Poll

SuperPower:

Invisability - The ability to become undetectable
4 (11.8%)
Fly - The ability to defy gravity
4 (11.8%)
Phase - The ability to move through any material
0 (0%)
Teleport - The ability to be anywhere instantly
4 (11.8%)
Dominate - The ability to take control of anyone as if they were yourself
2 (5.9%)
Mind Trick - The ability to make anyone beleave anything
2 (5.9%)
Speed - The ability to move really freakin fast
3 (8.8%)
Time Warp - The ability to control time
3 (8.8%)
Omnipotential Knowledge - The ability to have the combined knowledge of everyone
11 (32.4%)
Stength - The ability to lift big things, jump high, and break stuff
1 (2.9%)

Total Members Voted: 36

Voting closed: September 30, 2002, 05:09:47 pm

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Offline vadar_1

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
gah... no... no control... delete!... how are there 11 options?

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Thats more of a reserved skill... such as the ability to pit the planets against each other in an evil death match ... of doom!
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Offline Sandwich

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Hehehe - Marvel Comics, stand aside! :D
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Offline RandomTiger

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
Great thread, after some thought:

Omnipotential Knowledge, knowledge is power

For my first act I would fix the bug thats stopping me loading pcx's in the DX8 branch.

EDIT: Oh.. sorry, how did that happen?

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Offline Unknown Target

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Whoops, I change my vote from fly to Control, because with that, you could take a big piece of metal, sit on it, then levitate the metal :D

 

Offline Knight Templar

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Thats more of a reserved skill... such as the ability to pit the planets against each other in an evil death match ... of doom!


Fine but i reserve Supreme Ruler of the Underworld ®
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Offline Carl

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Originally posted by Unkown Target
Whoops, I change my vote from fly to Control, because with that, you could take a big piece of metal, sit on it, then levitate the metal :D


you don't even need to bother with that. just levitate the air underneath of you.
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Offline CP5670

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
The knowledge of course, since everything else would follow from that. More importantly though, you would know why the riemann hypothesis is/is not true, which is alone worth it. ;7

 

Offline Knight Templar

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I want the ability to perform photosynthesis
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Offline DragonClaw

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Invisibilty--so I can spy on that girl...

:D

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Offline Knight Templar

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5 bucks says she hasn't the faintest clue as to who you are, i wouldn't worry about having to be stealthy :p
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Offline DragonClaw

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Oh, she knows :D
And she knows I ... admire her :p

She's just 'too cool' for me :sigh:

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Offline Kamikaze

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
omniscience all the way!

theoretically you'd be able to do anything since you know how to do everything :p (that is, if everything can be done...)

and of course you'd have photographic memory of "that girl"... hehe.... :rolleyes: ;7

Above: whadya mean by "too cool"?..... /me has problems too... no-one would possibly think about liking me, I'm too "bizzare" (*coughs*) :blah: - schools girls are lame (most)
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Offline Knight Templar

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
strange, the following post i swear i posted half an hour ago.

Oh, she's one of those girls, is she a cheerleader? Most of them are cheerleaders... fine broads too ;7
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Offline Su-tehp

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
There's a roleplaying game called "Aberrant" by White Wolf Studios. In this game, you can create superhero or supervillan characters with alot of these same powers. And you're not limited to having only one power, either...

The character I designed had both invisibility and flight. If he gets into trouble on a spying mission, he can just fly away as he's invisible...

But as for the poll here, I chose invisibility. That way, I can spy on the omniscient guy and learn everything he knows.... ;7 ;7 ;7
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Offline Knight Templar

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isn't there a game called "America's Super Heroes" or something? lemme find it..
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Offline Knight Templar

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City of Heroes

That's the one :)

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Offline Blue Lion

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
Hmm, guess I'm a simple man

Time Warp

I really wouldn't trust myself with so much knowledge, I'd probably go insane......more. Least to control time, I can take my time and alter events. You could rob a bank slowly over time, freeze time, take 100 bucks, walk out. Do it everyday, every hour if you wanted to. Go to work, freeze time, do all your work, then goof off the rest of the day. Sleep for 3 days and only have it actually be an instant. Course, you'd have to wonder how you'd age at that point. Everything else requires entirely too much work, plus it's a ***** if you get caught. You can't be caught if you change time, you just freeze it and walk away.

 

Offline Knight Templar

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but with invisibility (nice speelling vads ;)) you could be undetecable :D
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Offline Carl

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Quote
Originally posted by Blue Lion
Hmm, guess I'm a simple man

Time Warp

I really wouldn't trust myself with so much knowledge, I'd probably go insane......more. Least to control time, I can take my time and alter events. You could rob a bank slowly over time, freeze time, take 100 bucks, walk out. Do it everyday, every hour if you wanted to. Go to work, freeze time, do all your work, then goof off the rest of the day. Sleep for 3 days and only have it actually be an instant. Course, you'd have to wonder how you'd age at that point. Everything else requires entirely too much work, plus it's a ***** if you get caught. You can't be caught if you change time, you just freeze it and walk away.


you'd screw up the space-time continuum, and if you were to freeze time and move, you would generate infinite friction between you and the air around you, which would generate infinite heat which would blow up the universe.
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Offline Liberator

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OT: If you could have a superpower...
Omnicience is to much for mortals to handle, leave it to God.

Invisibility would be OK except a motion detector would pick you up.

Super Strength would allow you to dupilcate many of the powers listed but do you get the durability to go with it?

The only power that is super speed, I assume we're talking about Flash(Barry Allen/Wally West) level speed.  I
t would allow you to phase through objects at will.  

If you do it like the Flashes do it(by channeling extra-dimensional energy) getting tired would not be a problem if you in reasonable shape.  

And let's not forget, no matter how strong someone is if they get punched by a fist traveling at relatavistic velocities he's going to feel it.  

Control/Domination only comes into effect if the Controller/Dominator has time to put his power into effect.

Warping time is a small matter to someone capable of accelerating thing to superluminal velocities.
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