Or a giant birthday cake with crazy lit sparklers for the mugger
Or you could maybe put the mugger in dimensional storage! That’d surprise the heck out of him!
The first three powers I got:
Literary manipulation: tha ability to manipulate literary objects. So, I can move books around with my mind? Super librarian powers?
X-Ray vision: ok, now we’re talking’! Wait, the description says “the ability to see x-rays”. So no seeing through walls, just that x-rays become visible to me?
Movement Vision (the power to instantly take notice of things when they move): uh, is that even a superpower? I can pretty much do that already.
Yeah, I’ll take the $1 mil.
I wonder how strong the Manipulation power is: leave no fingerprints while bludgeoning someone to death with an encyclopedia? Fly around as if a backpack were a jetpack? Or does it just top out at, say, performing seemingly-impossible feats of stage magic for an audience?
Yeah, but if I also had an invisible knife…
Snoopy Power, the little kid in me has to say Cool!
Tough choice, but I’m going with the $1 million, even though it’s not worth all that much in today’s inflation era. There’s just too high a chance I’d wind up with three superpowers that are either rather useless, or that I couldn’t use ethically/legally.
If it were 3 powers that I could choose of my own selection, I’d go with those.
I opted for the three random superpowers, so here’s what I apparently get:
Vector Manipulation The power to manipulate matter and interactions through their related vectors.
Oil Vision The power to project oil beams/blasts from one’s eyes.
Cosmic Manipulation The power to manipulate cosmic forces.
The first and last one seem mildly related, but could be useful for a party-trick-for-hire gig or holding the world hostage through the threat of annihilation by my super-outer-space controlled asteroid. That second one though, either I’m finding steady employment at a Qwikee-Lube or as a server at Olive Garden for endless salad garnish provider. I’m seeing some potential here. . .
Tripler
But before I incinerate your fair city with a solar flare, would you care for more breadsticks?
Disappointing. I was hoping this had something to do with linear algebra. “All the powers on an H100.” “Ability to compute dot products in a single bound.”
BTW, you can get a detailed description of the various superpowers here:
Here is the description of Vector Manipulation (which I had never heard of before):
Oh, great, maybe I can find a use for “Neon Vision!”
Limitations
- Can’t control neon emitted from eyes.
This just gets better and better.
Says I can create “Neon blasts”. WTF is a “Neon blast” aside from a laser light show? Or a Slurpee flavor?
I chose to believe that it makes all cars you see look like 90s Dodge/Chrysler Neons.
Although, if you’re EMITTING cars… from you eyes no less, well, you have problems.
Yes!
You could sell life insurance.
I chose the million. But I then checked my three random powers.
Danger intuition is very nice.
Social cloaking, the ability to blend into any group, is interesting.
Plant manipulation is also a superpower, I suppose. In a Legion of Substitute Heroes kind of way.
Is it worth a million dollars to find out which three you get? Maybe.
Thermoreception (The power to perceive heat signatures.)
Atomic Vision (The ability to see the bonds between atoms.)
Supernatural Accuracy (The ability to have drastically better accuracy than what is naturally possible.)
So I can see bears in the dark, even outside of the tent.
Everything with atomic bonds looks shimmery (distracting).
And I’d be great at some carnival games. Unless that means I’d be great at correcting typos.
Definitely the superpowers, since another million bucks is not going to affect my life much - plus I can see making more from the powers.
The ones I got were:
Animal Manipulation - would be very handy at a racetrack.
“And the winner is: Beeblebaum.”
Density manipulation: If I were a bad guy it would let me go through doors and safes. As a good guy I could make the bad guys guns melt. Or tanks. Or buildings.
Microwave vision: Seeing microwaves. Can’t see much of a use for that one at the moment.
BTW, based on the variety of superpowers people came up with, I’m impressed at how many they have available.
That means virtually everything! Everything around you, including the air, has atomic bonds. Well, except any noble gases, such as helium, neon, and argon. This has to be one of the least useful superpowers.
Another useless one. Unless some supervillain has the power to shoot microwaves out of his eyes, in which case it’ll help you find him. But then he’ll be able to blind you by shining them directly into your eyes.
I took the 1 million before getting a good sample of the powers, then looked up the powers I could’ve had:
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Jet Propulsion (The power to move via energy expulsion.)
Flight’s always nice, although flight that can set everything around me on fire is less nice. -
Movement Vision (The power to instantly take notice of things if they move.)
If it alerts me to everything around me instead of whatever gets in my (optical) vision cone, that would be nice when I decide to fly at 40,000 feet and don’t want to get sucked into a plane engine. (I’m assuming the jets would keep me warm.) -
Prehensile Tail (The power to have a tail that can be used as an extra limb.)
A prehensile tail with fingers and opposable thumbs would be very handy. But just a tail? Meh.
I had to go for superpowers - anyone can have money, not everyone can be a super"hero".
And I won the superpower lottery:
Knowledge Replication
(The power to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.)
Magic Vision
(The power to project magical beams/blasts from one’s eyes.)
Poison Immunity
(The power to be immune to all forms of poisons.)
Know everything somebody else knows, can’t be poisoned, and laser beam eyes? I’ll make a great super"hero".
Atomic vision seems to have a few useful applications, like finding stress points and being able to shatter anything. You could be the best diamond cutter in the world!

Microwave vision: Seeing microwaves. Can’t see much of a use for that one at the moment.

Another useless one. Unless some supervillain has the power to shoot microwaves out of his eyes, in which case it’ll help you find him. But then he’ll be able to blind you by shining them directly into your eyes.
Yeah, this one looks pretty useless. Unless you’re a microwave oven repair person.
On second thought, you could also detect many radar systems, which might be useful to a military pilot.