Creating a tv series and need some unique powers

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Creating a tv series and need some unique powers

jal901
As it says I am creating a tv series about individuals with powers. Regardless of whether you think it is good or not I need some power suggestions. When I say unique, I don't mean obvious powers like teleportation and flying. I want something different but they also have to be decent powers as well!

Here are a few (they may not be the best so need so more ideas lol):
George - has got infrared vision (similar to Predator)
Jonas - can activate peoples powers who haven't activated themselves, e.g. say the whole world has got powers with most people not knowing how to activate them, he can activate them through touch
Ryan - can make certain body parts temporarely paralysed through touch (on other people)
Lisa - can make awareness of her surroundings within seconds
Joel - has the ability to pause people rather than the whole time itself
Felix - has the power to transfer diseases between people

These are not that great, so if anyone can suggest more superpowers that I can add would appreciate it!
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Gentleman Vaultboy
Most of the powers actually seem fairly mundane (I.e. nothing that vulgarly breaks the laws of physics.)

Keeping with this theme:

-Being able to exsanguinate someone via touch.
-Complete control of all bodily functions.
-Excrete a glue like substance from anywhere on your body.
-The ability to hit a vocal note that brainwashes people.
-The ability to perfectly read body language.
-The ability to perform mitosis.
-Being host to a colony of insects.
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WonderDrow
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You came to the right place I suppose.

Seems you're looking for more or less original powers that are fairly limited but interesting enough for a realistic story.
Not easy to find stuff that's not already used in comics and the various series with superpowers.

Ok, I'll have a shot at it.

* make solid (non-living) material that you touch temporarly fluid. For example usefull when you're handcuffed.
* the ability to control someone elses hormone production. basically influencing their feeling and attitude.
* to have an arau that allows people who are within range to use their own unique very limited magic. Or if magic sounds to fantasy then it could boost their natural abilities like strength, focus, speed...
* unpredicable hallucinations that give hints of what will happen in the near future.
* flying object bending.  When something is trown to have some control over the direction it will move. very useful for any ball sport.
* perfect photographic memory combined with art skill. to be able to draw a face or scene down to the fine details just from memory.
* living taser. getting charged by static electricity to the extend that you can shock someone unconcious by touch.
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jal901
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Cheers guys, some of these will help!
More suggestions would be good though.
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Celadon's Penultimate
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The ability to:

*adhere to Cartoon Physics
*turn any container into a vortex that leads to an infinite-storage mini pocket dimension.
*cause dreams, hallucinations and mirages come true.
*perceive the dreams, hallucinations, delusions and mirages of others.
*produce a chrysalis (cocoon) to transform into a more powerful form
*reverse the precognitive connection (rather than seeing a future that will happen, imagine a future you want, to make it come true)
*perform themed magic (choose one theme, such as the four elements, or the seasons, or truth, or lies/deception, and only do magic according to that--only get ONE choice)
*pscyhically program media (TV, internet, radio, newspapers, etc) to show events from nearly any time period desired
*psychically gain royal status over some domain of nature or the universe (King of the Elemental Plane of Fire, Queen of the Elemental Plane of Ice, King of the Insect Kingdom, Princess of the Animal Kingdom, etc)
*obey commands to exaggerated effect (being told to stop a foe allows user to gain powers needed to do so) at will
*psychically turn blood into red plasmatic energy (similar to Cyclops' optic blasts)
*psychically cause foes to see light in the negative
*psychically cause foes to act the opposite of how they want to act
*psychically erase matter by hand (act as a human eraser)
*psychically have a body orifice (preferably mouth or belly button) that acts (voluntarily) as a portal to other locations
*psychically immobilize foe's faces (keep eyelids open for torture, keep mouths closed to starve them, etc)
*psychically transmute one type of machine/device/piece of technology into another
*psychically absorb and/or project color
*psychically perceive color (even to the point of selectively tracking specific colors at will)
*psychically turn physical matter into digital data, and digital data into physical matter
*breathe in and/or breathe out any gas one desires
*alter one's skin color, texture and composition at will
*alter one's eye color, type (compound, slit, etc) and visual capacity (night, telescopic, periscopic, microscopic, ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray, 360-degree vision and more) at will
*impart, manipulate or remove immunities at will
*negate instincts
*manipulate the intensity of injuries
*breath black gas of varying intensity (stun, knock out and kill) at will
*psychically perceive, communicate with and compel babies (of any species) at will
*psychically perceive, communicate with and compel females (of any species) at will
*psychically perceive, communicate with and compel males (of any species) at will
*pscyhically perceive, communicate with and compel inanimate objects at will
*touch and interact with holes as though they are physical, tangible matter, and use them as pocket dimensions or portals to alternate locations
*psychically perceive any of the Seven Deadly Sins at will
*psychically induce any of the Seven Deadly Sins at will
*psychically summon mythical creatures
*shapeshift into mythical creatures
*bridge real and imaginary/fictional worlds
*psychically cause foes to turn inside out
*cause mirror reflections to gain sentience and independence of the being casting said reflection (perhaps with a sort of voodoo mirror capability)
*allow mirror reflections to come into the real world (or travel into the mirror world)
*summon food of any kind at will
*transmute any one type of food into any other type of food at will
*psychically transport oneself into others minds, others into one's own mind, or one into one's own mind (bodily or via Telepathy)
*psychically cause foes to randomly jaunt through space/time any time they so much as move
*gain powers based on the etymology or semantic connotation of your name
*wield love, lust, attraction and sexual passion (libido) as a telekinetic psychic force
*psychically manipulate matter of a particular color (ONE color per user, or ONE color per use)
*psychically perceive and mimic the anatomy of any extraterrestrial alien in existence
*psychically perceive and recall any written/typed/printed text or literature in existence
*psychically induce ideas, inspiration and creativity
*psychically steal ideas, inspiration and creativity
*psychically gain power in the presence of other superhumans (depending on how many are present, and the power of each individual present)
*psychically turn matter into glass
*psychically turn matter into sand
*psychically turn matter into ice
*psychically turn matter into salt
*psychically turn matter into sugar
*psychically turn matter into goo
*psychically turn animals into humans and vice versa
*psychically turn toys into their real-life equivalents
*psychically turn real objects into their toy equivalents
*psychically perceive, animate, communicate with and command toys
*psychically cause matter to orbit around oneself
*psychically establish oneself as the literal center of the universe (center of focus/attention, and center of orbit and gravity)
*psychically separate and reattach one's limbs and other body parts at will, with no harm to oneself
*gain physical power in the absence of light
*gain physical power in the presence of light
*gain physical power in the presence of water
*turn invisible in water
*turn invisible in shadows
*teleport through shadows
*teleport through mirrors
*teleport through holes
*turn physical matter into its edible food equivalent
*psychically manipulate weapons
*produce a devastating roar that is seismic, rather than sonic, in power
*psychically produce a voice that destroys matter, regardless of one's vocal volume
*psychically induce good luck
*psychically induce bad luck
*psychically reverse luck (good to bad, bad to good)
*psychically channel luck into objects and physical matter
*psychically steal luck
*More to come 
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…”   --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)
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Celadon's Penultimate
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 Exsanguination by touch? Sounds like one of my favorite mythological creatures, the mythical Haemorrhois.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…”   --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)