Rohan Kishibe posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBSRA2k7FBE

Rich Uncle Chet posted:

Iida's outfit makes him look like Dudley from Street Fighter which I am super okay with

Slime posted:

Quirks manifest during childhood, don't they? I wonder what Hagakure looked like when she was younger.

DrSunshine posted:

I wonder if there's a guy out there whose quirk is simply just invinciblity? Whatever happens to him, he's totally okay!!

Fabricated posted:

DrSunshine posted:

I wonder if there's a guy out there whose quirk is simply just invinciblity? Whatever happens to him, he's totally okay!!

DrSunshine posted:

I wonder if there's a guy out there whose quirk is simply just invinciblity? Whatever happens to him, he's totally okay!!

DoubleDonut posted:

Yeah, that was Butterball. He showed up during Avengers: The Initiative and later made a few appearances in Avengers Academy. I liked him because he got to have a fun storyline and also because the middle of nowhere he's from is pretty close to the middle of nowhere I'm from. Part of his thing was that his invincibility basically extended all the way to being physically numb - he enters a relationship with a girl who pretty much ignites everyone she's around because she doesn't affect him, but his superpower is so thorough that he can't even get aroused.

(Also Taskmaster and Constrictor letting him beat them up were actually working as instructors and were trying to cheer him up after he got kicked out of the program but w/e)

Fabricated posted:

I can't remember the comic but there's actually I think an X-men comic or spinoff where there's a story about a bunch of kids being trained because their powers are good (I didn't think it was the Xavier institute but I can't recall).

One fat and out of shape kid has the power of being completely, utterly, immutably invincible. Like, the strongest characters in the comic's universe would not be able to physically harm him.

The problem is that his invincibility is because his body is in some sort of permanent unbreakable stasis. He can move/eat/breathe/etc but the instant his X-gene kicked in his body stopped changing. So he's fat and out of shape forever to the point that he's useless. He won't get worse, but he won't get better. They called him Butterball I think. He ends up washing out of the program but two villains who kidnap him IIRC feel so bad for him after realizing the catch of his power that they cheer him up by pretending to have been beaten by him, complete with letting a photo get taken of him standing over them.

DrSunshine posted:

Duuuude, this is awesome! I have got to read this one.

Bad Seafood posted:

It ain't invisibility, but I'll do you one better...or worse, I guess. It's also an X-Men guy.



This dude's name is ForgetMeNot. His "Power," basically, is that he's utterly forgettable on a personal, narrative, and cosmic level. Nobody notices him, nobody remembers him. If he deliberately tries to interact with you, yeah, sure, then the twain shall meet, but the minute your conversation's over or you get distracted or you look away for a second, you won't remember having ever run into the guy at all. This works on people, machines, programs, etc. No photographs of him exist and he never shows up on security footage.

Needless to say, the guy's been secretly instrumental to a lot of X-Men victories, only of course nobody remembers him. That used to bum him out, but eventually he realized that being so forgettable meant he could do a lot of good from the shadows for the sake of the little guy. Big name heroes make big time enemies. You get famous and suddenly you're always tussling with demigods and monsters and world-ending aliens and megalomaniacs who think they know what's best. You get on a lot of people's personal hit lists. Even if you're widely beloved, you're likely being held to an impossible standard, and you're definitely spending all your time fighting off cosmic threats rather than improving people's day-to-day lives. So, ForgetMeNot made peace with his predicament and mostly spends his time, out of sight, out of mind, making a lot of little differences in people's lives.

X-Men swings and misses a lot of the time, but I've always liked this guy.

Rodenthar Drothman posted:

Why have I never heard of this guy?

Waffleman_ posted:

Still invisible because invisibility isn't her quirk, like Tokoyami's bird head isn't his quirk.

Waffleman_ posted:

I'd imagine that's the point.

RatHat posted:

People keep saying this but I don't think it's true. All the author said in the omake was that there was more to her quirk than just invisibility, not that it wasn't her quirk.

Vengarr posted:

It's possible she's just an invisible person who also has a Quirk. Sorta like how Tokoyami is a birdman who has a Quirk totally unrelated to being a bird.

Vengarr posted:

It's possible she's just an invisible person who also has a Quirk. Sorta like how Tokoyami is a birdman who has a Quirk totally unrelated to being a bird.

Waffleman_ posted:

Hagakure had to have passed the entrance exam somehow. It wasn't a sneaking mission.

Bad Seafood posted:

It ain't invisibility, but I'll do you one better...or worse, I guess. It's also an X-Men guy.



This dude's name is ForgetMeNot. His "Power," basically, is that he's utterly forgettable on a personal, narrative, and cosmic level. Nobody notices him, nobody remembers him. If he deliberately tries to interact with you, yeah, sure, then the twain shall meet, but the minute your conversation's over or you get distracted or you look away for a second, you won't remember having ever run into the guy at all. This works on people, machines, programs, etc. No photographs of him exist and he never shows up on security footage.

Needless to say, the guy's been secretly instrumental to a lot of X-Men victories, only of course nobody remembers him. That used to bum him out, but eventually he realized that being so forgettable meant he could do a lot of good from the shadows for the sake of the little guy. Big name heroes make big time enemies. You get famous and suddenly you're always tussling with demigods and monsters and world-ending aliens and megalomaniacs who think they know what's best. You get on a lot of people's personal hit lists. Even if you're widely beloved, you're likely being held to an impossible standard, and you're definitely spending all your time fighting off cosmic threats rather than improving people's day-to-day lives. So, ForgetMeNot made peace with his predicament and mostly spends his time, out of sight, out of mind, making a lot of little differences in people's lives.

X-Men swings and misses a lot of the time, but I've always liked this guy.

DrSunshine posted:

I'm telling you guys, it's telekinetic force-field powers just like Sue Storm, and Hagakure just happens to be a nudist.


This reminds me of a character from an Alan Moore 2000AD comic -- The Ballad of Halo Jones -- who's basically a person who has had so many sex changes that they ended up somewhere in between, and somehow gained the ability to not be noticed or remembered.

Vengarr posted:

Interesting concept, but obviously tricky to write long-term.

DrSunshine posted:

This reminds me of a character from an Alan Moore 2000AD comic -- The Ballad of Halo Jones -- who's basically a person who has had so many sex changes that they ended up somewhere in between, and somehow gained the ability to not be noticed or remembered.

Vengarr posted:

There was another Marvel character with the exact same schtick--she had some sort of field that immediately deleted her existence from people's brains (and all recording devices, somehow). She showed up in the Agent X comics, where the main character had juuust the right amount of brain damage to be the only one who could see her.

Interesting concept, but obviously tricky to write long-term.