tk, you could move shit, including yourself, like flying.

full shape shift would be awsome imo :)
you could change form, type, material, gender, race, structure or whatever :)
best of all, it would be a load of fun :D

The power to sleep and wake up anytime with your bidding.

Or to summon the legions of dead to play poker with me.

As said before, best power has to be the manipulation of matter. If you became skilled enough, you could rewire your brain so you have a photographic memory, change shape, fly, create fire/ice/whatever, make gold out of any material...If it were long-range as well, you could literally have any power you want. Want to travel in space? Reconfigure your body to not need oxygen or air pressure (or make an air bubble around you), then bend the universe so you don't have to move to travel (as in warp drive). Want to be the richest man on earth? Simply force the ground on your property to reconfigure itself to gemstone deposits or gold veins or something else of value, then open a mining operation. Want a fresh start? Change shape, generate some money in your pocket, and make yourself a new car, and you're set. Don't want to age? Force your body to generate new cells at the same rate as a young adult for as long as you like, and raise your body's durability level by accelerating the rate whenever you are injured to avoid scar tissue. Want to play around with time? Bend space-time to your will. Of course, mastery of all this might take centuries...then again, if the first thing you learned to control was your body, you'd have all the time you want. Oh yeah, and you could 'read' someone else's genetic patterns to gain their abilities. I'm lookin' at you, charisma guy!

Invisibility, just so I could fart in a lift and not get blamed :)

the ability to activate toasters with your mind, think about it

WlknCntrdiction:
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Assuming i will be mingling with other superhero types such as myself i would say that i would have a power like Peter Petrellis'; being able to absorb the powers of others. Except i would take it one step further and would be able to analyse the power of someone and then decide for myself if i want that persons power, instead of it being an automatic thing. And taking your power wouldn't mean you would not have it anymore btw, i would just copy it and store it in my body for use whenever i want, i would be the ultimate superhero because i would have everyone else powers, beat that Mr Charismatic, i would steal your power and we would have a charismatic standoff, i like the sound of that:D

you would be megaman.

invincibilty isn't a super power! you just hit ~ sv_cheats 1 god, and now you are god, kiss my feet, make me bacon, and slap yourself in the face or I shall kill you with the weakest weapon in my aresnal whilst you shoot at me, to no avail until, alas, you fall in a pitiful heap on the sidewalk, a bloody speck on the poorly painted wall of my enemies who fell before you MWAHA! MWAHA! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!...I'm ok...I'm calm...I'm ok

I want the superpower to have any superpower I want

Being able to perform galactic Falcon Punches.

I would choose to have all the world's wisdom, maybe with a heaping helping of unshakeble resolve and composure to go with it. No matter what you have, or what you can do, I'll think of something. And unlike most of the rest of these I can actually do the world a lot of good while I'm at it.

And while I was typing that I couldn't help but remember a cartoon I saw where Superman was heading over to punch Batman through the wall, and Batman just whips out some kryptonite and says: "It doesn't take much, does it?" And the way Bats always had all the answers...

The problem I have with Batman is the level of fanboydom, and what it means to him. I once saw a mind-controlled Martian Manhunter try to kill Batman, had him by the throat and everything, and yet Batman still survived, now Martian Manhunter is about as strong as Superman is, even an extraordinary human like batman wouldn't stand a chance in hell of avoiding a broken neck from MM's grip. I've seen things like this happen so often that it isn't funny and it's lame as hell. I did like the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited series, as alot of the time in combat you would see Batman getting his ass beaten by a clearly physically superior foe, but one who isn't so outside his league (physically) that the villain should have popped his head off in one swing. The exception to this was when he was fighting Darkseid but Darkseid is so arrogant that he wouldn't use his full strength on one as inferior as Batman, so it is excusable if Darkseid didn't just kill him, but I do think Batman avoiding the Omega beam was crap, for those of you who don't know Darkseid is a powerhouse roughly superman grade only he can't fly he doesn't need to, he has so many dirty tricks that only a few people can handle him, one being Superman(barely) another being Amazo, Hal Jordan (most powerful green lantern in existence) Dr. Fate(maybe) and maybe a handful of others. Darkseid's Omega beam is a projection from his eyes which has a variety of uses, although he typically just kills people with it, this thing moves at the speed of light and can turn around corners and is generally a pain in the ass to avoid, since Batman is the only one proven to be able to do it.

I'm sorry, but if i may(with the TCs' permission of course)temporarily "take over" this thread and assign it to be a "recruting" thread of sorts for super villains and super heroes who want to partake in a City of Heroes type roleplay that i'm thinking of putting together. You can still post the powers you would want etc here but if you want to be in the roleplay could you send me a PM with your superhero/villain name and your power(1 per each person and no two people can have the same power i'm afraid)and if you want to send a background of your character or anything then by all means send it and i'll work it in. Can't give you a date for when i plan to post it though, up to my neck in work atm so pretty busy doing other stuff but rest assured i will get around to it.

Btw, my superpower is(in case people haven't read my post)akin to that of Peter Peterellis' from Heroes, i can absorb the powers of other superheroes/villains around me making them my own, like a human sponge, absorbing their power however does not take their power from them, it copies it and stores it within my body so i can recall it at will. But i'm going one step further with my power and making it so that i can detect and clarify the powers that other heroes/villains have and decide whether i want a copy of their power or not, so it's not an automatic thing like with Peters' ability, but once i've decided, my power kicks in passively and before you can say "bob's your uncle" i have your power and i'm using it.

So that is my power, Khedive Rex has already called dibs on the power of Charisma so that's his power sorted, if you wanna send me the specifics of your power mate then that would help a great deal, thanks.

And to everyone else who wants to contribute, i can't wait to hear some of your ideas:D
Oh, and chuck me ideas about the story too, i'm not too good at coming up with stories but i'm damn good at writing them, that doesn't make any sense lol.

In a superhero-inhabited world, Peter Petrelli's.
Otherwise, Super Saiyan all the way

But i voted pyrokinesis coz i think the human torch is a pretty cool power

The ability to force any number of people, anywhere, at any time, to burst into 'spontaneous' song and dance, like a real life musical. Songs are about whatever I choose, choreography is excellent and in perfect sync with whomever my victim is dancing with. Take that, charisma boy!

...This thread wasn't supposed to be serious, was it? Well, tough.

Hoseki:
The ability to force any number of people, anywhere, at any time, to burst into 'spontaneous' song and dance, like a real life musical. Songs are about whatever I choose, choreography is excellent and in perfect sync with whomever my victim is dancing with. Take that, charisma boy!

...This thread wasn't supposed to be serious, was it? Well, tough.

See World of Warcraft and Destroy all Humans. And yes, it's totally serious.

No way you guys, waffle making is the best power EVER!

rayman 101:
No way you guys, waffle making is the best power EVER!

Amen to that! combine your waffle powers with my Toaster powers and Nobody can stop us!!!

Of these? Telekinesis is best. I think flight or invisibility would be more fun, though.

wilsonscrazybed:
Hydropathy, because it's nice to know what your water thinks of you.

LOL. This is one of the better ones I've heard. Though I'd really shudder to think what water might have to say about things in general...

WlkCntrdiction:
Btw, my superpower is(in case people haven't read my post)akin to that of Peter Peterellis' from Heroes, i can absorb the powers of other superheroes/villains around me making them my own, like a human sponge, absorbing their power however does not take their power from them, it copies it and stores it within my body so i can recall it at will. But i'm going one step further with my power and making it so that i can detect and clarify the powers that other heroes/villains have and decide whether i want a copy of their power or not, so it's not an automatic thing like with Peters' ability, but once i've decided, my power kicks in passively and before you can say "bob's your uncle" i have your power and i'm using it.

You're megaman

I want to superpower to have any superpower I want.
That's my superpower, now I have every superpower in the world! But wait, you can absorb my superpower! So I want the superpower to block YOUR superpower. Superpower doesn't even sound like a word even more.

pyrokenesis is pointless, just have telekensis and you can control fire, AND everything else.

Back to the original question...

Time travel, all the way, Bitch!

Think about this a moment. How many times have you been trapped somewhere with nothing to do but WAIT for two hours for something? Now imagine being able to just travel forward in time and skip the whole mind-numbing boredom. Yahtzee not updating until next week? Just travel forward in time one week. This is the only power that would really let you live your life to its fullest.

And you can do things like assassinate Hitler and bang Lady Chatterly and stuff like that, too.

I claim dibs on omnipotence.

Hoseki:
The ability to force any number of people, anywhere, at any time, to burst into 'spontaneous' song and dance, like a real life musical. Songs are about whatever I choose, choreography is excellent and in perfect sync with whomever my victim is dancing with. Take that, charisma boy!

...This thread wasn't supposed to be serious, was it? Well, tough.

like Ray Charles in The Blues Brothers

All of the above.

Waffle making!

Stranded on a desert island by yourself, nothing better than a nice tasty waffle to keep you going, plus you'd be a hit at parties.

I think teleportation and invisibility would rule from the generally perverted standpoint that I have, but if we're talking about a Fighting crime kind of scenario I'd like to have impenetrable skin. It'd be pretty damn awesome.

Teleportation I think. Hostage situation? no problem! surrounded by bad guys? no problem! need to get across the ocean quickly? no problem!

no...it's obviously the superpower that gives me another superpower.

*hows that for buzzkill :D*

everyone KNOWS the best power ever is Telekenesis,

havent you ever seen X-Men 3?

kelmanski:
I think teleportation and invisibility would rule from the generally perverted standpoint that I have, but if we're talking about a Fighting crime kind of scenario I'd like to have impenetrable skin. It'd be pretty damn awesome.

lol u have a good point

Psychic powers of almost any kind really appeal to me. It's hard to say.

The ability to stop time. Bam, every one else is at your mercy. (insert creepy rape joke here)

Telekenisis would kill you so quickly. If you were haveing a bad dream for exampl you would normaly thrash about but in this instance you would fire of your powers, hurting those around you. Admitably this would be even more of a problem for Pyro's or Radikenetics (radiation??)

That is spelled Radiokinesis, and generally speaking it is broken down by the type of radiation you are flinging although it generally is just fire. Think how a high end energy projector must feel when he vaporizes his alarm clock every morning. I would like to think most powers require your upper consciousness to run requiring you to think about it as opposed to it just happening when your lower consciousness decides to vaporize some of your wall and what/whoever was in the path. You don't hear too many stories of Superman heat-visioning his apartment you know?

Manifestation; literally the ability to shape the world around you as you see fit.

On second thought, that might not be such a good idea; you'd go bat country. At least that's what happens to most of the people I write about who can do that.

Also, what kind of invincibility are we talking about? Is it just ordinary guy who isn't affected by bullets, or is it something like Colossus (where you have to change your form),or something like Wolverine or Dante where you do get hurt but heal almost immediately, or maybe something like Mr. Fantastic or Monkey D Luffy where the cells in your body take on the property of an extremely pliable, durable, stretchable rubber, or are you just insanely f***ing lucky (lucky enough to fall off of a building without hurting yourself).

And the telekinesis; how is it generated? Is it the general sort of telekinesis, being a physical extension of your will? Is it generated by manipulating microscopic particles in the air? Is it generated by bending light?

Have I confused everyone enough yet? I think I have. My sincerest apologies.

Also, if we play the City of Heroes game, I claim the rubber powers.

Double post, sorry...