I think that “Invulnerability” would have to include some sort of retarded aging process at least.
That’s the way to go. You can fly if you want to as long as you are going down hill. You could dispense with spying all together because you could just take whatever you want to. Mind reading? Pff…they’d just be thinking “Wow! That guy’s unvulnerable!” anyway.
Mental Domination. With this, you can convince people that you have all the other powers, and be effectively even more powerful.
Flying would be a close second, 'cause it’s cool.
Mental domination. Why would you need any other power when you have the ability to control ***anyone ** * you choose?
I would choose Mental domination too, but there is no need to make yourself President - just mind control whoever happens to be in the office at the time, and run things from the shadows. That way, if things go wrong, you don’t have long-range snipers and the like trying to kill you, since they don’t even know you exist.
I’d go with flight just for the fun of it. I don’t want to know what other people are thinking - I’m not sure I’m strong enough to handle that. Invisibility brings some of the same problems, and I’m just not a sneaky kind of person. Super strength would be alright as would super speed but nowhere near as much fun as being able to fly. Mental domination is for wackos. I’m a happy kind of guy; I wouldn’t want to change my life enormously. Rapido flying for recreational and commuting purposes would do me.
That was my thought when I opened the thread. Instantanious teleportation would be very, very cool. That, and shapeshifting.
Given the coices at hand, however, I’d probably choose super-speed - if it was actually a super-time-slowing ability, like the Shrike’s. Otherwise I’d go with the herd and choose flight.
Hmn. I can convince you I’m invulnerable . I can convince others I’m invulnerable. But how can I convince this timebomb that I’m invulnerable?
TOTALLY.
Just imagine what you could do.
IMAGINE.
:eek:
Since I now suffer the after effects of thinking and acting like I was invulnerable when I was younger, actually being so would presumably mean no after effects.
The way to get around that is by convincing everyone that you’re a nice guy and not to put a timebomb anywhere near you.
Alternatively, convince a nearby pedestrian to block the explosion with their body.
Probably Invulnerability if the immortal thing is thrown in. Unfortunately, there could be severe consequences:
There would have to be an escape clause.
The people who say flying would be the most fun should rethink, cause that would be Mind Control!
At Name-Yer-Fave-Babe/Stud’s House
“Yes, oh sex god and master of the universe, YES!”
At Donald Trump’s House
“Sure, Mr. Captor, I’d love to hire you, but I warn you, I can’t offer a person of your outstanding attributes less than a million dollars a week. And if I say or do ANYTHING that you find offensive, just let me know and I will INSTANTLY fire myself!”
At Dubya’s House
“You’re right, it’s past time we told the American people we made up all that shit about WMD’s just to get our hands on Iraqi oil, and we need to be straight about how we stole the 2000 election, and how we’re planning to steal the 2004 election. I’ll call Karl Rove and we’ll hold a press conference and we’ll straighten this stuff out. And get Donald Rumsfeld in here, he needs to come clean about Abu Ghraib.”
At Andrea Dworkin’s house
“Yes, Mr. Captor, I’d love to donate $100,000 to the Foundation to Help Men in the Tying Up in Exotic Positions and Having Sex With of Women!”
Oh, there’s quite a lot of potential here. The list could go on forever.
Ew.
Not the tying up and sex part, necessarily, but the juxtaposition of Andrea Dworkin and sex. :shudder:
Well, how fast could I fly? If I had super-speed flight, I’d choose that. Failing that, it’d probably still be flight. I’m sure I could make myself very comfortable just hovering somewhere.
I was hoping that there wasn’t going to be a list of powers. I wanted omnipotence as my power.
The superpowers I want aren’t listed, but of the ones not listed, I would like to see the future, or be so intellegent that I make Einstein look like an ant. With either one, I would make sure that **Pentax **is a household name.
Of the ones listed however, I guess I would settle for Mental Domination. I would convince Bill Gates or someone that I was their child, collect on that pile of honey, and do whatever. I would also force Bill Gates to make a “good” (that might be pushing it though) version of windows, and the Board of Directors for the School division to ramp up the difficulty level in the schools (I shouldn’t get to grade 12 without knowing strongly what a “;” is for or the proper way to use a “:”. It would be nice if grammar/sentance structure was more that just a good idea)
How about the power to kill a yak, from two hundred yards away… WITH MIND BULLETS!!!
Mental domination is an interesting choice. Coincidentally, I just happened to finish reading “Firestarter” by Stephen King a few days ago. For those who have not read it, the book’s lead character is a little girl who can start fires with her mind; her father has a mental domination power (there was a sort of CIA drug test thing goin’ on, read the book) which he can use to convince most anyone of anything, providing he doesn’t mess up and drive the target insane. It’s a very comprehensive talent, so much so that it can have physical manifestations; when he told an evil government agent “Your gun is much too hot for you to hold it,” the guy’s hand actually blistered. It also had no expiration date; when he tells someone something, they’re stuck with it for life. “You’re blind” blinded a man permanently. “Go to sleep” put a guy in a coma for months and rendered him unable to stay awake whenever anyone said the word “sleep” for the rest of his life. (The limitation that prevents the man from running the word is that the power makes him very sick when he uses it, and so he can only use it so often.)
Obviously the man is forced to use his ability to save his daughter by manipulating the bad guys or other stuff like that (e.g. convincing a cabbie a $1 bill was actually a $500 bill so he’d drive them a long way.) What intrigued me though was that prior to the events described in the novel it is noted that the man ran a consulting business where he did one-on-one and group assertiveness counselling. Yes, you guessed it; he could just tell people to be more assertive and confident in themselves, and they were, with amazing results.
The possibilities in terms of helping people are endless. You could convince people not to be addicted to drugs, or to stop drinking, or to stop shovelling Big Macs into themselves. You could convince Osama bin Laden to stop hating everyone. You could convince anyone of anything.
Invulnerability is my choice. Why worry about flying when you’re invulnerable? Forget super-speed: women complain that men are too fast as it is. An invulnerable guy with a brain can outdo a super-strong dolt any day of the week. Invisibility would get old pretty quick, too. Mind-reading and mental-domination at close range are so limited because there is such an overabumdance of dimwits who need their minds controlled.
Being invulnerable means that I could hang out with cool guys like Trogdor the Burninator! Being invulnerable means I could still steal swiss rolls from Bub’s concession stand. 
Super speed for the reasons others have stated.
Holy shit dude :eek:
I never thought of it that way. Good thing I was already going to pick flight. Unless I can pick mind control and convince the power giver to give me the rest of the powers.