Ask Lemmy

Fictional universe, including Christianity? Omnipotence then

The not-selfish answer would be healing, with no arbitrary restrictions, preferably not attached to some divine power. Oh, you had leg torn off? Let me reattach that real quick. Got poisoned? I can cure that. You went blind? I can fix that...pass me some new eyeballs to attach.

I want Domino's luck. All the rest of your powers can get fucked. I'm god's favorite.

Snap my finger, and all the narcissists, bullies, psychopaths, scammers, pedophiles, abusers of authority, and general dirtbags disappear and never come back. Imagine the world we would live in. Would be paradise.

Path to Victory, from Wildbow's web serial Worm.

It's a two-part power. The first looks into the future to determine the exact set of steps necessary to accomplish any given goal, if it is at all possible to accomplish in any way. The second makes you execute those exact steps with zero chance of deviation or error.

It only fails when interfered with by another power also capable of seeing the future.

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Maybe a Deathnote journal.

Less violent option would maybe be mind control at a distance.

If I could do a combo I'd have an eternal (meaning healthy, unkillable, etc) body with an ability to see up to 10 years in the future. Being able to wander anywhere and know when to be places to see major events or to help someone or be a stabilizing influence.

Imagine all the skills you could pick up and the places you could go, the things you could do, the experiences you could have. I wouldn't want to be the one with my name on a discovery, but I'd like being in the background helping it happen.

Omnipotence ofc. I will start by recreating logic itself such that it is possible for me to create a rock that is too heavy for me to lift it.

Absolute control of atomic structures / telekinesis and psychic abilities.

The grandfather in the book Slipt. Amazing story.

This effectively allows:

Change chemical structures, transmutation, cure/remove illness

Cause strokes or embolisms from a distance with no evidence.

Hey that building full of people I didn't like is now glowing from extreme amounts of radiation! Almost like the cement became a hugely unstable isotope suddenly. Weird.

Within a few days, the world would be forever changed.

Don't know but my dog is rubbing herself against the couch and I'm thinking she is working her way up from godess of static cling to godess of thunder.

I'll take a TARDIS, thank you.

I want whatever Saitama from One Punch Man have. It not just super strength and speed, its also invincibility, mindcontrol-proof, illusion-proof, or any mumbo-jumbo-proof.

If that's cheating, i want whatever King have.

Angel from Big O can literally rewrite reality.

Any universe? I'd like to be Bruce Wayne. Not Batman. Bruce.

I don’t remember if you have to have been to a place before in order to teleport there, but if that isn’t the case, Jumper (movie) would be nice. No more commuting and no more borders/passports.

I'll take omnipotence. Not sure what the drawbacks would be.

I've always been obsessed with the powers from Jumper. 100% that's what I'd go for every time.

Even though it's not the most powerful thing in the world, I've always really vibed with Daredevil's powers. I like the idea of being hyper aware of my surroundings and being able to sense movement, even from far away, without seeing it. Also, great for tracking people.

The powers of the Flash is nice, except for the destruction left in the wake of his movements.

Having the powers of Jumpers from the series by the same name seems to have good grounding as momentum is maintained during a jump getting passed the whole, earth and the solar system are moving not just earth rotating.

The ability to predict the future by concentrating on it.

Hello stock market.

Power to create anything, and I do mean ANYTHING.

Wolfwalker would be pretty awesome. Become a wolf while I sleep. Might end up getting a lot more sleep!

Superman style flight would be pretty chill. The biggest drawback I can see is how hard it would be to keep a good pair of sunglasses.

Okay

Stopping time for everyone and everything except for myself and stuff I directly touch (but not people)

Found a loophole haha

Super-speed if the speedforce was where the energy came from. Without the speedforce, running at those speeds would ignite the atmosphere and kill everything. Even if I ran slower, the food intake would be insane.

Shapeshifting, from anything

but like, Alex Fierro's power from Magnus Chase, if I have to be specific lol

Shapeshifting.

Doesn't need to be into any form, just "into your true form (and possibly back)" would be enough. I'm a wolf, lemme be a wolf, dammit, universe!

Being able to shift back would be convenient for when human society inevitably demands you look like a human or be treated as an Unthinking Worthless Lesser Object. Until society figures out how awful that is and cuts it out.

-- Frost

The drawbacks probably wouldn't be worth it, unless I underestimate my willpower, but having a power from an "in the planning phase" work I'm working on wouldn't be the worst. Specifically the power of the main characters chief rival.

To keep it brief, he's pretty damn smart while also having long horns he can bend and contort like nothing. The catch is that the use of his power slowly kills him over time. He, like all the other superpower like users, is the result of the fusion of someone traveling to another dimension with someone else.

Due to low willpower, the guy has full control over the host and I am a little worried my willpower wouldn't be able to outshine his. Then I'd be trapped inside a transformed version of my body without any control while a madman tries to recreate the transdimensional travel back to his dimension. All while my life is slowly drained away.