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Journal subgeek's Journal: if you could have any superpower 41

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if you could have one superpower, what would it be? make one up if you don't feel the power you want has ever had representation. or choose from the large list that have appeared in comics, mythology, movies, and other sources.

this isn't some analysis thing of whether you'd choose invisibility or flight, but there's no need to exclude those powers from the available options.

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  • What else do ya need?
  • Infinite wisdom...
  • THAT would be fun.

    Either that, or the ability to alter the properties of matter. But selectively granting wishes would be my favourite.
    • i almost put something about granting wishes in the JE. part of me felt that's more like a magical ability than a super power, but i decided that i'm splitting hairs enough that i'd allow it.

      so you want to be an unbound genie. interesting.
  • I could wake up at 7am, say "man, I need a couple more hours before work", stop time, sleep for 3 hours, then get up and be at work. I could then skip traffic back home and catch all of X-Play.

    Visiting family and friends in such disparate places as OH, AL, and TX would be trivial.

    I guess most of these would be solved with teleportation. But it would have the additional benefit of letting you get out of shit (or doing shit) this 1 to 1 realtime correspondence doesn't allow us. There's a finite number of
    • ditto. [slashdot.org]
    • The problem being you would age much faster than others (from their point of reference in time) because you body would be living 30 hour days instead of just 24. This means you could add as much as 90 days to your year. Assuming you didn't start exercising this power till your teen years (like all mutants... so lets assume 15)... that means that by the tim you should have been 30, you would actually be 32.5.

      When you are supposed to be 50, you would actually be 58.6.

      Just something to think about...
      • Ok, obviously the caveat of the power would be that I would not age when time was stopped. If we are going to play pretend like a bunch of eight year olds and give ourselves superpowers then projecting real world rules on it is kind of farcical. If someone was invisible they'd have the mass to bend light and swallow the Earth. If someone wanted to fly faster than the speed of light, they'd evaporate, etc.
        • Oh I completely understand. I just thought it would be fun to totally take all the fun out of the superpowers idea. I was trying to decide which one to "debunk" and your time shifting one caught my eye as being easier to throw some numbers around than the others (since I don't know the coefficient of friction for air to use it against any of the "super speed" related powers).

          No offense, I hope. I guess my super power would be to be the biggest smart-ass sarcastic critic in the universe.

          jason :-)
  • Yup.

    But only 'cause I'd want to be able to... uhm... you know see through walls, so that... uhm, I could help the world.

    It's not 'cause I want to see through womens' clothes. ;)
  • from everything but myself. I want to be able to transmit my power to others and recall it at will as well.
  • that i'll chime in.

    the power to bend space (effectively teleporting either myself or someone/something else) is starting to gain popularity in my mind, but i think i'll still give my standard answer.

    if i could have one superpower, it would be telekinesis. i could move whatever i wanted. i could move myself, which would be like flying. what fun.

    now to move beyone the question i asked:

    if i could have two superpowers, i would have telekinesis and the power of background music. i'd love to be able to bl
  • I distort Websters definition to include influence over my own body, so I can chose when I die. I can also mess with time, mess with anything I want, and teleport. Or does this not count as a superpower?
  • ...aside from all the ones I have already?

    Hmmmm...I suppose I could have the power to be humble.

    Hah! What was I thinking!

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

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  • My super power would be mesmerization.

    I'd get people to do my will simply by me asking them to.

    Ethelred, dance like a monkey for me.
    • interesting... that was in a Superman comic book I bought, and the villan in one plot line was a hippie that coudl get anyone to do what he wanted be adding "please" to the end of it. I don't remember how they explained it, somethign to do with the sound of his voice. Supermain eventually beat this dude by plugging his ears are reading his lips to talk with him.

      This OT trip down memory lane brought to you by "wanting-to-do-something-else-but-work"

      jason
    • Wow! That makes me think of Yoda on the dating scene:

      "Sleep with Yoda, you will" *waves hand*
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  • The ability to deflate men's penises with a single blow!

    Oh.... wait... I've already got that. ;-)

    (Sorry -- I was in the mood to be trashy. It just happened to be your journal I decided to pollute. This time.)

    ....Bethanie....
  • just want to see what happens next
    • wouldn't immortality keep you from seeing what happens next?
      • don't want to take the chance that nothing happens. Don't like the odds.
        I know for a fact things are happening here. Clever question though.
        • yeah, i figured that wasn't what you meant. just enjoyed that your explanation could be an argument for or against your choice, depending on perspective.

          a bigger problem with immortality would be keeping it secret. if the the wrong organization found out they'd do all sorts of wierd tests on you. being held captive as a lab rat until time ends does not sound appealing.
          • a bigger problem with immortality would be keeping it secret. if the the wrong organization found out they'd do all sorts of wierd tests on you. being held captive as a lab rat until time ends does not sound appealing.

            A SciFi writer (can't remember who) wrote a short story about a man who was immortal. The problem he faced was that humans evolved around him and he didn't. Eventually when he was no longer considered the same species they kept him in a zoo.
  • ... only one superpower left in the world? :-)
  • This could add years to my life. Forget the 45 minute commute every day. I could sleep in a little later, then *POOF* I can be at work. When I'm done, *POOF* I'm home. Forgot something at the store? *POOF* I'm at Pick 'n Save. (I suppose I could just grab what I needed then *POOF* back home, but I'd only use my power for good, of course...)

    Dinner in Paris? Swimming in the Great Barrier Reef? Skiing in Switzerland? *POOF*

    With repeated teleports, you could essentially fly as well.

  • Russia (Score:2)

    by red5 ( 51324 )
    But not the modern "free capitalist" bullshit. I'm talking Stalin era here. Back when Russia was a superpower. Oh you mean super hero power. Give me healing factor and disproportionate strength alai Wolverine.
  • Napoleon's France in 1806ish.

    What do you mean red5 already said something similar? I was going to answer Napoleon's France long before I even read the thread.:)
  • X-Ray vision. I'm a perv.

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