SUPER POWER-what would it be?

[jaytini]

I'm sure that this whole thread has probably been submitted before, but it's a question i always love to hear answered...probably the question i ask more than any other. I think you can figure a lot out about other people by their answer...maybe this whole line of thinking could be a new type pf therapy.

Anyway...i have 2. first i would love to be able to fly, with huge wings out of my shoulder blades (like Angel of the X-men) i think this has to do with my wanting to be free and escape all of the crap down here on the ground.

My second power is like that of Dazzler of the X-men...she takes sound and kinda funnels it through her body, changing it to light...she was a disco diva for a while, and a superhero...she is now roaming the universe. this all comes form my desire to be loud and on stage and performing for the masses.

anyway...be creative, it doesn't have to be an alreasy made up kinda power, and i'm sure we will see lot's of "traffic-be-gone man" and such. have fun

[Coldfire]

This will be a nice IMHO thread

I would like the ability to travel through time. When you have that, nothing else really matters.

[Crunchy Frog]

I want to be "Shut-the-hell-up Man"!

For all those times when boss, co-worker, SO, etc just won't shut the hell up and leave you alone. With just an evil glare, the offending person will SHUT-THE-HELL-UP until I give them permission to speak agin. I feel this would be very useful in a movie theatre.

I would also like to be able to read minds and once and for all answer the question, "What the hell was that guy thinking?!!"

[SisterCoyote]

Captain Non-sequitur: with the ability to make anyone, at any time, say something completely random and off the point.

I think this would be a particularly interesting power to use during an election year.

[Mr. Cynical]

I would be "Gives Good Backrubs With The Power Of His Mind Guy". People all over the world would love me.

[Max Torque]

X-ray vision. What else do you need? I'd go to Vegas and clean up.

[SterlingNorth]

Captain Non-sequitur: with the ability to make anyone, at any time, say something completely random and off the point.

I think this would be a particularly interesting power to use during an election year.


dogsbody
_{06-06-2000 10:13 AM ET}

You wouldn't happen to be the reason GW Bush mangles syntax daily, now would you?

I'd be partial to shapeshifting myself. I'd never get the blame.

Or maybe the old stand-by of invisibility.

SterlingNorth
_{A boy and his bow-tie.}

[SisterCoyote]

Tragically, the only time this power seems to manifest itself is when I have something important to say. Haven't gotten it to work on anyone else...yet.

I also wouldn't mind shapeshifting; the ability to make folks forget I was there could be handy, too.

[Mr. Cynical]

Forgot you were here. Guess that power is already working

[Mullinator]

My wife and I were talking about this the other day. I cam up with a new one, and one I think has lots of good comis possibilities.

I want to be able to control friction. Just look at a guy and turn off all friction associated with him and then gently tap him. Or, give myself really high friction and climb buildings and stuff. And, I am positive I can come out of this with a lot of cash.

[Saint Zero]

Inertia. Stop Bullets in mid air! Give tons of it to something you wanna destroy! Watch a simple thunderstorm destry downtown!

Friction would be cool too. Frictionless engine parts would make for wonderful gas effency. Frictionless space shuttle would make getting up into orbit easier.

Gravity. Never be heavy again!

[SterlingNorth]

Soul Transference: Too many people are unwilling to concede that other points of view are perfectly valid and not the produt of an insane mind. I always believed that your experiences shape your ideas. This could also settle ONCE AND FOR ALL the boys vs girls argument.

Rewind: you know all the times you've said, "Well, There goes [amount of time] of my life that I'll never get back." The time you accidently went and payed for a ticket to a Pauley Shore movie. Or when you engaged in a discussion as to why humans are the long-lost desendents of an ancient alien civilization. Well, I wish I could just push a button go back and avoid those moments!


SterlingNorth
_{who lost a total of 97hrs 42mins and 6secs of his life that he wishes refunded.}

[Max Torque]

A character with the exact "friction" power you describe was among the DP7, a comic book from the long-defunct Marvel New Universe. The power had some uses you might not have thought of, such as: after a shower, she'd make her own skin frictionless so that the water slid right off. Instant drip-dry, no towel needed.

[SqrlCub]

This has been done many times (actually by me once). I really like asking this question too. It is a wonderful icebreaker.

I would choose a combination of teleportation or telekenisis. I think it would be fun.

Also, if the girl made herself frictionless, why didn't she fall down?

HUGS!
Sqrl

[AWB]

I always like either Flash's (Barry Allen) superspeed. With his molecular control, he could go through solid objects like they weren't there.

I was also partial to Green Lantern's power ring, except for that weakness to yellow things. (He could be killed by enought Post-It notes, y'know. )

[JavaMaven1]

I think being able to know what's going to happen 10 minutes ahead would be pretty nifty--avoiding traffic accidents and speeding tickets, enough time to duck and cover for an earthquake, and I'd clean up on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire".

[UncleBeer]

I'd like to have the power to move this thread to IMHO. Whoops, I do. Off it goes.

[tracer]

Omnipotence.

[Koffing]

My wife and I were talking about this the other day. I cam up with a new one, and one I think has lots of good comis possibilities.

I want to be able to control friction. Just look at a guy and turn off all friction associated with him and then gently tap him. Or, give myself really high friction and climb buildings and stuff. And, I am positive I can come out of this with a lot of cash.

Actually, a character in DP-7, one of Marvel Comic's short-lived New Universe comics, had just this power! She did the wall-walking thing, but I don't recall if she ever did the low-friction tap.

For myself, I'd choose the Word. In Preacher, a comic in DC's Vertigo line, Jesse Custer has, basically, the Word of God. When he uses it, he must be obeyed. He used the Word to tell people to burn, and they spontaneously combusted.

My second choice is telepathy. The ability to read minds would be such an advantage in life.

[Koffing]

SqrlCub wrote, regarding Friction:

Also, if the girl made herself frictionless, why didn't she fall down?

She kept friction normal on the soles of her feet. That actually reminds me of a Spider-Man villain. Anyone else remember Slyde, the man with the non-stick suit?

[Sneevil]

The power to make time stop for everyone else while I went about my business. The world would just freeze in its tracks without ever realizing it.

[Danielinthewolvesden]

I get just one? Lycanthropy, ie a werewolf.

[Saint Zero]

SqrlCub wrote, regarding Friction:

She kept friction normal on the soles of her feet. That actually reminds me of a Spider-Man villain. Anyone else remember Slyde, the man with the non-stick suit?

Oh yes. Great guy. I miss those not so "angst" filled, non life threating villians.

[Procrutes]

I actually go to sleep at night thinking about this. Man, you get some *interesting* dreams! Anyway, all I've got to say is "Goku" of Dragonball Z. You get flight, telekinesis of a sort, plus the whole energy-blast thingie goin' on. Talk about a traffic clearer!

[Munch]

I would like to have complete mastery of the power known as "The Dewey Decimal System".

[Eposia]

If I had to pick just ONE, it'd be teleportation. Just think, no worries about gas prices, insurance, traffic, plane tickets, etc. etc. A nice modifier would be to be able to teleport others with me.

Second place would be telekinesis.

Eposia

[Medea's Child]

Telempathy. Not as pokey/nosey/vulnerable as telepathy (I don't care. I know what I think, why would I want what you are thinking in here too? I confuse myself enough.) but still sensitive/powerful enough to ease things off a bit. Make people just more willing to agree with you,let them come up with the reasons why.

Mr. Cynical, if you ever get your psychic backrubs up and running, please send one my way!

[tracer]

Sneevil wrote:

The power to make time stop for everyone else while I went about my business. The world would just freeze in its tracks without ever realizing it.

In that case, read The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything by John D. MacDonald. Or see the early-1980s made-for-TV-movie version of it with Robert Hayes and Pam Dawber (it must be on video somewhere).

[tracer]

Eposia wrote:

If I had to pick just ONE, it'd be teleportation. Just think, no worries about gas prices, insurance, traffic, plane tickets, etc. etc. A nice modifier would be to be able to teleport others with me.

... which would be really useful, 'cause otherwise you'd arrive at your teleport destination totally naked.

Second place would be telekinesis.

When I was a teen-ager, the two things I wanted most in the world were sex and telekinesis. Oh, and a yellow Cadillac. I guess that's three things.

[tracer]

Saint Zero wrote:

Inertia. Stop Bullets in mid air! Give tons of it to something you wanna destroy! Watch a simple thunderstorm destry downtown!

And with the ability to neutralize inertia, you'd have an inertialess drive a la E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman books.

Frictionless space shuttle would make getting up into orbit easier.

Air resistance is not, strictly speaking, friction. Even if you could make friction go bye-bye, you'd still have plenty of aerodynamic drag. In fact, friction interferes less with the operation of the Space Shuttle than it does with just about any other form of transportation!

[brachyrhynchos]

Although I love long-distance driving, sometimes I have to get there yesterday.

If that's not going to happen, at least give me facultative digitokenism - the ability to have, at will, a token in hand on the Parkway.

[Smeghead]

Invisibility. I enjoy being the unnoticed guy in the background anyway. Plus, there are all those hormone-fuled adolescent fantasies I dreamed up every time I walked past the girls' dressing room that I would be able to satisfy...

[Greyson3]

Dogsbody's idea (making people spout nonsense at random intervals) is great. I would freakin' love to do that. I would probably end up following around Andy Rooney just to make his segments more entertaining. "Y'ever wonder why dog pate in hammy segment rain hornblowing as a scam fa bodie?"

I would also really like telekinesis, so whenever somebody says something stupid, I just think myself over to the nearest construction site, levitate a brick, and...

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WHAM! Right upside the head.

That would just be cool.

[Mr. Cynical]

Koffing wrote:
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She kept friction normal on the soles of her feet. That actually reminds me of a Spider-Man villain. Anyone else remember Slyde, the man with the non-stick suit?
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Loud and clear, Koffing. White suit, like green pads on it? I was just thinking about this the other day, when I was trying to recall Madcap, the insane chaotic somewhat hero.

[yESTERDAY mAN]

I think the ability to control gravity would be a pretty effective super power. You could "lift" almost anything by making it fall up. You could "fly" by controlling the direction that gravity pulled you. I'm sure there would be a way to get rich with this one, too.

[Edwardina]

This is not exactly a super power, but . . .

A female friend of mine and I both have quite a few food allergies. Anyway, we were at lunch together, looking over a menu and mourning over all the yummy stuff that we couldn't eat. So I posed an interesting question: "If you could barter it so that you could eat whatever you wanted for the rest of your life, with no consequences whatsoever, no weight gain, no allergic reactions, without ever feeling more than comfortably full, would you give up having sex for the rest of your life?"

We both sat there in silence for a moment, and then she said, "Sorry, Steve." Steve is her fiance's name. We laughed ruefully and went about ordering permissable items.

That choice would take a lot of thought for me, and I might choose it for a power if that meant I wouldn't have to give up sex. *grin*



For a more conventional super power, I would choose indestructibility. It would be great to know that nothing but old age could kill you.

[Ozone]

I would like to be able to freeze time for everything else but me. I could freeze time, walk into a bank, take what I needed, walk out, un-freeze time. This would also come in handy when the girls basketball team at the local university was in the showers after practice.

Being able to make myself invisible would be a great one too. Mostly for the shower reason too I think. Although, I figure if I were invisible, the last place I'd want to be is in a steamy shower. Wouldn't the steam stick to you and make you somewhat ghost like?

[tracer]

A People Magazine poll once asked, "Which would you rather be able to do: fly, or turn invisible?"

The poll results were almost exactly 50/50 (50% said "fly", 50% said "turn invisible"). However, across gender lines, about 1-2% more females than males said they'd prefer invisibility. I would not consider this tiny deviation significant, however.

[Soupy]

Mr. Sears Kenmore with the power to open some guy's garage door in Gremany when I press the button here.

[Darkpyre]

Telepathy. And I want to be able to aim it and plant ideas.

[BigGiantHead]

Greyson sed

Dogsbody's idea (making people spout nonsense at random intervals) is great. I would freakin' love to do that. I would probably end up following around Andy Rooney just to make his segments more entertaining. "Y'ever wonder why dog pate in hammy segment rain hornblowing as a scam fa bodie?"
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I think this would actually fall more under the power of total unintelligibility. A non sequitur at least has a point (usually), even if it's way off track. Although, it seems to me that Andy would be totally immune to Captain Non Sequitur's powers... him and Larry King. They're both doing it already.

[BigGiantHead]

BTW, my personal favorite would have to be the "photographic reflexes" a guy (I think) named Taskmaster had. Saw something done once, he could instantly mimic it. I'd sit around for a day watching Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan videos, then make a killing in Hollywood. Or learn sleight-of-hand and amass a fortune lifting wallets and cheating at cards. Hey, I never said I'd be a superhero.

[waterj2]

Well, if I could have any superpower I wanted, I'd take the United States. Most people seem to agree that it is the only remaining superpower in the world.

[Silo]

My superpower would be to get any women to do whatever I want. Whoops! I already have that power. Heheheh.

Freezing time, teleportation, reading people's minds, change shape/size...all those sound cool to me (I wish they were practical though).

[Motorgirl]

This past week, while on vacation, we actually played a car game about Super Powers. It was in one of the "52 Things to Do on Car Trips" card decks. It's really meant for kids, but we had 4 adults so we made do. Our Super Hero Team were:

Poo Dude - he is a giant dung beetle who flings flaming crap at villains

Invisible Woman - self-explanatory - she's invisible and picks pockets

Sir Marks-A-Lot - he draws Xs on villains (the Xs are the targets that Poo Dude uses to fling crap at the villains - Sir Marks-A-Lot also draws Xs on Invisible WOman so that the rest of the team can tell where she is)

Teleporting Tania - she can teleport but has no control over where she goes (a la Daleks)

We were quite the Super Team. We called ourselves SPIT.

[kunilou]

I think I'd like to try assuming someone else's identity for a short period of time -- maybe an hour. Imagine what revenge you could wreak upon your enemies if you had a chance to make them resign their jobs, withdraw all the money from their checking accounts, order hundreds and hundreds of pizzas delivered to their homes, etc.

[tracer]

Motorgirl wrote:

Sir Marks-A-Lot also draws Xs on Invisible WOman so that the rest of the team can tell where she is)

Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of invisibility, though?

[Koffing]

BTW, my personal favorite would have to be the "photographic reflexes" a guy (I think) named Taskmaster had. Saw something done once, he could instantly mimic it. I'd sit around for a day watching Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan videos, then make a killing in Hollywood. Or learn sleight-of-hand and amass a fortune lifting wallets and cheating at cards. Hey, I never said I'd be a superhero.

Yep, that's the Taskmaster, the world's smartest super-villain. He's not super-intelligent like Dr. Doom, but he's got the best scheme going on. See, his photographic reflexes give him the ability to mimic anything that he sees done. He uses this ability to run a "mook school." All those non-powered henchmen that super-villains go through like candy? He trains them. And he gets paid. And he's not doing anything illegal. Beautiful.

[Shirley Ujest]

I sometimes think that if I had the ability to read other people's thoughts, that the only thing I would hear would be the ocean waves.

That said, I think I would like to have the power to have a dog obey my every command. The first time issued.

Oh, and to be STYLE-CHICK. To always be hip and with it with whatever the current trend is. Naturally, I do not pay for any of this and my hair always looks good.

[matt_mcl]

Shapeshifting. Exactly like Odo on DS9.