This troper is learning to lucidly dream to quench a tiny bit of the thirst in her head (seriously everyone on this page should try it). When I was six me and my friend pretended to have different power such as teleportation. In 3rd grade I tried to build a time machine out of a box. I view Haruhi Suzumiya as a relatable character. Currently I envision going into alternate universes.

This troper always thought having a voice in his head would make life a lot more interesting. Not the "Burn it all" kind of voice, but an actual other living being in his head. Silence is boring. Also, This troper spends a lot of time just imagining himself with superpowers.

You should look at The Daemon Page. I think you may find it to be an interesting philosophy.

The whole voice in the head thing isn't that great. It never shuts up. It's always there. Try jacking off while a voice laughs in the back of your head. difficult.

Are you me? Because I am a huge proponent of the Internal Dialogue. That way, you always have someone to talk to.

I hear voices, and believe me when I say that it's ''not'' something you want to deal with. It's fucking horrible and frightening and I don't know why people think it's a cool thing to have.

This troper's brother is a perfect example of this. He doesn't fit in anywhere or anywhen or with anyone and he has pretty much no special skills. He's the most normal guy this troper knows. He's still pretty awesome though. He looks good, he talks good, and he's this troper's best friend in the world.

This troper raises his hand, even though it is nigh impossible (with his parents saying: "You are no different from other people but your hobby and behavior are different.")

It's the result of looking at all the cool people in fictional media and realizing how much YouSuck.

It don't always work. This troper ''was'' special - tested out with a 141 IQ at age 8, taught myself algebra at that time because my brother was doing it, etc. But the world isn't equipped to handle special people. BlessedWithSuck was I. It sucked to the point of nearly a decade of therapy as well as other more disturbing things I will not relate.

This troper agrees. Having heard everyone around her ranting about her supposed "genius" for years yet at the same time being dumped in a teaching program that made her feel like pond scum while being socially isolated from the rest of the planet has left her pretty screwed up.

Ditto with this troper. She's number 1 in her class and yet she's ''still'' treated like crap by the majority of the school. It doesn't help that she's developed some unusual habits (i.e. running in the halls for the hell of it, laughing at the most inappropriate times at something she watched on TV yesterday, and replying with 'Neh!' half the time she's spoken to). Nowadays this troper hovers between 3 states of emotion: {{Tsundere}}, ShrinkingViolet, and CloudCuckooLander / NotSoStoic.

No way! You run through the halls, too!?

Those aren't really habits, just doing weird things for the heck of it.

Then there are those who show equal signs of creativity and disability. Many of those with Asperger's Syndrome, for example, are an (to everybody else) unnerving combination acting mature beyond their years, yet being socially dissaociated in many other ways. Those who are this contradiction personified are often not considered when it comes to special treatment because of their outward precociousness, when many struggle with significant difficulties in a public setting. This describes the bulk of this troper's public education experiences to date.

I can relate. Due to my being designated as gifted, I was put into a gifted class with gifted people. This happened in the 4th grade. Most of the time, I was with people who I had been going to school with for a long time, so I realized that I never really needed to make anymore friends since I had a class full of people who liked and accepted me. And then in the classes, they assumed that being Gifted meant that you can handle a lot more work or harder work, when we just LEARN DIFFERENTLY (And by learn differently, I mean we're exactly like normal students, but each of us require different learning styles to fully accommodate that. And these styles varied from person to person). Then came High School, when I realized how incredibly STUPID it was. When I entered High School, I realized that I lacked many of the social graces that many other people had, and was forced to be in classes with these other people. I decided to not bring up my Giftedness, become introverted and try and be normal person so that I wouldn't be miserable. Now I'm at the end of grade 11, and have managed to keep my old circle of close friends from before high school along with a close circle of friends who fall somewhere kinda high in the popularity scale in my school, who appreciate my intelligence and enjoy my quirks. I guess some kind of weird aesop you can get from this is that being normal is a pretty ok life.

This Troper is Autistic, and has problems reading, AND will NEVER, EVER associate herself with normal people. It may be related to the fact I'm in gifted language arts, but can't say the word Attention out loud without stuttering. Most of my friends think I'm annoying, and my parents think I'm literally '''RETARDED''' but I view myself as Badass.

You're the only one.

Stop whining, everyone, and go out and ''make'' yourself special.

Guess I'll just have to become a serial killer. I'll blame you when I'm caught.

Okay, fine. I'll take the Sylar approach. Incidentally, the FBI may want to talk to you.

You're right. People, you should just practice what you want to do until you can do it, it doesn't matter if you don't have the resources, permission, intelligence, and abled body parts for it, just do it.

Or if what you want to do shows no (or very dubious) evidence of actually existing in our world.

Now that's what I'm talking about! BadassNormal, all the way!

Yeah! Who says we have to have superpowers to be special? ... This sounds familiar.

These days it's really easy to be "special". Just go on any reality TV show. Personally, this troper would rather be famous for a killing spree. And he's a pacifist.

A killing spree ''in'' a reality show, well, that would make anyone really special. And - judging by the cast of these shows - liked.

I've been saying for ages, anyone who qualifies to be on a reality show (usually use BigBrother when I say it), qualifies to be shot, repeatedly.

This troper realized how painfully average she was when she was a preteen. She got tired of waiting around for someone to come in and declare her special and decided to just go ahead and do something to make herself special. It took a lot of hard work over ten years, but she'd like to think she's on the right track (and baby, she wasn't born this way-sorry, couldn't resist).

This troper has wanted PsychicPowers and/or to be involved in a non-mundane situation -- hell, I'd almost be willing to take {{Eldritch Abomination}}s ripping through the walls of reality if it made things less ''boring'' -- for pretty much literally her entire life. I'm hardly average as is -- like one of the previous tropers, I'm a TeenGenius (whose life also thoroughly sucks, but the biggest reasons are largely unrelated to my intelligence) -- but I've never been satisfied with mere ordinary specialness. Which sounds like an oxymoron, but hopefully you get what I mean. I want to be able to throw things around with my mind, dammit.

Of course, at the same time as I'm yearning for superpowers, that ordinary specialness I mentioned has caused me to intensely look down on normal people, and I'm utterly terrified of losing my mental faculties yet ashamed that I don't use them for anything of significance. Psychologically speaking (at least I don't have to worry about SuperpowerMeltdown or developing a case of HeroicBSOD) it's almost like I have the worst of both worlds.

Are you sure you aren't a female version of this troper from an alternate universe? All of that pretty much describes him, though he is absolutely positive he'd take {{Eldritch Abomination}}s just to break up the monotony.

This troper very much agrees with the above statements. While I would be reluctant to take on {{Eldritch Abomination}}s due to the whole shitting your pants with fear and/or going insane just by looking at them deal, anything else to break the neverending mundanity would be welcome.

So YOU are my time-displaced opposite sex clone! Or am I yours? Anyway, I'm also looking forward to the day when the maddening monstrosities start wreaking havoc in the world. And giant robots. Definitely giant robots.

Are you our Goddess, Haruhi?!

You know, I actually got initially interested in the show because Haruhi reminded me of myself to a degree. I was unpleasantly surprised when she turned out to be a {{Jerkass}}.

Similar situation here for this troper, except it was mainly Kyon who sounded like me. He's cynical, apathetic, BookDumb, BrilliantButLazy, and maintains an internal monologue on events around him.

This Troper also wishes for the aforementioned Telekinetic powers, but hardly views himself as any smarter than anyone else. In fact, it's a basic principle of his that everyone is equal, just because. It kinda came as a shock to realize he really wasn't the same as most of his classmates, and wasn't really the best basis for normality. I'm too nit-picky about my special-ness.

Listen, we're all off our rocker's anyway, we which we had Mind Bullets to fight {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. They won't bother us on sight. Then we can inheirit the earth from all the people who lost it, and put money into the right things. Like Giant Robots, [[strike:And]] Gynoids, A.I., Cybertechnology and Capital Ships with FTL drives. Admittedly, this might kind of kill the "Special" deal, since we'll be the one's alive and in-charge and all the people to look down on us will either dead or have to deal with our new abilities, but hey, we'll get what we want. Trust me, if something ever does actually happen, ''we're'' the only people prepared, mentally anyway. And some of us physically. Hopefully we can get HardWorkHardlyWorks for the squishier among us. Or the tropers more gifted in that area can give us a crash course.

This troper spends much of his time whining about how he is not special, after a relatively recent relevation that he is painfully normal.

Anytime this tropes sees undeserving people angsting about their powers(that he'd give his right hand to have) in any medium he just wants to jump into the screen/pages of the book and strangle the ungrateful whiners.

Trading your right hand might actually be okay for some universes too, as then you can get a better one. Looking at you Edward Elric

This Troper once scored 175 on an IQ test; is a CloudCuckooLander; has a tendency to get so deep into using a FakeAccent that it requires effort to pull out of; speaks to himself for lack of anyone else being interesting; has drunk human blood; refuses to let people in on his romantic life outside of his current girlfriend, two best friends, and total strangers; has a tendency to act out scenes as he writes them; and is a compulsive schemer to the point of being CrazyPrepared. In the end, he wouldn't change a thing. Weird is fun.

I sometimes have this belief that I am meant to be a part in something big, truly make a difference. I'm sure everyone has some part of them that feels that way. If I ever discovered I had a superpower, depending on what it was (assuming i'm not BlessedWithSuck) I would work out ways to use it without any risk of being hunted. I would try to be like Hiro, but probably use it for selfish reasons (like to be lazy, not like a supervillain). Obviously researching all tropes that could come into effect with this new power. In a clear fight my eviltwin would probably beat me so I'd have to resort to out tricking him. obviously resulting in some anti-heroic behavior.

This troper has come to the depressing realization that she is simply not smart enough to pursue her dream job.

It would be a lie for me to say I don't dream of being non-normal, or at least being in a non-normal world. After much thought, I've come up with a brilliant idea: take the proactive approach. I'm going to learn something specialized, but with many applications (to be the smart guy) as well as a martial art, and apply for a job with the government. Training as a soldier wouldn't hurt my chances. But first I must get a sword... Failing that, I'll build The Matrix.

This Troper is not a dark and troubled soul. He is a tax preparer who wants to be MegaMan.

Everyone in my school wants to be special in some way. Everyone, unsurprisingly including me. While some are fine with just going against the flow and behaving as unusually as possible, some of us nearly hope we're actually a real-life incarnation of Haruhi.

This troper would LOVE to be special. Instead of, y'know, special ''needs''.

Ditto for this troper. In fact, I was just complaining to my mom the other day about how I wish I had some awesome Rainman-esque savant abilities to go along with my diagnosis of high-functioning autism.

Even savant-y stuff won't always give you an edge. You have to be fortunate enough to have been gifted a talent that sells for everybody else. Otherwise, although your ideas are admittedly creative, you're really just "doing it wrong".

Humans are xenophobic asshats, being special gets you ostrcized and blown off. Super powers might be nice, but I doubt it would end well (the police wouldn't like you showing them what a poor job their doing)

Eh, humans will ostracise you for the most ridiculous, arbitrary things, so since you have a good chance of being shunned anyway, you might as well be shunned for actually being different.

This troper has grown a severe phobia to aging thanks to the widely spread belief in manga that you have to be extremely young to qualify for being special. Not having even reached seventeen years of age yet, I already feel old for not having any unusual characteristics.

Kindred spirit! ...Well, sort of. This troper - who turned 17 last month - has different reasons for wanting to turn back the clock (which are too angsty and tangential to detail here), but can ''definitely'' sympathise with feeling old despite being only in one's mid-to-late teens.

This troper might be the polar opposite of the above two. One of the thing that appeals to me(besides more direct, obvious superpowers) is the idea of being someone truly ancient, someone who considers watching civilizations rise and fall the way normal people consider watching an episode of their favorite TV show. If I couldn't be geological-time-scales old like the Endless then at the very least being an ancient-Egypt old vampire or an immortal.

The immediately previous troper wants that too. Well, I've got mixed feelings about a life ''that'' long (not that I'd object), but I'd love an indefinite lifespan. 75-100 years -- with youthful vitality for maybe half that if you're lucky -- seems far, far too short.

This Troper would like, more than anyone else, HealingHands as his superpower. Think about it; technology is getting to the point where anybody could Fly or shoot lazor beams within a couple decades, but to grow tissue, knit bones, and rejuvenate cells with just a touch? Such a power would be indespensible to humanity. Ah... to be important... everybody's true goal.

This troper is not even special on this page! She desires both telekinetic powers, as do several people above, and HealingHands, as does the person immediately above. One or the other would be fine, too. She often imagines how cool it would be to apply telekinesis to the everyday problems she encounters. Awesome adventures aren't necessary; she just wants to be able to freak everyone out by tossing cars around with her mind.

I just wanna have wings.I believe I can fly...

Learn to dream lucidly. Actually, that could solve a number of these wishes on this page. I fly all the time. Whee!

Being able to fly in a lucid dream (without wings!) is the main reason I'm trying to have more sensible sleeping hours.

I just want to learn how to fly! Whyyyy, evolution?!

This Troper wants the power of The Mask. Being able to defy logic would rock.

This troper would love to have sylar's original power. Wouldn't even care if it came with the 'stealing abilities' bit, I just think that being able to analyze complex systems quickly and accurately with just your mind would be the most awesome thing ever. Besides, if it is accurate enough it could be far more destructive than you might think

This troper wants it for a different reason: What happens if you apply it to yourself?

What I would really like is telepathy, but I know that if I had such a power I would pretty much instantly turn evil and try to take over the world to make everyone love me. So it's probably a good thing I'm NOT telepathic.ming.

I want the ability to control reality itself.

After years of living this trope, this troper found her angst was significantly lowered about three years ago, when she began to study Buddhism. It still crops up every now and then, though--since she's not really trying for full-out enlightenment.

I would really like to be Princess Peach or Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy. Just think... loved by all who know them, pure-hearted and all-wise, and beautiful to boot.

My desired superpower is both incredibly simple and immeasurably powerful--I want to be able to copy, at will, perfectly, anything that I see done. Nothing original, but anything ever caught on film or animated would be at my fingertips. Of course, this would be followed by an anime spree beyond belief, starting at Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and about a dozen others, but still....

I always thought that "ability to emulate the abilities of video game characters" would be one of those dumb-sounding but actually ''awesome'' powers. I'd be marathoning MegaMan, FinalFantasy, and {{Pokemon}}, with some StreetFighter and Mario added in. Oh, and Low G Man and {{Crackdown}}. Hell, that's over 25 years of the collected imaginations of thousands of people, right there. ''{{Superman}}'' probably couldn't stand up to it, if reality were playing by ''game'' rules. He's obviously a Flying[=/=]Fighting type, so cut loose with Thunderbolt and Psychic. Not that I'd have reason to pick a fight with Superman, mind. Still, yours is good too. Having a ''bankai'' or spirit evolving would be pretty awesome.

The only thing special about me is my imagination. Bears? Been there, done that. Bees? Also cliche'd. Flaming bears that are also bees? Now we're talking. (I can do serious stuff too but flaming bear bees is my favorite example.) But apart from that I'm completely normal, and because I'm a lazy ass I never put my imagination to use.

This troper would really love to be able to FlashStep. Any variety would do and it wouldn't matter if it made people go all weird on me since a)most people think I'm odd anyway, and b)if they want to hurt me, then they'll have to catch me first.

This troper seems at first glance to be a quiet, wise, laid-back sort of person. My friends have been granted acess to my evil layer... they believe that deep down, I'm a supervillain-in-training. Fun as that would be, at my very core, I'm a complete coward. I want nothing more than to be given some epic quest. I want a chance to get past my cowardice, to test myself, to learn to be brave, to gain cool powers, to get myself some friends without my sister's help, and to save the freaking world. Preferably with epic battles, magic, fistfights, shapeshifting, and explosions. The supervillain thing can come later. I just want to be a hero for once in my sad, sorry, utterly boring little life.

This troper wants to be able to fly, teleport to different dimensions, and a bunch of weird things. Oh, and she wants to become friends with that voice in her head.

This troper's main character in a role-play suffers from this, conveniently enough. Let's look at his friends, shall we? #QUOTE# A dragon who is mated to a god, in line for godhood due to his former life as an evil chaos god, so happened to be reincarnated into a bloodline that granted him a divine weapon, happens to be immortal (or would be) and has access to the most powerful family of magic. #QUOTE# Another dragon who is the brother to the above, but will eventually be somewhat of a divine mercenary or divine assassin due to having a very powerful divine weapon and eternal life from a rune. #QUOTE# A being who is not only immortal due to being mated with a goddess who is guardian of the dimension, but also a master of his own dimensional plane that the setting primarily takes place in. #QUOTE# A druidess who is soon to be mated to a demigod. #QUOTE# A mutt demon who has an indefinite lifespan but still acts territorial. #QUOTE# Two members of a race that runs purely off of celestial energy.

Meanwhile the character is just a regular dragon who loves being in human form all the time, got kicked into next week by a standard Mook, then kicked back into the previous week by another "Normal" beast demon and was brought to his knees by arachnophobia. No wonder he thinks "IJustWantToBeSpecial" despite possibly being the most BadassNormal member of the prmarily active crew. :P (And even his "WhatKindOfPowerIsHeartAnyway"-ability is maximized, despite it being overshadowed by the character's grandfather and another character who can do it in their sleep)

I'd love to be some sort of heroine, or have some sort of adventure, but I think since I'm always waiting for it, It'll never come. Like I'd love some Naruto stuff, where I'm super athletic and can jump buildings and stuff. But I think, and while I want that too, we can't be guaranteed it will all work out in the end like a cliche'd shonen right? Having all that on your shoulders scares the crap out of me, because I wouldn't know what to do. But if I could ever be TheChosenOne, it would seriously make my life a whole lot less dull. The only thing though that I'd like on my adventure, is to be bulletproof. In this day and age, you could be the biggest badass, but still get killed by a random drive-by.

One thing that irks me about this is the other side, the "IJustWantToBeNormal" or (I don't want to have the powers/to be rich/super good looks) crowd, sometimes I can understand some circumstances (like having to be a killer/monster to stay alive or being cursed with ugly for immortality). But, most of them make me sick to my stomach. They really don't know how good they have it in their world and lives, especially when they don't have to linger in mediocrity as a modest, nonthreatening citizen who has an average lifespan, limited in ability and skill, and has to possibly look over their shoulder every other second (depending on the given area/city/country). On a fading pension plan to (possibly) non-prospect of retirement being lost in the faceless and generic masses who are weaned on [=McDonald's=], Wal-Mart, CBS, Fox News, sprawl, generic pop stars, unqualified executives, and the endless lists of entities that make "status quo-normalcy" king. Running on a rat wheel, full speed ahead trying to win a (non-winnable and never ending) global rat race (timed for 6 to 18 hours of your day) in the quest of being handed crumbs to the point, where and if unemployment or sickness (and isolation) arises one's immediate existence is threatened, as one has no chance against the AIDS virus or a gang of criminals without any aid. To the point of a catastrophic event (cosmic, earthly, or man-made) will mean the end of existence for most of these ... us timid little people, except the ones who have the means or the pure "luck" or "Almighty" blessing. Personally, trading any thing in my life for a collection of superpowers, invulnerability, immortality combined with good looks, strange (but yet beneficial to the average person) circumstances, or being endowed as "demi-god" with unhindered free-will. Does not look anything like an innocent pauper having his head on executioner's pillory.

So, 's this troper the only one who wishes he had synthestesia?

Take my word for it when I tell you that nine tastes like shit.

And take my word that Butter-Fly is yellow.

Having personalities/concepts (I don't quite know what it effects yet) correspond with colours isn't as special as it seems. In fact, this troper is envious of people with the more distinct and well-known forms of synesthesia, like sight > taste or something like that.

This troper always spend his time in History class (and other boring class, like Bio) to imagine how would he use his powers (to turn co2 into metal, for instances) in the place he's at (most of the time, a classroom) if a random guy came up and try to kill him or his friends. And it doesn't stop there.

While some of these are a little far out there, this troper would like to point out that there is quite a lot of strangeness in the world, and even more unanswered or forgotten questions. If you're not willing to break out of that Field of Normality and find a power, or a god/demon/SufficientlyAdvancedAlien to give you powers, you shouldn't complain. At least not until you've tried for a few decades and still have nothing to show for it.

Reality bites for this troper. Dreams don't. I wanna dream without having to lay in bed for hours waiting to sleep. I still wanna be aware of what's going on just in case it gets interesting, but until then, I wanna dream the boring away. I also want to fly ''so badly!''

Like a lot of other people have said, this troper really wishes she could fly. No, even if jet packs or something were invented and actually possible to obtain during her lifespan (and before being old), it would ruin the effect. She wants to be able to fly with or without wings. Like in dreams. She's often imagined jumping out a window in her house, which is on the top of a hill, meaning a very long drop. No, she isn't suicidal in the least. It's sort of funny, because she's also absolutely terrified of heights.

Not a day goes by when this troper doesn't wish for something fantastic and outside the bounds of reality to happen. Whether it be magic, alternate dimensions, mythical monsters, or anything even remotely similar, this troper has wanted it to be real and to be involved with it, and regrets that fiction continues to remain fictional. As you can imagine, this troper sympathizes quite a bit with Haruhi Suzumiya...

This Troper is a {{Mangaka}}-in-training,but what no one knows is that she studies a lot (she began 5 years ago) to draw well.When I tell people this, they turn their backs at me, saying they "thought it was the Japanese blood", and that they "would think I was very talented and special".Hell, do I NEED to be BORN with something to be special?I DARE one of them to study as hard as me!I think I am special, and my art is as well.These guys would want to rethink what the word "special" means...

This may sound strange, but this troper likes to set himself an imaginary party of six Pokemon each day and imagine how I would use them in different situations. Is that normal?

Everybody wants to be special. But, if you're the lone person on this wiki who doesn't fashion themselves a genius, you're going to have to work at it. Sometimes, this is a good thing. Sometimes it's not. This Troper spent much of middle school trying to be special in the anime-way: skipping through the school, using unnecessarily complicated language, bringing up my IQ score at every possible oppurtunity, talking loudly about my plans for world domination, and being insecure and stand-offish, waiting for the day a handsome boy would work hard to win me over with his love for my quirkiness. I thought these behaviors would make me alluring, and that the only reason I wasn't popular because the other kids were intimidated. Actually, it was just because that shit is really, really annoying and I looked like a dumbass. When I realized this, I hauled my ass to a treadmill, traded in my cat ears for vintage dresses, and learned how to intereact with other people instead of just being a self-obsessed loner. Today, I'm the skinniest, smartest, most-stylish girl in school. Now that I've stopped whining about my mediocrity, I'm more of a special snowflake than ever.

Bloody ditto this. Thank God I'm past that whole 'special snowflake' angst and realized everyone thinks the same shit.

ThisTroper feels this way and doesn't even ask for much. Can't I start one page from a YKTTW without it immediately dying. I've already given up on getting a MadeOfWin. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TVTROPES?! (granted I've only tried launching one page but still...)

This Troper, in all sorts of ways he doesn't feel like explaining. As if the myopia and Native-American heritage weren't enough.

This Troper just doesn't like normal specialness. It's not special to be a famous actor or a pilot or in a rock band. It's special to jump off a building and float in the air. She really hopes that the fact that she gets hurt often and recovers rather quickly is invincibility forming. She'd also like to mention that there are a lot of weird things out there, and if you want to sight an alien, go looking for one! Don't sit there and whine! People didn't just come up with these things. There was something, sometime! Also, does anyone kind of find no one really relates to your need for something weird and special to happen to you? It's really kind of embarrassing, but people kind of bore her.

This troper is already considered a pretty smart person (working to become a programmer), and that in itself is special... but occasionally, he wishes he could fly, if only to see his girlfriend from across the Atlantic more than once a year...

Sort of a subversion here, instead of being a "special person" I'd much rather just be involved in a special world, basically I want to be Kyon. Being a normal guy surrounded by supernatural stuff would be so much better than randomly having powers and being isolated from practically everyone you know. Besides, how likely is it that you'd just develop powers? Having a secret world is much more logical...sort of...

I'm a bit of an inversion here. I already am special. I sometimes wish I wasn't though. You see, part of it is that I'm asocial and asexual, and occasionally it gets lonely...

This freakin' troper imagines herself doing things like LeParkour and KungFuFighting, but sadly I have not the physique nor the confidence to achieve either, not even in my dreams.

Speaking of which, I ''do'' dream of flying sometimes, and I've even been able to jump 15 feet into the air (assisted by the wind).

The wind in ur butt (FartJump)

I really don't have a LicenseToWhine - I'm in college studying to do something that I love, and I have some great friends. And even though I go through most days feeling at least slightly accomplished, it's all so... mundane. I go to sleep every night feeling like I just spent a day... ''waiting''. For something interesting, fantastic... special. *sigh*

I don't want to fly. I want the power to twist the fabric of space and time.

Subverted by this troper, who has a strange tendency to have interesting things happen around him. If he (or his mother; it must be genetic) go someplace, such as the mall or Wal-Mart, they will encounter all manner of strange people and situations, such as car crashes, arguements, violence, nudity, and accidentally running into either aquaintances who almost never go to that part of town at that time or celebrities.

I have to wonder how many of the countless people here who claim to be asexual just want to be different. Really, there always seem to be a lot (in the FetishFuel sections no less!). If it's not that, maybe TV Tropes is just a... giant magnet for the asexual.

Though I now appreciate how special I am in many fairly mundane ways (ex: I can carry on 2-sided conversations in my head), when I was younger I wanted so badly to be special that I tried to test the "having to believe in magic for it to work" theory. Took... I'm not exactly sure how long, but it took at least a year before I recognized that I honestly believed that my attempts would work when I tried them out. And nothing happened. Now whenever that kind of message show up in a kid's show, I want to hurt somebody.

This is the reason why this troper get depressed so easily. She wants to be special, she wants to believe she is special and feels awful because she knows she isn't and really shouldn't expect her to be. Minority complex, for the win! Doesn't stop her from drifting of in class, thinking about how nice it'd be to be able to shapeshift, stop time, switch between genders...

I used to struggle with this as a teenager, I always wished that I could have been the smartest, or the prettiest, or something. This really came out when the senior superlatives were chosen, and I didn't win a single one (my best friend was even picked as the smartest girl). I know that things like that don't matter in the long run, and that I really am special. It would just be nice for other people to notice, I guess.

This troper is an aspiring author because she feels her own life isn't interesting enough. Therefore, she makes up new lives.

I'd ask if you are me, but I'm a dude... still, ditto... I guess...

This troper keeps practicing so that one day he has a Compelling Voice. Evil eyes optional, hopefully.

This troper is special. He alternates between {{Keet}} and {{Tsundere}}, epitomizes HumansAreBastards, is BookDumb, has been acknowledged as a NightmareFuelStationAttendant, and can reference TvTropes in conversation. Still, that doesn't stop him from being rather unpopular. Subverted, indeed.

It's pretty rare for this troper to think about this stuff anymore, but when he does, it gets weird. It would be odd if an extradimensional being actually paid attention to our occasional whining.

Please, please, time control. Going through the days, never learning anything that I'm taught, being bullied by those younger than me... this is the sort of thing that makes you wanna be special, to break monotony and to show that you're not just ordinary.

What IS normality, anyway?

My list of wishes? Frankly, I'd be satisfied with any non-joke supernatural power of SuperWeight 2 or higher(but 4 or 5 would be best, obviously). Of particular appeal are god-like intelligence(and I mean ''godlike''), alternatively some form of nigh-omniscience or immortality. However, this troper also sincerely believes that his IJustWantToBeSpecial feelings are holding him back in life. I'm not applying myself as much as I could and I continually slack off because somewhere deep inside I'm in denial about reality being so sucky and I believe against all hope that someday I'll get supernatural powers(despite being a staunch rationalist... ah, the mind is a tricky thing). So, in a way, IJustWantToBeNormal ''and'' IJustWantToBeSpecial simultaneously.

If you define "special" as disadvantaged or unfortunate in life, this troper to the point where she is gripped by an intense urge to slam her head against the wall when she reads other peoples' bad past-related stories. She has no negative happenings to speak of in her past and is completely healthy physically and mentally, while all her friends are mentally ill, have terrible home lives, or are relentlessly bullied. Her girlfriend, by the way, is all three and more, and the troper is definitely ruining her relationship with her by sobbing about being so jealous for reasons she can't even explain. She doesn't understand why God and everyone else is being so nice to her, because she's obviously horribly ungrateful and stupid and deserves all these horrible things far more than the people she knows do. She's also aware how completely stupid it is to be upset about a thing like this, but it's probably her biggest concern. I just want to have a hurdle in my past I've had to jump over. I just want a sob story to tell people. I just want someone to hear my life and say, "Wow, that's rough." I just need to suck it up and let the people with real problems have a turn.

Oh, so you want to have a troubled life? You want to have spousal abuse, deaths in the family, or to cope with a physical deformity your entire life? Listen here: no you don't. You don't want that. My brother has suffered thinga in the same vein as this, but he doesn't want it. What you said was insulting and, quite franky, a little sick. He says he wouldn't trade, though, because his life has been wonderful so far. People like you give the rest of the site's users a bad name.

You fucking WANT to come home at night and have people be unfair to you, have your family screaming at eachother, no silence because people are fighting AGAIN and feel the urge to punch walls? Haven't heard that one before. I'll trade with you.

Not the person above the person above, but ditto. It sucks having a messed up home life, and I don't know if I would switch for it but... I'm in better shape then most, I was put in the gifted class in elementary school, till I asked to leave it so I could learn how to talk to "normal" people. My parents granted that wish, and now I can be charming and charismatic when I want to be (It's not something that comes to me naturally, however. Having a bunch of acquaintances is tiring and annoying, at least to me.). I am told I'm attractive by girls and guys... I'm better than everyone around me at anything I set my hand to, except swimming thankfully. But I have no goals. I have no drive. I fight with myself all the time over whether I'm stuck up or just being honest. I feel bland, detached. I just want something I can hold onto, something that makes me, me. I don't know how all of you who have had really hard lives feel, but having an easy life is like, like playing a game on easy I guess. On a really hard game, or a game with an interesting story, the difficulty doesn't matter. You still want to play. But an easy game on easy... It loses something. Anyway, I'm going to try to become a Green Beret an make my life harder, and maybe matter to me more. Annnd looking at this rant just made me realize how self centered I am. Sorry!

This troper has the same thing. The whole "I want something wrong with me so I'll be unique". I've had times when I consciously went through the "what if I did" bit -- heck, once I pretended (Just to myself, not while interacting with people) that I ''had'' voices, that if I didn't find the patterns in things, didn't ''make'' the patterns in things, something '''bad''' would happen... writing that, it sounds like I was almost mocking the people who actually have stuff like that. I didn't mean it like, I didn't mean it...\\ The worst part, though, is with other people, the people who ''have'' stuff like that, the people who have to ''live'' through all that -- Most of them would probably ''love'' to just be normal, would scream at me about how lucky I am... And they're right, they're totally right, but that doesn't change anything, doesn't make my sick, ''sick'' self want it any less, despite every reason... every reason that I should.\\ I ''hate'' it and I'm a terrible person that way and even now I'm just writing this to make myself seem more interesting and troubled than I actually am, trying to lie to myself that I'm anything more that a bloody ''conceited'' little creep at a keyboard... Sorry.\\ Sorry, You didn't have to read that...

Oh, now this makes me fucking mad. So you want to be 'special' and 'unique', do you? Take a look at this: Microtia. That only affects one in eight to ten thousand children. Some of them get ridiculed at school for it, so you'll be singled out as 'special' right the fuck away! It affects their balance, making that 'special'. It affects their hearing as well, making that 'special', too. These people have to cope with it, and they consider themselves normal, not 'special', at least not by your twisted definition of it. This is because they learnt to cope, and generally they don't give two shits about what people think of a deformed ear. People are unique in their own ways, but not a unique little snowflake. Generally, these people wouldn't trade their lives, though, because they generally have it quite good. Like I said, they can cope, unlike you, evidently.

''I'll say that again: they don't let a deformity bother them, but you can't cope with having perfect physical health. There is something wrong with you.''

Point is: if that's your definition of 'special'. then you can fucking keep it. They wouldn't use it as a status symbol to make themselves look 'special'. ALSO, IT IS NOT A GOOD THING. NO POSITIVE EFFECTS COME FROM HAVING IT. ''How dare'' you suggest either of these things? They've had to cope with that their entire lives, and they're well adjusted, but you can't cope with being better off, and you WANT to suffer shit like it's a good thing? What you said is disgusting and downright sick. Do you hear me? Changing your mind now? ''It's. Sick.'' You aren't a conceited little creep at a keyboard: you're a sick little freak who needs to get his life in order, count his blessings, and get his fucking head checked.

How do I know all this? ''Because my brother has it.''

People, people, ''please'', go easy on her. She doesn't consider those kinds of people lucky, she just feels she doesn't deserve to be so lucky. Chill guys, seriously.

This Trooper convinced herself she was special. Telekenetic in elementary school, a fairy in middle, and even stayed in an abusive relationship because he treated me like I was something special. Yes, I regret it, and yes, I'm insane.

It took me 14 years of video gaming to realize that this is why I play games. I need adventure. I need power over my own life. I need to step outside the boundaries laid by society, a society that does nothing for me except hold me back. I feel like this "normal" life is a cocoon, and I've just grown too big for it. If I don't get out soon, I'll go completely insane, if I'm not already there. When the absolute best this society ever seems to produce are grassroots political activists and the like, while far more are entranced by trashy celebrities and even trashier reality shows, it's pretty apparent that it either needs to change, or (far easier) I need to get the fuck out of it. Call that my version of "being special", if you will. The need to separate myself from the "mainstream", the "normal".

CanvasWolfDoll wants to be special. He doesn't care how, he just wants to be special.

Dammit, where are my LovecraftianSuperpowers?

Really this troper would just like his ex-girlfriend to give him another chance romantically. Apparently that entails gaining Tentacles growing from my spine so I'm game if it's possible.

I went through a lot of "phases" like this. Once I told everyone that my eyes now could only see shades of red, and I went to the nurse's office where it suddenly "got better", but for one minute there every one payed attention to me, and no one was any wiser when it got "better". Another time I claimed to see ghost like beings and hear voices. The big moral of the story (and perhaps an inversion of the trope) happened when I realized not everyone could see music and now very few people actually believe my claims.

My whole life I wanted to be a hero and save someone. I'd walk around and take drowning worms out of puddles and I'd try my hardest to keep my sister out of harms' way. I fantasized about being able to help the hurt people, even if I had to fantasize them being hurt first. In reality, though, when someone was hurt, I just wasn't one of *those* people who can just make everything seem ok. This is the closest that I could think of to categorize this.

I was very similar. hell, I still am.

I just wanted a monster to fall from the sky. or wanted to be a hero. basic stuff like that, my life is not interesting at all. :(

Subversion right here. My life is so strange and against the tide and just out of sorts I would like a day in the shoes of someone who has a normal love life, goes out with their mates dancing and just have a simple uncomplex life. I mean my life isn't totally out of the ordinary, but it's not normal enough for me to feel sane sometimes and yes I do know everybody is probably abit strange somehow.

So, IJustWantToBeNormal?

This troper sometimes wishes for a time machine or at least a cross-time chat client so that he can give his past self hints. Like "Don't read that article, you'll learn some AwfulTruth you're better off not knowing."

Also, just ONCE he'd like to look at a newspaper and see a headline that does not say "Politician Says Something Vaguely Insulting About Another Politician", "People Die In A Depressing Accident" or "Everything's Gonna Be More Expensive", but rather "Space Aliens Arrive", "Real-Life Actual Superheroes With Superpowers Pop Up", "The Large Hadron Collider Opens Portals To Other Awesome Universes", "Intelligent Dragons Witnessed All Over The World", or even "Scientists FINALLY Resurrect The Dinosaurs".

Hey, troper above, you do realize that if you do end up getting time machines that work the way they do in ''{{Homestuck}}'', and you succeed in warning yourself away from things, you become a doomed timeclone, right?

This Troper has Asperger's Syndrome and didn't suspect anything until he was about sixteen, eventually having it confirmed at eighteen. Until the first age, I was a ''major'' case of IJustWantToBeNormal. Now that I know, the prospect of being a "normal" person has become a PrimalFear.

This Troper used to think that nothing I ever did meant anything unless it was unusual or exciting or had a big impact. And then... I read The Broken Tool. It was a Naruto fanfiction. An entertaining read and excellent story, but nothing life changing. And then it came to this line: #QUOTE#His master's ambition had been to rule the Land of Waves, while this woman and her husband were thankful enough that they were alive, had enough to eat, and for their children. The Demon of the Hidden Mist would have laughed, thought Haku, at their paltry lives. But as the fugitive sat there, he could honestly not argue that their dreams held any less meaning than his Master's. It seems like an odd way to have a life changing experience, but this was the line that did it. For the first time in 18 years I finally understood just a little that a normal life is not something to be ashamed of. For someone like me, who is too sick to leave the house or finish school or do any of the things other people see as burdens or simple pleasures... It's hard to look at normal and not be jealous.

I would love to have telepathic powers so I would be able to know what people really thought about me, what they wanted, and how they felt so I wouldn't get into so many misunderstandings.

Ever since I was a kid, I'll tell you that I wanted to create my own perfect world. I was never normal but I was never counted as special, just plain weird and disturbing. I wanted to wear Victorian clothing and be a witch. I read books about everything just to make me feel special but everyday, I'll be pulled back into reality, constantly reminded that I was never going to be special and looked up upon my advanced ( my country's significantly lower than adverage English skills. I would be normal and be looked down upon because I'm terrible at my native language and my religious knowledge (to the extent, I can't go to college without passing it)

Now, I'm usually a fairly contented person and all, but y'know what'd be freakin' awesome? Looney Tunes-esque superpowers. Think about it; being able to defy gravity as long as you don't look down, being able to take an indefinite level of damage and be perfectly fine mere moments later, having access to {{Hammmerspace}}... the list goes on.

Even since she was a little kid This Troper would always have fantasies about going on adventures with her favorite characters. Justified because it's not uncommon for autistic kids (like herself) to have such fantasies. Taken to ridiculous extremes with BackyardSports-see my entry on {{Expy}}. Speaking of which, I really envy the four boys who imitate TheBeatles-they get a five-star treatment and get to meet their favorite celebrties, especially Tony who loves to be famous! Well...except for Jorge (who is supposed to imitate JohnLennon, btw-Wait-SmallNameBigEgo meets TroubledButCute?! It gets better!) the group's default EmoTeen, and Achmed whose [[DeadLittleBrother little brother Amir is dead. That's right, I killed off his little brother. Well, technically, Amir was already taken out of BackyardSports games made after 2006. All I did was {{Retcon}} it.]] (Although, you know, I can relate to Jorge, and he's like an AuthorAvatar, so...) Plus, they ''are'' kind of cute. Then there are ThoseTwoGuys- Achmed and Joey make cute, snarky jokes similar to StatlerAndWaldorf, but LighterAndSofter. They also imitate GeorgeHarrison and RingoStarr (in that order.) But wait-it gets better. There's this {{Jerkass}} guy who might be played by my uncle and is so funny, and has so many PetTheDog moments, we love him more then we hate him. Cute jokes, cute boys, fun adventures, cute boys, terrific music, cute boys and HeartwarmingMoments, and it looks like I created this world because of WishFulfillment. I did. IWishItWereReal indeed. Oh, and did I mention there are ''cute boys''?

Also, ThisTroper believes that Ke$ha is an EvilDiva, and wants to turn JohnLennon into a cyborg and train him to save the world. Or gives TheBeatles ElementalPowers.

Even factoring in human pathos, sometimes I'm just surprised by how badly people want to be special. Each and every entry added here was added by an animal which, unlike all other lifeforms on earth, is sapient! Simply being a sapient animal is all I need to feel special. We're all rotting organic matter living in a universe so large that we are nothing-- but we're the only species we know which can truly FEEL. In my opinion, this by itself surpasses all theoretical abilities and subsequent xenophobias.

Two things. First, This Troper is absolutely certain that about 95% of all Troper Tales are lies, and wishes he could fit something special and truthful in even one of them that wouldn't sound mediocre by comparison (He's certain that this sounds mediocre too). Second, this troper must watch too much animé for his own good. A deadly combination of GurrenLagann, CodeGeass, HaruhiSuzumiya, {{Pokemon}}, and more have left him wanting to live in a world like theirs and do the stuff they do (Because let's face it, who '''wouldn't''' want to be part of Team Dai-Gurren or have the power to make anyone follow your orders?). He also wishes to work in animé voice acting and practices often, since he knows that's about as close as one can get to actually doing those things.

This troper is usually pretty happy and content. She knows she has it good and doesn't really have a right to whine, there's so many people with worse lives than her. But when it hits her(and it does so fairly often) that she lives in an incredibly...well, ordinary world, she goes from cheerfully idealistic and hopeful to depressed and...well, this trope. Sure, we've found arsenic-based life, but it's bacterial. We haven't met any friendly aliens, there's no alliance of humans and aliens, dragons don't exist, magic isn't real. There aren't real superheroes. She doesn't and will probably never have superpowers. She'll never go traveling through time and space saving people. She'll never be exceptionally smart or well-known or amazing among even regular people. She doesn't even have much control over her own life. It's...depressing, to say the least.

This troper has walked the Internet long enough to learn how people mostly will claim belonging to a non-standard sexuality for the sake of appearing offbeat and unique, or to mask their roneriness with some faux rationalization and by "being above human need for interaction". Either way, the norm is as feared and evaded as possible, and WishFulfillment slips into posts in forums whether consciously or unconsciously.

Agreed. This has always struck me. I know I'm myself a victim of this trope, between the desire to achieve artistic perfection and the half-conscious disappointment (wtf?) at not being transgendered, but at least I seem aware of it -- whereas a lot of people don't. (I didn't mention all the superpowers I'd like to have, but then, who ''doesn't'' want superpowers? That's kind of the whole point.)

This troper's actually sort of astounded reading this page, and blames children's TV for getting our hopes up in the first place. When she was a pre-teen a series of points against being social (chubby/medical grade acne/poor grooming) kept her from relating to other kids which was half their fault AND half hers (she's a realist). It left her pretty lonely and she used to wish that when she turned sixteen (because it's always sixteen) that she'd somehow be granted the power to jump into the TV and just live there because real life wasn't what she wanted. And of course that dream died. She's pretty sure the seeds of it still exist in her now much more practical dream of being a published author. Who's maybe famous...and has a killer body. Still sort of attainable.

All the time, I beg some higher force for superpowers. I keep telling myself, "I'd give anything to be special. Anything." But then, when I think about it, I guess I wouldn't. Well, looks like it's time to become a BadassNormal.

Actually (same person) I was once at the mall, thinking about fantasy shows, superhero comics, dragon movies, the works. I suddenly heard this '''"Wooooooooooo"''' like a huge monster. Instantly, I thought. ''Yes. So much yes. Time to kick monster ass.'' And I waited. And waited. And then my dad asked me what I was doing. And then I waited. And then the monster didn't come. And then I followed my dad. Needless to say, I was pretty depressed for a while.

This troper wants to be a famous scriptwriter, bodybuilder and martial artist. That's one short of NinjaPirateZombieRobot territory, so he thinks he can achieve it. He also wants to be {{Badass}} and date an AmazonianBeauty StatuesqueStunner, and then get HappilyMarried to her and have a BadassFamily. That...might be a bit harder, but he thinks he can pull it off if he pulls off the trio in his first sentence. Fortunately, he is too stubborn to give up. Unfortunately, that's a lot of stuff to accomplish...

This troper is an example of both this ''and'' IJustWantToBeNormal. He's a CloudCuckooLander who is frequently harried for his awful memory and focus, in addition to having a very not-fun case of bipolarity... so he spends a lot of time either wishing that he was more normal, or waiting for/trying to bring about something lasting and fabulously surreal. Both goals are probably doomed to fail.

This troper once ended a relationship with a guy who was constantly telling her she was beautiful and smart and funny and cool. It wasn't that he was insincere; it was that it was an open relationship and he seemed to feel the same way about everyone. Maybe it was shallow, but the troper wanted to be with someone who thought she was a little ''more'' special than virtually every other woman on the planet.

I, being afflicted with several physical maladies, want TheSingularity to hurry up and get here, or at least some good transhuman technology. I'd be, like, the best superbeing ''ever''. For reasons not the least of which would be that if ''I'' had superpowers, I would ''not'' {{wangst}} about them. On Series/{{Heroes}}, why were Micah Sanders and Hiro Nakamura the only ones who realized how awesome this was?! (Well, I guess Peter and Sylar did too, but I wasn't counting the idiot and the psycho) This attitude probably explains partially why my favorite superheroes are filmverse IronMan (ScienceHero) and GreenLantern (versatility limited only by himself).

This troper, when he was younger, wanted to have the ability to see in the dark ever since he saw that SkunkFu episode "The Art of Darkness", even going as far as to imitating Panda's instructions on how to do that "knight-of-vision technique" in the beginning of the episode. A few hundred tries later, I had to accept that while it would have been cool to see in the dark using that technique, it was impossible. Similarly, I always wanted to control my dreams after watching the episode that came AFTER the aforementioned Skunk Fu episode, and, unlike the "seeing in the dark" example, I actually SUCCEEDED at that quite a few times, albeit only breifly, but hey, at least it's better than not succeeding at ALL. Although controlling your dreams is a LOT more plausible than using the "knight-of-vision technique".

This troper would rather be anyone but himself. {{Justified}} since he has some major self-esteem issues.

This troper here knows how to make herself "special" by real life standards. But all the video games she plays and fantasy books she reads remind her of the fact she doesn't live in a world where magic, dragons or fairies exist, she'll never be able to shoot fireballs with her hands, she'll never be a hero and have crazy adventures with her friends... okay, it's starting to sound incredibly stupid. But it gets a little depressing knowing she can't become my favourite video game character through hard work and determination. Ever since she was little she's been hoping that one day she'll get her letter from Hogwarts, become a magicial girl, or travel to another world. Not gonna happen.