Hey just think what a popular courier you’d make? What a great shipping business. Want to lunch in Paris? Brazil? Go to a real Outback Steakhouse. Need a few bucks? portal to the vault. Portal to the Dallas cheerleaders shower “Whoops, excuse me ladies.” Could have plenty of fun and money potential.
Imagine what a great wrestler or cage fighter you could be with wolverines healing power.
Magneto’s power would be good. There’s lots of ways you could make money and plenty of ways to have fun. Someone cut you off on the highway? Bad for them. President goes to give a speech and suddenly his belt falls off and his pants fall down. Now that would be funny. Bill ORielly says cut his mike but instead his mike hits him wham…right in the mouth.
It would bring new meaning to getting a virus at least.
I personally would like to be able to manipulate gravity in ways that defy physics…see that little spec of dust above me? Well now I’m attracted (I’m sure attracted isn’t the technically correct word) to it at a force of 2g but its not attracted to me. I could use it to fly and well, I’d make a pretty good crane as well I guess. So fun AND profit.
I would also like to be able to make it rain/stop raining. The jury’s still out on whether or not I would use this power for good or evil.
BUT - if you did catch a super criminal you could immediately build an escape proof prison… you’re actually a value-added super hero. Hail Constructo-Man!
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Invisibility (Hello, ladies! 
), controlable superstrength (I’ve read Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex and have no desire to be limited to obtaining sexual gratification by masterbating on the Moon), and well-nigh invulneralibility (so I can punt obstinate equipment halfway across the planet and not have to worry about breaking a toe).
I think there would be innumerable benefits to being Hammerspace Man- able to reach into my pockets or backpack and pull out absolutely any object at all, ranging from a toothpick to a Boeing 747…
The power to make people behave reasonably.
That might create a hole in the fabric of the universe, though.
Like Tuckerfan I choose invisibility. Why? I’m nosy and I want to know everything. I would promptly apply for a job as gossip columnist at the National Enquirer.
Oh my, think of all the fun spying on celebrities in their health spas, talking to their shrinks, or even in rehab. My columns would be the talk of the town, nay, the world. People would ask “How could she possibly know these things?” I would be celebrated and reviled at the same time, laughing all the way to the proverbial bank. I would have no shame.
I guess that helping my fellow man thing is not working out for me.
The class abilities of a level 20 Psion, from D&D. It’s also called being Dr. Manhatten. Only I’d have a whole lot more fun with it than he did.
I’m already halfway to machine empathy / cyberpathy; getting the full power would be too much like my day job, which does kill the “fun” part of “fun & profit.”
My super power will be access to pockets of extradimensional space – each about the size of, well, a large pocket. I would be able to do magic tricks without the use of long sleeves to hide gimmicks, and (more importantly) I’d be able to bring my own food and drinks into a baseball stadium!
Money?
You’d waste it on money? :eek:
Think—Harem!
Would that be Manhatten, Kansas?
I would be the Undeveloper. My power would be to take land and return it to its pristeen, natural state before Spade One was applied to it. I could transform Superfund industrial waste sites into tranquil woodland meadows with a wave of my hand. I could transform strip-mine sites into wooded mountainsides as well.
I figure there’d be lots of work for me. And if no one was willing to hire me, I can think of a lot of cities that need cleaning up, that might pay me well to not transform their downtown skyscraper area into a park one sunny morning.
That’s right. Completely blue, with bib overalls and a straw hat.
My wife says I’m not allowed to have super-powers because I would definitely use them for evil.
Well, honey if you’re a blue stater then come on over. The hell with the wife, you can use your evil super powers on the republicans and make them all move to Canada.
Some days I’d like the ability to totally erase certain people from ever existing. I image some people would pay good money to have you use it.
First use: there’s nineteen hijackers who never would have been.
The ability to stop time for everyone but myself. Stop a bank robbery, and then rob it myself. 
Screw invisibility. I want non-corporealness, like Kitty Pryde. No lock, no door, no vault can prevent me from just strolling in and taking what I want.
If I were to go legitimate, there’s lots of applications. Need to reinforce that structure? No need to rebuild, I’ll just phase some rebar directly into the concrete. Need to find oil or mineral deposits? I’ll stroll around underground until I find some. For that matter, I can just walk around on the ocean bottom and scoop up treasure where I find it. Oak Island, here I come!
That would be one thing I would do with my power to influence people – make people reasonable, honest, much less prone to violence, etc. I would also raise IQ levels. What would the world be like then? Perhaps not quite nirvana, but certainly a better place!