The Rascal King
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If you could have one power...Had this conversation the other day in the shop, and it'd be fun here.
Proper geeky comic book stuff now guys.
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
No no, I'm not talking "I'd be Superman" bullsh!t, he has like, a million.
One power. One ability.
What would it be, and what character would you be like?
Would you use it for the good of the land? Or for the good of the you?
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Robin The Boy Wonder
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Tough one this...
My first option would be x-ray vision, albeit the kind that couldn't actually see through people. I'm talking about the kind that sees through things like cotton and nylon... heheh...
Otherwise, I'd like to fly. Just to fly through the sky far, far away; to be free in a way that I've never felt. To fly away from all the stress and troubles that's being thrown at me. That's it really. Just to fly.
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Black Phoenix
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ummm tough one - will come back to you on that.
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Guest
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Teleprotation for me.
What to go on holiday?
Run out of milk?
Fancy wondering around the set of a movie?
Hell - if you ran out of money you could teleport yourself inside a bank and teleport yourself and the cash back out again!
Result!
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Guest
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Why invincable kid?
How many times have you been shot???? 
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Black Phoenix
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umm think i will plump for telekinetic abilities 
that way i can sit in my chair, and telekineticly open the fridge and get myself a cold beer, without moving *bliss*
on a side note if i could do more then that and my telekinetic abilities where more akin to Dark Phoenix then i would probably start to effect the world globally (for better or worse) as that much power would no doubt go to my head (or anyone's for any matter.)
finace decided she would go for pyrokenesis (Spelling?) ummm if you see her remember to sing "firestarter" by prodegy - actually don't - i put that on one night in the Hob and boy did i get EVILS.
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The Rascal King
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I'd probably go for Super Speed, The Flash style. Pub in an instant. Nice. Round the world before you could blink.
But I wouldn't say no to any Elemental abilities. Like BP's lass, Pyrokenis would be very usful. Human Torch style. Never be cold, flight, and best of all, never need a lighter.
Heat Subtraction, Elijah Snow style, never have a warm drink again! And never feel the weather.
Jenny Sparks stlye Electricity powers would be cool as well.
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Guest
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But in that case surley teleportation trumps super speed?
In the pub even quicker and with less running involved!!!
Teleportation - the lazy mans super speed!!!!
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Black Phoenix
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if you go for pyrokenesis then you can't be greedy and have flight as well  but still i reckon telekinetic abilities has to be more usefull then elemental ones...
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Black Phoenix
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but with teleportation you have the risk of teleporting into something (like a person or such forth) it's a bit more unprodictable surely?
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Guest
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Why?
With my teleportation its not an issue!!
Its like saying u can't have super speed cos u might not be able to stop in time - or cant have flight cos u will pass out at high altitude.
Everything will have a dtraw back if you think long enough about it.
My teleportation will not allow you to tp somewhere you might harm yourself or someone else!
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The Rascal King
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Flight is a side effect of Pyrokenitic ability, see the Human Torch for details. Although, Johnny Storms powers are a bit differnt from Pyrokenisis, as that is just the ability to cause fire, not be compleatly enveloped by it. Still, creative use of power is a must.
Like using telekenisis for flight.
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Guest
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Na I dont think flight is a side effect of pyrokenitic abilities.
I think the abillity to contorl your pyrokenisis to such an extent that you can super heat air molecules around you to cause a lifting effect is only earned thorugh long hours of practise and dedication....
Not that i have thought about this much!!!
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Web of Fear
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Mind control would be good. I'd win all my cases then!
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Reaper
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Wouldn't mind having the power that Sage has or maybe the young boy in Heroes, that would be handy as hell. Bit tight for money? Not anymore
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Azadhar
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Mastery of magnetism, that would be the $#/¬. But if not then i'd settle for invisibility
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kingmouse
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Ah, but with Teleportation you can only blink from place to place, with Superspeed you can feasably exist in all places at one time, hence a true speedster would already be at the pub before the teleporter has decided he wants to go there.
Either way they arrive before the flyer (who is busy posing) and the invisible (who has been hit by a truck).
Can I have The Power Cosmic(tm)? It technically IS one power....cept I don't want to have to be naked and silver.
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Batmanuel
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Invisable, i would have the power to become invisable, oh think of the FUN.
Poltigiest activerites,
tapping people on the shoulder,
tripping people up,
putting goods back on the shelf from peoples trollys in supermarkets,
womens changing rooms 
and just general mischief
Such Fun he he 
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The Rascal King
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Meh, do the same thing as a speedster, too fast for the eye to see.
And what exactly IS the Power Cosmic. I never understood that. Alls I see is he can shoot engergy beams outta his hands, but so what? So can Havock.
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Batmanuel
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a speedster cant pick up a cup and make if float slowly across the room an the place it upside down on the telly, just to see the look on the faces of the people watching as they all freak
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kingmouse
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No but he can redecorate your toilet to look like your mum's kitchen in the time it takes you to pull your pants down. That's gotta win some freaky points.
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The Rascal King
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Haha! And the award for irresponsible use of power goes to!
Ohh, dunno, close thing between KM and Batmanny. Leaning towards km though!
Super speed also means I can write an essay in the time it takes to load Word, which has just got to be useful.
Only drawback may be that, as a certain future Barry Allen states in The Kingdom, "its impossible to get wasted with this metabolism". So I dunno, guess I'd need an on/off switch somewhere.
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Reaper
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I bought the Hollowman dvd about 6 years ago and theres an interesting interview on there with the director who says that it's interesting that all uses people can think of for invisibility are inherently bad. Having read Batmanuels plans for the power, he's not far wrong.
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The Rascal King
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Ahh, that movie was so great.
And of course Invisibility is inherintly a bad guy power.
When you think of something like super strength, you think "yeah, I could totally bench press a truck to show off to the girls"
When you think of flight, you think "man, I could tottally fly everywhere and save hella bank on travel. Which I could then use to show off to the girls"
But when you think of invisibility, you think "holy hell! Think of all the stuff I could get away with now!"
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Batmanuel
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| Quote: | "holy hell! Think of all the stuff I could get away with now!"
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my point exactly, being a speedster could be fun providing you are invincible, hey you don’t wont to hit a wall by accident do you, i mean at superspeed thats gonna hurt, and as for decorating someones bathroom as a praticale joke, no thanks sounds to much like unpaid work to me, but being invisible, well it opens all sorts of avenues of mischief
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The Rascal King
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How often have you run into walls normally?
The way I picture super speed, is not me bing faster than everyone else, but as I get faster, everyone else gets slower.
So sometimes, I'd be moving double time to everyone, and everything is a bit slowed down, but at other times, when I'm moving faster, things are at a damm near standstill. People are statues, water may as well be solid, that sort of stuff.
The power I have the biggest problem with, practicality wise, is Intangability. I just don't see how it works.
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Batmanuel
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well im always running into walls as a speedster in City of Heroes, does that count?
and Intangibility could be a bit doggy when your asleep, imagine waking up 100 feet below sea level, thats assuming you haven't died from lack of air that is 
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The Rascal King
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No.
And the Lack of Air is one thing thats always bothered me. Walking through a wall, fine. Walking through something thick, theres nothing to breath in there. Equivilant to swimming. May need some sort of aparatus after a while
Another thing, is, when walking through a wall, again fine, its an in out jobby, you walk, and bam, you're on the other side.
But with something thick, there is no light. You could get turned around. How do you know which way is the right way. I'm pretty sure that inside an object, its pitch black. Got to be, right? Not exactly going to be any signs, pointing you to the exit. How do yeh know where you are?
But the biggest thing that's always bugged me...
Like Batmanny just said... waking up below sea level.
How exactly do they stay on the same level as they want?
If you were to go intangable, in order to pass through something, surely the whole of you would become intangable, right? Well, while you were passing though said object, why don't you also pass through the floor as well? Do you have to concentrate, and make sure that only a part of you becomes intangeable for the while that you are passing through something, so that the rest of you can stay anchored, or what?
I've never understood that.
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Reaper
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In the case of Kitty Pryde it always appeared to me that she was able to make her atoms light enough to float to a limited extent which would explain how she stays above the ground.
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