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We just had a thread about favorite superpowers.

To make the job harder for the comic-book authors, put a limit on your favorite superpower.
Like you can teleport but only your physical body. Your clothes stay behind, you can’t bring anything with you. Perhaps you have to always do it from the bathtub since your digestive tract contents get left behind?
Or, you can fly but it takes more energy than running so you can only fly for very short distances.

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I’ve often thought (because I have no life) how invisibility could work. That would be my favorite superpower - but what about clothes, electronics, weapons…?

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invisibility, but only every other minute (and again, you can’t wear clothes or you’d be seen :D)

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Spiderman can only stick to certain surfaces, but the materials he can cling to or have webs stick to changes every 12 hours.

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Telepathy but all the thoughts you hear are in latin.

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Any power you wish is yours for 20 minutes. - The caveat? Someone you know dies from a terrible, sudden heart attack.

Ooof. That was dark.

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Having a power like that might actually get me to go out and meet people

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Nope. My power of flight is limitless! LIMITLESS I SAY!

Boo to your “limits”! Who let that guy in here anyway? BOO!

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Sounds like that Steven King book where you can get cured of cancer but someone you know pays the price.

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What If I choose the power to heal heart attacks for 20 minutes? Couldn’t I in theory heal/bring back to life the person I gave a heart attack to? In addition to that person any others that have had heart attacks?

For me it would be teleportation, but every time you teleport you teleport a random object with you from a random location. So you never know if a fluffy bunny or a tank is going to end up with you where you teleport to.

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You can wish for whatever you want but you won’t get whatever you want. haha

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So you have the power to wish? But you won’t get your wish?

Cool. I guess I already have a [extremely limited] superpower.

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Ever wonder how ‘physical relations’ between superman and Lois Lane would work? I mean, that would be dangerous for her wouldn’t it? Maybe they used some of his super-fabric to make some condoms.

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The Flash, but the ability to slow down is more realistic.

You can spin really fast to make tornados, but you’ve spun too fast too many times and now your balance is totally fubar all the time.

You can stretch like Reed Richards, but you get stretch marks AND the things you stretch eventually get saggy.

You can talk to fish like Aquaman but it turns out that fish are really, really stupid; dolphin just want fish; and octopuses are worse than cats.

Telekinesis but it works the same as if you were holding the object yourself. Picking up cars? Not without breaking your back you won’t!

Flight, but atmospheric physics is real. EG, flying at 35000 feet requires very warm clothing, and flying super-fast results in friction and/or body ripping winds and oscillations from your non-aerodynamic body.

Super healing, but it makes all parts of your body regenerate more quickly, including your hair and fingernails!

Mind control, but parts of your personality and the controlee’s personality mingle, mix, and get swapped around. For example, after controlling the mind of a bank robber, you start disliking banks while he suddenly likes cheese.

You can shoot lasers from your eyes but you need immense amount of caffeine (or any other substance that makes you jittery).

Shooting fire, fireballs, ice balls, or anything else from your hands: Same as laser eyes, but you are hypersensitive the jittery substance.

Invincible skin? Say hello to diabetes that is very difficult to control without insulin injections (or some other illness that requires regular injections to manage…I don’t really know that much about diabetes.)

Immortality/Omnipotence simply makes you realize the futility of life, humanity, and the universe in general and once hedonism loses its charm, you just wish for death.

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@tim-smith - That last one sounds like Deadpool. He falls in love with Death. As in, Death is a woman. Pretty neat.​

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My friend and I were just having a conversation last week that relates to this a bit lol!

Basically, I brought up having the ability to fly - but it wouldn’t be easy to do like you see in all the movies/cartoons.

Similar to other athletic abilities (some being unrealistically difficult to achieve for most average people), it would require years and years of training to even build up the muscles required to get off the ground - And even then, the higher you climb once airborne would become more and more exhausting as you started to get altitude sickness and your muscles started to ache the way mine do on the stair-climber at the gym after 5 minutes.

I think you’d end up with a bunch of injured people who couldn’t find a tree or a free power line to rest on during flight. There would be an entire market focused on athletic flying-wear and training courses guaranteeing lift-off for just 5 minutes a day, for 30 days!

You get the idea (though so did my friend and that didn’t stop me from providing way more examples of how this would play out than she ever asked for lol)

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Invisibility but you’re unable to commit crime or cause harm of any kind. (be it physical or mental - so that includes sneaking into changing rooms).

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Flying, but only backwards,

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The ability to control all weapons at any time. But only to stop them firing/exploding/killing.

Now that would be a useful one.

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Time manipulation but however long you pause, rewind, fast forward or hop to is amplified on your body/mind tenfold.

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