[quote=@Burning Kitty]
If he wants to exploit powers to me that sounds like a villain. Now a super hero would take advantage of powers.
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Semantics. 

[quote=@Burning Kitty]
How would time travel give you powers? As it shows on Legends it can be bumpy, disorienting, and possibly detrimental to your health, but [b]none of that would lead to powers.[/b] Unless you go through something like at the end of season 2 end up in a time where time is barfing everything into one time, that may lead to powers if your character was destined to get powers eventually.
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It's literally a comic book story... If water vapor can give you super speed, why not time travel + malfunctioning future weapons? I don't see why that can't work. There's plenty of ways of time travel in this universe, not just how the Legends did it. It's not the time travel itself giving the character powers. It's the accident, the reaction between his weapons and the time travel. Much in the same way of lightning and chemicals.