DarkRay my bro, in life you need to be lucky also or you'll be pooman or dirtguy or something lol

    Gourmet_DAO
    Cliches are fine depending on how you use them. Mine is full of cliches, but I also make fun of them at the same time I use them.

      The_Good_Devil The idea is interesting, up to 3 points. But you should not mention sacred things in the novel if you do not want to damage your karma

        Allen_Clay012 Maybe the ability should be within the limits of realism - like his instinct tells him that in this place there are gold coins or that he should buy this fish and have a ring in her belly? Although this was also the case with European storytellers. It seems to be Anderson and his tales? Damn, how hard is it to come up with something new ?!

          The_Good_Devil yup, indeed but it is a bit weird. No offense tho... Hehehe

          Somehow if I cannot find something that is indeed original. I just manipulate facts or knowledge around me. We can make use of those cliches to make new ideas. Or should we say change some rules with regarding to some of the properties of its abilities.

          I duno...

            DarkRay The main character can turn out to be some kind of asshole :) both in the direct and figurative sense of Khe-khe

              Gourmet_DAO Not really sarcasm but those are really just my thoughts. Its really hard to find new ideas but I do not think it has to be weird at the same time.

              It goes with the saying that "the early bird gets the worm. I wish I could just have been born earlier hahaha.

              Kidding aside, those who make use of the idea worthwile will make it. I mean yeah, they had the idea before you. Sometimes remakes make better fiction out of the original. But not always.

                Gourmet_DAO

                He can also have his superpowers from birth, but they need to be awakened. (So basically, he is not human from the start, or has a special legacy)

                The good points are that you don't need to explains all the why at the beginning. The bad point is that you will have at some point. That means world-building, explaining his origins, why he is special ect.. So a short-story that wouldn't be so short finally.

                  Gourmet_DAO Alternative name could be: Capitan Wind Breaker XD A very cool and respectable hero name I'd say. But on more of a serious note (or maybe not). It's quite unique, that superpower. Not very useful at least in most cases (useful if you want to end a date very quickly :D), but original!

                    Allen_Clay012 and an early bird has an early eagle ... it’s like the Russians have no method against scrap, except for another scrap.

                    But I explained what I mean! Yes, you're right, remakes are sometimes better than the original but not always, like the first seasons are usually better than the second and third seasons

                      Arkinslize But this was with Superman the story of Marvel, he is an alien, cliché.

                      Yes, you’re right, the creation of a new world, the most lousy thing is to describe it, from a funny story, a scientific treatise about a skky world begins to turn out. The cliché is better here, since the world is already known! Like Star Trek, the original version of 1965!

                        Ok ok, that aside. A real, thought out way to gain something like that... Nope, everything was used already? I mean you have animals biting you and so on. Any derivative from that is not original, it was influenced. Any radioactivity, used many times (hulk for instance). You have self made "super" powers, like batman whose, and I just can't... His super power is "being rich", priceless. Or iron man. He made the suit and whatnot himself.

                        Going further, chemicals were used. There is nothing to be honest, you have to derive from something. Naturally born was used as well. Having gifts from birth, it was used many times. Psychic powers, same thing. I don't know about the meteor thing Xd but I suspect it was used as well. Seriously, it's not going to be easy finding something truly original.

                          DarkRay Or he was eating ramen and become the super noodlesman
                          (This me hungry thinking about food all the time)

                            Gourmet_DAO

                            What about crossing thz 4th wall?

                            You say your character always felt he was special, as if his story was written by someone else and he would always be fine.

                            He has no real power, but believe it because so far everything is always as the life of a good MC should be.

                            At some point he makes a leap of faith and survive (thanks to your plume) and then rename himself as Plot-armor man.

                            Don't thank me x)

                              DarkRay The helminthes in my opinion are the most original! But nasty!

                              Or maybe everything is easier, the main character bought on the street, a pie, ate it .... but this is from Alice and the worm and the mushroom ...

                              Yes, it scratches the back of the head ... you probably have to use a cliche ... but more realistic.

                              Try it in the real world, get access to radiation? Immediately squeezed by sanctions! The same for chemicals, but that's ninja turtles ...

                              Except that?! The protagonist sank into the desert, fell into a hole, and there they extracted uranium ... and of the type was irradiated ... and became the Hulk.

                              Or maybe even easier ... drank a glass of water from an unknown source in the forest ... and the sto possess super-power ?! But probably this is also somewhere and someone already had ...

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