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)

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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    53 minutes 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.

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      47 minutes 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.

  • the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world
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    2 hours 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.

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      58 minutes 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.

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    7 hours ago

    The drawbacks probably wouldn’t be worth it, unless I underestimate my willpower, but having a power from an “in the planning phase” work I’m working on wouldn’t be the worst. Specifically the power of the main characters chief rival.

    To keep it brief, he’s pretty damn smart while also having long horns he can bend and contort like nothing. The catch is that the use of his power slowly kills him over time. He, like all the other superpower like users, is the result of the fusion of someone traveling to another dimension with someone else.

    Due to low willpower, the guy has full control over the host and I am a little worried my willpower wouldn’t be able to outshine his. Then I’d be trapped inside a transformed version of my body without any control while a madman tries to recreate the transdimensional travel back to his dimension. All while my life is slowly drained away.

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    10 hours ago

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

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    16 hours 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

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    22 hours 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.

    edit for grammar

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      19 hours 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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      10 hours 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?

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        55 minutes 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.

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      17 hours ago

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

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    23 hours 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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      19 hours ago

      Based on the books you need an exact sense of the place. Not just sight, but smell and feel. The place needs to absolutely unique, in your mind. The photos are primarily an aid to recall.

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    1 day 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.

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    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.