If you could have a superpower?

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Massive-scale mind control. :twisted:

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Post by Peregrin Toker »

I'd like....

The power to summon SUPER SPIDER-MECHA!

Seriously:

Hard to decide. Probably limited mind-control. It's the only one I'll ever need really. And maybe also The Flash' super speed while I'm at it.... and Black Vulcan's control over electricity. (Then again, who remembers Black Vulcan?)
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Wasn't Black Vulcan a Super Friend?
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Darth Yoshi wrote:Wasn't Black Vulcan a Super Friend?
Yep. He has the power of lightning.......in his pants!



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That's nothing compared to Apache Chief's power to make himself bigger.
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The powers the animorphs have in their series of books.
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Proteus' power, only less random. I mean, the ability to shape reality at will around you in a limited area is great.
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The abaility to phase like Dark Horse's Ghost not shadowcat...like the ability to fire a gun in the middle of a person's head. Also, be able to steal anything, agther dirty little secrets, ect.
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Can I take the ability from Aberrant called Quantum Transformation?

(Aberrant's powers all come from this funky node in the brain that directly interacts with the Five Forces. Quantum Transformation allows a freakin' powerful dude to spontaneously grow this node in a normal human, remove it from a 'nova', or alter the powers of one with one. At will.)

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Forge's power would be neat. The ability to subconsciously invent/construct things? Get rich off of patents 'n crap.
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I would have the Absorbing man movie/comics power. Which is to say take on the propeties of matter/energies I come in contact with, and if you are willing to let me get away with a offshoot of that ability, limited envorimental control (Of a non-physical element I have the body of, say like air, fire, electristy, ect).

I see myself using this power in a cross of David and Creeds visions of the power. Which is to say I can mearly take properties of matter/energy or actauly merge with them.
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I would like to have flight, super strength, telekenisis, and telpathy. Also a good degree of invounberility would be cool too add to that list.
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I'd take the powers of Molecule Man after Dr. Doom openned his mind so he can mess with living molecules.
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Post by Slartibartfast »

Shapeshifting. But in such a way that all the abilities of the target are acquired (normal targets and within reason, not magi-powered people :P). Probably in such a way that even the thought/sensation/instinct patterns of the target form can be emulated yet in a controlled fashion.
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BTW there doesn't have to be an actual "target", I just use the world referring to a "target form".
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Particle Man, Particle Man,
Doing the things that a particle can,
What's he like? It's not important,
Particle Man.

Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's under water does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
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So no one else would want to be Magneto? Come on, you have to admit doing a reenactment of his escape in X2 would be cool, with the floating disk and orbs orbiting around him. And think of the perverted and/or evil uses of it: self guiding handcuffs, ripping piercings out of people, uses coins as little tiny disks of death and such.
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Nobody in their right mind would not choose telepathy.
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Come on people. Animorph powers. Wanna fly? Become a bird. Wanna fight?
Become a grizzly bear. Wanna spy? Whats better than a bug. And you could murder people without anyone ever knowing. I mean after all, who'd ever suspect you, a human, of a killing involving a dissapering tiger. Plus you could freak out your neighbors. Imagine the look on their faces when they find an elephant tearing up their flower beds :) .
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The powers of Nemesis Kid. Which is to have the power to beat whoever he is facing. Of course it only works on one opponent at a time...
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So if you go against one person who has the power to shoot ice shards and one who has the power to shoot fire balls, you're screwed? :D
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Probably. I'm not positive how it works.
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Aside from the British Empire...

well this is sort of a dilbert meets Quantum Physics, the ability to pre-determine what was inside/on the other side any unopened door, drawer, box, garbage can etc...

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I've always wanted to have Invisibility (while wearing clothes and personal items; it's winter over here ...)

Because I could sneak into the first plane to Washington.

Then into the White House.

Wait until the President was making a live telecast.

Then stand behind him.

Reach out ...

... and pull his pants down.
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