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)
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.
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.
Loved what Redo of healer did to make healer op. Id reccomend the gain experience/skills of ppl you are healing perk if possible.
Wolfwalker would be pretty awesome. Become a wolf while I sleep. Might end up getting a lot more sleep!
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.
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.
Nah, just have them dissappear forever, fuck em.
I’ve always been obsessed with the powers from Jumper. 100% that’s what I’d go for every time.
I’m professor X now, let’s gooooo
I want Domino’s luck. All the rest of your powers can get fucked. I’m god’s favorite.
Yeah, all the luck based powers seem ideal. Easy to also write off as just lucky!
It even beats saitama and ainz because it’s funny.
Dr Manhattan sounds neat Dr Manhattan. Not sure how I would/could overcome the possible loss of humanity.
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
Angel from Big O can literally rewrite reality.
Kodo and Podo gang.
Fictional universe, including Christianity? Omnipotence then
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll take a TARDIS, thank you.
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