What's your super power?

Spurred by the show Heroes: If anything you can do could be or approaches, what is/would it be?

For me, if I could choose a power I'd fly.

But the question is: What's something real and odd about me that could be a power, I'd say it's starting car engines. I'm into cars, and probably over a hundred times I've heard car engines not starting. I hear the batteries draining, and them spinning slower and slower. So I concentrate, envision their parts turning smoothly and fire igniting inside and whoosh, they start.

Of course it could just be the odds. If it starts before I try I can just say "Ah, that one didn't need me." Or if it still doesn't start I can just say it must have a REALLY broken part in there.

But I've played with delaying the effort, and wound up starting engines that were barely turning over at all. And I cna't recall ever having failed when I seriously tried, and was able to concentrate.

Odd thing: I can't seem to do this for anyone I know. It only seems to work when I am, and remain, unknown to the people in the car. I'm mechanically inclined and keep my own cars in good repair now. But back when I drove barely maintained cars, mine failed to start as often as anyone elses. Go fig.

So, if you've ever had a car "just start" when it seemed nearly dead, maybe you have me, or someone like me, as a secret helper.

Next?

lead into gold, water into Glenlivet, that sort of thing.

Not to make fun of your superpower (images of Batman making fun of Superman for being vulnerable to kryptonite) but why doesn't anyone ever try changing gold into lead? It would be no less a miraculous feat?

Thanks for the response!

Gold has skyrocketed since he came to power hehe

But it sounds more like the work of an evil doer.
Although, changing one of those swanky ice swans into urine at a repuke fund raiser would be nice.

Even the ... oddest... of powers may serve a purpose!

waters of impurity or the skies of crap.

My car HATES cold weather.

My super power? I'd like to be able to turn invisible and point to people and make them say what's really on their minds. Congress would be much more efficient. Now that Pelosi is in place I could take a short break, but corruption is everywhere.

Still, it'd be nice to see, hmm let's say Boehner going up to the podium and saying "You guys are making it really tough for me to live up to the promises I made to big oil and big tobacco"

And Bush saying "I'm so fucked, what am I doing here? Dad!"

Bamph! Now get to work.

Heck, I'd start your car for payment.

a professional writer. Always wanted to be one. Settled for being a shyster lawyer. And husband, father, etc.

In my fantasy, I write books like Dumas -- "The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask," The Three Musketeers." Hell, they wouldn't neet scriptwriters to turn 'em into movies.

something like "The Majestic Eternal, Scourge of Evil" and you'd have to walk around, buying newspapers and going to work in your Majestic costume. I mean, just the cape would be a tremendous nuisance on a day-to-day basis.

Travel thru time, but just as an observer, that would be my favorite. The other would be able to absorb the powers of various animals in relation to the human scale; i.e. a flea can jump 16 times its own height, translate that to human and it would be like jumping 96 feet into the air or an ant that can lift 50 times its own weight would translate into lifting 7 tons! I think that would be really cool!

...and gain the power to suck tremendous amounts of scum!

This could work.

:)

But yes, you're right.

would all those "Bam!" and "Pow!" balloons have to read something like "No, like, Totally Fricken BAM!" and "Holy C**P This is the Mother of all POWS!"?

Cause if it did, your comic book will have to be printed on huge sheets of paper, or have fold out fight scenes or something.

You Charlatan! You cheated! You extrapolated! You generalized! You observed!

You must be from the Reality-Based Community. :-)

And since I can tell that, I must have astounding super-power detection powers! Cool!

and that no matter how striking, coincidence is always more likely than the laws of the universe bowing to me.

Also, telekinesis.

But if you start lifting buildings with the power of your aura, don't go blaming me.

;)

Telekinesis and teleportation. The former to bring me the remote and the latter so I don't have to wait for the pizza guy. :)

You could be the Incredible Couch Potato.

You think that is not a super power? You try it.

. . . Can a square fart be duplicated scientifically under laboratory conditions?

Well then! So much for Intelligent Design! :-)

They call it an alkahest, a universal solvent. Because it cannot be contained it cannot be tested. If it cannot be tested it cannot be duplicated. It is like the existence of God. It cannot be proved through scientific means.

I'm ok with it. :)

You run into a dog with Instant "Back At You" powers. Then you're toast. Smelly toast.

What are you gonna do? Say I'm lying?

But as far as minor powers to make day to day life a little better, I would like to be immune from the rule of internet forums. I post on a large number of them, and am periodically censored for what I consider to be at best a minor slight. I would choose the ability to ignore all restrictions without threat of deletion or banishment.

EDIT: see how I misspelled reality in the header? If I had God like superpowers, I would will that the new spelling.

I think you spelled reaility just fine.

I'll let Frodo take the ring...

But I have to settle for charm, intelligence, and a wicked sense of humor.

--p!
Also self-deception.

If so then I've got amazing hair, plus super-denial.

Specifically the Ben Stiller character whose "power" is that he gets really mad but can't really do anything about it. Or maybe "the Shoveler" would be appropriate.

You'd think we'd have plenty of fuel for paralytic rage.

Ah well.

but I can type really fast. Does that count?

Which brings me to my speciality.

Sloth.

I share the axis of deadly sin and while you're in fear, I'm sleeping in.

Incredibly, you have to power to


TYPE IN THE FUTURE!


I expect your answer in a week or so.

if I hadn't clicked on "My Posts" instead of "My DU" just now. :ha:

I have the ability to rise-and-shine early in the morning, tackle whatever tasks are at-hand, and complete them in record time ... with a few provisos.

Okay, I do rise, but the "shining" part usually consists of slamming the snooze-alarm, with my fist, at least twenty times before I give in to the inevitable. And by "early", I of course mean the early afternoon.

But then I do tackle the tasks at-hand - the first being to down an entire pot of coffee while smoking a half-pack of cigarettes, sitting upright (well, at least semi-upright) in bed, as I watch CNN and scream obscenities at whatever talking hairdo is on-screen, and giving the finger to whatever BushCo lackey they're interviewing.

But after that, I am up-and-at-'em -- straight to the computer, to check out what's new on DU, while downing a second pot of coffee accompanied by the requisite amount of smokes. An hour or so later, I read my email messages, and respond to the more important ones that cannot wait - like where we're meeting for drinks later tonight, and who won't be there, just so we who we can dis.

After that -- and some more coffee-and-smoke breaks, some gossipy phone calls, and a thorough investigation of the what's-on-sale flyers that came in the morning mail -- I am ready to start my workday!

Okay, maybe rise-and-shine isn't my real superpower. Maybe it's my super ability to procrastinate -- which, you have to admit, I am extremely good at.

Edited to add: The super-power I would most like to have -- defintely time travel. I'd love to go back to NYC in its earlier days, and watch the Brooklyn Bridge being built, the Empire State Building rising above the skyline for the first time, and witness my grandparents arriving in New York Harbour as they saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time.

That's certainly one I don't have, coffee and smokes or no.

... it's more a matter of "Doze and Be Dull" ...

...is the key to everything.

Don't leave home (time) without it.

OK, here's one I have that is eminently practical: the power to get a good parking space no matter what.

I can go someplace during the busiest time ever and a spot will still open up for me, right by where I want to go. People will be waiting in their cars, trolling the lot for a spot, but not me. I zip right in and a spot opens up.

My friends laugh at me because I go right for the spot closest to whetever building we're headed for. Now, in NJ, this is a very awesome power to have because this place is mostly just a big parking lot (not really, but there is a lot of asphalt here).

So they hoot, "You'll never get a spot up there" and I just smile slyly and a spot opens right up and I zip in and that's that.

Actually, my friends have stopped laughing at me and now refer to all spots by the door as "Cher's parking spot." Reserved by "the universe."



Cher

I have parking spot powers. But they are "parking spot way out in some satellite parking area" powers.

Not nearly as handy as yours.

Also, I can make a six pack disappear.

Him, with a tweak I could change that to "such a good listener I can MAKE people talk."

Re: the Six Pack, it's only a super power if you can make it STAY gone. ;)

Black ants. I had my nose broken a few times as a kid, and my sense of smell is horrible for just about everything- I can't taste alot of things either. It's like I'm deaf to most smells. But there are a very few scents that I always pick up before other people, or, in the case of ants, apparently alone.

All the scents I can detect well fall into the same range, oddly... sort of a musty range. From brush fires to black ants.

Anyway, I have no idea what power that would result in, but I'm pretty sure it would suck.

I'm tempted to say you have amazing snorting powers, but that would put you in conflict with Captain Cocaine.

Smelling ants, eh. Gotta be some way to work that into a story. Gotta.

I have this power where I envision them on the last leg of their trip - and get this - I can speed it up so I don't have to wait.

:D

Before I know it, they're here and we can go on about our business. :D

Just wondering. :)

Books allow us to converse with the greatest minds in human history. Now, that is real power.

I've got really bad recall. I might have talked with some famous minds, but it's hard to say who.

One that everyone has............I can decide.

I can decide what to read, hear, watch, think; judge for myself and decide. And not only that, I can attempt to make other individuals agree. In the right circumstance, that power can be great. I try to use it only in the cause of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

But if I could have one other:

I would wish for Telekinesis.

Now, if during the State of the Union next Tuesday night, you see Barney suddenly appear and take a dump on Bush's head mid-speech, you'll know I got my wish! :evilgrin:

:shrug:

not sure what I'd wish for

There's only a blessed few souls without it, and THEY get all the fast lines by default, dern 'em.

...or maybe I shouldn't. Hmmmm, hard to say...

Can I get back to you on that?

If I could make it so people could not lie, could you just imagine all the fun I could have in DC?:rofl:

I can make up weird, wacky stuff. But a REAL lie? Can't do it. Even if I get the words right my body language totally betrays me.

Hey! You're right! :)

(Just kidding.)

Whip up a few phantasms. Charm of few of the high and mighty. Turn some crooks into toadstools.

Same old, same old.

... most of the time.

But a day later, even if I started it, heheh.

Thanks, everyone.

So I can't answer. :P

Once I opened a freezer and bottle of booze that was resting against the door fell. I was able to slam the freezer perfectly so the bottle went inside and landed safely. All that in about a tenth of a second.

My wingspan is considerably longer than my height. Most people who have come at me in my life have misjudged just how soon my fist will meet their face.

Not exciting like darkforce manipulation, but these powers have stood me in good stead. I can also open books to the exact page I'm looking for, a power that got me through 10 years of higher education.

Posting GD threads that belong in the Lounge.

Oh! And shapeshifting! That would be cool.

I have the ability to see through the propoganda