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Marvelous Miscreant
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The best powers are based on facts....if you have to explain it extensively, its not as cool.

That's why I stick to the laws of physics for the most part. Except when it comes to magic based stuff, then logic goes right out the window.
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Zaleramancer
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Wrong!

Black holes and antimatter are unrelated.

Antimatter is simply matter with an opposite charge and spin.

Black holes are dense areas of space time from which nothing can escape due to extreme gravitation.

Darkness is simply an absence if light. Deactivated photons would be something contrary to all sense.
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Basically, powers that work barring the premise of how they work..

So, explaining how umbrakinesis would affect things, without explaining how those fields would be formed.

Your first explanation seems like the most interesting and easily explained.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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My last name is Parker.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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What are deactivated photons supposed to be?
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. The best powers are the best executed. Explanations matter, but they don't make or break the power. It's great if you can explain it, but an explanation does not make the power as amazing as it is. And science does not currently explain everything that is possible in the universe. They know a great deal, but scientists do not know everything.

To disregard something simply because you cannot fully explain it, or do not fully understand it is, quite simply, a bit silly. Case and point: 80 years ago, nobody thought space travel was possible, and centuries ago, nobody believed that the world was round.
“…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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I suppose you could have a blackhole composed of antimatter.

Wouldn't change much.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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Photons that do not exude light. And if someone knows all the mechanics of why a photon does not behave in such a way that photon deactivation is possible, then by all means, put forth that same knowledge to figure out an alternate means by which Umbrakinesis can work, without defying the possibility of that quantum.
“…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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That would be your opinion, not a fact. Do not tell me my opinion is wrong.
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Well, apparently, these people aren't all that big of fans of the Superpower List. By scientific standards, 99.99999% of them are completely impossible, including the ones we consider favorites.
“…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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I can tell you what I like. You have your opinion, and my opinion is that yours is wrong.
“…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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Photons are light.

Wouldn't "deactivating" them simply turn them into nothing? (Which violates the conservation of energy like nearly all superpowers)
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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It doesn't really matter to me.

All I require is a chart explaining the anatomy of a photon. I just tried looking for one, and I can't seem to find it. Grant me that, somebody, and trust me, I can find a way to make Umbrakinesis work.
“…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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Marvelous Miscreant
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Would you mind keeping your believe that I'm wrong to yourself then instead of blurting it out in a rather rude fashion?Or at least phrasing it differently, because this....

Shadowulf1 (Wulf) wrote
Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.
..is rather insulting.
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Zaleramancer
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Suspension of disbelief.

I don't try to analyze superpowers for validity unless someone claims they have one of the comic book kinds.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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Um, I'm not stupid. I know photons are light, and you know I know that. Still, what are they made up of? What mechanics go together to cause that body of matter to do what it does? Matter doesn't just stop at the particles we know. Where's an anatomy chart, so I can know what goes into making up photons, and making them work to bring forth light?
“…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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