When viewing the show 'Heroes' I wonder What superability would you prefer.

Dear Lord Vasago

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i have not actually watched heros yet, but probably should.

i have voted for time minipulation but mind control is a very close second.

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I'd like them all, and in this order:

Invisibility. I could probably use this to look up ladies skirts!

Mind reading. I could probably use this to see how much the lady whose skirt I'm looking up likes having an invisible man looking up her skirt!

Time manipulation. I could use this to turn back time after I've looked up a lady's skirt - and then do it again!

Machine manipulation. I could probably use this to make small objects fly up the lady's skirt who I'm looking up!

Flying. I could probably use this to fly away after I've looked up a lady's skirt, in case my time-reversal powers fail me for some reason (eg it's the 1st of the month)!

Healing. And I could use this to heal myself if the lady throws something at me as I'm flying away (eg an alarm-clock, or a large piece of wood, or her cocker spaniel)!

The Diogenes Orgasm: Scratch my belly and cum for the duration.

I chose Machine manipulation.

With this it would offer greater benefits than any of the others, I could make an ATM give me money instead of robbing a bank invisibly.

Healing. So I can help others.

I would probably have to say mind reading would be the one I choose...especially if the mind reading included telekenesis.

But the one power I would choose over any other that's not listed would probably be the ability to communicate with animals and power to get them to do what I asked them to do; including insects, single-celled organisms and viruses.

Hold your horses, sporty, viruses and single-celled organisms are not in the kingdom Animalia. Animals are heterotrophic, multicelluar eukaryotes.

Well, I'd love machine manipulation esp. if it includes the ability to communicate through them like the lady that the psychic cop came across. Better yet, I like the "Sky High" portrayal of a technopath as opposed to the limited "Heroes" Micah powers. Then again he's very young, he could develop.

Build your own phaser in under two minutes :)


Time manipulation is a close second tho.

I chose Time manipulation because that defies physics. The others are more or less possible things with the help of sufficiently advanced technology. For practical reason Healing would be good though.

I would never want to read anyone's mind...fuck that
Machine manipulation is tempting in accomulating a boat load of money, but boring
Healing is a waste of time
Flying is tempting
Invisibility is very tempting too, but seems lonely
Time manipulation is a waste of time

Super strength is my favorite power but If I absolutely have to choose one, I'd take flying

Defiantely Time manipulation. With practice you could perform feats that no person could imagine. Hell you could even approximate other powers using it and in the end it doesn't matter what is going you have plenty of time.

Yeah! May be the only thing is that you will still get old; even if you go to the past in your "own time frame" you will be getting older. But you may go to a distant future and steal anti-aging medicine or something.

My choice would have to be healing. I do believe the reason is self explanatory.

I do on the other hand, believe some of the other choices aren't so helpful. This is especially true for time manipulation. If anyone were to read up on the "doctor who" series, they'd find ample reason as to why time travel/manipulation isn't a very good idea.

Well, as long as you are talking about time manipulation or travel as a real possibility there remains not much to *reason* anything solid.

I choosed time manipulation. Who cares abouth healing when you can meet a 30th century doctor.
Flying is overrated. Go to the near future and check a american lottery go back in buy your own airline.
Machine manipulation again go to the future and buy yourself the necesairy mental control hardware and software that allows you to do wathever you like wireless.
Mindreading... do you really want to now what other people think of you honnestly?
Invisibility? Unless it's from the police why

I chose mind reading. But that's assuming that you can actively search through a person's mind, instead of just 'reading' whatever is currently on their mind (although even that would be pretty useful).

orcot:

Mindreading... do you really want to now what other people think of you honnestly?


Have you ever seen the black and white Superman series? From memory, there's an episode with a mind-reading donkey/mule. The crooks use it to get the safe combination off the guy... by asking the guy to *not* think of the safe combo! Genius!

Applied to modern world:

Said to victim: "Don't think of your PIN number!"

*victim instinctively thinks of PIN number*

*30 minutes later, his account balance is $0*

You go back yust before someone discovers some famous shipwreck filled with gold.
Then you take the gold and cash them in in 1920 in stocks for... wel whatever survives and is worth 50X times it share now. And your the worlds single triljonair while nowone knows your name with only half a footnote in history.
You go ahead and do the illigal act of stealing the man's pin and risk getting arrested. I would proberly own the bank and print the money afther only a relative month... And perhaps I would also have saved crypton by then

Nobody here apparently comprehends the implications of messing with time. Creating time loops, distortions, death, slowing down discoveries, perhaps slaughtering entire cultures, or even yourself. There are also time paradoxes to be concerned about.

It's a very foolish thing to do, to mess with time.

That is why you have to choose time manipulation, to see what happens. Since nobody can say for sure those loops, paradeoxes and so on would happen unless you try it. You can come up with so many possibilities none of which is logically better than the others so you really have to check to see which one is the realilty.

Well just imagine Time Manipulation if you could only affect the speed of flow. Or the observed speed of flow. You could freeze time in an instant or slow it down so that you would appear to be like the Flash or Neo. Friends gets shot just suspend time around him until you get to the hospital. There is so much possibility in never trqavelling through time but just speding it up or slowing it down it is not funny. Add into the equation time travel and it gets ludicrous.

One would hope that only a true altruist gains that power.

Healing would be good!!!
Why you ask????

1- I would gain alot of publicity for my powers to heal humanity
2 -I would be asked to go places and countries to help people (i.e sort of having the power to fly in the non literal sense)
3- And of course Money and lots of it...this service ain't gonna be free.

I'll be rich,famous and godlike in no time..thats all I need!

Reading minds. OH... the things I'd do.

~String

time, so i can find out if the world is like star trek in the future

every power has his good and bad things

Time manipulation indeed looks tempting lets say for cheating on the lotery and stuff but think of all the consequences. You take a trip to the feature and the earth isn't there any more? or go to the past , do something wrong and your screwed when you get back.

Healing is nice if you like extreme sports. But when your head get seperatad heal that.

Flying is still flying nothing more

Invisibility is nice to do things illegal and dirty. But if your not seen no car would stop for you eighter. Try to escape afther you rob a bank.

Mind reading is fun but only if you can use it at will. I wouldn't want to wander the streets if al the voices came at ones.

Manipulating machines is the best thing i guess. I this time off technologie. Who rules internet rules the world. Think of evry pc or terminal at your disposal. You can hold the world in your grip. I just hope that all those viruses can't effect your brain then.

so you see with power rest a huge responsibility. are you up for that?

Reading thru the last few posts...would a healing factor necessarily work like Wolverine's? Where it "heals" his aging process? :)

Pretty much. Healing would be defined as regenerating, manipulating, etc, cells. So you'd essentially be immortal.

Why have one, when you can have all......


I'd choose Peter's "empathic" ability(although it is not included on the list). All it takes is an encounter with one person with any of these abilities, then you're stuck with them forever.

Pretty much. Healing would be defined as regenerating, manipulating, etc, cells. So you'd essentially be immortal.

No it isn't

No it isn't

Yes it is. You wouldn't be able to heal without control. And healing is, essentially, doing that.

I picked healing

I will never be poorly neither will anyone I love
Assuming I can get to them before they die- unless healing covers 'from the dead' too?

I can charge for healing - so I'll be rich

I can get on TV with my amazing healing ability - so I'll be a celeb

I'll be so rich so I won't need to mind read, I can pay people to think accordingly.

I can use some money to buy me a time machine or invest in research for one.

I can buy a plane- so can fly wherever whenever

Invisibility- why?

Not doing too bad with ol' healing.

Is it like wolverine mutant healing factor healing?