March 3, 2018
FFF Results Post #498—The Rest Of The Superpowers
On Friday, CR readers were asked to name "Five Super Powers You'd Enjoy Having, None Of Which Are Super-Strength, Flying, Invisibility, Mind-Reading or Teleportation." This is how they responded.
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Doug Rice
1. Telekinesis
2. Shapeshifting
3. Timeshifting (i.e. to move between different moments in time)
4. Empathy
5. Ekstasis (to travel outside of one's body)
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Time Travel
2. Running Really Fast
3. Lie Detection
4. Invulnerability
5. Talk To Inanimate Objects
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Michael Grabowski
1. Speed-reading
2. Time-stopping
3. Wall-crawling
4. Breathing underwater
5. Healing factor
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Andrew Mansell
1. X-Ray vision (without the glasses 'natch!)
2. Breathe Underwater
3. Transmutation of all known Elements
4. Radio-actively enhanced Sense of Taste
5. Chameleon-like abilities that regrow failing or damaged body parts
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Jamie Coville
1. Invisible Woman Powers
2. Time Travel
3. Metamorpho Powers
4. Monica Rambeau Powers
5. Healing Factor
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Buzz Dixon
1. The power to clone myself
2. The power to clone myself
3. The power to clone myself
4. The power to clone myself
5. The power to clone myself
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Michael May
1. Stretching
2. Breathe underwater
3. Talk to animals
4. Turn into animals
5. Whatever Bouncing Boy's power is called
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Oliver Ristau
1.
Cocaine Touch
2.
Vomiting acidic ooze
3.
Turning my body into stone to become immobile and inflexible
4.
To consume any form of matter
5.
Shrinking
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Elijah Brubaker
Here's some superpowers I'd want:
1 flaming on
2 turn into a Bigfoot or a Chewbacca
3 some kind of super suit that has ice skates that pop outta the feet.
4 eyeball on the end of my finger
5 summoning cream pies from the cream pie dimension.
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Stevie VanBronkhorst
1. Spider-man style climbing
2. Telekinesis
3. The ability to draw any non-sentient object and have it be real and functional (Harold’s purple crayon powers)
4. Walk through walls
5. Perfect recall/Remember my husband’s birthday
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Des Devlin
1. Psychological projection
2. Super-incontinence
3. Telecommuting
4. The power of love
5. Irascibility
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Stergios Botzakis
1. Summoning people by saying “Eternityâ€
2. X-ray vision
3. Matter transmutation
4. Telepathic communication with sea life
5. Shape-changing
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Philippe Leblanc
1. Time Travel
2. Master of Magnetism
3. Telekinesis
4. Super Speed
5. Foretelling
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Mário Filipe
Seeing as you hoarded all the fun powers, I will go with some pratical ones, like:
1. Enhanced Intelligence
2. Telekinesis
3. Super-Speed
4. Self-Duplication
5. Time Travel
... which would bring to a power level somewhere between Dr. Manhattan and David Allen.
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Michael Dooley
In preferential order:
1. full memory recollection
2. super writing/editing/grading abilities
3. super information research powers
4. healthy, non-aging immortality, or at least the ability to continue to observe what goes on after I die
5. four is plenty for me; you can give my fifth super power to whoever else might need it
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Tom Cherry
1. Immortality
2. Eating whatever I want without getting fat ala Matter Eater Lad
3. The ability to transform into a purple gorilla
4. The power to draw Charlie Brown's round head perfectly
5. Whatever power Woozy Winks had
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David Bitterbaum
1. Make duplicates of myself -- I can do a variety of tasks at once, learn skills, and then reabsorb my copies like Madrox? Awesome!
2. Super-speed -- I can go visit friends in different states or countries with ease!
3. Shapeshifting -- animals are fun, why not be one?
4. Night-vision -- I'll never trip on anything in the dark again.
5. Travel through time -- As long as I don't break the universe or alter history too badly, this could be fun!
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thanks to all that participated; thanks to Sunny McFarren for the subject; I let a lot of humorous responses through, but know if it ever feels like you're riffing on a question rather than answering it, I'll feel free to shut it down
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