Superpowers

SerephelSerephel
edited January 2010 in General
Orange Beltians, if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Any potential power can include, but certainly is not limited to:

Flight
Telekinesis
Teleportation
Super Strength
Super Speed
Morphing
Telepathy
Control over fire, ice, lightning, etc etc
Regeneration
Healing
etc

Comments

  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited January 2010
    Control over waffles. I'd be the world's first wafflekenetic. Criminals would cower in fear before me.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited January 2010
    I'd want to be able to turn into different things. Is that morphing?
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited January 2010
    Doesn't morphing involve moving your hands a lot when you talk and summoning giant robots to fight monsters with?
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited January 2010
    Hey, morphing can be very helpful. Every problem you encounter can be resolved within a 22 minute timespan.

    Unless some douchebag wearing green comes and fucks things up with a flute-dagger, but he'll become your friend eventually.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited January 2010
    Flight all the way. I have dreams where I'm flying all the time... I want to be able to live that sensation. Of course, I'd also like the accompanying power to make a wind shield around me that keeps a bubble of warm air trapped inside. I want to be comfortable while I fly.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited January 2010
    Who needs flying? Go straight for the teleportation. Although some sort of ability to see distant places in your mind so you can look ahead to where your going would be an extra useful addition to this ability.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited January 2010
    Teleportation is certainly tempting. And if I could have teleportation with a gigantic range, like, planet-spanning or even galaxy-spanning (squee!) I would take it. But if it's just teleportation like Nightcrawler, I'll take flying any day.

    But even still, if I could have long-range teleportation, I wouldn't be able to just.... fly. It wouldn't just be about getting from place to place for me... it would be for the sensation itself too.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited January 2010
    Indeed. I can appreciate that. I, however, have at most hovered a few inches off the ground in dreams. I have no memory of actually flying in them and just don't really care, so I'd choose the teleportation. But yeah, Nightcrawler style is the lame way. Short range is for the lose. It's gotta be super long distance capable. Like, "let's put on a space suit and take a stroll on Mars just for the hell of it" long distance.

    Another interesting superpower might be more of a knowledge thing. Be the ultimate know-it-all. Go crazy, become a hermit, and distribute Truth from on top of a mountain or something.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited January 2010
    Healing! If I could start everyday fresh and healthy, I could excel in every other human physical ability. You could work yourself to death and fully recover, quickly gaining speed and strength.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited January 2010
    XoLore wrote: »
    Another interesting superpower might be more of a knowledge thing. Be the ultimate know-it-all. Go crazy, become a hermit, and distribute Truth from on top of a mountain or something.

    That's a fascinating idea... I remember that one time when we were playing D&D YEARS ago, someone received one Wish and wished for knowledge of everything. Our DM was particularly spiteful with wishes so that character (or maybe it was an NPC) instantly went catatonic and forevermore murmured about how the motes of dust were talking to him. It was like an information overload.

    I also like the idea of the Truth being that there IS no Truth a la Rorschach. "God doesn't make the world this way... people do." But, of course, fully KNOWING this is true might also drive you crazy. Or evil. Or sociopathic. Hmm.

    Oh, and healing... would healing include immortality and a stop to aging? Because if it did, I would so be there. Screw flying... I could always just jump out of a plane for shits and giggles.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited January 2010
    With enough time and effort you could do basically all of that and be immortal if your morphing powers are awesome enough, even the wind shield thing!
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited January 2010
    I would want the power to control water, in all forms.

    You could drown somebody using water vapor, or stop bullets with a wall of water.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited January 2010
    Or with morph powers you could drown them with yourself, or just not le the bullet through, or stay in a slightly gooey form at all times, so even if they catch you off guard it just goes right through. Seriously, if the morph powers were cool enough you could alter your own brain structure, pieces like any hormone or chemical emission system, effectively allowing you to change your entire personality at a whim.

    Or if you got tired of your lonely immortal life, you could turn into a child, go to an orphanage, and then erase your own memories and start from scratch!.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited January 2010
    Takeru wrote: »
    I would want the power to control water, in all forms.

    You could drown somebody using water vapor, or stop bullets with a wall of water.
    The waffles might get a bit soggy, but they'd still hit you.

    Plus they'd most likely have butter on them, and butter's oil-based and therefore repels water.
  • Mish42Mish42
    edited January 2010
    Teleportation, all the way.

    I could visit people all around the world whenever I wanted to!! Forget plane tickets or 3 hour drives to everywhere. I have made entirely too many 3 hour long car trips in Texas, and if I could just teleport, holy crap. That would be AWESOME.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited January 2010
    I think morphing would be able to replace those other superpowers. I mean, you could just turn into someone who can teleport. Or like turn into a giant and take the three hour drive in three steps or something.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited January 2010
    I know!!! It's by far the most useful power ever! Plus you can turn into a young person every 60 years, then you're immortal and have all the time you need to simply invent a teleporter, or wait for one to be invented. With a lot of time you would learn more and greater things than anyone could ever imagine.
  • godgod
    edited January 2010
    I don't know, I like the idea of the knowledge power. You could avoid the whole catatonic thing if you simply had access to all knowledge instead of having it all present in your mind, like some sort of universal library of everything. You could potentially learn how to do thing like fly and teleport, so you could still have the other powers alongside knowledge
  • mariomario
    edited January 2010
    I didn't think the objective was to have a power that lets you have all the other powers. That's not really choosing. :P

    Flight, for the record. Teleportation's cool if all you care about is getting to the destination, but I like flight as mode of transportation.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited January 2010
    I want the power to have all the powers I want.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited January 2010
    With control over waffles you could fly by strapping waffles to yourself. Plus you'd be able to eat the waffles if you got hungry. It's win/win!
  • mariomario
    edited January 2010
    Wafflekinesis is definitely a force to be reckoned with. Assuming you even think waffles can be controlled. The Heroes Wiki has some very interesting theories regarding waffles.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited January 2010
    What is this I don't even.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited January 2010
    Super Speed, all the way. I'd just be so useful when it comes to running errands or doing chores.

    And yes, that's right. I just choose a super power so that I can clean easier. I'm the worst superhero ever.
  • ReallyCleanSocksReallyCleanSocks
    edited January 2010
    I want buttvision (the power to see butts).
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited January 2010
    How about the power...

    ...to move you?
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited January 2010
    Honestly, I think the power I want most is telekinesis. Depending on the nature of it, it could also potentially give you flight too. And instead of getting in fights, you could just fling them away.

    And best of all, when you're in bed and don't want to get out to turn off the light, you can just will it off. Potentially limitless power capable of shifting the tide of human history in the hands of a douchebag like me who is too lazy to sit up and reach across his bed.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited January 2010
    I'd like to have an extremely low personal gravity field. Jump high, etc.

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