What Super Power would you choose?

You want to be a super hero?

from JoeUser Forums

There's a lot of super powers to choose from.  Flight, super strength, invulnerability, super speed, invisibility.

But if you had to choose one? Which would it be?

Being invulernable would be kind of nice but on the other hand, you could get stuck in a bad situation.  That's where super strength would be nice.  But super strength would be problematic because you could really hurt yourself.

The more I think about it, the more I conclude that most powers need to come in pairs with invulernability being one of them.  Take flight.  How fun would flight really be in practice as bugs and other things start flying in your face or you accidentally hit a tree or telephone wire or something?

Invisibility wouldn't require another power but I'm not sure what good it would do.  Yea, you can spy on people. Meh.

There's plenty of other powers that I haven't listed. But if you could only choose one power, which would it be?

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Telepathy. You wouldn't need any other superpowers if it was impossible for other people to fool you. Sure, you could die, but I've never exactly wanted to be a target in the first place so that shouldn't be a problem.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Telekinesis (spelling) absolutely without doubt. To be able to move things with thought or a look - with great speed. That would be awesome and loads of fun too!
  
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hahaha, funny stuff! I can just see you now going into a tree while flying because of bugs!

I'm thinking, I would like the power of being able to see in the future. Then again a power like that would leave me vulnerable to too much information and possibly overload my sensitivity! Unless I'm also going to have the power of flight or being able to zap myself to where an accident is about to happen so that I can perhaps prevent it. Then there's the other problem of me interfaring with the time/space continium...then there's...oh forget it, there's too many 'ifs' and 'then there is' that's coming to mind!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
If I could only choose one, I'd have to go with teleporting.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Telepathy!  Same as Cacto.  Of course it would not help with stray flying rocks. But hey!  You said one!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good suggestions, but I think I would stick with the flying power.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
the ability to heal myself and others, no matter how badly wounded or sick they are.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
X-Ray Vision. Invisibility has too many variables.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Invisibility wouldn't require another power but I'm not sure what good it would do. Yea, you can spy on people. Meh."---Draginol

This could also get you into trouble. Attend:

One day, Superman is out flying around Metropolis, kind of scanning everything with his x-ray vision, making sure all is well, when he sees Wonder Woman lying on the bed, naked with her legs spread. He thinks, "Man, I'm gonna get me some of that!" So, using super-speed, he flies into her window, has his fun and leaves.
"What was that?!" Wonder Woman yells.
"I dunno," the Invisible Man replied, 'but my ass hurts like hell!"

Ba-dump-bump! Chsssh!

Anyway, I'd have to go with whatever Rogue from the X-Men has; you could take whatever power you wanted from any other hero, if only for a little while. Although it'd be cool to have the super-fast healing of Wolverine, too.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Although it'd be cool to have the super-fast healing of Wolverine, too.

And those claws aren't bad, eh?

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Anyway, I'd have to go with whatever Rogue from the X-Men has; you could take whatever power you wanted from any other hero, if only for a little while. Although it'd be cool to have the super-fast healing of Wolverine, too.


You need to reference the comics, man. If she touches them until they die, she gets their powers for good. In the comics, she's super strong, can fly, and still plays the parasite. Very cool.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
What was that?!" Wonder Woman yells.
"I dunno," the Invisible Man replied, 'but my ass hurts like hell!"


omg I just fell off my chuckle wagon!   
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
omg I just fell off my chuckle wagon!


Me too
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would want The Voice, the ability to get people to do what I want through spoken commands. The Preacher had this power in the graphic novel series, "The Preacher."

That way I could make my sales quota. ("You bought HOW MANY licenses?!?")
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

The Preacher had this power in the graphic novel series, "The Preacher."

And the Bene Geserit.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply #14
I would want The Voice, the ability to get people to do what I want through spoken commands. The Preacher had this power in the graphic novel series, "The Preacher."

That way I could make my sales quota. ("You bought HOW MANY licenses?!?")


The Shadow knows...
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

The Shadow knows...

WooowoooWooowooo,

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
You need to reference the comics, man. If she touches them until they die, she gets their powers for good. In the comics, she's super strong, can fly, and still plays the parasite. Very cool.


You need to reference the comics, man. Carol Danvers isn't dead.

Also, if you take Rogue's power exactly, welcome to the other psyches present in your head from then on.

And, of course, all of this is dependent upon what writer/what comic title/what month you're reading...

Reply By: ModeratemanPosted: Sunday, September 10, 2006the ability to heal myself and others, no matter how badly wounded or sick they are.


How do you choose who to heal and who not to heal? Are you going to keep working until exhaustion healing everyone you can just because you can, or are you more of the "get what you pay for" super-type?

Just curious.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Carol Danvers isn't dead.


Oh yeah! that's right. I forgot. I wish . . .

And I don't think I'd want her powers per se. Just pointing out that she could do a bit more than just suck for a bit.

And, of course, all of this is dependent upon what writer/what comic title/what month you're reading...


and that is the reason I stopped reading comics . . .
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
and that is the reason I stopped reading comics . . .


Although you'll get that sort of inconsistency in any but the most rigidly edited shared-reality series (multiple authors). I'm certain you could find the same sorts of things in the various Star Wars and Star Trek serieseses of novels.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Super speed, to reach office on time,x ray vision to not make mistakes,often u land up with the wrong stuff in good packages  , healing power is a definite yes.

Also I was wondering if theres any power to supress your pee.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would to have power of true YOGA. as an Indian I know about the real powers ofYOGA.one can do whatever he/she wants to do vy having YOGIC powers. it is a fact that we use only a very small part of our brain,but are far supirior than any other animalon the planet known till date. but with true YOGIC powers i may be able to use a great part of my brain, and hence can excel any super-hero.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would to have power of true YOGA. as an Indian I know about the real powers ofYOGA.one can do whatever he/she wants to do vy having YOGIC powers. it is a fact that we use only a very small part of our brain,but are far supirior than any other animalon the planet known till date. but with true YOGIC powers i may be able to use a great part of my brain, and hence can excel any super-hero.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
Being able to make a reasonably sized portal I or others could travel through.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
Although you'll get that sort of inconsistency in any but the most rigidly edited shared-reality series (multiple authors). I'm certain you could find the same sorts of things in the various Star Wars and Star Trek serieseses of novels.


That's why I gave up on Star Wars novels years back, too . . .

Not worth my effort to get everything straight.