Choose a Superpower...first come, first served!

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
#1

For the purposes of plot I have access to a device that is capable of giving people comic-book style superpowers, its simple and painless to use, the catch is that its only able to give a specific superpower to a single person at any given time.

So if someone chooses super-strength for example then no-one else can have it at the same time, its first come, first served.

In addition the new abilities are impressive but not godlike, someone with super-strength can bench-press a truck at maximum effort but not anything more, someone with super-speed can break the sound barrier with a long enough run-up but not zip-around at close to light-speed…you get the idea, impressive but limited. And no abilities that are over-powered by definition, like ‘omnipotence’ etc

So what new superpower do you want, and what do you do with it? :slight_smile:

Bonus points for a Straightdope superhero team name.

#2

I’ll take super speed, please.

#3

I’ll take the ability to manipulate time, please and thank you.

#4

Flight!

#5

Super luck.

#6

I’ll take the ability of knowing every other language, in the universe, including those of aliens and animals.

#7

Superintelligence

#8

Green Lantern Ring.

#9

Superhealing – ideally Wolverine strength, but I’ll take what I can get

#10

Precisely controlled shapeshifting with unlimited duration (i.e., once I change, I stay in that form until I make the effort to change again). Mental faculties retained across changes, of course, but otherwise I would assume the natural abilities of anything I turn into, with the reflexes to use them. The “precisely” is specified to cover being able to change only partially or make fine adjustments to an assumed form.

#11

Mind control.

#12

Telepathy please and thank you!

#13

Bro I want the greatest power in this world. I want the ability to create unlimited money out of thin air.:):D;)

#14

The ability to control the density of objects and people including myself.

#15

Telekinesis, such that cars can easily tossed and collapsing building caught with a thought.

#16

Invisibility for me. Oh, the places I’d go and the things I’d see!!!

#17

I want the power of super-knowledge - knowing everything that is known, from Steven Hawking’s last work on black holes to the latest iron-forging techniques, to with whom Mrs Miggins downstairs is having an affair.

#18

The ability to transmute matter on a molecular level.

#19

I’d team up with Wesley Clark to form the Straight Dope Brainiac Team. I’ll be the librarian to his super-intelligence.

#20

Do I get an additional one or do I need to trade my webs in?

Hint: It’s mostly the old guys, who you don’t want to see nekkid, who are nekkid in the locker room. :eek: