How would you make color manipulation OP? I'm asking for a friend

>>94945272
Camouflage and invisibility is the simplest.

>>94945272
Give people seizures

>>94945272
make everyone the same color

>make everyone black
>/co/ goes on a rampage>>94945290

>>94945304
>>94945332
>a story about a villain the causes all black and white people to swap races
Not sure how that story would go.

>>94945272
Make Flash's costume the colors of Reverse-Flash and vice versa

>>94945272
Weather Report from JJBA puts subliminal messages in the moisture in the air to make everyone think they've been turned into snails could see someone with color manipulation doing something similar

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he can probably change physical objects into waves pass what is visible. I'm no scientist so I don't know how destructive such a thing could be.

Make people colorblind or just flat out blind

>>94945272
turn someone's cornea opaque rendering them blind

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>>94945272
Color is is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories. This perception of color derives from the stimulation of cone cells in the human eye by electromagnetic radiation in the spectrum of light. If your powers of color manipulation applies as such that means you can do the following:

Manipulate things to appear invisible

Create hallucinatory images that look real

Blind people

hyper cancer/death and decay like powers if your abilities are manipulating electromagnetic radiation

But I think we need to define OP

Are lantern constructs considered to be color manipulation?

>>94945452
No.

>>94945272
Color manipulation is just surgical radiation bombardment, more so if you follow the rules of color wavelengths you could be a Radioactive Man that has the fine aim of Bullseye and the charging powers of Gambit. You could charge an apple to have the same radiation as a neuron bomb and then send that radiation into the sky to be spread by sun beams.

>>94945272
Pal, if Doug "I'm all about talking" Ramsey can be turned into omnispeaker demi god, anybody can turn a rainbow wimp into something overkill.

Make him have limitated control about objects/elements using certain colors, influenciate people's mood, enhance some physical abilities based in which colors... many possibilites, actually.

Turn all the earth's plants white so that they all die off.

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Think of a superpower and give it a creative limitation.

>>94945381
I think we need to look up how colors work at the atomic level.
Something about a photon having enough energy to move an electron to a higher position?

>>94945272
make the red wire blue

Have him able to manipulate the lantern colour spectrum.

>>94945566
But lanterns don't get their powers from colors. They are just color coded. How would that do anything? Wait, nevermind, you don't know cause you don't read comics.

>>94945272
spectrum shift a flashlight into the ultra high frequency range to give people instant radiation death

color manipulation means you could change anything printed in a book or on a screen by changing the color of the text.

>>94945591
Nigga it's comic, you can just make it work.

>>94945272
we had this thread like 3 years ago man
i remember that shit

>>94945272
Color all white people. Let's see how long it takes until they start apologizing en masse.

I would turn all the peas yellow and all the corn green!

Without doing anything other than changing how much light of a certain color an object reflects/absorbs/transmits here's what I've come up with

>turn air opaque to create smokescreens to make the whole world lightless
>make something absorb 100% of light and have it start to superheat from radio waves alone
>invisibility (duh)
>make something invisible to all wavelengths, shutting down the electromagnetic force entirely
>make entire environment into a blinding mirror
>make a light source emit kugelblitz radiation
>animate paintings

problem is, all the useful things seem like villain powers. I kind of want something a hero could use

>>94945566
I was just saying that

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Turn the world red with rage. Watch the blood spill.

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>>94945591
>>94945694
It's as if they already did this exact thing!

>>94945272

People underestimate the power of color manipulation. Imagine wanting to eat a delicious meal, then someone turns your food blues. It still tastes and smells the same, but your mind is disallowing your from enjoying it because of the color. Imagine chasing down someone into a corridor of hallways then all of the sudden every surface is replaced with the pattern of bananas. You would have to be a blind person to be able to defeat someone who can alter the visuals of anything.

>>94945272
Turn Blue into Pink and Pink into Blue and watch society crumble.

>>94945340
>nothing really that big happens
>the hood is just as crime ridden as its always been
>blm and the alt-right commit suicide
>a bunch of models will get fired and new ones hired
>plastic surgeons who figure out how to do skin color changes will get fucking rich

>>94945272
Make every person I don't like blood red, with a very clear black 666 on their hand.

>>94945272
It depends on the raw level of control.
Like.
Do you only have local control? If so what's the range?
Or are you a god of color and have absolute cosmic control over color?

>>94945272
Can you color your enemy's eyeballs so all they see is one solid color?

>create replicas of famous gold objects out of tungsten
>turn them gold
>steal real objects and replace them with tungsten
>nobody notices they were swapped for years, since the tungsten passes the weight test and nobody wants to damage the gold with a hardness test

>>94945344
You forgot the part where the message is so powerful that their bodies comply. Somehow.

>>94945591
>>94945779
Blown the absolute fuck out, holy shit.

>>94945272
i need details on how this power works
because there's a huge difference between being able to change frequencies of ambient light versus changing the chemical makeup and surface texture of objects to reflect light in different ways

>>94945381
Because this is super powers we are talking about, what if the color changing ability also allows you to create more cones in somebody's eye? All the sudden you get thousands of more cones than you normally do and you suddenly see colors that shouldn't exist and your mind is broken by seeing the pride parade of God

>>94946726
I'd imagine you wouldn't last long because everything you'd see be such a clusterfuck you wouldn't be able to tell where the sky ends and that 1000 ft cliff begins

>>94946512
Not BTFO at all, I just actually read comics instead of pretending I do

You can manipulate color, so therefore you can manipulate the color of air, essentially creating wieghtless holograms.

You can also make just about anyone blind, maybe even the whole world by changing the colors of their eyes or air in front of them.

You can change the color of the sun, making it pitch black instead of hot white, shrouding the earth in darkness to do any dirty deeds.

You can change colors of intersection lights creating deaths, you can change color of water making people belive the armageddon is coming.

>>94945272
You establish that altering an identifiers color stays consistent with its identifier. So if wear infrared goggles, and change your color to lowest temperature, then you'd become lowest temperature, or more directly, altering color can apply to wavelengths and you can push outside of visible light spectrum and turn something's color to 'gamma ray'

>>94949181
Color Kid already did this to kryptonite.

>>94945272
By taking color away, you make everything invisible. Imagine a world gone blind. Imagine taking all the color away from your eyes. Now you can't keep too much light from burning your retinas. He can make anyone permanently blind.
He could supersaturate everything with the same color and hue. You would again be rendered blind with your eyes unable to differentiate anything from anything else.

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>>94945272

Read Lovecrafts Color Out Of Space.

>>94945514
>Power of flight
>It's as physically tasking as sprinting

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>change the color of all street and traffic signs to the same color
>change all the colors of the pills and labels of bottles in hospitals and pharmacies
>turn all the text in books to the same color of the page they are printed on
>turn everyone's clothes and vehicles and personal items and homes and pets into gross weird colors and patterns
>every sjw I see with dyed hair gets their hair turned back into the original shade
>turn all food into caca brown
>turn racist blonde blue eyed white boys into brunette browned eyed dark olive boys

so many things one could do

>>94949536
It could be argued that the colour itself isnt what's harmful to the family in the story, but the only aspect of an alien entity which humans can detect. It could also be seen as a rustic description of a relatively ordinary case of radiation poisoning.

The band of visible colour wasn't what killed the Gardners

>>94945351
In such spectrum the retina can't see either, you would basically make your enemies blind and invisible, i dunno if that would make you op, but at least it's an useful power

>>94945332
>make everyone black
But Marvelman is already a character

>make sun emit no visible light
>no photosynthesis
>literally can starve the entire planet to death in less than a year

>>94945290
>>94945284
>>94945381
These
>>94949553
I... shit, that's actually a cool idea

>>94946469
God, that was really weird and stupid even for Jojo.

Make the colors distort reality while also being able to hypnotize people
I totally didn't get that idea from a certain manga

>>94945514
>Clairvoyance/future sight
>Visions come in the form of memories, out of order and with no context, similar to a person with early dementia or Alzheimer's being able to recall memories of their lives but without understanding the time period, place, or people involved

>>94945514
Lazer vision, but every time it's "on" you can't see

>>94945514
Heat Vision but you have to wear goggles to avoid the back burn boiling your eyes and scorching your face. Like Cyclops but less gay

>>94949929
Now that's really good

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>>94945381
I just got why you posted a Daredevil pic with your post.

>>94949691
>change the color of all street and traffic signs to the same color
Huh, well it's green but it's the light at the top of the traffic sign. Well, I guess I'm retarded and I'll just go anyway

>>94945272
Have it start with just being able to change colors of objects and things. Simple and straight foward. Then, slowly, have it ramp up the power to figures of speech related to emotion where people start "feeling blue", are "yellow bellied", "red with rage", "green with envy", etc. Then ramp it up to be able to manipulate fate/destiny/state of things, i.e. have a person's account be "in the red", "in the black", to see the "silver lining" of a cloud and exploit it, make it a "red-letter" day for someone (positive luck), or make it a "black day" for someone (negative luck).

>>94945514
an advance healing factor that actually demands you either replace the missing mass quickly or you will thin down/shrink to match your new smaller mass and you can't regain it the same way if you lose it.

>>94945514
>Fire powers
>You're burning you're own calories so you have to be constantly eating or you could die

turn an entire room with a floor full of spilled legos into vantablack

>>94945272
Put color back into the DCEU movies.

>>94945514
Telekinesis but you can only push and pull things respective of your body, and it's tied directly to your core strength.

>>94945514
>Perfect Memory
>Some memento of it has to be physically on your body

>>94945514
>Able to shapeshift
>Only able to work with your own mass.
>No more, no less

>>94945514
Super speed.
But each time you use it your cells decay faster, effectively causing you to grow older faster when ever you go fast.

>>94945340
>>94945304
That's what the first 6 issues of Cable & Deadpool are about, a guy wanting to make everyone skin blue to end racial discrimination

>>94945514
>perfect reaction time
>you perceive time at an insanely slow rate making conversations hard, and waiting agony

>>94945514
>Super strength
>Not durable to the impact

I guess to be fair, Saint Seiya has that as a plot point. It's why they must wear armor.

>>94945272
Well, if you don't want to blind your enemies you could give them Irlen syndrome. Pretty much every illusion spell from dungeons and dragons/pathfinder. Switching colors to change how people perceive traffic lights would get them killed.

>>94945272

>>94946406
I feel like step 3 is pretty hard with just color manipulation

>>94945272
depends how this power works
are you changing the photons?
how they photons interact with the objects?
or how things perceive the colors?

>>94945340
So the problem with switching the skin tone of people is that for most races being a different color doesn't really impact anything. On the other hand, just look up pictures of black albinos. It is not pretty.

>>94949691
>turn all the text in books to the same color of the page they are printed on
Just highlight the text

>>94945272
Put him in the DC universe, color manipulation is OP as shit there. He'd be the ultimate hard counter to any color Lantern. Red Lanterns become Blue, Green become Red, Yellow becomes White, etc.

>>94951432
He's a DC character. From the Legion of Superheroes era. His big feat is that after earth is covered witha haze of green kryptonite gas, he turns it blue to save Superboy (and fuck over any bizarros that show up, maybe, they never really touch on it again)

>>94951512
Shame he never left the Silver-Age, he has potential for some fun stories.

>>94945514
>Can heal any wound
>You heal via transferring the wound to yourself or another person

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>>94951527
He was blinded by Earth-Man and replaced by Rainbow Girl

>>94951547
that actually sounds like a pretty OP offence ability.

>>94945514
Mutant Strength
You must leave humanity behind

>>94951547
that already happened in swamp thing

captcha: surgery street

>>94945340
Switching skin tone won't switch genetics. Blacks will still be animals, whites will still be whites.

>>94949929
Isn't this what movie Arrival is about?

>>94945272
Turn everything black to the point of absorbing all light. Congratulations, you've just blinded the world.
If you happen to be fighting Superman, turn the sun red.

>>94950501
Except facies will still be the same. That's a fucking retarded scenario.

>>94945340
The Sneetches. That's literally the Sneetches. Or even that one FoP episode. You can change how people are on the outside, but anyone using that for a sense of superiority or identity will just switch it to match their new appearance, or something else. That's just part of human nature.

>>94952231
Don't you have somewhere to be, /pol/?

>>94945340
>race is a thing you can just swap
it's like you wanted to change every car into a sportscar by putting a ferrari logo on them
that is not how it works

>>94953241
Knowledge of reality doesn't make me /pol/

>>94953427
Bitch we are talking about super powers here
nothing is impossible

>>94945535

A photon having the exact energy needed to cause a conformation change in the iodopsin molecule in your receptor for that wavelength.

>>94945514
>Invisibility
>Fades if you get a boner.

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>>94950367
>Finally, a power for someone like me!

>>94952325
Yes, Deadpool took note of that and continued to point people out for being black or slav.

>>94945272
>Literally became the color queen because of infectious lass.

I don't know if this was intentionally ironic or not since we're talking silver age here.

>>94945272
If you can create truly 100% absorptive black and apply it as coating you could revolutionize the solar industry, translating photons perfectly into heat. On an industrial scale this could be incredible, similarly to perfectly reflective surfaces.

On a more personal scale if you could coat yourself in similar people wouldn't be able to use their depth perception on your movements. No one would be able to parse what is happening because you would look 'flat'. That's not a bad combat trick.

The really nutty stuff would be converting matter into X-Rays, or just making things generate focused X-Ray lasers directionally.

>>94953597
What is that random patch of cloth in the middle?

>>94954022
Her underwear

Which probably smells great

>>94945272
Turn every white person black.
Turn every black person white.
Then 6 months later reverse it.
Watch the world burn.

>>94954251
>Turn every black person white.
plague of skin cancer now swipes through africa
gj

>>94954589
it would just be the color not the chemical composition of the melanin though?

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>>94945272
Use your power to start a business where you magically color people's shit however they like. Take part in entertainment shows. If possible try to find industrial uses for your power as suggested by >>94953950 Proceed to amass wealth.

Congratulations, you have now acquired an additional superpower, one of the best: Money!

>>94953571
No, that's how organic cells detect colors.
I'm talking about what property of an object, living or otherwise, causes it to BE a certain color by reflecting some wavelengths of light and absorbing others.

>>94945514
>power to gas all jews
>power comes from excessive flatulence
>you have an excellent gut flora

>>94945272
cause accidents with traffic lights.

or maybe de-power lanterns, turn a red ring purple. It would still be a 'anger' ring but perhaps it would be neutralised because it can't express it.

>>94951655
That's stupid as fuck. Thankfully that looks like Pre-Rebirth so that's free to be retconned.

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It should be noted that Color Kid's powers are a bit more complex than changing colors. He turned random shit green and Superman would react to it like it was Kryptonite, implying he can convert matter into other forms of matter. Then there's pic related, showing it's not just solid matter either, and he can turn green Kryptonite into Blue Kryptonite, which only effects Bizarros.

>>94945272
Not OP but some fun stuff:
Use color manipulation to switch between your civilian identity and your super identity. Hair, clothing and especially make up. Make up is fucking magical. You can make yourself completely unrecognizable. With a little effort you could be an excellent infiltrator by assuming different identities.

Also giving bad guys instant, irremovable embarrassing tattoos. Humiliation is a devastating weapon.

>>94945514
The power to create and control iron but the iron has to come from the users blood if the power is overused than the user will die because his blood will no longer be able to carry oxygen.

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Fun fact: At high purity, black pigmentation completely erase contours from objects, effectively making them appear as holes in space.

Google vantablack or super black for paints that approach 100% black.

>>94950056
I'm pretty sure that's how ultimate johnny storms powers work.

>make all the respectable African Americans white
>make all the white trash Americans black
>society is now literally color-coded as to who is an worthless societal drain and douchebag and who is not
>ship those niggers out of the country once and for all

>>94959435
I've heard of this before - always thought it should be used as the dye on black ops tac gear.
With no ground reference it'll be next to impossible for enemy units to gauge distance.

>>94959866
practicality aside, this would actually be a bad idea, because they would stand out so much. You really can't appreciate just how unnatural this looks from a picture or video.

>>94950678
Isn't that Quicksilver?

>>94949691
>Turn /pol/ black
>Literally nothing changes

>>94950367
I always thought it would be cool to have to power to absorb and exchange fat as a power. It would be like The Speed force but with fat.
The Fat Force.

>>94945272
Is that a tomato tree

>>94945514
Perfect recall. You can visualize past events with 100% accuracy. How far back depends on proximity to the location or a memento and the skill of the user.
Drawback: Total blindness. You can never see what's coming, just what has already gone.

>x-ray vision
>if you use it on a person it gives them a little bit of cancer

>>94953576
Monkeys paw extreme

>>94945514
>the power to become omnipotent
>but you have to create an enemy that you won't be able to overpower physically

>>94950429
Hello there Miles Teg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Teg

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>>94959272
I feel like this has been done before

>>94945514
>Can travel to any other dimension
>But if you exist in that dimension, the two of you have to switch places

>>94945272
Turn Yellow Suns Red and suddenly you've fucked overy every Kryptonian, Daxamite and Tamaranean

The Sinestro Corps now has a green weakness, so trap them inside a room where you've turned everything green

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>>94945272
I've had a similar idea for a Stand for a while now, but it basically boils down to:

>You can change something's color's wavelength, but the effect goes away if you're a certain distance away from that thing (Let's say 500ft.)
+
>You can change someone's perception of what a color means.

So you can do simple stuff like make someone think Green means Stop and Red means Go, or a bit more strange like making someone see himself as being purple but everyone around him is orange, making him feel ostracized from the group. The shit with stuff like manipulating wavelengths to make things appear invisible applies too.

Stand's name is Mr. Blue Sky

>>94960551
I thought about that too but hoped no one would notice. Do I at lest get re-do?

>>94945272
Turn all the air pitch black.

>>94959502
Nice, I like that shit