If you could pick a Super Power, any single Super Power (so you could fly but were not immune to things like friction or cold) what would you choose?
The ability to copy and reuse the powers of others. Something like, Mimic or Rogue from Marvel, or Peter Petrelli from NBCs Heroes TV show.
Telekinesis, because it's versatile. Moving stuff, ranged attacks, solid defense, and levitation, yo.
I guess that's why it's the horrific superpower so often (Dark Phoenix, Sylar, etc)?
If telekinesis doesn't count because it's so flexible, my second choice is slowing down time for everyone but me.
Telepathy.
Wild Shape
full telepathy (including inserting thoughts...)
i'd pick Psychokinesis.
Telekinesis. I wish for it more often than any other power.
At-will teleportation; many friends on the other side of the big lake, y'know?
Second choice telekinesis or telepathy.
I'd have to say transmutation/alchemy. I would transmute anything on a whim, including converting my fleshy body into a preferable structure of metal and robotics... I'm cheating am I?
Farseeing/precognition.
Invisibility for me.
Teleportation (without error of course)
I'd just like to go wherever i wanted whenever i wanted. Gets too cold? lets go to jamaica. Want to see one of my mates? I'm there. Anywhere you wanted to go and you could be there.
-Kraik
Shapeshifting.
While I think teleportation, telepathy, and time powers would be cool and imminently useful, I've always had a soft-spot in my heart for shapeshifting abilities. When I was younger and played "X-Men" with my friend, my X-Man always had shapeshifting powers, and I'll always remember those times fondly.
Flight.
Telekinesis.
Unlimited Invincibility/Indestructible. Technically, I would live forever, be immune to diseases, etc. etc.
Nothing could kill me!
Scratch that. Instead of Telekinesis, I want the ability to protect people from themselves. I'm sick of seeing good people destroying themself with their dumb*** decisions.
Eh, long-term removal of free will, even for someone's own good, pings kinda high on the "kilo-nazi" chart, methinks.
Flight via Wings.
For anyone who doesn't play already, check out City of Heros, its an awesome superhero online game.
Tried it. In a few months when I start seeing Champions Online free trials I'm going to see if I can get my sisters and SO to try it with me so we can see if we're going to switch to that until Cataclysm/Diablo III comes out.
Tried it. In a few months when I start seeing Champions Online free trials I'm going to see if I can get my sisters and SO to try it with me so we can see if we're going to switch to that until Cataclysm/Diablo III comes out.
My friend's friend is playing Champions, and he says it's cool. One of the things I think is neat is that you create your nemisis when you create your hero. I like that.
Tried it. In a few months when I start seeing Champions Online free trials I'm going to see if I can get my sisters and SO to try it with me so we can see if we're going to switch to that until Cataclysm/Diablo III comes out.
My friend's friend is playing Champions, and he says it's cool. One of the things I think is neat is that you create your nemisis when you create your hero. I like that.
Hm...sounds like a great idea. Hopefully its execution will not be a letdown.
Eh, long-term removal of free will, even for someone's own good, pings kinda high on the "kilo-nazi" chart, methinks.
It could mean an increase in intelligence in everything around him. It would basically be the power to inspire good judgment in others.
As for me, I can't choose yet. Immutability is tempting (October_Darkness's choice), telekinesis would be tempting if not incredibly lame ("OH HAY LOOK I CAN DO EVERYTHING"). I might also choose emotion manipulation (a much rougher version of mind control since only emotion can be inspired but the resulting behavior depends entirely on the person). I would like to be able to create fire, but controlling it is another power so I wouldn't actually be able to use it in a useful (let alone benevolent) manner.
I want the power of stabbing people and not getting in trouble for it.
I want the power of stabbing people and not getting in trouble for it.
Ultimate Popularity?
Something tells me I won't be all that well liked. I plan on stabbing lots of people, you see. I'm ok with that.
I want the power of stabbing people and not getting in trouble for it.
... I'm suddenly reminded of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez, in which the main character does that. A lot. At one point he even wonders how he can stab a woman selling flowers in the middle of a street and then leave a bloody trail back to his house and never suffer repercussions.
It was an... odd... comic. Jhonen Vasquez then went on to make the Nickolodean cartoon Invader Zim. I wonder how many little kids have said "I love Zim! Let's google Jhonen Vasquez and see what else he's done!" and seen something like this or this.
Eh, long-term removal of free will, even for someone's own good, pings kinda high on the "kilo-nazi" chart, methinks.
True. I guess I'll just stick with my telekinesis then.
Sylar's power to of "intuitive aptitude" is a good one, that is if you can leave behind the baggage that came with it.
I've thought about this a lot...
I have two I have trouble choosing between.
1> Portal based teleportation, of unlimited size, with unlimited range. Portals would also be barriers, in the sense that if the relative pressures were unequal, they would prevent cross flow. Easy manned mission to Mars.
2> Perfect Pan-Linguistic Fluency. Perfect fluency in all forms of all languages.
Teleportation of self and others (including objects).
Constantly bamf for defense then teleport a rock into someone's skull when you need offense.
3e Wizardry.
...What? It's a power......technically.
Doppelganging. (Shapeshifting + mind reading.)
Theres so many...I think I would choose healing powers so that I could help people and keep me and my family healthy.
Theres so many...I think I would choose healing powers so that I could help people and keep me and my family healthy.
Actually, the ability to cure cancer ("de-mutate"/kill cancerous cells) would be pretty cool. Even with only a tiny fee (much smaller than what chemotherapy and all that jazz cost, to steamroll the competition) I'd soon be a millionaire plus I'd get to do some good in this world.
Regeneration that adds immunity to pain.
What? I've thought it through.
Complete control of elemental/chemical properties of the elements. I would be able to band elements together (creation of anything in any shape), generate or remove ground levels (excavation and such), offensive weapon (what's that? you just gave me the finger? where'd that finger go anyway?), create barriers (stave of damage from a hurricane...or heck, dissipate the hurricane altogether), and manipulate body structures (you just severed your arm? I'll fix that). Seems like a lot, but manipulating anything on the periodic table of elements on a whim sounds great!
Complete control of elemental/chemical properties of the elements. I would be able to band elements together (creation of anything in any shape), generate or remove ground levels (excavation and such), offensive weapon (what's that? you just gave me the finger? where'd that finger go anyway?), create barriers (stave of damage from a hurricane...or heck, dissipate the hurricane altogether), and manipulate body structures (you just severed your arm? I'll fix that). Seems like a lot, but manipulating anything on the periodic table of elements on a whim sounds great!
Ha ha! You might as well say you pick the GOD superpower but skip the all knowing part.
Datalink. Direct interfacing with machines.
The possibilities are limitless if you have the vast interwebz at your disposal, and can create computerprograms through thought alone.
Datalink. Direct interfacing with machines.
The possibilities are limitless if you have the vast interwebz at your disposal, and can create computerprograms through thought alone.
Not to mention the straight to the ... brain ... porn.
Datalink. Direct interfacing with machines.
The possibilities are limitless if you have the vast interwebz at your disposal, and can create computerprograms through thought alone.
Not to mention the straight to the ... brain ... porn.
That hadn't crossed my mind yet
But it did 'cross' something else, didn't it?
Datalink. Direct interfacing with machines.
The possibilities are limitless if you have the vast interwebz at your disposal, and can create computerprograms through thought alone.
... I'm too educated about compilers, information systems, computer networking and so-on to accept a power such as that anymore. There's just too much that it does behind the curtain... too much complex stuff that requires years to learn that gets brushed aside because the comic writer doesn't understand how computers work.
I mean... it just doesn't work like that! And so what if you could download a picture directly to your brain. Can you figure out what a picture looks like just from the bit code? No? that means your power is also displaying information in specific formats. But formats change. And then your power automatically keeps up with them?
/froth
I suppose that's one of the reasons why writers are sometimes recommended to not write about what they know, because they'll know too much to accept the gross simplifications necessary to make fiction work.
If I had to choose but a single power, I would definately take the power to Heal, both for others and myself.
Datalink. Direct interfacing with machines.
The possibilities are limitless if you have the vast interwebz at your disposal, and can create computerprograms through thought alone.
... I'm too educated about compilers, information systems, computer networking and so-on to accept a power such as that anymore. There's just too much that it does behind the curtain... too much complex stuff that requires years to learn that gets brushed aside because the comic writer doesn't understand how computers work.
I mean... it just doesn't work like that! And so what if you could download a picture directly to your brain. Can you figure out what a picture looks like just from the bit code? No? that means your power is also displaying information in specific formats. But formats change. And then your power automatically keeps up with them?
/froth
I suppose that's one of the reasons why writers are sometimes recommended to not write about what they know, because they'll know too much to accept the gross simplifications necessary to make fiction work.
I know about most of that stuff, I've had some classes about assembly, compilers and programming at University.
But it's a superpower, so hell yes it'll interpret the information for me, and program based on human thought, and update when formats changes. That's why it's a super power 
... I'm too educated about compilers, information systems, computer networking and so-on to accept a power such as that anymore. There's just too much that it does behind the curtain... too much complex stuff that requires years to learn that gets brushed aside because the comic writer doesn't understand how computers work.
I mean... it just doesn't work like that! And so what if you could download a picture directly to your brain. Can you figure out what a picture looks like just from the bit code? No? that means your power is also displaying information in specific formats. But formats change. And then your power automatically keeps up with them?
/froth
I suppose that's one of the reasons why writers are sometimes recommended to not write about what they know, because they'll know too much to accept the gross simplifications necessary to make fiction work.
What, because you think re-arranging molecules is easier? Or healing? I mean, think about the crap going on there - creating new cells, destroying bad ones, screwing around with nerve ends and the metabolism and whatnot. And let's not even get into teleportation. So I suppose that unless we can accept stuff like that, we might as well not be having this discussion at all.
That's why I kept mine simple. And fun.
That's why I kept mine simple. And fun.
Because stabbing people is fun?
Well ... yeah. Yeah it is. It's at the very least much better than the alternative (you know, not stabbing people).
The power to control the weather with a mere thought!
Aww shucks. There ya go makin' me all blushy. 
I didn't know zombies could even blush!
Pssst. I'm not really a zombie. Don't tell nobody, ok?
Okay... I wont.
Hey, everybody! I got something to tells you all!
It's about Z_B; the blokes a...
Super Hero.
Psst. I'm not one of those, either.
Ah man.
You always find a way to ruin my fun eh Z_B. It's a good thing your so cuddly and pokeable, otherwise I'd be upset about all this lying of yours.
*poke*
What, because you think re-arranging molecules is easier? Or healing? I mean, think about the crap going on there - creating new cells, destroying bad ones, screwing around with nerve ends and the metabolism and whatnot. And let's not even get into teleportation. So I suppose that unless we can accept stuff like that, we might as well not be having this discussion at all.
Well, yes, I do think it's easier. Because I'm not over-educated about those fields, and the abstract concept almost always sounds easier then the real thing.
You see, my objection has nothing really to do with how possible any of this stuff is (that is, none of it), but that in this one case I know precisely how hard it is and how many steps are being skipped and how senseless it really is. And for me that means I can't accept it. Nothing to do really with just how impossible it is, just how much I know about how impossible it is.
Savvy?
There's a term and Trope on TVTropes.org about this very thing...
But I can't remember which one 
Ah man.
You always find a way to ruin my fun eh Z_B. It's a good thing your so cuddly and pokeable, otherwise I'd be upset about all this lying of yours.
*poke*
*giggles*
No no I meant about not being able to suspend your disbelief because it's something you know about.
And that when someone writes a book where the main character has profession X, everybody loves the book except people who have profession X, because invariable the writer hasn't portraid their profession the right way.
It was probably in the list of 'You Fail X Forever', of which there seem to be a lot.
Let's call it "quantum"-kinesis... The ability to sense and control subatomic particles, which would allow me a complete fundamental awareness of everything within, say, a 30 foot radius.
With these qualifications...
1. It's controlled subconsciously, so I wouldn't need to know physics - it's all about will and visualization.
2. The consequence of number 1 being that my ability to do things would be limited to those things that I could imagine and truly believed I could. If I can rationalize it and justify it somehow, I can accomplish it.
(For example, teleportation is possible because I'm not "changing" anything - a room with me over here and a room with me over there have the same number of particles, as Doc Manhattan would say - and, because perception defines reality, I am where I think I am. And I can walk through walls because physical objects are composed mostly of empty space between particles, so I can just squeeze my particles through the empty spaces. And invisibility is allowing photons to pass through the empty spaces in me.)
Those limitations allow me to do some really cool stuff without actually turning into The Beyonder and making superheroes fight each other for entertainment. No teleporting half a mile down to the store to buy Doritos, no insta-kill Vulcan mindmelds, no flying faster than the posted speed limit, etc.
Basically, I'd be one hell of a badass Jedi Ninja who mainly used his power to do things like avoid cell phone service salesmen at the mall, keep from getting rained on at the bus stop, and keep his over-priced little bags of potato chips from getting jammed up inside the candy machines at work, lol. And, of course, sneak into peoples' houses and dig through their refrigerators, and check out dodgy German porn sites on their computers. 
I can't believe no one has picked this yet, I would pick Super Good Luck, its pretty much the best power.
I can't believe no one has picked this yet, I would pick Super Good Luck, its pretty much the best power.
Also the most LOL one.
True immortality sounds enticing, though you will enevitably have to face the age old question of; "What do you do when everyone you love has died much less everyone in the world?" Mimicry, and the potential to keep, other powers is also quite a good idea, but it's kind of a cop out. "I can't decide from one power so I'll just take everyone's." And what if no one had any powers? Then you would also not have any powers.
In the end, I think I would go for the old fashioned 'Controlling People's Minds' at least that way I know I won't have to worry about anything for the rest of my life and if I so choose I could manipulate politics for funsies.
a physical boost (great strenght,health, flexabilities; and knowledge of martial arts)
I can't believe no one has picked this yet, I would pick Super Good Luck, its pretty much the best power.
So, like batman?
I would like to be able to turn into an insubstantial smoke siloutte at will, even reflexivly. (With the understanding that I could change back as easily, obviously.)
I've been playing a lot of Infamous, and so powers of electricity and stuff would be really cool, if extremely impractical.
pyrokenisis. Cause everything is better when it is on fire.
Made up my mind. Lycanthropy.
LOL.
Made up my mind. Lycanthropy.
Lycanthropy is a disease/curse/affliction that can cause a number of attributes. It is not a super power, although some of the things it can cause, taken individually, could be considered super powers.
I wouldn't mind being a technomancer. Considering the day and age we live in, being able to control machines and digital information on a mere whim of thought would be made of win! 
I wouldn't mind being a technomancer. Considering the day and age we live in, being able to control machines and digital information on a mere whim of thought would be made of win!
Magnetos ability to manipulate metal would be very useful as well.
I can't believe no one has picked this yet, I would pick Super Good Luck, its pretty much the best power.
That'd be my choice. And I'm talking about like the bullstuff they pulled in Escaflowne, where the mech's of the people they were fighting asctually failed for what I believe was the only time in that series.
No no I meant about not being able to suspend your disbelief because it's something you know about.
Cowboy Bebop sits at his computer?
I would like magnetos powers. The master of magnetism.
I would like magnetos powers. The master of magnetism.
I've always liked how Magneto's powers work on non-ferros, non-magnetically reactive metals. Like gold, copper, and so on...
I change my power choice, I want the ability to make fundemental physical laws effect things in such a way that they violate themselves. Also, this would include being able to simply turn off the weak and strong nuclear forces in an area for a while...
Wow, some pretty nifty (or maybe just crazy!?) powers going on here. I wonder what would occour if we were all thrown into a nice Power Fight with one another, all having access to the powers and requirments needed. Who'd win?
Wow, some pretty nifty (or maybe just crazy!?) powers going on here. I wonder what would occour if we were all thrown into a nice Power Fight with one another, all having access to the powers and requirments needed. Who'd win?
All those people not in the same universe as the strugglers.
Wow, some pretty nifty (or maybe just crazy!?) powers going on here. I wonder what would occour if we were all thrown into a nice Power Fight with one another, all having access to the powers and requirments needed. Who'd win?
BS luck. Whats that? Datalink? Ohp, random virus, what are the odds? Flight? Straight into a jet. Telepathy? Well here comes a coincidental zerg rush. Telekinesis? Looks like you tried to move something heaveir than you anticipated and sprained your brain. Prokinesis? Shame it's been raining for the past 3 days.
etc.
Made up my mind. Lycanthropy.
Lycanthropy is a disease/curse/affliction that can cause a number of attributes. It is not a super power, although some of the things it can cause, taken individually, could be considered super powers.
Fine then, Mister Nitpicker. My superpower is all of the BENEFITS of lycanthory, but without the drawbacks.
Fine then, Mister Nitpicker. My superpower is all of the BENEFITS of lycanthory, but without the drawbacks.
You can only have a single power. It says so right in the OP. All the benefits of lycanthropy are individual powers.
Fine then, Mister Nitpicker. My superpower is all of the BENEFITS of lycanthory, but without the drawbacks.
You can only have a single power. It says so right in the OP. All the benefits of lycanthropy are individual powers.
That's silly, we've let others choose package deals.
That's silly, we've let others choose package deals.
Yes, but I'm not that nice.
That's silly, we've let others choose package deals.
Yes, but I'm not so nice.
But no one cares about you, and EE is cooler, so what he says goes.
I've made up my mind: The ability to generate shock image hallucinations in anyone I want whenever I want.
I would goatse everyone. And baneofelves twice.
A sick person like you would enjoy that, too.
My power would definately be the power to use Magic: The Gathering cards to gain some similar effect in real life.
Yeah, I get that's it's cheezy and obsessive. But this is the Wizards forum, and I doubt there's a single person here that's not some compulsive gamer.
Of course, for the power to work, I have to be following the actual rules of the game. It would make for the most epic fight scenes ever.
A sick person like you would enjoy that, too.
I can't lie. It would be crazy awesome if I actually could.
A sick person like you would enjoy that, too.
I can't lie. It would be crazy awesome if I actually could.
It would be a very amusing power
You can only have a single power. It says so right in the OP. All the benefits of lycanthropy are individual powers.
Benefits? Isn't it just being able to turn into a wolf/tiger/cat/whatever?
Wow, some pretty nifty (or maybe just crazy!?) powers going on here. I wonder what would occour if we were all thrown into a nice Power Fight with one another, all having access to the powers and requirments needed. Who'd win?
Umm. I win. *stabbity*
Umm. I win. *stabbity*
I do believe BS luck beat this tactic explicitly in Escaflowne when Folken tried to skewer Dornkirk.
Nothing beats stabbity - as evidenced by the fact that anime sucks. *stabbity*
Wow, some pretty nifty (or maybe just crazy!?) powers going on here. I wonder what would occour if we were all thrown into a nice Power Fight with one another, all having access to the powers and requirments needed. Who'd win?
BS luck. Whats that? Datalink? Ohp, random virus, what are the odds? Flight? Straight into a jet. Telepathy? Well here comes a coincidental zerg rush. Telekinesis? Looks like you tried to move something heaveir than you anticipated and sprained your brain. Prokinesis? Shame it's been raining for the past 3 days.
etc.
Just because it's raining doesn't mean I can't light you on fire. I have lighter fluid.
The power of the Q.
But Super-Vision would work, too.
Just because it's raining doesn't mean I can't light you on fire. I have lighter fluid.
That's recently leaked out all over your jacket and you didn't notice.
There's a reason BS luck is the choice of Mary Sues everywhere. :D
Just because it's raining doesn't mean I can't light you on fire. I have lighter fluid.
That's recently leaked out all over your jacket and you didn't notice.
There's a reason BS luck is the choice of Mary Sues everywhere. :D
If I recall correctly, last time I saw someone with that "BS luck" power go up against another super-powered individual, he got turned into a cat.
For the record, it was Ultimate X-Men Longshot vs. Scarlet Witch.
If I recall correctly, last time I saw someone with that "BS luck" power go up against another super-powered individual, he got turned into a cat.
Exactly, They couldn't even curse him right so he got awesomer. BS luck wins every time :D.
If I recall correctly, last time I saw someone with that "BS luck" power go up against another super-powered individual, he got turned into a cat.
Exactly, They couldn't even curse him right so he got awesomer. BS luck wins every time :D.
Thats... one... interprettation of events, I suppose.
I'd choose Ultra Boy's power: the ability to use any power, one at a time.
Failing that, I'd want the super power to mess with time(stop, restart, fast forward, rewind)
FrozenFerett looks like Mudd
Just because it's raining doesn't mean I can't light you on fire. I have lighter fluid.
That's recently leaked out all over your jacket and you didn't notice.
There's a reason BS luck is the choice of Mary Sues everywhere. :D
If I recall correctly, last time I saw someone with that "BS luck" power go up against another super-powered individual, he got turned into a cat.For the record, it was Ultimate X-Men Longshot vs. Scarlet Witch.
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I'd give myself the power of a Genie. That is, to grant wishes, including my own. Then I'd have every power, whenever I felt like it. Cuz hax.
I'd give myself the power of a Genie. That is, to grant wishes, including my own. Then I'd have every power, whenever I felt like it. Cuz hax.
I wish that you were no longer a genie :3.
How about just wishing for the power of Deus Ex Machine (which is like BS Luck, only gods appear to apply it!)
How about just wishing for the power of Deus Ex Machine (which is like BS Luck, only gods appear to apply it!)
Ability to alter fate.
Ability to alter fat.
You could become disgustingly wealthy with THAT power.
I've heard of many superpowers, but the ability to alter the fat content of a person's body is one I ain't never seen or heard before. Kudos for that!
I'd stick with the simple classic - the ability to create, channel, and manipulate fire as I see fit. Heh, heh, heh.