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You Get One Superpower. Which is it?

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    vice wrote:
    I want to have x-ray vision, but not so much that i will see through people's clothes AND skin because that would be really weird, I just want to see through their clothes. in addition to being able to see through ladies clothing I can also size up other men. Maybe there would be an option that would also allow me to see through their skin, just out of morbid curiousity I suppose.
    You should also add in the ability to turn it on or off at will.
    Cause there are some people you just don't want to see naked.

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    PbPb Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    vice wrote:
    I want to have x-ray vision, but not so much that i will see through people's clothes AND skin because that would be really weird, I just want to see through their clothes. in addition to being able to see through ladies clothing I can also size up other men. Maybe there would be an option that would also allow me to see through their skin, just out of morbid curiousity I suppose.

    You'd get two for the price of one: the ability to give people cancer all over their body.

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    vadervader Registered User new member
    edited January 2007
    I'd want to have the ability to shapeshift into anything, and retain all my mental faculties.
    But, indestructability would be nice too.

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    TylerbroorTylerbroor Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I just realized how many situations I've been in where I just wished I could stop someone's brain from working. Not fancy, not flashy, but just the ability to make their functions and facilities to stop. And then watch them fall down and die over the course of a couple minutes. That'd be neat.

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    thegloamingthegloaming Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    In a world dominated by other super heroes and villains: invulnerability to other people's superpowers. No absorption, no reflection, just plain old immunity.

    In the real world: super-speed and/or super-aerobatics. You know, running up skyscrapers sideways and all that jazz.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited January 2007
    In a world dominated by other super heroes and villains: invulnerability to other people's superpowers. No absorption, no reflection, just plain old immunity.

    In the real world: super-speed and/or super-aerobatics. You know, running up skyscrapers sideways and all that jazz.

    they did something similar in an issue of ultimate fantastic four

    it backfired when a regular old dude beat the shit out of the guy

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    ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    heh

    that reminds me of that story in brit

    brit is a comic about this old dude named brit. he's got just one power- he can't be hurt at all ever. he's immune to damage, but he can't fly, doesn't have superstrength, nothing. so this regular superhero goes nuts one day and starts flying around a mall murdering people and the government grabs brit and drops him in the mall because he's the only guy who can take the pounding and they just run around the mall for like three days with this hero trying to kill brit until finally he drops to the ground from exhaustion and brit walks up and breaks his neck with regular strength

    awesom!

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    FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Servo wrote:
    heh

    that reminds me of that story in brit

    brit is a comic about this old dude named brit. he's got just one power- he can't be hurt at all ever. he's immune to damage, but he can't fly, doesn't have superstrength, nothing. so this regular superhero goes nuts one day and starts flying around a mall murdering people and the government grabs brit and drops him in the mall because he's the only guy who can take the pounding and they just run around the mall for like three days with this hero trying to kill brit until finally he drops to the ground from exhaustion and brit walks up and breaks his neck with regular strength

    awesom!

    God that's like beating Akuma with Dan by running the timer down. So lame, yet so awesome. :lol:

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    thegloamingthegloaming Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Geebs wrote:
    In a world dominated by other super heroes and villains: invulnerability to other people's superpowers. No absorption, no reflection, just plain old immunity.

    In the real world: super-speed and/or super-aerobatics. You know, running up skyscrapers sideways and all that jazz.

    they did something similar in an issue of ultimate fantastic four

    it backfired when a regular old dude beat the shit out of the guy

    That's sort of how I would want to "Mary Sue" myself into a story, if I ever had the opportunity of being in one: impervious to super powers, but still very much prone to ordinary forces.

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    rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I have to go with shapeshifting, been the power I've always wanted.

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    VerdancyVerdancy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I'd have to go with Multiple Man's power. Preferrably with splitting rather than budding (so all clones are equally "authentic" and can form clones) and a hive mind, making you fully immortal. Firstly you could go learn more or less everything, perfect every skill, and have a contact in every industry and country in the world: you own secret society in effect. You could have a bunch of clones working night and day in your own private gold mine, build your own city populated purely by clones (purely to mess with people), etc, etc.

    And in a superhero world, it gets even crazier: have your own ritual circle, and an infinite number of willing human sacrifices. Build your own spaceship and go around Zerg Rushing random civilizations. Never have to worry about multitasking ever again, but don't get bored waiting for people like a speedster. The possibilites are endless, but at the end of the day, it's still plain old humans doing all the crap, which is much more fun than just reality-manipulating everything into place.

    Also massive twincest orgies.

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    HankStamperHankStamper Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Shape-shifting. You can fly like a bird, swim like a fish, run like a jaguar...





    ... being part of a beastiality porno would also be quite the experience...

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    Romero ZombieRomero Zombie Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Gah - I was beated to it. I would love to have the powers of Multiple Man. I control each of my clones in every way and none of them give me crap. I would send a clone to work on a day I don't feel like working. Send a clone around the house when I don't feel like cleaning.

    Granted, it's all for purely lazy reasons. I would still go to work most days, mostly because out of boredom.

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    BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Gravity control would be pretty fun. Crush villains with their own weight. Or a flying car wreck.

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    JCMJCM Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    <_<

    >_>

    Multiple orgasms

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    CaptainApocalypseCaptainApocalypse Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    JCM wrote:
    <_<

    >_>

    Multiple orgasms

    Genius.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    JCM wrote:
    <_<

    >_>

    Multiple orgasms

    Genius.
    Heart Attack.

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    GigatonGigaton Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I've always wanted a self-sustaining energy body (think Wonderman or Chamber). Never having to eat, drink, use the bathroom. Not to mention they are usually immortal.

    Despite some of the drawbacks I would love to be an extremely powerful telepath. Knowing what others are thinking is just too tempting for me to pass up.

    Really, I'd want a cool powerset. So to bend the rules for a sec I'd want:
    -Omega level Telepathy and Telekinesis (Nate Grey)
    -Superhuman Intelligence and Total recall (Quentin Quire, Sage)
    -Self-Sustaining energy body (Wonderman)

    Yeah, yeah, I want it all. I'm such a power hog.

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    WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I'd like the superpower exhibited by Marvel villain The Answer. Which is a bit of a cheat, but hey.

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    Black_HeartBlack_Heart Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Anyone mentioned Necromancy yet?

    The power to re-animate any dead thing and make it serve my will? I would love to bring about the apocalypse with an undead army which grows from every death it causes.

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    TachTach Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I finally figured it out.

    I'd want the ability to remotely Italian Dope-slap the common sense into people.

    Like the guy who zooms and weaves past you on the freeway at 30 miles over the speed limit?

    *SLAP* "Wow. I'm driving half a ton of potentially leathal metal and plastic at a dangerous rate of speed. I should really slow down."

    Or the cellphone at the movie jackass.

    *SLAP* "Y'know? I'm in a quiet venue, it'd probably be courteous of me to not take this right now. In addition, I should silence my ringer."

    The world would be a better place.

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    MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    *awiiise from your gwave*

    I always thought Jenny Sparks/Quantum's powers were pretty classy. Jack Hawksmoors were cool too as long as I didn't have the scary feet.

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