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Accidental World Domination: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Ray

TheAceOfSkulls

A75/100
Alex Adams is the Iron Menace, a less-than-notable supervillain in Victory City — until a power he'd mostly written off misfires and accidentally kills a member of the League of Domination, the premier villain organization of the world. The League doesn't take kindly to nobodies offing their members, and the superheroes are paying attention too. With his past misdeeds catching up to him, no desire to swap sides for a cushy redemption arc, and unwilling to serve as anyone's flunky, Alex sees only one option: World Domination. A humorous but loving take on superhero-villain fantasy in a cape world inspired by the silver and bronze age of comics, with light progression elements and alternative-history world-building.
Royal Road4.74· 316
Anti-heroComedyLGBTQ+SatireSci-fiSuperpowers+2

Super Villain System

vVip3rzzz

B74/100
Something is wrong with the world. Beyond the eldritch horror encroaching from beyond and invasive man-eating aliens, the Federation of Man just isn't right. Superheroes aren't much of heroes anymore, and super villains — well, they just aren't super. The Federation is desperately lacking a proper villain. Luke was fine being a cashier, watching villainy be made a mockery of by amateurs. But after being robbed, electrocuted, and beaten all in the same week, some screws got knocked loose. The state of villainy is not fine, and Luke is bored, crazy, and stupid enough to believe he can change it. A mystic entity called the Architect apparently agrees — planting a system on Luke that wants only one thing: evil done right.
Royal Road4.74· 286
Anti-heroComedyLitRPGPost-apocalypticSuperpowersSystem Apocalypse+1

The Power of Ten Book Four: Dynamo

RE Druin

B74/100
Getting carved off a soul is traumatic. Getting snared by an extradimensional entity for unknown reasons is worse. Waking up in a new world suspiciously familiar to your favorite reading material as a kid is downright crazy — but there have been some big changes to canon. Soul-Shard Vier wakes up in a Marvel Universe with no idea of what to do in the grand scheme. But it's a superhero universe, friendly to everything you might try. Time to stop buying into comic book power stasis and start climbing the scales — and if you get to exploit some still-relevant canon along the way, all the better.
Royal Road4.69· 842
GameLitIsekaiOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2

When Life Gives You a Superior Biology

SuperiorFreak

B74/100
What do you do when you find yourself in a new universe with an extraordinary biology? With all the amazing things in this new world, there are equally horrible things too — everything has a way of balancing out. So what does that mean for someone who won the genetic lottery? All that good has to balance out somehow. A reincarnation story set in the DC Universe.
Royal Road4.68· 1.1K
IsekaiLGBTQ+Overpowered MCReincarnationSci-fiSuperpowers

Broker

TheBroker

B74/100
The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. It's the end of the world — but Sonya Chernovna has been given a chance for a redo. Armed with her memories of the world to come and a deep hatred of the society that rose out of Pandora's Light, Sonya sets out to change the future. Even if it means becoming the most heinous villain that ever lived.
Royal Road4.57· 1.6K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkOverpowered MCRegressionSci-fiSuperpowers+4

Will of The Force (Star Wars / Worm)

Capitao Caverna

B73/100
Darth Vader dies in the arms of his son, having killed his master and returned to the light side of the Force. Then he wakes up on a primitive planet that hasn't yet achieved interstellar travel — where the government is corrupt, the heroes are ineffective, and the city is dominated by a gang called the Empire 88 and another that practices slavery. He wants to be better, he wants to overcome his past, but the city isn't making it easy. Sometimes, a former Sith Lord just wants to force choke someone.
Royal Road4.70· 611
Anti-heroOverpowered MCReincarnationSci-fiSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

The Law of Averages

mcswazey

B73/100
What young boy doesn't crave adventure? What young man doesn't wish to be a superhero? But time marches on, life grows dull with responsibility, and old dreams are forgotten. This story follows Daniel Newman as he's dragged solidly out of his comfort zone and adjusts to a strange new world — one where superpowers are for sale, heroics are frowned upon, and life constantly defies his expectations. Dan always thought he was destined to be normal, but one world's normal is another world's special.
Royal Road4.57· 1.5KGoodreads4.18· 11
ComedyCompetent MCCozyIsekaiSci-fiSuperpowers

REND: Prior Cycle (Old Version)

Temple

B72/100
Erind Hartwell is a first-year law student with psychopathic tendencies and an obsessive compulsion to follow an arbitrary set of Rules. She's content living a normal life in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors invading minds — as long as the world doesn't bother her. Unfortunately, the world couldn't help itself. On the brink of death, an entity offered her powers to survive. Left with no other choice, she accepted, changing into a new form — the first of many that will allow her to bother the world right back.
Royal Road4.56· 1.5K
Genius MCHorrorMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+3

A Sinner's Eden

Andur

B71/100
The Earth of the future is united under a single government, but the powerful still rule the weak. Those who do not conform are exiled to another world — one that even future technology failed to tame. It should have been humanity's New World. Instead it became a penal colony, a place where the exiled are sent to die. The exiles' gene manipulation grants them something akin to superpowers, but that counts for little against the monsters of their new world. Survival depends on what the land provides, the scraps of failing old technology, and the fragile politics forming between rival clans.
Royal Road4.65· 1.2KGoodreads4.60· 5
Anti-heroGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+1

Tinea and Leah

Eleeyah

B71/100
Tinea had an ugly childhood full of pain and abuse. It taught her how to fight and survive, how to run and hide and cut ties — but not much else. She ran, crossed an ocean, grew up, and discovered the world. Soul-deep pain notwithstanding, she fought to be happy. Then the aliens invaded her neighborhood. Smoking rifle in hand and still coming up short, she made a life-ending choice — and was rewarded beyond her wildest dreams through DNA-changing Vanguard science. Reborn, a whole new journey awaits the warrior looking for connection and togetherness, set in the universe of Stray Cat Strut.
Royal Road4.68· 742
CozyGameLitGenius MCLGBTQ+LitRPGMilitary+5

The Coffin Hotel

Erik Weir

B71/100
Brandon Ferryman went out for a burrito and woke up dead on the side of a road, chosen by a pumpkin-headed god of death to run a very special establishment: the Coffin Hotel, a place that exists between worlds. Now he has to fight monsters, free trapped spirits, and keep the guests comfortable — all while gaining power he never asked for and trying not to lose his head in the process.
Goodreads4.46· 291
ComedyIsekaiSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

Plan? What Plan?

Fabled Webs

B71/100
An OC-insert fan fiction set in the Worm universe, following Bryce Kiley — a character even slightly less annoying than Greg Veder, and only because of limited screen time. A Tinker of Fiction format story.
Royal Road4.71· 343
ComedyCozyIsekaiReincarnationSchoolSci-fi+2

Alexa Thymes

Lykanthropy

B70/100
In a world where monsters are real and academic performance can be a matter of life and death, Alexa Thyme operates differently from her peers. She feels no emotions — except when she increases her attributes, which has become the singular purpose driving her life. Using biting sarcasm and deadpan responses to pass as an ordinary student, she pushes herself through academics, sports, and supernatural threats alike — determined to advance as far as her willingness to work will take her.
Goodreads4.43· 674
Competent MCSchoolStatsSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

The Forerunner Initiative

Draith

B69/100
Dragons, catgirls, guns, magic, and the ability to stop time — what more could a modern woman want? Well, if her past would stay locked away back on Earth, that'd be nice. And there's that one other thing: finding a way home before the world ends. But that's the last step in a five-year plan. The first? To play with magic.
Goodreads4.42· 708
ComedyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLGBTQ+Secondary WorldSkill Collection+2

The Zombie Knight Saga

George M. Frost

B69/100
Death is coming. And he wants to help. The world of Eleg may seem like a normal enough place at first glance, but wade deeper into it and the dark, the deadly, and the mad begin to reveal themselves. Don't worry — they usually have a sense of humor.
Royal Road4.66· 1.1K
ComedyGrimdarkHorrorSchoolSecondary WorldSuperpowers+1

Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices

SoggyRedToast

B67/100
When a down-on-his-luck machine shop owner comes into possession of a rundown suit of power armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash. Unfortunately, the world of Capes is not one you may enter and leave at will. What should have been a quick sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home.
Royal Road4.60· 1.2KGoodreads4.01· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedySci-fiSuperpowersUrban FantasyVillain MC

Gamma Protocol

Ravnicrasol

B66/100
In the year 2252, Axel Garcia woke up early, ready to enter the next phase of his life. He has since concluded that he should have slept in. In a cyberpunk world where humanity has been pushed into futuristic fortified cities to survive against monsters, Axel navigates a life of slice-of-life moments, monster killing, and trying to do good in a world fraught with greed. Alongside standard military forces and a cadre of superpowered fighters — less Mahou Shoujo and more superheroes — he'll discover that common sense and big guns go a surprisingly long way.
Royal Road4.67· 448
CozyLitRPGMilitaryPost-apocalypticSci-fiSuperpowers

CyberGene

Sixbees2

B66/100
Every century, the MALswarm invades — adaptive aliens of blood and steel led by Titans that decimate billions and leave behind raw Warp Energy. Humanity seizes this power, transforming into beings of mutated flesh and cybernetic might. Yet the promised utopia remains a lie, and New California's underworld schemes to profit from the impending Fifth Swarm. Two destinies collide amidst the chaos. Ripley — a cybernetics savant battling to save his dying mother — operates in the shadows of a gang-owned nightclub. Diana, engineered for perfection, fights as an officer of the law to forget her past. When a monster is unleashed, they steal its infinite potential to warp their futures. In a city where salvation and damnation are inseparable, Ripley reinvents himself from the wreckage of his enemies' cybernetics as a mercenary, while Diana's mutated blood crackles with lightning as she purges corruption. Against a grand conspiracy of aliens, rogue AIs, shady corporations, and organized crime, their alliance — and conflict — determines if the world will plunge into darkness or embrace the light.
Royal Road4.66· 609
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGenius MCGoreGrimdark+9

Millisecond: Superspeed is a Curse

CrowsCrowCrow

B65/100
In a world of superheroes, Milly awakens her power as a speedster — only to find herself slowly drifting away from everyone around her. Her superspeed doesn't come with an off-switch, and her new perception of time threatens to alienate her from the world entirely. At the start of high school, Milly enrolls at Arkwright Academy, an all-girls boarding school far from her childhood home. There she must navigate new friendships, emerging feelings, superheroes and villains, mysteries, and above all, a power that is as much curse as gift.
Royal Road4.66· 543
LGBTQ+MysteryOverpowered MCSchoolSlow BurnSuperpowers+1

Corruption Wielder

Aaron Shih

B65/100
When the world ends, humanity must fight to survive — but where others struggle in fear, Will sees only an opportunity. When Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia and a system gives humanity a choice between forty years of indentured servitude or fighting a chaos incursion, Will doesn't hesitate. The system thanks him by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, he shrugs and picks [Corruption] as his primary attribute. With a forbidden element — and the powers of death and space added on top — Will just might be able to stab his way through. Earth's sole corruption wielder finds danger at every corner. To him, that might be exactly where he's meant to be.
Goodreads4.38· 1.4K
Anti-heroLitRPGStatsSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong