LactHarm - Possesses the ability to make other people lactose intolerant.
Reversi - Any toast that he drops always lands butter side up. The universe counteracts this contradiction of one of its most basic laws by causing any cats in his presence to land on their heads.
The Rewinder - Can rewind videotapes . . . with his mind!
The Sampler - Mentally records the words of others and then replays to enhance conversations.
Caller ID Dude - Screens his own calls . . . with his mind!
Actually, this might make him quite a bit more powerful than you might expect. Suppose he could teleport a whole bunch of neutrons into the middle of a mass of U-235?
See Robert Heinlein’s short story Operation Nightmare for more details…
Can I have some toast please?
Sure. Put something rectangluar in here.
Great. Is it done yet?
No, it’s still white. But hot enough to burn your fingers.
When’ll it be done?
When this timer runs down.
I want it now! Give it back! Stabs with fork.
Die, human! BZZT!
I’ve translated this a bit. (eg. toaster for ‘put something rectangular here’ is ‘have a hole in the top’)
These could actually be useful. Yawning in a fight is bad. And it’s not quite soda but if he undissolved oxygen in your blood you’d be dead pretty quick. And the shadow could go round the earth a lot of times in a fast plane and become a giant.
In fact, I’d like to start a thread Superpowers that are cool only when you think about them for a bit
Captain Tanfastic - has the ability to speed the tanning process in olive-skinned people or instant first degree sunburns in people having that Irish blue-white skin.
Mr Fluffy - has the ability to make kittens playful. So far, he’s successfully managed to keep his mutation a secret.
Bill Gates - has the ability to induce a BSOD on any computer he can touch. Including Macs.
Big Alex - able to bore people with unfunny, irrelavant and often pointless posts. Also able to get bogged down in grammar and confused with American language, so that she says something that is perfectly innocent but is taken another way.