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It worked for Lord Vetinari.

"Good day, sirs and madam.  Ah, I believe you must be the members of Foxbat Force.  Welcome to the Justice Tower, home to the city's premiere superhero team.  I'm Jeeves, the team's butler and man-servant.  Might I take your cowl, Mr. Foxbat, sir?  Or your lab coat, Professor Steriaca?  I apologize that my masters are not in residence at the moment, but I have alerted them that they have visitors, and I expect them to arrive shortly.
 
"My mask?  Yes, sirs and madam, I realize it's hardly necessary, but it find it helps me fit in better with my employers.  Makes them more comfortable, as it were.  Ah, Ms. Batfox, I see you're admiring my walking stick.  As you surmised, it does give me the ability to defend myself, and even to give a healthy jolt of electricity to ruffians seeking to damage the Justice Tower or its residents."

"Please, come this way into the sitting room and I can bring you some refreshments while you wait for your hosts to arrive.  Ah, Exoskeleton Man -- might I call you Mr. Man? -- please don't handle the artwork.  That is an original Bartlett, and my masters would not be pleased to see it damaged or stolen."
 
"Really, Mr. Foxbat, I must protest.  Having your cohort Harmonious Fist restrain me is taking liberties I simply cannot allow.  I must insist you release me at once, or I will be forced to take action against you.  (sigh)  Well, sirs and madam, you certainly can't say that you haven't been warned."
 
WHAM!  BAM!  BASH!  POW!  ZZZAP!  KA-POW!  BLAM!  GLOP-GLOP-GLOP-GLOP!
 
"There, now, was that really necessary?  Tsk, tsk, you've damaged my exterior as well.  I'll have to replace this entire outfit, as well as sections of my epidermis.  Why, yes, Mr. Man, I am in fact a robot.  Now if you would all be so kind as to wait within the restraining resin I have applied, I'm sure my masters will be here shortly to turn you over to the authorities.  In the meantime, would any of you like some tea?"

... and now I want to know about the infamous WKRP incident.  I'm imagining something along the lines of:
 
Les Nessman:  "Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about| Turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"
 

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Shouldn't that be "... my coworkers are fantastically stupid"?

I thought it was a magical place.

I thought it was a magical place.

Tahiti - It's a wonderful place.

That's some serious body odor.

Who is the warden at Strong Hold Col. Klink?   

It's a sobering thought to realize that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 19 years.

It's a sobering thought to realize that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 19 years.

Leroy
Exodia
X-Ray
X-Ray-Ted
 
Together they form the awesome superteam LEXX.
 
Leroy, The Amazing Mullet Man is noted for both his super-strength and for being so stupid that he has his mullet in the front rather than in the back.
 
Exodia is the cranial unit of a diplo-bot from Altair VII. Exodia currently has no superpowers per se since recently losing his body during a cruise when Leroy let Weevil Underwood "look at Exodia for a moment" then Weevil threw the Exodia body overboard. Exodia, though miffed, still tries to keep Leroy from getting lost and/or walloping the wrong target. Exodia often acts as the team spokesman.
 
X-Ray is the newest member of LEXX. Her energy-projection powers have significantly increased the team's offensive potential. And her Comeliness has made LEXX the new darlings of the local news media.
 
X-Ray-Ted was formerly known as being only Ted, the janitor of the Freedom Squad. In a freak accident during The Ultimates invasion of the Freedom Squad base, Ted gained X-Ray vision and used his new ability to outmaneuver and, ahem, ultimately escape the bad guys. Being somewhat drunk on power, and on several different liquors, Ted subsequently set out on a career to become a superhero despite his age and lack of outstanding combat abilities. Since X-Ray joined the team, X-Ray-Ted has spent the majority of his time watching her...purely in an effort to help her hone her powers and persona, of course. Ted so far has offered no explanation of why he spends the rest of his time watching other women.

From our old friend Bunneh:
 
A young Irish girl ran away from home. Some years later she returned and threw herself at her father's feet. "Forgive me, da', for I've brought shame to the family name. To survive, I became a prostitute!"
 
"You're no child o' mine!" the father angrily shouts.
 
"But da', I became very good at what I did, and I saved all me money to bring home to you. Look, I've brought you 10,000 pounds!"
 
Father stares at the money and, amazed, asks "What did you say you became?"
 
"A prostitute," the girl answers tearfully.
 
"Oh, come into my arms my darling girl! For a minute there, I thought you'd said 'Protestant'!"

I hear the Cardinals are really making a come back this season

That'd be inconvenient for the poor Asgardian who's just trying to enjoy a nice  bubble bath, when Thor pops in to bounce the Bifrost off them.

Well, the obvious choice for an enemy group is Road Kill. 
 
Another possibility is Deathstroke.  You can go old-school and use the 2E versions with Deathsinger, Frost, Arrowhead, et al.  Heck, if you have the 2E module, you could revamp that and run it - IMO it has the feel of an 80s superhero cartoon.

Presumably a superhero campaign? Could you post more information on the setting, genre, # of points, etc?
 
 
Limitations such as this are subject to GM interpretation. 
 
If your interpretation is, there's some shadows somewhere in the scene and therefore such abilities work nearly all of the time, then yeah it's not very limiting.
 
If you interpret it as personal powers with the lim only work if the character themselves is in shadow, and targeted abilities only work if the character themselves and their target are in shadow it gets more restrictive quickly.
 
You could further interpret it that for non-indirect targeted powers there must also be shadow between the character and the target. That would be quite restrictive.
 
Also, there is the matter of how you are defining the lim in the first place. By "Darkness" do you literally mean the POWER Darkness or do you just mean "areas with low to no natural light"? I'm assuming the later...you mean poor to no lighting conditions.
 
Mechanically "Night" in the Hero System is basically a label for a -4 Sight PER penalty; shadows / poor lighting conditions are similarly just -1 to -3 Sight PER penalties.
 
Similarly, areas of good lighting are defined as bonuses to Sight PER checks.
 
Fundamentally, light and the absence of light as we colloquially think of them in the real world are represented in the Hero System as PER modifiers.
 
The Darkness power on the other hand is impenetrable / opaque to the targeted sense group; it has nothing to do with PER checks and basically nullifies / turns off PER checks for the affected senses across its area. Also, despite the name, a given Darkness based power affecting the Sight Group may not necessarily have the SFX of "lack of light"; it could have the SFX of a magical spell, or sensory overload, or a mental power (blocking the mind's ability to process visual input), or smoke, or whatever. If a target were in a "Dazzling Disarray of D'Azzario" spell which blinded targets with mystical scintillating prismatic sparkly bits...bought as Darkness vs Sight Group, there is no SFX of "no light"...quite the opposite, the SFX calls for brightness. 
 
Coming back around to your situation, if you rephrase the limitation as "Only in Poor Lighting Conditions" rather than "Only in Darkness / Shadows", then it becomes relatively easy to mechanically adjudicate when the limitation does and does not apply...if a normal person would not suffer -1 or more to a sight based PER check to perceive the character or the target due to poor lighting, the limitation applies. If they would suffer at least -1 to PER check to perceive the character / target, the lim does not apply and the power works. Easy to adjudicate.
 
 
Your instinct is correct in having some concerns about this power. 
 
However the thing that stands out as problematic to me on this particular build is first and foremost that it is 0 END.
 
0 END on Constant attack powers is pretty much always an issue. As soon as someone slaps 0 END on a Constant Attack power, I mentally upgrade the power to a YIELD sign if it isn't already one, and a STOP sign if it is.
 
Usable On Others is a STOP sign advantage already. Usable As Attack is even more uber than that; even on an already STOP sign ability the rules explicitly re-stipulate "Because Usable As Attack powers can be extremely effective, the GM must approve them". Smacking 0 END on top of that should get something like a RADIOACTIVE sign next to it. 
 

 
With this sort of ability, if I allow it at all I typically make players define a reasonable off-switch, something that will turn the ability off or block it in the first place. There must be some kind of control over it. In this case the power isn't Uncontrolled, so staggering / KO'ing the character will turn it off, as will breaking Line of Sight between the target and the character. That's something, but mano y mano it often wont make a difference to the victim if they can't target the character and can't perceive their area well enough to deliberately move out of Line of Sight.
 
I would require the player to tweak that build slightly to make it less of a soft lock. 
 
I would look at the character's origin of powers and specific SFX first and try to derive some sensible restriction on such abilities stemming from the nature of the character's abilities. If nothing presented itself there I would then turn to the mechanics to nerf it a bit. I might only permit the player to take it at 1/2 END, for instance. Or perhaps place some limits around frequency of use...if this character can spam the attack it's obviously much more problematic, but if it takes time or comes at some cost to activate it then it will be less frequently used and thus less of a problem. But long story short, I would want that ability tweaked to put a leash on it before I allowed it into play.

I am inclined to give Power Defence a role in these kinds of things.  I also tell players that ask for this kind of power how they will be combated - what SFX might be used to counter them. 
 
Finally I pose to them a counter power, similar to the one proposed that would nerf their character, in this case a light illusions power, UAA only to create a halo of all pervasive light.  That would destroy his ability to use any of his shadow/dark powers...if he is content for that kind of power to appear, and it will, I am happy to allow the proposed power too.  I find that this kind of "if you use, I definitely will use it" conversation leads to a reasonable game.  ?
 
Doc

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The cop was clearly trained by Cobra Kai.

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My daughter bought and built a STEM toy (a motorized Gatling nerf gun).  While loading it...
 
"I just realized I'm pointing this thing at my face while I'm loading it.  Not a good idea."
 
"Safety is #6, Dad."