> I'm the type of guy who thinks about having super powers a lot. Of course, when I think about *me* having super powers, I don't think about limits--I'm pretty much omnipotent.
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> But when you think about "superheros" (both the traditional 4-color variety and the more "modern" variety) it's more fun to think about taking two or three powers and seeing what can amount from the clever use of them together.
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> For instance, one of my favorites is "rubber form" (a la Plastic Man) and "super speed". You can run REALLY FAST and smash into people and send them FLYING. Of course, Newton's Third Law says you'll go flying backwards too, but hey, you've got rubber form, you'll just bounce a few times and get up and dust yourself off. The other guy probably won't be so lucky.
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> Another good one with "super speed" is "teleportation". Grab someone and start running REALLY FAST towards a brick wall while pushing them, then teleport yourself to safety at the last instant while your foe smacks into the wall.
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> "Telekinesis" is a good one all by itself, but couple it with "make objects invisible" and you can do pretty much anything undetected. Think people would notice that bag of money floating out of the bank? Well, make it invisible first. Then, while they're scrambling around looking for the missing bag, you can float it outside to your car at your leisure.
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> But I guess if I had to choose *one* superpower for myself it'd be the one eric chose. Monkeying with time has *always* been a fantasy of mine, ever since I saw this silly TV show about a guy who had a magic stop watch that could "stop time" and alow him to move around and change things while time was stopped. Pretty much ever since I saw that show I've wanted to have that watch.
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> -- Dave

After reading this post and eric's, I have to agree about the time thing. Even just being able to pause time would be enough for me. I mean, I first talked about wanting teleportation, but really, what is that but moving between places while time is frozen? If I could just freeze time, that would solve the problem nicely. I would also gain other benefits. Say I'm drowsy on a Tuesday afternoon at work. Freeze time, go home, sleep for eight hours, go back to work, unfreeze time, get on with my day... I think I would even be content with just freezing time (as opposed to being able to roll time forward and backward as well). It would mean that even if I was the only thing that could change while time was frozen, I would still gain a lot of time, because I would always sleep during frozen time, so I would have 24 hours a day available for other things.

A couple of people have also mentioned telekinesis. I have long dreamed of being telekinetic, but I think if I had to pick ONE power, that would not be it, because it would be too limited in its application (for me at least). It would be amazingly convenient, but not so broadly useful.

If I could stop time, right now I would do so, sleep for a while, and then get up and mess around on my computer all night. Then I'd probably stop time again in the early morning and work out for a while and then sleep again before starting time, showering, and going to work...

Enough fantasizing. Time to ground myself and get some sleep.

Don "Sleepy" Monkey