What have you done to me!?

[Susan Arendt]

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.

 

[Tim Buck II]

I would want to find who did it to me, if only to figure out exactly what they did. Sure, I'm invincible, but what else is new. Maybe I have other neat powers I didn't know about. Or some disease or kill-switch that I would want to know about immediately.

And what is wrong with you Max? You keep changing your avatar and it is confusing me.

Lets look at Wolverine shall we, "Oh no what have you done to me!? I'm coming to kill you!".
Yet they just made him invincible, Sure he ran away and they kind of wanted him back but come the hell on.

He was born with the healing factor. All that was given to him was his nice, new, shiny skeleton.

Exactly!

 

[Lyri]

I'm not sure about this one. On the one hand, superpowers would be awesome. Then again, they are a huge responsibility (cough, spiderman line, cough) and would probably make my life much more difficult. I guess if I were kidnapped and then experimented on, yeah, I'd probably want some sort of revenge. That, or a cake with "I'm Sorry" written on it.

Super powers are only a responsiblity if you're looking to be Captain Nobilty. Peter Parker was a decent guy already, so he just went and rolled with the whole fighting crime thing.
Had he chosen to be a colossal dick, things would have been different.
Powers are only as good as their owner I guess.

Revenge or cake!? Hard choice to be honest, why type of "sorry" cake are we talking about?

 

[Lord George]

Well I'd have to track them down and kill them just to make sure they didn't make anything else like me, because if you intend to take over the world as a super villain the last thing you need is some stupid kid getting powers as well, also I'm selfish .

 

[DinosaurSnack]

If given that kinda of superpower like Alex I would find the guy who did it, thank him to the best of my ability, then kill him so he can't make a counter to whatever he did to me.

Then its world domination time.

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

I'm not sure about this one. On the one hand, superpowers would be awesome. Then again, they are a huge responsibility (cough, spiderman line, cough) and would probably make my life much more difficult. I guess if I were kidnapped and then experimented on, yeah, I'd probably want some sort of revenge. That, or a cake with "I'm Sorry" written on it.

Super powers are only a responsiblity if you're looking to be Captain Nobilty. Peter Parker was a decent guy already, so he just went and rolled with the whole fighting crime thing.
Had he chosen to be a colossal dick, things would have been different.
Powers are only as good as their owner I guess.

Revenge or cake!? Hard choice to be honest, why type of "sorry" cake are we talking about?

By "responsibility", I also mean burden. Like, if I'm walking down a street and 40 scientists with guns get out of an unmarked van (a large one) and start running after me while yelling "There's subject G! Kill him and harvest his magical organs!!!", then I'd naturally be pretty pissed.

Oh, and about the cake. Nothing too fancy, but I want it to be nice enough to show that they're really sorry. Putting in a little effort is all that counts.

The only responsibility you have is to have as much fun murdering people as humanly possible.

Remind me to never, ever hand you anything sharp.

 

[garjian]

tbh its just alex mercer being a pathetic emo, trying to hard to be an anti-hero whilst still having the cloud sexy that young american hetrosexuals find arousing for some reason...
its poorly scripted and very badly written...

as for someone giving me superpowers... id definately be greatful... not only would it be the ultimate in being unique (not even a proper human anymore ) but power and fear and well... powerful...
unless it has a very restrictive downside like vampirism... i probably wouldnt even be bothered by most of the stereotypical downsides... especially not disfigurement... after all... do 1 good public deed... and that difigurement is a good thing... it becomes your trademark.

i find prototype horrible, thje more overpowered the character gets the less fun i have just beating up stuff... ive been using musclemass (yeah, the worst weapon in game according to most people) since i got it just so i could be less powerful whilst still feeling like im able to upgrade something without killing everything in one hit... pathetic character, poor story, lacking replayability, tedious combat and above all... easy...

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Really depends on what power they gave me. If it was something terrible like being able to turn everything you touch into bricks then yeah, I'd want revenge, but if I was something like Wolverine or Human Torch, I'd love to have a power like that.

 

[Lyri]

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.

You'd be one of them ungrateful super folks I see.

However, that's fine there's a reasoning behind it which is sort of what game lack I think. We don't get to the little things when dealing with characters, we just end up with the aftermath.
"I have a genetic structure altering superpower and I can't remember if I put the cat out, WHY!?".
I don't know If I'm the only one but sometimes I'd like more of a reason than just "amnesia".

 

[Lyri]

"Going back to being brunette?" She was always blonde.

Season 2, when they where in an alternate reality or something. Claire was supposed to be a prize *****, she was brunette then.
Super foxy.

By "responsibility", I also mean burden. Like, if I'm walking down a street and 40 scientists with guns get out of an unmarked van (a large one) and start running after me while yelling "There's subject G! Kill him and harvest his magical organs!!!", then I'd naturally be pretty pissed.

Oh, and about the cake. Nothing too fancy, but I want it to be nice enough to show that they're really sorry. Putting in a little effort is all that counts.

Right, get you now.
Obviously those times would suck pretty badly, but then again I'd be wondering what company gives scientists gun to chase a super soldier?
Are they getting paid enough? Do they have dental?

As for the cake, Sponge, jam center with Vanilla icing, hundreds and thousands and maybe smarties!? =0

 

[traceur_]

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.

Seriously you wouldn't want Alex's powers if they weren't given with consent? It's not really the kinda thing you make an appointment for so the "against my will" or "power rape" as I like to call it, is the only way to go.

Even if it is permanent, who wouldn't want to be able wall run up buildings and shape shift for the rest of their life? It makes sense if the powers affect you negatively, in Alex's case, having the military on your arse all the time would be a drag but a swift elbow drop from a sky scraper should fix that temporarily.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.

You'd be one of them ungrateful super folks I see.

However, that's fine there's a reasoning behind it which is sort of what game lack I think. We don't get to the little things when dealing with characters, we just end up with the aftermath.
"I have a genetic structure altering superpower and I can't remember if I put the cat out, WHY!?".
I don't know If I'm the only one but sometimes I'd like more of a reason than just "amnesia".

Pretty sure the fact that he's being hunted like an animal has something to do with his less than zen demeanor.

As for me being ungrateful, please don't impose your values on me. If you think it would be great to wake up one day as a mutant, then awesome. I'd rather not have that foisted upon me against my will.

Seriously you wouldn't want Alex's powers if they weren't given with consent? It's not really the kinda thing you make an appointment for so the "against my will" or "power rape" as I like to call it, is the only way to go.

Even if it is permanent, who wouldn't want to be able wall run up buildings and shape shift for the rest of their life? It makes sense if the powers affect you negatively, in Alex's case, having the military on your arse all the time would be a drag but a swift elbow drop from a sky scraper should fix that temporarily.

Just because you can't imagine someone who wouldn't want that, that doesn't mean such a person doesn't exist. Whether or not I'd want Alex's powers is largely irrelevant -- I don't want someone doing something to my physically without my consent. Period.

Tell you what, how about I cut off your arm? I think it'd be cool to wake up with just one arm! You're nuts if you don't think that's cool, too! So what if it's permanent and for the rest of your life? It's awesome! Don't get upset, now, because that would make you ungrateful.

It's not a perfect analogy, of course, and there's clearly a more obvious benefit to having superpowers than suddenly only having one arm. I'm just trying to illustrate the point that, however you personally feel about the outcome, that doesn't give you the right to decide that outcome for me. That's my decision, and my decision alone to make.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

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You have to realize the psychological implications of having a superpower (or at least what I imagine they'd be like, given my understanding of human behaviour). Having a superpower would give one a sense of complete abandonment by the rest of their kind; you'd have this gift which would set you apart from all of your peers, but you'd somehow feel like less than them. You couldn't tell anyone except your loved ones because society would otherwise outcast you, and even your closest companions may feel a bit alienated by your unnatural gift.

Also, say that you could heal anyone from any state of injury and even resurrect them if they had died very recently. You come upon a scene of mass chaos, with hundreds of people maimed or killed due to the collision of two passenger trains. With your gift, you could easily put them all in the healthiest of conditions just by thinking, but you would expose yourself to the world and end any semblance of privacy you or your family would ever have.

There are a lot of things that could go wrong about having a superpower, but of course we don't know of them seeing how superpowers are entirely fictional.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Let me put it another way -- it's the difference between something being done to you and something happening to you. If you get bitten by a radioactive spider or inherit a special gene, well, that's just fate. You play the hand you're dealt as best you can at that point. But something being done to you involves choice and action -- things that can and should be left up to you.

 

[Lyri]

Pretty sure the fact that he's being hunted like an animal has something to do with his less than zen demeanor.

As for me being ungrateful, please don't impose your values on me. If you think it would be great to wake up one day as a mutant, then awesome. I'd rather not have that foisted upon me against my will.

It would be really easy for Mr Mercer to just up and leave should he really want too (assuming this was a real life situation of course).

I also think you misinterpreted what I said.

You'd be one of them ungrateful super folks I see.
However, that's fine there's a reasoning behind.

I was using the term ungrateful because that's the only way I can describe what I think about it in those games. It wasn't meant as me pushing my values on you at all.
Unwilling would probably be more appropriate I guess.
If Susan Ardnt was to become a super hero unwillingly in a video game and the player was informed of just a simple fact that you didn't want it anyway.
I'd be infinately more satisfied.

If this story line ever gets used in a video game, it's usually riddled with violence in the name of "Why?".
I couldn't care less of why they did it because I don't have any attachment to that character really, I don't know Alex Mercer from the woman who lives next door to me.

 

[traceur_]

Seriously you wouldn't want Alex's powers if they weren't given with consent? It's not really the kinda thing you make an appointment for so the "against my will" or "power rape" as I like to call it, is the only way to go.

Even if it is permanent, who wouldn't want to be able wall run up buildings and shape shift for the rest of their life? It makes sense if the powers affect you negatively, in Alex's case, having the military on your arse all the time would be a drag but a swift elbow drop from a sky scraper should fix that temporarily.

Just because you can't imagine someone who wouldn't want that, that doesn't mean such a person doesn't exist. Whether or not I'd want Alex's powers is largely irrelevant -- I don't want someone doing something to my physically without my consent. Period.

Tell you what, how about I cut off your arm? I think it'd be cool to wake up with just one arm! You're nuts if you don't think that's cool, too! So what if it's permanent and for the rest of your life? It's awesome! Don't get upset, now, because that would make you ungrateful.

It's not a perfect analogy, of course, and there's clearly a more obvious benefit to having superpowers than suddenly only having one arm. I'm just trying to illustrate the point that, however you personally feel about the outcome, that doesn't give you the right to decide that outcome for me. That's my decision, and my decision alone to make.

Relax, I'm not trying to force anything on you, it's just the way I type that makes it sound like it. Of course I can understand someone not wanting it, I know there would be colossal psychological ramifications involved with it. That analogy is far from perfect and really proves nothing. My predictions of my reactions are based on the assumption that I'm receiving something that's totally fucking sweet. Something that doesn't really affect me negatively which is the focus of this thread.

 

[garjian]

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.

Seriously you wouldn't want Alex's powers if they weren't given with consent? It's not really the kinda thing you make an appointment for so the "against my will" or "power rape" as I like to call it, is the only way to go.

Even if it is permanent, who wouldn't want to be able wall run up buildings and shape shift for the rest of their life? It makes sense if the powers affect you negatively, in Alex's case, having the military on your arse all the time would be a drag but a swift elbow drop from a sky scraper should fix that temporarily.

he could easily shapeshift, not use his powers, and merge seamlessly into society...