Hyperdimensional entities in SF that aren't superpowered

[Trancephalic]

Eugene the Jeep?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Wendell_Wagner

You mean, of course, Anthony Perkins, not Anthony Hopkins.

:smack:

I knew I should have just gone with “Norman Bates” but I prolly would have fucked that up too and wrote “Normal Fell”.

On the plus side, I just finished another batch of cinnamon-maple pecans, so perhaps I can make amends.

[cochrane]

@Snowboarder_Bo

Aye, but by putting what is being spoiled in the spoiler box, instead of outside it, it kind of makes the whole thing superfluous.

For instance, which of these is well done and which is not?

At the end of Citizen Kanewe find out “Rosebud” referred to his boyhood sled.

We find out that the Anthony Hopkins’ character thinks he is his mother (and is the killer) at the end of Psycho.

ETA: Even better example of a bad spoiler: I’m not talking about movies with a twist ending like The Sixth Sense,

OK, I get your point, but still, if you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t click a box which is very obviously labeled “spoiler.”

[Ethilrist]

The Sphere in Flatland.

[jayjay]

@Alessan

The character of Hoid, AKA the Drifter, AKA the Wit from Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere stories might count. We don’t know that much about him, but he seems to able to wander freely between different worlds (and different seemingly unrelated books) as well as different levels of reality. Despite this, he doesn’t seem to have much in the way of powers - beside knowledge.

Hmmm…Hoid isn’t SUPER powerful but he is quite a few steps above the average denizen of the Cosmere. He has Investiture from several different Shards and, frankly, KNOWING about the Cosmere IN the Cosmere is almost a super-power in itself.

[Chimera]

The White Mice in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series didn’t have any special powers at all.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Chimera

The White Mice in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series didn’t have any special powers at all.

Weren’t they hyper-intelligent, tho?

[Alessan]

@jayjay

Hmmm…Hoid isn’t SUPER powerful but he is quite a few steps above the average denizen of the Cosmere. He has Investiture from several different Shards and, frankly, KNOWING about the Cosmere IN the Cosmere is almost a super-power in itself.

Power is a relative thing. Hoid may be powerful in his own way, but he appears to be much less powerful than the various Allomancers, Surgebinders and so on who serve as the actual protagonists of the books he appears in.

[jayjay]

@Alessan

Power is a relative thing. Hoid may be powerful in his own way, but he appears to be much less powerful than the various Allomancers, Surgebinders and so on who serve as the actual protagonists of the books he appears in.

I’m not so sure. Like I noted, he has Investiture from several different Shards. He definitely has Breaths (from “Warbreaker”), he MAY have allomancy (he has the bead of lerasium from the Well of Ascension…it’s not clear if he’s USED it, but he HAS it), he has Lightweaving (from Yolen, presumably), he has Feruchemy, he regenerates and he worldhops. Just because he isn’t a violent badass with his powers doesn’t mean he doesn’t have them in more abundance than the average Cosmerian.

[Munch]

@cochrane

OK, I get your point, but still, if you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t click a box which is very obviously labeled “spoiler.”

Certainly - which is why I admitted fault at even clicking on such a stupidly vague spoiler tag. But can’t we at least take the opportunity to recognize the mistake, and use the spoiler tag correctly in the future?

[Chronos]

[Moderating]

A spoiler box does no good if it doesn’t make clear what work it’s spoiling. A person can’t meaningfully decide “if they want to be spoiled” if they don’t know what’s being spoiled. As such, I’ve edited the OP to remove the useless spoiler box and its contents.

[cmyk]

@Munch

Certainly - which is why I admitted fault at even clicking on such a stupidly vague spoiler tag. But can’t we at least take the opportunity to recognize the mistake, and use the spoiler tag correctly in the future?

No!

[cochrane]

@Chronos

[Moderating]

A spoiler box does no good if it doesn’t make clear what work it’s spoiling. A person can’t meaningfully decide “if they want to be spoiled” if they don’t know what’s being spoiled. As such, I’ve edited the OP to remove the useless spoiler box and its contents.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

[Quimby]

@Chronos

[Moderating]

A spoiler box does no good if it doesn’t make clear what work it’s spoiling. A person can’t meaningfully decide “if they want to be spoiled” if they don’t know what’s being spoiled. As such, I’ve edited the OP to remove the useless spoiler box and its contents.

FYI there is a quoted post above that still has the original Spoiler.

[Barking_Dog]

In the book Fuzzy Dice the protagonist is a normal guy granted the power to travel to any world he can imagine, which includes other dimensions like a Flatland, for instance. And he doesn’t otherwise have any special powers or knowledge.

[Idle_Thoughts]

@Quimby

FYI there is a quoted post above that still has the original Spoiler.

I’ve edited it out.

[Der_Trihs]

One of the characters from The Madness Season by CS Friedman is a hyperspace entity who doesn’t have any powers beyond the ability to form a body in our universe.

And in fact is somewhat crippled; her kind were taught that trick by aliens who were afraid of them. It was a trap, because eventually they forgot how to exist out of such bodies (they have limited space for memories) and could no longer function in hyperspace.
The Orz of the Star Control setting are apparently all extensions of a single higher-dimensional being into our universe. However they don’t show any powers; they fight with spaceships and guns.