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.
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My answer to this question is always teleportation, including my clothes and anyone I’m touching (and their clothes). And the ability to not appear inside solid objects. No more traffic. No more passports or visas. No more long multi-hour drives or long haul flights.
Have fun figuring out the point of reference of your new powers. It would be hillarious if it was not the nearest grvitational well. Earth moves, the sun moves, our galaxy moves. Watch it be not the most obvious thing, and you teleport into empty space.
…and that always comes up as a response. Ok fine, I’ll add another line to the fine print: The ability to teleport at the exact place I want to be. If you want to counter that still, then make it places I’ve been to before. It will limit my destinations, but it still saves me time and effort. I’ve never been to France, but I’ve been to Germany, so that still reduces my travel from almost a day of flying and layovers to a train ride.
Place you want to be is a better caveat. Places you have been before is counterable with the original argument since when you account for space on a universal level every Place is a new place
extreme cum
Be able to do stuff, at will.
Teleport. See the world, visit everywhere, without enduring planes,trains,cars , nipping home for a quick 15minute alone time and being able to sleep in my own bed every night.
This is the best super power hands down. If you get a space suit, you could even jump to the moon. And in a single night every despot and dictator could be dealt with.
Every poop is a no-wiper.
My superpower choice is to convert all of BlueberryWalnut's no-wipers into butt mud like wet red Georgia clay.
I’ve always liked the idea of time manipulation- stopping, starting, speeding up, slowing down, rewinding time. It has a lot of uses like giving me as much time as I need to get ready in the morning and doing good in the world in ways I won’t mention.
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.
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.
To always have the right amount of change in my pocket
Don't really want to be rich, just always have enough
attractive
Ability to give people taste buds wherever I think is funniest at the time
The older I get, the more I'm sure it's healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn't have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.
Flight. I wanna fly, but I guess you’d also need invulnerability since you would crash a lot
The ability to reset my life from and resume from any "save point".
For the purposes of this power there are two kinds of "save points":
Why? Who hasn't indulged in the what-ifs of life? What if I can revisit certain points in my life and relive those what-ifs myself?
Bend probability to my will.
Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.
like scarlet witch, and domino, they both manipulate probabilities.
If you were invisible, would food matter that was inside your body but not of your body be invisible, or would it appear to float in mid air? Also, at what point would it count as processed enough to be part of you and invisible? E.g. would elements of the blood be visible; what about fecal matter? Or is the cut-off when these things pass through the ring of your mouth and sphincter?
The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.
Criminally under rated movie.
I want to know how and what to say to other people to convince them to do what I ask. So like not full manipulation or mind reading but like social engineering turned up to 100!
Voluntary Immortal. Meaning I can die if I want to badly enough. I'd like to just observe all the remaining time humans are a thing without having to worry about mortal body maintenance and food.
Hyperintelligence?
It's a gamble. But if you can survive long enough to cobble some tech together, you're basically a god.
...Time travel is a close 2nd. Also powerful, but risky.
Adaptability.
Get a cut? Your skin adapts to no longer have that happen. Get shot? You’re now bulletproof. Cancer? Your body adapted before it could even get slightly serious. Muscles that build faster without needing to do much more than lift a heavy weight a few times.
Saw it in a book called Superhuman way back in the day. Cool concept.
Honestly? Dr. Manhattan level atomic mastery. Because, if we're essentially talking wishes here, what's better than being your own unfettered genie, essentially? 🤷🏼♂️
Hands down something like magik (marvels magik, ie illayan rasputin, ie colossuses sister) where you can teleport and get your own dimension. Its basically like having the tardis as an innate power.
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