Super Powers

[Flip]

Ok, you can have a super power but just one...what's it gunna be?

No backfire clause: So this isn't a 'be careful what you wish for' exersise. So if you can read minds you will have the ability to shut it off and if you can fly the government won't dicct you, etc.

[file cabinet]

I need to think about it.

[Strephonade]

With 300yrs, I'd get to study everything I really want to study, and be able to visit the future.

[Birdsnest]

I chose teleportation, that would allow me to go where ever I pleased.

[Jezebel]

I chose teleportation, that would allow me to go to California whenever I pleased, but stay with the inexpensive cost of living in Georgia. I almost picked invisibility, that would also be very handy for spying on conversations that I want to hear about.

If you choose invisibility, you could also sneak aboard the airplanes free of charge.

I always wanted to time travel, but it would have to be in combination with another super power such as teleportation. I would have to be able to select my location, because it would be pretty boring just to travel back in time where I am all the time. I'd want to go back to the ancient times in different countries. But if I was able to do that, it would make teleportation pointless since I could just go back one minute to any location I choose. So, I still don't know yet. I'm probably overthinking this question =P

[Miss Padfoot]

I agree with Jezebel. I'd love to travel in time back to Jerusalem in 33 A.D. to see for myself if Jesus actually rose from the dead. But then, I'd need to get to Jerusalem somehow. Teleportation would be pretty darn cool too. So would invisibility.

[antireconciler]

Telekinesis. If I can move an object with my mind, I can move me (it's all reletive!), so I can fly. I can train the ability to make myself fast, right? Who needs super strength or speed when you can move things or yourself fast? Maybe I get to the point where I can travel super fast anywhere, and then, who needs teleportation? If I can influence bullets and fire, who needs to be bullet or fire proof?

Definatly telekinesis.

[Crazy]

Teleportation.

You can sleep in, never deal with traffic, and still get to work on time. It would help you get away from somewhere you don't want to be, and no jail could ever hold you.

[MacGuffin]

Telepathy - you'd know the answer to any question you asked anyone (assuming they have the knowledge). You'd be the greatest investigator of all time. You'd know anyone's darkest secret. If you found the right person you'd know whether Oswald acted alone.

And you'd be unbeatable at chess! (X-Files reference).

[ohnoaninfp]

I agree with antirecoiler.

[SensEye]

Mind control, hands down. Think of the fun.

Yo - Bill Gates, you want to give me half your fortune.

Yo - IRS, you don't need to audit my income.

Yo - 5 star hotel/restaurant/etc. etc. etc. you don't want my money. You want to treat me like royalty (all complimentary of course)

Yo - Halle Berry - guess who you are about to find irresistable.

He he.

*edit* - and I wouldn't be completely self indulgent, I would go around to the various tin pot 3rd world despots and instruct them to work for the general prosperity of their people. And 1st world despots too for that matter.

[Avengardh]

Mind control, totally, heh.

[Johnny]

I'll take control...of others...with my mind.:D

[CosmicDust]

Teleportation. I could travel the world without needing an airplane, and go anywhere I wanted instantly so that travel time wouldn't be an issue. I might like to walk places anyway for the exercise and the scenery, but spare me the buses and trains. Going to a favorite beautiful spot during my spare time where I could enjoy nature, read, and ponder, would be neat.

Flying would be my second choice, 'cause it's fun.

[jimkopelli]

Have you noticed how some of the greatest heros/villans (cases in point: Iron Man, Batman, Catwoman, Dr. Doom) don't really have any powers at all? They just have large budgets, lots of cool gadgets, a home gym, and plenty of free time. Some don't even have that. Green Lantern just got lucky. Sure, he's creative, but lose the ring and he's nothing. I choose time travel. Check stocks and betting odds in the future, make loads of money. Put the money into a think tank, and you get cool gadgets. Use the rest of the money to hire a really good personal trainer and a cool butler.

[Spartan26]

Teleportation.

You can sleep in, never deal with traffic, and still get to work on time. It would help you get away from somewhere you don't want to be, and no jail could ever hold you.

You had me at "sleep in" :wub: :zzz:

Actually, I put telpathy. Just thinking how much happier I'd be in life if I never heard another lie. I'm too much of a 9w1 to ever control people, though mind control would make life a heck of a lot easier. But just knowing what people thought would probably be enough. Improve the areas where you fall short, anticipate people's needs, deal better with conflict, provide relief to people's fears, you may not be able to pull anyone out of a burning building but you'd be able to do good for many more people. You'd probably never have to pay for another drink in a bar again. :cheers:

[paladinoflunaria]

It's too hard to decide right now. Some points of clarification:

Psychokinesis is more accurate a term than telekinesis for moving things with the mind. Telepathy is a form of communication- you can send messages, but you can't read minds. Reading minds falls into the realms of clairaudience/clairvoyance (schitzophrenia maybe). Mind control is really ultra-persuasive telepathy, so making it a seperate power is silly. Psychokinesis would provide flight, bullet/fire proof-ness, and in a sense, shapeshifting, invisibility, and super strength and/or speed. You could use PK to change the properties of your organic matter so as to build muscle tissue, appear as surrounding objects (camouflage), etc..

Now that I've thought some more about it, I'd say that PK would be the most fun to play around with, but it is better to be the master of oneself than to be the master over one's perceived reality. I'd go for the additional 300 IQ points. I could use such to discover a means to enhance my mental energy to mimic PK, etc.. I'm not really sure though; it is a very difficult choice. Can't you do all of those things in lucid dreaming (maybe a few exceptions) anyway?

sme_bro, can you enlighten us?

Argh! I keep second-guessing my choices. Telepathy, PK, Teleportation, or the IQ boost, but I won't narrow it down any further.

[Salad]

COMPLAINT

when i was 12 i came to the conclusion i would want the ability to freeze time.
second choice- flight

[Jezebel]

COMPLAINT

when i was 12 i came to the conclusion i would want the ability to freeze time.
second choice- flight

Freezing time was one of mine as a kid, too. Especially on those days at school when I didn't have my homework on time =P . Did you ever see that twilight zone episode where the guy gets this watch that lets him freeze time, and one time when he freezes it while getting some extra cash from the bank, the watch breaks?

[Salad]

nah. i did see an episode about some stange and bizarre occurance though.

[Jezebel]

I'd have to read the terms of the contract before I sign up for this one, but I chose time travel. It would just be too cool to travel back into the ancient times to see how history really unfolded. I don't even know where to begin. How about back to prehistoric times to see what dinosaurs really looked like? Or how about being able to see first hand how our early ancestors behaved? I'd go to ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China... back to the biblical times to see just how accurate the bible really was. I could even watch it being written! I could solve unsolved mysteries from the past, find out what those mysterious machines and structures really did, be there when the great wonders were built. And on and on and on.

I would want a passive role though. I don't want to be part of the past or to change things. I just want to observe.

[shaytana]

COMPLAINT

when i was 12 i came to the conclusion i would want the ability to freeze time.
second choice- flight

Freezing time was one of mine as a kid, too. Especially on those days at school when I didn't have my homework on time =P . Did you ever see that twilight zone episode where the guy gets this watch that lets him freeze time, and one time when he freezes it while getting some extra cash from the bank, the watch breaks?

I saw that episode as a kid, and ever since then I have wanted to be able to stop time.

I voted time travel though, for the other superpowers I will just go far enough into the future to obtain tele-implants and an anti-gravity device.

[cloakable]

300 IQ points - it would be cool to be much smarter than I am now. No other reason really. Other than that the other choices didn't appeal to me much.

[MacGuffin]

COMPLAINT

when i was 12 i came to the conclusion i would want the ability to freeze time.
second choice- flight

Freezing time was one of mine as a kid, too. Especially on those days at school when I didn't have my homework on time =P . Did you ever see that twilight zone episode where the guy gets this watch that lets him freeze time, and one time when he freezes it while getting some extra cash from the bank, the watch breaks?
Irony in a Twilight Zone episode? No way.

[paladinoflunaria]

I despise the idea of time travel.

It is very paradoxical, and there are so many problems to be caused by it.

[jittus rye]

Living 300 extra years would be good provided I didn't age like it, it would be neat to see the world progress.

[shaytana]

I despise the idea of time travel.

It is very paradoxical, and there are so many problems to be caused by it.

I wouldn't be so attracted to the idea if it was all figured out.

plus, theres a "No Backfire" clause in this thread so accidently breaking the timelines isnt a risk.

[paladinoflunaria]

Fair enough.

Edit: Of course, time travel, given the circumstances, is obviously the best choice. That's another reason it is uninteresting.

[Salad]

????

why is it obviously the best choice

????

[antireconciler]

No kidding! Time travel has very little appeal to me.

[indczn]

I want to be the first to call shapeshiffting.
You can fly... hey look im a bird.
Telepathy... meh, Ill pass I really dont need confirmation that 99+% doesnt really possess the ability to think.
Invisibilty... you can still do all the creepy things if you can shapeshift into something inconspicuous.
Time travel... Learning the past isnt really going to help you do anything, aside from you personally knowing it. The future is something id rather not know because you probably can't change it anyway.
Super Strenth and Speed - Can be compensated for as a shapeshifter
Add 300 years to your life - Can be compensated for. If you can shapeshift you can be practically invulnerable, assuming its into anything at will same size.
Add 300 IQ points to your score - Im already smart enough. Anything more would be pushing me ever closer to insanity. I would take this as #2
Bullet (and fire) proof - Fire is iffy.. Bullets dont matter.
Telekinesis - Ability to move objects with your mind - Doesnt outweigh the fun of chapeshifting
Ability to control other people with your mind - Why, they are easy enough to control anyway.
Shapeshifting - Ability to change into any shape of equal mass :) e = mc^2 :ph34r:
Teleportation- Ability to go anywhere instantly - cool but limited.

[Claverhouse]

I didn't vote because I despise unreality: as with magic or comic-book stuff, it is cheating since you match yourself against those who have not the same powers as you. And if you lived in a world where the impossible happened, where with magic you could turn people into dragons, or with comic-book fantasy a small girl could beat up strong violent men, apart from the fact you would be delusional, it could easily be a very uncertain and lousy world to live in.

All my life I have always wanted but one thing, not power nor riches nor the world, not even love or respect. Merely to be obeyed.

If I did that through controlling people's minds, rather than through either mastery or influencing them by power of will, it would not be a real power since they would be merely slaves and my creatures. No real challenge at all.
:ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Odyssey]

Reading minds... The amount of wisdom to be gained from it... the kind of earth-shattering psychology book you could write if you knew how others' minds functioned... the kind of science book, or discovery, or invention you could create if you knew what the other scientists knew...

And if you could read others' memories from afar - not just their conscious thoughts - oh how the greed of knowledge could tempt you into a withered existence, and you become dazzled by the lifetimes playing through your mind... Until you're lost in their heads - disconnected from your senses - and you forget the path back to your own reality, to your own life. (There is no distinction between dream and consciousness...)

"Oh look at my children so happy"-/-"Yes, I'd love to, Kristen"-/-"Forgive me father, for I have sinned" Then you see the visions fading, why?

You realize your body is dying, but you don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how to climb out of your head. All you hear are voices of others' memories, and smells of another's childhood - you feel the sorrows and joys of the generations.

Before your death, a scene - a memory - flashes before your eyes. The memory is not your own.

[Flip]

Have you noticed how some of the greatest heros/villans (cases in point: Iron Man, Batman, Catwoman, Dr. Doom) don't really have any powers at all? They just have large budgets, lots of cool gadgets, a home gym, and plenty of free time.

Yeah totally, I was thinking of a gadget option for the poll but i just couldn't make it tempting enough to have a choice. But, I'm glad you noticed...very perceptive....

[Flip]

Ahhh, even distribution, exactly what i strived for muha ha ha!

Looks like Teleportation is pulling ahead as the favorite though.

[Witticism]

I always wanted to freeze time too. I couldn't choose between flight and mind control.

[Google Monster]

I choose adding 300 years to my life. Assuming that i still look no older than 40 during most of those years. You can do alot of things with almost 322+ years of life. Of course you would out live your loved ones and a coupke other generations and see over 6 billion people die within the first 100 years and more during the 200 years well depending if the population doesn't decrease during the first 100 years. I would have 300+ years of bring as much peace as i could.

[Salad]

300 years to your life...

what if there is a nuclear disaster within the next 10 years and it annihilated everyone? wouldn't that get a little lonely, even for an intp? (is this a backfire clause?)

that brings up another question, would you be invincible during those 300 years? i would assume yes, but maybe you'd just have to be really careful not to put yourself in harm's way.



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[antireconciler]

I didn't vote because I despise unreality: as with magic or comic-book stuff, it is cheating since you match yourself against those who have not the same powers as you. And if you lived in a world where the impossible happened, where with magic you could turn people into dragons, or with comic-book fantasy a small girl could beat up strong violent men, apart from the fact you would be delusional, it could easily be a very uncertain and lousy world to live in.

Why not? No more kid left in you? As if the world is somehow certain. Outer reflecting inner: as if your mind is somehow certain, known, static, or determined.


You realize your body is dying, but you don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how to climb out of your head. All you hear are voices of others' memories, and smells of another's childhood - you feel the sorrows and joys of the generations.

Before your death, a scene - a memory - flashes before your eyes. The memory is not your own.

And all is well. There was no more "you" to die.


what if there is a nuclear disaster within the next 10 years and it annihilated everyone? wouldn't that get a little lonely, even for an intp? (is this a backfire clause?)

You'd be surprized at your own adaptability, and I don't mean by suppressing parts of yourself. Besides, of all ways for humanity to be wiped out, self-induced complete annihilation is something I find exceedingly low in probability, reletive to other methods.

[Google Monster]

Plus if that happend you can probaly work on advancing the things that do survive. Like helping out the cochroaches. And when you come up with a new theory there would be no one to say your wrong. And every sport you play you are the best at it. You will be a perfect human being since you are the only human being.
Plus other powers would do no good if everyone died in 10 years anyway.

[Vagabond]

(Haven't read the rest of the posts, I have to do some serious catching up when I get back home...)

Reading minds. Definitely. I have been wishing for this ever since I was 5 or something.

[Hunter]

Mind Control...oh so very much fun...

[Ckyzxr]

Mind Control no doubt. Alot of the others become moot with this power and the those that don't I'm not particularly interested in.

[Horger]

Actually my ideal is to have Superman's powers. I think he's just about the most rounded and best superhero.

But I picked flying.

[greenintp]

Without hesitation: Shapeshifting

I was very surprised more people didn't vote for this. I think it's a natural choice for people with a strong ability to mirror others.

I've wanted to be able to "shape-shift" since my childhood.

[Boozer]

I went for the IQ, though I must say I was sorley tempted by many of the choices. I went for IQ because... why just be smart when you can be be a genius.

Plus that way I can invet time travel and immortallity etc, or prove they are impossible! Mwahahaha!