Please, if I’ve missed your favorite, classic powers only. Nothing like “Always pick the fastest line” or “Find the best deals” or “Always pick the right gift”. All powers can be completely and totally controlled by yourself.
What two would you pick?
I’d have to say flight and telepathy (but it would be severly controlled).
–Tim
We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.
One of them would have to be Flight. Omnipotence is tempting, but not a whole lot would still be a challenge if you had a power like that. And you left off of Win Love of Beautiful Intelligent Woman, so my other one is a tossup. Probably Healing Touch.
That way I’d be the Flying Masseur. I’d intervene in street fights and repeatedly heal the underdog. Unless the underdog was a criminal. Plus, I’d heal peacemaking leaders after people tried to assassinate them. My day job would be high-wire circus-performing without a net.
I don’t want to make people think like me, I want them to think like me of their own free will.
I’m confused. If you can pick omnipotence and omniscience, why even bother to fart around with wimpy little special purpose powers like “super-speed” or “flight”?
My first choices were flight and telekinesis, but I have a question: if I can move things with my mind, can I move myself? If I can make myself fly using my telekinetic power, I want another pick.
I would want morphing capabilities into animals like happy dogs and stuff. Healing touch too…could heal my Skippy. And me too…wouldn’t use it on anybody else though. So…just repeatedly heal me and him and turn into a pettable animal that possible stinks from rolling in questionable stuff.
Well, as God, I already have omnipotence and omniscience. But if I were human and those were off-limits (as several have noted, if you have those, why bother with the others), I’d go with invulnerability for one. And telepathic for the other. I mean, just think how much money you could make at poker alone with telepathic powers! And then if anybody accused me of cheating and tried to shoot me, well, I’m invulnerable!
Assuming that I would use my powers against the forces of evil, I would go with super strength and invulnerability. At first I was going to say invulnerability and flight, but, without strength, the villians could possibly overpower you and put you in a steel box or a bucket of concrete, and there you would be: stuck forever.
I do agree with DrFidelius, I have always dug Green Lantern and a ring like his would be too cool.
Definitely Super-Speed and Super-Strength! It seems obvious to me.
Super-Speed would be infinitely useful. Think of how quickly you could get things done. Crowded malls? It won’t seem that way to you when you are using your super speed, since everyone will appear to be either standing perfectly still or barely moving. You don’t need to own a car, because you can just run to wherever you need to go. You could read novels in seconds! Household chores could be done quickly also, leaving you free time to do the things you like, including activities in which super-speed would either not help or would be a hindrance.
Super-Strength would be useful for moving furniture among other things. You could do all kinds of impressive feats as well, firmly establishing yourself as a superhero.
Which I guess is sort of a sub-question: If you had these powers, would you become a superhero, a supervillain, or would you just be happy living with your extraordinary abilities in quiet anonymity?
Personally, I would become a superhero. Corny, I know, but that is what comes from reading too many comic books.
Oh, wait. Sorry. I’ll take Micro-Vision and Ice Breath, since no one else has yet and I hate to see them feeling sorry for themselves over there.
I guess I’d spend my time observing ant colonies, and when any individual ant tried to usurp power and become an Insect Dictator, I would quickly chill him out.
There is always Ambush Bug’s power. Basically, he had the ability to be aware that he was a comic book character, and use the cliches of the genre to his advantage.
Super strength isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – you keep shattering eggs when you make breakfast or breaking wine glasses during romantic, candle-lit dinners.
And X-ray vision isn’t as much fun as you might think. Unless you control it perfectly, you end up looking through the clothes AND through the skin – ick!
But super speed and flight – now those are powers! Zooming through the air, dancing with clouds, racing jets. It’s the good life. Heat vision has its moments too, especially when some loud-mouth at a movie needs a lesson. Just set his popcorn on fire and really give him something to complain about!
Flight and invulnerability. You could use these to become an incredibly successful athlete (dunking basketballs, catching passes, boxing, Olympic leaping events) which would make you really rich. THEN, you could do all of the cool Batman type stuff, but not have to be very careful because you can’t be hurt.
Otherwise, the Supersexiness and Morphing (not on the list).