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01-12-2010, 02:34 AM | #1 |
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if you could have one super power
what would it be?
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01-12-2010, 07:04 AM | #2 |
i'm horny for hex
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Ability to absorb and properly understand/cope with/digest knowledge.
Lame, but it would do so much for me. edit: I bet my twist would be I am in a vegetative state. |
01-12-2010, 06:47 PM | #3 | |
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Me raditz and a few other friends discussed this topic while camping. The question in its full form was: -------------------- If you could have any 3 powers what would they be? They have to have an example based on a famous fiction. (comic, movie, television, book) You can't gain ALL the powers from one person and it count as 1 power. For example you could choose superman's strength, x-ray vision, and flight as your 3 powers but you couldn't choose "superman" as 1 power. Also note you can only have 3 of his powers you don't get his freeze breathe, ability to time travel, saran wrap 's', ect. If a power you choose has a downside directly related to it you inherit that downside. For example if you chose wolverine's adamantium coated skeleton you would also die from it since that procedure must be accompanied by wolverine's healing factor. Lastly and possibly most importantly your powers will be for real world use. No one else will have a power and your life from day to day will be the same, unless you choose to go public with your abilities. -------------------- The discussion got pretty in depth and lasted a couple of hours and then came up again with new ideas on the drive home. Stormy, your power actually came up in our discussion. In order to play by the rules set we used micah's cousin from heros who could see/read how to do something and then could do/know it perfectly. |
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01-13-2010, 08:58 AM | #4 | ||
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There's a pretty good show over here that was on E4 recently, called Misfits. It's like Heroes without the cheerleader: a group of inner-London kids doing community service get stuck in a strange storm which grants them powers based on their personalities, and which they cannot control. So, for example, the shy character turns invisible when he feels ostracized or forgotten. There's only one season right now, with six episodes, but a second season is in the makes. |
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01-14-2010, 02:41 PM | #5 | |
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don't even pretend.
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01-16-2010, 08:46 AM | #6 | |
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I'm not 15 anymore...
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And the idea behind Sylar, IIRC, was that he was modeled as a cannibal/zombie who ate people's brains in order to steal their powers. |
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01-14-2010, 03:20 PM | #7 |
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Healing - Wolverine (I could GET the exoskeleton, it's not a power)
Mastery of time and space - Hiro (it's one power. Do I get a brain tumor?) Super Strength - Superman (no real drawback)
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01-15-2010, 04:16 PM | #8 |
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It was a medical procedure making him nearly indestructible. It may not have been a mutant power but indestructible bones still falls under a power for the sake of this discussion. If we didn't count medical procedures that granted extraordinary abilities we would cut off a whole avenue of possibilities.
Although wolverine's healing was considered by all of us at one point we starting considering the fact that we would have to watch everyone we know die of old age including our own children. After that we all agreed we'd rather have a better quality of life power rather than quantity of life. We discussed this as well and, yeah I'm pretty sure you do get a brain tumor. I would argue your healing factor cancels this out though. Time travel can be granted in other ways as well. I think all of us took time travel in one shape or another at first until we tried to get practical uses out of it. I think everyone who took time travel ended up taking something else after discussing what you could do with that ability in real world application in comparison to more specific solutions to achieve the same goals. Last edited by heX : 01-15-2010 at 04:18 PM. |
01-18-2010, 10:34 AM | #9 |
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I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips - great big Knowledge Network Documentary bolts - and when a person was zapped by one of these bolts, they'd fall down on their knees, and once on their knees, they'd be underwater, in this place I saw once off the east coast of the Bahamas, a place where a billion electric blue fish swam up to me and made me a part of their school - and then they'd be up in the air, up in Manhattan, up above where the World Trade Center was, with a flock of pigeons, flying amongst the skyscrapers, and then - and then what? And then they'd go blind, and then they'd be taken away - they'd feel homesick - more homesick then they have felt in their entire life - so homesick they were throwing up - and they'd be abandoned, I don't know...in the middle of a harvested corn feild in Missouri. And then they'd be able to see again, and from the edges of the field people would begin to appear - everybody they'd ever known - and they'd be carrying Black Forest cakes and burning tiki lamps and boom boxes playing the same wonderful song, and the sky would turn into a sunset, the way it does in Walt Disney World brochures, and that person that I zapped would never ever be isolated or alone again.
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01-18-2010, 07:28 PM | #10 | |
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01-19-2010, 08:57 AM | #11 | |
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01-25-2010, 10:04 AM | #12 |
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its from All families are psychotic by douglas coupland.
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02-01-2010, 07:03 AM | #13 |
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i wish i had my copy of that with me here in VN; it would be nice to read again. i couldn't recall which
book, or if you were just paraphrasing or inspired by it, but i could definitely pick up on the Coupland vibe. (i just finished reading Generation A, so his style was still fresh in my memory) my ultimate super power would be: to be the mod of the Miscellaneous forum at TTT |
02-10-2010, 03:54 AM | #14 |
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other than cid, no one here has any imagination.
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02-12-2010, 08:11 PM | #15 |
hex can see my boobs
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Pretty sure you're wrong, because Josh obviously DOES.
Josh wins. |
02-13-2010, 06:37 PM | #16 |
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02-14-2010, 01:29 AM | #17 |
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yeah i didnt even type it out i copy-pasted it
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