There are three whose powers are off-limits (well, four if you count Sylar):
1- Peter Petrelli- he has the power to absorb the powers of others (but it costs him all acting talent and the ability to keep his hair out of his right eye even when being pursued)- you can only have one power.
2- Hiro Nakamura- you can’t fold space and time. Sorry, you just can’t have this one.
3- Linderman- you can’t heal others (but Claire Bear’s regeneration is up for grabs).
I don’t think anybody really wants to be unstable and radioactive, but would you prefer the ability to heal yourself, or to walk through walls, or talk to machines, or invisibility, or flight, or what? And why?
I think I’d go with Matt and be a mindreader, particularly if I could learn how to turn it off at times. I think ultimately it would be the most useful in the long run.
For those who don’t watch HEROES and wish to play: Heroes is a Greek word meaning X-men: the series. It’s about seemingly isolated but probably connected individuals who are developing special powers that range from the ability to command fire to flight. If you don’t know the characters, you can make up one of your own.
Nice game! Since I work with computers I may have to go with Wireless’s powers of being able to see/read/write technological communication going through the air. Although she was only briefly in the show, she was featured in the comics so I’ll say she’s part of the universe.
Of course this power relies on there being computers around. If we gain a better way of doing things that doesn’t translate to my new power, I’m gonna end up in a retirement home, talking about the good-old days of those computer-thingies.
Oh, easy. I’d take Eden’s power, the “these are not the droids you’re looking for” power of suggestion. I promise I would only use my powers for good, and spend a lot of time “suggesting” to grocery shoppers with 37 items in the 10 items or fewer lane to go use another register, cell phone talkers in libraries to STFU, and slovenly coworkers to get off their duffs and go back to the break-room and wash their own damn dishes.
Interesting that Peter’s power of power mimickery is off the table but Sylar’s power-thievery isn’t…
Assuming it doesn’t come with brain-eating tendencies on the side, Sylar’s “how things work” power is quite intriguing. In the absence of rampaging super-villains and in a real-world context, the power to intuitively understand how things work and why they don’t and how to fix them would be incredibly useful. And if there should happen to be a few elderly or sickly supers around who’re gonna be dead soon anyways…
The most fun would probably be Candace’s illusion casting. Look like anyone, go anywhere, do pretty much anything you want.
Good question! (gods, I feel like Brody from Mallrats)
I know what ones I most certainly wouldn’t want, Matt’s being one of them. There’s just some things better left unknown, and I’m sure others’ thoughts is a biggie. I really don’t want to know how many people hate me or can’t stand me, not to mention what horrible thoughts in general are just out there floating through folks’ heads.
I wouldn’t want Ted’s power, I think that goes without saying. The power to blow things up…uh, hooray? Same with starting fires (Claire’s mom). I forget Wireless’s real name, but her power always seemed kind of useless to me. Molly’s power - again, kind of useless unless you REALLY need to find one certain person. I still have not quite figured out what the heck Niki’s power is, other than she’s a MPD that manifests her other personality and has super-human strength. :dubious: Claire’s power is a damn good one, but it scares the crap out of me as well. What if she can’t die at all without having something stuck in That Part of her brain? Is she just doomed to live forever? No thanks. Micah and DL’s powers are useful, but just don’t Do It for me.
I feel like I’m forgetting somebody, but I’d have to go with either Nathan, Eden, Candace or Claude. Can’t I have all four?
[Hijacking my own thread] I didn’t watch the show first run (an episode or two that I couldn’t follow because I hadn’t seen the originals) but I watched it on DVD. I loved the commentary during one of Zach’s apperances- I think it was Masi Oka who said “Oh Zach! His power is to generate controversy and then disappear from the series as if he never existed!”]
I want to teleport. Is that the same as Hiro’s? I don’t want to move through time…just space. That would save me on telecommuting and allow me to sleep in.
Zach was, I think, Claire’s friend, who a lot of people thought was gay, but it was never proven, and then he had his mind wiped and disappeared from the show.
I’ve never quite understood if Niki is MPD or if she really is two people, or if the superstrength is inseparable from Jessica or if she happens to be super-strong due to mutation AND ALSO happens to be insane (if that makes sense).
One theory on Niki is that her power is super strength, while Jessica’s is, uh, astral projection, or something like that. Jessica is able to possess Niki and use her super strength, which Niki doesn’t realize she has until later.
If I had to take one power, I’d probably take telekinesis. Even though the guy who had it wasn’t a main character, he did appear in the series briefly before being offed by Sylar, and Sylar uses the power pretty often.
I’ve always wanted to have the Machine Empathy power (the old Marvel Ultimate Powers term for the ability to communicate telathically with computers). You could explain it as a specialized form of electrokinesis, but then by the same token wouldn’t telepathy be a specialized form of energy manipulation? I envision it working just as well on optical data systems and and nanites, and it would give you the ability to read the ‘minds’ of AIs and, of course, make yourself attractive to hot robot babes from the future.
Not to be a ‘me too’, but my first thought as I was reading the OP was Eden’s power of suggestion. Second place is a bit fuzzier, probably one of the computer interface powers.
It wasn’t that people thought he was gay, it was that Tim Kring intended for the character to be gay and salted references throughout the series and on the character’s MySpace page. AFAIK the exact reason Zach was straightened out hasn’t been offered up. Some sources say NBC did it (but why, when they aired “Will and Grace” for all those years?. Some say the actor’s management insisted that he not play a gay character (which he already had, so unclear on what the problem would be). Kring’s said in interviews that there were “forces” at work and won’t comment any further.
