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Posted by Atlantis (Member # 8788) on :
 
In my youth I often fantasized about having “supernatural” powers (as most of us have…). And after much thought and reflection I decided that the power of flight would be my #1 choice if I was ever offered to have any one superpower.

What would be yours?
 
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
 
regeneration. as much as i would want to have something extra that normal people wouldnt, i think being able to heal from almost any wound would be better.
 
Posted by Parsimony (Member # 8140) on :
 
How many times do we have to have this thread? [Smile]

--ApostleRadio
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
See, knowing that would be a fun superpower.
 
Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
 
the power to manipulate quantum strings
 
Posted by dem (Member # 2512) on :
 
As I get older...the power to stop hair from growing on various parts of my body seems very desirable.

I guess I would need to be able to both cause and stop growth on myself and others for the power to reach 'super' level.
 
Posted by Eluj (Member # 8327) on :
 
The power I would like to have is the power to go without sleep... there just seems to be too much to do and not enough waking hours in the day.
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
I'd like to be my own scriptwriter.
 
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
Regardless of whatever I said in any previous of one of these threads, right now I'd like to be a shapeshifter.

Not to make me look like anyone other than me, but to make me look better. Younger. Thinner. Maybe even shapeshift away some of my (minor) health problems.

Pix
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Yeah, shapeshifting would be my power of choice too. Specifically, I'd like to have exactly the abilities that Anwanyu has in Wildseed.

Teleportation is a reasonably close second.
 
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
The power to Save the World.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
When I was a little girl, I was always having fantasies of having superpowers.

If I was in the shower, I would let the water run down my arm and off my outstretched fingers, and pretend to be Super Water Girl, able to have water flow from my outstretched fingers.

If I had bubble gum, I would pretend to be Super Bubble Girl, able to blow enormous bubble gum bubbles that could enable me to float off the ground.

But, if I could pick any super power, I would go with the power to miraculously heal the sick and injured.
 
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Healer
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
quote:
If I was in the shower, I would let the water run down my arm and off my outstretched fingers, and pretend to be Super Water Girl, able to have water flow from my outstretched fingers.
I did the EXACT SAME THING. Except, well, Super Water Boy. I think.
 
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
 
Every time I see this post I hear "Wonder Boy" from Tenacious D in my mind.
quote:
Now it's time for me to tell you about Young Nastyman,
archrival and nemesis of Wonderboy, with powers comparable to Wonderboy.
What powers you ask? I dunno, how 'bout the power of flight?
That do anything for ya? That's levitation holmes.
How 'bout the power to kill a yak, from 200 yards away...
with mind bullets! That's telekinesis, Kyle.
How 'bout the power, to move you?

[ROFL]
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
When I was a little girl, I was always having fantasies of having superpowers.

If I was in the shower, I would let the water run down my arm and off my outstretched fingers, and pretend to be Super Water Girl, able to have water flow from my outstretched fingers.

<blink> Wow. Me too. I mean, not with the nifty superhero name, but I used to do that as well.

Lisa
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
quote:

I did the EXACT SAME THING

quote:
I used to do that as well.
But, you've got to admit, that is about the lamest super power ever.
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Especially since the water didn't have much pressure rolling off my hand.

I used to move my arm around and fiddle with the angle to see how I could get the water to go the furthest out. Gawd, was I pathetic. <grin>
 
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:

I did the EXACT SAME THING

quote:
I used to do that as well.
But, you've got to admit, that is about the lamest super power ever.

Quite lame...But I did it as well.
 
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tante Shvester:

If I was in the shower, I would let the water run down my arm and off my outstretched fingers, and pretend to be Super Water Girl, able to have water flow from my outstretched fingers.

Hmm... I seem to get that power every time I go for a long run. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Until I was six years old, I was convinced that I could control fish with my mind.
 
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
 
Gambit's Cajun charm seems like a cool power. [Wink]

I'd like to be smooth like that.

-pH
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Um....Aren't you? You haven't struck me as particularly gawkish.
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:
Until I was six years old, I was convinced that I could control fish with my mind.

What made you decide you couldn't?
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
I'm guessing a failed fishing trip.
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
quote:

What made you decide you couldn't?

I realized they were responding to my hand motions. [Frown]
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
That must have been terribly disillusioning.
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Actually... I do have a superpower. The problem is that it works erratically. I can make things happen by hoping they won't. Conversely, I can make things not happen by hoping they will.

The problem is that if I'm at all conscious of using the power, it goes into the obvious infinite loop and crashes (buffer overload), letting things take their natural course. It's only when I forget the rule of "Speak your dream and kill it" that it works.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
That power doesn't sound all that super to me.

I DO think that you have Super Debating Power.
 
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
 
I'd like to be able to instantly read through osmosis - or diffusion, I suppose, would be the more correct terminology.

This power would not be used for fun, non-school reading, but only for the mountains of academic reading I have to slog through.

***

When I was six or seven, I was convinced that I could build myself wings and actually fly with them. I tested several models, but they all failed - luckily, I only jumped off my swing set and not the roof. [Wink]
 
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
I have been deemed a summoner by a fellow hatracker, for my ability to be talking about someone, and then they appear online, or to be thinking about a sertain song shortly before it plays, or a specific episode of a show before it is on.

Though personally i'd rather have superhuman speed, of course i'd mainly use it to get dishes done faster at work, or make food quicker.
 
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
<watches to see if that person comes online now>
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
[Wave]
 
Posted by Lynx (Member # 8760) on :
 
Man, all these healers and world savers... I must be an evil person because I'd want to be invisable so I could spy on people... or able to teleport.
 
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
I was just watching Lois and Clark before I give it back to rivka. *sigh* How do you choose? But really, the one thing that's always bugged me a little is Lois being that close to Superman and not realizing that he's Clark. That would be some power-- the power to convince everyone that you're someone you're not (or not someone you are.)
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
The power to wear a blue uniform underneath a white shirt and not have it be obvious.
 
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
 
Everytime I see this thread I expect it to be a discussion of the US and if another nation is going to rise to be a superpower or if we'll remain the only one.
 
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
I think the thing is that superman can see through walls, or see things hundreds of miles away like they were right in front of him, so no one expects him to have glasses.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Yeah. That's why I can never recognise him when he is disguised as mild mannered reporter Clark Kent.
 
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
 
No one's said the obvious.

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/stephen-lynch-superhero-lyrics.html

(some naughtiness mentioned)
 
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
The power not to procrastinate. Uhm. Yeah. Back to work. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
quote:
The power to wear a blue uniform underneath a white shirt and not have it be obvious.
That, too!
 
Posted by etphonehome (Member # 999) on :
 
Omnipotence for me, thank you very much.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Corwin:
The power not to procrastinate.

Yeah, I've been meaning ot order that poster...
 
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
What kept you from doing it?

Oh. Nevermind.
 
Posted by solero (Member # 8668) on :
 
super fast running, reflexs, thinking, and punching(im storng enought already)
 
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Parsimony:
How many times do we have to have this thread? [Smile]

--ApostleRadio

As many times as we need to express how much we would love to have such powers. Once again, I wish I could orb like Paige from Charmed, flight would also be a good thing.
 
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
As always, MST3K provides the answer.

Joel Robinson: What do you want for Christmas?
Tom Servo: I want to decide who lives and who dies.
Joel: Oh, I don't think so.
 


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