# game - superpowers by username
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 20, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422 "2001-06-20T03:02:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/1 "2001-06-20T03:02:28Z")
All right, here’s the rules: pick a superpower for the previous poster based on their username. For instance, if the previous poster were named **Brainiac** , you might suggest “super-intelligence”.
Have at it.
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/2 "2001-06-20T03:40:14Z")
**ultrafilter** : Able to strain large particles in a single round! Osmosis never was so easy with a strong membrane like **ultrafilter**!
Children, your milk never again must have curds. Gentlemen, your coffee no longer need be chewy! Ladies, your margaritas no longer have beach sand at the bottom, because **ultrafilter** is on the way!
Tripler
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/3 "2001-06-20T03:49:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Tripler \*
> \*\ ***ultrafilter** : Able to strain large particles in a single round! Osmosis never was so easy with a strong membrane like **ultrafilter**!
>
> Children, your milk never again must have curds. Gentlemen, your coffee no longer need be chewy! Ladies, your margaritas no longer have beach sand at the bottom, because **ultrafilter** is on the way!
>
> Tripler
> \*\*
TRIPLER: Can make any amount of anything triple in size! Got 10 bucks and need $30? Give it to Tripler! Got a beer but want three? Ask Tripler! Want to REALLY impress the ladies? Ask Tripler to see you in private!
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### Author:  [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/4 "2001-06-20T03:49:42Z")
Tripler, the ability to treble the effects of alcohol and hence make his drunken enemies see 3 of everything.
[sub]okay so I’m drinking and not very good at this game. Should I have said the ability to make his sexual partner to instantly become identical triplets?[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/5 "2001-06-20T03:50:42Z")
Awwwwww…this is almost too easy! 😃
**Tripler** … has the ability to triple any known given physical ability or quantity in him/herself or a person he (or she) touches. This lasts for one hour,
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### Author:  [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/6 "2001-06-20T03:51:41Z")
Tequila Mockingbird: When inebriated, has the ability to mimic every sound she hears.
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/7 "2001-06-20T03:54:36Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Nocturne \*
> \*\*Tequila Mockingbird: When inebriated, has the ability to mimic every sound she hears. \*\*
**Nocturne** , the superhero with a voice!
Able to slay the masses of his enemies with the soothing sounds of a piano man! Karaoke was never so much fun, or such hard work for a superhero like **Nocturne**! Bob Goulet eat your heart out, because **Nocturne** is on the stage!
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/8 "2001-06-20T04:01:26Z")
Freyr - Can cook in grease - but only by mispronouncing the food to be cooked. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/9 "2001-06-20T04:09:59Z")
**Tengu** : Invincible Japanese hero; he can grow to enormous size to defend Osaka from Rodan.
And if you do him a solid, he’ll express his gratitude in a Japanese accent.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/10 "2001-06-20T04:12:31Z")
**Fiver** - always has a five dollar bill in his pocket!
[sub]OK, I admit it - I just want to see someone attempt me :D[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/11 "2001-06-20T04:15:11Z")
**Smeghead** , able to become pregnant, even as a male! (Red Dwarf Reference)
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### Author:  [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/12 "2001-06-20T04:21:01Z")
Speaker for the Dead-able to unite the unliving through his masterful oratory and use them to smite the forces of evil!
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/13 "2001-06-20T04:26:48Z")
**hardygrrl** : teenage super-sleuth cousin of the Hardy Boys… with an _edge_!
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### Author:  [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/14 "2001-06-20T04:28:43Z")
[giggle]
hardygrrl, able to make the fellas get hard in a single flirt. No offense, hardygrrl, but I couldn’t resist. 🙂
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### Author:  [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/15 "2001-06-20T04:34:20Z")
Astroboy14: Able to change from dog to boy in a single Jetson episode and say herro, 'orge, and erroy.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/16 "2001-06-20T04:44:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> Astroboy14: Able to change from dog to boy in a single Jetson episode and say herro, 'orge, and erroy.
Ha!😃
I was thinking something more along the lines of “Master of Time, Space, and Dimension” myself…😛
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### Author:  [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/17 "2001-06-20T04:52:09Z")
Celestina: with her two tiny hammers, able to play any glockenspiel-like instrument, **instantly**!
(Good thing I had a dictionary handy, I’d never heard of a “celesta” before.)
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### Author:  [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/18 "2001-06-20T05:25:11Z")
**Math-Geek…**
with the power to solve any math problem in his head instantaneously!
even quantum proofs!
_with a supercharge-_
asking him, “what is the last digit of Pi?” causes reality to collapse around him, giving him the ability to reshape it to his will with the powers of math!
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### Author:  [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/19 "2001-06-20T05:36:16Z")
**saepiroth** able to beat up and capture any villian in the time it takes them to pronouce his/her name!
He/She can only be weakened by saying his/her name, correctly, 3 times in a row.
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### Author:  [@ryoushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryoushi)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-superpowers-by-username/69422/20 "2001-06-20T05:51:13Z")
**Mercutio:** Able to put a plague on both your houses!
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