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I think this would actually fall more under the power of total unintelligibility. A non sequitur at least has a point (usually), even if it’s way off track. Although, it seems to me that Andy would be totally immune to Captain Non Sequitur’s powers… him and Larry King. They’re both doing it already.
BTW, my personal favorite would have to be the “photographic reflexes” a guy (I think) named Taskmaster had. Saw something done once, he could instantly mimic it. I’d sit around for a day watching Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan videos, then make a killing in Hollywood. Or learn sleight-of-hand and amass a fortune lifting wallets and cheating at cards. Hey, I never said I’d be a superhero.
Well, if I could have any superpower I wanted, I’d take the United States. Most people seem to agree that it is the only remaining superpower in the world.
My superpower would be to get any women to do whatever I want. Whoops! I already have that power. Heheheh.
Freezing time, teleportation, reading people’s minds, change shape/size…all those sound cool to me (I wish they were practical though).
This past week, while on vacation, we actually played a car game about Super Powers. It was in one of the “52 Things to Do on Car Trips” card decks. It’s really meant for kids, but we had 4 adults so we made do. Our Super Hero Team were:
Poo Dude - he is a giant dung beetle who flings flaming crap at villains
Invisible Woman - self-explanatory - she’s invisible and picks pockets
Sir Marks-A-Lot - he draws Xs on villains (the Xs are the targets that Poo Dude uses to fling crap at the villains - Sir Marks-A-Lot also draws Xs on Invisible WOman so that the rest of the team can tell where she is)
Teleporting Tania - she can teleport but has no control over where she goes (a la Daleks)
We were quite the Super Team. We called ourselves SPIT.
I think I’d like to try assuming someone else’s identity for a short period of time – maybe an hour. Imagine what revenge you could wreak upon your enemies if you had a chance to make them resign their jobs, withdraw all the money from their checking accounts, order hundreds and hundreds of pizzas delivered to their homes, etc.
Motorgirl wrote:
Doesn’t that kinda defeat the purpose of invisibility, though?
Yep, that’s the Taskmaster, the world’s smartest super-villain. He’s not super-intelligent like Dr. Doom, but he’s got the best scheme going on. See, his photographic reflexes give him the ability to mimic anything that he sees done. He uses this ability to run a “mook school.” All those non-powered henchmen that super-villains go through like candy? He trains them. And he gets paid. And he’s not doing anything illegal. Beautiful.
I sometimes think that if I had the ability to read other people’s thoughts, that the only thing I would hear would be the ocean waves.
That said, I think I would like to have the power to have a dog obey my every command. The first time issued.
Oh, and to be STYLE-CHICK. To always be hip and with it with whatever the current trend is. Naturally, I do not pay for any of this and my hair always looks good.
Shapeshifting. Exactly like Odo on DS9.
I’d be The Shadowy Old Coot.
Be able to hide in plain sight, because younger people can’t see you, even when plowing 1" past on a skateboard.
Be able to see anywhere with Multi-Focal glasses, Bi-focals with side views, like a house fly lens.
Special penchant, keeping a flock of homing pigeons for contacting the Commissioner, and something to feed with popcorn at lunchtime.
Oh, I like this one. To have my hair always look good would probably require a super power. Darn those Pantene commercials!
I personally think that being “Best All Around Athlete in the World” would be really cool.
Bring it on, Shaq. No problem. Lance Armstrong, no sweat. Pele, child’s play! All those people who can hit a ping pong ball faster than you can follow, I will laugh in mockery as I thrash them all over the table. Yes, that would be cool.
i like the hair thing…another cool thing would be like a hard plastic man…aqble to mold yourself into different shapes, or shift your muscle shapes and masses.
i think i am jealous of style chick…maybe i would be the male version
or how about ALPHA MALE…with the power to dominate every situation with hormones or something…being gay it seems like everyone tries to be the alpha male, so if this was my power i would be psyched
my first thread to reach 2 pages…woo-hoo
I’d have to go with teleportation. I work at a large hospital, and it would be wonderful to be able to zip around without having to take a year-long hike. (I exaggerate, but not by much).
Robin
Fly, gotta be fly. No wings, just the ability to up and go - and fast. Weekend in New York? No problem!
I also like Wolverine’s power to heal really quickly, and those cool blades that come out his hands. “You call that a knife…”
I didn’t say we were any GOOD at being super heroes!
I want to be the Artist of the Impossible. When something is considered impossible, I can do it. Make a grand slam out of two yarborough hands in bridge? I can do it. Walk unprotected in outer space? No problem. Yep, it is a great power.
I’d love to be able to time travel. Anyone remember an old 80’s series called The Voyagers with Meeno Peluce and the ill fated practical jokester Jon Erik Hexum? That’d be cool. I’d also like Mystique’s (X-Men) power. Being able to look like anyone would have DEFINITE advantages.
Time Travel: 'nuff said
Machine Empathy: To be able to touch a machine, understand how it works, and change its operation. Mainly because I teach computers, and I need to undo what some of those DFs did (CTRL+Z just doesn’t cut it). I can also edit my PC’s registry at will, avoid KERNEL32 errors, and send a signal through the phone lines to deliver a fatal shock to webmasters of dumb sites