Aren't most superpowers an infinite glitch by themselves?
Like if they used their voodoo to crank a giant turbine instead of causing or fighting crime, the entirety of the power industry instantly becomes obsolete.
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https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Portal_Creation
One portal at the outflow port of the hydroelectric dam, one portal back up at the top.
Juggernaut running into The Blob.
(Unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Also I'm not sure what you mean by infinite glitch so maybe this is a dumb answer 🤷♂️)
Doesnt the blob cannonly win? Like wasnt the hulk trying to lift the blob so bad that it almost destroyed the earth? Hes theoretically infinitely strong.
The last run of X-Men before the current run, they discovered 5 mutants working together enabled immortality through resurrection protocols.
Your brain is backed up to the cloud and downloaded to a cloned body on death.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Resurrection_Protocols
"Egg produces a number of nonviable biological "eggs," equal to the number of mutants the Five have to resurrect.
The eggs are then injected with mutant DNA from Mister Sinister's genetic catalogue, and then made viable thanks to Proteus' reality-altering powers.
Elixir biologically gives the eggs life starting a new cellular replication process and husk growth
Tempus uses her time manipulation powers to quickly age the mutant husks.
Hope Summers uses her powers to enhance everyone else's abilities. Hope's powers allow the Five to operate at both their peak and in unison.
A telepath then copies over the mutant's consciousness, recorded by Cerebro, from a copy made at the time of their deaths, onto the husk.
Through this process, the Five are effectively able to make new clones of deceased mutants, restoring their bodies, their powers, and their minds as they were at the time of their deaths."
If the mutants would just wear black turtle necks and pitch this around Silicon Valley, they would be billionaires instantly.
Super powers are already an infinite glitch. Theyre supernatural so are inherently glitches. Things like flight, like super man flight, generally don't take effort from the user so already break thermodynamics in small ways. But if you're breaking a law of nature at all you're already going infinite.
Imagine you have a bunch of people with this style of flight. Imagine a sort of ski lift device but unpowered. Have them fly to the top and ride it down. Because no weight is going up, only down, the ski lift doesn't need to be powered. Additionally, because it doesn't take power (food) for people to fly up, then you get free energy extracted at the bottom.
Congratulations, you have created a perpetual energy device with a single super power.
Ok... but what if I was curious abou... you know what, nevermind.
throws homemade mtg super hero themed combo deck in the trash
Most comic superheroes derive the energy for their powers from some external dimension, or in the case of Superman, the Sun.
This pushes the questions onto how things work rather than where the energy comes from. And good luck getting answers there. Writers often contradict themselves.
And I seem to remember there being a story (possibly non-canon?) where Superman is forced to turn a handle forever to generate "free" energy to power the planet.
I think you're thinking of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13
As long as the amount of energy it takes for them to fly upwards some amount is less than the amount of energy it would take for them to physically move upwards then you've got free energy. I only used superman as an example because he's probably the most iconic example of effortless flight. Compare it to characters like bird man that flap wings to fly.
Even if somehow there is not a single example of a character that doesn't use energy to fly and every author made up some strange way to collect energy, you've still made a hyper efficient power plant using a previously unusable energy source. Like if they get power from something like "magic" in the air that recharges over time, then that's still a brand new energy source.
Or just fucking teleporting lol
Most of them. Control over water? Infinite power. Air? Infinite power. Fire? Same. Anything at all that creates movement or new objects? Also infinite.
It's not infinite as long as the person with powers isn't immortal and the engine generating energy needs maintenance.
A physics breaking free energy machine would be called infinite too despite needing repairs
Use the current energy generating machines, it's just free fuel.
Also what if they have the ability to make permanent portals? Then it's infinite after death anyway
Marvel universe: Woofer and Dazzler. Just need a sound to kickstart the feedback process.
Also: Juggernaut and Sebastian shaw.
My thought was to make a plumbing system that pipes water up and down, and someone's superpower removes the effect of gravity on the upward flowing section only. Gravity accelerates water going down, but doesn't decelerate it coming back up. But, I don't know anyone who actually has control over gravity in a defined area other than myself in my dreams.
Magneto, by himself, is infinite power