There is no greater super power than mind control

[Exile714]

You would be invincible for all intensive purposes, because anyone who wanted to arrest or kill you could be mind-controlled to love you instead. And before you mention Magneto's helmet, who says we have to play by X-men rules? 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.

I think you mean "intents and purposes", and no you wouldn't. You can't mind control the car you didn't see coming as you cross the street, nor can you mind control cancer or disease away.

No, he's right. Any one with "intensive purposes" - that is, any one with an intense purpose but on a small scale (intensive is the opposite of extensive) - can be mind-controlled.

I just wrote a whole paragraph explaining why intensive doesn't mean intense but on a small scale, but realized nobody would care.

So, I'm going to stick with the proper response. "Uh, no?"

That said, is anyone here watching the show "No Ordinary Family"? It's kind of cheesy, but it's a refreshing look at super powers and gives context to many of the powers listed here. (Among them are: telekinesis, super strength, super speed, mind control, super intelligence, shape shifting, mind reading, control of fire, the ability to turn into steam... and a few others). From that show, I'm convinced that telekinesis combined with the ability to wipe a person's brain using that power is the ultimate super power. Of course, it helps if you're willing to use that power rather than whine about having the power, but I guess you'd have to watch the show.

Also, Autumn Reeser is like a less-awkward Summer Glau and slightly hotter. Just watch "No Ordinary Family" already...

 

[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.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

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

 

[Madman123456]

"Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2" has Udo Kier playing the mind controlling Genius "Yuri", who gets defeated by SCIENCE! in the Expansion pack "Yuri's Revenge". Because Albert Einstein pulls awesome Inventions right out his Ass, and because of some other People who aren't shown in the Game who magically develop a Training against mind control, Yuri gets trampled by a Dinosaur or imprisoned in a special anti mind control cell, guarded by people with special anti mind control thingies.
Granted, without the Inventions of Einstein, Yuri would have won, but it's not like the good Guys had the technological Advantage. Yuri had mindcontrol machines, in tanks, in defense devices. Yuri definitely had the best army.

Immortality would suck. There will be a Point where you have seen it all. People are born, grow up, marry, have Kids, grow old and die. There are some Variations, but nothing you can't expect.
Your Friends all die, you'll get to know new People, they'll die aswell, you'll get to know new People, they die as well in ways you've seen countless times before.
Humanity itself will hold not much new. You'll eventually realize that this great big treaty is pretty much the same as the other one and the one before. This War was about Ressources and that was slightly less concealed then the last one.

Maybe Humanity will eventually bomb itself and rebuild, like in the Fallout Universe. And then People will fall back into Rhythms you know all to well. There will be the first People who build new stuff and then there will be People who make the first things you don't need to survive. And those things will be a "Trend". There will be new things that no one really needs, but everyone wants to have.

The Walkman is like the Ipod. Everything has been here before and when you saw it a million billion times you may get a bit tired of it all.


I'd rather have the Ability to manipulate time. Maybe i'll travel to some far off future and make sure that i'll live twice as long as the normal Human. But i do want to die eventually.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Hands down, mind control is strongest super power. Sure, you can't fly or control the weather, but you could just mind control those superhumans who can to do whatever you want. Think about, most of our problems in our lives and their solutions involve other people. Mind control would basically give you a cheat code for life:

- Unemployed and poor? Mind control someone to give you a job. Or just forget the job and mind control bank executives or rich people to give you money
- Unlucky in love? No girl or guy could resist you with mind control. A related question: would mind controlling someone to have sex with you be rape? Because technically they would consent, even if you put the idea in their head
- Doing poor in school? Turn those D-pluses into As just by looking at the instructor
- Tired of shitty games and moves? Mind control the best development houses to make exactly what you want
- etc.

You would be invincible for all intensive purposes, because anyone who wanted to arrest or kill you could be mind-controlled to love you instead. And before you mention Magneto's helmet, who says we have to play by X-men rules? 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.

Not quite: Reality manipulation is above that. The reason? Well, it's Manipulation of Reality itself. Mind Control? That's part of reality, ergo, it falls under one's ability to manipualte, control, bend, and break. All the other stuff you mentioned? THat falls under being part of reality as well. And, more than that, you can simplky make a reality where no-one has powers, or everyone does, or some people do; you could jump into the world's of your favorite media and fuck around, changing events as you see fit, and, yes, even controlling people's minds.

 

[Zach Steadman]

Spacial/ Temporal Manipulation is still 1up from mind control for me, the moment I stop liking anything you're doing, I can wipe you out of existence, then bring you back, and force you to experience pain,suffering,and death, over, and over, and over.

And before you start with "I'd mind control you not to do it"
If I even so much as percieve someone was a threat to me, I could teleport, faster than light, to their location, turn them to dust, and have gone back to my house and turned on my TV before they could think to activate their mind control. Or even better, rewrite history so that they were killed by Tabun Gas in WW2. Yeah, Space Time Manipulation Wins over.

 

[EGtodd09]

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.

 

[SimuLord]

The only difference between charisma and mind control is the difference between a woman excitingly telling her friends that her new boyfriend "works on me like magic" and J.K. Rowling writing some variation on "abracadabra" into a book.

Purely a matter of degree and practicality.

 

[WolfEdge]

No need for power t have all powers. The BEST super power would be Infallibility. If you cant be wrong you could simply say I can fly and you would be able to because you cannot be wrong. you could basically do whatever you want because you would be god. and THAT is check and mate!

You're assuming that reality would bend to your will, instead of your will bending to reality. If you had infallibility, then you could never be wrong. This means that you can only say correct things.

In other words, you COULDN'T say you could fly, even as a joke or a lie, because you can only be correct.

 

[Atmos Duality]

No, the ultimate power is to rewrite the Universal Function.
It's the laws of all physics and interactions, which include how the brain functions.

 

[Brian Hendershot]

I....ah....completely disa..ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HYPNOTOAD!!!

This thread makes me wanna play DC Universe and...ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HYPNOTOAD.

 

[Bernzz]

the power to absorb other powers, kirby ftw

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Zach Steadman]

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.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Wrong. Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

At least, Shiki Ryougi's version (Shiki Tohno's limited to killing concrete existences, so he'd probably get it in the shorts). Then you just Kill the mind control and stab the user for good measure.

Even beyond "reality manipulation." The power to destroy anything is one of the two greatest powers of all.

 

[Devias-]

Hands down, mind control is strongest super power. Sure, you can't fly or control the weather, but you could just mind control those superhumans who can to do whatever you want. Think about, most of our problems in our lives and their solutions involve other people. Mind control would basically give you a cheat code for life:

- Unemployed and poor? Mind control someone to give you a job. Or just forget the job and mind control bank executives or rich people to give you money
- Unlucky in love? No girl or guy could resist you with mind control. A related question: would mind controlling someone to have sex with you be rape? Because technically they would consent, even if you put the idea in their head
- Doing poor in school? Turn those D-pluses into As just by looking at the instructor
- Tired of shitty games and moves? Mind control the best development houses to make exactly what you want
- etc.

You would be invincible for all intensive purposes, because anyone who wanted to arrest or kill you could be mind-controlled to love you instead. And before you mention Magneto's helmet, who says we have to play by X-men rules? 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 about reality warping? Sure, no one truly knows how it works. But understanding the basic concept of it is enough to have anyone salivating. Congratulations, asshat! You now have the ability to reshape matter and energy, create or alter life forms, turn a person's thoughts or desires into reality, simulate any and all other powers and abilities, bend time and space, and possibly even rewrite the laws of physics!

The number one shortcoming is that everything would feel unauthentic. Had a crush on that girl since grade school? Just brainwash her! Now she caters to your every need and loves you unconditionally! But does she really love you? Or is it just the mind tricks?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Mind control falls into the category of superpower that is basically "The character can do whatever is necessary". It is an easy way out of any situation. It is, as a result, boring. A similar power is the ability to control time itself, though time control is more generally useful as mind control only works when there is a mind present to control.

 

[Eisenfaust]

and then someone gets wind of your mind control and drops a bomb on you just in case...

 

[Brawndo]

See if I had mind control powers I would make everyone ITT agree with me the second they hit the reply button

 

[RelexCryo]

Hands down, mind control is strongest super power. Sure, you can't fly or control the weather, but you could just mind control those superhumans who can to do whatever you want. Think about, most of our problems in our lives and their solutions involve other people. Mind control would basically give you a cheat code for life:

- Unemployed and poor? Mind control someone to give you a job. Or just forget the job and mind control bank executives or rich people to give you money
- Unlucky in love? No girl or guy could resist you with mind control. A related question: would mind controlling someone to have sex with you be rape? Because technically they would consent, even if you put the idea in their head
- Doing poor in school? Turn those D-pluses into As just by looking at the instructor
- Tired of shitty games and moves? Mind control the best development houses to make exactly what you want
- etc.

You would be invincible for all intensive purposes, because anyone who wanted to arrest or kill you could be mind-controlled to love you instead. And before you mention Magneto's helmet, who says we have to play by X-men rules? 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 about Super Speed? When I can move several times the speed of light, I can kill you before you are even capable of processing a single synapse.

 

[Leg End]

Only if you are already an unstoppable force.

You cannot mind control one of The Void, for there is nothing to control.

Therefore, you will be consumed with nothing you can do about it.

Loophole has been found. (O_O)