What about a guy who has the ability of a "second chance"? No matter what he does, if it turns out badly he'll have a second chance at it by going back a few seconds in time.
Say he falls into a well, he uses his power and falls up the well until he's back on solid ground.
Very limited time control, like maybe 5 seconds.
That'd make him a bomb ass assassin.
Originally posted by long pig
The other power is basically just a normal soldier who, at all times, sees 30 seconds ahead into the future. He can't actually see normal time at all, all he can see is 30 seconds in the future. It'd be impossible to catch him off by surprise or even to have an accident.
Its been done. As a movie. Called Next, starring Nick Cage ermmnone
Ok, now this one my dad liked for some reason! It's not so much a character concept as it is a story concept. There will be a main character, and he will have powers, but only him and they won't be extreme.
Ok, here: The Story starts off 1000 years in the future, in this future the USA is no longer just the continent it is now, it's the entire planet. So, the USE(united states of earth) realizes that the Earth is dying from all the crap that the USE has been throwing in the air for so long. In fact, it's so close to being dead the entire world is told to evacuate to a safer world.
So, to save their own lives the entirety of Earth starts to evacuate, all the whites and blacks, everyone...except the Native Americans.
They refuse to leave on the grounds that the Earth is their god and they are more than willing to die with it as it dies, they also would like to own it once again without intruders. So, off go the inhabitants to the new world, leaving everything behind that they couldn't carry.
Another 1000 years pass and the indians have turned the earth into paradise. But, to their suprise, they come to find out that those who left Earth long ago didn't leave their bad habits. They hear that the old evacuees have destroyed THAT world as well and they intend on coming back to their old world and, like they did to the indians in the past, steal it from them AGAIN or kill them all trying.
But, the indians have a few tricks up their sleeves, they've had access to all the most advanced weapons and the radiation has changed a few of them...giving them special gifts. They intend on using those gifts in the war against the oncoming ship of evacuees.
Maybe this wasn't that good...hmm
HA!
Beat this one.
Ok, there's this guy who gets transformed into a superman like guy with a few lower level superhuman powers from a ring (flight, strength, durability and some blasting powers), the ring will teleport him to a place where something bad is about to happen.
The catch is the powers and transformation are only available to him after he's been teleported. And it'll do it without any warning and he has no control over it. He just instantly appears at the site, fully garbed in superhero attire and powers on. Like, he'll disappear during a date or while at work.
Don't really have a name. Preemptor or something. I dunno.
the powers concept sounds like freedom ring, that character from a few months ago in the tiny stories marvel prints in the back of some comics. the teleporting to danger without notice is interesting, but immediately made me think of that show with the guy from ed who'd get the next day's newspaper.
i think i'd like the idea better if the guy didn't have powers, but somehow had to fix things through creative means. like, he'd get teleported to where something was going to happen a short period of time before it did happen. and he'd have to figure out what, and why, and how to fix it. maybe. i dont know.
Well, I don't see him getting THAT much time in advance before danger happens. He essentially will get there a minute or two before the event happens. He won't know what it is or anything either.
Yeah, maybe not all those powers. Possibly just two: 20 ton strength and the ability to fly. So he can maybe catch someone falling, pick up heavy debris or fly to a window to rescue someone.