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If you couple have any 'superhero' power, what would you have? I would take telekinesis. I hate having to get up to pick up the remote and stuff. And it would really come in handy for turning on and off the lights. And just think of the great party tricks you could do.
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There's always that one that with one wish likes to get unlimited wishes...
I would take Havok's unequaled plasma-bursts, Cannonball's blast-shield and flight, Wolvie's healing-factor and X-Man's old leather-jacket.
This is just from the top of my head. Of course psi-powers are high up on the list but if I write that I want all Cable's psi-powers as well it get's a bit too powerful, y'know? Like starting Diablo with a full plate-mail, a bastard sword and an indestructible shield. It's not fair.
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fructose1: Have you read any marvel or have you just seen the movie? Cuz you have quite a lot of powers to choose from, you know? And you choose to grab the remote, flick switches and do party-tricks???? *conneryspeak* "Not a fan of adventuring, are ya', old boy?"
In Uncanny X-Men of late, there's a puerto-rican doctor that can form a deflector shield around her body and protect her from incoming objects. She ignores her mutant-side though and neglects training.
But in a late edition, by reflex she flexes her shield in a fight, resulting in it breaking down in hundreds of plasma-darts, impaling the opponent. That bothered her, as she has sworn not to kill. But that skill could be awesome if it were wielded by someone like Cable!!! Muuch food for thought, how she will proceed.
Oh, and this should go to General Sci-Fi, like all other X-Men stuff. It needs the traffic.
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Well, For my own storytelling purposes, I long ago created a character, "Sin," who was half-Demon (but a good guy), and could draw upon the "Dark Energies" for use as a weapon with extremely destructive potential, or a nearly impenatrable shield. He could fly, transmute from human to a more 'demonic' form (under duress), and was close to being invulnerable.
But... he was unstable, isolated, depressed, and had some VERY powerful enemies.
If I could have the powers but none of the downside (I'm already isolated and depressed quite enough, thankyou), I'd be him. Think of the good I could accomplish / the FUN I could have!
*changes to demon form, knocks on Pat Robertson's door at 2 AM* BOOGA-BOOGA!!!
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I'd like to become an inanimate carbon rod. Nobody suspect the carbon rod.
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Well, I guess a carbon rod could have butterfly wings, but then you'd really be more like a 'bullet with butterfly wings', which of course everybody suspects
DAMN YOU SMASHING PUMPKINS, Billy Corgan and your little bald head...
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I'd like to have the power "Irresistability to Super Models."
On a more canonical level, probably the best powers would be those that could do the most with the least personal risk:
sure, you can lift a car over your head, but will that cure cancer?
You can fly, throw fireballs, whatever, but does that end the international heroin trade? You can stop maybe one or two bank robberies in your home town, but what about all the others?
If you could control peoples minds, turn them toward good and away from Prime Time TV, think of the good you could do. Maybe shapeshifting? Become a famous celebrity or politician, except with a brain andconscience. Inspire people, get things done.
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And who watches the watcher?
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I'd take the ability to charge random objects, hence making them explode on contact. I could make people's head's explode just by touching them.
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Just don't touch yourself or you might explode.
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