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Telekinesis...best superpower or bestest superpower?
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My name is electricitylikes me, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to move the world by his will? No! Says the man at the lab, he needs nanotechnology. No! Says the man in the white house, he needs mexicans. No! Says the man in the Vatican, he needs god.
The topic of this thread is whether or not telekinesis is the best super-power to have bar none. My thesis is that it is, because the creative application of telekinesis is capable of recreating all other superpowers anyone could want.
Flames, Lightning, Cold, Force fields, flying - suitably "powerful" telekinesis can allow you to do all of these. There's a reason Sylar uses it all the damn time on Heroes, and it's because when you get right down to it it's just the greatest power anyone could ever want the writers can't think of a reason why anyone would not use telekinesis if they had it.
Discuss and geek out!
The topic of this thread is whether or not telekinesis is the best super-power to have bar none. My thesis is that it is, because the creative application of telekinesis is capable of recreating all other superpowers anyone could want.
Flames, Lightning, Cold, Force fields, flying - suitably "powerful" telekinesis can allow you to do all of these. There's a reason Sylar uses it all the damn time on Heroes, and it's because when you get right down to it it's just the greatest power anyone could ever want the writers can't think of a reason why anyone would not use telekinesis if they had it.
Discuss and geek out!
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I THINK NOT
BAM. Thread over.
You'd see it all.
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chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Unless I can pick a combo and go with super strength and toughness, which would be endlessly glorious.
Okay, now the thread is over.
Unless someone posts the relevant video. Then it's over then.
Nothing like the ability to instantly murder people at will.
What's that? You have every super power except telekinesis? That's cool, I just put an invisible blender in your brain instantly. Thanks for playing though.
That said, telekinesis kicks ass.
I mean, granted, you'd need more intimate knowledge of the molecular structure of human biology than God himself but it's not like we're being realistic to begin with.
:?:
When it comes down to it, most comic book powers are pretty lame in real life. You shoot fire? Well, I guess you never have to ask for a light. But unless you're robbing banks all the time, you're not going to be using it much. And even if you do want to rob banks: I hear there are these things called guns. They shoot bullets.
That's what I'd use it for; Long range physical relationships
I say it is is my bitch and it says yes sir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsGwjH0K6WM
Bam.
I think I'd ask for super sentience: advanced cognition, senses, and wisdom. I think I could better advance the fate of mankind and sentient beings in general with that over the ability to blow stuff up and punch people through walls.
Edit: Of course, I have the HORRIBLE suspicion I might turn into a Villain, as mad scientists and DOCTORs tend to end up evil. Maybe someone should start a BLOG about this, something cheerful we could all SING ALONG to.
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I'm furry for Squirrel Girl.
I think there's a PA comic about it somewhere.
Well, that would probably kill you either way, kind of like teleportation. :P
But yeah, telekinesis is the bestest power unless we go to stuff like reality warping or something.
Stuff not in the telekinesis handbook: I'd like the bend reality. Or maybe control over space itself. Or the power to break the laws of thermodynamics and create matter/energy. Maybe the ability to control time, including time travel or the ability to look into the future. Or, as someone mentioned before, teleportation.
It'd also be awesome to have magic-based powers. I'd be able to turn my back on physics and natural laws and use an entirely different ruleset.
But not Vancian, because screw having to spend an hour each morning wrestling with complex arcane formulae.
You could affect the brain chemistry of people to make them consent!
There's a Gospel about it too.
Also, when I used to GM Paranoia, TK became a really cheesy mutant power, because anyone who had it would just pull the pins out of other people's grenades, or pull the trigger on someone's laser pistol while still in the holster...
I rather choose Magnetic-kinesis like MAGNETO.
And yes, let me remind all of you Xorneto kill Jean Grey(The Most Power Telekinesis due to her Pheonix Power) with the power of Magnetism.
because in the context of real life, that power would help me out shit tons in being successful in whatever I want to do
Maybe not infinitely... but I would rule coastal communities and small islands.
Like, something to put my mind in that's got a decent API, documentation and extensibility.
Telekinesis wouldn't be bad though. If you've got enough resolution, feedback and control you can basically do anything. It'd be nice if I didn't have to think about the individual electrons and atom's I'd be. Just think about it on the macro physics/chemistry level, and let whatever's actually happening on the atomic level take care of itself.
telepathy too frequently has issues not being able to turn it off. I don't really want to know all the horrible inner thoughts of people I care about.
Why choose Magnetic powers, being able to affect only metal objects, when with telekinesis you can affect all objects? This seems highly illogical.
I make my own luck... with telekinesis.
I want a projector too. I mean it would be great if I could put a presentation together in my head, but I would need to show it to people. :P
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And charm too, just throw around some receptors and stuff in other peoples brains and they'll eventually get the sensation of being charmed. Just some trial and error and a million dead test subjects before you know how to do it right, but that's life right? :winky:
Actually no.
With Magnetic Powers I could create and control all forms of machines.
Like create and control endless Nano-Machines which would allow me to do anything I want.
And Telekinesis in theory is a weak source of energy.
In comics they make it a limitless form of energy.
But in theory it should be limited by one's mind just like Telepathy.
Where overuse of it will make ur nose bleed and die.
Telekinesis being more powerful than a physcial form of energy like Cyclops Optic Energy Blast is bullshit.