# How would you use your super power?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 25, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195 "2000-12-25T23:42:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195/1 "2000-12-25T23:42:14Z")

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In honor of the recent rash of superpower threads, I must ask: If you discovered you had a superpower, how would you use it:

1. for good (like most comic book heroes)
2. for evil (like most comic book villains (hiss, hiss))
3. for personal gain only
4. some mix of 1, 2, & 3
5. not at all  
Also, how long do you think you could you hide your superpower(s) before being found out? Flying would be difficult, as would superspeed (ala the Flash). X-ray vision and telepathy would probably be easier.

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**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195/2 "2000-12-25T23:51:56Z")

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“SPOOOOOON!”

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195/3 "2000-12-26T00:11:57Z")

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For evil of course.

My number two pencil superpower? Why, I’d use my number two pencils for Machiavellian use only.  
Curvebreaking Kid A: “Oh no…Scantron multiple choice test! I need a number two pencil!”  
Zoggie: “Why certainly.” ::takes one out and gives Kid A a pencil wound:: “Now you’ve got a paper cut! You’ve got to go to the nurse! You can’t take the test! You forfeit!” ::laughs a la Sideshow Bob::

And my stuffed animal one? Well, i’d keep them on the bed so that I could torture them.

Most of them I can keep a lid on…I think.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195/4 "2000-12-26T00:16:48Z")

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I think a mix of 1 & 3. I mean come on, what is the use of x-ray vision if you wont look through women’s clothing?

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**Author:** ![Sue\_Jo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sue\_Jo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Jo)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-your-super-power/47195/5 "2000-12-26T01:18:51Z")

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To save time.  
Fly to work, if I was late, reverse time a little.  
Stuff like that, I suppose.  
Fight crime? I’m not much of a fighter.