Immortality.
Don’t even try all the lame excuses about why it is a bad thing. You know who comes up lame excuses? People who are mortal.
- I will never get bored
- I will accept that everyone I know will eventually die
- I am not worried about being trapped in a hole or something because fuck it I will just carry around a collapsible shovel
- I am not worried about heat death because I will just solve entropy Asimov style.
- If they sentence me to life imprisonment I will just wait them out. Also point out to the judge who sentences me that eventually I will get out since no civilization lasts forever
- And if humanity goes extinct I will just remake humanity from my cache of stored fertilized eggs and artificial wombs that I had like a billion years to get working.
I got two things to say.
Are you ok with this potential future?
And take me with you.
Yes I am okay with it. Sisyphus is happy.
Also I will take you with me.
Legit, in the real world, wolverine’s healing factor is the most useful. Other stuff is about tricks. His kind of healing means no cancer, no Alzheimer’s, no strokes, no heart attacks, nada. A long, healthy life free of disease of almost any kind.
The only drawback is the semi-immortality. A long life watching others die would suck hard. It’s already bad enough with a regular life span.
I should re-watch Logan
I can’t wait for Deadpool and Wolverine, from the previews this Wolverine is in a similar headspace as Logan Wolverine.
Hammerspace.
Be able to pull out whatever I happen to need at the time from out of nowhere.
…do you ever need an RKO?
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shapeshifting
depending on how realistic you want to keep it the benefits go from “pretty nice” to “god amongst men” level:
- backpain? just fix your back
- toothache? grow new teeth
- don’t feel like going to the hairdresser? shift into a different hairstyle
- gender problems? forget HRT you can make hormones science doesn’t even know about
- aging is no more (if you want)
- donate all the blood you want! hell you can donate your heart if you find a doctor that doesn’t ask questions
- mental fog getting you down? just fuckin change your brain. “is it still me after?” don’t know don’t care now go revolutionize physics Einstein
- grow a tail
the possibilities are endless
Or just wish to be a Q.
Just a bunch of weird spinning snakes in a light with fog? No thanks
With gender dysmorphia wouldn’t it be better just to morph your whole body to align with your gender identity instead of just the hormonesp p
yea probably, i said that cos it funny :3
What if you shift into an inanimate object? Do you just no longer exist? Can you change back?
The way it always works in media, no. They retain their consciousness and ability. I suppose they COULD do that if they chose, though it would basically just be killing themself.
I’d take Wolverine’s healing powers. I have a few chronic injuries that I wrestle with, and it would be amazing to be free of pain. I’d also be able to be reckless again like I was when I sustained said injuries. It would also be pretty cool to smoke cigars, inhaling them the whole time, eat 10 pounds of bacon each week, and other generally deadly behaviors that could be quite enjoyable.
The older people are, the more they will appreciate that.
Probably, like Deadpool, your injuries would keep regenerating back to their current state.
If that happens to me, I’m coming for you, for cursing me!
Teleporpation including the clothes I’m wearing, whatever I’m bringing, and whoever I’m holding. No more dealing with traffic and parking, can travel anywhere in the world in an instant, can get into concerts/shows without tickets, and lots of other useful conveniences.
So, Jumper.
The ability to stop time and still interact with the world. Do you know how many books I have on my TBR?
Ok, but you still can age? so imagine being much older than your peers, they’ll think you’re sick …lol
Hey…TommmmmmHOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOU???
What?
You were 25 about 30 minutes ago…now you look 92. What the fuck…
Oh, yeah. That. I was just, ya know…jackin it.
Jesus Tom!!! How hard did you nut!!!
Wouldn’t you still age if you’re operating outside of stopped time? People are going to think that you’re suddenly aging rapidly.
Please don’t poke holes into my fantasy.
Haha! Fair enough. It’s your fantasy, so you determine the physics of it.
I wouldn’t care. I’d walk out into the world to go see stuff and maybe change some things. I wouldn’t stay still or build a life with those powers.
Otherwise, you could look at Howard families by Heinlein for the solution. Which is also to move before people notice, but staying put for periods of time at a time.
Time stop can also be used for bad things like r**e and murder
I mean, it can? Feel like most super powers can be used for bad things. That’s where all of the good guys get bad guys to fight.
With great power must come great responsibility
Time control. I think it’s the most powerful one.
God’s omnipotence, from the Bible.
And if that’s not ok, then Avatar bending powers.
You couldn’t find a more contradictory mythos if you tried, lol.
God is omnipotent? Well…that explains why Mary was still a virgin.
From Star Trek TNG, I would pick Q’s power
Congratulations, you’re now a great trumpet player.
Just make the the founding member of the Q Continuum. I’ll fuck off and leave humans alone.
It was just one line but I loved when someone told Q that he was a trickster god to a planet from how much he messed with them in the past.
The implications of that. Ok, without the Marvel movies I highly doubt even 10% of the human race knows what Loki is about. Q was the trickster god for an entire planet. Billions of people knew the legend of Q. He must have been doing stuff to them for thousands of years all across their society. Take the most well known people in history there is still a big possibility that most people hadn’t heard of them a century or so ago.
Q was bigger to them than Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, the Emperors of China, the Monarch of the UK, Plato, and Santa combined to this species.
Honestly this is a pretty good one. It’s basically the “any technology of sufficient complexity is indistinguishable from magic” answer. The Q Continuum were a weird mix of magic/super powers, and even demonstrated the ability to gift those abilities to others at will.
Nightcrawler teleportation. Could solve so many problems in this world caused by those who see themselves as untouchable…
Spatial/Dimensional magic from most things that have spatial magic in them. It gives you the ability to teleport, create portals, create/use your own inventory, and even teleport to other worlds.
I want a Save and Load feature for myself in regards to reality.
You should see the Vat of Acid Rick and Morty episode if you haven’t already.
Do I get the power without possible strings attached? I’d totally be down to be a genie like in Aladdin, so long as I could choose my first “customer”. Having to live inside a itty bitty lamp would definitely suck, tho.
At least it’s rent free.
Come on… would your first customer be YOURSELF? :)
I’d actually pick my dad, having studied law he’d have a hell of a fun time thinking about how to circumvent the equivalent of a wish’s EULA.
