If you had to choose, what would be most fun and/or useful power from a movie, TV show, cartoon, book, games, or mythos? Include any drawbacks of the power that the source adds into consideration
Separating the silly and serious analyses would also be nice. (see various videos, articles, etc. on how certain superpowers would actually kill you, e.g. stopping time would mean you couldn't breathe as the air cannot move)
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7uWqKj@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 91d
Fictional universe, including Christianity? Omnipotence then
Carrolade@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 91d
Path to Victory, from Wildbow's web serial Worm.
It's a two-part power. The first looks into the future to determine the exact set of steps necessary to accomplish any given goal, if it is at all possible to accomplish in any way. The second makes you execute those exact steps with zero chance of deviation or error.
It only fails when interfered with by another power also capable of seeing the future.
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cynar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
This would definitely be mine too. Particularly if it was still jailbroken, as in the book.
In story, it could even cope with a lot of future sight powers. It was only the apex level ones that were on an even field with it.
The only downside is the erosion of your free will. It's hard to make your own choices when this power is available to make them all for you.
Carrolade@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
I feel like if you avoided giving it long-term goals you could still retain most of your humanity. You could also mainly rely on the divination aspect, and avoid the perfect-execution aspect unless necessary.
Would still be the world's greatest crutch, but the sheer power it offers is too tempting.
Deestan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 91d
Omnipotence ofc. I will start by recreating logic itself such that it is possible for me to create a rock that is too heavy for me to lift it.
tenchiken@anarchist.nexus · 13 pts · 91d
Absolute control of atomic structures / telekinesis and psychic abilities.
The grandfather in the book Slipt. Amazing story.
This effectively allows:
Change chemical structures, transmutation, cure/remove illness
Cause strokes or embolisms from a distance with no evidence.
Hey that building full of people I didn't like is now glowing from extreme amounts of radiation! Almost like the cement became a hugely unstable isotope suddenly. Weird.
Within a few days, the world would be forever changed.
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 91d
Don't know but my dog is rubbing herself against the couch and I'm thinking she is working her way up from godess of static cling to godess of thunder.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 91d
I want whatever Saitama from One Punch Man have. It not just super strength and speed, its also invincibility, mindcontrol-proof, illusion-proof, or any mumbo-jumbo-proof.
If that's cheating, i want whatever King have.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Well, Saitama told you his training routine. What are you waiting for? Get to it.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 91d
I'll take a TARDIS, thank you.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 90d
YES
remon@ani.social · 10 pts · 91d
I'll take omnipotence. Not sure what the drawbacks would be.
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 91d
Everyone constantly asking you to do something for them that they bloody well could do themselves.
remon@ani.social · 8 pts · 91d
That sounds like a solvable problem. Hell, with omnipotence all of the problems are solvable!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 91d
Just leave it as "read".
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 91d
You'd never be able to microwave a burrito so hot you couldn't eat it.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
You will soon find out :P
SpeedRunner@europe.pub · 10 pts · 91d
Any universe? I'd like to be Bruce Wayne. Not Batman. Bruce.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
Bad news for your parents.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 91d
Plot twist - op doesn't like their parents
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 90d
DJ daddies money!
scytale@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 91d
I don’t remember if you have to have been to a place before in order to teleport there, but if that isn’t the case, Jumper (movie) would be nice. No more commuting and no more borders/passports.
cynar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
Based on the books you need an exact sense of the place. Not just sight, but smell and feel. The place needs to absolutely unique, in your mind. The photos are primarily an aid to recall.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 91d
The powers of the Flash is nice, except for the destruction left in the wake of his movements.
Having the powers of Jumpers from the series by the same name seems to have good grounding as momentum is maintained during a jump getting passed the whole, earth and the solar system are moving not just earth rotating.
redsand@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 91d
I want Domino's luck. All the rest of your powers can get fucked. I'm god's favorite.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Yeah, all the luck based powers seem ideal. Easy to also write off as just lucky!
redsand@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 90d
It even beats saitama and ainz because it's funny.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 91d
Even though it's not the most powerful thing in the world, I've always really vibed with Daredevil's powers. I like the idea of being hyper aware of my surroundings and being able to sense movement, even from far away, without seeing it. Also, great for tracking people.
andrewta@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 91d
The ability to predict the future by concentrating on it.
Hello stock market.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 90d
Could also lead to madness if you cant control it. Maybe adjust so ability is to choose a future by looking at predictions.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 91d
Superman style flight would be pretty chill. The biggest drawback I can see is how hard it would be to keep a good pair of sunglasses.
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 91d
Without the super toughness, I have some bad news for you
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 91d
Don't have to fly fast.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 7 pts · 91d
Okay
Stopping time for everyone and everything except for myself and stuff I directly touch (but not people)
Found a loophole haha
Deestan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 91d
The world will be pitch black :)
saltesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 91d
And absolute zero.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 91d
Heat also travels
Heat is frozen, and stay the same
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 91d
Heat is motion..
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 91d
Exactly
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 91d
No I mean heat is the effect of moving atoms bumping into things
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 90d
And when its frozen, it wont just disappear
If you disagree, then weather isnt included in the freeze lol
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 91d
Light travels usually.
It is also frozen
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d
The not-selfish answer would be healing, with no arbitrary restrictions, preferably not attached to some divine power. Oh, you had leg torn off? Let me reattach that real quick. Got poisoned? I can cure that. You went blind? I can fix that...pass me some new eyeballs to attach.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 90d
Loved what Redo of healer did to make healer op. Id reccomend the gain experience/skills of ppl you are healing perk if possible.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 91d
Super-speed if the speedforce was where the energy came from. Without the speedforce, running at those speeds would ignite the atmosphere and kill everything. Even if I ran slower, the food intake would be insane.
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d
Snap my finger, and all the narcissists, bullies, psychopaths, scammers, pedophiles, abusers of authority, and general dirtbags disappear and never come back. Imagine the world we would live in. Would be paradise.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 90d
Probably would be better if you just remove those traits from them. Less genocidal and more justice if they can finally understand wtf they were going and feel guilt. Like ghost riders ability.
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
Nah, just have them dissappear forever, fuck em.
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 91d
Power to create anything, and I do mean ANYTHING.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 91d
But are we ready for a big-titty Yoshi whose struggle sounds have been changed so sound like a woman moaning?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 91d
Scaroused
redsand@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 91d
Franklin Richards. Mr Fantasic's son. He can create whole universes and bend reality to his will. He is almost always a kid because at full power how are you going to write a believable conflict?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 90d
Always liked the saki or immortal king path of too op so has to actively nerf. So the conflict is not with others so much as within himself. Like godzilla trying to walk in NYC and not destroy anything cause he knows the value of life.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 90d
Angel from Big O can literally rewrite reality.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 91d
Shapeshifting, from anything
but like, Alex Fierro's power from Magnus Chase, if I have to be specific lol
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 90d
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
Kodo and Podo gang.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Maybe a Deathnote journal.
Less violent option would maybe be mind control at a distance.
If I could do a combo I'd have an eternal (meaning healthy, unkillable, etc) body with an ability to see up to 10 years in the future. Being able to wander anywhere and know when to be places to see major events or to help someone or be a stabilizing influence.
Imagine all the skills you could pick up and the places you could go, the things you could do, the experiences you could have. I wouldn't want to be the one with my name on a discovery, but I'd like being in the background helping it happen.
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 3 pts · 91d
Shapeshifting.
Doesn't need to be into any form, just "into your true form (and possibly back)" would be enough. I'm a wolf, lemme be a wolf, dammit, universe!
Being able to shift back would be convenient for when human society inevitably demands you look like a human or be treated as an Unthinking Worthless Lesser Object. Until society figures out how awful that is and cuts it out.
-- Frost
ScriptSage@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 90d
I've always been obsessed with the powers from Jumper. 100% that's what I'd go for every time.
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 91d
I'm okay with repeat content in general, but could we have this specific question a little less frequently?
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 91d
but superpowers are cooool!
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 90d
The drawbacks probably wouldn't be worth it, unless I underestimate my willpower, but having a power from an "in the planning phase" work I'm working on wouldn't be the worst. Specifically the power of the main characters chief rival.
To keep it brief, he's pretty damn smart while also having long horns he can bend and contort like nothing. The catch is that the use of his power slowly kills him over time. He, like all the other superpower like users, is the result of the fusion of someone traveling to another dimension with someone else.
Due to low willpower, the guy has full control over the host and I am a little worried my willpower wouldn't be able to outshine his. Then I'd be trapped inside a transformed version of my body without any control while a madman tries to recreate the transdimensional travel back to his dimension. All while my life is slowly drained away.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 2 pts · 90d
Wolfwalker would be pretty awesome. Become a wolf while I sleep. Might end up getting a lot more sleep!
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 90d
Dr Manhattan sounds neat Dr Manhattan. Not sure how I would/could overcome the possible loss of humanity.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
His powers are so weird, and they seem to come with an inherent existential depression. He’s super powerful yes, but if your powers feel basically unusable to you and don’t serve your values or morals I think you just end up living alone on mars no matter what
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
I’m professor X now, let’s gooooo
newton@feddit.online · 0 pts · 91d
Deadly virus to destroy everything and start again
meco03211@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
Thanosdidntgofarenough?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 90d
Nurgle that you!?