I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
It only works when your eyes are closed.
Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.
Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect
I like it especially if it works like a switch. Imagine how perfect your naps would be. You’d never oversleep.
Do you age while time is stopped? If so, might want to rethink those perfect naps. I’d 100% abuse it though.
Oh man that’s a good one. So much for driving all those vacant Ferraris
Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.
What’s funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back “on”… to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers…
tl;dr: The Flash would’ve incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.
Air particles also frozen
This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
Depending on how long you can hold your breath it might give you some extra time to think.
And can’t breathe
Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.
The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time
Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.
oof
Ability to eliminate others side effects.
They transfer to you
The power to have ghost doctors from the 1750s perform really bad srs on anyone who tries to think of a bad consequence of me having this power.
The ghost doctors have bad eyesight and mistake you for everyone else.
Enjoy your mutilation
The ghost doctors read “srs” as “serious” and just give me a mild glare
While they slice and dice you
The ability to speak and translate between any languages
Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.
First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor
The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity
It’s all rotten.
Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.
It manifests as a storm cloud, raining the food down over a large area over a short period of time.
I’ve seen that movie
Having this ability will cause you to lose self-control and become morbidly obese.
Powe of kicking cures diabetes.
Kicking causes your legs to fall off.
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Ability to controls technology with my mind.
You now also know absolutely nothing about tech
Or you get zaped back in time to the 18th hundreds
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Feel like it would still be worth it
The power to be happy.
Only while asleep
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But only at the expense of others…
*For others
But only when you are naked. Otherwise you’ll be miserable. Sorry this got kinky real quick
Already to too close to irl
You make everyone around you miserable
Mostly worth it.
But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.
Well that’s a nice side effect actually
It was never stated that the side effect must be bad.
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Happier than yourself*
The power to send messages to your past self
Granted. Your past self now has the ability to send messages to you!
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Like… They just understand a loose definition of the word? :P
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Granted. Unfortunately, it only works when you send yourself hate mail.
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You can shift the shape of your body, but nothing else. Your skin and all surface stuff stays the same.
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You feel it, and it hurts as much as you’d imagine rearranging bones should hurt.
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Always accompanied by a horrifying metallic scraping sound that can be heard a mile around
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You keep your original face.
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Time&space travel
I think I’ll add my own:
You teleport in 1cm units relative to the center of our galaxy, meaning you have to think of xyz of each teleportation and you if you miss caclulate enjoy being dead and in space.
Time is in epoch ms and leaves you in the same spot relative to the center of the galaxy.
Only one at a time. Every time you travel the universe shoots away from you at millions of miles an hour.
that still let’s you teleport
Only if you know which way the planet is moving in the universe and how fast. Travelling in space doesn’t mean gravity is going to magically do your exact positioning for you.
Dying on command.
But you’ll wake up the next day in a someoneelse’s body somewhere else on earth knowing nothing of your new bodys past experience language or anything. You can only remember your past life experience. This might not be as bad as I sounds actually. Could be interesting.
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Basically Quantum Leap
This would make a great book
Shape shifting
But it hurts like hell and you are in pain the entire time you shapeshift
Worth it.
You get testicular cancer
Snip snip problem solved!
💀💀💀
Every time you morph into a male body you have to repeat this process
Not many scenarios I can picture myself doing that in, so still a win!
Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.
Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you’d better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium
You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.
“Bullshit, dude.”
“I’ll show you…” Downs an entire bottle of Viagra, maintains an erection for exactly 3 hours 59 minutes
You get type 1 diabetes
