What superpowers would you have?
 

I know this has been done before, but I want to bring in a small piece of info:

I read somewhere (don't ask me where, I have no clue) that males about 70% of the time actually choose "x-ray vision." over things like flying and super strength.

Second to vision was invisibility.

Now, my question is "do you really think these powers were chosen for they're obvious debauchery related qualities?" I mean, seriously, if 70-80% of guys choose x-ray vision and invisibility only so they can see/walk in the girls locker room, what does that say about all of us?

Screw your invisibility, I want instant travel... or chi manipulation.

Anybody else care to offer some change?

reading minds

Immortality would be my first choice. Immortality makes most of lifes problems irrelevant. Aging? no problem... money isn't a problem anymore... throw a few hundred in the bank and get some interest.

I'd want to be able to use the entirty (100%) of my brain.

Dunno if that's a super-power or not, but pretty sure I could do some fantastic things if I wasn't limited to using only 13% of my brain's cerebral faculties.

If immortality counts as a superpower [I don't think it does] then I'm going with immortality.

But if it doesn't, then I'd have to go with controllable invisibility. Not for the lewd possibilities, but for the fact that being invisible means you would be absolutely free. Absolutely.

Teleportation, completely with the BAMPF-ing sound effect whenever I moved around. A prehensile tail would be pretty cool too, albeit awkward to explain to people. . .

Ability to alter time and objects within time.

ex. The presidant has a live announcement, you freeze time, drive there, yank down his pants, drive home, and let time resume. Same thing at the Oscars with hot celebs.

When your proff writes something on the board you freeze time and insert spelling mistakes and such.

During an exam you freeze time and copy all the answers from the brainiack, while at the same time replacing that person you hate's answers with the wrong ones.

Find out a lottery number, go back in time and pick it!

etc. . .

There are so many superpowers that i would like to have.

I guess a really cool one would be being able to manipulate another persons mind and getting them to do whatever you want.

Time changing is a pretty cool one. Other than that maybe ability to will people and ability to change myself into any shape I wanted.

Milliways changed my mind! I want the prehensile tail thing!

Mastery over time is one thing, but being able to hold three beers at once is way too cool to pass up!

I always thought Controlling Electricity would be great.

It'd be so awesome to be able to fly/levitate and be invisible/camouflaged. Basically, I want to be like a chameleon with wings, but still look human. I just think those are two neat abilities that human beings aren't able to manipulate without the aid of machines or some other man-made object. Imagine the illusion of wearing clothes and having to deal with less traffic. I think it'd be ideal.

Telekinesis would be mine. I could be pretty devious that way.

my first choice would be...how do you phrase it?....having the ability to alter my molecular structure so I could walk through solid objects or have things pass right through me. Basically just like Al (one of my favourite Dean Stockwell roles) is in Quantum Leap when he is back in the past with Dr. Beckett as a hologram.

my second choice would be probably just be NORMAL (who the fuck needs X-Ray vision?) extended sharp visual acuity, something around a eagle's range and clarity. Wearing glasses for 17 years has got me used to calling "clear vision/unassisted reading with naked eyes" 2 inches or less in front of my face.

edit: lowered the number for my "clear visual range" - 2 inches is still generous probably as the paper I try to read (just tested) is brushing against my nose at the time or very close to it.

*thinks of that classic movie Zapped*

sequel (Zapped Again I think) was decent but nowhere near as good.

Wisdom.

Either that, or the ability to make REALLY cool paper airplanes.

I would like to be outside of time, meaning that while I can affect time it cannot affect me. It wouldn't be immortality (I'd still be capable of being killed), but I would never age. I could travel up and down the timeline, moving at whatever pace I felt like.

shape-shifter.

i could get into everything, and find out anything.

that would be so much fun!!

Controlling gravity and magnetic fields here :D

Animal magnetism :P Ok ok I know that's kinda along the x-ray/invisibility line:P I would most definately pick immortality.

Invisibility would be very cool ... easy to say you wouldn't do lewd things with it, but I don't see how you could stop yourself. It's like Kevin Bacon said in the movie "It's amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at yourself in the mirror".

Being able to see would be a problem. You can only see things when light hits your retina, and how could that happen if it's being bent around you or going through you? Problematic.

I'd like to be a polyglot - able to read/write/speak all languages perfectly (even extinct ones).

Oh - or maybe having mind-control powers.

I would be able to fly, yo.

I'd have to go with the mind control one. Either that or being able to move through time, where I could go to future or the past. It'd be just as good as immortality if not better.

Definitely mind-reading powers for me. I want to know EXACTLY what women are thinking. I would then write an extensive multiple-tome manual for men on the proper interaction with women, and vice-versa.

The Man-ual™ would sell billions of copies (for only ten easy payments of $39.95 - and if you call now, get our complimentary Guidebook to the In-laws™, absolutely free!), with one in every home around the world, displacing the dictionary and encyclopedia as the book found in the most households at once.

I would be rich and successful, and posssibly win a number of Nobel Prizes for this achievement.

Flying !!!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!

Nefir, best of luck writing that book. Or should I say encyclopedia. :)

And AHadley, that's why shape-shifting is so good. You don't have to be invisible, you just change into the correct person/shape and no one will care.

Its been said by a few people allready, Ive thought about this Q lots (am I crazy), no question the super power Id choose would be to control time.

I'd love to fly like Superman, although the thought of having x-ray vision AND invisibility is cool too. Having all three at the same time would make me dizzy with excitement.

I wouldn't say immortality.... I just want to live until the rest of humanity disappears.

The only reason I want to be immortal is to see the changes in the future of the world beyond my lifetime.

Telekinesis without a doubt.

because i just can't choose or limit myself to one super power, i'd like to be able twitch my nose or fold my arms & blink to manipulate whatever it is that needs to be manipulated atm.
think samantha stevens (bewitched) & i dream of jeannie.

I've thought a lot about what I'd trade my soul to the Devil for. First would be the power to burst into green flames at will. Next would be flight. Third would be mind-reading capabilities, like total brain-wipe, know everything they ever knew. Fourth would be unlimited capacity, instant-recall memory. Fifth would be enough power to kill the Devil so he never got my soul. ;)

That's the kinda truncated list, though.

Immortality, definitely immortality. However, I would like to have one way of dieing that only I knew about - so if I ever felt it was time to go, I could.

Ultimate mental power. That includes:
-Immortality
-Invincibility
-mental powers
-Flight
-Teleportation

I WANT SPEED SPEED SPEEEEEEED. That's all I care about.

Ability to calm jittery squirrels.

to be able to control any energy field and that includes the energies given from people animals trees and the living earth

I'm not 100% sure where I heard this or if it's correct, but we don't just use 13% of our brain - we actually use a great majority of it - each part for different activities.

I'd choose the ability to fly. Or invisibility...but not for the "OMG, GIRLS LOCKER ROOM" reasons.

Conciously you control about 10% of your brain, imagine what people could accomplish if all it took be the greatest human calculator was to merely think yourself those skills.