Pick your superpower

In my most lonely hours, when I’m struggling to get to sleep, I’m envisioning scenarios of what could be.
Or I’m just having fun thinking of the consequences of certain tweaks to reality.

What if … you could pick 1 superpower
What would you do with that superpower? What would be the (dire) consequences? …

This is not originaly my idea but unlike superstrength, superspeed, indestructibility, … I would like to have save points. During my life, I would be able to make a certain amount of save points to which I could return in order to redo what came after.

What would this power mean:
- Knowledge of important actions/decisions due to trial and error
- Immortality by ‘reloading’

What would be your superpower?

The Soviet Union!

Er, I mean...

Having precognition would be pretty neat. OTOH, it could easily lead to a life of boredom, or depression when you can predict bad things that will happen and simultaniously realize that there's nothing you can do to avoid it.

Super-seduction. Do I really have to explain the consequences?

Q. Nuff said.

Telekinesis, because flight automatically comes with it. :yes:

time control. duh idjits its game over. think like a remote control, pause rewind. and no i wouldnt go far back in time and alter events.

The ability to always recall everything my senses perceive at any given time and any knowledge I learn.

Your life would be unbearable.

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

Your life would be unbearable.

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The bearableness of something is dependent on the strength of character of the individual. Besides, isn't life already exactly that?

Strength of character? What?

Think hard about what perfect recall would really mean. Just think it through.

I also notice that you want perfect recall of everything "your senses perceive". Leaving aside the psychological trauma, you do realize that would leave you in constant pain?

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

Strength of character? What?

Think hard about what perfect recall would really mean. Just think it through.

I also notice that you want perfect recall of everything "your senses perceive". Leaving aside the psychological trauma, you do realize that would leave you in constant pain?

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I guess I should clarify, the ability to recall it would be on my command. I would be sitting in calc class, and think to myself "what did I learn about finding the volume of a parallelepiped." and then, my mind would remember the class I had 3 weeks ago when we covered it and I would remember how it was done.

Does that somehow make life unbearable?

What if you don't remember what it is that you need to remember?

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

What if you don't remember what it is that you need to remember?

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Post-It notes bro. EVERYWHERE!

Infinite post-its? You could kill us all with a power like that.

I would like to hover just slightly above the ground. High enough to get over cars and the like, but not too high. I'm afraid of heights.

Let’s list the horrible consequences shall we:

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Originally Posted by Vuk

Super-seduction. Do I really have to explain the consequences?

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Vuk gets killed by a lynch mob of angry husbands and boyfriends

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

I'd take Wolverine's powers in a heartbeat: Indestructable, possibly Immortal--can be beaten but can't be killed. If the pressure of being mortal is lifted, then you're free to enjoy life and take as long as you want doing it.
Of course, Time Travel is tempting too.. like Hiro from Heroes.

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Gelatinous Cube gets eventually trapped somewhere and has to spend eternity alone with his thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Voigtkampf

Q. Nuff said.

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The power to invent bond gadgets?
Hmm, somewhere in your career, you’ll misplace an invisible car.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Telekinesis, because flight automatically comes with it. :yes:

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What will you use your powers for?

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Originally Posted by Centurion1

time control. duh idjits its game over. think like a remote control, pause rewind. and no i wouldnt go far back in time and alter events.

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Eventually you’ll become a mentally old man in a young body potentially in a time he doesn’t know anything about. Think about the hard time old people have to adapt to the internet and cell phones but multiplied by 1000 or more.

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The ability to always recall everything my senses perceive at any given time and any knowledge I learn.

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So you'll be Kim Peek?

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Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

So you'll be Kim Peek?

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Seeing how I don't have any genetic disorders (that I am aware of), I don't think I will have the same problems as Kim Peek.

I would want the power to see past future and present at once, kinda like the observers from fringe.

Immortal and Invincible, also to be a mind reader, to read people's minds.

immortality is the worst.

I would like the ability to cannibalize the organs of others to add their "strength" to my own.

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

I would like the ability to cannibalize the organs of others to add their "strength" to my own.

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lol

If we're allowed to pick only one, then I would probably go with telepathy.

...But only if I can control it to at least a degree. If I were unable to block out other people's thoughts & emotions, I'd quickly go insane!

I wants to be able to swim with da fishes, minus all that deep sea diving gear and bother. Exploring all the unknown areas at the bottom of our oceans would be great. Maybe I could even find my highschool class ring!

Super intelligence. I'd invent ways to give me all the other superpowers I'd wish as well.

Id love to selectively be able to read people's minds.
Then Id be able to find out what that cute girl really thinks of me.

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Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Id love to selectively be able to read people's minds.
Then Id be able to find out what that cute girl really thinks of me.

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Just ask her, lol

Oh please, how often you go up to a cute girl you just met and ask "What do you really think of me?"

I'd like to have the power to create a few clones of myself who'll obey my orders. That way, I can do whatever I want with my time and have the clones do the things I don't like to do myself.

Andres, you are a superpower personified. :bow:

Obedience Geass.

Mitt Romney money

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Mitt Romney money

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Be careful with this one, you might find yourself losing empathy for the impoverished and wealthy as you run for political office.

I would like the ability to write full essays in less than an entire evening.

I thought politics were not allowed in the Frontroom. Everyone would be crying foul if someone said Obama Vacationing powers or something like that.

Immortality without aging and mental degradation.

If I had to choose, would be two powers -

- Morphing, like Mystique from Xmen. Able to change my body shape to anything I liked. Male, Female, even a sheep if I wanted to. The possibilities are endless.
- To be able to choose the moment I die. Rather like invincibility, without the whole clause where you are stuck there till the end of time. I have the option to simply "give up the ghost" if I desired.

That could backfire. It would not be difficult to induce that desire, in captivity.

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

That could backfire. It would not be difficult to induce that desire, in captivity.

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And that would be a disadvantage to non-powered how?

You are right: all would be equally disadvantaged for what I'm considering here, unless one's power is to somehow make oneself resistant...

7 Awesome Super Powers (Ruined by Science)

I would like to also mention the suggestion that time travel would be a fine superpower to possess. As long as you didn't mess with the time stream or anything and fudge with history. Believe it or not (probably believe) I have always wanted to court a woman from the 18th or 19th centuries. Yes...I do find myself strange at times...

That ...for the same reason that most Westerners today would refuse to eat a peach covered with manure and dead insects...

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Originally Posted by JuJuBee

I would like to also mention the suggestion that time travel would be a fine superpower to possess. As long as you didn't mess with the time stream or anything and fudge with history. Believe it or not (probably believe) I have always wanted to court a woman from the 18th or 19th centuries. Yes...I do find myself strange at times...

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Back when they were poorly educated? :smash:

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Back when they were poorly educated?

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Yeah well, the conversation might be interesting though. ;)

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Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

7 Awesome Super Powers (Ruined by Science)

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Cracked.com is either the greatest or worst website ever created.

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Originally Posted by Martok

Cracked.com is either the greatest or worst website ever created.

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I cherry pick the articles but the ones I read are generaly exelent.

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Originally Posted by Centurion1

time control. duh idjits its game over.

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Immunity to time control.

Transportation.

*hic*

Soviet Union is the best, bar none, both in the superpower and superpower kind of way.

Let's face it:

1) Half the world obeys you
2) The other half fears you

Flight? Pfff, I can fly wherever I want. Time control? Stupid, I want control in my time not control of the time. Invincibility? Check. Invisibility? Why, I'd do whatever I want anyway...