Poll: What Would be the Best Super Power Ever?

[Khedive Rex]

The most awesome super power ever: Intense charisma. Almost hypnotic. You talk to people and they stop. Just stop.

You can use it to get people to do whatever you want, you can get people to tell you pin numbers and codes and things, you can kidnap folk without them objecting, you can distract people so your other super comrades can sneak by, you can convince people of anything, you can get the people around you to do your dirty work, you can go anywhere unquestioned and you're always invited to the best parties.

Works on anyone who can hear you (bend entire crowds to your will). Plus it's subtle. You walk away and instead of someone thinking "I was just forced to give that guy my wallet" he's thinking "what was I thinking when I gave that guy my wallet?".

Beats any other superpower even time travel. All you have to do is be around long enough to hear "wait a minute" and suddenly your under someone else's control. Doesn't matter if your invincible, you just can't bring yourself to hit someone that charismatic...

Now that's my idea of a superpower.

 

[Booze Zombie]

The best super power?

Why, to be rendered dead only be brought back to life with the abillity to convert booze into sustenance.

A booze zombie, if you will.

Charisma doesn't work on the undead or the drunk... they're too out of their own heads to care about your wit and charm.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Why can I picture everyone who wants time control somehow getting stuck in a loop that would make the Prince of Persia (Sands of Time incarnation of course) laugh in shared agony?

Anyway, it's a stretch, but if one was able to tap into the make up of matter, of atoms, on a quantum level, then nearly everything could be possible...

 

[Kovash86]

Technically. just having access and knowledge to use all magic, you can do whatever you please.

 

[Ultrajoe]

the ability to save an load my life like a video game, reloading from a tasteful menu when i die.

Want to kill a guy? do it and reload, grope nice tits? you just did, but she doesn't know!

have a lawyer save, a builder save, a serial killer save!

your immortal, your unstoppable, you can get away with anything and top yourself in infinite ways!

yes... the ultimate power...

That or invincibility, a gun and a hammer can do most things telekinesis can, but you wont get shot down by an unexpected bullet.

 

[Dealin Burgers]

I'm sorry, but your all wrong. The best power would be being able to possess people as an entity of energy, viola; all powers in one, assuming you're not the only one with powers.

Though if it's a choice between those two up top, I'd have to say telekenesis: One lifetime of awesome beats an eternity of being restrained (lets face it, once people realise they can't kill you, the next thing they'll do is bury you in cement and drop you down the deepest ocean trench or launch your arse into space)

 

[stompy]

The most awesome super power ever: Intense charisma. Almost hypnotic. You talk to people and they stop. Just stop.

You can use it to get people to do whatever you want, you can get people to tell you pin numbers and codes and things, you can kidnap folk without them objecting, you can distract people so your other super comrades can sneak by, you can convince people of anything, you can get the people around you to do your dirty work, you can go anywhere unquestioned and you're always invited to the best parties.

Works on anyone who can hear you (bend entire crowds to your will). Plus it's subtle. You walk away and instead of someone thinking "I was just forced to give that guy my wallet" he's thinking "what was I thinking when I gave that guy my wallet?".

Beats any other superpower even time travel. All you have to do is be around long enough to hear "wait a minute" and suddenly your under someone else's control. Doesn't matter if your invincible, you just can't bring yourself to hit someone that charismatic...

Now that's my idea of a superpower.

I'm so getting this as a GURPS advantage...

Anyways, I think manipulation of electricity would be awesome. I'm sorry, but I'm a sucker for the stuff. One guess what I whored during my Bioshock gameplay...

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

Assuming i will be mingling with other superhero types such as myself i would say that i would have a power like Peter Petrellis'; being able to absorb the powers of others. Except i would take it one step further and would be able to analyse the power of someone and then decide for myself if i want that persons power, instead of it being an automatic thing. And taking your power wouldn't mean you would not have it anymore btw, i would just copy it and store it in my body for use whenever i want, i would be the ultimate superhero because i would have everyone else powers, beat that Mr Charismatic, i would steal your power and we would have a charismatic standoff, i like the sound of that

 

[Ultrajoe]

Assuming i will be mingling with other superhero types such as myself i would say that i would have a power like Peter Petrellis'; being able to absorb the powers of others. Except i would take it one step further and would be able to analyse the power of someone and then decide for myself if i want that persons power, instead of it being an automatic thing. And taking your power wouldn't mean you would not have it anymore btw, i would just copy it and store it in my body for use whenever i want, i would be the ultimate superhero because i would have everyone else powers, beat that Mr Charismatic, i would steal your power and we would have a charismatic standoff, i like the sound of that

id just load to before you stole my power (id have past save files) and gun you down before you had a chance...

ergo: my superpower is superior

 

[Khedive Rex]

Assuming i will be mingling with other superhero types such as myself i would say that i would have a power like Peter Petrellis'; being able to absorb the powers of others. Except i would take it one step further and would be able to analyse the power of someone and then decide for myself if i want that persons power, instead of it being an automatic thing. And taking your power wouldn't mean you would not have it anymore btw, i would just copy it and store it in my body for use whenever i want, i would be the ultimate superhero because i would have everyone else powers, beat that Mr Charismatic, i would steal your power and we would have a charismatic standoff, i like the sound of that

A charismatic standoff? I would like to see that

A: After you, good sir.
B: No I wouldn't hear of. Great tie by the way.
A: Well thank you, you're a gentleman and a scholar!
B: WHY WON'T YOU DIE!!!

In all seriousness though, if we're mingling with other superhero types, I would have already amassed an army of superpeople with my charisma. You could copy their powers but you might need time to truly master them whereas my "soldiers" would have been using them their entire lives.

Plus, I could send like thirty of them after you at once and try to stay far enough away that you couldn't copy my charisma.

Sorry, but Charisma is still the most awesome superpower.

 

[Kovash86]

Charisma doesn't work on robots. God forbid a mad scientist builds an AMAZO unit, who basically possess all powers quoted here or a way around them. His original power was to mimic everyone else's powers, he had no emotions when he first came online, and you generally didn't realize he was mimicking you until he actually manifests it. The AMAZO android took out the justice league, didn't kill them because it didn't need to. He would crush you all.

 

[agerdemon]

If you had the ability to manipulate anything (at an atomic level) you could theoretically do anything. You could go invisible, move things, make fire, make water etc. It would an unbelievable ability but if other people with abilities were around empathy would always be good.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

The power to munipulate reality. Want to be rich? Well would you look at that, you are! I'd probley have to be a villain with this power though. Too strong.

I'd love being able to fly though. Awesome, awesome power.

Or the ability to clone myself. Feel like a day off? I'll send myself to school...while I stay in bed. That would have been great for my exams, had one person revise each subject, then send them into the exam. And for fighting bad guys. Hello? An army of me's!

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

Assuming i will be mingling with other superhero types such as myself i would say that i would have a power like Peter Petrellis'; being able to absorb the powers of others. Except i would take it one step further and would be able to analyse the power of someone and then decide for myself if i want that persons power, instead of it being an automatic thing. And taking your power wouldn't mean you would not have it anymore btw, i would just copy it and store it in my body for use whenever i want, i would be the ultimate superhero because i would have everyone else powers, beat that Mr Charismatic, i would steal your power and we would have a charismatic standoff, i like the sound of that

id just load to before you stole my power (id have past save files) and gun you down before you had a chance...

ergo: my superpower is superior

I would have the power to regenerate already, and since you've given me a taste of your power it would be mine as soon as i come to life again. I am a human sponge mwahahaha.And why can't we all get along? i thought our superpowers were meant to help people, not try to kill other superheroes off.

EDIT: Brainwave, why don't we make a City of Heroes type role playing game? We all choose a power and off we go, what do you think?

 

[Khedive Rex]

EDIT: Brainwave, why don't we make a City of Heroes type role playing game? We all choose a power and off we go, what do you think?

I'd play that. Only stipulation is that no two people can have the same power. That being said, I would take dibs on charisma.

 

[exocel]

tk, you could move shit, including yourself, like flying.

 

[Ukhata]

full shape shift would be awsome imo
you could change form, type, material, gender, race, structure or whatever
best of all, it would be a load of fun

 

[slaygore]

The power to sleep and wake up anytime with your bidding.

Or to summon the legions of dead to play poker with me.

 

[pnonma]

As said before, best power has to be the manipulation of matter. If you became skilled enough, you could rewire your brain so you have a photographic memory, change shape, fly, create fire/ice/whatever, make gold out of any material...If it were long-range as well, you could literally have any power you want. Want to travel in space? Reconfigure your body to not need oxygen or air pressure (or make an air bubble around you), then bend the universe so you don't have to move to travel (as in warp drive). Want to be the richest man on earth? Simply force the ground on your property to reconfigure itself to gemstone deposits or gold veins or something else of value, then open a mining operation. Want a fresh start? Change shape, generate some money in your pocket, and make yourself a new car, and you're set. Don't want to age? Force your body to generate new cells at the same rate as a young adult for as long as you like, and raise your body's durability level by accelerating the rate whenever you are injured to avoid scar tissue. Want to play around with time? Bend space-time to your will. Of course, mastery of all this might take centuries...then again, if the first thing you learned to control was your body, you'd have all the time you want. Oh yeah, and you could 'read' someone else's genetic patterns to gain their abilities. I'm lookin' at you, charisma guy!

 

[Blu3Forever]

Invisibility, just so I could fart in a lift and not get blamed