If You Had A Super Power..

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  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    I would like to become suddenly pass-through-able by everything. Kind of like becoming a ghost for a minute. So I could run through doors, walk through bullets, etc. (Obviously passing through the floor should be prevented <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)
  • VyvnVyvn Join Date: 2002-08-24 Member: 1226Members
    Before we all choose our superpowers, we should confer about it, so we each end up specializing in something specific. Like Medic, or Engineer, or DemoMan. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->


    Realistically (well, sort of) speaking, going back in time is about all you'd ever need. Sure, you *could* use it for getting away with anything you wanted, but really, you could accomplish almost anything you wanted with it. Want to get someone to like you? Just keep trying lines until you find the one that works. Want money? Take a future invention and bring it back in time with you. Want to save someone from an accident? Go back and keep them out of danger. Plus, no one would ever have to know what you were doing. Yep, being able to go back in time would be a great thing.
  • GazaarGazaar Join Date: 2002-03-31 Member: 366Banned
    Simply because it is so powerful, and the most useful. Time travel. But since that's been mentioned I'll think of something else real quick. The ability to freeze time.
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Vyvn+Jan 4 2003, 12:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vyvn @ Jan 4 2003, 12:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Before we all choose our superpowers, we should confer about it, so we each end up specializing in something specific. Like Medic, or Engineer, or DemoMan. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->


    Realistically (well, sort of) speaking, going back in time is about all you'd ever need. Sure, you *could* use it for getting away with anything you wanted, but really, you could accomplish almost anything you wanted with it. Want to get someone to like you? Just keep trying lines until you find the one that works. Want money? Take a future invention and bring it back in time with you. Want to save someone from an accident? Go back and keep them out of danger. Plus, no one would ever have to know what you were doing. Yep, being able to go back in time would be a great thing.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Take a case of M-16's and M-203's back to the revolutionary war, end it in minutes and save the lives of thousands.

    I mean, damn.
  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    Flying is SO overrated, I mean, one yahoo with a man-portable sam and you're done for!
  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    edited January 2003
    Haha. Yeah.
    I'd like noclip-ability... if someone tries to punch me it goes straight through(not noclip following the rules of Half Life then ok?), and I cant be shot!
    Though, if something goes BOOM next to me I'd... no wait a second, I wouldn't die then either! Since both the shockwave AND the shrapnel would go through me! Oh wait, heat isnt matter, I might get incinerated <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
    EDIT; though, would I be able to go really fast while noclipping as well, then it wouldn't really be a problem.
  • DezmodiumDezmodium Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1575Members
    you would have to be really careful then. NoCLIP man would be vulnerable to Incineration. Hence his archnemisis blowdryer d00d.
  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    What, no pyromaniacs here? No ability to create weapons out of your appendages? Come on.. BFG!! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • M-KM-K Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11836Members
    Invisibility would be rather useful....












    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>*cough girls changing rooms *cough </span> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Align+Jan 4 2003, 05:35 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Align @ Jan 4 2003, 05:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Haha. Yeah.
    I'd like noclip-ability... if someone tries to punch me it goes straight through(not noclip following the rules of Half Life then ok?), and I cant be shot!
    Though, if something goes BOOM next to me I'd... no wait a second, I wouldn't die then either! Since both the shockwave AND the shrapnel would go through me! Oh wait, heat isnt matter, I might get incinerated <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
    EDIT; though, would I be able to go really fast while noclipping as well, then it wouldn't really be a problem.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It'd be a bit of a streach, but energy and matter are both kind of intertwined (If you get the right concentration of waves in the right pattern, it acts a bit like a particle... Mass), so you may very well be able to withstand the heat from that.

    Then again, I could be arguing over a fictional superhero's superpower, and be proving myslef a total moron.
  • Anime_Tentacle_MonsterAnime_Tentacle_Monster Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11931Members
    hmmmmmm.......

    how about a large amount of tentacle like arms? Like that Dr.Octopus guy execpt organic.....the girls would love it.....err I mean I could fight evil villans with them or something.......
  • Heresy_FnordHeresy_Fnord Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7207Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--DY357LX+Dec 29 2002, 04:18 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Dec 29 2002, 04:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think the ability to pause time would be nice.
    Everyone and everything stops... except you...
    Imagine the fun, imagine the bank-jobs, imagine the Page 3 girls <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't know about pausing time but...

    You might have success speeding yourself up to near the speed of light. It would have the same effect as far as you're concerned. I wouldn't recommend doing it for too long though since everyone around you would age much slower than you would.
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Heresy_Fnord+Jan 7 2003, 03:51 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Heresy_Fnord @ Jan 7 2003, 03:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--DY357LX+Dec 29 2002, 04:18 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Dec 29 2002, 04:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think the ability to pause time would be nice.
    Everyone and everything stops... except you...
    Imagine the fun, imagine the bank-jobs, imagine the Page 3 girls  <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't know about pausing time but...

    You might have success speeding yourself up to near the speed of light. It would have the same effect as far as you're concerned. I wouldn't recommend doing it for too long though since everyone around you would age much slower than you would.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You got it backwards, It you go near the speed of light, you age slower than people around you.

    I could scan in the sections from Stephen Hawking's "Universe in a Nutshell," but that would require effort, effort that I do not wish to put forth.
  • Anime_Tentacle_MonsterAnime_Tentacle_Monster Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11931Members
    eeeek time

    go away

    if someone exists in time how can they negate themselves from everything else......though why am I adding logic to a super power discussion? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    edited January 2003
    None of you have thought of my ultimate power.

    Understanding.

    Think about it. I'm no religious person, but I know a bible story or few. Remember that tale about the character who asked his god or whatever for him to be the most understanding person on earth? The rest of the story goes on talking about how it made him a wonderful benevolent ruler, solving a dispute regarding custody of a baby vs. chopping it in half or something.



    <b>My super power would make me the most understanding person in the universe for ANYTHING I want.</b>


    Think about it.


    [edit] NEW ADDITION: With this I'd also be able to tell EXACTLY what would make NatSel as good as it could ever possibly be, and help teach Flayra all that knowledge so we could code it. With volumetric flamethrowers. And even better netcode. And a new engine. And just for the challenge/fun of it we'd even code it <i><b><u>in assembly language</i></b></u> so it'll be able to run on a freaking underclocked 486 with 4 megs of RAM or something.
    Heck, maybe after that we might feel up to the challenge of making the balance so good, everyone just submitted real suggestions/ideas instead of complaints in the forums! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> [/edit]

    If there's a major criminal lawsuit and no judge can decide by the evidence who is right and who is wrong, BAM. I sit with the accused person and listen to his side of the story, my level of understanding of human nature can tell *exactly* when/if they're lying, and it's done.

    If there's any way to heal a dying person, BAM. Instant degree in microsurgery, and I can perform perfect heart bypasses with nothing but duct tape, nails, and random household kitchen materials. With both of my hands tied behind my back. And my feet. Yes, elbows will be fine, yessir I can separate siamese twins with the best of 'em just fine as I am.

    If there's a way to stop a war or famine or global warming, BAM. I walk out there and change what the entire global climate will be in a few years, all just by waving my arms/legs in really cool rave-breakdance patterns. With glowsticks just to look cool.

    Not to mention the obvious. Persuading people to do what I want, BAM. I can sweet-talk them into anything without *actually* directly changing their brainwaves to do what I want. The force, matrix bullet-dodging, matrix walking, etc., done. Anything previously mentioned in this thread, and if it CAN be done, I'll know how.


    Best of all, I'll also have full understanding of when/why I shouldn't abuse my powers, so I don't get <i>too</i> evil and stuff.
  • Spyder_MonkeySpyder_Monkey Vampire-Ninja-Monkey Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 8Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Don't you people get it? FIRE FROM YOUR HANDS!!!

    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    ...and I'd be evil.
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    edited January 2003
    Fire from hands? Wouldn't that, um,...hurt a little? After reading the thread over again, I still like the mind-control-induced farting of random other people. I might be able to do even that with my aforementioned superpower.

    [edit]After some more thought, I'm pretty sure Flayra already has my superpower for use in computer programming, he's just got enough godlike understanding to see why he shouldn't unleash such amazing knowledge on the world yet.[/edit][/BrownNosing]

    OOH, just remembered, being all that busy helping everyone will mean I'll also have to use my power to learn how to live just as good or better than normal without sleep. We could probably all benefit from that one.
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    edited January 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--DuBERS+Dec 30 2002, 10:34 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DuBERS @ Dec 30 2002, 10:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If I could have a super power it would be to make people fart with the power of my mind.

    How satisfying would it be to make a whole room of people you dont know fart at random intervals.

    Or if you meet sumone you dont like very much and make the fart so hard they cr*p themselves in front of their friends.

    Damn that would be such a cool power to have!

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <the rest of Marik_Steele's post was self-removed because it was a shamelessly unnecessary Benny Hill theme reference>
  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    <!--QuoteBegin--Spyder Monkey+Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spyder Monkey @ Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Don't you people get it? FIRE FROM YOUR HANDS!!!

    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    ...and I'd be evil.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes.. YES <b>YES</b>

    Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb.
  • NecroticNecrotic Big Girl&#39;s Blouse Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 53Members, NS1 Playtester
    maybe the power to not have to do anything, so I can just sit around all day, that would be pretty super
  • TenebraeTenebrae Join Date: 2002-09-16 Member: 1321Members
    I'd want to be a metamorph.
    Changing into things would be cool.
    As long as I remembered what to change back into that is.........
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Injury+Jan 7 2003, 01:09 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Injury @ Jan 7 2003, 01:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Spyder Monkey+Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spyder Monkey @ Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Don't you people get it? FIRE FROM YOUR HANDS!!!

    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    ...and I'd be evil.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes.. YES <b>YES</b>

    Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    /me laughs, remembering the movie this quote came from

    Maybe another good superpower would be the schwartz...
  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Injury+Jan 7 2003, 02:09 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Injury @ Jan 7 2003, 02:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Spyder Monkey+Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spyder Monkey @ Jan 7 2003, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Don't you people get it? FIRE FROM YOUR HANDS!!!

    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    ...and I'd be evil.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes.. YES <b>YES</b>

    Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Being evil sure did a lot of good for Dark Helmet, didn't it? Unless you count "having your mothership destroyed and winding up on the Planet of the Apes" as triumphing. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    This isnt a super power but it is something that I would like to have. A God Card. Whats a God Card? Its a card the positively ID's the person in question as a person that can do whatever they want. Want that Ferrari? Show them your God Card and they have to give it to you. Want to f*ck that girl over there? Flash her the God Card and she gotta spread. Want that booze in the Liquor Store? Pull out the God Card and all that booze is yours.

    hey! its just a fantasy! It isnt real ya know?
  • ZerglingZergling Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9977Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Injury+Dec 31 2002, 07:48 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Injury @ Dec 31 2002, 07:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't disagree, but its probably he just wants to be someone else, like hm..Vladamir Petchukocov!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    So I did a google, and I got one result JUST ONE!!! I was like omg just one result? I thought there was atleast 500 web pages with a passing reference to this guy but nope, just one...

    So anyway, it turns out that this guy is the Chief engineer on the E.S. Politovsky in some awful Tom Clancy novel. The acronym for the novel is HfRO. So what the **** is the deal with this guy, is he some type of superhero?

    My superpower would we "shaman power" and if i ate some cactus and started a relationship with it, i would develop the ability to turn myself into different animals and become the king of the desert, just like Don Juan.
  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    Vladamir Petchukocov was vaporized by a reactor accident in "some awful" Tom Clancy novel. Reading between the lines is a useful skill indeed, is it not? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • nicegamenicegame Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7009Members
    To know the answer of every question ever. The most intellignet, knowing, omnipotent being to ever exist. I would create my slave armies and conquer the universe.

    and x-ray vision to look thru girls clothing.
  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--nicegame+Jan 11 2003, 03:59 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (nicegame @ Jan 11 2003, 03:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->To know the answer of every question ever. The most intellignet, knowing, omnipotent being to ever exist. I would create my slave armies and conquer the universe.

    and x-ray vision to look thru girls clothing.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Nice work taking the same idea from my first post on this thread, and then taking all the fun out of it by having yourself know everything.

    At least my way I'd have to "think" about wanting to understand something for a second before it suddenly popped into my mind. And I wouldn't institute slavery for my own benefit unless I saw sufficient reason for it using said understanding.



    Not to mention my power would allow for such persuasive speech that I could convince women to disrobe for real instead of subjecting them to radiation with x-ray vision...
  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    Would you guys use your powers for good, or for AWESOME?
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