You have a useless "superpower"...

[Shadowfaze]

The ability to transform squirty cream into shaving cream. Aaah, pudding hilarity!

 

[Ashz0r]

I would say the ability to manipulate lactose, like off Misfits. But that isn't my own idea so I'd have to go with the ability to light candles by blowing on an unlit one.

 

[Cpu46]

The ability to teleport into a personal universe where I have complete control over everything. I can teleport whenever I want, however I can not take anything from one universe to the other and when I teleport back to either I appear in the exact same place, time, and position as before.

 

[Blunderboy]

The ability to grow facial hair at will. It would of course make a "fwooff" sound.
I could control exactly where it grew on my face (mustache, goatee, full on Gandalf etc) but I would have to remove it the old fashioned way.

 

[Theo Rob]

to be able to squirt lemon juice out of my eyes

 

[poppabaggins]

The ability to look like I'm on fire, but not actually be on fire.

And I'd be able to adjust things like the intensity/color/brightness.

 

[KaizokuouHasu]

The ability to walk under water. I'm still effected by water pressure, and my lungs are still of average capacity.

 

[Kuma_Nur]

I've always been amazed by my super power....whatever line i'm in goes the slowest.

Grocery Store....Gas station, Gamestop, whatever the store if there's two lines the one line i'm in goes slower.

 

[wootsniper]

Something that makes something like new again. Pants, game discs, e.t.c.

lol, pants? XD

 

[Ghengis John]

I would go with control over the growth of my hair. Length, thickness and if/where it would grow. (All right, no more shaving for me!!!)

That or the ability to absorb knowledge just by touching the source. (Like Metro Man, but without the lose of said knowledge after a short duration.)

Those both sound excellent and while it might be fun to come up with my own, as somebody who's losing his hair I'm going to have to borrow that first idea of yours. Sounds perfect.

 

[Dalek Caan]

The power to control my Xbox with my mind or to teleport myself into any game. The first one is lazy, the second is awesome.

 

[KP Shadow]

The ability to travel through the internet, or X-Ray vision, in the sense that I can see X-Rays as well as visible light.

 

[General Ken8]

Anyone use to watch fairly odd parents? well there was this one episode where timmys real parents got superpowers. And the dad had among other powers, the power of meat vision!

He could shoot cooked meat from his eyes. thats the power i want.

That show was pretty great
OT: The power to be amazing at all instruments and be able to write amazing music. Wouldn't be useless, I suppose, but that's the power I want

 

[bam13302]

the power to fix electronics/know exactly what is wrong with them

 

[axeman157]

Not getting fat, heart attacks, or strokes from eating a ton of bacon or other fatty foods.

 

[InfectedStar]

The ability of nightvision, in hindsight it's really quite useless.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

The ability to amp up one of my natural abilities for a short while.

Like making myself much stronger for a few hours, or making myself super smart for a few hours, or faster, etc.

Could be very handy.

EDIT: Or the power to quicksave and quickload in real life. That would be freakin AWESOME!

 

[Lazy Kitty]

The ability to travel to other realities.
And change my body to something from that reality.
[sup]Equestria, here I come![/sup]

 

[Kimarous]

You have a useless "superpower"...

If you could have a power that make your life easier and/or more comfortable, but it could not be actively used to fight/commit crime etc. what would it be?

America.

...OOOOOOH. I thought you meant POLITICAL superpower. My bad.

OT: Write-o-vision, the ability to write on paper using eye lasers.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Change my hair at will. Style, color, length, etc. Then I wouldn't have to worry about wigs for cosplaying and focus solely on the costume aspect.

I raise you shapeshifting! I may not be allowed to use it to fight/commit crimes, but extra strength for moving stuff? Yes please! Extendo arms for reaching? Yup! Have the preferred body type for a potential mate (should I ever want to have sex)? Yup!

I guess it depends on what the 'line in the sand' limitations are. I mean, could I use shapeshifting to make muscle and then fight? Or can I use my shapeshifting to make myself susceptible to muscle gain, and then use that? Or do I need to put on muscle in my current form and fight like that? I mean, if you can shapeshift, then isn't everything you are an extension of your power? So does it just mean that you can't fight ever, or does it mean that you can't shapeshift after the fight begins, or to prepare for the fight, so I could shapeshift into a dragon, fly around, get into a fight, and then fight as a dragon?

I mean, if you can shapeshift, then you have no static shape, so you are whatever you make yourself. So if I shapeshift into someone twice my height, then I am that 'someone'. Shapeshifting is the process, not the end result, so if you were to isolate a crime/fight as an 'event' (starting with 'preparing for it', followed by 'the actual thing', and finished with 'the conclusion/clean-up') then does that mean I can't shapeshift mid-fight/crime, or deliberately shapeshift to be better suited towards a fight I am entering into? Can I only shapeshift after the entirety of the event, so if I committed a crime, I couldn't shapeshift to hide my identity?

This limitations thing does not work well with shapeshifting, because either it just doesn't work, or it is more practical than the OP wants it to be.

See, that's why I didn't pick shapeshifting if the catch is that the super power is supposed to be useless for crime fighting/making. What can I do with changing hair? Tie up evil doers? Defeat Green Lantern by making myself a blond?

The way I interpreted the scenario was that you had a superpower, but were unable to use it for combat/crime purposes. So someone could be omnipotent, but they wouldn't be allowed to use their powers to commit crimes or fight people.

Shapeshifting has the problem of being a transitional power. After you've shifted, you are no longer using your power, so in theory, you could be a shapeshifter, and use the forms to commit crime/fight people, because the forms themselves aren't the power, the act of cahnging into them is.

So I'd stick with shapeshifting and have my 'neutral form' be battle-competant, and if that form isn't enough, then there is no rule about using a superpower to not fight/commit crime. So while shapeshifting is completely over powered for this thread, it can still follow the rules.