I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
Shape-shifting
You feel it, and it hurts as much as you’d imagine rearranging bones should hurt.
Was it Fringe that had that? I can’t remember. I just remember them having to break their own bones to shift.
You keep your original face.
DLSchichtl-o-pus!
You can shift the shape of your body, but nothing else. Your skin and all surface stuff stays the same.
Byakuya < Fat Byakuya
EDIT: Bug report! Guess I can’t use greater than/less than symbols on Connect
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Always accompanied by a horrifying metallic scraping sound that can be heard a mile around
“Old haunted factory outside of town is screaming again…”
Omnipotence!
Impotence!
The joke is on you. I’m already impotent!
You have no power here
You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry
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
When using your power you get uncontrollable diarrhea
I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.
Side effect: you’re never prepared for the move they will be making next.
Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they’d make after taking your mom/dad on a date
You can see a person’s next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.
First commentor missed the Cassandra side effect: you can do nothing to change it and no one believes you.
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
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.
It only works when your eyes are closed.
Oh man that’s a good one. So much for driving all those vacant Ferraris
Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.
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
I like it especially if it works like a switch. Imagine how perfect your naps would be. You’d never oversleep.
Do you age while time is stopped? If so, might want to rethink those perfect naps. I’d 100% abuse it though.
Air particles also frozen
Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.
This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
Depending on how long you can hold your breath it might give you some extra time to think.
And can’t breathe
The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
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You were born without fingertips and can’t do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.
No one will give you a passport.
Damn, you really hate him don’t you?
Not to be that guy, but one can still get a passport without finger tips, or arms for that matter.
Not to be that guy, but your butthole has a print just as unique as a fingerprint.
Yeah I didn’t need my fingerprints scanned at all for a passport. Just my picture.
the power to make plants grow faster
You age proportionally to the plant until the effect is done.
i.e. make a plant that takes 10 days to grow to maturity grow in the span of 2 days, you age 10 days in those 2 days
Excess consumption of nutrients rapidly depletes the soil causing biome collapse
Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
You get type 1 diabetes
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.
Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you’d better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium
You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.
“Bullshit, dude.”
“I’ll show you…” Downs an entire bottle of Viagra, maintains an erection for exactly 3 hours 59 minutes
I will always have full knowledge of everything and know how to do anything
You become completely physically disabled, almost a complete vegetative state, and can’t physically do any of it.
I’ll know how to construct a full exoskeleton with a brain interface and communicate the instructions to someone who can build it for me. Just look at how well Stephen Hawkins fared
You never get to use the power for your own enjoyment because people will never leave you alone…you will constantly assaulted with questions because everyone knows you have the answers. You have no peace.
Damn you got me… This sounds horrible
Thanos snap that targets right wingers.
Only those that aren’t racist.
The snap makes them even louder and more obnoxious.
Free frogurt with your choice of toppings.
Potassium Benzoate
The power to teleport 1m forwards.
Your clothes and anything you are carrying don’t teleport with you
Everything in the whole universe also moves 1m forwards at the same time
The object nearest you is also teleported to the same location as you but 1 meter above your head. It could still work in your favor if the object nearest you is a hat!
If we count clothes as objects then each time they teleport they’d be butt naked with their underwear on their head.
I am 100% okay with that.
Forwards is relative to the direction the Earth is traveling around the sun.
I can inflict my current emotional state at will on other people of my choosing.
Anytime you use this power, immediately afterwards you feel everyone in a half mile radius’s feelings at 200% intensity at the same time.
That seems like a cascading landslide of horniness.
Not with my depression it ain’t.
Touche.
Powe of kicking cures diabetes.
Kicking causes your legs to fall off.
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Telekinesis.
Side effect: you have a 25% chance of your pants and underwear being affected instead of your desired target.
Granted. You also have prostate cancer.
In order to manipulate objects with telekinesis, you sever the link between the object and the earths gravitational pull.
Every object you use your power on now has the ability to drift and float away if not strapped down.
This includes, but is not limited to: people, animals, and buildings.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
