# What would you do with superpower pills? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183 "2026-08-06T13:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/1 "2026-08-06T13:37:18Z")
You get five pills that each give you a flying brick power set. The powers are super strength (100 tons), durability (only the most powerful nuclear weapon can harm you), speed (Mach 100), reflexes (nanosecond reaction time), stamina (you never tire) and flight (Mach 100). You have perfect control of the powers and any required secondary powers. The catch is that each pill only gives you the powers for a 24 hour period. The pills can’t be replicated in any way, taken more than once within the same 24 hour period or give anyone but you powers. You return to being a normal person when the 24 hour period is over. What would you do with the powers? Would you take the pills in the same week or would you save some for later on? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/2 "2026-08-06T18:44:42Z")
“I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/3 "2026-08-06T18:57:21Z")
I’d probably sell them. I can’t think of anything really important that I could do with 24-hour superpowers, but I bet they could be sold for a lot of money. Maybe keep one in case of an emergency. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/4 "2026-08-06T18:59:41Z")
I count six, there. Were speed and reflexes supposed to go together? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/5 "2026-08-06T19:16:34Z")
First, if it’s an option, I’d go with @markn_1’s option, though I strongly suspect I’d have to sacrifice at least one of them to prove they worked. And I suspect that I’d still end up screwed, because even if I swore I couldn’t get/produce any more someone motivated and powerful wouldn’t believe me. My next option would be to burn them myself and go full on Punisher-style vigilante on all those I consider evil in the world. Yeah, not fair to everyone else, but the world’s not fair. And I’d conceal the hell out of myself, and rob more-easily convertible assets to fund my life in a “fewer-questions asked” nation later on. I could also do the above super-villain theft (moving so fast no one saw what I did, cracking impossible vaults, and no one being the wiser due to my perfect control) and retire without the vigilante justice, as a super (mythical) Robin Hood, distribute most of the wealth, and then spend the rest of my life and ill-gotten(?) goods living like a King in Patagonia. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/6 "2026-08-06T19:28:03Z")
I’d kill assorted world leaders and their regimes, lackeys, and support. I’d then fly into outer space, timing it so I’d end my 24 hours in deep space so as not to go to prison. You can all thanks me for my sacrifice later. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/7 "2026-08-06T19:30:14Z")
Is there another [**Bourne film**](https://bourne.fandom.com/wiki/Chems) coming out?? ---
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/8 "2026-08-06T19:33:38Z")
Each pill gives you all the powers at once. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/9 "2026-08-06T19:36:53Z")
How much is a pill that gives @markn_1 superpowers worth to anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/10 "2026-08-06T19:42:49Z")
> [@Cmyers1980](#): > > or give anyone but you powers Oh, I missed that clause. Well, just keep all of them for emergencies then. One of them would have been handy when a tree fell on my house some years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/11 "2026-08-06T19:56:27Z")
I would lock them away somewhere so that it’s really difficult for me to get them, but keep them accessible in case of a major emergency. I really don’t want that kind of temptation in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/12 "2026-08-06T21:28:57Z")
I would use three pills the first month, use the fourth pill later on in the same year and save the last pill for an emergency or at an undetermined point in the future. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/13 "2026-08-07T06:25:16Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I’d kill assorted world leaders and their regimes, lackeys, and support. Yeah, kinda ashamed to admit it, but I’d probably do this in a fit of rage. The fit of rage part is pretty much the same reason I don’t own a firearm, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/14 "2026-08-07T13:42:52Z")
Just curious-Have you ever looked up to see what happens at Mach 100? ---
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/15 "2026-08-07T20:03:14Z")
Not that exact speed. This is why I make sure to add perfect control and any necessary secondary powers to the prompt like basically every superhero has so you don’t accidentally blow up a city or kill someone you’re trying to save by moving so quickly. There wouldn’t be much use in asking someone about fictional powers they can barely use in any meaningful way. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/16 "2026-08-07T23:43:43Z")
[![](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120221.gif) ](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120221.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/17 "2026-08-08T01:02:33Z")
It sounds suspiciously like you got a hold of meth. If I did take them, it’d be all at once. I’d probably hate the next 24 hours (I imagine you’d get all twitchy), and I doubt I’d leave my house. I’d probably spend all day smoking weed to try to take the edge off. I imagine the next day would suck. You’d probably have a raging headache, and you’d have to spend your time repairing broken cabinets in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-superpower-pills/1032183/18 "2026-08-08T01:35:46Z")
Can I trade all those powers for pills that cure my arthritis?