There is no greater super power than mind control

[jakefongloo]

Telekinesis for me. If you really want to get technical about it, with telekinesis you have EVERY OTHER SUPER POWER. Want to start fires? create friction on the particle level. Want to control minds? Reroute or just remake other peoples heads. Want to control time? Reimagine the scene as it was 2 seconds ago. And fucking A I wouldn't have to get out of my chair to get a damn soda.

 

[TheNewDemoman]

Wayyy to much theorising


But Mind Control Kicks ass

 

[KR-105]

I think the best superpower is the ability to use the force, if you've watched the Star Wars movies or played the games or if you've read the novels you can notice how convinient this ability is, basically is everything you may want to have, from telekinesis, speed, strenght to be able to cast lightnings and mind control.

 

[drwow]

maybe, but it's not the coolest.
I would much rather fly then have mind control.
hell, mind control is probably near the bottom for awesome, it's boring. it's like, right next to talking to fish.
give me laser eyes or spiderwebs.

That's because you've obviously never made people harbor such intense hatred of each other that they attack each other for your amusement while building your own harem

Nah, that's like watching tv, I can see shit like that on tv already anyway.
Now never being able to die and throwing your self off buildings all the time and getting your self on tv? that's awesome. I would fake death in the most spectacular ways possible.

 

[jakefongloo]

Time manipulation, sooooooo much better. Get in a fight? Punch with a fist moving at light speed. Suck at games? Triple reflexes. Stuck in a test? Pause time to think instead of just straight up cheating, you might learn something. "Think fast"? Ok. Computer shit slow? Encase individual components in a time slow bubble to have infinite performance. And of course, see hot girl, no-one's the wiser... and now there's a good question, if no-one's the wiser, how morally wrong is it really? Pause time to think.

Not to mention the Physics Behind a Punch at the Speed of Light: F=ma therefore a 65kg person traveling at 3.00x10^8 m/s(Speed of Light for those not in the loop) = 19500000000N of Force, that's 65,000 atomic bombs.

That would kill whoever is throwing the punch. The body would break because 19500000000N have to come from somewhere. Shit going the speed of light to 0m/s it theoretically nanoseconds of time would splatter every major and minor and back up and understudy organ you have against the bones and skins that are no longer there.

 

[Xenetethrae]

Mind control cant save you from a gun, and remember, mind control isnt something that you just do and forget (no pun intended). It follows two rules (maybe more):
1) You have to have CONSTANT focus and control over the person's mind. Oka, maybe you can do that and keep your mind on what youre doing iwth one guy. Now lets say you're stuck in the middle of a gang, thousands of guys. You gonna mind control ALL of them, at the same time, exerting all the mental strength required, while having your mind focus on your body too? I somehow doubt it.
2) it will wear off. That means that at different times, since you didnt just mind control everyone at once. Also, you have no idea when it will wear off, since the stronger the mind, the less time they'll be under control. So lets say you fall asleep, and the control wears off. Guess who's screwed.

Also, you're talking about radius, and thats gonna exert energy. You could kill yourself just trying to control someone, especially if they can fight back (center a piece of their mind away and defend, keeping some free thought that can be later called upon).

Best superpower is time control mixed with an incredible sense of intuition (spidy sense). you know if I sniper fired a bullet at you from a mile away, can freeze time, move, go the person and kill them.

My mind control defies your rules!!

Instead of mind control per se, I would choose the ability to (ala hivemind) control as many humans(and only humans) as I wanted. My thought control is projected instantaneously and I am always "connected" to every human mind all of the time. I can sense if someone wanted to do something hostile and avert it entirely. I could force all people to work together for the greater good. I could raise an army of fanatical soldiers unhindered by the fog of war and friendly fire, and I would never even need any communication equiptment.

HIVE MIND is the best super power

 

[warprincenataku]

Puts on Magneto/Juggernaut style helmet, your argument is invalid.

 

[creonto]

i agree with crimsonpheonix: by far the best power would be the reshaping of anything down to the most basic level, you could make someones car turn into butter or makew ur house pure gold or even make a machine that could fly and function via cold fusion. of course this is assuming that if you can imagine it then it will work regardless of whether you understand it

 

[Dcy]

I thought I was going to argue against your assertion, I had many counterpoints in mind, followed by very pertinent examples.

Somehow as I type now, however, I can only agree with you.

 

[twaddle]

but you could just mind control those superhumans who can to do whatever you want

Assuming there ARE superhumans for you to mind-control.

I'm pretty sure immortality would be the greatest superpower. For obvious reasons. Mind control me all you want, YOU'RE. GOING. TO DIE.

Immortality would suck. [http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html]

Hey, i'll take my chances. When this planet blows up, i'll journey through the stars looking for new civilizations. And since my perception of time speeds up, it won't even feel like a long time. Win-win.

immortality doesn't mean invulnerability. Have you ever seen the series Baccano. They had guys in the series who were immortal and yet they suffered. Like the guys who were put in a barrel filled with cement and dumped in the east river. They were alive but they were forever drowning and suffocating. It sounds like you will be flying through space suffocating until u find a place with air if u find a place with air. and then u could always get pulled into the sun and burn and suffer a living hell like no other and don't get me started about black holes. Or you could be experimented on by governments forever and no one would ever know

 

[Dalamard]

well the greatest super power is a real rare one...

Common sense.

 

[ninetails593]

The ability to control time is the best power. There's always a way that mind controllers get screwed, but time controllers can't get hurt by anything.
(captcha: VALENTIN titica)

 

[Fearzone]

Not X-ray vision?

 

[e2density]

Everything that can be done with Mind Control can be done with Time Control, without the creepiness of having other people watch you manipulate people.

 

[FalloutJack]

Oh, this is a silly thread. It starts with the wrong attitude and ends with an argument full of fallacies. If the greatest super power were mind control, then you'd have to make it mind control without limits of range, strain, stamina, or perception. And if you're actually going to argue that it's exactly that, then you forgot to make yourself god. The greatest super power is omnipotence.

Now that that whole conundrum is out of the way, let's talk about bacon. Bacon is way cooler than talking about mind control.

 

[Jewrean]

I have a better super-power. It's called omniscience. You know... that thing that GOD supposedly is. To be omniscient is to know everything, to know the universe, to know everything about everything that ever was and ever will be.

Also... let's say you woke up tomorrow with psychic mind control abilities... no one on Earth has super powers (that we know of) except for you. How would you stop a volcano erupting to save the day? How would you stop an invasion of Alien non-biological Mechanoids? The power is limited to biological minds.

 

[Perfice]

Really, the only way you could stop a person like this would be with a cruise missile or nuclear bomb - basically he or she would have to be completely unaware that a threat was even present.

What? Why? There are a thousand ways to sneak attack someone without having to shoot a missle at them. For one, you don't have the ability to mind read or anything so you won't know someone's intentions or their presence until it's too late.

For another, you never listed the limitations for your mind control abilities. As an example, super speed could destroy mind control before he could even think about using mind control. The Flash went so fast he accidently got himself stuck in a frozen world where noone could help him because he'd die of old age before they realized he was in trouble. Head-to-head against a telekinetic if they used their powers at the same time he'd mind control him for maybe a second before he was unconscious against the opposite wall. You can't mind control if you're unconscious and you can't mind control a telekentic to undo the force he just blasted you to the wall with.

Any power can be the ultimate power if you push it to the max limit, or as a category three as they call it in marvel. A telekenetic could disintregrate the planet or just manifest money for himself if he needed it if he could use his powers well enough. Even stupid powers, like I never thought control over paper would be a cool power until I watched Read or Die. My favorite power is the power to hypnotize from the show Betterman, especially since he was able to hypnotize himself to become perfect. Also, hypnotizm stays active even if you're unconscious, mind control takes an active thought to continue working.

You kind of have a villians point of view though, you remind me of the Cobra Commander. He wanted to basically just mind control everyone, but then he'd have noone to talk to.

 

[Shirokurou]

They'd just send robots against me, and I'd be fucked.

 

[Sould1n]

The most common powers being discussed in this thread appear to be mind control (obviously), telekinesis, time manipulation and immortality (though I think that was only mentioned once).

People have already pointed out the errors of mind control such as being unable to stop mindless objects and diseases from killing you but one funny thing to note is that often when mind control is used on say, the hero, they overcome mind control through either simple will power or extreme emotion. This is plausible as to overcome mind control they could just focus all thoughts onto a single task (such as beat the tar out of you) and surges of emotion effect responses in the brain making it harder for the controller to keep up with all the changes.

Telekinesis is dependent on how strong and in what form you have it. There are three types of telekinesis; the ability to influence a stationary object, the ability to influence an object in motion, and the ability to influence living things (this is not mind control, this is more along the lines of curing a disease or making a body part move differently rather than making them make their body move differently). Simply having telekinesis does not give you telepathy or the power to see into the future or know what?s around you. Furthermore it would probably take a great deal of concentration to do more than one of these different variations at once.

Time manipulation is a weakness in its self, mostly because the possibilities in life are endless. Even if you've been to the future to know what?s happened there's a chance it won't happen like it did in the future and could be completely different. Time travelling into the future can't be done because the future is undetermined. As for travelling into the past, well if you're dying you'll have to be very quick about warning your past self, and also it would be harder to concentrate on which time period to warp to in both the heat of the moment and whilst you are in pain. Also changing the past is risky as even the smallest of things can change the greatest of events.

Finally immortality, defined simply as cannot die in any manner, is the worst super power to have, ever. If you live forever you have to see all your love ones die and when you have new friends you also have to watch them die and the process repeats till you're driven insane. Also immortality is not the same as regeneration so even if your body was dismembered you wouldn't be able to put it back together, you'll just live in eternal agony, incapable of doing anything.

The final thing that scuppers most of these powers is morals. Morals prevent any of these superpowers unless you were evil or have some really twisted morals. Anyway nothing else to comment on so here's my post.

 

[Veldaroth]

I'd have to agree that mind control is one of the more powerful abilities.
And yes, I'd have to say that it is rape if you use your abilities to have someone sleep with you. Check out TVTrope's Mind Rape page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindRape