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The "pick a superpower" game needs rules, because otherwise, the best option is omnipotence.
That's what CYOA's are for, they are the complete game that this question teases but never delivers.
My favourite is https://cyoa.ltouroumov.ch/viewer/
I've spent hours of my life, every single day, just browsing its insanely long list of powers and trying to make various combos and synergies.
Omnipotence also needs to have rules. What if it doesn't come with omniscience? What if your powers are so immense that they're utterly impossible to control? You move the muscles you'd normally use to stand up, and your power shoots through your legs, shattering the planet.
This sounds like a potentially funny anime
That's basically the plot of Daily Life of the Immortal King. I would say it's worth a watch.
A very short one.
It's kind of a tacit rule that it's about comic book super powers so we don't go biblical with it, but I get it. Hell, marvel has reality benders. I use "pick a mutant power" so at least we're working in x-men lore.
If we are going X-men level mutant powers, I always thought an underappreciated one was Forge. You can basically fix any problem you have with technology. He could have built something that made Iron Man look like a tinker toy if he wanted to.
And still, something like Prof X is almost always the correct answer. IIRC he has the power to just make the entire world drop dead if he wants to
I mean, technically his power is telepathy, just dialed up to 11. You could probably specify limits on magnitude.
Any power can be OP if you up the magnitude of it all... E.g. I shapeshift into the sun, ending all life on earth.
I think shapeshifting is different from matter transmutation. So you're just be a big Sun made of flesh. Which would probably still bake the planet, but not for fusion reasons.
I think something as simple as: You can't break the law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of energy or exceed the speed of light would cut out most bullshit.