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If you had to choose, what would be most fun and/or useful power from a movie, TV show, cartoon, book, games, or mythos? Include any drawbacks of the power that the source adds into consideration

Separating the silly and serious analyses would also be nice. (see various videos, articles, etc. on how certain superpowers would actually kill you, e.g. stopping time would mean you couldn't breathe as the air cannot move)

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[-] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Fictional universe, including Christianity? Omnipotence then

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Omnipotence ofc. I will start by recreating logic itself such that it is possible for me to create a rock that is too heavy for me to lift it.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Path to Victory, from Wildbow's web serial Worm.

It's a two-part power. The first looks into the future to determine the exact set of steps necessary to accomplish any given goal, if it is at all possible to accomplish in any way. The second makes you execute those exact steps with zero chance of deviation or error.

It only fails when interfered with by another power also capable of seeing the future.

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This would definitely be mine too. Particularly if it was still jailbroken, as in the book.

In story, it could even cope with a lot of future sight powers. It was only the apex level ones that were on an even field with it.

The only downside is the erosion of your free will. It's hard to make your own choices when this power is available to make them all for you.

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[-] tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 13 points 2 weeks ago

Absolute control of atomic structures / telekinesis and psychic abilities.

The grandfather in the book Slipt. Amazing story.

This effectively allows:

Change chemical structures, transmutation, cure/remove illness

Cause strokes or embolisms from a distance with no evidence.

Hey that building full of people I didn't like is now glowing from extreme amounts of radiation! Almost like the cement became a hugely unstable isotope suddenly. Weird.

Within a few days, the world would be forever changed.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Don't know but my dog is rubbing herself against the couch and I'm thinking she is working her way up from godess of static cling to godess of thunder.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

I want whatever Saitama from One Punch Man have. It not just super strength and speed, its also invincibility, mindcontrol-proof, illusion-proof, or any mumbo-jumbo-proof.

If that's cheating, i want whatever King have.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, Saitama told you his training routine. What are you waiting for? Get to it.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'll take a TARDIS, thank you.

[-] remon@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'll take omnipotence. Not sure what the drawbacks would be.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone constantly asking you to do something for them that they bloody well could do themselves.

[-] remon@ani.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like a solvable problem. Hell, with omnipotence all of the problems are solvable!

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just leave it as "read".

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 4 points 2 weeks ago

You'd never be able to microwave a burrito so hot you couldn't eat it.

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[-] SpeedRunner@europe.pub 10 points 2 weeks ago

Any universe? I'd like to be Bruce Wayne. Not Batman. Bruce.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bad news for your parents.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Plot twist - op doesn't like their parents

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[-] scytale@piefed.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t remember if you have to have been to a place before in order to teleport there, but if that isn’t the case, Jumper (movie) would be nice. No more commuting and no more borders/passports.

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[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Even though it's not the most powerful thing in the world, I've always really vibed with Daredevil's powers. I like the idea of being hyper aware of my surroundings and being able to sense movement, even from far away, without seeing it. Also, great for tracking people.

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago

I want Domino's luck. All the rest of your powers can get fucked. I'm god's favorite.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, all the luck based powers seem ideal. Easy to also write off as just lucky!

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago

It even beats saitama and ainz because it's funny.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The powers of the Flash is nice, except for the destruction left in the wake of his movements.

Having the powers of Jumpers from the series by the same name seems to have good grounding as momentum is maintained during a jump getting passed the whole, earth and the solar system are moving not just earth rotating.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The ability to predict the future by concentrating on it.

Hello stock market.

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[-] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 7 points 2 weeks ago

Okay

Stopping time for everyone and everything except for myself and stuff I directly touch (but not people)

Found a loophole haha

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The world will be pitch black :)

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 3 points 2 weeks ago

Light travels usually.

It is also frozen

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

The not-selfish answer would be healing, with no arbitrary restrictions, preferably not attached to some divine power. Oh, you had leg torn off? Let me reattach that real quick. Got poisoned? I can cure that. You went blind? I can fix that...pass me some new eyeballs to attach.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Loved what Redo of healer did to make healer op. Id reccomend the gain experience/skills of ppl you are healing perk if possible.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

Superman style flight would be pretty chill. The biggest drawback I can see is how hard it would be to keep a good pair of sunglasses.

[-] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Without the super toughness, I have some bad news for you

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[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Power to create anything, and I do mean ANYTHING.

[-] HobbitFoot 5 points 2 weeks ago

But are we ready for a big-titty Yoshi whose struggle sounds have been changed so sound like a woman moaning?

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Franklin Richards. Mr Fantasic's son. He can create whole universes and bend reality to his will. He is almost always a kid because at full power how are you going to write a believable conflict?

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Always liked the saki or immortal king path of too op so has to actively nerf. So the conflict is not with others so much as within himself. Like godzilla trying to walk in NYC and not destroy anything cause he knows the value of life.

[-] the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Snap my finger, and all the narcissists, bullies, psychopaths, scammers, pedophiles, abusers of authority, and general dirtbags disappear and never come back. Imagine the world we would live in. Would be paradise.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Probably would be better if you just remove those traits from them. Less genocidal and more justice if they can finally understand wtf they were going and feel guilt. Like ghost riders ability.

[-] the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, just have them dissappear forever, fuck em.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Super-speed if the speedforce was where the energy came from. Without the speedforce, running at those speeds would ignite the atmosphere and kill everything. Even if I ran slower, the food intake would be insane.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Angel from Big O can literally rewrite reality.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Shapeshifting, from anything

but like, Alex Fierro's power from Magnus Chase, if I have to be specific lol

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] forestbeasts@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shapeshifting.

Doesn't need to be into any form, just "into your true form (and possibly back)" would be enough. I'm a wolf, lemme be a wolf, dammit, universe!

Being able to shift back would be convenient for when human society inevitably demands you look like a human or be treated as an Unthinking Worthless Lesser Object. Until society figures out how awful that is and cuts it out.

-- Frost

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe a Deathnote journal.

Less violent option would maybe be mind control at a distance.

If I could do a combo I'd have an eternal (meaning healthy, unkillable, etc) body with an ability to see up to 10 years in the future. Being able to wander anywhere and know when to be places to see major events or to help someone or be a stabilizing influence.

Imagine all the skills you could pick up and the places you could go, the things you could do, the experiences you could have. I wouldn't want to be the one with my name on a discovery, but I'd like being in the background helping it happen.

[-] ScriptSage@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've always been obsessed with the powers from Jumper. 100% that's what I'd go for every time.

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