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Let us suppose that you fall into a lake of radioactive sludge. What powers would you develope?
I would take any of the following, to tell the truth:
I wouldn't mind being a dragon, you know, develope wings, fire breath, impenetrable scales, and the ability to disguise myself as myself whenever I wanted.
I also wouldn't mind being able to grow my unbreakable bones out of my skin to super pointy weapons, and regenerate rapidly (like Wolverine, you know, replenish the skin you just cut open)
Telekenisis/future seeing would be pretty cool.
And Time Control. Partly for the Time puns, but mostly because of just being able to control Time. (Eat a good burger? Rewind time and eat it again. Fighting someone? Fight him for 2 minutes, rewind time, and have your double attack him when he is vulnerable)
So what powers would Dakkites have, if they had powers?
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I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
Ever seen the movie "Jumper"? That's my new favorite choice of super power. The ability to teleport though distance and space really appeals to me, because there's a lot i'd like to see and do, but not waste the travel time.
"Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken!"
gorgon wrote:The power to have every super power that YOU haven't thought of.
No-prize to the first person who gets this reference.
Ha ha ! The prize is mine !
Note that reds8n isn't eligible for this contest.
DAMN YOUR EYES !
I'd go for either telekinesis or superspeed.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
gorgon wrote:
If I had to pick a more mundane power, I suppose it'd be flight.
Flight has got to be the worst power of all time (well, maybe better than Dazzler).
It seems cool and all, but you wouldn't be able to move much faster than driving. If you doubt that, next time you're driving down the highway at 65mph (105 km/h), try sticking your head out the window. That much wind hurts!
I have a potential shopping list of super-powers:
Invincibility
Super-sight
Super-strength
Super-accuracy
Super-atheltic ability
Flight
Super senses
An innate ability to build working weapons out of mundane objects (think Ork Mek Boy running around with a blender on a portable fan that spins around super fast and fires lasers at stuply high speeds)
Impenetrable Armour (Because when is shrugging off an RPG to the face as you walk through a military bunker or base in hulking platemail armour not cool?)
Self-ressurection
Fire magic (Kill it with fire!)
Telekenisis (Hang it upside down in mid-air and then kill it with fire!)
Super-scientific ability (at least up to the point where I can clone armies)
The ability to enchant weapons with magical properties (So I can't create power weapons, at least I can make a sword unbreakable, ever-sharp and have it cut through armour like it was paper)
and finally, Super-blacksmithing ability, so when i get sick of cleaving people in half, I can choose tof latten them with a hammer.
I would enslave the world and clone armies to wage wars upon whilst I wait until I perfect space travel and start an evil crusade into the stars, returning to Earth millions of years later and wreaking havoc upon whatever civillisation stands in my way! Or perhaps i'll retrun to them revering me as a God of legend, and I live on the moon, sentry to my worshippers and smiter of opposition.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I'd be the only person in the world without superpowers so therefore I'd be very rich and protected by all around me who'd feel sorry for me and pay me ridiculous amounts of money to be interiewed to be asked questions like;
"How does it feel to have no super powers" and "if you could have a super power what would you have?"
When I die I'd have billions attending my funeral and I'd be happy to leave all you lot who would be giddy on immortality, slowly draining the planet dry as it descends into chaos when you start fighting over the scraps.
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