If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Started by jimmy olsen, March 05, 2014, 05:44:03 PM

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If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Super Strength
1 (2.1%)
Super Speed
1 (2.1%)
Invulnerability
0 (0%)
Regenerative Healing
5 (10.4%)
Telepathy
1 (2.1%)
Teleportation
3 (6.3%)
Telekinesis
0 (0%)
Time Control
12 (25%)
Mind Control
8 (16.7%)
X-ray vision
0 (0%)
Pyrokinesis
0 (0%)
Flight
2 (4.2%)
Electromagnetic Control
1 (2.1%)
Shape Shifting
2 (4.2%)
Invisibility
3 (6.3%)
Other
9 (18.8%)

Total Members Voted: 47

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The Larch

#30
March 05, 2014, 06:20:14 PM Last Edit: March 05, 2014, 06:22:32 PM by The Larch
Coming to think about it, plenty of the listed powers have unintended side effects that can render them more a curse than a blessing.

- Super strength: Cool, enjoy punching through walls and lifting tanks over your head, but you still get hurt. Enjoy the broken hands and feet, or even spine. Super strong paraplegic doesn't sound like a nice way to spend your life. Unless you get some kind of super endurance to go with it, I'd say it's a pass.
- Super speed: Depending on how fast it is, unless you have super reflexes and the ability to process information at those speeds, would involve a lot of hitting yourself agains stuff. Get fast enough and enjoy getting incinerated.
- Invulnerability: What has already been said about it, can you get surgery? Or even a flu shot? Or is your skin absolutely unbreakable?
- Regenerative healing has already been discussed as well.
- Telepathy, if it can't be "switched off" would make anyone bonkers.
- Teleportation: Careful about getting solid inside something! Do your clothes travel with you or would you be T-800 naked upon arrival?

And so on...

Agelastus

#31
March 05, 2014, 06:21:19 PM
Teleportation.

No more public transport.

No more crowded roads.

Deciding on the spot to have dinner in Rio de Janeiro and being outside the restaurant five seconds later.

etc.
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lustindarkness

#32
March 05, 2014, 06:36:03 PM
Time control. No question.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Sheilbh

#34
March 05, 2014, 06:38:09 PM
Clearly time control.
Let's bomb Russia!

lustindarkness

#35
March 05, 2014, 06:42:30 PM
The Wife said teleportation,  she likes to travel.  The Daughter said super speed to dominate in basketball.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Razgovory

#36
March 05, 2014, 06:42:48 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 05, 2014, 05:51:43 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 05, 2014, 05:47:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 05, 2014, 05:45:30 PM
Not sure about the bestest super power, but the absolute worst has to be the one Bouncing Boy has.
Who?

From the Legion of Super-Heroes, the weirdest and best of all the super-teams.

Bouncing Boy does suck, but he has moxy.  Can any of us really say the same?

Yeah, I think I have an old 12 pack of the stuff back in garage.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Larch

#37
March 05, 2014, 06:43:59 PM
What kind of Time Control are we talking about? The "freeze time for as long as I want" kind?

Ideologue

#38
March 05, 2014, 06:44:35 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 05, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
Healing - anyone who says otherwise is under 40  :D

Nope.  Tim said eternal youth isn't in the plan.  Which means it's pretty weak.
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crazy canuck

#39
March 05, 2014, 06:46:19 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 05, 2014, 06:44:35 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 05, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
Healing - anyone who says otherwise is under 40  :D

Nope.  Tim said eternal youth isn't in the plan.  Which means it's pretty weak.

Like I said, you are under 40.  Who cares if you have any of the other powers if your health is failing.  I would much rather be perfectly healthy until the day I die than have any other power.  You wont fully appreciate this until you get older.

Liep

#40
March 05, 2014, 06:52:21 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on March 05, 2014, 06:21:19 PM
Teleportation.

No more public transport.

No more crowded roads.

Deciding on the spot to have dinner in Rio de Janeiro and being outside the restaurant five seconds later.

etc.

This was my thinking too.
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Razgovory

#41
March 05, 2014, 06:52:51 PM
Fuck I'm 32 and I would appreciate it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#42
March 05, 2014, 06:56:15 PM
Time control.  I could go into the future and become nearly immortal from all the space-medicine.  Then fly around with a jet pack and destroy my enemies with nuclear bottle rockets.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#43
March 05, 2014, 06:56:42 PM
Omnipotence
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Tonitrus

#44
March 05, 2014, 07:02:54 PM
I could see how shape shifting could potentially encompass a number of the other powers(i.e. turn into a bird and fly)...unless you put limits on it.
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