I’ve got more than ordinary strength, and low-light vision. As long as there is some light, and I have time to adjust, I can see more than most people. Of course, this comes at the expense of my high-light vision…
I can identify certain metals (especially brass) by touching them and seeing what taste develops in my mouth.
I am Error Replication Prevention Man. Whenever someone comes to me for help because a piece of technology isn’t working, I ask if them to describe what happened, and if they got an error message, etc. They usually can’t provide enough information to troubleshoot, so I go over to see it myself. When I am standing there, the machine will work perfectly.
If only this would work on MY stuff.
Does anyone else want to drop **Naturally Oblivious ** into the movie Blair Witch Project?
I smell a third sequel…
To be able to perceive insult and criticism WHERE THERE ISN’T ANY!!!
OOOOOH! Watch me get my feelings hurt for no good reason!!!
There was more than one sequel? Ay yi yi.
Anyway, I have a couple of TV-related superpowers.
If I have only ever seen one episode of a given TV series, if I’m flipping through the cable channels and find a rerun of that show, it will be that particular episode. Similarly, if there’s a movie I’ve seen before but missed the beginning of, I will be flipping through channels and find that movie again at the exact spot where I started watching the first time.
Also, if I idly remember a specific episode of an old TV show, that episode will be broadcast within two weeks, causing me to say “I was just thinking about this one!”
A slightly more useful superpower is the ability to identify most of the odd orphaned or broken-off molded plastic and rubber bits that usually end up in the junk drawer. “What is this thing?” “That’s the wall mounting clip for the old phone” or “that’s one of the little feet from the toaster.” “Can I throw it out?” “Yes.”
My superpower is the ability to retain a whole lot of completely useless knowledge. Of course, this is balanced by my superweakness of never being able to remember where I put anything.
I can introduce awkwardness into any social situation.
I can also make anyone feel uneasy about approaching me in the future after having only one conversation with them.
So far I have not attained a sufficient amount of control over this power. More training is required in order for it to cause more good than harm.
But I thought I was the only one who had those powers! One of the freakiest moments of my life was pootling around one wikipedia and reading about the show Friends and read some text about how the on-again-off-again relationship of Ross and Rachel became a bit of a cultural meme and was once referenced on the show Scrubs by Carla. Later that day I plop myself on the sofa and put on the TV (something I don’t do often) and started watching a rerun of Scrubs and THAT EXACT LINE was said. Whilst I know that’s less mathematically improbable than the universe suddenly ceasing to exist and so forth you’ve got to admit that’s pushing the term coincidence pretty far.
My other power is to be able to remember faces of people I’ve seen (not even met, just seen) pretty much forever. It’s not photographic memory or instant recall, and I won’t necessarily remember the name of the person, but if I’ve seen them once I’ll recognise them again. I saw a couple of guys on a cruise that I went on and saw them in the street again in London four years later and almost immediately remembered them and where from.
I can flip things a certain number of times and catch them. Hammers, pop bottles, knives (integer spin only!) pens, pretty much anything that is relatively slender.
I can also occasionally foresee the results of sports related actions before the action is complete. Like I’ll watch baseball and suddenly will know the pitcher is about to throw one in the dirt. Probably just some subconscious recognition of a flaw or discrepancy in their windup or motion, but its still pretty cool to blurt out a result 1/4 second before it happens. If only I could find a way to make proposition bets on such short notice…
I sweat.
I walk five blocks and people ask me if it is raining outside.
Six blocks and they ask if I’m having a heart attack.
If a cash register is hung on a check/debit/credit authorization, if I tap it it immediately goes through. I also have ninja-like creeping abilities.
i was immune to “the look” by about age 11
one of my little hobbies is; if a women gives me the look and theres a bunch of look-fearing guys with me, i like to provoke the look even more an watch the guys cringe… then see the confused look on their faces when i dont get castrated 
woot im fairychatmom’s nemesis 
also no matter how blind drunk i am i can always find my way home. this might not seem that impressive, but consider that 1 time my family couldnt find me, after 2 hours of searching they finally checked outside my GF’s flat where id been waiting (no key) for my GF to get home, where we’d agreed i would go at the beggining of the night. they didnt check cos they figured i was too drunk to find my way there (bout a mile away) and wouldt have been able to get inside the flats because of the 2 security doors, so they only checked outside lol.
I can become invisible. I can stand in a group of people and not register with anyone. Really. A friend didn’t believe it, we went into a store, and she was looking at me and I did not register in her brain. She thought she had lost me.
I’m a street walkin’ cheetah with a heart full of napalm. I’m the runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb.
Oh yeah, that one.
I can do simple mathematics really really quickly in my head, up to 5-6 digits. By simple, I mean as in - several of us will be in a contract negotiation, and percentage increases or decreases pop up as questions, and before the calculator people finish, I’ve got the answer. Multiplying 4-5 digit numbers happen for me in a couple seconds, and if I’m not dead on, I’m well within a working margin of error.
I have x-ray vision, but it only works on females. And come to think of it, that one might just be imaginary. But it counts for me.