Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.
I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.
Objectively the correct answer.
You would definitely enjoy Preacher. Graphic novels are great, show is better than ok.
Guy ends up gaining “the word of God” as an ability
We allready have one Stephen Fry
Excellent!
Bend probability to my will.
Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.
Is there a monkey’s paw clause in this? Does probability snap back like an elastic on the things you aren’t focusing on?
There’s definitely an inherent paw clause to this power…unintended consequences galore!
Probability has more than one side, bend it one way and its also being bent away from another.
The older I get, the more I’m sure it’s healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn’t have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.
The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.
Criminally under rated movie.
That is still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It’s so good! It got so much flak but I really enjoyed it. The concept was very interesting and I really wanted to see where it could’ve gone. I felt like they could’ve done better in the movie but still, I’ll take what I can get.
I always wondered why the jumpers were even struggling against the paladins, though. I mean… they could jump literally anywhere in the world instantly. How are the paladins even able to catch up at all even with the tech they had? It was ridiculous. They also didn’t use guns? I didn’t get it, lol.
Well when they’d jump they’d leave a “wake” and the paladins could just follow that wake every time so it does kind of make sense. I haven’t seen it actually in over 5 years, I need to rewatch again actually.
Yeah, they had the technology to go through the “wakes”, but the Jumpers could also jump repeatedly at will. They never really seem to get tired and there’s no real limitation outside of not seeing the place. So, they could jump nonstop to multiple places around the world. Are they going to hop through 300 different jump spots? What if one of them leads them to 10,000 meters mid-air. We see Jumpers capable of jumping suspended mid-air, lol.
I’d just bait them into following my wakes and lead them to a final wake mid-air where they’d plummet to their deaths. Could’ve jumped into a military base, grabbed explosives and weapons, wreak havoc on paladins. It just didn’t make a lot of sense, the Jumpers would be extremely powerful in reality and there’d be little to nothing we could do about them. Maybe covert ops with silent snipers to take them out when they’re unaware. But that’s only if you can actually find them in the first place, which is pretty difficult. I remember one of the characters living in Egypt in some ruins in the middle of nowhere. It took the US ten years of dedicated resources to finding Bin Laden, now imagine if he could just teleport anywhere on the planet at will.
You’d just never find a Jumper if he really didn’t want to be found.
Yeah agree, they’re pretty OP!
Is third person empath a thing? Like being able to have what one person is experiencing be felt emotionally by another person? I would do that, then really fuck up the day of an ICE agent.
That would be awesome!
I have two choices depending on my role in the narrative.
1: unrestricted ability to grant other people powers with the requirement that I keep them balanced both in power scale and moral direct as well as not being able to use the powers on myself either on my own or through proxy.
2: I’m the Thing from Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing but every cell is me and under my control. If need be, I can consume an injury’s worth of biological mass to heal. I would mostly use this to get out of conversions by bisecting my face and spagetti-ing before returning to normal, apologizing for that, and saying I should go take my meds.
For number one, you might enjoy the excellent, then subsequently boring, show Misfits.
Actually yes, I watched ever episode as they aired until they killed Curtis. At that point I wasn’t invested enough in the new characters to keep watching.
I went a bit further than that and you didn’t miss much.
Shapeshifting so I can impersonate people. I love Mystique in the X-men.
“Shapeshifting.”
“blahaj.zone”Checks out.
I want to shapeshift too
Shapeshifter: it’s broken as hell if you take it to the molecular level. Shapeshift into something that can fly, into a very thin transparent film on the ceiling of a room, into something which can withstand great temperatures or bullets, hell, you can even shapeshift into something that photosynthesizes.
Monkey’s paw version: you’re a shapeshifter like Odo in DS9. You have to consciously model every aspect of your form. Imagine the most detailed image of a human you can in your mind. That’s the fidelity with which your form will be represented. You can only take on a form that is as detailed as your understanding and perception of an object is. Your form is more of a human-shaped animate object than an actual human being.
Your form is more of a human-shaped animate object than an actual human being.
Plot twist: I already feel like that
Are you ok?
I think so, but I really vibe with that description. I don’t think humanity’s bad, I just rub people the wrong way much of the time in ways I can’t really perceive, so it feels like I don’t really “get it.” I do try though, and it seems like it often takes up all of my energy to pay attention to all of my body language and facial expressions so I don’t come off as rude.
Unlimited do overs. I can save, load and redo any point of my life at will. Caveat, death grants me access to the load game function.
To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she’s barking at me for help getting up and walking.
So I can explain to my boy dog why we don’t go on walks as often or as far, why he can’t rough house with her anymore.:(
Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.
I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.
This, but with selective abstraction.
I could just manipulate raw electricity signals, but if i need to i can see the flow of assembler instructions running through the CPU, or even the same code in some high-level language modeled on my brain pattern.
As en electronics engineer I’m going to “Yes But…” this and say that the lower the voltage/current you’re trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you’re trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.
So whilst this would be possible you’d have to:
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Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they’re in
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Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.
With enough practice and meditation you get a “feel” for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you’ve learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it’s just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.
This way you don’t start out overpowered and there’s a high skill ceiling.
(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)
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Healing powers 100%
But if I’m being selfish/lazy, I’d copy Ezra from Fairy Tail, she can swap out her armor and weapons instantly. I’d use it to always have a rain coat, umbrella. Fall over in bed and be instantly be PJs, wake up stay and in comfy cloths right until I get to work. Climb up a ladder and never have to go back down for a tool. Spill food all over, and instantly have a new shirt. Get mugged and swap over to appropriate armor and a heavy assault weapon.
A healing touch.
My farts are now filled with ultra potent sex pheromones. My farts are usually quiet, and usually no one notices them. Time to reap the wind!
My farts are usually quiet, and usually no one notices them
Famous last words
Nothing beats accidentally farting at the dmv and getting swamped by a couple grannies in line next to you
I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.
If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you’d be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you’d be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that’s what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.
You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don’t want to play.
