If you could have any super power(s)

[The Venomator]

I don't want superman powers, and good choice with spider-girl

 

[Ronny Shade]

Wolverine vs Darth Vader- Who would win.. hmmm

It really boils down to whether lightsabers can cut adamantium

 

[Clobberin' Time]

Can Reed Richards increase his muscle mass to Hulk proportions and has he ever used his stretchy limbs to swing like Spidey?

I'd have those powers of his to experiment with.

 

[tzarinna]

I don't want superman powers, and good choice with spider-girl

Thanks,

 

[The Comedian]

What powers you ask? I dunno how 'bout the power of flight?
That do anything for ya? That's levitation, holmes.
How 'bout the power to kill a yak from 200 yards away...
with MIND BULLETS!!! That's telekinesis, Kyle.

 

[celldog]

you're an evil man and/or woman

But very rich!!!

SIGN THAT CONTRACT!!!!!!

 

[The Venomator]

Thanks,

No Problem

 

[The Venomator]

It really boils down to whether lightsabers can cut adamantium

They probably could, but with Wolvie's regeneration ability, i think it would be interesting but i htink Vader would edge it in the end

 

[Kritish]

Robbing banks would own.

 

[The Venomator]

Well if i was Serum (The super-Villan on page three of this thread) i would rob Fort Knox, simply for the challenge... and the Gold.

 

[pyromaniac]

1. If you could have any super powers to complement your talents, what would they be? Would you work in an occupation that would make use of your abilities?

2. Would you have a secret identity?

3. Would you help people on a local or global level?

4. If you discovered you had certain abilities, would you let anyone know, and if you would, who would inform?

5. If you don't want super powers, would you want intelligence/wealth that could allow you to do things ala Batman?

6. Do you think you would give up relationships with the opposite gender so that they wouldn't be at risk if you had powers?

What would you do?

8. Finally, would you not use the abilities for fear that the government might want to "study" you and find out more about your powers?

1.

I'd want to wield the primary weapon of pyrokinesis and secondary weapon of time travelling.

I'm not going further than that: there are limits to everything and a counterproductive effect must be produced after all. The gifts and strengths we have in everyday lives, even the greatest of them, those that change the world or affect immediate and natural construct in different ways, have limits to them (career, specialisation, labour and so forth). So, the limits on self-confessed dual superpowers would too, be self-imposed. I mean, we are talking about one individual who wakes up in a world with abilities that no one has ever possessed.

Yes, I at many subsequent times in my life have always fantasised at the prospect of playing with variegated, rich powers and concoct scenarios in which my friends bear witness to my willing display or I become a hero... Of course, those scenarios are not always idealised; you have to take the good with the bad after all, so any consequence that follows, I suffer them.

But - I have firmly stuck to pyrokinesis for the last few years now, simply because it is the hyperbole of my existing personality, as someone had mentioned here: anger is an expression just as much as passion, love and loyalty is. In other words, it can be a subconscious act of will.

Of course, one limit is that I'm not completely immune to it and it is a destructive power and I can't see how it'd save people, ie short of killing them which I wish not to do...! In mundane terms, it'd be good for winter.

Time travelling, which is what I'd actually just decided on cue, but which I entertain because I'm fascinated with the notion, theory, practice and science of time... And on an emotional level, sometimes I always want to find out more of my boyfriend's childhood or what he was before we met, so I'd manipulate the past to sort of peek on him from to time. Time is defined by love, in my opinion.

Just as telling is the ability to mend past wounds or regrettable, lost opportunities and, essentially, be able to fix all those 'what ifs' scenarios ever devised. A role model long gone? Just go back and see where it all went wrong. And friends as well. Extend it somehow.

The limit? I probably won't be able to change the present because that would make my whole life, my mindset and personality and so forth built up from a preceding set of events so in essence, I'd make myself a total conundrum. Also, I wouldn't and don't want to look into the future. There's no point and it's a power that's very dangerous to have.

Occupation? I'm a writer and filmmaking student and being that I'd love to work in the media/advertising/creative industry of some kind as well, the powers won't amount to much use except that pyrokinesis would be representative of which my career is, and also that that would instead simply serve as point of inspiration for my writing skills.

2.

That depends. That would mean I'd have to go around wearing a mask, and personally, that's more of a giveaway than constituting a secret identity...! Nah, I'd rather not. I'm more comfortable just to be myself, and act myself.

3.

Heck. The more global, the better. However, everything always starts at home. I'd work my way through. I'm a very much an idealist guy after all. Pragmatist too.

4.

My boyfriend and a couple of good, trustworthy friends that I currently have. Maybe my cousin too. Plus, I'd revisit past, childhood, old friends and role models and show 'em how much I'd have changed, how much I want to do and how much I would want to become.

5.

If you have even any kind of power at all, defensive or offensive, you would be foolish not as to use brains to decide your course of action. As for wealth, well that depends on the morally conscious individual but I wouldn't want to take unnecessary or unethical advantage of it except that it would be circumstantial. Either way, you win.

6. You mean the same gender in my case. And as if. You'd need a villain of equal magnitude that can rival you. And being that there is no question that asks if *I* need a supervillain, this is moot.

Besides, you failed to mention family and relatives. To give them up is like cutting off a part of yourself.

Although, there are always villains in this world. If they'd bothered to want to take my loved ones out, I'd wait for that 'danger through experience' thing and then take full accountability for it: the bad always initiates first after all, and that's when I would know - it's not exactly Minority Report here.

7. If the government did, I'd laid down groundwork for the officials: change the laws that I don't like or find it harmful or well, just stupid.

That is all.

Choice and responsibility.

However, to end on this note, I still have yet to come up with a name for myself. Freedom (though I'm all about it) sounds too patriotic and doesn't fit me anyway or even the idealised, romanticised persona that is meant to bely a superhero, and then there's Animal, a nickname which refers to my notorious eating habits, but that's not really a good superhero name either. Oh well.

 

[The Venomator]

Why not just Pyro..." My name.... is Pyro" With the dramatic pause and a cool voice, i think it could work.

 

[eXperiment]

I would want super strength, super speed, invulnerability,and the abilty to fly

 

[The Venomator]

well pyro could work, Check page 3 for my post) comment on it plz

 

[Boom]

Psychokinetic powers, like Akira .