Which superpower do you think is the most practical, versatile, and useful?
Which do you think is the least practical and most useless?
What would be a good drawback to your superpower of choice?
edit: as in superman, batman, etc. powers, not nation state powers
- Perhaps Japan?
- I feel like the US is getting really close to this honor, but I would still name a different one. Not sure which.
- Germany being all anti-nuclear-powerplant without (in my opinion) good reason.
Might want to edit the post and clarify.
I assumed you were like x-ray vision or super hearing or flight or gravity control, etc.
Apparently others were thinking nation states, apparently, if I can’t have chronomancy, it’ll have to be gravity control.
Mind control is basically every power. Because if people believe something to be true, it is. Wanna fly, make the population think you just did. Invisible, same.
Downside is, you know the FACTUAL truth.
Worst superpower? I donno, farting every time you blink.
Mind control is basically every power. Because if people believe something to be true, it is. Wanna fly, make the population think you just did. Invisible, same.
Until someone asks you to fly so as to save lil timmy or something. Eventually, they’re going to figure that out. Can’t keep faking all the existence of all the lil’ timmies you “rescued”.
Worst superpower? I donno, farting every time you blink.
Explosive snot. Rocket powered flatulence. Meidas Touch*.
*I mean think about it. You can’t live off gold. everythign you touch turns to gold, so no food for you. Also. No sex for you… cuz, like… yeah. on the plus side, all the plus side, you could have a gawdy collection of statues of all the people you don’t like.
Mind control: Little Timmy never existed
Then they go through their photos at home, or even just see the video of Timmy’s last moment.
Mind control: they ignore Timmy in every photo.
I think I’d have to opt for Cold War Russia.
Best superpower: having a batcave - if you work in the fertiliser industry
Worst superpower: having a batcave - if you don’t work in the fertiliser industry
My bets are on invisible Soviet Union or maybe superspeed USA.
Do I get to choose any superpower? Then I guess God powers like Bruce would be what I choose as best and most practical. The power of total control. sounds sweet.
Top 3 most useful:
- Telekinesis. At extremely high levels it also allows for pyro-, cryo-, and electrokinesis as you become able to effect atoms.
- Telepathy. You can read thoughts and emotions, communicate silently, trick people, or even puppet then around or brainwash them.
- Teleportation. You can safely go anywhere instantly.
- Also: matter to energy or other reality warping stuff. OP as hell and hopefully won’t cause a nuclear blast or turn the sky into lead.
Worst powers:
- Summon (something useless or random). You can summon useless objects (like a broken wristwatch) or just random / inappropriate things (a can opener when what you really need is $50.
- Speak with snails (or something equally useless).
- Realistic Photosynthesis. You are green and even if you’re naked in full sunlight you lack the surface area to survive on it. Also you have diabetes because your body is not designed to handle all the sugars you’re producing.
Drawbacks: honestly crack open the rules for GURPS. Here’s some honorable mentions.
- Unscalable. The power has only one one power setting, on or off.
- Always on. You can never stop using it.
- Uncontrollable. You have no control over when it activates or how.
- Shy. You can only use it when nobody’s looking.
- Growing insanity: The more you use it, the worse your grip on reality becomes.
- Restricted. You can only use it in specific circumstances, ranging on a scale of from “only at night” to “only from 5 feet away” to “only when mortally injured.”
Teleportation because I could teleport higher to generate infinite energy
Best: Rehape reality as I wish at any time. Drawback is I can no longer complain about stuff.
Worst: spontaneous inexistence
There are far worse things than not existing
Which superpower do you think is the most practical, versatile, and useful?
The ability to fly. You could clean your gutters, inspect your roof, get from one floor of a tall building to another.
Which do you think is the least practical and most useless?
Many offense ones, such as throwing fire, freezing things or shooting lasers out of your eyes. Never minding the potential of killing by standers outside of combat there is no day to day.
What would be a good drawback to your superpower of choice?
Hopefully you would never sleep fly….
Best: Godmode.
Worst: Your body processes food into lava. You uncontrollably shit lava, but the superpower does not include lava resistance.
Good ol omnipotence.
I’ve always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris’ Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you
In a world without other superheroes? Rogue’s powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there’s no other powers to steal. Lose/lose
Best would be the ability to change probability. With that power, you could change the probability of having any super power you want to 100%.
Best is invulnerability.
Worst is mind reading, if you can’t turn it off. Or Squirrel Girl being able to talk with squirrels only.
Most practical is telekinesis.
