Be honest anons. Even if you got blessed with superpowers, do you think you have the mentality to be a hero or villain? Albeit a decent one at that?
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I would kill people in positions of power
Based
Same and rape.
fpbp
This world needs supervillains who are willing to kill the demons, not some homosexual stopping purse thieves and muggers.
this 100 percent. if I had spiderman or daredevil tier abilities Id go full nemesis mode.
Pretty much this.
You could get a gun and get to it, it you can't do it now you won't do shit if you got powers.
I would do this while also being a modern day Robin Hood.
If I had superpowers half of the world would be dead
Im 2edgy4uuuuu
Villain. I don't owe you frickers shit.
I'm far too much of a coward to be a hero and I'm too much of a softie to be a villain. The slightest hint of confrontation terrifies me. I'd probably just use my powers to make my life easier in subtle ways so as to not draw attention.
In the same boat. I know that unless I got godlike abilities, I'd get bodied once the government figures out who I am, so better to just use my powers for small stuff like getting better career opportunities and helping with local situations like missing hikers or whatever.
i would use whatever power i got for myself, why waste time be a hero or villain, BOTH SUCKS, its insane.
i would be same as
Probably this, though it may depend on what exactly my powers were.
This is the most realistic option. I'll also try to use my powers to make some easy cash, most likely.
This, I would just be a nunace to the general populace. I dont give a frick enough to be a hero, and if I wanna get real evil I'll go to the Amazon and slaughter a tribe or some immigrants. Essentially I'd be like a dragon whereas I'm ok if I'm not disturbed, but if decide to raze some shit out of boredom then take cover
you will eventually be discovered by the alphabet agencies and they'll hunt you down to dissect you or force you to be a bio-weapon
>alphabet agencies
>first thing I think of is the LGBT
I swear I don't have them rent free in my head
What kind of powers? Ideally the ones I'd use to enrich myself first
I'll use my super power for my own convenience, not for good or evil but for myself
I'm convinced that if someone ever got superpowers society would make them kill themselves or go full villain in like a year.
Lawyers, politicians, and trending social media opinions would guarantee it.
Depends on the powers tbh
Antihero is most likely or just sporadic heroism
I don’t give enough of a shot to be a hero, but I’m too empathetic to be a villain, even though it looks like a lot of fun.
I mean, I guess I could go the comic relief villain route, committing victimless crimes and being more irritating than menacing.
>I mean, I guess I could go the comic relief villain route
same
i'm thinking music-themed villain with absolute banger soundtracks, something like the Music Meister from batman or the guy from despicable me 3, but doing shit like double parking
check your power and report back:
I'd be the Guardian Devil that Hell's Kitchen deserves...and figure out how to knock down that suicide bee hive building.
I'd be much more worried in this day and age of random people eventually sussing out who I am and murdering me in my sleep. The only way to play it safe no matter what would be to adopt some whole other city or state depending on the power as my "home" to defend or terrorize. To say nothing of how easy The Man would quickly arrive at my door to dissect me, control me, or give me a hand with giving myself two shots to the back of the head. I'd be a hero though. I still feel guilty over a bag of candy I stole back in high school.
I'd just end up killing myself by not knowing how to properly use my powers.
OP here. This should make things more spicy.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Random/main
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Metaphysics_Manipulation
i just wanted something casual goddamnit
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Meta_Variable_Manipulation
Oh frick. I'd accidentally freeze the planet by walking outside and just wishing the sun wasn't so damn bright. Beyond the "unintentionally end life everywhere" stuff, I'd probably just tweak some of the background programming in the cosmos and call it a day -- prevent the heat death of the universe, grant myself immortality, and then just play video games for an eternity.
If the powers were good enough that I would be able to do it with a reasonable chance of not getting killed, sure. I know of about a half dozen crack houses and drug dens in town would have no problem clearing them out and stealing whatever they have worth taking. After that I guess I'd just pick off tweakers one by one.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Peak_Human_Flexibility/Enhanced
Yeah, this is pretty much useless for me. Maybe I'd join the circus.
But hey, think of all the self-blowjobs!
Neat, thanks.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Elemental_Telekinesis
I like my odds.
>do you think you have the mentality to be a hero or villain?
It all depends on what the powers are.
>Warping Presence
This wiki has gotten so shitty. There are so many powers and they're either incredibly specific, or like this, uselessly vague.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Bio-Molecular_Manipulation
I dont really understand how to use this, I can just tear objects and people on a molecular level?
Oh yeah, look at that user list, that shit is nasty.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Psionic_Technology
My hero career is going to be successful one.
Broken Gizmo reporting in... Wait this isn't a Toonami General! Whatever, i got Alternative-Self Communication, it's a good start as i've made countless mistakes in my life (like selling firstparty nintendo games for too litte or recording an anime i would soon tire of) this would do me well.
Depends completely on the power. For example
>Hydrokinetic polearm construction (make water halberds/tridents)
No matter how creative you're allowed to get, it's still a fricking polearm. You need training to use it effectively, you can still get murdered in your sleep and a gun beats you every single time. If you can conjure water out of nothing that alone is already more valuable than the actual fricking power, otherwise you depend on pre-existing water sources. Also, unless you can manipulate the states of matter to turn it into ice, a sharp weapon MADE OF LIQUID WATER is useless.
You could get famous from being the only person in the world that can do it, but it can easily backfire (envy, religious fanatics, etc.). It's a party trick at best.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Accelerated_Assimilation
Eh, it'll help with coffee when I am pulling an all nighter, I guess.
Does anyone else roll for a new power whenever you get some weird, overly complicated anime power, usually one that only makes sense within the rules of that universe? I'm willing to settle for a shitty superpower, but I need to understand it.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Shapeshifting_Combat
I guess I could sign up for the army. Seems kind of difficult to use non-lethally.
>The user is able to utilize shapeshifting with their physical combat, changing their form for attack, defense, movement and distraction, forming weaponry from their bodies, etc.
There's definitely ways to use it non-lethally.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Cosmic_Water_Manipulation
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Pocket_Event_Manipulation
It states that it can't affect the main timeline meaning I can't change the future knowing what will happen ahead of time?
>The user can manipulate pocket events, or events outside the timeline the user is in and can be used for training, simulation purposes, showing what happened before, what might have happened or might happen in the future, etc.
So it doesn't guarantee that you can change the future, but it lets you practice it ahead of time.
Sounds like the most obvious use would just be to make bank at the stock market and then become a philathropist after becoming the richest frick in the world.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Fantasy_World_Manipulation
I...I don't even know how i'd use this?
It specifically states that it is the opposite of real world manipulation.
SO basically I have the ability to make fan fiction cannon.
whoopee.
poof! superman, robin, and iceman are no longer gay.
what a hero/villain I am.
Eddard Stark did die. he now lives in redwall with the mouse people.
cool
Homelander keeps his son in the latter half of season two, and grows as a person.
Bunny drop ends after volume 4 and Rin doesn't grow up to frick her dad
This power is the best!
>Bill Cipher
Oh, no, this is incredibly busted. You can make fantasy worlds and put people in them.
If I can create Fantasy world bubbles, that's one thing, but it says it is the opposite of real world manipulation. that sounds to me like I cannot interact with the real world.
Didn't bill need have someone else create the world so he could manipulate it?
Sorry about the caps lock, it copy pasted that way.
>BILL CIPHER (GRAVITY FALLS) CREATES THE MABELAND PRISON BUBBLE AS A FANTASY WORLD TO CATER TO HIS VICTIMS' DEEPEST DESIRES.
>Capabilities
User can create, shape and manipulate the fantasy world and every aspect of that world from elements to mythical beasts.
Seems like you can just make them.
If that is the case I'd probably spend so much time in imagination land, i'd lose track of reality.
So in imagination land i'd be the hero of heroes.
In real life i'd be a missing person.
Can't say I blame you, given the state of things. Might be fun to Mad Hatter some people.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Bio-Cycle_Manipulation
What the frick even is this power?
only going off the name, it seems you can stop girls from having their monthly cycle.
Huh. Well alright then
This actually fits pretty well with the topic then
>They can heal, harm, create, destroy, remake, reconfigure, restore, deconstruct, resurrect anything living or non-living using their bio-energy.
It's pretty busted.
you basically have Jesus levels of healing abilities.
Elixir once regrew a heart that was torn out.
He also gave a guy quick acting cancer.
you could either become the best doctor in the world, or someone who kills with a touch.
Oh God,
I should not be allowed such power.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Logic_Immunity
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Osteokinetic_Combat
Lads. I'm boned.
I actually love that power
it's even better if the bones don't regrow.
>anon arrives on the scene
>"I've got a BONE to pick with you!"
Aren't wolverine's claws originally bone?
Yep. They just have an adamantium blade grafted on.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Fire_Armor
I guess pretty useful for personal defense unless someone gets the drop on me, but not really great for either villainy or heroism. Could maybe become bulletproof (if it gets hot enough) and impossible to capture but that also means burning up anything nearby. How do you stop (or commit) a bank robbery when going immune to bullets also vaporizes everything nearby/the money. I guess if it confers invulnerability to flames, I could help out with the rescue side of emergency response, like a really great plasma torch for car accidents or building collapses, and also someone who can safely get in and out of fires.
Would be neat for sculpture and the like if you can get hot enough to soften metals, and I bet there are some really niche industrial uses you could make money off of if you can get temperatures really up there.
>With training, the user could shape the armor into new forms for weapons, transportation, even constructs of the element.
You're basically Green Lantern, but hot.
Hot's kind of a deal breaker though. Imagine trying to catch a falling plane, restrain a suspect, or punch a simple purse-snatcher when your construct is made of fire.
I was trying to find some heroic examples for you, so I googled "comics fire constructs and these showed up, lol. I thought there was a hero that did that, but I guess I was thinking of Amalgam's Jade Nova, who looked like Fire Lord but had GL's powers.
Fire is just one of those really double-edged things, it's offensive/destructive power is through the roof but it's also so innately harmful (to objects as well) that unless you have some handwavy "It doesn't burn things I don't want it to burn" or "the flames can be lowered enough to not burn anything but still act like a solid" bullshit where you're basically switching over to some kind of forcefield projection that just looks like fire , you really only excel at destruction (even if it can be potentially very helpful or controlled destruction).
Useful for fighting zombies, disposing of dangerous objects, getting through barriers, etc. Not very useful for getting a cat out of a tree alive or stealing paintings from a museum or israeliteelry from a store, unless you want to go full butthole and just massacre the police to get away and anyone that tries to follow up on the investigation.
Sounds like you could make your own one-man demolitions company and corner the market so hard you'd easily be a billionaire.
Not all heroes wear capes.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Dual_Nunchaku_Proficiency
Finally, now I can play ping-pong with nunchakus.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Absolute_Setting_Creation
Welp, D&D just got a whole lot more immersive
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Magic_Arts
Honestly if I become a wizard, then yes. And no. I would surely have limits to what I’m willing to do, and I want my own happiness above all. But sometimes I could help, and I won’t abandon those in front of me that needs saving.
Would you be willing to go through the rigorous schooling in order to actually use the magic to it's fullest?
Or, would you be content to be able to shoot sparks, and fly on a broom?
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Theft_Nullification
Well, as long as I can prove it works that sounds like a very marketable power if the rules can be bent a little. Someone could sell an item to me for a dollar, I hang on to it, and then they buy it back later at an increased price when they need it. It's very marketable if it applies to digital assets too.
You could also use that exploit to be perfect security for valuables.
>The power does not understand loans, borrowing or other such temporary contracts - the power does not recognize anything given away as users until it is returned.
Yep. Basically if someone gives you something for safekeeping, that something counts as yours as far as the power is concerned.
You'd be the most unstoppable security guard and impenetrable bank ever. Countries would pay you actual billions a year just to hold their state secrets.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Mental_Attribute_Sense
So in other words, I can detect stupid. Not much I can do with that honestly.
You would be great at delegation. And avoiding morons.
Not as a hero, but as a generic evil capitalist you can do all kinds of stuff with it, i.e. "could sell ice to an Eskimo". If you wanted to stay on a more standard path, if you could get a management job, you'd be the ultimate job interviewer.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Bio-Weather_Manipulation
To be honest, I would like to hunt down those who do evil with impunity
Which technically would make me an anti-hero or anti-villain at best
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Nano-Active_Blood
Helpful in everyday life and easy to hide, I just enjoy the improved health and tech benefits.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Personal_Spatiality
I guess I can teleport and hide in my own pocket dimension. Very fitting power
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Miracle_Embodiment
So I can basically perform miracles. I'd setup a clinic where I cure incurable diseases and disabilities for dirt cheap. That way I'd run pharmaceutical companies into the ground while amassing a vast wealth.
Also I'd perform harmful miracles on people in positions of power just to frick with them. Like make putin blind and crippled for example.
Nobody would be able to stop me because I'd miraculously survive any assassination attempt.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma_Solidification#Capabilities
I will do nothing with this power.
I'd bring a new age of Christianity.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Materiokinetic_Warping
I'd certainly like to, but it would depend what kind of powers I got.
Let's see.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Task_Manipulation
...Well that's broken. This would actually be mostly useful for getting my own life on track to greatness by assigning myself tasks and making them easier, but I'd also try and use it for some light superheroing on the side. I'd pretty much be Purple Man but stronger, forcing criminals to put down their weapons and surrender, and commanding serial murderers to commit themselves to pacifism.
I'd call myself Taskmaster but Marvel might get upset. Though I'll probably just get them to sell me the rights.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Regenerative_Replication
A hivemind of infinite immortal morons.
Sounds like a villain power to me
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Chastity_Inducement
A hero for some, a villain for others.
Either way I'd be raking in the Benjamins.
A walking rehab clinic, not bad for a hero.
>rehab
I'm thinking more as a chastity cage.
Holy shit man, you'd be the most powerful man on earth overnight. You'd have homies undergoing pilgrimages to bring their prostitute of a gf/wife/sister/friend to get instantly fixed and loyal. Hell you could dominate the whole sexual marketplace for men and women. Dont want porn? goodbye prostitutes, want your porn and prostitutes back? You're gonna pay top dollar. Ironically you'd be fixing this generation of men too.
I think chastity inducement means I can take it out, but not give it back.
There's nother power called chastity manipulation.
Even better, ALOT of ppl need their sexuality's and libido hard resetted. God only knows how many degenerate freaks are out there cause they saw mommy fricking daddy too young.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Waveform_Manipulation
This seems stupid till you realize you can you essentially create shit like Ki blasts or just energy projectiles in general, I also get to inhabit inanimate objects. I can also fly and create things like music out of thin air by bending wavelengths.
make a ton of money by charging people to be awakened
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Superhumanization
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Textual_Mind_Reading
I was unlucky, maybe it's useful for getting money but that's about it.
Get into poker.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Ephemerality_Manipulation
I don't even understand my own power. The frick is this?
>Items, events or even powers can be made to exist or appear for only brief periods; conversely, a user could potentially make something transient last longer than normal.
You control the lifespan of things. All things. Wish you had more powers? Give them to yourself. Wish you had more wishes? Give them to yourself. Don't like a person? Make then go away. Don't like a company, an organization, a political system? Make them go away.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Pestilence_Derivation
I'm a horseman of the apocalypse. Time to end the world I guess.
>Personal Antimatter Manipulation
>The user can manipulate their own antimatter. As matter is the inherent material associated with elementary substances and physical law, antimatter is associated with opposing electric charges and exotic properties. While the user may or may not be made of it, its essence can energize and/or sustain the user the same way ordinary matter does with living beings. They are able to control their inherent antimatter for various effects.
I guess I wouldn't use my powers at all because I still have no fricking clue what they're capable of.
So I looked that page and saw "lack of control may cause explosions". Then I looked at regular antimatter control and it said something similar, but "up to and including the entire world". Yeah, you should probably keep that one to yourself.
>Virtue Inducement
>The user can bring out the virtues of others. Doing so, causes the victim to perform the seven heavenly virtues. This allows the victim to be enlightened and blessed as they had performed a meritocracy. To achieve moral excellence.
So if I understood right, Im either Jesus or have a reverse Penance Stare
Sounds like you could bring about world peace according to the power description, but the user list is bizarre.
>Clothing Transmutation
Good for changing into a costume fast I guess?
The only user listed is that One Piece guy, so I looked at his page.
>He must first visualize the appearance of the clothes, otherwise his creations are limited.
>While this power lacks direct combat applications, it does have a number of support functions; he can provide quick disguises for himself and his allies, letting them move around enemy territory undetected. He can also provide the necessary attire for survival in harsh weather conditions, such as creating a winter coat that can be worn in a frigid climate. Finally, he can create armor that can be used in combat.
So if you can make armor, you can essentially transmute matter, as long as the outcome is "clothing". Not necessarily heroic, but profitable for sure.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Prima_Materia_Generation
>Prima Materia Generation
>Can virtually create anything I want up to and including entire universes
>Essentially GOD
>Rivers shall run red with the blood of the innocent slain by my creations
>Stars, Planets, New, uncaring life shall thrive, expand, and exist under my reign
>The current cosmic ecosystem of course will have to be wiped clean in order to start anew. But hey, you can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs.
>I can see it now... glorious
>I mean, who could stop me?
Y-yeah I think I'd make a decent hero OP
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Sono-Telekinesis
Being either a hero or a villain sounds like a pain, but if Klaw is any indication, I'd be pretty much unstoppable if I decide to do either. I'll basically be a budget Green Lantern.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Fictional_Infusion
So can I infuse a car with the essence of a spaceship and bomb zuckerburg and shekelstein to oblivion?
Like superman type of deal?
I'd just frick off altogether and become a wandering nomad, no shits given about that gay morality or "great power great responsability" stuff. Meeting new people, seeing places, maybe helping out if I came by someone I felt needed it.
Think wander of yander but overpowered, more of a loner and less fricks to give.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Coin_Combat
Wandering beggar who can frick up people with the coins people give him it is then.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Totality_Destruction
There is nothing.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Brainwave_Regulation
I prefer to be called a visionary
I will black all your waifus and you can’t stop me.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Virtual_Reality_Creation
>Super Eating
>Eat massive quantities of food to no ill effect.
...I think I'd just enjoy being able to eat whatever I wanted and keep that power on the quiet.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Superior_Mystic_Creature_Physiology
Never something that I would have selected for myself, but I'm down.
Unironically yes, I served in the Army IRL and have volunteered in emergency medicine and disaster relief regularly since then. That said, I have a serious problem with forgiveness and a little bit of an anger problem, so I would probably violate the no kill principle on the spot... but they would absolutely deserve it. I would have no problem throwing myself into combat against the bad guys or putting myself at risk to save innocents, however.
>served in the Army
>serious problem with forgiveness and a little bit of an anger problem
Yeah, that tracks. I don't mean that as a slight against you, you sound like a good person, or even the army itself, but it's kind of how they build people by design.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Xylokinetic_Creature_Creation
Wooden dragons on patrol 24/7. I'd also kill anybody in positions of power just to see what happens, and probably invade a few countries.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Objectivity_Manipulation
Oh jeez.
>Every billionaire wants to give me all of their money
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_Destruction
I would probably hold the universe hostage for a grilled cheese sandwich then frick off for a few years.
> Galaxy destruction
> doesn't come with space travel or the ability to survive in space
Congratulations, its a power you can't use without killing yourself, and you can't even demonstrate it to other people to prove you have it because of lightspeed delay.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Ecosystem_Destruction
Did the power first and holy fricking shit. I don't have it in me to be truly evil. I'm not some fricking big billy badass but I've been in fights where there other person has been on the ground and told myself that's fricking enough, and even when my dumbass family dog really fricked up, I couldn't bring myself to do more than just call him a moron, but holy frick.
I can't even do minimum good shit, like go after specific criminal groups because I am a literal fricking nuclear weapon but worse.
Depends on how they define "environment", really. Although even if you are a nuke, I could think of some places.
>gauntlet proficiency
useless
...why would you need gauntlet proficiency? Its a metal glove. How proficient can you possibly need to be with one?
>Users, either innately or through training, have aptitude for the ways of the fighting gauntlet. They are able to wield gauntlets with great proficiency in brutal fist fights and hand-to-hand combat features, allowing them to fight on equal terms with larger and/or stronger opponents, or those holding larger weapons. Some users can savagely beat and pummel their opponent, and even slash them if their gauntlets are bladed. Gauntlets may be empowered by technological and/or supernatural means.
Eh, it's street level.
I got fricking explosive vomit
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Harmony_Embodiment
My hero name is Peace Lad
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Purpose_Embodiment
I don’t know how I could weaponize this, but I’m positive someone would try to weaponize me
>They have absolute control over the purpose of everyone and everything.
>Applications
>Destiny Assignment
That seems pretty fricking powerful.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Domestication
Ability to make any animal you meet into your pet. Not sure how would I use it. Tame rats and sparrows to spy on people? Information agency is needed by both heroes and villains.
Depends on how they define "creatures", but...
Applications
Authority
Domination
Command Inducement
Submission
Enhanced Cooperation
Cooperation Inducement
Fear Inducement
Peace Inducement
Serenity Inducement
Will Breaking
...at the very least it seems like you can control an army of animals. At the very least.
The nice thing about it is that you don't have to directly control animals. You setup command structure, give orders, and you're good to go do own thing while animals operate independently.
Sounds like it basically makes you the greatest animal trainer ever to the point your government would instantly hire you to largely replace their army with a trained squadron of attack animals.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Conclusion_Embodiment
Pretty OP but it won't help with bills and shit, might as well wish enemies and politicians to drop dead, and sit back and watch the world burn/get popcorn
>it won't help with bills and shit
1. Starts to make a cartoon
2. Invoke your power. Boom! It's finished. Now you can sell it.
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Random/main
>Total Conversion: The power to convert anything/everything completely. Advanced version of Transmutation. Sub-power of Absolute Change. Not to be confused with Omni-Conversion.
So free anything whenever I want it? Nice.
>Dog Manipulation
Ebin
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Intimate_Healing
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Slime_Portal_Creation
>Slime or Ooze
One homemade how to make slime tutorial and its travel city here I come! After I get bored of that, helping people in disasters would be something I'd do.
> https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Alienization
This could be neat, but really depends on what sort of aliens I can turn people into. Is it just one type? Can I choose the alien? What are my options?
If I can only turn people into monsters or something, that fricking sucks and I'll never use it. If I can essentially bestow powers onto people by making them into human-like aliens, thats way cooler.
Otherwise..., frick it. I'm making Asari real.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Energy_Breath
So basically "the power to turn your breath into energy at will"
That sounds like it has a whole lot of more practical applications than "makeshift gun".
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Killing_Eyes
Holy shit!
Also I'm fricked because this is 100% a villain power. No, going into the slums to kill women and minorities is not a heroic thing.
You could do spy work. Even if they pat you down, you've got a weapon.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Demonic_Technology
Fear me, i'll tell the devil your internet history!
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Marionette_Motion
I guess that have no choice now, I must become the lawyer of supervillains.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Jet_Aircraft_Mimicry
Ok, who needs a ride?
Being a hero in the real world would be just too tough for me. Comic books have the advantage that the hero can just fly around for a couple of minutes and then find someone in trouble, but realistically, unless you live in, like, Detroit or New York, you're not gonna find crime regularly, if at all. The best you could hope for is to buy a police scanner and show up to assist. You'd need a specific crime-finding power to be a hero in the real world.
And while I suppose I could go around killing world leaders or warlords in the Congo, I have no guarantee that it will actually improve things. I'd just be killing for the fun of it; I have no way to determine if someone is a good leader for an African nation or just another warlord who's good at hiding his atrocities. Plus, the moment I go after anyone in power, all nations turn against me anyway for 'violating Democracy' or some shit.
I'd probably just find a way to use my powers to make a lot of money and then retire.
I think I would crumble and become depressed or crazy.
If my powers were psychic in nature, then I'd use them to make my life easier without ruining others lives or taking away their free will (unless they are trying to take mine). Any chance that my powers could spread to villains is a risk I could not take. If they were physical in nature, then I'd sell myself to science publicly and immediately as I could be holding the cure for a quadrillion diseases. Sure, I could be weaponized like Logan, but I could also cure cancer.
I'm taking a lot of people hostage.
And the price of freedom? GOOD STAR TREK!
Nobody gives a shit about your dollar store Star Wars cartoon, moron. Quit posting your shitty waifu everywhere
depends on the powers
if i can knock nuclear missiles out of the air easily then i'd do it to save MY nation.
Mostly i just want to get a lot of money and live very comfortably. Being a hero or villain for shits and giggles is annoying.
I have made and updated a list of things to do with godlike superpowers. A lot of the items involve giving humans as a species things/powers to make their lives on Earth easier, and making life on Earth generally more stable. I like to think I'd be a good guy, but I will make a lot of enemies in accomplishing my list.
Literally me
I'd probably use them to do tricks to impress people, assuming the existence superpowers isn't widely known they'd never find out how I did them
As the cliche line goes
I know for damn sure I don't have the mental strength to be a superhero, powers or no powers. But if I had those powers, what would be the right choice? Using them for what I think is the right thing, or hiding them away due to fear?
The people who are remembered do so because they dared to venture beyond what normal people think is safe, or even sane. They dared to be something greater, someone greater, they fought and died trying to leave their mark of the world. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
I don't think I have the strength for that. I don't think any of us do
>be a hero
frick no, I'd probably just commit petty theft
idk if i would have the mentality to be a hero, my heart would want to save people..... but idk like if you fail to save that person it's over for you too, i think i would train pretty seriously for like a year before even thinking about saving people, i wouldn't really want to be a villan or a vigilante
I'm such a lazy butthole so I'd need some level of automation for my powers to even bother.
I'm also an avowed pacifist so the range of powers I could even use is limited as frick.
Also I don't particularly want to get gunned down by cops or criminals.
But assuming I got powers that let me EZmode hero at no risk to myself in a way where I wouldn't have to risk maiming or killing anyone? Sure. I wouldn't fricking like it, but I'd do it. Wouldn't be the first time I've fought crime. Sucked dick last time too, but great power great responsibility yada yada.
Depends. My bitterness tells me that I'd be a villain, but I know I have too much good boy ingrained into me to do that. I'd like to be a hero, but realistically what would I even do besides run around bothering people. Realistically, I'd probably just use them to get rich on social media and get laid
I think it kind of depends on the powers.
If I were Superman, I think I would really feel like I would have to help the world. There are probably lots of creative ways that people could help me come up with to use those powers -- things that would require massive, expensive feats of engineering otherwise.
If I were Spider-Man, I don't think I'd know how I could apply my powers in a way that's actually productive. By wandering around and looking for muggers, could I actually stop enough muggings to deter more from happening? Is a would-be criminal actually going to refrain from committing a crime because I might catch them and beat them up? Maybe it would still be worthwhile to try -- but couldn't I also try without superpowers? I might get killed -- but couldn't I still get killed with superpowers?
I don't think I'd be a villain, though.
Nope, i'd steal, destroy public property, kill anyone who pisses me off if i have no use for them and then feel bad about it, try to get rich using my powers, and generally do whatever i feel like at any given time just like i do now, but with powers.
I'd just steal from the mob. Best of both worlds.
I’m too worried about getting humiliated and beaten the frick up by supervillains. Also, the secret identity thing would be annoying
I would act on these new means to project my will in the best of my accordance with my morality.
How the news would commodify me afterwards, and how the masses would thusly react, would hopefully not be my immediate concern.
>Spideys expression after he hears miles and gwen are a thing.
>the voice of uncle ben thundering in his head
>The Burden Peter, remember the Burden!
As a hero, it's not like I'd have much to do in my country, outside of maybe the odd search and rescue, depending in the powers.
I'd be a villain but the boring white collar / petty theft kind.
i'd just become really petty, it depends on what i'm able to do i guess, mostly i'd just frick with people in really minor ways for no reason.
I just want to pay my mortgage.
Probably become a villain by most peoples standards. I get angry about environmental and humanitarian issues, and it'd be too easy for me to go from delivering aid to making targeted strikes at certain institutions. Guess it depends on how dirty you can fight the big guys before you get into 'he who fights monsters' territory.
to be honest if they were powers like superman i would spend time with my parents and then get rich and frick latinas and black girls until my dick explodes. And maybe I would kill bad people who don't deserve to live. and would help good people who deserve it
Has there ever been someone who is a hero 99% of the time that just occasionally enacts horrible vengeance against people in their personal lives?
I'd be a super-vigilante, not entirely squeaky clean but definitely taking out bad guys. I'd rip terrorists and dictators apart limb from limbs and smear their guts around the place, writing warnings in blood that thus is the fate of all oppressors.
Even if I had the most dog shit power I'd try to be like Superman.
Depends on the power. If I was omnipotent or a reality bender, I'd be neither. I'd just frick off to another part of the galaxy and live out the rest of eternity in peace and quiet.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Absolute_Transcendence
I will not be a hero, because I will have transcended mortal concepts of morality.
I'd make a best effort to change the world. Probably drown in existential issues after a while and go bugfrick crazy.
I would do nothing
>blessed
I'd keep my profile as low as possible. If it's ever found out I have special abilities I'll get either exploited, killed or experimented on. The scarier thing is that neither of those is mutually exclusive.
i don't think so. depending on what the power is i'd be a public nuisance at worst amd for that i'd need a power that conceals my identity cause i wouldn't be able to figure that part out myself
I've lost the count of how many times I wanted to shoot or torture someone who used an upset tone while talking to me so I'm sure that I wouldn't count as a hero, maybe an antihero but I just don't feel the worth in human life besides things that people produce that I enjoy, sex counts too, so I would spend my life getting what I want but my power level is the factor here, if I have the classic superman combo the first thing that I would do is massacre both the criminal world, I would burn kill and eat every single drug dealer and lord, every single president every single human trafficker every single terrorist group, I would make an example of all of them that's how hard I would brutalize them, then I would launch an ultimatum, no more corruption if I hear about a political or legal issue regarding a corrupt person I will burn his head while he's still alive, then I would get all the money that I've collected in the first day and I would live as a king in a palace made of fricking gold with 23 wives from every single age (I would start at 12 to 35) and the country where my palace is would be a fricking paradise and I would make sure that nothing bad ever happens there, and periodically I mean a day per week I would spend it patrolling the planet making sure that everything's going ok not perfect but enough corrupt and criminal bullshit, would host public executions and stuff, then I would go back to my heaven on earth.
It goes either two ways:
1. I get spidermans powers and force myself to become a hero
2. I don't get spidermans powers and just be a trickers anti-hero
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Cringe_Inducement
Depends on the power. If I can pop my arm off and use it as a club, I'd be doing nothing different than I am doing now. If I was, say, Superman? ... I dunno. Are there other comparable heroes/villains in this scenario or am I alone?
>https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Annelid_Monster_Physiology
I legitimately don't know what I would do with this. I doubt I'd be conquering countries.
Would there be any plot armor? Reminder any rando with a gun can still kill someone like Spidey
If I had, I definitely wouldn't be above fricking with people I don't like but overall I think I'd be doing good.
You can still do good without being a superhero. Think of all the times people ask "why doesn't X hero fix Y global problem"? And the answer is "because comic books". You don't have that limitation.
Yeah but the point is having superpowers I would be able to and maybe feel obliged to do more than a normal person could or would.
Though they say power corrupts. There's a non-not-existing chance of me just turning into a big bully in such a scenario. Especially as I'm very misanthropic and embittered to start with
Someone creates the power you want the most but in order to give it to you, you have to painfully jam it into you in the form of a disc, arrow or bullet, would you do it?
I'd be willing to take a Stand arrow, and it doesn't even guarantee giving me something useful, so for the power I want the most it's an absolute yes.
I would unironically go around raping every woman I find hot, then proceed to genocide subhumans, and when there are no subhumans left it's because I killed myself
Here is the problem: there are no convenient black and white situations in the real world. There are no cartoonish supervillains cackling about how evil they are while they unleash their puppy-kicking robots. There are no alien invasions or demons to provide a horde of generic, ethically uncomplicated enemies to slaughter. Any stance you take beyond some very extremely basic ones will make you a hero to some people but a villain to others.
I want to help people. I like helping people. And I consider my morals to be strong. But if I am granted superpowers, I struggle to imagine a way I could actually APPLY those powers that wouldn't functionally make me a supervillain. The status quo has benefited me personally, but only by luck of the draw and that doesn't make it GOOD. I can think of a number of political, social, and environmental reforms that I would love to have be true. But giving me superpowers just gives me the ability to press my whims on others via overwhelming force. Having all of the powers of superman doesn't make me *smart*, it just makes me unstoppable.
The most likely outcome is that I put together a think tank of the best experts that I can find in a variety of fields to come up with intelligent ways to apply my powers with the minimum amount of force to improve the world. But sometimes thats going to involve shit that will brand me a supervillain, like "You have ten years to switch your energy grid off of fossil fuels. The expense is entirely your problem, after that seven year mark I'm deleting every oil rig in the world and you won't be allowed to make new ones for as long as I live. I'm making you find a new solution, you figure it out."
>I want to help people. I like helping people. And I consider my morals to be strong.
This is the crux of it. Just help people. You know what good is. Do it.
The trick is coming up with a way to do that which doesn't generate a bigger mess.
Lets say I decide that its time that the people of North Korea were freed from oppression, so I mosey on over there and topple the regime. Now what? I have removed a source of what i consider be be evil and cruel, but now i am effectively responsible for an entire country of people who have been indoctrinated with various degrees of success by decades of misinformation. I can't exactly tell them "you're free now, have fun!" and frick off, the results would be a DISASTER. This is a situation that would take decades of nationbuilding to unfrick. Thats something that I could lend assistance with, but I am in now way equipped to do all of that personally.
And thats just internal to North Korea, so say nothing of the ramifications that would inevitably unfold in the geopolitical stage. China is going to be pissed that I toppled one of its allies. I'm from the US, so that puts the United States on the spot because now they have to disavow all of my actions lest they be seen as complicit. And everyone, publicly or not, is now terrified of me because every head of state is now thinking "If he could fly down there and topple that country, whats to stop him from kicking in my door next?" So now I can reasonably expect relationships to be strained as hell with every nation.
I would need a vast organization, effectively a whole pseudo government, just to handle the fallout and logistics and operations of handling the aftermath of my actions if I want to do anything like this right, otherwise I will just be making things worse. Short of that, I'm just doomed a population of people to chaos and civil war, or starting WW3. Me feeling good about myself isn't the goal here, helping people is, so that means not making a move even if I think its the right thing to do unless there is a long term, viable plan for what comes after.
North Korea feels like it should be at the end of a massive spectrum that should begin with trying to fix like say, a neighborhood run by a specific brutal gang or criminal group.
Sure once you show up, and kick the shit or just outright kill the criminal group, you haven't fixed the poverty or the trauma but now people are capable of living without the fear of random violence inflicted upon them or having to pay tolls.
But thats not true. If the neighborhood was run by a gang and all i did was show up an kick them out... I haven't solved shit. Nothing that caused that situation to arise in the first place has been addressed, in two weeks as most a different gang will show up to take over that territory and they people will be right back where they started.
If I gain superpowers tomorrow and I don't know how or why, I have to assume until proven otherwise that this was a fluke. There may never be someone like me again in the next 100 years. There is a whole bunch of shit that only I can do now, and if I don't do it the opportunity may well be forever lost. I can't afford to bog down my time playing an infinite game of whack-a-mole solving local problems like rescuing people from fires or stopping robberies. I'm not happy that those are happening, but those are problems that normal people can solve. I need to focus my limited time and energy on the big scale problems that help millions of people at a time, like creating irrigation networks or digging vents for geothermal energy, or figuring out how to stop global capitalism from profiting off of human suffering and selling out the futures of our children for +0.7% more profits today.
>in two weeks as most a different gang will show up to take over that territory and they people will be right back where they started.
So stay there and protect them? Do the job that is front of you. Maybe it will never be solved, you'll lose people, but you'll save some and that will matter to the ones you do.
Congratulations, your ideals serve no one. Save no one. You become so focused on the very first problem you find, the tree right in front of you, that you would ignore that the forest is burning.
>Congratulations, your ideals serve no one.
The ideals save the people who are helped in that moment, and in that a spiderweb of consequences that could be averted by it. More than that, it's a stability that to a point is tied to my personal responsibility.
What does figuring out how to stop global capitalism from profiting off of human suffering look like? What does even projects like digging vents for geothermal energy look like in terms of being stable and actually lasting?
Grand changes like that, they pulp people.
You don't think a superhero, doing everything they can to help as many people as they can think of in any given moment, saves anyone? You're so pessimistic it's unreal.
There is a difference between helping someone and saving them.
You see a homeless person on the street begging for money. You give them $20 and go home feeling good about yourself because you did a charity. How much have you actually improved that person's situation? You've given them enough to buy a couple of meals, which isn't nothing, but by this time tomorrow they will be right back where they started. You didn't even give them enough money that they can get off the street into a hotel or something for a night, you could give them the $20 and they freeze to death in the early morning anyway.
Is the takeaway here that you shouldn't have helped that person? No, thats sociopathic. But you need to recognize the difference between a token gesture and meaningful change. Giving $20 to one guy solves nothing, ultimately doesn't even help the guy you gave the money to that much. Building a homeless shelter, promoting universal healthcare, or improving our frankly dogshit mental health services all not only dramatically improve quality of life for that guy, but hundreds, thousands, potentially millions of others as well. THAT needs to be the real goal.
>Building a homeless shelter, promoting universal healthcare, or improving our frankly dogshit mental health services all not only dramatically improve quality of life for that guy, but hundreds, thousands, potentially millions of others as well. THAT needs to be the real goal.
Sure, so each step in that process is "the job in front of you". You do what you can with the power you have in the time you're given. You might not get it all done, but you'll fix some stuff.
>But you need to recognize the difference between a token gesture and meaningful change.
This is genuinely fascinating to me. Because as the guy who said he would focus on trying to improve a city block by block, it's clearly a contrast of an idea of systemic versus, I wouldn't even know the world for it, direct change?
It's not a choice between giving a homeless man 20 dollars and fundamentally changing not only a nation's health care system, but tackling the issues on a smaller scale in comparison to trying to tackle things on as large a scale as possible.
I am not being sarcastic when I say I am fascinated by this. I am not implying it is a moral failure at all, but it feels like on your part you are kind of going for the chance that, pulling the table cloth will not completely topple the table, because anything smaller than that would be a waste.
I mean, in our fantasy scenario, may as well swing for the fences, right?
Why invest time and resources into solving an issue for just one city when you could apply that same effort to fixing things on a national level? Its not that the city level is not important, it is, and if we were operating within the normal boundaries of what a person can do you would be right that the change you can achieve is always better than a lofty ideal probably beyond your reach.
But, in the case of someone with fantastical superpowers in a world of non-powered people, the pressure you can exert on the system is unprecedented. One person usually can't do anything of note on such a large scale, but a superhero can. At which point, you owe it to yourself and those you mean to help to try and leave the biggest impact you can. Maximize the help you can give to reach the most people and leave not just a temporary relief but a lasting improvement.
Maybe you start small at the beginning, proof of concept and building reputation. But you can't stay small. The good you could do is so much larger than that. To have that opportunity and to waste it would be tragic to the extreme.
I am imagining a supervillain saying this. I can kind of guess why, but there's something about this that makes me immediately picture someone like Ozymandias.
Thats because superhero media conditions you to believe that anyone who would change the status quo is a villain. Name one 'hero' that seeks to change the system, even for the common good, as opposed to defending the status quo from outside threats?
While this certainly started innocently enough with simple pulp children's stories with uncomplicated plots, it could be argued that modern superhero media has become a means of cultural indoctrination to convince people to stay in line. No, YOU can't do anything. You should sit back and wait for someone better than you, more super, to come along and solve your problems for you. And even if you did try to change things, that would just make you the bad guy because anyone who wants to change the system is evil by default.
I believe in humanity, and I think that we have everything we need to solve our greatest problems. In the modern era, resources and technology has never been our limiting factor. We are simply, as a whole, unwilling to use them to those ends. Because the people who have attained power and wealth have done so by utilizing the current system, and continue to benefit from it personally. Thus they have no incentive to change that system, because doing so directly hurts themselves.
If becoming that incentive for change makes me a supervillain, I can live with that. Daddy is going to make you clean your room, you little shits. Or he's going to take away your playstation.
>Thats because superhero media conditions you to believe that anyone who would change the status quo is a villain
Eh, I've seen that argument before and it's not that really. It's more of an issue with the idea of what changing the status quo is. The half that is often always ignored in the idea of challenging the status quo, is that you are introducing in a massive and major way the sort of consequences that can level nations and more importantly the people within them.
That's not to that you should suffer under a tyrant or bastard, but in the classic saying, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Especilly the way it is being framed as people being unwilling to do it. That's not the limiting factor really. It's that most people's lives are not nearly as broken as people think and the measure of stability for most who have it is better than the alternative than chaos .
>and the measure of stability for most who have it is better than the alternative than chaos .
Chaos need not be the cost. Indeed, chaos is often times what is ultimately trying to be avoided.
For more than 20 years we've been told publically and in no uncertain terms that climate change is coming and we needed to act fast to keep it from getting worse. The same oil companies who provide via their own research that global warming was real in the 1970s, the people who *originated the term global warming to describe the phenomenon*, did everything in their power to discredit the idea and pump out disinformation to keep anything from being done. And for no reason other than personal profits.
The cost of this betrayal is going to be chaos. Poor harvests, more extreme weather, entire cities of people being forced to move by ever worse natural disasters such was wildfires, flooding, and hurricanes.
But no, oil companies making less money as we do a large scale infrastructure shift to mitigate the problem... THAT would be 'chaos'!
>But no, oil companies making less money as we do a large scale infrastructure shift to mitigate the problem... THAT would be 'chaos'!
I was thinking more the massive geopolitical chaos that would erupt from that, especially as we consider what exactly would be necessary to counteract everything you have just described.
I'm legit stealing this for a project I'm working on. This shit is fascinating.
I don't want to be insulting by saying, huh Lenin-esque, but man. This had to be what the conversations were like between the little communards and the big international.
The communists were not wrong that the system they were living in sucked and it needed to be torn down. Seriously, go back and read about what Russia was like at that time. It was a broken, corrupt hellhole. Where they went wrong was that communism itself, while pretty on paper, works on a micro scale but not a macro one because it requires a tremendous amount of trust and honor system morality to function. Thats great when you are talking about what is essentially an extended family working for their common good, it falls apart once you have someone else you can throw under the bus for your personal benefit without damaging your in-group. Which is exactly what happened: pretty much immediately the system of trust necessary for communism to function was taken advantage of by bad actors and the whole thing turned into a new kind of nightmare. It was sadly never going to work.
>Name one 'hero' that seeks to change the system
The last few chapters of Alan Moore's Miracleman. But he did have help from those weird aliens and you've made me interested in reading a truly solo effort by one lone hero.
Yeah, its something I've thought about a lot. Obviously. And my ultimately conclusion always comes back to
> The most likely outcome is that I put together a think tank of the best experts that I can find in a variety of fields to come up with intelligent ways to apply my powers with the minimum amount of force to improve the world.
If you are unwilling to get your hands dirty and never want to upset anyone, there is still a lot of good you can do. But it will be extremely difficult for you to go through your superhero career without picking a side in some conflict, and in many cases the fact that you refuse to pick a side at all will be seen as picking a side.
Topical example, war in Ukraine. You can't intervene without fighting either for or against the Russian army. If you do nothing, you are implicitly allowing Russia to continue. Eventually you have to make a choice.
>I believe in humanity, and I think that we have everything we need to solve our greatest problems. In the modern era, resources and technology has never been our limiting factor. We are simply, as a whole, unwilling to use them to those ends. Because the people who have attained power and wealth have done so by utilizing the current system, and continue to benefit from it personally. Thus they have no incentive to change that system, because doing so directly hurts themselves.
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>While this certainly started innocently enough with simple pulp children's stories with uncomplicated plots
It also started out with superheroes either helping the cops with stopping mobsters, which everyone agreed was a good thing, or by fighting the axis, which everyone also agreed was a good thing.
The modern world doesn't really have a place for superheroes, especially not of the ridiculously powerful kind.
>I need to focus my limited time and energy on the big scale problems that help millions of people at a time, like creating irrigation networks or digging vents for geothermal energy, or figuring out how to stop global capitalism from profiting off of human suffering and selling out the futures of our children for +0.7% more profits today.
Okay, I responded too soon, because this is actually kind of interesting. Because it seems like you're going to contiually draw yourself into thinking of things in scope creep again and again. Every single one of those projects, would be something to be solved in a lifetime but multiple lifetimes.
I've always found the idea of grand changes like that, even in the context of great powers being given to people always being ones that pulp people as they go. I guess it's because I do believe in the idea of doing the job that is in front of you rather than the one you can't even begin to guess the end of.
In a life you can save a city, block by block. Maybe even a state, but like you said, you might be a fluke and changes like those. Well they change the world but not the way the wheels spin.
>I need to focus my limited time and energy on the big scale problems that help millions of people at a time, like creating irrigation networks or digging vents for geothermal energy, or figuring out how to stop global capitalism from profiting off of human suffering and selling out the futures of our children for +0.7% more profits today.
Like I said, you know what good is. Do it.
>hero
Realistically, the world doesn't have enough in-progress crimes to be a hero. Plus, cops would be shooting at a vigilante with good intentions on sight. I'd go simpler.
>Healing powers? See me from 9-5 on weekdays and I'll cure your cancer bro
>Realistically, the world doesn't have enough in-progress crimes to be a hero.
Depends on how you define it. Plenty of dictators in the world. Plenty of hate groups. Plenty of wealthy misers.
>find out where a rich pedophile house is
>transform into your titanium covered form
>don a mask so they won't recognize ya
>go and kill everyone there.
Done, thats how you hero
Pic rel is literally me.
Jokes aside, sadly i'm way too resentful, not that i enjoy it but it is how it is
Oh I’d be a fricking terror. Near-immortality, super strength, flight and laser eyes?
I’d start with just exterminating every rich israelite and shabbos goy I could find, just fly to Warner Brothers studio and just start blasting. Maybe rocket beeline straight through the state capitol building, kill politicians. Then I’d take pic related as a cheevo list and start working through, murdering every single company’s executive board and everyone two or three rungs below them for good measure. Then I’d just kill randomly, run in on Detroit and kill all the gang members and their extended communities. I’d like to kill a few indian tribes, the ones that are just a casino front. And then I just start looking for shit to frick up, I don’t really have a plan beyond Supermurder unitl I’m stopped.
I hope you never get your hands on a gun.
Depends on the powers, really. I can't see myself ever turning into a full-on capegay and I'd probably shit myself if I had to fight a supervillain, but if I had powers that are good for helping people I'd go with that. Like if I had Superman powers I wouldn't go beat up Brainiac but I could do search and rescue and stuff like that. I already do two kinds of volunteer work so it's not like I'm opposed to doing good things without pay.
I don't know, I would try but probably fail miserably
I would be lazy and low effort. If I got Spider-Man level powers, I'd probably join a boxing or MMA gym and worm myself into a pro fight, despite being over the hill and overweight. Of course, with Spider-Man level strength, durability, reflexes etc, I'd win. I'd initially work toward being a novelty act but eventually wrack up enough legit wins to become world champeen, win a few big ticket matches and then throw a fight and retire once I have 10-30 mil in the bank. People will think I just got lucky and I'll fade into comfortable obscurity.
I genuinely would as long as it's not an issue for me. I am super strong right, I see a guy get mugged by 3 dudes I can take out by just pushing them lightly, I will. I won't even view it as heroics, just helping a neighbor out. However, if it's something that would stand in my way of getting a good night's sleep, nope.
Would you guys try to save the world?
The more important question is "From what?" Someone who unironically believes /misc/ memes is going to have a very different take about what saving the world means to someone trying to build the Star Trek gay liberal space future or a hardcore zealot trying to save the world by making their religion dominate. Each of them thinks they are saving the world, but they have very different ideas of what a saved world looks like or what obstacles are in the way of that.
if there's no supervillains, then with who the frick do I fight? Climate change? Microplastics? I'm not Captain Planet
the corrupt elites
When you really think about it, there's supervillains everywhere.
Damn, forgot image, ruining the joke.
Yes.
>Star Trek gay liberal space future
Aiming for this. It's so much better than the other two examples you listed, or what we have now.
Depends which power, but I would probably use it for special shit
Look if no one else is gonna say it, I'm using this shit for pussy and money.
I would be such a horrible person lmao
Sorry spidey, but I only help people who deserve it, and this world is in need of learning how to do that again.
How do you decide who "deserves" help? Does someone being attacked? What about someone who's hungry? What if that someone is a child?
The test is simple.
I'd ask "Is the past characterized by peace or prejudice?"
And then I already know all I have to.
Prejudice
RIP
It’s characterized by those who make the history books.
That's besides the point
It's not about the actual definition, it's about the values of the person.
With great power comes great laziness. I'll use telekinesis to get a snack from a fridge without walking.
This might be for another discussion, but has there been a comic book series that earnestly and genuinely tackled the idea of a Superman changing the world vs Friendly Neighborhood Vigilante fighting for his city?
Only in the most extremely hamfisted way of "I am powerman and I have all of the powers, I declare myself emperor of Earth and anyone who says otherwise gets their spine ripped out" *20 chapters later* "Oh no, how could this tyranical empire I created be... le bad? But my good intentions! Truely, trying to change the world was my greatest regret."
The problem is that there's no real way for one man to actually "change the world" without declaring himself supreme ruler you're not allowed to disobey because it would ultimately result in powerful people being told to give up their power without good enough reason.
The closest that I can think of is still not great. You'd have to declare an ultimatum, and then when that doesn't get followed go on a spree of destruction. You don't actually knock off any of the leaders, just people who work for them. And then you make it clear that if your demands are met the destruction stops. You need the leaders to survive so that there is someone to bend the knee at the end.
This is only technically not declaring yourself supreme ruler, in that you don't take over the role of leader. You just make people do what you want by force, and then frick off until you have another ultimatum and people run themselves as they see fit in between your appearances.
After the first time hopefully your next ultimatums don't require additional sprees of destruction. You can afford to let them haggle and bargain a bit on later ultimatums. But during that first one, you have to scare the absolute piss out of them to such a degree that they know they can never risk fighting you again and thus can't push back too hard on the ultimatums without risking your wrath.
This is undeniably supervillain behavior. but its also just about the only surefire way to do 'one man changes the world' in ways that force countries to do things that would be against the desires of the very wealthy and powerful. They essentially need to already have lost a war against you and know they can't win the next one either.
Problem is that this is called "taking over the world" and is the kind of thing other superheroes will fight you for trying to do.
It depends entirely on if your the only one with powers, one of few or many super powered people.
Alone you owuld be insanely stupid for revealing yourself as the entire world race to take away any and all personal liberties you have vie the most fricked up means imaginable to ensure you do what your told to do.
With more people to be targeted by the powers that be youll be given a more room to breathe as you will either be sought out for you amazing powers or ignored because your toe nails glow in the dark or something useless like that.
The political, socioeconimal ect will turned upside down as super people either get recruited to become living nukes or at least effective as frick human weaponry with some going on their own which I dont believe to last all that long with the pecking order getting established quickly.
Its not going to be a bunch of flying muscle men in tights stopping bank robbers, it will be governments pooling their resources get as many of the dangerous ones on their sides and to eliminate the ones that are deemed to difficult to deal with.
I havent really slept that well tonight so this might all might not make much sense but the fact ot the matter is theres a frick ton of factors that must be addressed before we can even begin to imagine an average day within a world with super powers in it.
Neither one. I'll just use my powers for convenience in doing some regular tasks. Frick all that cape shit.
>get super powers
>chill and lift heavy boxes one at a time in your warehouse job (you could lift several but you're trying to hide your super strength)
>the not-Justice League teleport directly to your location and ask why you aren't fighting crime with your gift, they know you have powers because of mind reading/hacking your workspace camera footage and Sherlock Holmes examining how you aren't getting tired
What do?
Tell them you want to live a regular life, but you're available to assist with direct threats to Earth/the universe.
>"This pays $17.50 an hour. How much do you make?"
>"$22.75"
>"no habla ingles"
just living my life and do stuff on my benefit only
I already have superpowers, losers, tried the hero and villain thing. They both suck, comics suck, touch grass
Unless I have actual Invulnerability and super human level abilities, I am not even letting it be sort of known I have super powers because frick dying, being imprisoned, being experimented on, or being strong armed into working for some glow organization.
It depends entirely on what the power is.
I'd rather use those powers to become a self-sustaining hermit and frick off from society.
Nah I would still be a fringe weirdo.
I probably would become homeless though because I could roam at will, unimpeded.
Nope! Even if I could dissolve matter with my mind, I'd continue living my life as I do now.
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Plant_Breath
Jesus Christ how horrifying, guess I'm gonna be eating manure on top of this too.
If I had some sort of transformation power or ability to fleshweave, I would like to become an urban legend, or some sort of cryptid worthy of having some Delta Green unit assigned to hunting me down.
I would sneak into people's houses and film the back of their heads or from the bottom of their beds while they mindlessly browse distractedly online, just to show how close I can get to them if I so wished. I would record deep dives into their lives, recording moments of weakness or showcasing their strength of character. I would then top off these recordings with a video of myself in some horrific form mutilating them, only for it to be revealed at the end that the thing that I am maiming is merely a perfect flesh puppet reproduction of my target. I would then take all this information and spread it online, then move onto the next target.
It would be most fun if I could zero in on the users of particular online communities, like Cinemaphile, and target individual members over the course of years. Become a bit of a resident to these little communities for a while as I take a shot at its members. I would mix things up occasionally by leaving behind seeming murder scenes matching the content of my footage, only for the victim to be found alive in a woodland miles from their home a week later.
I just think it would be nice to create such a feeling of discomfort online. Spreading and driving home the general feeling of the unnatural not only existing, but also that it has a good chance of being extremely interested and focused on you, Internet user, specifically. I hope it would be the sort of thing that brings back some much-needed mystery and uncertainty into the online world again, and that the feeling will outlive me even when I inevitably disappear.