I would definitely choose for myself "never having to sleep" or "never having to eat". Or, y'know, immortality so long as it came with functional eternal youth.
Altruistically I'd love the ability to just heal any illness. Just boom instant most fulfilling job ever.
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Altruistically I'd love the ability to just heal any illness. Just boom instant most fulfilling job ever.
Or never being left alone for the rest of your existence, which will of course be filled with excitement and adventure as you solve the puzzle of the day: “which one of my patients is the assassin?”
Maybe the ability to magically devise a cure for any disease, that can then be mass-produced normally?
But yeah, being a proven touch-healer in today’s world is a recipe for no sleep, no free time, and no chance of a recast, all punctuated by the crack of the sniper’s bullet.
If I could have Any super power it would be to have any power I wanted for like an hour at a time. 90 percent of the time it would be flight or super speed but it's nice to have options
That sounds an awful lot like wishing for more wishes.
I always play the "no meta-powers" rule when it comes to that question: no power to make other powers, no power to control all of reality and everything in it, no power to make wishes that may or may not include other powers, etc.
Because if you don't have that rule, there literally isn't a better choice.
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If I could have Any super power it would be to have any power I wanted for like an hour at a time. 90 percent of the time it would be flight or super speed but it's nice to have options
I'd wish for photographic reflexes. It's the best superpower, hands down, in which you get to have a normal life.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
If I could have Any super power it would be to have any power I wanted for like an hour at a time. 90 percent of the time it would be flight or super speed but it's nice to have options
That sounds an awful lot like wishing for more wishes.
Not at all there's precedent in comics. One of the legion has a similar power
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If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
I think I'd like the ability to jump between cities like the Hulk. Sure, teleportation is simpler and more practical. But it just seems like so much fun to leap long distances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJq228x3to
I wrote a story with someone who could understand and speak any language in the world.
Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything about his incredibly thick Glaswegian accent.
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
But if they lasted only a certain time as in less than 10 hours this would be a tiring activity
According to X-Men, the ability to speak any language is useless and if you have that power you suck and deserve to die.
But then you rules lawyer it so that you understand the language of fighting, which makes you cool, because then you can hurt people. But you still suck and die anyway.
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
But if they lasted only a certain time as in less than 10 hours this would be a tiring activity
Even if they only lasted less than 10 hours it'd still be incredibly valuable. Depending on how many copies you could make you're essentially creating free "time" for yourself to learn things. It'd be the "one grain of rice, doubled the next day" story except applied to skills and knowledge.
According to X-Men, the ability to speak any language is useless and if you have that power you suck and deserve to die.
But then you rules lawyer it so that you understand the language of fighting, which makes you cool, because then you can hurt people. But you still suck and die anyway.
Shouldn’t they have known the language of not dying
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
But if they lasted only a certain time as in less than 10 hours this would be a tiring activity
Even if they only lasted less than 10 hours it'd still be incredibly valuable. Depending on how many copies you could make you're essentially creating free "time" for yourself to learn things. It'd be the "one grain of rice, doubled the next day" story except applied to skills and knowledge.
I loved the era of powers and techniques being an issue of tactics before it transitioned into dbz be.
The power to cure illness is a scary power, depending on what is defined by cured, and illness.
I would be afraid to trust it to not kill one consciousness and replace them with another.
I've seen so much of how much biochemistry affects a person.
I think a layman might cause more issues from using their power in too simple a way.
People break really easily. We are one bad bladder infection from vulgar insanity.
I would be more confident if I had a medical background.
You could do organ specific repair. Maybe if the "cure" was bound by specific rules, like rapidly generating healthy stem cells to replace a focused amount of tissue, or something.
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
That just sounds like The Prestige machine times a thousand, and you’d be killing people every time a copy disappeared
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The way it's established in Naruto is that they aren't truly separate entities, though it seems like it, but just extensions of yourself. So it's less like killing someone every time a copy disappears and more like remembering something you'd forgotten. It only seemed like it was a separate unknown thing, until you remembered it.
Personally I'd go try to go for the duel power combination of immortality, and being able to escape from anything. If I had to restrict myself to one wish/power, I'd try to wrap the two together (like the ability to escape anything including death and aging)
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lol you nerds with your imaginary powers, when my real mutations have already given me:
Level 07 Extremely Dry Skin: Allows me to resist all but the strongest moistureizers, even more powerful in winter conditions
Level 05 Unfocused Eyesight: Light beams cannot accurately penetrate my pupils, thereby shielding me from small text
Level 10 Lactose Intolerance: I can instantly detect if lactic acid is present in a food item by simply ingesting it, and then convert that energy into violent flatulence
Level 03 Diabetes: by injecting myself with serum I can suppress this power, but if I decide to unleash it I can harness the raw power of my immune system to utterly destroy any pancreas inside my body
honestly I'm just waiting for my invite to the x academy and then I'm done with you losers
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
That just sounds like The Prestige machine times a thousand, and you’d be killing people every time a copy disappeared
It really comes down to how you consider continuity of consciousness at that point I guess.
You could rework it to be multiple bodies hive mind though and it eliminates any of that freakiness, just essentially having remote drone bodies. Presumably linearly increasing capacity for the control and interaction of said bodies, of course.
If I could have any superpower I would probably pick Naruto's Shadow Clone technique.
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
That just sounds like The Prestige machine times a thousand, and you’d be killing people every time a copy disappeared
Not in that incarnation. But I did modify a variant of that type for a character in my novel who can do the clone thing combined with the original also being able to shapeshift (limited to human though). Ze basically goes full bore with it where clones only disappear ten minutes after death and ze masters things like stealth and silent killing, among others, by having thousands of them murder each other in repeated cycles. If it weren't for the other abilities in the story ze would be one of the most powerful characters, though ze still manages to take over a country for hir girlfriend, singlehandedly, by literally replacing every member of the ruling party.
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Altruistically I'd love the ability to just heal any illness. Just boom instant most fulfilling job ever.
Or never being left alone for the rest of your existence, which will of course be filled with excitement and adventure as you solve the puzzle of the day: “which one of my patients is the assassin?”
Maybe the ability to magically devise a cure for any disease, that can then be mass-produced normally?
But yeah, being a proven touch-healer in today’s world is a recipe for no sleep, no free time, and no chance of a recast, all punctuated by the crack of the sniper’s bullet.
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That sounds an awful lot like wishing for more wishes.
Because if you don't have that rule, there literally isn't a better choice.
That’s what they’re waiting for anyway
Hope it's not a professor-sleeps-with-student deal.
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I'd wish for photographic reflexes. It's the best superpower, hands down, in which you get to have a normal life.
Not at all there's precedent in comics. One of the legion has a similar power
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I shall clean up this interesting world and return it to glorious boringness.
But then Korra will ruin all your plans!
You can make a variable number of copies that can start doing whatever. Read a book, play a game, go to work, pick up a trade, get creative. But the real reason is what happens when you disperse the clones after they've done something. Everything they did, every experience they had, is given to you. If they learned some new cooking techniques you know them as well, if they spent the day watching TV you also have the memories of those shows, if they read a book you did too.
Scale up the number of copies and then pull a Dr. McNinja. Have them go out and learn trades, pick up skills, get experience. Disperse the copies, assimilate everything, make new copies that also carry the combined experience and do it again. And again. And again. Because each cycle you make clones with exponentially more experience than the last batch. You could master every skill, learn every trade, study every discipline.
Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything about his incredibly thick Glaswegian accent.
But if they lasted only a certain time as in less than 10 hours this would be a tiring activity
But then you rules lawyer it so that you understand the language of fighting, which makes you cool, because then you can hurt people. But you still suck and die anyway.
Even if they only lasted less than 10 hours it'd still be incredibly valuable. Depending on how many copies you could make you're essentially creating free "time" for yourself to learn things. It'd be the "one grain of rice, doubled the next day" story except applied to skills and knowledge.
Shouldn’t they have known the language of not dying
I loved the era of powers and techniques being an issue of tactics before it transitioned into dbz be.
So about 5 - 6 years ago.
Anywebcomics manage to tap that era of joy?
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I would be afraid to trust it to not kill one consciousness and replace them with another.
I've seen so much of how much biochemistry affects a person.
I think a layman might cause more issues from using their power in too simple a way.
People break really easily. We are one bad bladder infection from vulgar insanity.
I would be more confident if I had a medical background.
You could do organ specific repair. Maybe if the "cure" was bound by specific rules, like rapidly generating healthy stem cells to replace a focused amount of tissue, or something.
That just sounds like The Prestige machine times a thousand, and you’d be killing people every time a copy disappeared
Personally I'd go try to go for the duel power combination of immortality, and being able to escape from anything. If I had to restrict myself to one wish/power, I'd try to wrap the two together (like the ability to escape anything including death and aging)
Level 07 Extremely Dry Skin: Allows me to resist all but the strongest moistureizers, even more powerful in winter conditions
Level 05 Unfocused Eyesight: Light beams cannot accurately penetrate my pupils, thereby shielding me from small text
Level 10 Lactose Intolerance: I can instantly detect if lactic acid is present in a food item by simply ingesting it, and then convert that energy into violent flatulence
Level 03 Diabetes: by injecting myself with serum I can suppress this power, but if I decide to unleash it I can harness the raw power of my immune system to utterly destroy any pancreas inside my body
honestly I'm just waiting for my invite to the x academy and then I'm done with you losers
It really comes down to how you consider continuity of consciousness at that point I guess.
You could rework it to be multiple bodies hive mind though and it eliminates any of that freakiness, just essentially having remote drone bodies. Presumably linearly increasing capacity for the control and interaction of said bodies, of course.
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Not in that incarnation. But I did modify a variant of that type for a character in my novel who can do the clone thing combined with the original also being able to shapeshift (limited to human though). Ze basically goes full bore with it where clones only disappear ten minutes after death and ze masters things like stealth and silent killing, among others, by having thousands of them murder each other in repeated cycles. If it weren't for the other abilities in the story ze would be one of the most powerful characters, though ze still manages to take over a country for hir girlfriend, singlehandedly, by literally replacing every member of the ruling party.
Ze is REALLY fun to write. Makes me get creative.