What superpower would you have?

[itaywex]

For all those who say "Immortality"- you should read this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html

 

[ckam]

Perhaps, the power to disable other powers. Kind of like anti-magic, I suppose. That or flying around with a cloud and using a willbending staff.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

The ability to never need sleep and not feel any bad effects from it.

Think of it, I'll never be tired again, I have an extra 8 hours or so every day to do stuff, and it won't be a power that will draw attention and lead to Mulder and Scully knocking on my door.

I thought about that. But you would run out of stuff to do eventually. Would be hard to have a relationship. No sleeping next to each other etc. Thats like closeness haha

He wouldn't need sleep, he could still sleep if he wanted to I guess.

OT: My super power would be the ability to give myself abilities. Holy crap it'd be awesome.

 

[angry_flashlight]

Comes down to 2 choices for me:
A) Time manipulation. Control time itself. Someone coming at you? Freeze them or speed up yourself and ties their shoelaces together. Disarm a hostage taker by freezing time, walking up to him and taking his gun away. The ability for creativity with this power is unlimited.

Or: B) Matter/Energy Manipulation. Change matter itself into different forms. Turn carbon into diamonds or helium or gold. And since matter is a form of energy, you could just create energy or matter from other things. Again, the possibilities are limitless. Hell I could get a hydrogen fusion generator running and provide power for all.

 

[Namulith]

Just give me the Infinity Gauntlet without the restrictions later placed on the gems. The IG effectively makes you a god if you use it correctly.

 

[loc978]

I really hate it when people bring up this one Cracked article. Many of 'em are poignant, this one is mostly ignorant and otherwise just situational.

For all those who say "Immortality"- you should read this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html

#5.Evolution Will Turn You Into a Freak

I'm actually cool with that.

#4. Nobody Can Ever Find Out
...Let's say some kid goes rummaging around in your basement...

Wouldn't happen. I live too far away from any town/city, and my security is too tight.
assuming they do find out, though...

You're not just going to be famous; you're going to be a god. You have eternal life, which means you must know the secret to eternal life, which means you will immediately be the center of the world's newest and most popular religion.
That, of course, is assuming a government or crime syndicate doesn't get to you first. Literally every powerful and wealthy person on Earth will decide that in your veins pumps the one thing they can't buy: freedom from death.

thing is... it's obvious the US government already knows. If I continue work, pay property and income taxes when I'm over 150 years old, I'm pretty sure they'd figure it out. There is the occasional bright person in there... and I'm pretty sure I'd become a closely guarded state secret.
I'm okay with that. The US government already gives me a lot of perks for past service. This would be one more service, and one more perk.

#3. You're Still Getting Older (Mentally)

This entire section is bullshit. Tell the author to go study neuroscience for a few years and come back.
Healing factor=no neurological degradation=no alzheimer's

#2. Time Speeds Up Until You're Insane

covered in the article's comments, but also see #3.

#1. You'll Eventually Get Trapped Somewhere (Forever)

Say an earthquake strikes the building that you're in, and it collapses while you're in the basement parking garage. You're pinned under a million tons of concrete and drywall. All you can do is wait for rescue. Only don't count on being rescued, because the people in charge of doing that tend to give up when shit gets too hard to dig through and they've pulled enough people out to say, "We tried."

Bullshit. First, I live in an area where buildings are required to be earthquake-resistant. My house is designed to retain its basic shape in an 8.0. Won't be livable, after, but it won't collapse, either. Every business I frequent is the same. This entire corner of the country went through "earthquake-proofing" in the 90s.
Also, if 9/11 taught us anything, it's that big disasters get high-priority recovery operations. had an immortal been trapped in the basement of tower 7, he or she would have been free within a year... and that's in New York. For stability concerns, that building was stone age compared to anything over here.

OK, but really what are the odds you'll be caught in an earthquake (or any other disaster of that nature)? Well, if you live forever, the odds are pretty much 100 percent. Unless the world ends before it has a chance to happen. So now instead of getting trapped in a building, you have to worry about being the lone survivor of a nuclear war, or a giant meteor strike, or another Ice Age, or collision with another planet, or the sun dying.

I've always thought this civilization would be more fun with fewer people in it...
and make no mistake, with our tech, someone would live through the "end of the world", even if it's only on the international space station. Add a few hundred years to that tech, and we'd probably have more sustainable orbital colonies.
As for the sun dying... well, if I truly live another 4 billion years with my healing factor... well, I can still be completely incinerated. Nothin' left to heal, then (and no, I don't believe consciousness is a product of something more than electrical brain activity, so don't even start with a reformation theory).

 

[Phenx92]

I'd say teleporting. Not like Jumper, more like space-time manipulation.

 

[Vigormortis]

The power from the film Jumper. Would be too much fun, TOO MUCH.

My thoughts exactly. (though I'm thinking more along the lines of the books or other, better written tales of science fiction rather than that awful film)

Not only because it's theoretically possible; unlike most of the powers people list; but it's also potentially the most powerful. The most powerful because of the immense amount of energy you'd need to generate to bend space-time like that.

If you could generate that much power within your body, and not destroy yourself, there'd be almost no limit to what you could do.

 

[darkfox85]

The ability to reverse time by ten minuets. I call it ?Undo.?

Every situation for the rest of your life can go according to plan (within stretched limitations) even if the plan is insanely dangerous or involves only one bullet. Many aspects of most superpower are made redundant by undo.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'd say teleporting. Not like Jumper, more like space-time manipulation.

That's pretty much what they're doing in the Jumper story. At least, in the books.

 

[putowtin]

The ability to walk without aid

if not invisibility... then I could vanish when my mother turns up unannounced!

 

[CrazyDave DC]

Controlling time and space would be pretty ballin'. Transporting myself wherever and pausing time whenever it suits me sounds pretty useful. Having the power to read minds is tempting, but I'm sure that would prevent me from having any close, intimate relationship with anyone.

The healing people thing is silly to me as I don't want to live forever. Also, I feel as though this thread has been done a million times before...

 

[God's Clown]

To control Gravity naturally. You could crush someone with a thought, nullify gravity of an object, making it float or sit in the air. If you are feeling particularly bored, you can open a Black hole.

 

[Zeema]

Shape Shifting.

okay guys ill see you later

[turns into a Dragon]

Like a Boss

 

[Andrew Drake]

Time Travel and Immortality. Time Travel includes immunity to your changes. Congratulations, I can now go back in time and convince the Ancient Greeks that I am Kronos... and probably wind up with... oh crap now I know how I die.

 

[Korak the Mad]

I would have to say that my superpower would be that I would be able to transform into anything, and be able to have the same abilities as what I morphed into. While still keeping my mental functions, and knowing who I am.

 

[IamGamer41]

I would like to have the power to teleport anything I could touch.If not that the power to make anything I want explode.