Bad Superpower of the Week

[dsrtao]

The essence of a Bad Superpower is that it should be slightly useful in specific circumstances, but the perfectly reasonable method of use is uncomfortable, embarrassing, or just not worth the tradeoff.


The two canonical Bad Superpowers of the Week are:

• The ability to know exactly how deep a body of water is; activated automatically and uncontrollably, by stepping in it.
   
• The ability to detect substances which are toxic to you, by taste. (Does not confer immunity.)

A candidate occurred to me just now, so I shall inflict it on you.

You are perpetually accompanied by a soundtrack more or less appropriate for your current activity, drawn from existing recordings of human music.

Comments

[alexxkay]

Heh. Useful for knowing which genre(s) you are currently in.

Makes it nigh-impossible to have a secret crush. On the other hand, you yourself get to know almost instantly what your chances are by whether you're hearing "romance" or "comedy"...