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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would want the superpower of linguistics: the ability to fluently read, speak, and understand any language ever spoken or will be spoken.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I guess in combination with the 'can't stop it' twist that would mean that you can't stop talking in these old and random languages. So people will think you're crazy and you'll end up in some kind of mental illness hospital.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

you mean I can't stop talking and I'm super annoying or I can shut up and use a phone app.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shapeshifting, I will take no questions

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shapeshifting for sure. Don't even need to be human, id totally try being an amorphous sentient blob for a bit. Joints cant hurt if you don't have joints!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait would shape shifting mean you can just heal your body by shape shifting into healthy body parts? Is shape shifting would also be considered healing then?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm always at a comfortable temperature no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That is a really good one. Because you can't stop it, but a comfortable temperature is always comfortable.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

hmmmm, "plot armor" sounds nice to be always on.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll take Mr. Manhattan's power set for 500, Alex. Oh yeah, its naked time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

The ability to cure any disease at will. Also the ability would be transferable. So if i touch an object, and then have that object touched another individual touches it or consumes, it would heal a disease or ailment.

I would then claim to have discovered the cure for Alzheimer’s. I would just touch a large vat of some sort of liquid and then ship out A vile of liquid from that vat And then the person is cured of Alzheimer’s.

Within a year, I’d come up with a cure for another disease and then start shipping out the vials for that too.

Maybe a year after that I come out with cures for 3 diseases. I’d have to scale it up so that way people weren’t immediately suspicious of how I came up with cures for everything.

I would have to charge enough so I could keep expanding the company paying for employees and machinery needed to create the vials package it ship it, etc. I’d charge a dollar per vial sent out for my personal profit. With a minimum personal profit of $40,000 US per year.

And just so the world isn’t screwed when I’m dead, I would transfer the ability onto multiple object objects. So for example, I would put it on rocks. That way they could use the rock to then touch the vile of liquid to create more medicine.

Since I could never turn it off, I would just keep healing a small patch of skin on my big toe or something. Since skin is continuously aging and technically aging is a disease I would have no problem on the side effects. It would just continuously heal that patch until I want to heal something else.

One vile would cure one ailment or disease.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Magneto's power set could be very useful and easy to manage. Magnets can certainly be made stronger and weaker. He/I would need to build up to any dangerous level of magnetic power, so meditation before sleep would be clutch. Bullet-proof, flight, what amounts to telekinesis, and the ability to manifest any metallic object is fairly incredible, yet unobtrusive.

Also, Forge's power set would be pretty nice to have. Can engineer, build, fix, and invent literally anything. Solve any technological problem at will. The photocopier would never be broken. Wait, does anyone still use a photocopier? The only thing that'd be annoying is becoming everyone's IT department.

Jamie Madrox is also a great contender. Instant dupes of myself at will (and, yes, magically, they come with clothes).

These are my answers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Teleport. Its always on, so I'm just flickering on the spot constantly so fast that its only visible on some cameras.

At the same time this gives me the seeming ability to fly at will, be anywhere, and potentially float (destructively) through walls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would choose to have the power to turn off superpowers and then I'd turn off my superpower.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I am incredibly resilient.

The doctors will have to find a chemist to even do surgery

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