SUPER POWER-what would it be?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m sure that this whole thread has probably been submitted before, but it’s a question i always love to hear answered…probably the question i ask more than any other. I think you can figure a lot out about other people by their answer…maybe this whole line of thinking could be a new type pf therapy.

Anyway…i have 2. first i would love to be able to fly, with huge wings out of my shoulder blades (like Angel of the X-men) i think this has to do with my wanting to be free and escape all of the crap down here on the ground.

My second power is like that of Dazzler of the X-men…she takes sound and kinda funnels it through her body, changing it to light…she was a disco diva for a while, and a superhero…she is now roaming the universe. this all comes form my desire to be loud and on stage and performing for the masses.

anyway…be creative, it doesn’t have to be an alreasy made up kinda power, and i’m sure we will see lot’s of “traffic-be-gone man” and such. have fun :stuck_out_tongue:

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This will be a nice IMHO thread :wink:

I would like the ability to travel through time. When you have that, nothing else really matters.

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I want to be “Shut-the-hell-up Man”!

For all those times when boss, co-worker, SO, etc just won’t shut the hell up and leave you alone. With just an evil glare, the offending person will SHUT-THE-HELL-UP until I give them permission to speak agin. I feel this would be very useful in a movie theatre.

I would also like to be able to read minds and once and for all answer the question, “What the hell was that guy thinking?!!”

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Captain Non-sequitur: with the ability to make anyone, at any time, say something completely random and off the point.

I think this would be a particularly interesting power to use during an election year. :wink:

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I would be “Gives Good Backrubs With The Power Of His Mind Guy”. People all over the world would love me.

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X-ray vision. What else do you need? I’d go to Vegas and clean up.

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You wouldn’t happen to be the reason GW Bush mangles syntax daily, now would you?

I’d be partial to shapeshifting myself. I’d never get the blame.

Or maybe the old stand-by of invisibility.

SterlingNorth
[sub]A boy and his bow-tie.[/sub]

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Tragically, the only time this power seems to manifest itself is when I have something important to say. Haven’t gotten it to work on anyone else…yet.

I also wouldn’t mind shapeshifting; the ability to make folks forget I was there could be handy, too.

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Forgot you were here. Guess that power is already working :smiley:

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My wife and I were talking about this the other day. I cam up with a new one, and one I think has lots of good comis possibilities.

I want to be able to control friction. Just look at a guy and turn off all friction associated with him and then gently tap him. Or, give myself really high friction and climb buildings and stuff. And, I am positive I can come out of this with a lot of cash.

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Inertia. Stop Bullets in mid air! Give tons of it to something you wanna destroy! Watch a simple thunderstorm destry downtown!

Friction would be cool too. Frictionless engine parts would make for wonderful gas effency. Frictionless space shuttle would make getting up into orbit easier.

Gravity. Never be heavy again! :slight_smile:

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Soul Transference: Too many people are unwilling to concede that other points of view are perfectly valid and not the produt of an insane mind. I always believed that your experiences shape your ideas. This could also settle ONCE AND FOR ALL the boys vs girls argument.

Rewind: you know all the times you’ve said, “Well, There goes [amount of time] of my life that I’ll never get back.” The time you accidently went and payed for a ticket to a Pauley Shore movie. Or when you engaged in a discussion as to why humans are the long-lost desendents of an ancient alien civilization. Well, I wish I could just push a button go back and avoid those moments!
SterlingNorth
[sub]who lost a total of 97hrs 42mins and 6secs of his life that he wishes refunded.[/sub]

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A character with the exact “friction” power you describe was among the DP7, a comic book from the long-defunct Marvel New Universe. The power had some uses you might not have thought of, such as: after a shower, she’d make her own skin frictionless so that the water slid right off. Instant drip-dry, no towel needed.

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This has been done many times (actually by me once). I really like asking this question too. It is a wonderful icebreaker.

I would choose a combination of teleportation or telekenisis. I think it would be fun.

Also, if the girl made herself frictionless, why didn’t she fall down?

HUGS!
Sqrl

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I always like either Flash’s (Barry Allen) superspeed. With his molecular control, he could go through solid objects like they weren’t there.

I was also partial to Green Lantern’s power ring, except for that weakness to yellow things. (He could be killed by enought Post-It notes, y’know. :))

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I think being able to know what’s going to happen 10 minutes ahead would be pretty nifty–avoiding traffic accidents and speeding tickets, enough time to duck and cover for an earthquake, and I’d clean up on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”.

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I’d like to have the power to move this thread to IMHO. Whoops, I do. Off it goes.

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Omnipotence.

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Actually, a character in DP-7, one of Marvel Comic’s short-lived New Universe comics, had just this power! She did the wall-walking thing, but I don’t recall if she ever did the low-friction tap.

For myself, I’d choose the Word. In Preacher, a comic in DC’s Vertigo line, Jesse Custer has, basically, the Word of God. When he uses it, he must be obeyed. He used the Word to tell people to burn, and they spontaneously combusted.

My second choice is telepathy. The ability to read minds would be such an advantage in life.

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SqrlCub wrote, regarding Friction:

She kept friction normal on the soles of her feet. That actually reminds me of a Spider-Man villain. Anyone else remember Slyde, the man with the non-stick suit?