An estranged 3rd cousin of the Midas Touch, the Lukewarm Touch allows its hero to touch any temperature liquid and turn it to room temperature. Perhaps somewhat useful if captured by cannabalistic pygmies.
This person could demand ransom from all the world's governments to prevent him or her from melting all the polar icecaps and thereby devastating the world's coastal cities!
This is definitely useful! Melting ice caps, changing the ocean temperatures would have so saved everyone on the titanic who died from hypothermia, too! I can think of a ton of ways this is useful.
This may not be useful, but he can touch the ocean and make it lukewarm all over the world. May not save the world, but would certainly change the world in dramatic way.
Have to agree with the earlier. He could save people by turning lava cold and such. Or he could be a evil assassin guy turning peoples blood to lukewarm. Can I have this superpower? ;)
First, you're the most lethal assassin in the world. If you touch someone, you can force their body temperature to 20 C, causing a horrifically painful, unstoppable death (hypothermia death happens at 30 C, and you could never warm them fast enough to save them).
Second, you're immune to heat of any kind. You can continually cool the sweat on your skin to make you immune to flames, lava, or even the nuclear furnace in the core of the sun!
Third, you could have your superhero lair in a volcano. A lava-flowing, erupting, totally awesome volcano! You could safely walk across or through the lava by cooling a skin of rock and go anywhere.
Fourth, you could build your own "Lukewarm Spaceship" from extremely viscous (basically solid) liquids and travel anywhere through space, and even dive directly into stars.
Once you can do that, you have a galactic-scale destructive power. Not only can you cause global apocalypse by cooling Earth's (or any planet's) interior, but you can destroy entire solar systems by killing their stars. You could even spawn black holes if the stars are big enough.
And forget about trivial tasks like cooling a power plant's waste water, you ARE a power planet. You are a limitless source of energy. Even the most inefficient power cycle from 10 C to your power's 20 C could produce unlimited power.
This isn't a useless superpower. This is the superpower of a GOD.
If you're a parent that has to deal with reheating formula/breastmilk, this super power would actually be killer.
ReplyDeleteAre you joking?
ReplyDeleteThis person could demand ransom from all the world's governments to prevent him or her from melting all the polar icecaps and thereby devastating the world's coastal cities!
would also be invaluable in helping cool waste water at power plants or any number of other industrial plants.
ReplyDeleteYou could save someone from hypothermia if they've fallen into a pond in wintertime.
ReplyDeleteIf you were a chef and needed frozen food made room temp for easy cooking, this could be a very useful power.
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy for the sole purpose of blighting whoever has stolen my coffee cup with lukewarm coffee for the rest of our days working together.
ReplyDeleteTwo words: molten lava.
ReplyDeletegood for super-annealing? :)
ReplyDeleteYou could survive in Antartica indefinitely. As long as you had food
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely useful! Melting ice caps, changing the ocean temperatures would have so saved everyone on the titanic who died from hypothermia, too! I can think of a ton of ways this is useful.
ReplyDeleteis also good for making a red wine into a good drinking temperature
ReplyDeletesorry guys but as "room temperature"means well below 0 at the poles, you won't be able to melt anything,
ReplyDeleteWell, the power is called the "lukewarm" touch so I think he's got a shot.
ReplyDeleteThis may not be useful, but he can touch the ocean and make it lukewarm all over the world. May not save the world, but would certainly change the world in dramatic way.
ReplyDeleteHave to agree with the earlier. He could save people by turning lava cold and such. Or he could be a evil assassin guy turning peoples blood to lukewarm. Can I have this superpower? ;)
ReplyDelete*VERY* useful. Put out a volcano.
ReplyDeleteIt won't melt anything, though--ice isn't a liquid!
What if you were caught by barbarians, who want to boil you alive?
ReplyDeleteUseless power? This is an AMAZING power.
ReplyDeleteFirst, you're the most lethal assassin in the world. If you touch someone, you can force their body temperature to 20 C, causing a horrifically painful, unstoppable death (hypothermia death happens at 30 C, and you could never warm them fast enough to save them).
Second, you're immune to heat of any kind. You can continually cool the sweat on your skin to make you immune to flames, lava, or even the nuclear furnace in the core of the sun!
Third, you could have your superhero lair in a volcano. A lava-flowing, erupting, totally awesome volcano! You could safely walk across or through the lava by cooling a skin of rock and go anywhere.
Fourth, you could build your own "Lukewarm Spaceship" from extremely viscous (basically solid) liquids and travel anywhere through space, and even dive directly into stars.
Once you can do that, you have a galactic-scale destructive power. Not only can you cause global apocalypse by cooling Earth's (or any planet's) interior, but you can destroy entire solar systems by killing their stars. You could even spawn black holes if the stars are big enough.
And forget about trivial tasks like cooling a power plant's waste water, you ARE a power planet. You are a limitless source of energy. Even the most inefficient power cycle from 10 C to your power's 20 C could produce unlimited power.
This isn't a useless superpower. This is the superpower of a GOD.
I would love to have this superpower, really.
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