Well, age old question I guess, Which super power is the most useful, or the best? Overall, and not just in one situation. I personally think telekinesis, the whole nine yards of it. I mean, not just floating or moving things with your mind. With that, you can overthrow minds, create false realities, stop objects. If you have complete control over everyone, theres no reason to fight.

Your thoughts?

Controlling light. You could have darkness where ever you want, blind people with sudden bursts of light in front of their eyes, and bend light around yourself to make yourself invisible.

That, or I've always been a fan of teleporation.

If you want to limit it to one power, it can also depend on what the person can do without any powers.

For example, if some guy who is pretty strong and was great at hand to hand combat could move at super speed, that'd be pretty useful. He could block most attacks easily, and also use the speed as momentum if he wanted to run towards somebody and punch them. Of course he'd have to learn how to control his powers and use them right. I.E. Move too fast and end up getting punched in the face.

Though I think overall it just depends on the preference of the person with the super power. To some people, being able to fly would be okay, but not incredibly useful. But if they can do other things without powers, or learn things they can do with their powers, it could really help.

A good point indeed. I mean, if you could control water, you could pull it out of a persons body and kill them, create typhoons and other things. Also the ability to go through things is also useful, you could just pull the heart out of someone, or brain, spinal cord, whichever. Defiantly depends on how you use the powers.

I just thought of another example; You had the ability to make illusions and make people see whatever you wanted them to see. You could use that if you're on the run, if you wanted to trick someone. OR, if the person with the power can think up some pretty twisted and shit sick, you could really make people freak out.

Being able to slow down or stop time would also be cool. If you slowed down time, you could react to certain things much easier, and that might just really help. And you could stop time as a means of teleportation. Like you can stop time, walk about five miles, start time again, and you would have literally wasted no time walking that far.

Atmospheric manipulation.

Basically, control over whatever the atmosphere around you at the current time. Simple uses of it would be highly concentrated bursts of air/sound/water/etc., limited flight, increasing the vibration of molecules in a section of air to the point where said section could ignite (aka fireballs), eccolocation, possibly some neat espionage tricks like bending light to create illusions, completely eleminating noise made by practically anything, or the infamous "Super-hearing" ability. Then you get into the nasty stuff, like slow suffocation of foes from a great distance, increasing the air pressure around someone to a point where they'd get completely crushed/implode, and ultimately summoning of entire natural disasters (tidal waves, hurricanes, tornados, etc.).

Though this'd be absolutely useless in a non-atmospheric environment (ie deep space).

telekenises is prety useful. with the right concentration, you could blow up people's heads. you could make yourself fly. you'd be good at every sport.

for me, it's etheir that or mind control.

I would agree Wolf,

now lets say that these select people with these "Powers" were to fight against each other, who would win?... Theoretically a Time controller would be able to move out of harms way, but a person with Super Speed could react before the time controller could think, but the someone with super strength wouldn't be vulnerable to Super speedy attacks due to the increased muscle mass. So it would all just loop around and around until someone gets tired... In the eye of the public, ANYTHING could be the Best super power, as long as it fits their needs.

the time traveler could just punch his enemy's mother's in the stomach before they were born. problem solved.

Plastic Man! I'll post proof if I need to!

Theoretically, against someone super fast, they wouldn't have the time to move to another time line before getting beat up/killed

The ability to create explosions with a simple thought, or warping reality to suit your twisted desires.

Mmmm, Hellraiser.

That would actuality make a time paradox. If you killed him when he was a baby, you would never go back in time to kill him cause he wouldn't be real. But if didn't go back in time to kill him the guy would be real then he would go back in time the- *Head explodes*

I believe the matter is that the time stream will branch, causing one reality to exist with said person and the other existing without

Or, the person that went in time would disappear, and then holes in time and space would begin to appear. And next thing we know we're being attacked by an army of Darth Vaders.

God damnit, discuss super powers, not space time reality and quantum physics.

Control of light.

Become invisible.

Let yourself be carried by light, thus moving faster than you and theoretically slowing time for you.

Control whether it's bright or dark.

-Fuck yea.

Utter Invulnerability.

The Spirit of Rock

I think of the best super powers like this.
If you live in a world with other people with super powers, then the best power is a power to steal other people's power.
If not, then a power to turn invisible. Classic.

How about the power to kill a yak...from 200 yards away, with MIND BULLETS?

THAT'S TELEKINESIS KYLE.

-HOW ABOUT THE POWER... TO MOVE YOU?

Fuck mind bullets. I like mind NUKES more.

Controlling air.

1 - Make people stop breathing.
2 - Make strong winds around you to fly.
3 - Explode people's lungs.
4 - Move the air around objects for making them levitate.
5 - Make the air pressure around people rise so they get paralized.
6 - Make the air pressure around yourself softer to run faster (not REAL faster, but faster enough)
7 - Create air bubbles from the oxigen in water to breath under it.
8 - Vibrate air particles to make sound.
9 - Use number 8 to make an air guitar with actually sounds.
10 - Use number 9 in stereo.
11 - Create walls of air so to lock people in invisible cages.
12 - Light a match, and, by adding linear oxigen paths for the fire to burn, control it.
13 - Use the air in the water to control it.
14 - Give yourself a good-sounding voice/imitate other people voices.
15 - Make it so people can't hear what you say.
16 - Change what other people say (Example: Person says "I love you" other person hears "You're a bitch and I hope you die.")
17 - Create solid air weapons.
18 - Classic air power stuff. Tornadoes, etc.
19 - If the day is rainy, move the clouds away.
20 - Unlock doors by making perfect air keys.
21 - Make a theme music play whenever you jump into action. Because we all know advertising is the soul of the busness.
22 - And this is the best part, all of the powers are invisible, so you have no need to hide them or only use them when there is nobody nearby.

There was more, but I can't remember right now.

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You'd prefer the killing of hundreds of innocents to just simply shooting people w/your mind? This is not Avatar. There is no Combustion Man mind nukes.

...Yes.

Okay, this isn't the best super power, but it's pretty damn useful.

Regeneration can give you two distinct advantages:

1. You regenerate wounds...'nuff said, right?

2. It gives a psychological advantage over your enemy.

Example: The enemy just fills you full of lead, and you're falling backwards, and suddenly you stop falling, and stand straight again, bleeding, but slowly healing. You're enemies see the blood, but don't see you dying. Total freak out ensues.

I kinda' said that already.

On the previous page. <<

Yes, but I actually gave the reasons why.

But I listed some of those reasons already.
Flight, compression, weather manipulation, suffocation, etc.

Super super super strength
No beam/other power can stop a entire city block being thrown at them.

Spawning kittens from your hands at velocities and densities determined by you.

Shooting rattlesnakes out my fucking fingertips

Fuck yeah

But seriously, I'd rather be able to fuck around with time/space

Not going back and messing up the Space / Time Continuum type stuff though

Freezing time on the spot and that kinda shit. Seriously, can you expect to be able to hit someone who can stop your every action, walk around it then stab you in the back with not a care in za warudo?

~ Muda-da

Yes, but I couldn't be bothered to check your post out before writing mine.

Could shooting yogurt out of my armpits count as a useful power?

If you can shoot a shitload and drown somebody in it, sure.

Ok. Woot! But still shouldn't this go in the SI?

No, it shouldn't. This was supposed to be an actual intellectual conversation of which super power you find to be superior, not some stupid pudding shooting powers.

-Christ, way to ruin something guys.

sry.

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-Need I say anything?

It's might not be the best in terms of power, but if I had any power, it would probably be the ability to manipulate water/air, both would be amazing powers. Seriously, whats not cool about walking on super-compressed air, or manipulating all things strongly related to water, from oceans to people.