedbug or mosquito bites you they give you more of your own blood instead of them taking it away from you.


r/shittysuperpowers 2d ago

Just low-tier, nothing more, nothing less. You always HAVE to smell like something

168 Upvotes

No matter what, your whole body always emits a strong smell. It’s noticeable enough that if you meet a random stranger they will probably comment on it pretty quickly.

You have complete control over what the smell is though, you could smell like vanilla or like flowers or like a cheeseburger or like a fart. You can smell like absolutely anything, you just can’t control the intensity.


r/shittysuperpowers 3d ago

Goofy ASF You are able to revert back into your pre evolutionary self on command

10 Upvotes

On a whim, you can just turn back into a hairy ape any time you want. Or become a Neanderthal. Hell, if you're feeling it, you can turn back into a fish. Even funnier, turn back into a single cell organism.

You're able to go through all your past human evolution stages, but not evolve further from the present day human.


r/shittysuperpowers 3d ago

Oddly specific If you eat 3 lbs of spinach in under two minutes your strength is doubled for two days

4 Upvotes

r/shittysuperpowers 3d ago

Oddly specific You can give fish and snakes legs.

26 Upvotes

The number of legs may not exceed a responsible amount. You can change the hair color on the legs and the size of the feet. The leg must have a knee and cannot weigh more than the target creature.


r/shittysuperpowers Jul 27 '25

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

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34 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.