If You Could Choose One Superhuman Power...

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Originally Posted by Wheeljak

I think the gift of healing others could be one of the most dangerous powers of all, because you couldn't keep it a secret for more than a few days. The first person you healed, in his/her excitement, would be blabbing it to everybody.
After the cat's out of the bag, you could never have uninterrupted time alone or with loved ones, because You would constantly be inundated with people who are desperate for your healing touch, not to mention the people who would be seeking a way to line their own pockets through your gift, and the pharmaceutical and medical industries would want to make you disappear.

That is true, but with any of these powers, there would be a HUGE risk to the posessor.... If anyone saw you teleporting and blabbed.....
How long do you think it would take the Military/ Gub'ment to set up an ambush and make you disappear? (And not to where YOU wanna go?)
Any of us if we had these powers? Gotta wear a mask and find a secret hidey-hole to use them...

The advantage of the non-healing powers is that if there was a person who witnessed someone using their powers, he or she would likely be dismissed, at best, as someone who's seeing things, or at worst, as a total wackjob.

"No, no, I SWEAR! I was at Walgreen's, and I saw DJ just appear out of thin air and buy a bottle of Desani!"

"Uh, yeah. Right. Have you been taking your meds?"

However, if there's some guy who one minute had cancer and the next minute doesn't, his testimony would not be discredited so easily.

should we build in our own weakness to this superpower, you know, like kryptonite?

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Originally Posted by xtristessax

should we build in our own weakness to this superpower, you know, like kryptonite?

I hope not; I have enough weaknesses already.

thats just the way i am i think. even my fanatasies have to be realistic.

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Originally Posted by Wheeljak

The advantage of the non-healing powers is that if there was a person who witnessed someone using their powers, he or she would likely be dismissed, at best, as someone who's seeing things, or at worst, as a total wackjob.

"No, no, I SWEAR! I was at Walgreen's, and I saw DJ just appear out of thin air and buy a bottle of Desani!"

"Uh, yeah. Right. Have you been taking your meds?"

However, if there's some guy who one minute had cancer and the next minute doesn't, his testimony would not be discredited so easily.

The people that say the same thing about faith healers are dismissed just as easily....
Too many Discovery health channel shows with "Miraculous healing" and they are ignored too.
But If you were on VIDEO disappearing and appearing, how would that be....
UFO video nevermind....
Well MOST of these powers would be dangerous.

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Originally Posted by KD

Well MOST of these powers would be dangerous.

Yeah, but my invisibility wouldn't! When I'm invisible, nobody can catch me doing anything, and thanks to my questionable charisma, when I'm not using my powers, I'm practically invisible anyway!:)

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Originally Posted by Wheeljak

Yeah, but my invisibility wouldn't! When I'm invisible, nobody can catch me doing anything, and thanks to my questionable charisma, when I'm not using my powers, I'm practically invisible anyway!:)

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEEPING TOM IN HISTORY! :D
Yeah I see the point to that one.

Zoom!

I tried to go to my favorite amusement park the other day but I could only drive 4 hours.
Teleportation seemed very practical and desirable that day. I kept thinking about it after having read this thread.

Man, I love the fact that now we're getting into how having powers would make us wander around like David Banner (still sucks they didn't use the comic book original name Bruce) running away from the gov't, doing great things, and searching for peace. Very "Kung Fu".

And I don't know how I could pass on the telekenisis thingy. Quick question tho- what technically would the jedi powers fall under? Cause I would have to be some super jedi ninja that could run around f'ing people up! And the way I would figure it, I would be good, then get disillusioned and turn bad, and then turn good again just in time to save people from some horrible event (that I may or may not be somewhat responsible for).

depends which jedi power u would be referring to.. im not a particularly versed star wars fan.. i just know of some of them from having friends round 2 play multiplayer on jedi knight and messing round jumping super high , choking them from afar etc.. 80% are forms of telekinesis.. failing that theres cloaking/invisibility(a mind trick), shielding ,lightning(from hands).. and super speed..

throwing light saber, levitation("force jump"), choke etc are all telekinesis related

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Originally Posted by Dark Sun

Man, I love the fact that now we're getting into how having powers would make us wander around like David Banner (still sucks they didn't use the comic book original name Bruce) running away from the gov't, doing great things, and searching for peace. Very "Kung Fu".

I read why they changed his name to David Banner for the TV series, and it's pretty funny (in a "what's up with that?") kind of way. It so happens that the TV execs changed the character's name simply because they felt that the name Bruce sounded too gay.