If you could have just one power ever imagined, what would it be?
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Well.... Full manipulation ON time for me, stop it, reverse it, forward it, save at a specific point.krazykidd said:
Either that or to be a god.
So true, just so true, best power is to be A GOD!Simeon Ivanov said:Omnipotence.
Okay, it would probably be energy manipulation of electrokynesis.
Gambit's power.
he uses it to charge his playing cards, he can use it to make stuff explode, he can supercharge his bo-staff to be destructive on impact and he can heal himself by manipulating his natural healing factor.
he uses it to charge his playing cards, he can use it to make stuff explode, he can supercharge his bo-staff to be destructive on impact and he can heal himself by manipulating his natural healing factor.
i want magneto's power. it's always been the #1 thing id ask for if i had 3 wishes, and the only super power i've ever wanted.
Adoptive Muscle Memory - The ability to perfectly replicate, without practice, any physical motion that I witnessed
So that means I just have to watch someone play a song on a piano and tada!, so can I.
The first thing I do: watching hours of Urban Ninja/Parkour videos
Then learning every instrument ever
So that means I just have to watch someone play a song on a piano and tada!, so can I.
The first thing I do: watching hours of Urban Ninja/Parkour videos
Then learning every instrument ever
That would be Kinetic Control, if you wanted to know.TrilbyWill said:
OT: I completely forgot about the Omni-Power power... Think of Omnipotent and Omniscience in one!
To be honest, that is some kind of unimaginable hell right there. You'd survive until the sun expands and destroys Earth in 5 billion years, and if you somehow survive that, you get to be the only living thing to experience the heat death of the universe. Not the kind of power I'd be interested in.Hitokiri_Gensai said:
Ferrokinesis, also known as MAGNETO!!!
Considering the ridiculous amount of iron and ferrous metals used in modern everything, I could potentially be able to manipulate anything. Anyone remember the scene where Magneto escapes from prison by ripping the iron rich blood from the security guard watching over him? That's something that could be done if you're a strong enough ferrokinetic. I could bring modern society to its knees on a whim, or use my powers to shape the world into a shining metal utopia.
Honestly, I'd do the former, THEN the latter.
Considering the ridiculous amount of iron and ferrous metals used in modern everything, I could potentially be able to manipulate anything. Anyone remember the scene where Magneto escapes from prison by ripping the iron rich blood from the security guard watching over him? That's something that could be done if you're a strong enough ferrokinetic. I could bring modern society to its knees on a whim, or use my powers to shape the world into a shining metal utopia.
Honestly, I'd do the former, THEN the latter.
in b4 tl;dr: I'd like Sylars ability from heroes. I totally have no problem digging through grey matter. This statement is ironic given my last remarks under the spoiler.
And the talk of super powers made me get my geek on. And since there is always at least one guy going 'You'd think it would be great, but you'd be wrong!' I guess I can fit that position here.
And the talk of super powers made me get my geek on. And since there is always at least one guy going 'You'd think it would be great, but you'd be wrong!' I guess I can fit that position here.
Shape shifting would be cool. Now I like werewolves, especially blood and gut chewing werewolves that inspire true horror stories (not the angst soaked ones that give moody looks at other boys wearing glitter). But even if that power were not on the table, but it was the more body shifting, mimicry a la Mystique or material shifting - like changing your body chemistry, or covering yourself with another material like metal, or turning into various animals and other xenomorphs like Beast Boy, or - from the WILDCATS comic series, being able to create weapons... and this power would be awesome for a number of practical and scientific applications (especially if a perfect shift was achieved, but that would entail being operated upon by doctors to study you) though I suppose someone was able to wish or develop super intellect that could build sci-fi futuristic body scanners that would eliminate the need to cut the shape shifter open... you'd only really have to worry (or possibly promote) about someone taking that perfect shift (with potential change in your DNA because of such) and cloning it. Pet unicorns for some, dinosaurs for others! Hurrah!
Now granted, mind reading and mind control powers sound great on paper, you're kind of stuck listening to other people's thoughts, and TBH I haven't really found many people's thoughts to be stimulating - Like, you know, whatever. And as for controlling it, besides being unethical and IS brainwashing, it seems odd for people on the internet, with everyone trying to protect their own privacy, to want to become Big Brother. But... I am totally for being able to punish people's stupidity and the 'look causing immediate evacuation of the bowels' which might just lead us to finding the Brown Note.
Freezing time again has its awesome applications, but it really needs to be fleshed out in what you want from and for the power. Simply wishing 'stop time!' well... if time does not exist (there are some people claiming such) then its no more effective than constantly listening to MC Hammer (though far less enjoyable) but on the other hand, if you freeze all aspects of action within an area, then other things that need to be in movement would stop... like light, so we'd be blind. Or unable to interact with our surroundings. And living forever, there was a Dorkly video comic about how Tails from the Sonic game could not die. I suggest you watch it, since it was hilariously tragic.
Flight and telekinesis would be great, but as mentioned - protective clothing to keep your skin from being peeled off during super speeds and particles from shredding your eyes, and if you are not great at multitasking, or easily distracted, your impromptu levitation session will end quickly if you get totally absorbed into watching a girl jog down the street, moon/sun bathe naked on a roof, or find people getting it on.
As for knowing every language, ect - it is not really a super power. Though it is totally kick ass. I remember watching the first Boondocks Saints movie when they were switching languages back and forth during the interview scene. Fantastic, and made me wish I was more fluent in the languages I speak, so that I could flit back and forth between them as easily as that. But knowing programing languages would be so kick ass. Especially technomancy, or technokinesis - being able to interact with computers and machines with your mind. Booting up computers, running software with your mind, knowing how to use complex computers simply by touching or focusing on them... would be cool. Assuming it somehow prevents you from downloading viruses into your mind. Norton can't fix that. Not even mind bleach.
I'll probably think of more later, and I am not trying to tell people "Don't choose these powers" but rather "choose wisely, especially if you aren't really sure what you'd be getting in the end" - Especially a long the lines of wishes, "I wish so and so great harm" great, you're a monster. Now either you didn't mean for that wish, and are now going to live with the guilt, knowing you ruined or ended someones life in heat of the moment, or you're a psychopath that should be stopped. Congrats, you're now the villain of the story.
Now granted, mind reading and mind control powers sound great on paper, you're kind of stuck listening to other people's thoughts, and TBH I haven't really found many people's thoughts to be stimulating - Like, you know, whatever. And as for controlling it, besides being unethical and IS brainwashing, it seems odd for people on the internet, with everyone trying to protect their own privacy, to want to become Big Brother. But... I am totally for being able to punish people's stupidity and the 'look causing immediate evacuation of the bowels' which might just lead us to finding the Brown Note.
Freezing time again has its awesome applications, but it really needs to be fleshed out in what you want from and for the power. Simply wishing 'stop time!' well... if time does not exist (there are some people claiming such) then its no more effective than constantly listening to MC Hammer (though far less enjoyable) but on the other hand, if you freeze all aspects of action within an area, then other things that need to be in movement would stop... like light, so we'd be blind. Or unable to interact with our surroundings. And living forever, there was a Dorkly video comic about how Tails from the Sonic game could not die. I suggest you watch it, since it was hilariously tragic.
Flight and telekinesis would be great, but as mentioned - protective clothing to keep your skin from being peeled off during super speeds and particles from shredding your eyes, and if you are not great at multitasking, or easily distracted, your impromptu levitation session will end quickly if you get totally absorbed into watching a girl jog down the street, moon/sun bathe naked on a roof, or find people getting it on.
As for knowing every language, ect - it is not really a super power. Though it is totally kick ass. I remember watching the first Boondocks Saints movie when they were switching languages back and forth during the interview scene. Fantastic, and made me wish I was more fluent in the languages I speak, so that I could flit back and forth between them as easily as that. But knowing programing languages would be so kick ass. Especially technomancy, or technokinesis - being able to interact with computers and machines with your mind. Booting up computers, running software with your mind, knowing how to use complex computers simply by touching or focusing on them... would be cool. Assuming it somehow prevents you from downloading viruses into your mind. Norton can't fix that. Not even mind bleach.
I'll probably think of more later, and I am not trying to tell people "Don't choose these powers" but rather "choose wisely, especially if you aren't really sure what you'd be getting in the end" - Especially a long the lines of wishes, "I wish so and so great harm" great, you're a monster. Now either you didn't mean for that wish, and are now going to live with the guilt, knowing you ruined or ended someones life in heat of the moment, or you're a psychopath that should be stopped. Congrats, you're now the villain of the story.
