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The ability to gain energy through photosynthesis, but only at night.
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The ability to levitate, while sleeping
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The ability to detect life - as blinding light.
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The ability to suddenly live the life of your favorite meme character; Bad-Luck Bryan.
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the power to breathe under water, but only if you remain perfectly still. so no swimming for you.
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RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:the power to breathe under water, but only if you remain perfectly still. so no swimming for you.
That could be quite useful if you're trying to hide from someone.

The ability to breath under water - just not in it or above it.
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the power to see the future, in the form of interpretative dance performed by drunken mimes.
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The ability to shake hands with your own shadow.
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The ability for your body to produce light, but only in bright areas.
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The ability to read anything in under 10 seconds, and remember what you read for just as long.
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the ability to render yourself invisible, to cats.
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That could be fun. *Pulls cat's tail*

The ability to control someone's mind and make them do exactly what they were going to do anyway.
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pretty sure all that's good for is making people paranoid.

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The power to glow.
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^ But only in infrared.

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What, like Michael Jackson?

The power to look like Michael Jackson while talking like Al Yankovic.
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the power to look like a badly modeled, hideously misstextured, cg version of yourself
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The ability to urgently need to pee when you just returned from the toilet.
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The power to eat an entire meal and get no nutritional value out of it.
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Flour power, :D
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The ability to turn bricks of gold into cottage cheese.
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The power to become a voodoo doll.
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The power to quickly become bald.
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The ability to grow out your hair in an instant. Doesn't retract, though.
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I'm pretty sure everyone ever who dislikes having thin/receding hair, would argue being able to spontaneously grow more is quite useful.

The ability to spontaneously shed your skin, all at once like a snake. it gets caught in your clothing though, and you go bald every time you do it.
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The ability to play any instrument excellently, but only the one that your current audience hates the most.
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the ability to read any written language, out loud, in it's spoken equivalent. But it only works if no one in the room understands what you're saying, even you.
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The ability to write the perfect story, with each subsequent story being exactly the same to the point of becoming stale.
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One perfect story could get you set for life, especially if it's made into an award-winning movie.

The ability to see wavelengths UV and shorter, but not any lower on the spectrum (not very good on the eyes).
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The ability to remotely smell when anything in the universe farts.
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The ability to gain superhuman strength by eating diamonds.
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Do industrial diamonds count?

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The passive ability to always be at the epicenter of disasters.
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The ability to be recognized even while wearing a disguise.
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the ability to perfectly play any song on an instrument that has yet to be invented.
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the ability to always come up with the least appropriate thing possible to say in a situation.
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The ability to flip a page, one page at a time with a lag phase of 1 minute.
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The ability to make any aroma smell like something worse.
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The ability to enter into any work of fiction you want, however, you are unable to interact with anything.
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The ability to turn invisible, but you can't be perceived by anyone in any way, shape, or form. Makes crossing the street much more dangerous.
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