Would be fun! It's like having Darwin's Adapting ability (From X-men), but more focused and filtered to a greater extreme. Attacked by the hulk? You suck up emotions! Good luck getting stronger, green guy. Fighting Superman? You slowly turn into an enchanted kryptonite elemental, not a walking mess of it, but a living hurricane of the stuff!
Gosh, that'd be fun.
Against Batman, you could nerf the collective experience of those around you to that of a 8 year old boy. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR TRAUMA, MANCHILD, HAHA. haa.
someone has super strength, you develop super speed so that he cant touch you.,
someone uses magic to attack you, you develop the ability to feed on magic and become stronger the more you absorb it.
someone is super fast, you develop area of effect attacks and time stopping capabilities.
it would even be great plot wise for comic books since it would force heroes to fight outside of their usual skill set. and it would also be op because the more they try to adapt you,the more you would adapt to their abilities. the more skilled the heroes get, the more mightier you would get.
there would actually be a reason for the your archenemy to go around antagonizing as many people as he could!
Exactly! For the sake of fairness, these powers drain when he's alone - And even against 'normal' people, he obtains the anti to their skillsets. You'd imagine he went into villainhood as a hobby, when he found how useful his ability was for it in a world of superheroes! His desire to go out isn't necessarily to steal and take and kill, but rather, to gain experience with the world's heroes' anti-skills.
And so, YOUR ARCHNEMISIS was born! Jumping into battle to experience just what kind of power he'll get THIS time. Fighting a speedster? Well, his mental processing power goes further beyond theirs, as does his reaction speed, creating a sort of time-stopping ability where he can outpace them by walking! Super Strength? Teleportation and selective intangibility! A hero that flies? GRAVITY CONTROL! Magic of any sort? Goodness, imagine if he had the ability to shine a light created from The Colour From Out Of Space, capturing the attention of the Great Old One, as the hero mage finds their magic paused, incapable of disrupting Reality when an eldritch monstrosity stares them own.
So much you can do with that, in a story! What else would make fun anti's?
that could turn into a mess... but it could be pretty ******* crowning moment of awesome (or fear)
the your arch nemesis goes to face some random blondie with a nice suit, and finds to his confusion that he isnt developing any skills to counter the man. and then to his horror he finds out that there is no hope in him defeating the foe he is facing.
I don't think so, for the bottom bit - Going against someone slow or inexperienced (I think that's what you were going for) wouldn't make him feel horror - Just make him aware he already has what they have naturally! "This person has no talents. Whatever." Or perhaps... PERHAPS... His 'Anti-Power' for her was suddenly find the numbers of all her ex's in his head (Some kind of subtle auto-toggled telepathy), allowing him the chance to call them all up at once... Texting them "Hey, you busy tonight *winkwink*".
Mwa. Ha. Ha.
Reality Warper... Create a pocket dimention around their immediate form, not unlike a cloak, which forces them to believe their powers are out of flux - Forcing the hero to stop in fear of something terrible happening! That'd be fun. And no one gets hurt! Can you imagine that in a story setting? Super hero Reality Warper attempts to fight HIS ARCH-NEMISIS, only to find when he lifts his hands, a tsunami of emerald grass flips out around him - And HIS ARCH-NEMISIS explains that -his- power is making -their- power go out of whack. And he talks the warper into giving up "Not for yourself, nor for victory, but to save this word... From yourself"!
it could make him go all nutty. and when people are nuttier than usual they make mistakes.
besides the character needs weaknesses as well. so how about when he is fighting someone that doesnt have a huge weakness in his moves (for instance green arrow, who is both mentally stable, and excells in both close and ranged combat) he is at a loss.
meanwhile with things like batman he gets heightened senses(to spot him when bats is trying to sneak around) emp pulses(for his tech) and telepathy so he can really start digging deep into batmans fragile psyche,
yes but it still feels a tad out of the powerset...then again it is just the way i viewed it. also i think THAT atleast would be out of the powersets reach by far. (even reality warping has its limits)
and tech based heroes: you gain the ability to generate emp pulses from your body.,
The main power is, you obtain their anti-powers! Anything that will work against what -defines- them. For Batman, like I mentioned earlier, AN would obtain the ability to regress their mind (Temperarally) to their most traumatic times, as if it had just happened. And so on! Very handy, and fairly vague!
i dont think those would work anymore since luci basically broke free from sources design and is mostly above just about anything sort of pre rektgon beyonder...
that would also be pretty neat. but i think it would go againts the archnemesis powers since it would change his mind, not his physical capabilities.
we already covered most basic ones... time stop you could develop super speed so that you could effectively ignore the effects,electric based you would turn into a rubber man or something along those lines, againts things like hulk you could turn into a gamma ray absorbant(the angrier hulk gets, the stronger you would get)
In fairness, the mind is also a very physical thing! Beyond that, it's not telepathy - You just get the ability to speak 'really really well'! For Luci - Well, goodness, there's always a way! To become the Host of God, perhaps? Imagine that.
Someone with time stopping? You are no longer tied to the binds of linear chronophysics! If they stop time, to you, they're also stopped! You become a fixed point in the universe, even. Mwaha! Electric based, you become a non-conductive metal, or better a superconductive non-destructible force that siphons up their power, changes it from one spectrum to another (From lightning to.. Let's just think of raw plasma? Or perhaps just storing it up for yourself!), and with beings who get stronger the more emotional they get, you can just form an emotional disrupter field around your being!
Hrm. Against Lucy, you would be able to spout chains from Hell itself to drag him down, nullifying his powers however much is needed - Spawn style. (Spawn vs Lucifer, basically!)
With any lantern, they're all well used to fighting their opposing spectrums. I'd think it would, instead, gift you a silver tongue! The ability to worm your words into their ears no mater what. To force them to give up their rings. To break their willpower by -talking-.
For Fear, you would use your silver tongue to 'cure' them of their issues and trauma, same for Red. And so on! Just talking is enough, if you have the right words. Or, even better, like Batman did to Kyle in the Tower of Babel arc, a sort of unblockable telepathy that forcing their rings to turn against them!
Yes to the bottom two. What about basic superhero powers?
the only way to make this more 90's would be if he had an overcoat with a **** ton of pouches on it while he wielded a sword and at least one of his enemies was a woman wearing a little clothing as was possibly allowed on television.