If you could have one superpower. . .

[Annadog40]

What would it be and why?

[Sudo_Nym]

danceHello!

[esuriospiritus]

Shapeshifting. My first thought was invisibility but shapeshifting would have all of the perks and none of the drawbacks.

[Axxle]

Multipresence, the ability to be in multiple places at once and do things that I normally couldn't do due to other obligations would be lovely.

[EspeciallyTheLies]

Stop time.

[Natirasha]

Shapeshifting. My first thought was invisibility but shapeshifting would have all of the perks and none of the drawbacks.

Besides reality warping abilities or unfetter precognition, I'm pretty sure shapeshifting is the best power you can really have.

[esuriospiritus]

Yeah, no kidding. It leaves so much room for possibility that you're basically only limited by your creativity. Imagine being able to listen in on a conversation and have your presence completely ignored (literally a fly on a wall?) or better yet, transforming into someone who is supposed to be in that room and influencing what happens there for your own good or the good of others (or just watch the world burn if that's your thing). You could be the world's best spy, if you wanted to.

You could see what it was like to be a bird, or a fish, or a piece of furniture. I don't know why anyone would be particularly curious about that last one, but the point is you could do it.

And you could never have to be unhappy or discontent with any detail of your body ever again. Don't like something? Change it. Want to vary your look from day to day or hour to hour? Easy. Even if you're already completely happy with it, you could dress up the way you wanted with minimal effort. You could also probably use it as a method of speedy transportation assuming you aren't limited by our current understanding of science, just shift into a quantum entangled thing or something idk.

[mastin2]

Having the internet hardwired into my brain at all times.

...Along with the Required Secondary Powers, it's actually a fairly good deal. Imagine typing thoughts out in an instant. Imagine bringing through some online art program an image you have in mind instantly to life (they exist). Imagine being able to almost-instantly find whatever comes to your mind on the internet. Imagine having encyclopedic knowledge in your mind. Imagine thinking at a rate fast enough that you have reaction times far above the norm, only limited by your physical body's capabilities--which thanks to the internet you'd be able to train to be in top-conditioning.

It'd make you be an internet god, and fairly influential in the real-world, too. By exploiting your newfound increase CPU, you'd basically be able to handle advanced predictive algorithms and the like, allowing you to do things like gamble with big money and come out on top. Plus courses on psychology and whatnot allowing you to figure out what you need to do and then...do it. (Of course, only if you chose to--personally, I'd just use it for the art and writing and basically being able to play a hundred games at once, around the clock.)

It's one of the few superpowers that gets stronger with the progression of the technological age to be more and more reliant on the internet.

...Were you really expecting anything less?

[quadz08]

I still like super-speed

physics dictates that it functionally gives you pretty much every other power

[Sudo_Nym]

I'm liking the shapeshifting. You could shapeshift into your enemy and make degrading porn and put it all over the internet.

[Malakittens]

Teleportation or superspeed. Wouldn't mind being able to move things with my mind either~

[shaft.ed]

happiness

[Majiffy]

I still like super-speed

physics dictates that it functionally gives you pretty much every other power

Yep. Flash was always my favorite superhero.

[Who]

Omnipotence.

You people think too small.

[killerjester]

The power to tell which line at the grocery store is slowest, but only if I'm standing in it.

Oh wait I already have that power.

[Quilford]

Stop time.

Ding ding ding

[Sudo_Nym]

I can't even stop tim.

[mastin2]

I can't even stop tim.

Yeah, he's a real eater.

[Oso]

Precognition.

Win the lottery with that and then BUY every other power I need.

[Quilford]

I still like super-speed

physics dictates that it functionally gives you pretty much every other power

Well, physics also dictates that you would need to accelerate and decelerate over a very long period of time lest the g-forces pulp you, if you want to go down that route

[CooLDoG]

multiple

[McMenno]

Omnipotence.

You people think too small.

Omniscience.

It's way better.

[sthar8]

I still like super-speed

physics dictates that it functionally gives you pretty much every other power

Yep. Flash was always my favorite superhero.

This is actually why the flash is so damn boring. A lot of DC heroes fall into this trap.

The ability to pull exact change out of my pocket whenever I want to pay for something.

[quadz08]

I still like super-speed

physics dictates that it functionally gives you pretty much every other power

Well, physics also dictates that you would need to accelerate and decelerate over a very long period of time lest the g-forces pulp you, if you want to go down that route

I'm assuming all of the immediate negative physical consequences don't matter, as that's the case in comic books (for example, superman should just be covered in dead bugs every time he lands)

[Sudo_Nym]

I've always wondered: when Superman lifts a car by the bumper, shouldn't just the bumper tear off, instead of the whole car lifting as a unit?