Originally posted by Senor Cage
What are the limits to Longshot's power?
He can't use them for personal gain. As well as for every boit of good luck that is twisting astronomical odds (trying to make something this is a 1 in 10000 chance a 1 in 1) someone else gets bad luck.
When he tried to use his luck to get a free meal the food truck he was trying to get it from exploded.
When he worked as a stuntman and he used his luck to survive the something he shouldn't have been able to, a close friend of his lost her life.
Because of the bad luck backward kick he no longer tries to make a specific thing happen. Instead he let's his luck decide how it will work it out.
Usually it's by doing small things. Like make Magneto sneeze so his control of his powers is thrown off at a crucial moment.
Stuff like making a helicarrier stop falling out of the sky before it hits him, that is going to give someone else a REALLY F#ING BAD DAY.
Making stuff just miss him, or people slip, trip- not so much. Virtually no kickback