Your Super Power

[SqrlCub]

I don't know how many of you have watched Space Ghost Coast to Coast but in it he often asks his guests what their super powers are. Well, since I doubt many of you have super powers I was wondering what you would choose if you were able (either a single power or group of powers) and why. I think I would choose either the ability to make plants grow to any size I choose or teleportation. I would like the plant growth power because it would be ecologically sound in addition to creating useful substance into the universe. I don't know if I could fight crimes with plant growth, that remains to be seen. I would choose teleportation so I could get an extra hour and a half of sleep every morning before I go to work assuming I would work after I could teleport. I could see myself fighting/commiting crimes as a teleporting individual. Why the benefits of teleportation go on and on.

SC

[Shirley Ujest]

Teleportation would be a biggie with me. No more sitting next to born again's trying to convert me on a flight.

I've always wanted the ability to use the Force. Being 5'3 this would come in handy for the stuff on the top shelf.

Also reading minds would be cool, until you realize that most men are thinking about "sex, sports, Nice Rack on that girl, getting laid and is there any beer left" and women are thinking, " Am I fat, oohh a shoe sale! What is wrong with me and Oh god, I AM turning into my mother." I wouldn't abuse this super power, I swear, I would use it in Vegas..and donate 1% of my winnings to..um...charity, yeah.

[Donj]

Nightcrawler was a teleporting crime fighter. So if you need some pointers, get some old x-men comics. I would be more like the Silver Surfer...Intergalactic travel intrigues me. Plus he has a REALLY cool surf board.


--Don Juan

[Ukulele Ike]

I'd like to have the powers of the Composite Superman.

1960s comics nerds like me will recognize this guy as the one who looked like Superman on the right half of his body, and Batman on the left. He had all the powers of all the members of the Legion of Super Heroes.

Meaning he was a fine example of Wretched Excess, 1960s comicbook-style. But as long as we're asking for super powers, why not go for the gusto?

(If I'm asking too much, I'd like the power to instantaneously transform simple white cheeses into Roquefort.)

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Uke

[StStella]

Shirly,

If you could teleport, why would you be on a flight anyway???

[Doctor Jackson]

Oooohhh, mind control. The imagination reels...

[Sealemon88]

Oh MAN. I was gonna start a thread like this! lol

My power would be super speed, like the Flash. The power to go anywhere in the world in about 2 hours or less, plus being able to create sonic booms at will, just sounds like too much fun.

Baring that, I'd love to have Green Lantern's power ring.

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[WallyM7]

Invisibility.

Oh, the havoc I could wreak!

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If you're an optimist, you haven't been paying attention.

[Big Iron]

Oh, I have at least one superpower -- the power to make dogs misbehave!

I haven't completely figured out how to put this to crime-fighting use, although I think it will be effective in battling supervillains who employ dogs in their evil schemes for world conquest.

[Persephone]

I'd like the power to cook like the great chefs of the world, then have everything clean itself up when it's done. Boring, sure. But what working parent wouldn't just loooooooove to be able to do something like that?

[Persephone]

Oh yeah...Space Ghost is great. Brak is my personal fave, though.

[Frankie]

Well, If I had my pick it would totally be mind control but, also the power to pick and choose when to use it...Sorta like a jedi mind trick.

'No honey, you feel like doing the dishes.'
'I feel like doing the dishes'
'Oh ok. If you insist!'

But my true super power is the ability to talk to spiders. They don't talk back and they sure don't listen usually but, I can talk to them. (Ahh lazy college days! How i miss you!)

Who says I don't (sorta) have superpowers?

My family has a touch of the Second Sight.

No, I'm not joking.

[Clark K]

If you want excess, Ukelele, you should try the power of Duplicate Lad. He could duplicate (duh!) any other superpower in the universe, making him the most potentially the most potent superhero ever. If only he hadn't been such a drip.

As for my superpower, well, I can't get into that without giving away my secret. Gotta run now. I'm on deadline and Perry White is hollering.

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Up, up and away!

[MrKnowItAll]

So many to choose from...

Shape changing
Intangibility
Telekenesis (sp?)
Teleportation
and of course, it would be awfully hard to pass up Super Strength.

Can I have them all? Please? (Super Begging)

[Heath Doolin]

BigIron..you ever hear of a team called the Mystery Men? You sound like a Prime Candidate!

If I had a super power, I think it would be extremely resilent to anything AKA bulletproof, knifeproof, bombproof, etc. I think having one up on the evil guy but still being human in strength makes it cool. Plus I would love to have some jerk empty a gun at me and I just stand there....the look alone at me would be priceless.

[Clark K]

Umm ... obviously my super power is not copy editing. That should have read: "making him potentially the most potent superhero ever."

Must have been the red kryptonite.

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Up, up and away!

[Kamino Neko]

I've got to go with Telekenesis.

Depending on the amount of control you have over it - and how much would be concious and reflexive - not only would you be able to move things from across the room, but you'd also be able to fly, and do a pretty damn good impression of invulnerability and super strength.



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'They couldn't hit an Elephant from this dist...!'

Last words of General John Sedgwick

[Satan]

I saw a goofy movie in the '80s where a dude finds a watch that will stop time dead in its tracks.

That would be cool. I could stop time and do what I wanted. In the movie, he undid a bikini string on a volleyball player and when time started, it fell off.

I would use it better than that, though. Like I'd start it right before I had to get some sleep so I would be able to get more work and liesure done.

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Yer pal,
Satan

[GOD]

I've always wondered what fear would feel like.

[Doobieous]

Call me a pyro but i always thought it would be cool to control or create fire at will. It would be so nifty on the fourth of July since i could make my own fireworks .

Also i would love to have teleportation abilities. The plant thing SqrlCub mentioned would be good because i could get all of my plants to maturity without having to wait years for them to get to size.

[BurnMeUp]

I'd like to be able to spot really fresh seafood.

Not too usefull for fighting crime, but pretty popular at oyster bars

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Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.

I saw a goofy movie in the '80s where a dude finds a watch that will stop time dead in its tracks.

That was The Girl, The Gold Watch, & Everything with Robert Hayes and Pam Dawber. It was based on a novel by John D. MacDonald.

Speaking of which, my favorite super power would be the ability to control time; travel to the future or the past, stop or speed up or reverse time, and other related abilities.

[GuanoLad]

Definitely invisibility. I've wanted that one forever.

Teleportation would've been a useful one too (how many times do I imagine that one when I'm late?) but I think if it was down to choice, I'd choose invisibility.

For similar reasons, I hope to be a ghost when I die. For a while.

I would love to be able to communicate with animals. This would be very helpful considering what I do for a job. It would be nice to be able to make an animal understand that I am actually trying to HELP it when I poke a needle into its jugular or put a thermometer up its butt! It would also make my job a lot easier if I could just ASK the pet what is wrong with it.

[Glitch]

Superman like invulnerbility (sp) sounds pretty nice to me if I had to choose a singular power.

If we are picking a set of powers:

1) Invulnerbility
2) Super Strength
3) Super Speed

I don't need no stinkin' heat vision or x-ray vision (although I'll take them if they come as a package with the above).

Going "somewhat" more mundane then from a previous thread (what would you be if you could be anything) I'll take jedi knight.

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What more could you expect from somebody who lets people kick him to the head?

[Moonshine]

Umm, I'd want to be able to Get Girls Through Hypnosis because that book I bought just isn't working. Dang, another $5.95 down the drain.

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It only hurts when I laugh.

[Shirley Ujest]

St STella, if I could teleport, I would not have to fly commercially anymore. Read my post again after a cup of coffee

[cmkeller]

Super-speed. There's way too much to do and way too little time to do it in.

BTW, Clark K, the guy's name was Duplicate Boy, not Lad. Sorry to get nit-picky, but we Legion fans are nuts about continuity.

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Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com

"Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

[AuraSeer]

I think I'd like the power of transmutation. You know, the ability to change lead into gold, water into air, plastic into steel. Though I would definitely want some sort of failsafe, so it would stop working when I was angry; otherwise, the first person to piss me off in traffic would find his SUV converted into fifteen hundred pounds of vanilla ice cream.


BTW, daniel p bostaph wrote:

My family has a touch of the Second Sight. No, I'm not joking.

My username isn't a joke either. But it's not a good idea to mention this sort of thing in front of the skeptics; they get upset when you challenge their worldview.
(Yes, folks, that was a joke.)

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Of course I don't fit in; I'm part of a better puzzle.

[CatInHat]

... the first person to piss me off in traffic would find his SUV converted into fifteen hundred pounds of vanilla ice cream.

AuraSeer, where do you live? What pisses you off? 1500 pounds of vanilla ice cream sounds GREAT!

For me, I'd have to go with teleportation. Waiting around at the airport lost its charm a long time ago.

Transmutation would be OK too, though, as long as I could convert the excess body fat resulting from eating AuraSeer's 1500 pounds of vanilla ice cream into something useful.

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The Cat In The Hat

[TVeblen]

Teleportation.

If you want a neat book about it, try Jumper by Steven Gould. A young man discovers he can "jump" while escaping an abusive situation. He starts using his "jumping" ability to establish a new ID, into a bank vault to fund the new life, evades the scientific community and CIA who have nifty plans to either dissect him or use him a la Firestarter...

It does for teleportation what Connie Willis and Jack Finney did for time travel.

[The_Peyote_Coyote]

I'd take the ability to get laid whenever I want. Screw teleportation and the rest.

[Clark K]

Sorry, CMKeller. I actually wrote "Boy" but then figured I must have it wrong. I mean, it seems like everyone is a Lad in the 30th Century.

But you've got to admit he was a drip.

As to the original question, I couldn't cope with invisibility or telepathy. I'd lurk around and find out what people really think of me. Probably would deflate my ego.

If I have to pick one, I'd settle for simple flight -- the ability to glide among the clouds. What a way to travel!

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Up, up and away!

[Donj]

Peyote....How would you put this 'getting laid' super power to good use by fighting crime?

--Donj

[Ukulele Ike]

Wait! We have to use these powers to FIGHT CRIME? Can I pick again?

Well, let's see...the criminal mastermind and his gang are relaxing with milk and cream-cheese-and-jelly sandwiches after hiesting the First National Bank...I sneak into their lair and BAM! Roquefort with Smucker's Grape! In the resulting confusion, I shoulder the swag and nip smartly back to the bank, winning commendations from the Mayor and Chief of Police: "Fine job, Mold Boy!"

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Uke

[Ukulele Ike]

That would be "heisting."

[StStella]

Shirley,

Wow, I read that one too fast. Do'h! I think I need to start drinking coffee.

I think I'll stay away from the "what's your IQ" thread after than one!

[cmkeller]

Clark K:

Sorry, CMKeller. I actually wrote "Boy" but then figured I must have it wrong. I mean, it seems like everyone is a Lad in the 30th Century.

Well, amongst male Legionnaires (those who were members of the Legion prior to 1990), I count 9 Boys (including Superboy) and 4 Lads (as well as 3 Kids). The Substitute Legion had 2 boys, 1 Lad and 2 Kids. And the Heroes of Lallor, which included Duplicate Boy, had 2 Boys and one Lad.

But you've got to admit he was a drip.

Well, he was no Mister Personality, but he certainly had more going for him than, say, Bouncing Boy.

Chaim Mattis Keller

[Kamino Neko]

Hey! I liked Bouncing Boy!

Also, I'd like to add the ability to change form to my list. Between these 2 powers, one could be one kickin' super-being.



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'They couldn't hit an Elephant from this dist...!'

Last words of General John Sedgwick

[Ukulele Ike]

Hey, CMK...I suppose my cheese-morphing power would only net me a spot in the Substitute Legion, huh?

Nuts...another long evening of playing pinochle with Night Girl and Color Boy...

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Uke

[Big Iron]

[[BigIron..you ever hear of a team called the Mystery Men? You sound like a Prime Candidate! ]] HeathDoolin


Have I ever! Go Carrot! Of course, he has no superpowers, unless you count superhuman boldness.

Did that movie already leave the theaters? I love the idea of Pee Wee as The Spleen.

"Is not much, but at lesat is a superpower."

[The_Peyote_Coyote]

Dear Donj:
What makes you think I have any interest in fighting crime?
However, you must admit a power like that would make me hell on super-heroines or super-villainesses.
Actually, the original post did not specify if our super-powers had to be useful against criminals.

[SqrlCub]

Wow, it looks like this thread is taking on a life of its own. I love useless super powers. They are more interesting when you cna fight crimes with them. (YEA! to cheese morphing, I laughed pretty hard at that one.)

A partial list of semi-useless super powers:

Mom's Berating Voice ("IF I TOLD YOU ONCE...nag, nag, nag...)
Anything on Mystery Men (I liked Invisible Boy, "I am only invisible when no one is looking at me" this included himself.)
Cheese Morphing (you got to love Ukelele Ike's description of this one.)
Pink Dots (see The Source of Magic, Piers Anthony)

Any others?

[Gazelle]

I do have a super power! My husband calls it "The Power of Swiss Cheese" - I can locate it within a one mile radius.

You're all jealous, aren't you?

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[cmkeller]

Tengu:

Hey! I liked Bouncing Boy!

I like him too...but his character never really developed until long after Duplicate Boy was making regular appearances. During that time period, they were all drips...you could really only rate them by power.

Ukelele Ike:

Hey, CMK...I suppose my cheese-morphing power would only net me a spot in the Substitute Legion, huh?

Well, I suppose the Legion could conceivably team you together with Matter-Eater Lad...

Chaim Mattis Keller

[Polycarp]

I'd have to go with telekinesis. That is, among the powers I don't already have.

I'd like the power to instantaneously transform simple white cheeses into Roquefort

In other words, Uke, you want an ability that a common blue mold already has?

I am surprised nobody wanted "multiple orgasms."

[Ukulele Ike]

Well, yeah. But no waiting around dank French caves for months...I'd like to be able to do it really fast. Instantaneously, you might say.

Ooooh, I'd completely forgotten about Matter-Eater Lad! Proof positive that the offices of DC Comics were hotbeds of marijuana use in the mid-'60s! Can you just see the looks on the faces of the artists when they read the script? "M-E Lad bites the steel beam; Saturn Girl flies overhead...How am I gonna draw THAT?"

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Uke

[Yankee Blue]

I like time travel. But I don't wan't to screw anything up, so maybe only travel through time in incorporeal form as long as I get to see what really was going on at any given time.

[HubZilla]

I would like the power to stop time. IE, I'm moving but no one else is. Catch the bad guys while in mid-stride. Pick bullets out of the air. Tie shoelaces together as the running back is going for the TD. Have a month to work on a Thursday deadline...

That Goose inventor on Duck Tales made one.

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