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If I could have super powers I would def want to be able to fly... i mean who doesn't ?! And It would be awesome to be able to read minds... although I have a feeling that sometimes it's better if you don't know what others are thinking...

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sakvee

The ability to freezeframe the world would be extremely neat. You could effectively pause everyone and everything for any length of time. Ahhhh the peace and tranquility.

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Kakos

I would have to agree with the peeps who said Time-Alteration and Mind-Reading. Can you imagine going to a peace conference and being the mediator and mind-reading the leaders of the countries at war?

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CapnWaffle

Y'know, I thought about this before...

I don't think I need flying all that much, not to say it wouldn't be cool. But, y'know, If I could jump super high and long distances, I think that would really quite awesome. I've often thought walking around places, that it would be sweet if I could just instantly jump up to the top of that building. Or if i could be on the other side of a field in a single leap.

Hell, just jumping rooftop to rooftop Tick-style in the night would be cool.

Esoteric

I'd have to agree with Xell101 on the Ultimate Mental Power.

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Plan9Senior

I would like REAL Ultimate Power like ninjas have.

etla

It's a super power not science therefor no problem.

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etla

Mind Control for me. The ability to shape other minds like little blobs of silly putty would be too cool.

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Nimbletoe

Flight, teleportation, telekenisis, excelled strength, and immortality.

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MichaelFarker

I've been thinking about this during idle moments for the past year or so. I'm glad you posted it, PredeconInferno.

LOL John Falcon SQUEEK! SQUEEK!

The djinn in the lamp, the monkey's paw, the devil at the crossroads, or the alien doing a sociology experiment have inspired a thousand stories. All of them hold a warning about being careful of what you wish for.
I respect all of you and yet I find I must disagree in my choice. I wouldn't choose immortality because of the vivisection incident in the Thieves' World novel. I hope I wouldn't choose controlling others because of the examples of absolute monarchs and their loneliness, dissipation, and brutality. I wouldn't choose invisibility because I believe it would make me feel alienated as in H.G. Wells' novel the Invisible Man.

I think I'd pick self-control as a superpower, the ability to change my body and direct my actions. I'd perfect the qualities of my mind and body in various ways. Then I'd make myself speak kindly, practice towards excellence, and pursue my dreams. (I had gone into detail about what specifically I'd do with this ability but decided to control myself.)

dr_clocker

Be invisible, or at least have EXP that operates like the ray gun in Orgazmo. That would be funny, and id be even more populare with the ladies.

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rainheart

Best all around superpower to have:

Telekinesis to the subatomic-particle level. That means that I can manipulate objects all the way down to the level of electrons.

Therefore I can easily fly, render myself invisible, create fusion (for energy or destruction), etc.

I suppose if I knew enough science I could do just about anything with that power. Stop my aging process, manipulate the flow of hormones and impulses in peoples minds (think: making girls horny!!), make myself more physically attractive, increase my intellectual capacity as by reprogramming my genetic structure... just think of all the possibilities!!...

m0rpheus

I can be a lazy sack, so teleporting is for me.
Gotta be at work in 5 minutes, I'm there. Hungry but it's not a commercial, two quick teleports and your at the fridge and back on the couch in no time.

Although X-ray vision would be pretty kickass

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GakFace

Flight is overrated.

First what you can carry is limited to your strength... unless you feel like strangling yourself trying to defy gravity.... You can fly, your luggage cannot. Secondly there are bugs.. and birds. Oh lets not ignore rain. Have you ever driven in rain with the windows down at 60 MPH? It hurts! So how do you plan on stopping that? Aside from the fact you're probabl higher than any tree.. best to not wear any metal. Oh yeah and the speed facter.. One would think you could only go so fast. I'd rather teleport WITH NO CHANCE OF FAILURE. personally.

As to what power I'd want.. I'll make a list tomarrow when i'm between classes, as right now I'd like to get some sleep

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Flying I think

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hfw01

invisibility or teleportation...

I can't make up my mind. Depends on my mood...

Troublebot

I'd like to be able to shit money.

Think about it. Just eat a big meal and, a hour or so later, you have a couple hundred bucks. If you shit two or three hundred a day, there's no need to earn a living, just do what you want.

Yep. I'd like to poop hundred dollar bills.

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GakFace

I play SuperHero RPG, so I can just list a bunch of funs ones.

Telportation (with no chance of failure) would be nice. Even if there was a range.. teleporting onto a plane wouldn't be too hard. Besides, we've all seen X-Men 2..

Telekensises: Not only could you pull the best pranks in the world, but you could stop bullets.. ALMOST simulate flight. Have an instant parachute at any moment. Immobilize any foe. And best of all, make manhole covers the greatest weapons of all time.

Phasing AKA Dispersal AKA Ethreal(for you D&Ders out there ) With this ability, walls would be of no consequence. You could be shot, as the bullets would pass through you. You could go anywhere, and not worry (aside from water ).

Matter Manipulation Hey! Now I can turn these pile of bricks into...... GOLD!.... or maybe even a boat! Heck, You could drive to florida for spring break, and just drive your car to the waters edge, and then make it a sweet boat. Works for me.

Force Manipulation This is a personal favorite. It is much like the Green Lantern power. I want a hammer.. Poof, I make it out of thin air, and disappears when I no longer need it. Hmm, he's gonna shoot me "POOF" a big metal wall now stands before me. Car? "POOF"... just think of the possibilities. INSTANT JETPACK! (flight. hehehehe)

photographic memory I don't have this, it would be sweet If I did. I could then just read everything once or twice and never forget it. That would be so sweet. Think about foreign language as well, once you learn it, you'd never forget it.

I'm sure I could name more, but those are definately some fun ones to play with

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ironman

I've always thought of invisibility as my 1st option. But lately, i've been thinkig a lot and there are 2 things that i'd love to be able to do:
1.- Morphing, the ability to become whatever i want!
2.- The ability to know the exact location of persons/objects. I would never have to yell where are the f....g keys!! anymore, and i bet the CIA would pay me a good bunch of bucks for revealing Osama's whereabouts.
Damn!!! If i had those powers!!!!

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Polyphobic

Flying through space. Sometimes ya just need to get away. That power would be usefull when that happens.

Also, mind control would be a nice one. Then I could drive as fast as I wanted to work without worrying about getting a ticket.

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stevie667

The power to manipulate energy on the sub-atomic level.

Since matter=energy, your pretty much set.

If you don't like something, remove their subatomic bonds, and poof, no more atoms.

Just think about it, just tinker with the quarks in your house, and poof, it's made of gold.

PredeconInferno

I only have one problem for you energy/atom manipulator peoples:

Binding energies. This is the energy between protons and neutrons in the nucleus. It's the energy that holds an atom together. By breaking an atom, you release this energy (it's quite a bit per atom).

Basically what I'm getting at is: by turning an entire house into gold, you'll probably destroy half of your city.... there are a lot of atoms in a house.

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KellyC

Genius!!!

Genius! and funny!

Good call...which is why my choice superpower, if it is....is....*drum roll*

OMNIPOTENCE!!!
I can do wtf ever I want without fear of any drawbacks
Flying? check
Telekenisis? check
Mind Control? check
Immortality? why not? I can make myself imortal
Speed, strength? yep!
you get the idea...

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noclip

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Hmm......Esp,and X-ray vision. Easy answers.

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Kewpie Dan

i'd like to be able to do the crossword in ink in under 5 minutes...

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stevie667

Nah, if you had complete control of energy, you'd simply (ok, not simply, but it's too early to go into elementary particle physics) turn the excess energy into matter, giving your house an extension, or release it in a way that didn't destroy everything including your house.


But, as someone else said, omnipitance is really the only way to go.

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And your manual would end up on the Internet hours after its release, if not before, for ten easy payments of nothing.

tecoyah

The ability to manipulate ALL matter with a thought.

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NotMinus

Healthy Immortality (lets not get into what ifs but generally remain the same health, age, height .. ect) I would probaly long to know the secrets of death but I figure after the human race dies out I strap myself in a rocket and set me sights on the first potentionaly populated planet.

maleficent

ahhh, ya should have gone to parochial school -- I can make kick ass paper airplanes-- hit a nun with a rubber band dead center in the wimple at 20 feet too...

I want, for my superpower, Invisibility.

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todd

My power would to be able to pick any power I wanted. Some might include..
-Insibility
-Move objects with mind
-Read minds
-Time travel
-Jump between alternate dimensions
-Be able to walk through matter
-Super speed reading

Maybe it would be cool to be able to alter things, but alter people's perceptions of the things as well. So I could be like...I own Microsoft. And everybody in the world would accept that to be something that has always been true.

I'd also most like to turn back time. Like goof the hell off for a couple days, do some stupid stuff, then turn time back to 2 days ago and do something else for 2 days. I'd also want to bring stuff back with me from each time loop. So I could collect money from each loop and come back to original time, and have a ton of money. Or something.

Casus Belli

Wisdom: knowing anything on command, whenever. Every scientific fact, every thought of any human, any action or wherabouts of any entity. I know all pics and vids YOU have ever wanked to. Just everything, really.

And nothing but the actual, factual truth. That would be quite cool. Too bad a lot of people would want you dead, then.
So i'll still be needing superman to protect my all-knowing ass.

And then? Save the world after making shitloads of money, of course.

cameroncrazy822

FLIGHT! It's gotta be the best of all the powers...

tropple

kill with a thought.

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maleficent

Vaporizing would be better, otherwise the amount of bodies would be quite extensive...

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Rubyee

Speed, like the Flash.

The time that I save by not having to commute would probably give me another 2 hours a day, plus I could get my job done in fractions of the time, so I could do many different jobs per day if I found supervisors who would pay me by how much I do, not how long I work.

Plus, who would need to take a whole week off work for a vacation- just run there super fast! I would be able to anywhere without paying for travel- I could run fast enough to go over water.

The only thing I would change is the science behind it. The Flash's metabolism was so high that he would have had to eat nearly every second. That would really hinder my speed plans, so I would change that part of it.

Sorry, had to run to Paris real quick for a cafe au lait.

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Memnoch

I want the ability to cause sterility in any human I look at.

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Karby

infinite wisdom...
well it's a super power to me.

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Fenton-J-Cool

Pish! Maybe when I was 16 years old. If I need to see girls I don't know naked or screwing, I have porn.

I would go with Karby and say infinite knowledge of all time and the universe, or the subatomic particle manipulation theory. That's pretty sweet, albeit cheating

One thing I would not even want to have wished upon me is immortality. Who in their right mind would want that? It would rob you of everything that makes life special. I think Ray Kurzweil said it better than I ever could:

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet, we find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. Death gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there was too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up like the gambler in the Twilight Zone episodes.”

And, shit.. I think you'd be pretty miserable when you bury every member of your family, every friend.. and everyone you will subsequently meet and befriend.

Didn't you people see the end of the Green Mile?!

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