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Q&A Would pyrokinesis be an effective defense?

I've read comics in which someone with pyrokinetic powers was able to block bullets with a sheet of fire. I have three questions How hot would the fire have to be to melt a bullet passing through...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Josh Taub‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Josh Taub‭

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Q&A How could my hard telekinesis work?

So, in my setting, telekinesis is divided into two sub-fields: Soft telekinesis allows for precise manipulation of objects but doesn't pack a punch. Newton's third law is negligible for this type...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Performance enhancing drugs (mostly realistic)

I have a character in my story who is immortal and heals very quickly (think Wolverine). Ignoring physical side effects (but keeping in mind psychological ones) what sorts of drugs could he take to...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by P.Lord‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by P.Lord‭

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Q&A How can someone be immortal and still age?

I need an explanation for how one could be immortal and still age. If one was truly immortal one would remain an infant forever. How could this be explained? I'm working on a character who is supp...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by SJS‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by SJS‭

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Rigorous Science Splitting the atom with a hammer

In a world of superheroes the job of blacksmith is given to the very strongest of them. Question Is splitting an atom in a human-scale piece of work by using a human-scale tool even theoretically...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A Is superhuman durability biologically possible?

I have read about protagonists who get smashed through buildings, going through earth's atmosphere from space onto earth's surface unharmed , get launched across the sky and smashed into concrete. ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Skye‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Skye‭

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Q&A Why isn't my superhuman always hungry?

I'm writing a speculative fiction story that includes superhumans. The focus is on individual characters and their daily lives, and I'm trying to maintain some consistency by not throwing all the l...

13 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Dubukay‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Dubukay‭

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Q&A How would a superhero who needs to fall asleep to use his powers fall asleep during battle?

The Dreamer (a.k.a. The Sleepy Psychic by his teammates and enemies alike) has telepathic powers. The problem is that, while extremely useful, he can only use them whilst sleeping. My question is, ...

17 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A A proposed method of flying for superheroes

I can understand Super-beings' great strength and some of their other powers, but flying is hard to justify. I want to consider only superheroes that can actually fly rather than merely jump tall ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A Would a flying superhuman leave a contrail behind?

I'm writing a speculative fiction story that includes superhumans, and I'm trying to get some of the specifics nailed down. Several of my superhumans have the typical powers of flight, usually able...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Dubukay‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Dubukay‭

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Q&A How Useful Is Super Strength (for punching)?

Comics are full of superheros with super strength. These heroes punch through walls, lift and throw tanks, and wrestle with buildings. But that's superhero physics. The fact is that without leve...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Dan Smolinske‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Dan Smolinske‭

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Q&A Scientific/biological basis of someone with unlimited willpower?

Meet Greg. Greg was born with pretty average genetics. It seems like he was destined to have average intelligence, average strength, and be average at everything. There was one particularly though:...

13 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A Could a Superhero with radio wave powers hear the radio?

Is it was technically possible for a superhero that senses radio waves (like low frequency EM) to "hear" the radio? This superhero senses radio waves a bit like we can see visible light, though n...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Nierninwa‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nierninwa‭

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Q&A Effects of a human moving faster than sound

Let us suppose that we have people who for all intents and purposes are human, except for one (not so) tiny modification: they are able to exert enough muscular force and react fast enough that the...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monty Wild‭

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Q&A How to prevent rupturing internal organs while web slinging?

According to the Film Theorist's video on Spider-Man Peter Parker would undergo extreme g-forces during his swinging around. This is not so much of a problem, as any g-force based loss of conscious...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by tox123‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by tox123‭

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Q&A Could a really fast man catch a bullet?

Let's say that a character moves much faster (>100 x) than a bullet. If he is shot at, could he theoretically catch the bullet (and put it in his pocket) ? What happens when he touches the bu...

15 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user53220‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user53220‭

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Q&A What type of acid could burn through skin and any type of metal?

This is my first time using this site and i'm excited to get answers to roadblocks that have prevented me from finishing my writing in the past. However, you may have to excuse some mistakes I make...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Anti-Logic‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Anti-Logic‭

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Q&A Inhaling vastly more air than one's lung volume

For characters with Superman-style "super breath", the amount of air being forcefully exhaled is often vastly greater than is possible to hold in human-sized lungs. However, this poses two major pr...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by MarqFJA87‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by MarqFJA87‭

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Q&A Phasing Superhero

Currently I am working on how to explain a character that can "phase" through objects in a similar manner to Martian ManHunter. His abilities are negated by certain (rare) metals. His ability cou...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by HadesHerald‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by HadesHerald‭

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Q&A Could the genetic makeup of two parents theoretically combine just right to make a superhuman, or at least semi-superhuman child?

Basically I want my character to have only gotten their powers through the luck of two parents with the right genes mixing. Technically, given enough time and enough generations of breeding, couldn...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chris Culver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Chris Culver‭

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Q&A Can a master of electricity/lightning magic control the wills of people?

Okay so I just got off an episode of Gotham where this electrician villain dude uses shock therapy to reprogram people to do his bidding. Then I remembered that the brain operates on a sort ...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arvayne‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Arvayne‭

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Q&A What required secondary powers does my speedster need in order to be able to accelerate at 2,250 ft/s^2 without harmful effects?

This question was originally posted in the Sandbox. It's set in the same world as this question, but is not related to it. I have a speedster character whose top speed is Mach 2. She holds back ...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by F1Krazy‭

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Q&A What mechanism can prevent super-healing heroes from accidentally budding?

We're all familiar with the heroes that can't die. Honey-badger (with the claws and the angry voice), Dreadpeel, that girl with the weird cheerleading obsession... Basically they all have the same...

19 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A Would Gravero! experience a massive heat blast after crushing an enemy into a diamond?

My new superhuman, Gravero!, has just entered combat. He's a new superhero with a lot going for him! He's resplendant in his dashing tights, his cape flows in exactly the right direction when he ...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by JBH‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JBH‭

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Q&A Relative Super Powers

The origin of Superman is fairly well known. A baby is sent to a planet and gains super powers from being in the environment (technically the sun, but I believe you catch the gist). I'd like to mak...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Crettig‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Crettig‭

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Q&A How Would A Speedster Communicate?

Related to On a Speedster's perception of time and ability to function in civilian life So I have a character that is always fast, a Speedster really, 1 second is 24 hours to her. As pointed out b...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by MnIce‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by MnIce‭

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Rigorous Science How would humans and society react to a superhero existing and saving the earth?

This is going to be a test run of hard-science, social science edition. This is in accordance with http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/2348/8914. Okay, so a meteor is about to hit the ea...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A On a Speedster's perception of time and ability to function in civilian life

All right, I'm whipping up a speedster character. Figured if she's going to run real quick she'll have to think very quickly so that she doesn't end up as a smear against a wall. So, I did some cal...

13 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by MnIce‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by MnIce‭

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Rigorous Science What would be an actual real life mechanisms of an accelerated healing factor?

I'm writing a rough sketch for a book about a world where people sorta violently and suddenly get barely working superpowers. That is every time each person uses their power they run the risk of ki...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Shotgun ‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Shotgun ‭

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Q&A Superhero Civil Engineering Techniques

It's 2018. Dr. Evil tried to [rob a bank/destroy the city/take over the world] using a [unstoppable robot army/death ray/zombie ninja T-Rex]. Just when hope is lost, Superdude comes flying in with ...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by mailmindlin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by mailmindlin‭

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Q&A What would be easy or difficult to do with the power to directly control light?

Without going into too much detail, let's say someone has a superpower which gives them "control" over actual, physical light: Photons, electromagnetic radiation, what have you. This power requires...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by User6257‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by User6257‭

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Q&A Effects of a warp field based super-speed power

While something like a warp drive is a staple of ftl technology in sci-fi, I wonder how this sort of spatial warping would operate on a smaller scale on earth. The idea has occurred to me to have...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A A human 10x faster at thinking or reacting than the quickest human; could they catch an arrow?

Let us say that someone is 10 times faster at thinking or reacting than the quickest human, assume that they can survive these feats and their muscles can perform them and their senses detect them....

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Christopher Void‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Christopher Void‭

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Q&A Electron Bullets

I have a superhuman character with the ability to fire tightly packed "bullets" composed of electrons at very high velocity and over a distance, say a few meters at a minimum. I know that normall...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Nick‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Nick‭

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Q&A How high can Ludicrous Leg man jump?

Ludicrous Leg Man has never skipped a leg day, as a result of which he has infinitely strong and fast legs and all attendant secondary superpowers. Don't ask why, just roll with it. While performi...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A How do I grant superheroes gravitational manipulation, justified scientifically?

Superheroes! Everybody loves them! (Though maybe not as much as magic.) The point is, I have a world with super heroes in it. I have a pretty good system of power granting, and have basically divid...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by No Name‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by No Name‭

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Q&A How to Use Gravitons for Telekinesis?

I'd like to use the theoretical graviton particle to give some characters telekinetic abilities. My research so far is this: "¢ Gravitons are a theoretical particle in string theory that causes th...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by C. Hess‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by C. Hess‭

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Q&A Can you "glitch" physics?

I recently came up with an interesting idea for a power: glitch power! I originally thought the idea was great until my brother brought up a valid point: what is there to glitch? Normally glitches...

20 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by BlippThePanda‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by BlippThePanda‭

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Q&A A very strong person

I remember reading Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The protagonist is a an extremely strong man, capable of hand to paw combat with lions. The origin of his strength is attributed to living among g...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

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Q&A Disposable/reabsorbed organic body armor in altered humans

In this world, there are a small percentage of humans with "special" abilities. The source of these abilities is alien genetic meddling for their own cryptic reasons (though the characters don't kn...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by EGJ‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by EGJ‭

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Q&A Max humanoid physical strength

EDIT: There were some great answers here, and I realize this is a kinda broad question, but I'm accepting Monty Wild answer as it provided me with the info I needed to push this forward. Now I have...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Santiago Pacheco‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Santiago Pacheco‭

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Q&A Solid material made from human blood

Is it possible to create a room-temperature solid made from 100% human blood? One of my stories features a girl who has the passive ability to block the superpowers of anyone in a 100-meter radi...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by F1Krazy‭

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Q&A When traveling to an alternate Earth, how many generations would you have to breed with the natives to prevent inbreeding?

A group of 35 superhumans from the future get trapped on the alternative Earth still in the Dark Ages. Banding together they take control of a small country and establish themselves up as kings and...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭

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Q&A Would it be possible to punch someone into space?

If two incredibly strong incredibly indestructible characters were fighting on earth could one punch the other one into space? By space I am assuming that we at sea level and are trying to escape t...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Andrey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Andrey‭

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Q&A What kind of damage would a thunder punch do?

The character I'm working om has the ability to compress/decompress air in a 2 foot radius around his body. His signature move is the "Thunder Punch" in which he compresses the air in front of his ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by AJ D.‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AJ D.‭

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Q&A Gravity simulation: Possible?

I want to create a character with the ability to simulate an increase or decrease of gravities effect on an object or area. Is this possible? Restrictions: Gravity will still work (I want to work a...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Josh Taub‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Josh Taub‭

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Q&A Can I build a space elevator from superman's hair?

In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (imdb) a single strand of Superman's hair is seen suspending a 1000lbs weight. Is is possible to build a space elevator from strands of a super strong human-h...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Lump‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Lump‭

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Q&A How do you make a somatic mutation spread across all cells?

Toxic Spiders and Experiments Gone Wrong: Let's Talk About Comic Book Mutations Numerous superheroes get their powers after something mutates their cells. Perhaps it's a gamma ray, and result...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A A pill to enable super/psychic powers?

A pharmaceutical company begins drug trials of a pill that they believe can activate a previously understudied and widely unknown region of the brain. The trial begins and when the first participan...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by skeletim‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by skeletim‭

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Q&A How to Kill the Thought-Crime Killer

Joe Schmoe was six years old when he killed his best friend; it wasn't his fault, it was just the way that he was made... Joe was born with an auto-telepathic telekinetic feedback ability - he has...

33 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭