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

[jimmy olsen]

What it says on the tin. I ask because this is a question I've asked my students and their most common answer strikes me as odd. I want to see if it's preference limited to my students, or if it's a sentiment that is more widespread.

[Admiral Yi]

Not sure about the bestest super power, but the absolute worst has to be the one Bouncing Boy has.

[jimmy olsen]

Not sure about the bestest super power, but the absolute worst has to be the one Bouncing Boy has.

Who?

[Savonarola]

Electromagnetic control of course; I'd have the most awesome circuit designs ever.   

[Ideologue]

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?

[DGuller]

So many choices.    I'd like to have a superpower to add all the superpowers listed above, so that I don't have to pick just one.

[Admiral Yi]

You tell him Log.  Kill! Kill!

[Ideologue]

Regenerative healing, if it includes immortality.

If immortality is not on the table, I choose telekinesis, which is like mastery of magnetism but can't be defeated by rubber bullets or plastic helicopters or similar shit such as has threatened Magneto in the past.

Actually, now I would rather have telekinesis than immortality.  There's always a chance I could be imprisoned, or burned beyond my healing factor's ability to cope.  But with telekinesis?  I cannot overstate how fucked your world order would be.

[Ed Anger]

Mindblasting Nerds.

[Monoriu]

Regenerative Healing.

[The Larch]

Flight, assuming one can get high enough without freezing, and travel at a decent speed.

[Ideologue]

Mindblasting Nerds.

I'd use it to steal nuclear weapons, threaten to detonate or disintegrate them unless student loan reform was enacted.  Or unless a hundred beautiful young women with some sexual experience, but not, like, you know, a gross amount, were delivered to my headquarters.

[The Larch]

Btw, I see that regenerative healing is the most popular choice. It shouldn't be if you still experience the pain.

[Ideologue]

Btw, I see that regenerative healing is the most popular choice. It shouldn't be if you still experience the pain.

Why?  I have regenerative healing.  I can shoot as much heroin into my body as I want.

[Barrister]

Wouldn't invulnerability be more useful than healing?

I'm somewhat drawn to mind control, but that seems like it would be ethically dubious...

I think I'll stick with my curling broom +1.