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The List - 7 Useless Magic Attacks

although do they even have nuclear reactors in Academy City? I was under the impression they get all of their powers from the windmills prominently visible in the first ED of A Certain Scientific Railgun. (I don't know if you could run a whole city on windmill power in real life, but everything in Academy City is decades more advanced than the rest of Japan, so I presume each of their windmills can produce as much power as a nuclear reactor because, you know, "science" and "magic").

She can keep a thing at its existing temperature. It's limited by what she can hold comfortably, so the object must still transfer heat away from itself (or into itself.) So she could keep a heater running by touching it when it ran out of fuel. She can keep an ice cube cold in the middle of the desert. Her existence violates the laws of thermodynamics. It violates conservation of matter/energy. She. is. a. perpetual. motion. machine. The Philosopher's Stone of physics, with an adorable headband.

Honestly powers in Index breaking conservation of matter/energy ain't that rare.

Hiroki not Takuya wrote:

Yes, Wind tunnel gets rid of a couple of otherwise intractable demons if I'm not mistaken, so very useful. And don't dis Sweets Conjuring too much either, in D.C.2 Junichi conjures a banana filled treat and "saves" Minatsu-chan in her story arc so...ya who am I kidding, it's useless otherwise. What a pain...

Depends on how Conjuring Sweets works. Can the user also control the exact location where the sweets forms? Is there a limit to how many he can produce? If the limit is high, he can be quite useful on a disaster relief team. If he can locate an enemy's aorta and conjure up a jawbreaker at that spot...

Although, it could just mean her hands are the source of her powers; she isn't going to burn her shoes off or something. It's not like we haven't seen other ESPer abilities go from touch to remote. Awaki started with normal teleportation (herself and whatever she touches), but after becoming traumatized by getting her foot stuck in a wall she developed Move Point (remote teleportation). It's been theorized by fans that if she got over her fears of self teleportation she could become a level 5. Likewise it's believed that developing Move Point is the only thing keeping Kuroko from level 5. It's actually interesting how those two were both able to achieve level 4 by honing different skills in the same ability. It means that not all abilities have a distinct path to leveling.

EMerje

EricJ2 wrote:

What about Jurai Andou's "Dark and Dark" from When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace? An anemic flicker of dark flame from the hands doesn't really look all that impressive when the other members have powers that actually do something, but he manages to build up the hype through overacting.

This was my first thought for the list. The power is completely useless, and even when he does figure out spoiler[how to make it do something it only burns himself.] It's only useful because he's a convincing liar.

Covnam wrote:

When I saw this weeks list, I immediately thought of the main character from Modern Magic Made Simple who can only summon wash basins. I didn't finish it, so maybe it changes, but other then hitting someone on the head, not that useful. How about in place of #6...

spoiler[She goes all Imagine Breaker with it, eventually. Turns other people's offensive spells into washbasins.]

I suppose I should offer a replacement, though. How about that bad guy in Witch Hunter Robin who... trips people? Or Yukino in Mai-Hime... a swarm of magical drone-cams is cool, unless you've been spoiler[entered against your will in a "Two Mahou Shoujo Enter, One Mahou Shoujo Leaves" tournament... and everyone else got stuff like "a dragon" or "a howitzer-panther"...]

Good ideas, but too advanced for DaCapo. Junichi and Yoshiyuki can only make Japanese Sweets materialize in thier hands and nowhere else and it is heavily insinuated that they are produced from the "materials" in thier bodies so they were only ever able to make enough at once as a snack for a few friends. It was only useful the one time for Minatsu-chan in D.C.2 but one could think of much more use it could be put to.

Where's Mafuba/Evil Containment Wave from Dragon Ball?

Also, the "Jikerdor" spell from Zatch Bell. Sweet, I can turn my opponent into a human magnet and leave him stuck to metal so he can't move. Oh, wait, there isn't any metal around here.

Oh Uiharu how I love you and your power. She just screwed training and went to computers.

And for useless magic,the first thing that came to my mind was Cardcaptor Sakura.I haven't watched it,so correct me if I'm wrong,but when my brother was watching it I noticed a episode with a sweet card or something and all I was thinking was that you can throw pies at people hassle-free!

So that one came to mind.Also I think there was a bubbly card just to bathe Kero.

4 I don't know how any summoning spell is useless, "cannon fodder" and the like, so I would put summoning a dove higher than summoning a ball of light as an attack spell. Imagine if you were stuck on an Ark and you wanted to get an olive branch...

3 Kazakai Uihara's ability? Scrooge McDuck would pay her a million dollars an hour for her to hold the billion dollar ball of melting bombastium until he got it to the Antarctic. I mean, it's only useless because the writers have little imagination, or interest, for it to be used. Pizza delivery? Maintaining the temperature on a super computer? Earl grey, hot? A bomb is on a bus and it can't get any hotter than room temperature? Any job is a job for Superman but when you're Suretemp Hand, you're just part time help but not entirely useless. Unless you're created to be an example of that one mutant who doesn't get the flashy X-Men outfit but I'd still rate Uihara higher than Jubilee though.

Although, it could just mean her hands are the source of her powers; she isn't going to burn her shoes off or something. It's not like we haven't seen other ESPer abilities go from touch to remote. Awaki started with normal teleportation (herself and whatever she touches), but after becoming traumatized by getting her foot stuck in a wall she developed Move Point (remote teleportation). It's been theorized by fans that if she got over her fears of self teleportation she could become a level 5. Likewise it's believed that developing Move Point is the only thing keeping Kuroko from level 5. It's actually interesting how those two were both able to achieve level 4 by honing different skills in the same ability. It means that not all abilities have a distinct path to leveling.

EMerje