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
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
Ultra Boy, who can have super strength, flight, or X-ray vision, but only one at a time!
He got his powers from being swallowed by a space whale!
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.
I don't know, I think teleportation might have it beat for powers you can still have a normal life with.
Sure, it doesn't have to be normal and ordinary, but it can be. Perfectly normal, just a little better.
Like, imagine getting an extra hour of sleep each day because you don't have to get stuck in traffic or wait for a bus? Or teleporting to your favorite take out place and back with your order. Only way to have it fresher and hotter would be to eat it at the restaurant. No more soggy sad eggrolls for you.
Of course, the biggest pain in the ass about vacation would be gone. No need to book flights a year in advance if you can just teleport to your destination. And who cares if you forgot your favorite toothbrush? Bamf back home real quick and grab that bad boy. Heck, for that matter why bother renting a room for your vacation? Tired? Sleep in your own bed then be back in time for brunch the next day.
Or, you could make it a lot better. Like, maybe you get a job somewhere with an outrageously high cost of living, so they pay their employees with that in mind. But you live in some low cost of living quiet town in the middle of nowhere halfway across the country. Not like the commute's going to get you down. Might be a bit confusing come tax time, but...
Maybe start your own business as a high speed courier. Anything you can teleport with you.
How much would you pay for an emergency organ transport?
Or just do the whole teleporting robber thing. Boring, sure, but why not?
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I want superspeed, plus all the necessary prerequisites needed for me (and others that I'm helping) to survive running magnitudes faster than the speed of sound.
The ability to rewind and try again would be a neat ability. Though knowing me, I'd probably save scum my way through life. Making everyone hate me for being an incredibly lucky asshole who always gets things right and does no wrong. Plus, I'd probably be a pick up artist. No, scratch that, pick up god. Save scumming my way to happiness.
Although there'd probably be some kind of issue with replaying segments of your life over and over. Maybe I'd eventually get over it and just chill? But given my gamin habits... I think that would probably be unlikely.
I wouldn't want that power, for the mentioned reasons, but I've had this as a power for a theoretical character in a story I'd like to write. The only way he could die would be an instant death, eg, a bullet to the head.
Gives me invisiblity... and flight and invulnerability and basically telekinesis and super-strength and super-speed and the power to make invisible things visible apparently?
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.
Current head canon for character, focused cellular generation, does not combat infections and poisons, toxins, etc. In bloodstream.
Scar tissue would be an issue, as her hair products catching fire showed.
She and her unit are also scared shitless about her powers being used on pregnant lifeforms or lifeforms suffering from tumors, especially after the incident.
See here's the thing about most superpowers: the superpowers are actually intelligent.
Nobody questions why the super-healer is capable of healing things (unless the answer is literally "turn time backwards" or "accelerated cell regeneration but not aging and not cancer") when so much can go wrong with healing, or how the person who can phase through things manages to not literally lose their shit in the process, or how the person with super-luck has things go their way in any situation in spite of the arbitrariness of "things going their way", etc.
We like to attribute characters having skill with their power, or other characters having "unstable" or "uncontrolled" powers, but what if the real truth is that some people simply got superpowers that have faulty software cobbled together by cosmic interns rather than superpowers that have controllers written by a fully-staffed cosmic engineering team?
The ability to rewind and try again would be a neat ability. Though knowing me, I'd probably save scum my way through life. Making everyone hate me for being an incredibly lucky asshole who always gets things right and does no wrong. Plus, I'd probably be a pick up artist. No, scratch that, pick up god. Save scumming my way to happiness.
Although there'd probably be some kind of issue with replaying segments of your life over and over. Maybe I'd eventually get over it and just chill? But given my gamin habits... I think that would probably be unlikely.
I wouldn't want that power, for the mentioned reasons, but I've had this as a power for a theoretical character in a story I'd like to write. The only way he could die would be an instant death, eg, a bullet to the head.
In Re zero the protagonist has at least 4 mental break downs from this.
Kenny in South Park too
And lest we Forget Bill Murray
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The ability to rewind and try again would be a neat ability. Though knowing me, I'd probably save scum my way through life. Making everyone hate me for being an incredibly lucky asshole who always gets things right and does no wrong. Plus, I'd probably be a pick up artist. No, scratch that, pick up god. Save scumming my way to happiness.
Although there'd probably be some kind of issue with replaying segments of your life over and over. Maybe I'd eventually get over it and just chill? But given my gamin habits... I think that would probably be unlikely.
I wouldn't want that power, for the mentioned reasons, but I've had this as a power for a theoretical character in a story I'd like to write. The only way he could die would be an instant death, eg, a bullet to the head.
In Re zero the protagonist has at least 4 mental break downs from this.
Kenny in South Park too
And lest we Forget Bill Murray
I read a story about a year ago where someone had this power in a device. It semi-automated the process of checking all the branches and making the "best" decisions.
It... did not end well. (Obviously, since this is a moral fable by any other name.) The owner gradually lost/ceded all decision-making capability to the device, and became utterly dependent on it to make even the smallest choices. (Like Two-Face and his coin, only more so.)
In one last moment of lucidity and attempt to get out of this trap of their own making, they managed to undo their own existence. Oops.
No way would I want teleportation. I'd fuck it up immediately and not factor in for the movement of the earth/solar system/galaxy/universe, or factor too much, and end up dead in space or encased in solid rock.
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Instead of a superpower, could I just have one of the genetically enhanced bodies from the Culture? Drug glands, ability to change gender back and forth at will, complete control over what your body metabolizes, etc?
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He got his powers from being swallowed by a space whale!
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I don't know, I think teleportation might have it beat for powers you can still have a normal life with.
Sure, it doesn't have to be normal and ordinary, but it can be. Perfectly normal, just a little better.
Like, imagine getting an extra hour of sleep each day because you don't have to get stuck in traffic or wait for a bus? Or teleporting to your favorite take out place and back with your order. Only way to have it fresher and hotter would be to eat it at the restaurant. No more soggy sad eggrolls for you.
Of course, the biggest pain in the ass about vacation would be gone. No need to book flights a year in advance if you can just teleport to your destination. And who cares if you forgot your favorite toothbrush? Bamf back home real quick and grab that bad boy. Heck, for that matter why bother renting a room for your vacation? Tired? Sleep in your own bed then be back in time for brunch the next day.
Or, you could make it a lot better. Like, maybe you get a job somewhere with an outrageously high cost of living, so they pay their employees with that in mind. But you live in some low cost of living quiet town in the middle of nowhere halfway across the country. Not like the commute's going to get you down. Might be a bit confusing come tax time, but...
Maybe start your own business as a high speed courier. Anything you can teleport with you.
How much would you pay for an emergency organ transport?
Or just do the whole teleporting robber thing. Boring, sure, but why not?
There are always conditions
Although there'd probably be some kind of issue with replaying segments of your life over and over. Maybe I'd eventually get over it and just chill? But given my gamin habits... I think that would probably be unlikely.
I wouldn't want that power, for the mentioned reasons, but I've had this as a power for a theoretical character in a story I'd like to write. The only way he could die would be an instant death, eg, a bullet to the head.
Gives me invisiblity... and flight and invulnerability and basically telekinesis and super-strength and super-speed and the power to make invisible things visible apparently?
Current head canon for character, focused cellular generation, does not combat infections and poisons, toxins, etc. In bloodstream.
Scar tissue would be an issue, as her hair products catching fire showed.
She and her unit are also scared shitless about her powers being used on pregnant lifeforms or lifeforms suffering from tumors, especially after the incident.
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Nobody questions why the super-healer is capable of healing things (unless the answer is literally "turn time backwards" or "accelerated cell regeneration but not aging and not cancer") when so much can go wrong with healing, or how the person who can phase through things manages to not literally lose their shit in the process, or how the person with super-luck has things go their way in any situation in spite of the arbitrariness of "things going their way", etc.
We like to attribute characters having skill with their power, or other characters having "unstable" or "uncontrolled" powers, but what if the real truth is that some people simply got superpowers that have faulty software cobbled together by cosmic interns rather than superpowers that have controllers written by a fully-staffed cosmic engineering team?
In Re zero the protagonist has at least 4 mental break downs from this.
Kenny in South Park too
And lest we Forget Bill Murray
I read a story about a year ago where someone had this power in a device. It semi-automated the process of checking all the branches and making the "best" decisions.
It... did not end well. (Obviously, since this is a moral fable by any other name.) The owner gradually lost/ceded all decision-making capability to the device, and became utterly dependent on it to make even the smallest choices. (Like Two-Face and his coin, only more so.)
In one last moment of lucidity and attempt to get out of this trap of their own making, they managed to undo their own existence. Oops.
It's a tossup between the shadow clones and shapeshifting.
Or combine them.
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Identity loss is an issue though
let me turn into a living shadow
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