Indeed.Aiedail256 said:
It does for Mystique (that's the right one, right? I don't know much about the X-men)xdom125x said:
It's not unlimited power. It's unlimited ways to use the power you already have.xdom125x said:
1.) I didn't know Mystique gained a person's power by turning into them.Aiedail256 said:
No it doesn't however she can mimic some powers, but it's largely a superficial thing. A good example is in the first X-men movie, she copies Wolverine and fights with claws, but Wolverine eventually breaks them because they're not adamantium and then stabs her, she doesn't heal like him either.Aiedail256 said:
She doesn't see above.xdom125x said:
You'd be better off with Muay Tai since Aikido is more like Judo and is really only for defense and not offense.Thomas Hoops said:
though I acknowledge that it's functionally the same, it's still technically 1 power: In Inheritance canon, anyone who can do magic can do anything with magic. If I gone with something like shapeshifting (it's a meh example but I can't think of a better one right now) that can be implemented lots of different ways, I would feel compelled to specify that I'm using the Mystique version, for example. Same thing here: my power is magic, and I'm specifying the Inheritance version.xdom125x said:
Fine but I am saying that if it functions like multiple powers, than it is multiple powers. My mistake on the connection detail not being specific enough (for the record I decided against putting in stuff like "No Superman power set" into the original post). I didn't think it could be interpretted as "One canon says that if someone can use any power from that field(psychic,tech,magic) they could use all the powers from that field."Aiedail256 said:
I'm sorry but that statement is simply false. A counter-example is, again, shapeshifting. While I may have been wrong about gaining powers by turning into their holders, the fact remains that you can gain flight by turning into a bird/growing wings, and the ability to breathe underwater by turning into a fish/growing gills, and super-strength by turning into a bodybuilder, and a bunch of other stuff.xdom125x said:
True, but turning into those won't make you omnipotent. For the record(again) at least shapeshifting gives you powers that are suitable to the body you are in at the time and does not present you with omnipotence like your "1 psychic power gives me all psychic powers" choice. I don't see it as a superpower if a bird can fly or if a fish can breathe underwater because it's the 1 ability. I just think that certain examples like shapeshifting can get a pass because you only have the ability of 1 being at a time. Also for shapeshifting, I figured that most would follow the Mystique rule and not gain the supernatural abilities of the ones they turned into or change weight. That is why I would even give power absorbtion a pass as long as you can only be holding 1 at a time.Aiedail256 said:
Oh I would be far from omnipotent. Take another look at my original post: I can only do what can be done with the energy in my body; for example, I basically can't create stuff out of nothing since Einstein says that a creating pebble would require energy something like that released in all the nuclear weapons ever built. I also can't do insane shit like ripping a building off its hinges (edit: foundations) and throwing it, since even if I got up in the morning, took all the energy my body usually expended in a day and used it all at once (leaving me feeling like it was night already in terms of tiredness), I'd have nowhere near enough.xdom125x said:
Okay, omnipotence was a poor choice of wording, I only used it because you said that you could do anything with that power and because I really, really like the word omnipotence. I get that you are using your body's energy as a 'battery' for your power but you were talking about doing stuff that was only connected because they were psychic abilities.Aiedail256 said:
