Pick your superpower

[Peasant Phill]

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?

[Kralizec]

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.

[Vuk]

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

[Voigtkampf]

Q. Nuff said.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Telekinesis, because flight automatically comes with it.

[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.

[a completely inoffensive name]

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

[Montmorency]

Your life would be unbearable.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Your life would be unbearable.

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

[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?

[a completely inoffensive name]

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?

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?

[Montmorency]

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

[a completely inoffensive name]

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

Post-It notes bro. EVERYWHERE!

[Montmorency]

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

[CountArach]

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.

[Peasant Phill]

Let’s list the horrible consequences shall we:

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

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

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.

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

Q. Nuff said.

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

Telekinesis, because flight automatically comes with it.

What will you use your powers for?

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.

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.

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

So you'll be Kim Peek?

[a completely inoffensive name]

So you'll be Kim Peek?

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.

[Veho Nex]

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

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

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

[Centurion1]

immortality is the worst.

[Montmorency]

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

[Veho Nex]

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

lol

[Martok]

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!

[Hosakawa Tito]

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!

[Moros]

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

[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.

[Veho Nex]

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.

Just ask her, lol

[Hooahguy]

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

[Andres]

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.

[Gregoshi]

Andres, you are a superpower personified.