Be able to do stuff, at will.
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
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.
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.
extreme cum
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.
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.
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.
Anything I draw, becomes real.
The ability to convince people even the hardliners.
Flight. I wanna fly, but I guess you’d also need invulnerability since you would crash a lot
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.
I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.
If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you'd be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you'd be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that's what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.
You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don't want to play.
To know how my actions will affect the future and the brainpower to process the shear endless possibilities. The longer the time frame is the more powerful it gets.
Could go a bit like a butterfly effect: I know if I get a croissant this morning the store will run out and the assistant of some hedge fond guy won't be able to get him one. So, he's grumpy all day and crashes the marked.
More direct: I know how I have to throw the dice to win at the casino, which numbers I have to pick for roulette or the lottery.
Wandering into Fort Nox because I know when and where the guards are.
Brute forcing every password with the first try.
Knowing basically everything because, let's say the time frame is a week, there's a future in which I choose to read any one book, article or paper in that time and I know what's is in it. Everything not written I can get out of people. Get it through asking them, drug, seduce, or torture them without actually doing any of it because it's enough that there's a future where I could do that. Of cause I could just guess and see in which future I was correct.
With a timeframe of a year I could tell scientist what they would have achieved in that year with unlimited funding and leapfrog any discovery that way. Which could get continued ad nauseam, day one I tell them what they would have achieved after a year, day two I tell them what they would have achieved after a year with the knowledge of day one, etc.
Would make for a very boring super hero movie though. Solving all the problems before anyone even knew that there's one. Dispose all the problematic world leaders without getting caught and pulling all the money out of the stock market to solve world hunger.
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":
- autosave points (yearly, on one's birthday)
- regular save points (done at-will as part of the power)
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?
In order of preference:
- Immortality
- Shapeshifting
- The ability to look at something and immediately know what it is and what it's worth (would make flea market and thrift store visits a lot more efficient)
Immortality is such a mixed bag depending on the exact mechanics behind it.
You simply won't die of old age, but can be killed by anything that would kill a normal person? Probably fine.
Almost any other interpretation opens the doors for some absolutely horrific states of being that you're just unable to escape from.
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.
Super Siri that can answer any questions.
"How do I build a time machine?"
"Is there any hidden treasure around here?"
"How do I make myself immortal?"
Really close to mine: reach into my pocket and pull out whatever I want to. Time machine? Treasure? Functional immortality tied to my intent to live pill? Pants with a huge pocket so I can pull out this big thing that wouldn't fit in my normal pocket?
I enjoy the fact that at least one person was so offended by my idea that they had to downvote me.
Egotistical maniac that I am, I like to think they were enraged that I came up with the idea before them.
Or that they hate Apple so much that the mention of any of their products sends them into a blind rage.
But as to your comment. Wouldn't you get burns from all the pizzas in your pocket? And wouldn't Hackers - era Angelina Jolie suffocate in there?
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.
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