Which Superpower?

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  1. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    That would be useful, but if you had the power of flight or teleportation, you wouldn't need parking spaces!
     
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    Teleportation. Flying would be awesome, but I sometimes need to transport lots of stuff (I'm totally not flying back after shopping at Target!). I also worry that people would try to shoot me down like a bird. Additionally, flying limits how far you can go in one day. It would be much easier to teleport to India or whatever.

    This is assuming I don't have to worry about teleport into walls or people or whatever.
     
  3. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    Solution: Don't shop at Target! ;)

    Buy online and have the nice UPS guy deliver your stuff right to your front door. Can't be beat!
     
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    Haha. But I would still save money on shipping if I could teleport to the factory... Especially if I used less-than-honest means for procuring my merchandise ;)

    Teleportation is clearly the solution.
     
  5. icescreamy

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    I would like to have luck. Good luck everywhere I go. Then life would be very smooth.
     
  6. Cogito

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    Yes, his costume was "made from material from a white dwarf star". It only became visible wen six foot tall Palmer shrank down to his "normal" superhero size of six inches.

    What happened to his street clothes was never explained, as far as I remember.
     
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    Tough choice, but maybe super speed. Could be used to get more done in a day, tour any country you liked on a zero budget, sneak into a lot of places before anyone could see you, play pranks on people, and win fights before they started.
     
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    For me, it's between flying and being able to make people ignore you at will.
     
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    Oh, you're a conservative Christian in Madison, Wisconsin, too? I don't see you at the meetings.
     
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    HA! That's funny. No, it's just that if I could make people ignore me, imagine the possibilities. I could sneak on planes and go wherever I wanted, and whenever someone asked for a ticket I could make them ignore me. I could go to dangerous countries, and anyone who hated me would leave me alone.
     
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    I'm half convined that magical ignore-power is a real thing that can be acheived, if you're quiet enough.

    Yesterday I sat in a different seat than I usually do in my science class, and the girl next to me asked if I was new, because she'd never seen me before. I've been in this class since it started. It is a class of less than ten students.
    How even
     
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    Hey, welcome to the forum, suddenly BANSHEES. Always good to see a new member. Where are you from?
     
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    Like pixie dust; I am everywhere.
    It will have to be the power to become God.
    So I can create another Earth, and populate it with people.
    And have them all worship me.:)
     
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    And you call yourself "lowprofile"?
     
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    Flight, pyrokinesis...

    Actually the power Lelouch has in Code Geass (the power to issue a command to anyone and have them obey without fail) would be pretty cool. It has its limitations, but being a clever mind helps him very much to overcome them.
     
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    Well, my altar ego happens to be called "Highprofile". Really.
     
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    Immortality, if it can be considered a power, would be my choice. With enough time and effort I would gather sufficient funds and knowledge to become powerful in other ways.
     
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    I just watched Chronicle. Telekinesis fo sho
     
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    The ability to heal yourself comes packed with immortality as a side-effect. Sometimes immortality just means you can't die of natural causes, but the ability to heal yourself makes it extremely hard to die of unnatural ones, too.
     
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    When I was in 3rd grade I used to fantasize about controlling animals. Cats, dogs, and birds would follow me around and I could make them do what I want. Then it progressed to me going to the zoo and having all of the cool animals in my clique. I would do stuff like ride a rhino to school and play checkers with a gorilla. I used to call it beastiality. Later I found out what beastiality was... I didn't want anything to do with it after that.

    Now, I think I would have an upgraded version of that. Some sort of conjuration where I can create things out of nothing. Poof, now I have a tank. Poof, now I have an elephant. Poof, now I have a girlfriend... ☺
     
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    I'd really rather be Wolverine than the Face of Bo.




    I want the power to heal people... and animals.
     
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    Either time control or psionics!
     
  23. Mckk

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    I used to wish that I could fly, because then I wouldn't have to walk... :D

    And I wanted Doraemon's door :eek: It's not a "super power" because the story explains it as a 22nd century invention. It's a door that allows you to go anywhere you want. You say the name, open the door, and there it is. Cool, right?

    To control my dreams was another one. Doraemon also had a machine for that lol.
     
  24. MissRis

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    See this is difficult because it's a toss up between telekinesis (a la Jean Grey from X-Men) or the ability to see the future (I'm a control freak). But I wouldn't want to see other people's future - because that would be too traumatic (seeing people's deaths or tragic stuff).
     
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    I recently read an interview with Stan Lee, creater and co-creator of so many superheros. He was asked this question and his reply for a superpower he'd want would be Luck.
     

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