Ruin a Superpower

But does Flash really perceive things moving slowly? Here’s one answer.

Lois had a brother?

See also the SNL skit depicting the “all-drug olympics,” in which a 'roided-up Phil Hartman rips his arms off trying to deadlift several thousand pounds.

Wouldn’t most any superhero “activities” result in the superhero being stripped naked?* (That is, of course, unless “superfabrics” are a thing.)

*A feature, perhaps, and not a bug.

Venture Brothers had a character who was a parody of Wonder Woman.

Like Wonder Woman, she had a magic lasso, that could compel people to tell the truth.
However, it could not make them shut up.

And since most of her adversaries were heterosexual males, she acquired a lot of information that she really was not interested in hearing.

Superpower: You can suddenly understand every language
Drawback: Turns out people talk sh*t about you constantly in every language

Foiled again by nemesis, The Autocorrector!

When you’ve only got enough money to buy Wolverine’s claws, or Wolverine’s healing factor.

Also, this poor bastard.

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When I saw the title of this thread, I took “Superpower” to mean a powerful country in the world, you know, like the USA or China. I almost posted that trumpy did a pretty good job of almost ruining the USA’s Superpower status. Then I figured out-- oh, like Superman stuff. Sometimes being literal-minded can be a handicap. Leaving now.
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I see their point, but still…

I can’t imagine the well mannered ‘prim and proper’ Amy Adams ever giving out a bj …

I would assume Superman’s sphincter also has super strength.

When thinking about flying, you had better keep it low. Airplanes can sneak up on you from behind considering that they move at several hundred miles an hour and it may be difficult to hear them over the roar of wind past your ears.

With Wonder Woman it’s definitely a feature.

As far as the superfabric goes, I seem to remember a Superboy comic from many years ago about how he was found with a blanket or other cloth in the spaceship from Krypton. That blanket was some kind of superfabric (or maybe it acquired superpowers just like the boy) and Martha Kent made his first outfit from that. Of course that just raises the question of how she could cut and sew it with ordinary Earth needles and scissors.

She used his heat vision.

This Internet copypasta provides a pretty compelling case for why being invulnerable, while sounding awesome in concept, would actually suck in reality.

Superboy used his heat vision to cut it when Ma Kent needed that done. The blanket/cloth has “superpowers” because it, too, was from Krypton.

Who was man enough to give Superman a BJ, presumably over his objections? Wow, that’s some super duper power right there. Or else Superman has more secret identities than we ever knew. Either way it’s a shocker. :wink:

FWIW I had totally the same reaction to the title and was surprised by the OP just as you were.

I was already mentally composing a screed about Putin’s disinformation folks giving a few pointers to the then-nascent alt-right media 20+ years ago then standing back as the snowball of RW BS engulfs the country.

Maybe when they got rid of phone booths, Supe switched to closets…

:rofl:

Kindred (literal-minded) spirit.

Ref the 1950s George Reeves TV show and the earlier comics …

My Dad always said that Superman’s costume was actually a full-body tattoo. When he ducked into the phone booth he ripped off his clothes and emerged naked to fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

Superman was the ultimate flasher.

Dad had a creative and off-kilter sense of humor. Shame he’s been gone ~25 years now.