Pick a Superpower

[Deleted member 84247]

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Sometimes silence is the right answer.

You right, I should be quiet starting now.

 

[DonHon]

Speed to super think of an idea to make a story LIKE DAAAAAMN

 

[RepresentingCaution]

With super rich, there's no need to spend ten minutes a day making money. Just enjoy life.

It's difficult to enjoy life without working for at least some of it. You know the rich kids who wind up shoplifting for thrills because skydiving doesn't cut it? There's pleasure in earning something, even if it only takes ten minutes.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

It's difficult to enjoy life without working for at least some of it. You know the rich kids who wind up shoplifting for thrills because skydiving doesn't cut it? There's pleasure in earning something, even if it only takes ten minutes.

If you shoplift and get away does that mean you earnt it?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

If you shoplift and get away does that mean you earnt it?

I think so. It's akin to the feelings we used to get from hunting and gathering and escaping a predator we encountered while out there.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I think so. It's akin to the feelings we used to get from hunting and gathering and escaping a predator we encountered while out there.

From now on, I will start earning everything in the shopping mall~

 

[RepresentingCaution]

From now on, I will start earning everything in the shopping mall~

I'm not endorsing shoplifting! I never shoplifted myself, but I did sneak a few treasures out of the lost and found while I was in middle school, and I think I got some of the same feelings doing that.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I'm not endorsing shoplifting! I never shoplifted myself, but I did sneak a few treasures out of the lost and found while I was in middle school, and I think I got some of the same feelings doing that.

I am sorry, mother. There will be no shopping here!

I am sorry, mother. There will be no shopping here!

I meant shoplifting, but this is better~

 

[Kenjona]

My Opinion and its is of course just My Opinion.

Super Strong:

1. Life can be a bit easier to work through for you than a normal person.
2. Sports becomes an option for riches. You would become the Highest Paid Center or defensive tackle on an American National Football team. Rugby you are either the Hooker or Number 8.
3. Strong people do not live any longer then a regular healthy person nor are they any richer than most people.
4. Super Strength does not stop bullets.
5. But being able to have new sex positions are cool. Unless your strength is a little to uncontrollable.

• Since Super Strong is usually coupled with Super Durable but in this case it is a separate power the following applies.

1. Physics causes you trouble. Yes, you can bench press the Empire State building, but if it goes even slightly outside of its structural integrity, you have one heck of a mess and lawsuits incoming.
2. You have two hands, yes you are strong enough to pick something up, but is it strong enough to stay together when you do that?
3. You can punch a boulder into dust, so what happens to your not invulnerable hands?

Super Fast:

1. This one is much better then Super Strong. Especially if were talking "The Flash" level of speed.
2. You can out think people. You are not smarter, you just literally think faster.
3. Never late to anywhere, no matter how far away. Unless you just have really bad habits (This would be my wifes issue).
4. Nearly any Sport is a lucrative career.
5. Off grid living is a very easy option for you, and you can live nearly anywhere in the world as everything is a few seconds at most commute to you.
6. You might be a lousy lay, slow down, slow down.

• Hopefully no aging side affects as some speedsters age faster when they go faster.

Super Durable/Invulnerable:

1. Note: I am going with true Invulnerability to everything.
2. No Sickness/Disease, No build up of injuries over time. You might not live any longer than an ordinary person, but you will not have the build up of problems that collapse most people before their actual times runs out.
3. War? I got your war right here bitch one shank at a time. Bombs for breakfast, bullets for snacks and nukes for dinner.
4. You are the ultimate Emergency Action representative. Oil Rig Fires at sea or on land; I am your man. Volcano eruption? Go in to help rescue those in need. Countries and companies would pay you to keep you on retainer.
5. Sports could be a good career, especially fighting ones, but without skills the first two would do better.
6. You may not get billionaire rich quickly, but there are situations out there where you would be very, very well paid.
7. Also since you're invulnerable, Bounty hunting could be a very lucrative career.

Super Intelligent:

1. This normally would be my first choice, now it fights with Invulnerable. If we are talking true Reed Richards smarts but an EQ & Common sense much higher than his, than yes this is the best power out there. Comics and Movies actually nerf his intellect; he comes off as dumb outside of I built this thing and now I have to think and build another thing to fight the problem the other thing caused.
2. IQ =/= EQ and you can make more money from a high EQ than a high IQ. If you have both, you are nearly godlike in potential, or will be soon. Though with the way the internet functionality has gotten, you do not need as much EQ/Common sense as you used to to succeed, but you do need enough of it not to cause world wiping issues.
3. Intellect, common sense, emotional aptitude, focus, are all different things and greatly effect how we deal with the world.

• Note: if it is less than Reed Richards intelligence level. Then I would go with Super Durable/Invulnerable as just being smarter would not give me anything much more than already have. Being smart is not as cracked up to be if you have issues that either cause it to narrow its focus to much or do not allow you to focus on anyone thing for long enough for it to be effective.
• You list the 100 smartest people in the world and very few of them become millionaires, none instant millionaires. Many have become very well off, but it took most of them time to get there. A very few are Billionaires and they are in Tech.

Super Beautiful/ Handsome:

1. Umm, well your gonna get laid more often.
2. Your gonna get more haters than with the other powers.
3. Your gonna get more stalkers.
4. But you can make money, a lot of money. If you can negotiate past all the sharks chumming for you.

The Super power I actually want.
A Game system where I get a certain amount of starting Super Heroic Points levels to buy/select my "Super Hero" abilities.