Rather choose 1 superpower that disappears after 5 years.
> you could get a mutant power of having wings that you could fly with.
Having a random power is too unpredictable.
I assume that the single power would come with secondary powers that allow you to use the power to the fullest? Aka, super strength involves super durability specific to the strength, so that you don't tear your tendons and crush your bones whilst lifting? If so, Id choose a superpower of my choice - most likely super speed.
1 of my choice, it's undetectable invisibility, done.
That range on the once a year thing is SO wide it's unreal.
Five years in I'd have solved ALOT of world problems and got filthy stinking rich off the back of it. Easy game.
Feel like random superpower is the obvious answer as long as the powers aren’t harmful had in that randomness, I can deal with usefulness for a while but for instance the power to turn your own bones into marshmallows would instantly kill you
Random. You could win the jackpot and get something really good like super intelligence then just spend a whole year creating inventions or even a device to either know the specifics of your power, next power you’re getting or potentially getting to reroll and force a better power
If not that you’d just have some interesting utility with some of them. If I really planned it out and knew the specifics of the limit on the 5 years I could probably work with that
The random power. Full mastery means there's no learning curve and I can apply it effectively. ALso, even once I lose a power, I can utilize what I've learned from it to live better. Also, it's a full lifetime of power rather than just 5 years.
can I pick time control and go back to when I was young? if you say I go back to when I was 10 will I have the ability until im 15 or does it go away because until I get back to now?
1 super power for 5 years. I would choose time manipulation - slow, stop, rewind, fast forward. I could solve all the same problems of the invisible guy above in a single instance. Make myself wealthy thru gambling or theft and for damn near 5 years be untouchable.
Maybe even create save points along my time line so if I die I’m brought back to that save point.
Presuming this doesn’t fall under “God-like”, I would just choose **Absolute Luck** as a superpower for 5 years, similar to Domino from Deadpool 2.
With that, I can achieve all I need to within 5 years, and then be ‘set’ for life (ie. Retire), by the time the power expires.
~~Also, if ‘Lucky’ enough, the Scientists I hire could potentially even just figure out how to replicate Flight, Super Strength, Invisibility, etc through technology for me.~~
One power for 5 years. Singular power being a technopath, speaking to, and controlling, machines and computers.
I don't think I need to say how set I am, and my family, for the rest of our lives, with just a couple *hours* of full digital control, much less 5 years.
Ah I got just the thing actually. Something I like to call Moment Reversal. All damage my body takes is redirected back to its source automatically and I instantly heal that damage. This includes any damage that can harm my body no matter the scale or source of the damage.
Super intelligence. I'm talking Mr Fantastic levels of intelligence.
Use that to star creating some technology that will still effectively be science fiction. Still able to do the things I'd like to. And with his level of smarts, I could make some AI that would actually be genuine AGI like Jarvis or better.
It really depends if the effects of the power are lasting.
For example, if I got the power to create something, do all the things I create stay around after I no longer have the ability? If I say mind control, does all the brainwashing vanish?
The only way I would consider having a superpower is if no one knew or could find out that I had a superpower. Maybe that's what aliens have they've engineered a blind spot in our brains and perception.
Omniscience for 5 years.
If that is too godlike, I'll take prescience or clairsentience for 5 years.
At the end of five years, I will be one of the wealthiest and most influential people alive.
I’d take prof x level telepathy for 5 years. I think I could do a lot of good in that time frame.
Anyone notice that both Biden and Trump are suddenly leftist without losing any support? That’s weird.
When did Netanyahu suddenly start caring about rebuilding Israel as a multiethnic paradise we’re all people are treated equal. Russia is funding the rebuilding of Ukraine? All world leaders are joined in fighting climate change?
I’d make the world so good no one would except it going back once my 5 years are up
I want 5 years of the power to heal. The power restore people's bodies to peak health relative to their age. I don't want to make people immortal. Just a one time fee to get rid of any ailments, cancers, fix hair loss, everything you can think of. Simply perfect health top to bottom.
The fee would be based on income. Lower you make, the lower it is or a non-existenting fee. The more you make, the higher the fee. And ultra rich would be paying exorbitant prices.
My power simply requires myself to touch a person. Instantly heals them. It doesn't work if someone forces their way to me and touches me. It won't work. It just knows to work when I use it. If I were to get lucky and a billionaire were to come early on and I make a ton of money off them, the rest of the 5 years would be spent doing it for free. Anyone sitting on their death bed from cancers, aids, tumors, whatever. I'd go to every hospital in the country and heal everyone there. Also anyone that shows up while I'm at that specific hospital. Anyone that see me in the streets. I'd give out my address and set up a wall around my house. And I would sit at the wall letting people put their hands through a hole where I heal them. Gotta remain safe, you know. Insurance companies and Healthcare companies are going to crumble from all of this, so they'll likely hire hitmen. I'd still heal all I could for 5 years though.
Random. That ptsd I'd have after 5 years of being amazing would be unbearable. January 1st would be fun af to figure out what I got for second Christmas lol
The lifetime one seems impractical so I gotta figure out the best way to take advantage of a superpower in a relatively short time.
I'm gonna go with instant traveling or teleportation of myself and anything directly touching my skin.
I only work a few hours a day but my commute is insanely long (3 hours a day) it would save me 3 hours of my day to do whatever but my actual work hours will not change so work time will get significantly shorter for me.
I could take my family on vacation anywhere and anytime I want. Want to pop to Japan for the weekend? Don't even need to pack bags or spend on a hotel. You can just pop back home at night and go back in the morning, yes I realize in this scenario I'd be going back home in the US to day time.
Could even set up a travel business that charges based on income. Rich people would be willing to pay out the ass to go from London to New York in the blink of an eye. Poorer people could do the same but more affordable and quicker than an airline. Your family of 6 want to go from Los Angeles to Walt Disney World in Florida? $500 bucks round trip just call me when you're ready to go back home. I would just grab everyone's bag, have everyone put a hand on my neck or bare shoulder or some shit and bam. 30 seconds of work, instant cash.
I could theoretically spend every day traveling with my family (just my wife and I while the kids are in school) and see basically everything worth seeing in the world within 5 years. While slipping away a couple minutes at a time to teleport some family or person. Wouldn't even have to work during those times. If done right I could make millions over those 5 years. You're a billionaire but you don't want to take a 12 hour flight across the world? Low low price of 5k ill get you there in the snap of a finger. Do a few of those every day or several lower income families with no over head cost except maybe a secretary to handle my scheduling and phone calls, I could stand to make 10s of millions or more in 5 years depending on how much I feel like working.
5 years. The ability to get away with any lie.
Go to the bank: “you guys owe me $10mil.” “Oh yes you’re right, sorry about that, let’s get that started.”
Get pulled over for speeding, all of a sudden I was never speeding.
Tell the president x and y and he will have to believe you.
You become the most powerful person on the planet.
My initial instinct was to say random power, so I’d have one for the rest of my life. But on the other hand, I could pick a power that can help me make a lot of money for 5 years and then live comfortably the rest of my life. That is tempting. I’d probably still go with random power though.
I only want the power to transfer my mind in any system I want. Within 5 years, I'm sure I can become the universe itself. And no, that's not a godly power. It's the use I make with it that is godly, because that's what I already am : God.
Is being a technopath acceptable? In today's day and age, that's almost a god level power. Being able to communicate and control machines with your mind would be legit.
The objectively correct answer is 1 super power of your choice, and choose the ability to teleport anywhere in the universe in this dimension or any alternate dimension (including fictional ones) at will. Teleport to a fictional universe with wish-granting capabilities, teleport to the location of the wish granting things, wish to permanently have whatever powers you want. Teleport to a different universe and repeat.
Boom, now you have infinite super powers, even after the 5 years runs out.
And before you say "that's too close to god-tier so you can't have that."
It's not. It's just factually not. Interdimensional teleportation just straight up is not god tier. How you USE it allows you to *become* god tier, but the teleportation itself is decidedly not even close to God tier.
Probably pick the insane ability to learn and permanently retain knowledge I learn
Like I’m talking read a book about the most complicated subject in existence and fully understand and learn what’s in it and retain that knowledge forever and after I have no powers I would have still had it learned
Either that or a sub 1 ms reaction time
I'd pick the random powers. Just sounds like more fun. I'd get to try out a whole lot of different things.
My chances of getting regeneration at some point are pretty high. So just at some point in my 40's my knees stop hurting? Hell yeah.
I'd go with the random powers for the rest of my life. With full mastery of any power I get, I could find something useful to do.
To use your example of emitting radiation, I could do a lot of things, especially considering that light, heat, radio, microwave, xrays, gamma, all are forms of radiation of varying degrees if frequency and energy. I could be my own flashlight, shoot laserbeams, cook food, communicate long distances, kill pathogens, give others tans, etc.
I'm taking the random super powers for life. It'd be depressing as hell to be able to fly or something for years and then one day just be a normal person. At least with the random powers if you get a crappy one it's only for a year and you have the hope of getting a cooler one next year.
Random powers seems dumb.
1 superpower.
Subatomic manipulation, make the world into a utopia by singlehandedly converting harmful gases into oyxgen or ozone, in addition to harming dangerous people by messing with the oxygen in their body.
No one will even know it's me.
Global aoe aura of immortality for 5 years. It will be nice to see how humanity will go berserk realizing they're immortal only for it to be gone after 5 years.
Shapeshifting. I assume I get to keep any changes I make to myself so I can just permanently have, for example, four arms for multitasking, wings for flight, or permanently cure health issues.
Is technopathy considered OP? Like the ability to communicate with and manipulate technology to do your bidding with your mind? If not I would choose that for the next 5 years.
Also if you chose to swap between random superpowers every year for the rest of your life they would actually be superpowers and not like curses right? Like for your example of radiation, you would also receive immunity to radiation correct because otherwise you would probably succumb to radiation poisoning the second you use it.
Choosing the power is great and you can set up a good life in 5 years. However, 5 years is a long time to live with an ability you will never get back once it's gone.
I'd choose the random power once per year, then I have at least one power until I'm dead. There're a lot of ways you can use just about any power to your advantage
Technopath. Imagine talking to machines and being able to control them. I’d take that for five years. It’d be a subtle way to get rich.
Just go to the casino, blow through a hundred bucks, rub a machine with a decent jackpot ‘for luck’, hit the big prize. Don’t do this every day or you’ll get found out.
Take those winnings to Vegas. Spread wins out at multiple casinos. Spend some time losing naturally to throw off suspicion. Finally hit a big prize jackpot. Blow an eighth of it on gambling more. Head home with your prize.
Influence the government’s records to show you paid in for your taxes. Put a large chunk of it in the stock market. Influence the market to make huge returns with the rest of your time. Let it slowly sit after your five years is over, live off the interest and dividends.
1 power for 5 years, gimme future sight.
There'll naturally be some limit to how far I can see, but that's fine. I can use it to see winning lotto numbers or superbowl winners and bet accordingly. Even better, I can give spoilers before shows come out to destroy my enemies in a physically harmless way 😈
Time travel.
Even with a 5 year limit as I can just go back and talk to my young and future selfs I'd basically live my best life.
If I dedicated myself to science, with the loops I would eventually make thousands of years worth of scientific breakthroughs in one lifetime.
Could probably invented immortality.
The superpower to rewrite the terms of contracts, after the fact. That way, I can alter interest rates, find legal loopholes in my favor, and extend my 5-year-superpower-period to be as long as I want.
Random for sure. Five years seems like a long time, but imagine being able to fly for five years, and then never being able to fly again. How sad would that be?
I think I'll take the random power for the rest of my life, starting on my birthday, that way I get a new superpower every birthday like a present from God.
I'd find some way of using whatever powers I got for good. I'd get the standard powers at some point for sure (invisibility, flight, super strength, super speed, etc), obviously not all at once. But then I'd get some interesting powers that can be useful even if niche (like turning into a merman when wet: I can go find sunken treasure and get rich). Yeah, it would make for an interesting life, and I could maybe even market it into a book series, go over what it's like having the powers and highlight things I've done with them. Like keep a journal and compile and edit the stories every few years.
I’d get invisibility so I could sneak into the meeting of politicians and CEOs so I can find out what stocks they’re fixing next to secure lifetime wealth lol
Surprised no one has said telekinesis. I'd take that power for 5 years. Could EASILY get rich via various gambling options. After that, you could have fun living out the script Patrick Stewart wrote in "Extras".
shapeshifting i could even give myself wings with it
just 1 question if i am not in my original form when my super power goes way do i revert to normalor do i get stuck in the appearance i had at the time
still unsure which is better picking or random
if i can pick the power for 5 years can i pick Dimensional Travel like armstrong levy to go any anime world i chose and if so am i sent home at the end of the 5 years or can i stay in the world im in or is this to strong
I think random, could end shitty, could be pretty cool. I think I'm gonna roll on a randomized superpower wheel 10 times and just see what I get.
1: Ectoplasm Vision: Emit beams of Ectoplasm from my eyes. Not bad, not useful, but not bad.
2: Jactitation: The ability to absorb kinetic energy and use it to prevent oneself from ever becoming immobilized. The implications for this one are interesting, mainly because absorbing energy in any form is pretty broken.
3: Dust Manipulation: Self explanatory. Honestly, not a bad one. Offer my own cleaning services and make decent money on the side.
4: Super color Vision: Ability to see broader spectrum of color. Could be cool for science, though I'm curious if it would be believable.
5: Acid Generation: The power to secrete a highly corrosive acid. I can't really see a day to day application, especially if I'm not immune to it, so maybe a bust?
6: Fang Retraction: The power to possess/retract razor-sharp fangs. Another bust, cool party trick, maybe bite through some stuff to show it off, but once again not very practical or game changing.
7: Heat Vision: Once again, don't really need to explain. This one would be interesting, I'm wondering if I could use it to be a welder or something of the sort? Maybe use it for science and let them test the energy output and try and do something with that, I don't know.
8: Retro cognition: The ability to perceive past events. Now we are talking. This would be insane to have for all sorts of purposes that I can't even begin to imagine. Finding hidden cities. Fully knowing past events. Answering actual questions that nobody has answers to. Favorite so far for sure.
9: Reanimation: Gonna assume we know this one and I'm struggling. It depends on what it means ya know? I'm guessing it's not resurrection so they'd be a decayed corpse and while I think a zombie apocalypse would be cool, I'm not trying to cause it.
10: Invulnerability: Another interesting one, it really depends on if I feel pain or not. Otherwise I don't really see the usefulness of being immune to damage.
Not a bad list, most of them are fairly useless in my day to day life outside of retrocognition but they also don't mess up my life. I think once I'm home I'll do another 10 and see what I get
I would go with 1 superpower for 5 years. That power would be to completely understand and be able to use the contense of any nonfiction book I touched. Then I would spend the next 5 years going to all the libraries to touch all non fiction books as I can. I would still have the comprehension and knowledge after the 5 years just could not learn anything new using the power
Even though you could pick something useful enough that you could set yourself up for life with one power, I don't think I could handle going back to nothing after five years. Give me the random power every year for life. At least I know there is something new to expect from the future no matter what else happens in life.
One super power for 5 years. The super power
Photosynthesis - on a global scale
What would I do with it. Simple.
Convert co2 to oxygen effectively lowering global ghg levels to pre industrial levels giving us more time to fight climate change.
Someone said mind control. That would be another one used effectively could deal with climate change
I’ll take the one super power for 5 years and my wife will take the swap 1 power every year. With our powers combined we will be more comfortable in our every day lives! Huzzah!
One power for 5 years: The ability to convert my thoughts into computer code. I could output thousands of AAA game titles in a year and make a killing as a master of cybersecurity.
Basically, I say to a computer “program this game and create all necessary files,” and think of a cool game idea, and in a few hours I have a game I love in my hands ready to play.
And of course, for economy reasons, I’d release the games slowly, so as not to flood the economy and program a script to keep the games updated with the best graphics so they stay AAA, meaning I can give the money fountain to any children I might have, meaning they keep the money fountain.
I'll take 5 years with a 12 level intellect ( Brainiac 5/ Lex Luthor, Mr Fantastic kinda deal)
If by the end of that 5 years I haven't managed to genetically engineer / Cybernetically enhance myself into an Ubermensch who will retain my towering intellect as well as a host of other additional attributes then fuck taking the power back, just shoot me in the head.
1. Shape shift myself into anything but it's permanent, then turn into something beyond human permanently, a new species far better than anything imaginable whilst remaking my soul. The power is simply shapeshifting and is singular. Since technically my power is just shapeshifting it's not God level, and since it's a new species as well as an entirely remade soul there's no powers to lose.
If the random super powers have the potential to be harmful, such as your example of "Emit radiation," then I definitely go with picking a power for 5 years. I don't want to turn 58 only to spend the next year blasting constant lasers out of my eyes like Cyclops. Talk about blowing out the candles!
I could legit just say I want to be inconceivably lucky as a power and go to Vegas or just win basically any luck based thing ever whether it money base or purely something funny like dnd or just something small like oh nice won a giveaway
I would take 5 years of controlling probability. I'd be able to set the world up forever.
What's the probability that tomorrow I'd get a call to a meeting with the greatest minds ever to set up a plan to turn earth into a post scarcity utopia for everyone? 100%
Whats the probability that everyone who is injured or sick wakes up tomorrow in perfect health? 100%
What's the probability that we decide collectively to end corporate greed and global enshittification? You get the idea.
I’d take reality altering for 5 years. I’d just change reality to what I wanted. Anytime some political shit that happens after what I’ll call the Big Bang (the first, only, and most altering change id make) I’ll just change it to where it set us up as well as possible for positive times ahead. 5 years isn’t nearly enough to make it set in stone, nor is a lifetime, but it’s okay. A little chaos is natural.
How does time control work with the 5 years? If I go back in time 3 days, then live those 3 days out, am I bet zero or did that count towards the 5 years?
Uncle Ben said with great power comes great responsibility. A superpower should be with a secret identity. Otherwise hero or villian you will either have a government organization or criminals hunting you probably to the point of hurting the ones you love to get what they want. However random superpowers yearly sounds interesting.
The choice here would be more difficult if there was a caveat of, the 1 power for 5 years you don’t just instantly have full mastery/control over.
If you had to learn to control it, even if you started out having a rudimentary understanding and control, that somewhat incentivizes the random power each year with full control.
As it stands many people avoid the random power one because of how potentially useless it is and there really isn’t any tradeoff for the 1 power for 5 years currently
Technopathy or technokinesis or whatever it’s called. We live in a very technological world. I’m set WAAAYYY before the end of the first year. I’m talking money, properties, bunkers, weaponry, a satellite space cannon…
Man, there are some scary comments here.
Anyway. One power for 5 years.
Knowledge granting. I can grant knowledge beyond even my understanding to others that remains in thier head and is completly clear to them. Grant researchers the cure to cancer. Grant myself knowledge on who would make the best world leaders and then grant them knowledge about how to achieve that. Grant scientist the knowledge to advance the human race to advance on the Kardashev scale. Grant someone the knowledge about where to find thier missing cat(Best use).
It comes down to what is "too strong". Flash level speed is obviously busted but what about quicksilver speed (hypersonic)? Precognition/ability to see the future? Is 24 hours too strong? 1 hour? What about intangibility (like kitty pryde from the X-Men)? Is generating lightning too strong?
What about powers like stretching, shape shifting, or like energy forms? What happens if you're in mid-use at the end of the timer? Do you stay stretched out, or transformed? Or do you go back to your original form?
1 superpower.
I would make anyone do anything I want them to do just by thinking about it while looking at their picture.
The First thing I would do is I would make all politicians tell the truth for the rest of their life.
Irresistible suggestion. Sort of like mind control but they are convinced they want to. Anything I suggest or ask, over any media or in person.
War. Over.
Crime. Limited
Universal Healthcare
End of poverty, hunger and homelessness.
Plow the money spent on defense into improving the world and research.
Teach that all religions are equally valid as long as they do no harm. All peoples, ethnicities, languages and customs are all to be celebrated.
Racism and misogyny are abhorrent.
Respect everyone. Be kind and charitable.
Basically set the world of the path to world peace and give us 5 years to practice. It wouldn't last but if made as suggestions, then people might not immediately become the infected anal warts that so much of society had become.
i would take either portals or cloning (both of which i mean at will, not a portal gun or a cloning machine)
they would both have a lot of good use cases
My instant choice was one for 5 years. However I'm not sure what I'd pick yet. Honestly my first thought was shapeshifting so I could live a life in a body I actually liked 💀 But aside from that, it's still a really cool power to me. But how far is it limited to? I'm pretty sure you can do stuff like turn into an animal and change your human appearance as that's commonly portrayed in fiction. Can you become something that technically doesn't exist in the human world though is my question? Like for example shapeshifting into a werewolf and then having the actual physical abilities of a werewolf instead of just the appearance (or a mermaid that can actually breathe and stay underwater, or a vampire that actually needs blood, etc.). Or is becoming a mythical creature a different superpower?
I guess then there's also the questions if you can shapeshift into objects, and if you can completely make up your appearance what are the limits, and how does copying someone's exact appearance go .. And if there's a time lock between changes or a limit of how often you can reuse one form (and if you can save them as templates) etc. as to not make it overpowered?
edit; idk why I went into such detail on a hypothetical question lol
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Well considering the superpower I'd take is either "The Force" or "Batman Rich" and both qualify overpowered/to broad/lead to other things I'll just take the random one.
4) so there’s no chance of accidentally causing harm to myself or others because the random power a) I have complete control over, and b) they just aren’t designed to harm me (ex: “your power is you’re constantly on fire but won’t die” BS)?
If so I might go for that for the fun of it lol
Too easy. I'd take my choice of superpower for 5 years.
With random superpower every year, there is no guarantee that it will be something useful. Knowing my luck I would never get anything useful.
I'll take Invisibility for five years, Alex.
That would allow me to build a nest egg, plant listening devices, make life hard for local drug dealers and other "bad guys."
I'd probably do a lot if things to annoy people in my free time. Move stuff, make noises, freak out pets, hang out to see what people say about me (if anything at all) after I leave the room.
I would choose super luck for 5 years. I wouldn't only get rich as fuck but i could solve most scientific problems by just doodling some bullshit on a paper as an answer and that just happens to be the answer. I would be the key for us to get the greenest energy as possible and i would solve all conflicts by just taking a part in the meetings and happening to say the right words. Then i would bancrupt many casino's while at it, and share the money for charity and family and fund some projects.
I would choose the random as long as I have mastery. Would just be cool to check out various powers.
Besides I'm sure I would eventual get my choice power for at least a year anyway
Random. Maybe I get super healing and I get to deage or get a free year of life. Also, way cooler than Christmas. Not to mention might get some good ones, like ability to make people shit their pants. If I had that, I’d never get another ticket or have to interact with people I dislike again.
Also rest of my life having super powers is way cooler than just 5 years of a power. Once you do whatever dumb plan you have to get rich life will get boring or you will blow it all anyway.
I’d probably do the random superpower every year. It would be fun trying each one out. I hope one of the years I’d get to shapeshift (so I can be an animal, someone else etc)
If I were to choose shapeshifting, can I keep the form after 5 years?
If not, then is just summoning non-taxable money okay? Like, the CRA (Canadian IRS) wouldn't be on my ass
I think I'd rather have a lifetime of random powers. It sounds a lot more fun and interesting. Sure you'd probably get some duds like the power to fart at will or something stupid, but every new power brings the challenge of figuring out how to make the most of it.
The one op mentioned in the post of emitting radiation would be an awesome power. You could get paid by the government to be a free source of power for basically the entire world so instead of spending money on energy generation for a year they could maybe pool their efforts into energy storage so there could be a massive energy store for when you lose your power.
There'd probably be some real bangers in there too.
5 years of physiology manipulation. Spend that 5 years selling youth, good health, and agelessness to billionaires and become a multi billionaire myself. Also make myself young, healthy, and ageless. And sterile but with high libido and a bigger dick. Enjoy being rich for eternity or till an accident kills me.
So long as the random super powers aren't dangerous to myself or people around me then I would go with that.
Otherwise I'd go with 5 years of shape shifting and make it so that I keep the body I'm in at the end of the five years.
I agree with everyone else, I’m not a huge fan of how option 1 was handled. Also the way the title was phrased made it seem like we had a lot of freedom but there are loads of restrictions and harsh limitations. Fortunately, I can still work with it. I’m picking mind control. “Physical contact first” is hardly a burden for me. Anywho, I’m going to commit a lot of untraceable money making crime with this superpower. The potential of mind control, the ability to not just control an individual’s actions but their entire reality, is almost laughable
As an autistic person the only superpower I have ever wanted is **mind reading**. Full out control is kinda gross. I don't want to control or force people to do shit they wouldn't otherwise. I just want to know what they're thinking because they sure as fuck don't generally say what they're thinking out loud.
Random Power... I like to think outside the box, and even given your example of Radiation Emission as a "useless power", could come up with some interesting ideas. Looking at City of Heroes for instance Radiation Emission is one of my favourite power sets... ;)
The ability to hypnotise biscuits for a year would be harder to find a useful skill from but... with perfect control you'd either just not do anything for a year or come up with something amazing... :D
I would totally take the random powers. Would be a laugh, waking up every New Year's Day, slightly hungover, and trying to work out what my new power was. And the fact that I have mastery over it, meaning I won't accidentally hurt anyone? slam dunk.
I want to be able to read through peoples memories from their personal perspective. 5 years isn’t long but I think could learn more via that power than one could in many years
1 power for 5 years and have reality bending. Give myself the ability permanently or remove the 5 year limit. Hell better yet I could just break time so it isn’t linear anymore and I’m technically a reality bender forever
could take the 5 year one and do a decent future sight to win lotteries, sports betting, stock exchanges etc. Then retire happily once you've made it rich
would it look suspicious at first? maybe, but you'd stop after 5 years and dont need to repeat anything
win the espn basketball bracket 1 year, a huge lottery the next, and then invest those earnings in stocks the last 3 years
edit: plus depending on how u wanna play out the power, like "see until the end of the 5 years" or just "see 1 year later"
u could technically see past ur 5 year ending with the 2nd one
The 5 year one I instantly thanos finger snap and all other males on the planet die. I then am the only man left on earth have a bunch of sex then die from the exhaustion the end
Randomly becoming extremely slimey or just turning into a puddle one year does not sound fun. I think a maximum charisma super power would be cool for 5 years. Like I could talk my way out of almost any situation or into any situation😏😏
I'd choose the power to change probability I'd become a god. What's the probability I find a million dollars thats mine to keep? It's probably extremely low well now that it's 100%.
I'd take the power to transmute toxins for 5 years. Basically neutralize anything that can kill or harm people and animals. Walk into chernobyl, bam no more radiation, go to the berkely pitt, turn it back into a lake. YouTube that sheet and wait for the contract offers to remediate tailings ponds and nuclear waste disposal sites to roll in. I'd do a couple more freebies in my local area and also take care of the Fukushima water storage situation and the Niger river delta oil Contamination.
Humans will just mess it up again but in some ways we'd at least be starting from scratch with more time to figure out better ways to deal with our toxic and hazardous wastes.
Having a random power every year for life, is going to result in the deaths of innocents eventually, whether it's being pregnant and waking up with super vomit like the Belcher or going to sleep only to get explosive farts.
Meanwhile I could do a lot with cellular control. It doesn't make something from nothing, it just alters what already is. Altering a bacteria to consume vast quantities of water to produce alcohol could be considered godly, but ultimately this ability is limited by what's around, luckily earth is plentiful in life. Most importantly once the ability is lost any changes made are permanent, like breaking a hole in a wall then losing the hammer.
I'll take one power for 5 years. Time travel, but I can only travel backwards, and I can only go back a maximum of 24 hours. And that's a fixed cap, I can't spam it over and over to go back as far as I want. So if I traveled back 24 hours, then waited an hour, then traveled again, I could only go back 1 hour, as an example. Can't do anything god-tier with only 24 hours of future knowledge, but definitely could have some serious advantages with it.
Correct mistakes, take some risks knowing that I could undo them if I acted within the same day, and at some point wait for a nice lottery and travel back the moment the winning numbers are announced to secure financial future after I lose the power.
Id take a random power every year because itd be fun.
Side note: emitting radiation is something we already do but having full control over it with the ability change the its wavelengths would actually be super useful. You could microwave food that’s sitting on the counter or you could make a gamma ray to give people cancer or even use the right rays to be a walking cancer treatment.
I would choose the power of complete mastery of my dreams when i sleep. I mean think about it, you could go into a palace in your dreams with all the information you could possibly think of just like Terrance Howard. You could have time dilation so 5 years could turn to 50 in dreams with full control you could have any power/scenario you could think of. The possibilities are endless... Please don't nerf😩
What happens if you pick random and get powers that fuck with time or your age or have very, very long-term effects?
If you're ageless for a year, do you just keep the agelessness forever? If you have supersedes for you keep it until Jun 27 2025 or until you age a year, whatever that means?
If you have something that heals you perfectly, like regeneration, do you get the injuries back after a year? If you can make clones of yourself do they persist past a year?
If I chose shapeshifting, when the 5 years are up would I return to normal, or he stuck in the form I am in when the time is up?
Random powers
Rather choose 1 superpower that disappears after 5 years. > you could get a mutant power of having wings that you could fly with. Having a random power is too unpredictable.
I assume that the single power would come with secondary powers that allow you to use the power to the fullest? Aka, super strength involves super durability specific to the strength, so that you don't tear your tendons and crush your bones whilst lifting? If so, Id choose a superpower of my choice - most likely super speed.
1 of my choice, it's undetectable invisibility, done. That range on the once a year thing is SO wide it's unreal. Five years in I'd have solved ALOT of world problems and got filthy stinking rich off the back of it. Easy game.
Random
1 power for 5 years: mind control. I'm basically a toned-down God with this one.
I'd take invulnerability for the next 5 years , this way I'd could live past my disease life expectancy
Gimme mind control for five years
1 power for 5 years, the power to control probability. Can solve anything with that
Give me Micah's power from Heroes, talk to/control electronic devices for 5 years Become worlds greatest hacker, get rich fast, clear debt etc etc
I’d choose mind control for five years. I’d be able to easily accomplish what I wanted within that time.
Feel like random superpower is the obvious answer as long as the powers aren’t harmful had in that randomness, I can deal with usefulness for a while but for instance the power to turn your own bones into marshmallows would instantly kill you
Random. You could win the jackpot and get something really good like super intelligence then just spend a whole year creating inventions or even a device to either know the specifics of your power, next power you’re getting or potentially getting to reroll and force a better power If not that you’d just have some interesting utility with some of them. If I really planned it out and knew the specifics of the limit on the 5 years I could probably work with that
The random power. Full mastery means there's no learning curve and I can apply it effectively. ALso, even once I lose a power, I can utilize what I've learned from it to live better. Also, it's a full lifetime of power rather than just 5 years.
can I pick time control and go back to when I was young? if you say I go back to when I was 10 will I have the ability until im 15 or does it go away because until I get back to now?
1 super power for 5 years. I would choose time manipulation - slow, stop, rewind, fast forward. I could solve all the same problems of the invisible guy above in a single instance. Make myself wealthy thru gambling or theft and for damn near 5 years be untouchable. Maybe even create save points along my time line so if I die I’m brought back to that save point.
Random superpower each year.
Presuming this doesn’t fall under “God-like”, I would just choose **Absolute Luck** as a superpower for 5 years, similar to Domino from Deadpool 2. With that, I can achieve all I need to within 5 years, and then be ‘set’ for life (ie. Retire), by the time the power expires. ~~Also, if ‘Lucky’ enough, the Scientists I hire could potentially even just figure out how to replicate Flight, Super Strength, Invisibility, etc through technology for me.~~
One power for 5 years. Singular power being a technopath, speaking to, and controlling, machines and computers. I don't think I need to say how set I am, and my family, for the rest of our lives, with just a couple *hours* of full digital control, much less 5 years.
Ah I got just the thing actually. Something I like to call Moment Reversal. All damage my body takes is redirected back to its source automatically and I instantly heal that damage. This includes any damage that can harm my body no matter the scale or source of the damage.
Super intelligence. I'm talking Mr Fantastic levels of intelligence. Use that to star creating some technology that will still effectively be science fiction. Still able to do the things I'd like to. And with his level of smarts, I could make some AI that would actually be genuine AGI like Jarvis or better.
It really depends if the effects of the power are lasting. For example, if I got the power to create something, do all the things I create stay around after I no longer have the ability? If I say mind control, does all the brainwashing vanish?
If I could control time, or bring my drawings to life I'd take that.
The only way I would consider having a superpower is if no one knew or could find out that I had a superpower. Maybe that's what aliens have they've engineered a blind spot in our brains and perception.
Omniscience for 5 years. If that is too godlike, I'll take prescience or clairsentience for 5 years. At the end of five years, I will be one of the wealthiest and most influential people alive.
I’d take prof x level telepathy for 5 years. I think I could do a lot of good in that time frame. Anyone notice that both Biden and Trump are suddenly leftist without losing any support? That’s weird. When did Netanyahu suddenly start caring about rebuilding Israel as a multiethnic paradise we’re all people are treated equal. Russia is funding the rebuilding of Ukraine? All world leaders are joined in fighting climate change? I’d make the world so good no one would except it going back once my 5 years are up
I want 5 years of the power to heal. The power restore people's bodies to peak health relative to their age. I don't want to make people immortal. Just a one time fee to get rid of any ailments, cancers, fix hair loss, everything you can think of. Simply perfect health top to bottom. The fee would be based on income. Lower you make, the lower it is or a non-existenting fee. The more you make, the higher the fee. And ultra rich would be paying exorbitant prices. My power simply requires myself to touch a person. Instantly heals them. It doesn't work if someone forces their way to me and touches me. It won't work. It just knows to work when I use it. If I were to get lucky and a billionaire were to come early on and I make a ton of money off them, the rest of the 5 years would be spent doing it for free. Anyone sitting on their death bed from cancers, aids, tumors, whatever. I'd go to every hospital in the country and heal everyone there. Also anyone that shows up while I'm at that specific hospital. Anyone that see me in the streets. I'd give out my address and set up a wall around my house. And I would sit at the wall letting people put their hands through a hole where I heal them. Gotta remain safe, you know. Insurance companies and Healthcare companies are going to crumble from all of this, so they'll likely hire hitmen. I'd still heal all I could for 5 years though.
Random power
first one but I wouldn’t be able to choose for a while regardless due to how many awesome powers there are
Random. That ptsd I'd have after 5 years of being amazing would be unbearable. January 1st would be fun af to figure out what I got for second Christmas lol
1 super power that vanishes- choose the power to see a week or at least a day into the future, then just buy n sell stocks
Can I teleport like the movie jumper? If so I’ll take that power for 5 years
The lifetime one seems impractical so I gotta figure out the best way to take advantage of a superpower in a relatively short time. I'm gonna go with instant traveling or teleportation of myself and anything directly touching my skin. I only work a few hours a day but my commute is insanely long (3 hours a day) it would save me 3 hours of my day to do whatever but my actual work hours will not change so work time will get significantly shorter for me. I could take my family on vacation anywhere and anytime I want. Want to pop to Japan for the weekend? Don't even need to pack bags or spend on a hotel. You can just pop back home at night and go back in the morning, yes I realize in this scenario I'd be going back home in the US to day time. Could even set up a travel business that charges based on income. Rich people would be willing to pay out the ass to go from London to New York in the blink of an eye. Poorer people could do the same but more affordable and quicker than an airline. Your family of 6 want to go from Los Angeles to Walt Disney World in Florida? $500 bucks round trip just call me when you're ready to go back home. I would just grab everyone's bag, have everyone put a hand on my neck or bare shoulder or some shit and bam. 30 seconds of work, instant cash. I could theoretically spend every day traveling with my family (just my wife and I while the kids are in school) and see basically everything worth seeing in the world within 5 years. While slipping away a couple minutes at a time to teleport some family or person. Wouldn't even have to work during those times. If done right I could make millions over those 5 years. You're a billionaire but you don't want to take a 12 hour flight across the world? Low low price of 5k ill get you there in the snap of a finger. Do a few of those every day or several lower income families with no over head cost except maybe a secretary to handle my scheduling and phone calls, I could stand to make 10s of millions or more in 5 years depending on how much I feel like working.
5 years. The ability to get away with any lie. Go to the bank: “you guys owe me $10mil.” “Oh yes you’re right, sorry about that, let’s get that started.” Get pulled over for speeding, all of a sudden I was never speeding. Tell the president x and y and he will have to believe you. You become the most powerful person on the planet.
5 years of mind reading to subtly set myself up for life sounds good to me.
1 power...everything I write in a specified book comes true.
5 years with perfect foresight should be enough to set me up.
My initial instinct was to say random power, so I’d have one for the rest of my life. But on the other hand, I could pick a power that can help me make a lot of money for 5 years and then live comfortably the rest of my life. That is tempting. I’d probably still go with random power though.
I only want the power to transfer my mind in any system I want. Within 5 years, I'm sure I can become the universe itself. And no, that's not a godly power. It's the use I make with it that is godly, because that's what I already am : God.
Is being a technopath acceptable? In today's day and age, that's almost a god level power. Being able to communicate and control machines with your mind would be legit.
The objectively correct answer is 1 super power of your choice, and choose the ability to teleport anywhere in the universe in this dimension or any alternate dimension (including fictional ones) at will. Teleport to a fictional universe with wish-granting capabilities, teleport to the location of the wish granting things, wish to permanently have whatever powers you want. Teleport to a different universe and repeat. Boom, now you have infinite super powers, even after the 5 years runs out. And before you say "that's too close to god-tier so you can't have that." It's not. It's just factually not. Interdimensional teleportation just straight up is not god tier. How you USE it allows you to *become* god tier, but the teleportation itself is decidedly not even close to God tier.
Probably pick the insane ability to learn and permanently retain knowledge I learn Like I’m talking read a book about the most complicated subject in existence and fully understand and learn what’s in it and retain that knowledge forever and after I have no powers I would have still had it learned Either that or a sub 1 ms reaction time
I'd pick the random powers. Just sounds like more fun. I'd get to try out a whole lot of different things. My chances of getting regeneration at some point are pretty high. So just at some point in my 40's my knees stop hurting? Hell yeah.
I take the random power. I'm going to live a lot longer than 5 years. Croyd Crenson is one of my favorite Wild Cards.
I'd go with the random powers for the rest of my life. With full mastery of any power I get, I could find something useful to do. To use your example of emitting radiation, I could do a lot of things, especially considering that light, heat, radio, microwave, xrays, gamma, all are forms of radiation of varying degrees if frequency and energy. I could be my own flashlight, shoot laserbeams, cook food, communicate long distances, kill pathogens, give others tans, etc.
This thread is so funny because people are coming up with great super powers for the 5 years and OP is just like “nuh uh”
I'm taking the random super powers for life. It'd be depressing as hell to be able to fly or something for years and then one day just be a normal person. At least with the random powers if you get a crappy one it's only for a year and you have the hope of getting a cooler one next year.
Random powers seems dumb. 1 superpower. Subatomic manipulation, make the world into a utopia by singlehandedly converting harmful gases into oyxgen or ozone, in addition to harming dangerous people by messing with the oxygen in their body. No one will even know it's me.
Cartoon powers for 5 years.
Global aoe aura of immortality for 5 years. It will be nice to see how humanity will go berserk realizing they're immortal only for it to be gone after 5 years.
I’ll take invisibility.
Shapeshifting. I assume I get to keep any changes I make to myself so I can just permanently have, for example, four arms for multitasking, wings for flight, or permanently cure health issues.
Is technopathy considered OP? Like the ability to communicate with and manipulate technology to do your bidding with your mind? If not I would choose that for the next 5 years. Also if you chose to swap between random superpowers every year for the rest of your life they would actually be superpowers and not like curses right? Like for your example of radiation, you would also receive immunity to radiation correct because otherwise you would probably succumb to radiation poisoning the second you use it.
Different ones for the rest of my life
Choosing the power is great and you can set up a good life in 5 years. However, 5 years is a long time to live with an ability you will never get back once it's gone. I'd choose the random power once per year, then I have at least one power until I'm dead. There're a lot of ways you can use just about any power to your advantage
Technopath. Imagine talking to machines and being able to control them. I’d take that for five years. It’d be a subtle way to get rich. Just go to the casino, blow through a hundred bucks, rub a machine with a decent jackpot ‘for luck’, hit the big prize. Don’t do this every day or you’ll get found out. Take those winnings to Vegas. Spread wins out at multiple casinos. Spend some time losing naturally to throw off suspicion. Finally hit a big prize jackpot. Blow an eighth of it on gambling more. Head home with your prize. Influence the government’s records to show you paid in for your taxes. Put a large chunk of it in the stock market. Influence the market to make huge returns with the rest of your time. Let it slowly sit after your five years is over, live off the interest and dividends.
1 power for 5 years. Luck manipulation. Complete control over anyone’s luck including my own
1 power for 5 years, gimme future sight. There'll naturally be some limit to how far I can see, but that's fine. I can use it to see winning lotto numbers or superbowl winners and bet accordingly. Even better, I can give spoilers before shows come out to destroy my enemies in a physically harmless way 😈
Like another poster I'm also taking Killgraves power from Jessica Jones. And before anyone asks yes I'm going full villain with it.
Can I choose to see the future for 5 years? Do some planning, then live life accordingly.
Time travel. Even with a 5 year limit as I can just go back and talk to my young and future selfs I'd basically live my best life. If I dedicated myself to science, with the loops I would eventually make thousands of years worth of scientific breakthroughs in one lifetime. Could probably invented immortality.
The superpower to rewrite the terms of contracts, after the fact. That way, I can alter interest rates, find legal loopholes in my favor, and extend my 5-year-superpower-period to be as long as I want.
One superpower of my choice , I would chose something similar to Spider-Man's spider sense.
Sure, I'll be Professor X for the next 5 years. I'll fix this whole fucking planet, you watch.
1 power for 5 years- Perfect Luck. Think Domino from Deadpool or being under the influence of the Liquid Luck potion from Harry Potter
5 years of controlling fire? Sign me up, gonna be like the Wizard from Clash of Clans
1 power for 5 years, the power to see the future. Become the greatest gambler ever and retire after 5 years
Random for sure. Five years seems like a long time, but imagine being able to fly for five years, and then never being able to fly again. How sad would that be?
Random powers sounds hella fun.
I think I'll take the random power for the rest of my life, starting on my birthday, that way I get a new superpower every birthday like a present from God. I'd find some way of using whatever powers I got for good. I'd get the standard powers at some point for sure (invisibility, flight, super strength, super speed, etc), obviously not all at once. But then I'd get some interesting powers that can be useful even if niche (like turning into a merman when wet: I can go find sunken treasure and get rich). Yeah, it would make for an interesting life, and I could maybe even market it into a book series, go over what it's like having the powers and highlight things I've done with them. Like keep a journal and compile and edit the stories every few years.
I’d get invisibility so I could sneak into the meeting of politicians and CEOs so I can find out what stocks they’re fixing next to secure lifetime wealth lol
Surprised no one has said telekinesis. I'd take that power for 5 years. Could EASILY get rich via various gambling options. After that, you could have fun living out the script Patrick Stewart wrote in "Extras".
shapeshifting i could even give myself wings with it just 1 question if i am not in my original form when my super power goes way do i revert to normalor do i get stuck in the appearance i had at the time still unsure which is better picking or random
The one I want is time control so ....
if i can pick the power for 5 years can i pick Dimensional Travel like armstrong levy to go any anime world i chose and if so am i sent home at the end of the 5 years or can i stay in the world im in or is this to strong
Chance manipulation is always the best super power. After that it’s speed. Either for 5 years and the world is looking pretty sweet.
Healing for 5 years! You can go around healing people, become super rich, and then retire mysteriously when you run of out healing after 5 years.
I think random, could end shitty, could be pretty cool. I think I'm gonna roll on a randomized superpower wheel 10 times and just see what I get. 1: Ectoplasm Vision: Emit beams of Ectoplasm from my eyes. Not bad, not useful, but not bad. 2: Jactitation: The ability to absorb kinetic energy and use it to prevent oneself from ever becoming immobilized. The implications for this one are interesting, mainly because absorbing energy in any form is pretty broken. 3: Dust Manipulation: Self explanatory. Honestly, not a bad one. Offer my own cleaning services and make decent money on the side. 4: Super color Vision: Ability to see broader spectrum of color. Could be cool for science, though I'm curious if it would be believable. 5: Acid Generation: The power to secrete a highly corrosive acid. I can't really see a day to day application, especially if I'm not immune to it, so maybe a bust? 6: Fang Retraction: The power to possess/retract razor-sharp fangs. Another bust, cool party trick, maybe bite through some stuff to show it off, but once again not very practical or game changing. 7: Heat Vision: Once again, don't really need to explain. This one would be interesting, I'm wondering if I could use it to be a welder or something of the sort? Maybe use it for science and let them test the energy output and try and do something with that, I don't know. 8: Retro cognition: The ability to perceive past events. Now we are talking. This would be insane to have for all sorts of purposes that I can't even begin to imagine. Finding hidden cities. Fully knowing past events. Answering actual questions that nobody has answers to. Favorite so far for sure. 9: Reanimation: Gonna assume we know this one and I'm struggling. It depends on what it means ya know? I'm guessing it's not resurrection so they'd be a decayed corpse and while I think a zombie apocalypse would be cool, I'm not trying to cause it. 10: Invulnerability: Another interesting one, it really depends on if I feel pain or not. Otherwise I don't really see the usefulness of being immune to damage. Not a bad list, most of them are fairly useless in my day to day life outside of retrocognition but they also don't mess up my life. I think once I'm home I'll do another 10 and see what I get
Shapeshifting into anything i want
1 superpower predict the future to a certain extent
I would go with 1 superpower for 5 years. That power would be to completely understand and be able to use the contense of any nonfiction book I touched. Then I would spend the next 5 years going to all the libraries to touch all non fiction books as I can. I would still have the comprehension and knowledge after the 5 years just could not learn anything new using the power
1 power. Probability field manipulation.
I'd take the one power - not sure which yet. The random power seems a little too monkey's paw.
Super healing if the effects are permanent: My body is fucked up and my dog has three legs. I’d make sure we were both healthy and be happy.
Even though you could pick something useful enough that you could set yourself up for life with one power, I don't think I could handle going back to nothing after five years. Give me the random power every year for life. At least I know there is something new to expect from the future no matter what else happens in life.
Teleporting myself and up to 5 tons of cargo for 5 years.
Random: My first 2 randomly generated powers were Supernatural Flexibility and Stench Generation...
Yeah, my super power would be to gain $10mil/yr after taxes
One super power for 5 years. The super power Photosynthesis - on a global scale What would I do with it. Simple. Convert co2 to oxygen effectively lowering global ghg levels to pre industrial levels giving us more time to fight climate change. Someone said mind control. That would be another one used effectively could deal with climate change
I’ll take the one super power for 5 years and my wife will take the swap 1 power every year. With our powers combined we will be more comfortable in our every day lives! Huzzah!
One power for 5 years: The ability to convert my thoughts into computer code. I could output thousands of AAA game titles in a year and make a killing as a master of cybersecurity. Basically, I say to a computer “program this game and create all necessary files,” and think of a cool game idea, and in a few hours I have a game I love in my hands ready to play. And of course, for economy reasons, I’d release the games slowly, so as not to flood the economy and program a script to keep the games updated with the best graphics so they stay AAA, meaning I can give the money fountain to any children I might have, meaning they keep the money fountain.
I choose the bear, the worst it's being to do is slowly eat me alive
Random, because why not?
Either super power "command/monarch" or I'll take the random. It sounds super entertaining
I’d probably pick full mastery over deez for 5 years.
Regeneration for five years. Even just having that long enough for my body to fix itself up once would be great, five years of it would be amazing.
I'll take 5 years with a 12 level intellect ( Brainiac 5/ Lex Luthor, Mr Fantastic kinda deal) If by the end of that 5 years I haven't managed to genetically engineer / Cybernetically enhance myself into an Ubermensch who will retain my towering intellect as well as a host of other additional attributes then fuck taking the power back, just shoot me in the head.
I’ll take Monster Girl’s power from Invincible and de-age myself to 18. Even once the power is gone at least I’ll live longer.
1. Shape shift myself into anything but it's permanent, then turn into something beyond human permanently, a new species far better than anything imaginable whilst remaking my soul. The power is simply shapeshifting and is singular. Since technically my power is just shapeshifting it's not God level, and since it's a new species as well as an entirely remade soul there's no powers to lose.
Random powers. New year's even would be the most exciting day ever waiting to see what you get.
Being able to stop time 😈
Neither and rock a bo and arrow
Give me the Midas touch for when I want to use it.
If the random super powers have the potential to be harmful, such as your example of "Emit radiation," then I definitely go with picking a power for 5 years. I don't want to turn 58 only to spend the next year blasting constant lasers out of my eyes like Cyclops. Talk about blowing out the candles!
I could legit just say I want to be inconceivably lucky as a power and go to Vegas or just win basically any luck based thing ever whether it money base or purely something funny like dnd or just something small like oh nice won a giveaway
Teleportation. Robbing banks is a snap, and I can travel for free.
I would take 5 years of controlling probability. I'd be able to set the world up forever. What's the probability that tomorrow I'd get a call to a meeting with the greatest minds ever to set up a plan to turn earth into a post scarcity utopia for everyone? 100% Whats the probability that everyone who is injured or sick wakes up tomorrow in perfect health? 100% What's the probability that we decide collectively to end corporate greed and global enshittification? You get the idea.
random would be fun i think
Could you take Time Manipulation and just never go to 5 years from now?
I’d take reality altering for 5 years. I’d just change reality to what I wanted. Anytime some political shit that happens after what I’ll call the Big Bang (the first, only, and most altering change id make) I’ll just change it to where it set us up as well as possible for positive times ahead. 5 years isn’t nearly enough to make it set in stone, nor is a lifetime, but it’s okay. A little chaos is natural.
How does time control work with the 5 years? If I go back in time 3 days, then live those 3 days out, am I bet zero or did that count towards the 5 years?
I'll take random powers
Uncle Ben said with great power comes great responsibility. A superpower should be with a secret identity. Otherwise hero or villian you will either have a government organization or criminals hunting you probably to the point of hurting the ones you love to get what they want. However random superpowers yearly sounds interesting.
The choice here would be more difficult if there was a caveat of, the 1 power for 5 years you don’t just instantly have full mastery/control over. If you had to learn to control it, even if you started out having a rudimentary understanding and control, that somewhat incentivizes the random power each year with full control. As it stands many people avoid the random power one because of how potentially useless it is and there really isn’t any tradeoff for the 1 power for 5 years currently
Technopathy or technokinesis or whatever it’s called. We live in a very technological world. I’m set WAAAYYY before the end of the first year. I’m talking money, properties, bunkers, weaponry, a satellite space cannon…
Man, there are some scary comments here. Anyway. One power for 5 years. Knowledge granting. I can grant knowledge beyond even my understanding to others that remains in thier head and is completly clear to them. Grant researchers the cure to cancer. Grant myself knowledge on who would make the best world leaders and then grant them knowledge about how to achieve that. Grant scientist the knowledge to advance the human race to advance on the Kardashev scale. Grant someone the knowledge about where to find thier missing cat(Best use).
Random powers, cause I get a cool surprise every year
LETS GO GAMBLING!
5 years. Probability Manipulation.
Ability to transform. Question, does my transformation stay after I lose powers or Would I revert to what I am ?
I would take superpower level intelligence, Tony stark or reed richards.
Killgrave for five years.
Is the power to change probability too powerful?
It comes down to what is "too strong". Flash level speed is obviously busted but what about quicksilver speed (hypersonic)? Precognition/ability to see the future? Is 24 hours too strong? 1 hour? What about intangibility (like kitty pryde from the X-Men)? Is generating lightning too strong?
Infinite math skills
What about powers like stretching, shape shifting, or like energy forms? What happens if you're in mid-use at the end of the timer? Do you stay stretched out, or transformed? Or do you go back to your original form?
1 superpower. I would make anyone do anything I want them to do just by thinking about it while looking at their picture. The First thing I would do is I would make all politicians tell the truth for the rest of their life.
Irresistible suggestion. Sort of like mind control but they are convinced they want to. Anything I suggest or ask, over any media or in person. War. Over. Crime. Limited Universal Healthcare End of poverty, hunger and homelessness. Plow the money spent on defense into improving the world and research. Teach that all religions are equally valid as long as they do no harm. All peoples, ethnicities, languages and customs are all to be celebrated. Racism and misogyny are abhorrent. Respect everyone. Be kind and charitable. Basically set the world of the path to world peace and give us 5 years to practice. It wouldn't last but if made as suggestions, then people might not immediately become the infected anal warts that so much of society had become.
Teleportation. Travel the world and see family whenever I want. 5 years is plenty.
5 years. Predict the future. Start investing in unicorn companies and set myself up for life. Save lives in my spare time and get hero status
Phase through objects like Kitty from x-men.
i would take either portals or cloning (both of which i mean at will, not a portal gun or a cloning machine) they would both have a lot of good use cases
My instant choice was one for 5 years. However I'm not sure what I'd pick yet. Honestly my first thought was shapeshifting so I could live a life in a body I actually liked 💀 But aside from that, it's still a really cool power to me. But how far is it limited to? I'm pretty sure you can do stuff like turn into an animal and change your human appearance as that's commonly portrayed in fiction. Can you become something that technically doesn't exist in the human world though is my question? Like for example shapeshifting into a werewolf and then having the actual physical abilities of a werewolf instead of just the appearance (or a mermaid that can actually breathe and stay underwater, or a vampire that actually needs blood, etc.). Or is becoming a mythical creature a different superpower? I guess then there's also the questions if you can shapeshift into objects, and if you can completely make up your appearance what are the limits, and how does copying someone's exact appearance go .. And if there's a time lock between changes or a limit of how often you can reuse one form (and if you can save them as templates) etc. as to not make it overpowered? edit; idk why I went into such detail on a hypothetical question lol
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Well considering the superpower I'd take is either "The Force" or "Batman Rich" and both qualify overpowered/to broad/lead to other things I'll just take the random one.
4) so there’s no chance of accidentally causing harm to myself or others because the random power a) I have complete control over, and b) they just aren’t designed to harm me (ex: “your power is you’re constantly on fire but won’t die” BS)? If so I might go for that for the fun of it lol
Too easy. I'd take my choice of superpower for 5 years. With random superpower every year, there is no guarantee that it will be something useful. Knowing my luck I would never get anything useful.
If you chose time control those five years could last forever.
Placing rules on this question is so fucking stupid. Just ask the damn question, what is with the 6 braindead stipulations?
I'll take Invisibility for five years, Alex. That would allow me to build a nest egg, plant listening devices, make life hard for local drug dealers and other "bad guys." I'd probably do a lot if things to annoy people in my free time. Move stuff, make noises, freak out pets, hang out to see what people say about me (if anything at all) after I leave the room.
I'd obtain 1 super power of my choice. Super intelligence is what I'd choose!
I would choose super luck for 5 years. I wouldn't only get rich as fuck but i could solve most scientific problems by just doodling some bullshit on a paper as an answer and that just happens to be the answer. I would be the key for us to get the greenest energy as possible and i would solve all conflicts by just taking a part in the meetings and happening to say the right words. Then i would bancrupt many casino's while at it, and share the money for charity and family and fund some projects.
Time control A wise man once said "The greatest magic of all is Chronomancy"
I’d take the power of enchantment!
The power to emit radiation has limited applications? It's a infinite source of energy!
I would choose the random as long as I have mastery. Would just be cool to check out various powers. Besides I'm sure I would eventual get my choice power for at least a year anyway
One for 5 years. Prescience. I'll win games of chance enough to fund the rest of my life easily.
Hmm. I mean the "one power" answer is shapeshifting, but for similar reasons I'm not opposed to randomized powers.
Random. Maybe I get super healing and I get to deage or get a free year of life. Also, way cooler than Christmas. Not to mention might get some good ones, like ability to make people shit their pants. If I had that, I’d never get another ticket or have to interact with people I dislike again. Also rest of my life having super powers is way cooler than just 5 years of a power. Once you do whatever dumb plan you have to get rich life will get boring or you will blow it all anyway.
1power 5 years: master of magnetism. That is all, nothing to see here.
I would take random superpowers because I think going back to a life without superpowers would be entirely depressing
To whoever picks the new power every year: stay home on NYE
Hm so if you choose the one random power a year, do you innately know what the power is or would you have to fuck around and find out?
Ton Stark powers for 5 years. Money and intelligence. Set for life. Make an ai that can control everything after I don't know.
One superpower of my choice: Mental time travel, into my past. That'll sort me out.
I’d probably do the random superpower every year. It would be fun trying each one out. I hope one of the years I’d get to shapeshift (so I can be an animal, someone else etc)
5 chronological years or 5 experienced years? Because I would choose the ability to stop time so I could learn skills and goof off
If I were to choose shapeshifting, can I keep the form after 5 years? If not, then is just summoning non-taxable money okay? Like, the CRA (Canadian IRS) wouldn't be on my ass
It's so much less pressure to get a new random power every year. Even if I could get way more done with a picked power
I think I'd rather have a lifetime of random powers. It sounds a lot more fun and interesting. Sure you'd probably get some duds like the power to fart at will or something stupid, but every new power brings the challenge of figuring out how to make the most of it. The one op mentioned in the post of emitting radiation would be an awesome power. You could get paid by the government to be a free source of power for basically the entire world so instead of spending money on energy generation for a year they could maybe pool their efforts into energy storage so there could be a massive energy store for when you lose your power. There'd probably be some real bangers in there too.
1 power 5 years: Going Superman and adding some Homelander. Time to go SCORTCHED EARTH!
Random superpowers seems to be an easy pick.
1 super power and my super power is to refill things Bank account empty? refilled. want your boss to go away? refill his bladder
5 years of physiology manipulation. Spend that 5 years selling youth, good health, and agelessness to billionaires and become a multi billionaire myself. Also make myself young, healthy, and ageless. And sterile but with high libido and a bigger dick. Enjoy being rich for eternity or till an accident kills me.
So long as the random super powers aren't dangerous to myself or people around me then I would go with that. Otherwise I'd go with 5 years of shape shifting and make it so that I keep the body I'm in at the end of the five years.
Fate manipulation
im pretty sure statistically, most random powers would be useless.
I agree with everyone else, I’m not a huge fan of how option 1 was handled. Also the way the title was phrased made it seem like we had a lot of freedom but there are loads of restrictions and harsh limitations. Fortunately, I can still work with it. I’m picking mind control. “Physical contact first” is hardly a burden for me. Anywho, I’m going to commit a lot of untraceable money making crime with this superpower. The potential of mind control, the ability to not just control an individual’s actions but their entire reality, is almost laughable
I want 5 years of power to edit stats of people. For example I could buff someone's luck or health, decrease their charisma or age etc.
Definitely random, though I’m tempted to chose [insect control](https://parahumans.wordpress.com/) but I’d probably never meet anyone who got joke.
Can my superpower be to get my wife to STFU for one hour a day? Asking for a friend, Andrea.
As an autistic person the only superpower I have ever wanted is **mind reading**. Full out control is kinda gross. I don't want to control or force people to do shit they wouldn't otherwise. I just want to know what they're thinking because they sure as fuck don't generally say what they're thinking out loud.
Give me teleportation for 5 years and watch me become the world’s greatest courier.
Hmm. One power 5 years, use it to get rich. Then you’re set for life
Random Power... I like to think outside the box, and even given your example of Radiation Emission as a "useless power", could come up with some interesting ideas. Looking at City of Heroes for instance Radiation Emission is one of my favourite power sets... ;) The ability to hypnotise biscuits for a year would be harder to find a useful skill from but... with perfect control you'd either just not do anything for a year or come up with something amazing... :D
I would totally take the random powers. Would be a laugh, waking up every New Year's Day, slightly hungover, and trying to work out what my new power was. And the fact that I have mastery over it, meaning I won't accidentally hurt anyone? slam dunk.
I want to be able to read through peoples memories from their personal perspective. 5 years isn’t long but I think could learn more via that power than one could in many years
1 power for 5 years and have reality bending. Give myself the ability permanently or remove the 5 year limit. Hell better yet I could just break time so it isn’t linear anymore and I’m technically a reality bender forever
could take the 5 year one and do a decent future sight to win lotteries, sports betting, stock exchanges etc. Then retire happily once you've made it rich would it look suspicious at first? maybe, but you'd stop after 5 years and dont need to repeat anything win the espn basketball bracket 1 year, a huge lottery the next, and then invest those earnings in stocks the last 3 years edit: plus depending on how u wanna play out the power, like "see until the end of the 5 years" or just "see 1 year later" u could technically see past ur 5 year ending with the 2nd one
Power to shapechange permenently so when it goes away i still get to look the way i wish to look
One time five years. Super strength. Enter the fighting circuit. Five years undefeated. Retire.
The 5 year one I instantly thanos finger snap and all other males on the planet die. I then am the only man left on earth have a bunch of sex then die from the exhaustion the end
the random powers for the rest of my life
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Randomly becoming extremely slimey or just turning into a puddle one year does not sound fun. I think a maximum charisma super power would be cool for 5 years. Like I could talk my way out of almost any situation or into any situation😏😏
I'd choose the power to change probability I'd become a god. What's the probability I find a million dollars thats mine to keep? It's probably extremely low well now that it's 100%.
I'd take the power to transmute toxins for 5 years. Basically neutralize anything that can kill or harm people and animals. Walk into chernobyl, bam no more radiation, go to the berkely pitt, turn it back into a lake. YouTube that sheet and wait for the contract offers to remediate tailings ponds and nuclear waste disposal sites to roll in. I'd do a couple more freebies in my local area and also take care of the Fukushima water storage situation and the Niger river delta oil Contamination. Humans will just mess it up again but in some ways we'd at least be starting from scratch with more time to figure out better ways to deal with our toxic and hazardous wastes.
Having a random power every year for life, is going to result in the deaths of innocents eventually, whether it's being pregnant and waking up with super vomit like the Belcher or going to sleep only to get explosive farts. Meanwhile I could do a lot with cellular control. It doesn't make something from nothing, it just alters what already is. Altering a bacteria to consume vast quantities of water to produce alcohol could be considered godly, but ultimately this ability is limited by what's around, luckily earth is plentiful in life. Most importantly once the ability is lost any changes made are permanent, like breaking a hole in a wall then losing the hammer.
I'll take one power for 5 years. Time travel, but I can only travel backwards, and I can only go back a maximum of 24 hours. And that's a fixed cap, I can't spam it over and over to go back as far as I want. So if I traveled back 24 hours, then waited an hour, then traveled again, I could only go back 1 hour, as an example. Can't do anything god-tier with only 24 hours of future knowledge, but definitely could have some serious advantages with it. Correct mistakes, take some risks knowing that I could undo them if I acted within the same day, and at some point wait for a nice lottery and travel back the moment the winning numbers are announced to secure financial future after I lose the power.
Id take a random power every year because itd be fun. Side note: emitting radiation is something we already do but having full control over it with the ability change the its wavelengths would actually be super useful. You could microwave food that’s sitting on the counter or you could make a gamma ray to give people cancer or even use the right rays to be a walking cancer treatment.
5 years of perfect telepathy
Give me the ability to see the future and I’m good, no other powers needed.
I would choose the power of complete mastery of my dreams when i sleep. I mean think about it, you could go into a palace in your dreams with all the information you could possibly think of just like Terrance Howard. You could have time dilation so 5 years could turn to 50 in dreams with full control you could have any power/scenario you could think of. The possibilities are endless... Please don't nerf😩
What happens if you pick random and get powers that fuck with time or your age or have very, very long-term effects? If you're ageless for a year, do you just keep the agelessness forever? If you have supersedes for you keep it until Jun 27 2025 or until you age a year, whatever that means? If you have something that heals you perfectly, like regeneration, do you get the injuries back after a year? If you can make clones of yourself do they persist past a year?
I rolled a random superpower and got molecular manipulation so I'll take that.