I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
Stop any confrontation by yelling “enough!”
Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.
Finally a plausible power.
It gets the job done
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
It only works when your eyes are closed.
Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.
Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect
I like it especially if it works like a switch. Imagine how perfect your naps would be. You’d never oversleep.
Do you age while time is stopped? If so, might want to rethink those perfect naps. I’d 100% abuse it though.
Oh man that’s a good one. So much for driving all those vacant Ferraris
Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.
What’s funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back “on”… to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers…
tl;dr: The Flash would’ve incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.
Air particles also frozen
This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
And can’t breathe
Depending on how long you can hold your breath it might give you some extra time to think.
Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.
Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.
They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.
Hahaha. You got me!
I’ll be like Lassie (the classical trope of the main character charging setting every episode).
All of the violence and hatred that would have been present around you gets redirected somewhere else in the world. The more discord there was in a place before you arrived, the harder the redirection hits its new location. You occupy a bubble of peace but outside of it things get even worse. You always hear about this and see the consequences of it but you are never able to directly observe it because whenever you try, the discord gets redirected somewhere else.
You cursed me!
I especially (dis)like the fact that I may occupy a bubble of peace, but at the same time knowing things are getting worse.
You reduced me to either an obnoxious self-entitled prick, or a pathetic loser.
Thanks a lot. The world now hates me…
The ability to speak and translate between any languages
Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.
First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor
The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
You were born without fingertips and can’t do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.
Not to be that guy, but one can still get a passport without finger tips, or arms for that matter.
Not to be that guy, but your butthole has a print just as unique as a fingerprint.
Yeah I didn’t need my fingerprints scanned at all for a passport. Just my picture.
No one will give you a passport.
Damn, you really hate him don’t you?
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The power to be happy.
Only while asleep
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But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.
Well that’s a nice side effect actually
It was never stated that the side effect must be bad.
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Seems like a win win
Happier than yourself*
You make everyone around you miserable
Mostly worth it.
*For others
But only when you are naked. Otherwise you’ll be miserable. Sorry this got kinky real quick
Already to too close to irl
But only at the expense of others…
Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.
Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you’d better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium
You get type 1 diabetes
You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.
“Bullshit, dude.”
“I’ll show you…” Downs an entire bottle of Viagra, maintains an erection for exactly 3 hours 59 minutes
The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity
It’s all rotten.
Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.
It manifests as a storm cloud, raining the food down over a large area over a short period of time.
I’ve seen that movie
Having this ability will cause you to lose self-control and become morbidly obese.
Immunity to internet-reply-based side effects
But Everyone loves you. Oh… wait…
How bout the power… to move you.
You keep accidentally making random people’s heads explode.
I did not mean to blow your mind.
I’d rather be able to kill a yak from 200 yards away
With mind bullets? That’s telekinesis, Kyle…
Tell me … What is the secret of your power?
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Ability to controls technology with my mind.
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Feel like it would still be worth it
You now also know absolutely nothing about tech
Or you get zaped back in time to the 18th hundreds
I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.
Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they’d make after taking your mom/dad on a date
First commentor missed the Cassandra side effect: you can do nothing to change it and no one believes you.
You can see a person’s next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.
Side effect: you’re never prepared for the move they will be making next.
The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!
You can only do it with extreme violence
To use one of the all-time greatest movie quotes: “Put the cookie down!!”
You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry
Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger
When using your power you get uncontrollable diarrhea
Ability to eliminate others side effects.
They transfer to you
