Ask Lemmy

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Time travel, not to change anything, just to be able to experience things that no longer exist or relive memories.

Rapid healing. Living for several hundred years would be nice. Change my carrier once every 20 years. This is the selfish choice.

The superpower that I feel could help more people is superspeed. First on my list is a visit to all dictators with a warning to knock if off.

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.

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?"

Ending all conflicts in the world with one command

Have the ability to make people poop on command. Can be great for helping and for being bad.

For me, probably to always have the right thing to say for every situation. Doesn't have to be the truth, just so long as I can convince the other side or win an argument. It's as close as I'd get to mind control maybe without the glowy eyes and actual powers.

Time manipulation, easy! I have so many projects and my work schedule is all over the place.

I may be really weird for thinking about this despite a lot of people throughout humanity thinking about it, but the ability to manipulate someone's age, mentally and/or physically. I mean things like turning someone who is robbing me into a child who isn't strong enough to hold the gun or making an absolute drama queen who peaked in high school have their body match their mental maturity.

Before anyone calls it weird, you name a major animated cartoon that aired on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Disney and there's a good chance they have what I consider the stock "age regression/progression" episode. For whatever reason those episodes really stuck with me considering I'm thinking about them to this day.

Omnipotence or time manipulation.

The ability to break things down into bricks of their atomic elements. Imagine what could be done with waste and recycling, especially tech recycling. You could make money easy.

If you were willing, I think you could create world peace (not absolute, but you could end wars if dickhead political leaders suddenly became chunks of carbon and other elements).

Healing. Can you imagine how happy the world would be? Parents with a sick child can take them to the park for the first time. Bed ridden people can see the world with their own eyes as opposed to a screen. Despair and grief would change to happiness and serenity. I'd be crazy busy but if it means that everyone everywhere is guaranteed to live a long, happy life, I'd gladly pay the price.

Telepathy.

I really want to know the truth of what people think of me. Especially these "blood relatives".

The ability to phase thru anything, passive ghostlike body. Basically walk into any bank and walk thru the vault snatching whatever, bullets pass right thru you, but you can still hold things to deal damage back!

Then take out most of the world governments at an unstoppable slow-walk with a shit-eating grin and declare the new post-scarcity world ready for action without anymore billionaires or megacorps.

I've always loved the gadgeteer/super-genius trope. Iron Man, the Tinker types from Worm, Girl Genius's Sparks, etc. I always found something appealing to the idea that they can do anything eventually, but they have to work their way to it - they have to think, put in effort, adapt to pitfalls, then get an awesome payoff.

They all seem to have something they specialize in too; so for a specialty, I'll go for movement enhancements. Flight packs, powered exoskeletons, custom vehicles, etc.

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.

Full control over almost any common element works. Congrats you now have infinite energy and also likely flight because of it (stand on thing you control, make thing you control fly with you on it)

Dr X level Psionic powers, mind reading and mind control

Teleportation for sure.