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I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop any confrontation by yelling "enough!"

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Finally a plausible power.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It only works when your eyes are closed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.

Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...

tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ability to speak and translate between any languages

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You were born without fingertips and can't do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Immunity to internet-reply-based side effects

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

But Everyone loves you. Oh... wait....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How bout the power... to move you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You keep accidentally making random people's heads explode.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ability to controls technology with my mind.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you are extra susceptible to suggestion, don't turn off your adblocker ;)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they'd make after taking your mom/dad on a date

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can only do it with extreme violence

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ability to eliminate others side effects.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

They transfer to you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.

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