Not one that I think I would actually want, but one I’ve thought a lot about is absolute bodily autonomy in the same way that you can control any aspect of your body consciously but without deliberate thought then it’ll default back to unconscious control. Want to grow taller? Start kicking that system back into drive. Want to lose weight? Start absorbing energy less efficiently or burning more calories fruitlessly. Have a random pain? Start to monitor that area and sensing for any particular anomalies.
If the control can go all the way down to the microscopic level then you’d be a walking advancement factory for every medical field. The primary issue would be trying to make practical recreations of the medicines and procedures you’d help create, and even then you could try bioengineering cells to recreate your medicines and procedures. You’d also likely be able to effectively never age by correcting the errors in your cell reproduction. With enough time and effort you could probably spawn a clone of yourself to go out and continue to help others.
If you allow the caveat that this also works on anyone/anything that you can touch, then the limit for what you can cure or at least aid with is bound only by what you can touch, analyze, and solve in time.
Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.
I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.
This, but with selective abstraction.
I could just manipulate raw electricity signals, but if i need to i can see the flow of assembler instructions running through the CPU, or even the same code in some high-level language modeled on my brain pattern.
As en electronics engineer I’m going to “Yes But…” this and say that the lower the voltage/current you’re trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you’re trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.
So whilst this would be possible you’d have to:
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Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they’re in
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Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.
With enough practice and meditation you get a “feel” for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you’ve learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it’s just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.
This way you don’t start out overpowered and there’s a high skill ceiling.
(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)
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I would like the ability to remove other people’s superpowers, please, and thank you
Basic telekenisis. I want to be able to move object(s) with my mind. This can include me, also giving me a base level of flight.
It would just be so convenient. Nothing is ever out of reach again.
To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she’s barking at me for help getting up and walking.
So I can explain to my boy dog why we don’t go on walks as often or as far, why he can’t rough house with her anymore.The ability to manipulate probability.
Get the green light, getting you some where on time. Somehow manage to tickets to a sold out concert. Boss just extended a deadline to allow you to get the work done. Score the prefect seats on an airplane. No delays when taking a train.
scarlett witch and dominos mutant ability is probability manipulation, i think thats what makes her chaos magic so more stronger because of her mutant abilities
Probability manipulation seems like just being able to transfer your consciousness into whatever multiverse contains the outcome you prefer. All the other versions of you still experience all the bad outcomes, but you get to surf through your best guess at the ideal one.
like how she made the bomb not explode when she was young, that was prior to her gaining magic. i think reality warping is more potent form of probability manipulation.
Probably manipulation is not guaranteed or its not really probability manipulation if its always 100% the power you are actually think about is destiny.
extreme cum
how extreme?
Like 3.6 roentgen.
Shapeshifting has always sounded like it would be a trip. Teleportation or similar also sounds super fun, and could have actual practical applications.
I guess you didn’t set a limit on how OP it could be, so I could just go for genie wish granting. Although, I can only imagine how zero challenge on literally any activity would fuck with my mental wellbeing.
Not flying, super strength or laser vision. Too much like tools we already have.
Is third person empath a thing? Like being able to have what one person is experiencing be felt emotionally by another person? I would do that, then really fuck up the day of an ICE agent.
The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.
Criminally under rated movie.
That is still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It’s so good! It got so much flak but I really enjoyed it. The concept was very interesting and I really wanted to see where it could’ve gone. I felt like they could’ve done better in the movie but still, I’ll take what I can get.
I always wondered why the jumpers were even struggling against the paladins, though. I mean… they could jump literally anywhere in the world instantly. How are the paladins even able to catch up at all even with the tech they had? It was ridiculous. They also didn’t use guns? I didn’t get it, lol.
Every poop is a no-wiper.
It’s called fiber supplements
My superpower choice is to convert all of BlueberryWalnut’s no-wipers into butt mud like wet red Georgia clay.
The power to instantly, constantly, automatically, and effortlessly transmute the bone marrow of every single individual on Earth who is being harmful to humanity’s progress and wellbeing (fascists, billionaires, global warming denialists, mimes, and so on) into molten lead.
Damn, what do you have against mimes?
I would like to take a screenshot of your reply and the parent comment. May I?
No issue from me. Especially if I can get an answer about the mime hate.
Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.
I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.
Hmm, reminds of this part of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
immortality but I can die if I want to.
Teleportation. Most superpowers would be either useless on a day-to-day basis or - as another commenter suggested - would make you too inhuman to continue to have meaningful interpersonal relations with other normal humans.
And it would allow you to have a croissant in Paris for breakfast, spend the morning strolling along a beach in the Caribbean, pop across to a great barbecue place in Texas for lunch, pass the afternoon exploring the ruins of Pompei before an evening meal of scallops in Hobart. Even just not worrying about the daily commute, always being able to 'port home to use your own toilet during the day, just mundane stuff like that would be grand.
depends on which kind of teleportation, interdimensional or matter transporting in the same reality. Nightcrawlers and azazel teleportaiton is all interdimensional, so more advanced(at least azazels teleportaiton is more advanced than nightcrawlers, because he can teleport anywhere even if he never been there. Or like dofp apocalypse, teleportation bubble forms and it teleports you to another location, cons is it takes a long time to form it, but benefits from teleport multiple people without any straining.
