Choose a superpower

ShawnG said:

My father was a centaur, my mother was a mermaid.

I got the human parts of both.

I have questions, the answers to which may make you distinctly uncomfortable.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

STM317 said:

I think being able to see into the future could be pretty helpful. Not super far. Just a couple of weeks probably.

Did not see that one coming...

bobzilla said:

super strength/invulnerability I think. Then Flying isn't important because you can just jump out of a plane no big deal

 

"that's not flying, that's falling with style." My son, as we are reading these. My wife then said it's from Woody in Toy Story. 

when I was young it would have been that the Xray glasses in the back of the comic books actually worked !

now I am glad they did not , because most of what I would  have seem would scar me for life !

Now its beem me up Scotty and the trouble that could get me into.........

or time travel and $5000 bucks to buy that Ferrari GTO in the back of 1969  Road and Track :)

Facebook has made it so nobody thinks reading other peoples thoughts is a super power.

I'm a prosecutor, so I've always wanted the ability to simply say "Liar, Liar, pants on fire" and have a liars pants actually catch on fire.  I guess that's a light dose of omniscience with a dash of Carrie.  

I 'll take shapeshift or super healing. Surprise me. Invisibility is a 3rd choice.

hmmm... Mechcanolink would be cool too. Its the ability to mentally link with a mechanical object. Not as a means of control, but as feeling what it feels. Imagine feeling a bad bearing as a sore joint or electrical short as a sharp poke.

Waaaaait a minute.

Would this be one of those Faustian deals, where you choose a superpower but it comes at a horrible price, or is one of those "letter but not spirit" kind of deals?

Because I've seen that episode of the X-Files and watched the anime and I know it does not end well.

Being able to find 10mm sockets.

I always like the idea of having a very flawed superpower, such as, you can fly! Except very slowly, like walking would be faster and if the wind is blowing 15 miles an hour or more, forget it as you'd be at the mercy for the direction the wind would take you. 

I'd basically utilize my power to fly over sporting events like fan man did in the late 80s and early 90s. 

In reply to captdownshift (Forum Supporter) :

There was a short lived TV series back in the late early 80's called The Greatest American Hero.

The "hero" has powers he can barely control and doesn't understand.

Oh, I've got a bunch of powers I'd love to have, but I'd settle for being able to remotely bitch/pimp slap anyone who desperately needs it, from across the globe.

KyAllroad (Jeremy) (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to captdownshift (Forum Supporter) :

There was a short lived TV series back in the late early 80's called The Greatest American Hero.

The "hero" has powers he can barely control and doesn't understand.

Yes. Thank you.

The ability to bring home an indefinite number of project cars & other random junk without any complaints from my wife.

I shared these with my family at dinner last night. My daughter pointed out that if you could shape shift, then you could be a bird and have the power of flight.

NOHOME said:

Common Sense.

We're talking realistic super powers here.

Duke said:

Oh, I've got a bunch of powers I'd love to have, but I'd settle for being able to remotely bitch/pimp slap anyone who desperately needs it, from across the globe.

 

If that were real, I'd be so screwed.