That reminds me of a story from the "Twilight Zone: The Movie". The story involves this boy that has the ability to alter reality to suit any fantasy or desire he had. And his whole family is terrified of him because he can basically send them to a hell dimension where they can get chased around by giant man-eating bunnies and evil psycho clowns whenever they start to piss him off. His family is so afraid of him and his superpower that they obey his every whim and command. Then this attractive female teacher comes into his world somehow and convinces the boy to use his reality-altering powers for good, and together they begin the whole world anew. It actually might have been from "Amazing Stories: The Movie", I don't quite remember which. Anyone know what I am talking about? Anyway, the reality-altering superpower would probably be the most mightiest power of all (it basically trumps everything else), but the consequence of having that particular ability is that it can backfire really quickly if you aren't in full control of it all the time. You could for example wish yourself out of existence just out of boredom one time, and POOF!, you'd be a goner. So be careful what you wish for...
It was the Twilight Zone movie. The segment is a remake of a classic Twilight Zone story, "It's a Good Life." The original starred Billy Mumy as the boy, and if I remember correctly, the adult Bill Mumy also played one of the adults in the remake.
This, really. If not then adoptive muscle memory has always struck me as quite appealing, perhaps with the caveat that it applies to mental feats as well (e.g. perfect recall/understanding as long as it's demonstrated in what I see).
I imagine immortality will really backfire on you someday. Especially trillions and trillions of years after the Heat-Death of the Universe, and you're just floating around in blank space with nothing to do for the rest of eternity. As for what I might choose: Time travel! Every time I'd make some mistake, or slip up on something, I'd go back in time and fix it. If I embarrass myself accidentally in front of a large group of people, I can go back in time and avoid that. I could win basically any lottery. If there is an upcoming school test which I don't have enough time to study for, I can study, go back in time, study some more, etc. It'd be great!
Well hopefully after all those trillions of years I'd have learnt how to go back in time and do it all again or, if not, permanently sedate myself, perhaps to wake up in a few quintillion years to see if uncertainty's popped up anything amusing.
I want to read other people's mind... And time travel. Reading minds must be interesting, I wonder what people are thinking quite often...
I'd really have to go with teleportation. It's the most convenient. I'd use it to travel to and from work. On my leaves, I'd use it to travel the world!
There are lots of "superpowers" to choose from or come up with. Time travel is fascinating indeed (big Doctor Who fan). However I must say that I've always loved the ideea of time control such as stopping it whenever I want to, being able to move ofcourse while everything's frozen. Maybe even to rewind time would be a great thing.
The handy thing about getting arrested for teleporting without clothes is you can teleport back out of prison. I think I'd go with shape shifting myself though.
To assume the characteristics of and be able to project the power and energy of a black hole. Basically, I suppose, the power to control gravity in it's extremity.
A master in global hypnosis, giving me the power to lock people in a mental state I created with my mind. Making them see only the things I want them to see. - Id use it in many different ways good and bad depending on the person/s.
My son tells me, mom if I could have any superpower I wanted I'd choose the ability to control my weight. Then he tells me the ability to control your weight is very popular. He knows lots of people who want it. (He meant gravity control so he could fly and do special flips.
I would want the ability to go to the future so I could see where I would be and what I would be doing.
When I was about 13 I would have sold all of my relatives into white slavery for a Green Lantern power ring and battery. Now at 60, I would love the power to instantly and magically clean motorcycles without having to get down on my knees on a cold cement floor and scrub the bottom of the cases... (Do you have any idea how long it takes to polish all of this chrome?) http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/002-48.jpg
No. That ring costume was bad. And no one even noticed that Barry wore a ring with a lightning emblem? Only Green Lantern had a plausible answer to the costume problem. Except that didn't explain what happened to his street clothes. Ray Palmer was a close second, but again, no answer to the street clothes question.
Palmer was the Atom, right? I remember that he always wore his costume which only appeared when he shrank in size. My guess is that he just walked out of his clothes as his size diminished.
