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[@Ebil Bunny] if you make the mind control power work with only a few weaker opponents at a time then I'll be fine with the superpower 
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I was never intending the mind control ability itself as a weapon, as much as using it against innocent bystanders as a sort of miniature army.

[@Eyeruption]  I was thinking along the lines of, for example, Joe would make himself look like someone's long lost relative, and they would get a surge of emotion seeing someone they thought had died.

Okay, here's how I was planning on using Joe's ability.  Say he wanted to rob a bank or something.  He'd go out onto a busy street, make himself look like a rough-n-tough tattooed dude, sucker punch a hot-headed muscled buck, they'd get mad, then they'd be under his control.  He'd give the big burly guy the simple command of bursting through the door and knocking over as many pieces of furniture they could, while Joe walked past the distraction, into the back, grab a buck or two for a donut, then walks back out.  Once the guy finished his task, he'd be back to normal, but also probably be in handcuffs after several bystanders called the police, and being hauled to jail.

Joe wouldn't have a group that he had full control over that he'd use over and over as his personal task force, he'd just grab someone off the streets to do one task, then they'd be back to normal.  He's not exactly the strategic, look-ahead type person.

I don't really know if this explains it any better xD