# Would you rather have the powers of Superman for a week or the powers of Spider Man for life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791 "2024-07-05T23:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **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:** [July 5, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/1 "2024-07-05T23:34:19Z")
Would you rather have the powers of Rebirth Superman for a week or the powers of 616 Spider Man for life? Feats for [Rebirth Superman](https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/aga7wr/respect_superman_dc_rebirth/) and [616 Spider Man.](https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/cjhe01/respect_peter_parker_the_amazing_spiderman_marvel/) You’ll have perfect control of either power set. If you choose the first option it’s a week by normal human standards, not a week by the standards of your superhuman perception. If you choose the second option you don’t get Spider Man’s web shooters or intelligence. What would you do with your chosen power set and why? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/2 "2024-07-05T23:35:56Z")
Spider-Man for life. It would take me more than a week to figure out what to do with my new powers. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/3 "2024-07-05T23:38:29Z")
Do you consider “The Parker Luck” to be part of his powers? If so, I’ll take “Superman Week”. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/4 "2024-07-05T23:49:14Z")
Spider-Man, I guess, since a week’s worth of superpowers would leave me under the pressure of the clock. But Spider-Man with no webs isn’t really the powers of Spider-Man (regardless of natural or mechanical web shooting). More like “Strong Gecko Man” which is way lamer. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/5 "2024-07-05T23:50:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If so, I’ll take “Superman Week”. Well, if we’re going there, do Superman powers include a moral code that requires you to respond to _every single_ natural disaster that happens anywhere in the world. Sounds like more work than fun. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/6 "2024-07-05T23:50:54Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > More like “Strong Gecko Man” which is way lamer. With his “Gecko Sense”? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/7 "2024-07-05T23:52:05Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Well, if we’re going there, do Superman powers include a moral code that requires you to respond to _every single_ natural disaster that happens anywhere in the world. Sounds like more work than fun. It would be worse than that, because there’s no way you can respond to every emergency, even with Super-powers. I’d take Spider-Man and try to keep just one city safe-ish. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/8 "2024-07-05T23:52:29Z")
Definitely Superman for a week. Super-speed, invulnerability, flight, super-strength, etc. The world will discover there’s a new sheriff in town. For a week, but nobody else knows that. Lots of Bad People are going to get tossed into the Sun. Dress like Black Panther with a full hood, or wear a solid stainless steel helmet with no openings. With no way to ID the person who drop-kicked Putin over the Alps, I would be safe when the powers wore off. Just let me compress some coal into rough diamonds and drop them down my pant leg when visiting Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/9 "2024-07-05T23:53:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > With his “Gecko Sense”? Any time I tried to catch a lizard as a kid, that lizard was WAYYYY ahead of me ---
**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:** [July 5, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/10 "2024-07-05T23:55:34Z")
Can you imagine punching out criminals and leaving them for the police to find, with a note saying “A gift from your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”. Criminals set free, bench warrant out for clue-leaving idiot, and New Yorkers shooting at at anything that goes by overhead, including birds, planes and shadows. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/11 "2024-07-05T23:59:08Z")
Definitely Superman for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/12 "2024-07-06T00:01:09Z")
Does the OP require us to use our powers for the public good? Sure, I’d thwart evil when it rears its head in my general proximity, but I’m not going to make a job out of it like Supes or Spidey. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/13 "2024-07-06T00:04:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Can you imagine punching out criminals and leaving them for the police to find, with a note saying “A gift from your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”. > Criminals set free, bench warrant out for clue-leaving idiot, and New Yorkers shooting at at anything that goes by overhead, including birds, planes and shadows. So what would you do with the powers, then? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/14 "2024-07-06T00:13:34Z")
Clean the gutters without getting the ladder out. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/15 "2024-07-06T00:15:13Z")
People forget that Spidey has super strength. The early warning and wall crawling is just icing. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/16 "2024-07-06T00:15:27Z")
Appreciate the healing factor, not be diabetic any more, arm wrestle for free beer, change the lights at school without having to use the ladder, and avoid everything that might attract the curiosity of The Powers That Be. And eat German Chocolate cake for the first time in 32 years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/17 "2024-07-06T00:18:35Z")
> [@Cmyers1980](#): > > If you choose the second option you don’t get Spider Man’s web shooters or intelligence. Do I pass drug tests and the like if I compete in sports? ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/18 "2024-07-06T00:19:35Z")
Superman for a week. I don’t dig spiders, man. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/19 "2024-07-06T00:20:04Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Do I pass drug tests and the like if I compete in sports? _Can he compete in sports? Listen bub: He’s got radioactive blood…_ Do they test for that? > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > People forget that Spidey has super strength Fine. Clean my gutters AND get in bar fights. Also wait for a spot in the next Spider-Verse flick ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791/20 "2024-07-06T00:20:30Z")
I’ll take Spider-Man’s powers for life. I’m not sure what I’d do with them, probably not fight crime, but being inhumanely strong & agile is pretty cool. At the very least I could make a good living headling Cirque du Soleil presents L’araignée Masquée. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-the-powers-of-superman-for-a-week-or-the-powers-of-spider-man-for-life/1003791.md?page=2)