The power to materialize anything I need for an easier life. Obviously not guns and stuff that I can use in a fight.
See, that's why I didn't pick shapeshifting if the catch is that the super power is supposed to be useless for crime fighting/making. What can I do with changing hair? Tie up evil doers? Defeat Green Lantern by making myself a blond?Biosophilogical said:I raise you shapeshifting! I may not be allowed to use it to fight/commit crimes, but extra strength for moving stuff? Yes please! Extendo arms for reaching? Yup! Have the preferred body type for a potential mate (should I ever want to have sex)? Yup!Android2137 said:Change my hair at will. Style, color, length, etc. Then I wouldn't have to worry about wigs for cosplaying and focus solely on the costume aspect.
I guess it depends on what the 'line in the sand' limitations are. I mean, could I use shapeshifting to make muscle and then fight? Or can I use my shapeshifting to make myself susceptible to muscle gain, and then use that? Or do I need to put on muscle in my current form and fight like that? I mean, if you can shapeshift, then isn't everything you are an extension of your power? So does it just mean that you can't fight ever, or does it mean that you can't shapeshift after the fight begins, or to prepare for the fight, so I could shapeshift into a dragon, fly around, get into a fight, and then fight as a dragon?
I mean, if you can shapeshift, then you have no static shape, so you are whatever you make yourself. So if I shapeshift into someone twice my height, then I am that 'someone'. Shapeshifting is the process, not the end result, so if you were to isolate a crime/fight as an 'event' (starting with 'preparing for it', followed by 'the actual thing', and finished with 'the conclusion/clean-up') then does that mean I can't shapeshift mid-fight/crime, or deliberately shapeshift to be better suited towards a fight I am entering into? Can I only shapeshift after the entirety of the event, so if I committed a crime, I couldn't shapeshift to hide my identity?
This limitations thing does not work well with shapeshifting, because either it just doesn't work, or it is more practical than the OP wants it to be.
That would be a useful superpower. Did you read the title?EclipseoftheDarkSun said:The power to set 'save points' in my life such that if I wished consciously to, became unable to wish consciously to (e.g. permanent coma/stroke/brain damage etc) or died, I could rewind my life to that point with the full knowledge of what happened (well, from my perspective). This of course could be very useful ala Groundhog Day, acting as a kind of precognition.
Though of course it'd be nice to be able erase/partially erase these memories if something truly shocking occurs.