# Best superpower to have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016 "2009-07-05T22:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/41 "2009-07-07T16:10:45Z")
Nobody wants reality warping? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/42 "2009-07-07T16:54:12Z")
I always thought the coolest superpower would be the ability to control others’ minds to the point that they do whatever you say without hesitation or recrimation. That mansion on the beach? Just walk up and tell the owner, “I’d like to live here. Pack up all your stuff, give me the keys, and get out.” And he does so, with a smile on his face. Want a delicious dinner in the best restaurant in town? When the waiter hands you the check, tell him “I’d rather not pay, thanks. Just rip the bill up and pretend I was never here.” And he does. Want to bed that beautiful woman that’s totally out of your league? Simply go up to her and say, “I’d like to have sex with you. Let’s get busy.” And you do. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/43 "2009-07-07T16:55:41Z")
The ability to love and be loved by everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/44 "2009-07-07T18:38:49Z")
My wife and I had this conversation not too long ago. I came up with many of the ideas above… she took the joy out of the conversation when she simply said: “the power to heal other people.” ☹ Well, yeah… if you’re gonna go and be all selfish about it! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/45 "2009-07-07T18:51:46Z")
I’ve rethought my superpower of choice after forgetting my passkey to the office during lunch. I’d like to be able to phase, like Shadowcat. No more locking my keys out of my car, no more being locked out of anywhere. It would also make long car rides more comfortable because I could just phase the parts of my body that were touching into the car so I could stretch all of the way out. Making money would be simple either from a crime spree or doing investigations. I could do my job much better if I could scuba dive thought the earth and see the problems as they were happening… ---
**Author:** ![kevin\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@kevin\_c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevin_c)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/46 "2009-07-08T11:20:25Z")
Two words. Plastic man. The possibilities are endless! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/47 "2009-07-08T18:17:02Z")
If Marvel has taught me anything, it’s that Telekynesis is seriously overpowered. There’re very, very few powers that can’t be emulated with teke. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/48 "2009-07-08T19:39:00Z")
My first choice is invulnerability as long as that is down to the molecular level since that would imply immortality too. If nothing can hurt me in any way why can’t I live forever? Second choice is transmutation ability to change into anything at all. If I can transform into anything at all, that’s as good as invisibility, but really better since I will have the capabilities of whatever I change into. I feel like flying today, so let me be an eagle. I want to spy on someone, time to be a fly on the wall, but I’m not going anywhere near Obama! And to be invulnerable and also have this morphing capability, nothing can stop me, I tell ya, nothing! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/49 "2009-07-08T20:51:27Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > My wife and I had this conversation not too long ago. I came up with many of the ideas above… she took the joy out of the conversation when she simply said: “the power to heal other people.” > > ☹ Well, yeah… if you’re gonna go and be all selfish about it! Oh gods, no! A power like that would drive you mad before they killed you. To keep from being overwhelmed and crushed by all the sick and injured in the world, you’d have to keep the power a secret and work in secret and sparingly. Knowing you could save more, and not doing it, would eventually drive you insane. Forget that. Selfish power is the only way to go. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/50 "2009-07-09T14:39:48Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > A superstretch anus like Anus Man has. There’s GOATSE comics now? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/51 "2009-07-10T02:07:03Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I always thought the coolest superpower would be the ability to control others’ minds to the point that they do whatever you say without hesitation or recrimation. That mansion on the beach? Just walk up and tell the owner, “I’d like to live here. Pack up all your stuff, give me the keys, and get out.” And he does so, with a smile on his face. Want a delicious dinner in the best restaurant in town? When the waiter hands you the check, tell him “I’d rather not pay, thanks. Just rip the bill up and pretend I was never here.” And he does. Want to bed that beautiful woman that’s totally out of your league? Simply go up to her and say, “I’d like to have sex with you. Let’s get busy.” And you do. Your idea of a good time isn’t _really_ to rape and steal at will without recrimination, is it? ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/52 "2009-07-10T03:25:39Z")
If it was to make a living I would have to go for some form of precognition. Take money out of casinos and live the high life. Wouldn’t be too hard - $2k - $3k a night at roulette would be a simple matter, rotating through different casinos. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/53 "2009-07-10T03:32:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Nobody wants reality warping? I was going to go with mind control, but that’s way better. If only so that I could screw with people’s heads. “What? No, that clock was always melting on the roof of your house. I can’t believe you didn’t notice.” Thanks, **De La Rue**. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016/54 "2009-07-10T13:01:40Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Your idea of a good time isn’t _really_ to rape and steal at will without recrimination, is it? Not IRL, no. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-superpower-to-have/502016.md?page=2)