I’d take Magneto’s powers and become the master of magdickism. The thing is, I bet I could piss off the entire planet, one person at a time, but not use the same trick twice. That’s what I always hated about Magneto, his ability was to control one of the four fundamental forces. The EM Spectrum includes light, radio waves, electricity, etc. and there’s sooo much which could be done with it.
So I can dissolve molecular bonds, form molecular bonds, control light, radio waves, etc. I could walk down the street and cause all the photons bouncing off of me to shoot straight up into the stratosphere and all the ones not going into my eyes to bend around me and then resume their normal courses. This would create a sort of invisibility without the usual accompaniment of blindness. I’d never have to stop for a red light. Just block or induce current in the appropriate circuits.
I could use my powers to dissolve clothing, change the colors of traffic signs with redshift/blueshift, magnetize the motors of cars so they get worse fuel economy, or won’t start at all, re-write the data on someone’s computer to subtly fuck with them, or even send pirate radio broadcasts directly into someone’s hearing aid. I could induce electrical current in people’s nerve control centers, causing them to lose control of their bodily functions. I could create coherent light(like a LASER) at will, and with whatever frequency and intensity I wanted. Laser-etching rude words into the side of someone’s vehicle if they cut me off in traffic. I could jam, or even re-write radio transmissions(Car 54, there’s a 187 in progress at [innocent schmuck’s]). Induce current or increase the resistance in speakers for people’s cell phones and amplify or mute the sound, causing them to continually adjust the volume. That’s without really venturing into the chemical aspect of the power. Dissolving estrogen and re-assembling it into testosterone during fetal development could be, literally, a dick-ish thing to do. Messing up dopamine levels so random people have pain or pleasure for no apparent reason.
The character of Magneto was created by a non-scientist, at a time when we were just beginning to understand the full spectrum of the electro-magnetic interaction, but there’s almost nothing he can’t do, in theory, in the physical world.
Enjoy,
Steven