Limited Power

[BGH122]

Since we all love fantasizing about possessing awesome powers, here's an interesting superpower conundrum for y'all:

You can have any power you want and any number of powers you want but only for one hour. You can't change the fact that your powers will disappear within one hour. What do you choose and what will you do, knowing that, ultimately, as a non-superpowered person you'll have to face up to whatever you choose to do?

 

[Free Thinker]

I want to bend reality to my will for one hour. Kinda like Haruhi Suzumiya, but it only goes for till the 1 hour duration is up.

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Blow up the earth. Meh no one to shout at me then

 

[Lust]

Superspeed.

I'll steal whatever I want so fast that no one can identify me. Come back home before my powers run out.

 

[rokkolpo]

for an hour.

the power to conjure up diamonds and the power to come up with excuses no-one can argue against.
Oh and the power to dislocate other people's limbs (by looking at them) just for ragdoll fun!

 

[MKScorpion]

I would wish for a power to give me infinite powers for infinity.

 

[sunburst]

The Cheating Answer: The ability to grant any other person any superpower. I give my best friend the same power and wait an hour. After my power disappears, he gives me the same power back and then we overpower each other and live as a super-duo for the rest of our lives.

Non-Cheating Answer: The ability to learn and understand anything, the ability to summon anything I want, and the ability to create an alternate dimension where time passes extremely slow. I'd summon information on every advanced scientific theory known to man and study them in my alternate dimension for as long as I could get away with. Once I came out, I could advance our scientific progress by centuries.

 

[Ben Jamin]

I would want Time Manipulation.

 

[BGH122]

Wow, clearly the stipulation

You can't change the fact that your powers will disappear within one hour

was too complex for some.

The Cheating Answer: The ability to grant any other person any superpower. I give my best friend the same power and wait an hour. After my power disappears, he gives me the same power back and then we overpower each other and live as a super-duo for the rest of our lives.

Good get-around! Nice work!

 

[flangleelgnalf]

i would get the power to change reality, then create awesome technology that could duplicate whatever powers i wanted.

 

[ww666]

For one hour... I guess I'd like to be like the smartest thing to ever exist.
Then I would make a Super Cool Armor and maybe 1 or 2 or 7 Mechas to back me up.

 

[Vilcus]

The power to delete other people's powers from anywhere, and a database on everyone who has a superpower, that way if anyone is on the 1 hour super power thing like me I can delete their powers before the hour is up, also if they give power to someone else I can delete that person's power as well. I know, I'm a dick.

 

[SamuelT]

The most obvious answer would be time-manipulation, but living your life in a stillife would be dull.

So, the second choice would be 'super intelligence' or 'Massive learning capacity' and then spend the hour on the most complex sites you can find, or in the library, or the archives of some random university in your field of choice. Make as many notes as you can and (after signing and patenting them, of course) give them to someone who specilized in your field of choice.

Hooray for the world and you can make a nice coin out of it.

 

[Radeonx]

The ability to grant myself and other people wishes.
Then I simply wish for an infinite amount of time to wish.

 

[BGH122]

The power to delete other people's powers from anywhere, and a database on everyone who has a superpower, that way if anyone is on the 1 hour super power thing like me I can delete their powers before the hour is up, also if they give power to someone else I can delete that person's power as well. I know, I'm a dick.

So your power is basically pissing on other people's parade? Haha, I like your style.

 

[sharkinz]

I would want to be able to teleport for one hour. I would see as much of the world as I could before I was normal again.

 

[Pielikey]

Stopping time so that I can extend the hour because time had stopped.

 

[everfreeDragon]

I'd have to go with Super intelligence and either Super Speed or Time Manipulation and just to make it easier to invent all sorts of awesome stuff before I lose these powers forever the power to summon/create resources needed for my inventions. I'd then invent some stuff to make up for my soon to be lack of super powers.

Edit: I'd also go for the power to detect Ninjas! >.<

 

[BGH122]

Stopping time so that I can extend the hour because time had stopped.

That'd work, but it'd be so boring! None of your chaos would be knowingly received by other people.

 

[Lullabye]

mm, to move faster than the speed of light. Theoretically, I could travel back in time and keep doing the hour over and over and over gain, all whilst having the perks of super speed.