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I would highly recommend reading worm before going into this, there's a lot you're avoiding. Since you mentioned you read through the wiki, a quick summary;
Powers aren't meant to be helpful. The aliens giving them want conflict and to gain data, not much else. The power gives you abilities, but cleverly makes you relive a ton of trauma every time you use it. To vastly simplify; they're only gonna give flight to someone who wishes they couldn't easily escape things, or has a fear of heights. The "power" is an alien parasite that wants you to suffer, and eventually give enough data to end the world. If you wanna be THAT powerful, you're less "superhero" and more "potential threat to the plan of the things that gave you the power", with all the danger that entails.
The most interesting and fun part of making characters isn't "having superpowers" but thinking of clever ways to reframe and enable trauma through superpowers.
There's nothing here!