For me, it’d probably be teleportation. The possibilities with teleportation are basically limitless.

  • Building’s on fire? Teleport in, grab the people inside, and teleport out. Easy.
  • Getting your butt kicked by a supervillain? Teleport to a gun shop, grab some weapons, and teleport back for round 2.
    • Alternatively, just grab your opponent, teleport in front of a moving train or something, let go of your opponent, and teleport away.
  • Need to defuse a bomb? No need! Just teleport the bomb to the middle of the desert. Never worry about cutting the wrong wire again!
  • Want to go to a Taylor Swift concert, but you overslept? You guessed it: just teleport! You don’t even need to buy a ticket!

Admittedly, stopping time is another very useful power, but teleportation is just really hard to beat. What say you?

  • MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I think I would prefer stopping time over teleportation. I’ll probably won’t be able to save anyone from a fire (depending on how fire would work in stopped time), or just drop a bomb into the desert, but I feel like if I kept my current life, i.e. not become a well known superhero, these points wouldn’t be particularly useful.

    The ability to stop time would imho be more useful to me. I could take a multi-hour break just in the middle of work and nobody would know. I could have my five more minutes in the morning without feeling guilty or just have a long vacation without using my vacation days.

    • Sascamooch@lemmy.sascamooch.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, time stopping is a good choice, too. If we’re going to use it for long periods (like for long vacations, for example), that does raise the question: do you still age while time is stopped, or does your ability pause aging, too?

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    1 year ago

    I want to make measurements by observation. By looking at a car I know its velocity. By carrying a bag I know exactly how heavy it is. By hearing a sound I know all the frequencies within.

    It isn’t super useful for anyone, but I think it would be so cool if numbers just comes up next to an object.

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    1 year ago

    Teleportation is up there, but I think shapeshifting beats it out for me by a little.

    Not even considering how to use it to help other people, selfishly. I just want my clothes to always fit perfectly, among other things.

  • thx1138@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It may be underrated but I think having magnetos powers could be incredibly useful.

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    1 year ago

    Quick save and quick load. No more “what ifs”. Especially if I could retain my knowledge.

  • soybeanscheesesticks@sh.itjust.works
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    You nailed my top two. Teleportation would make travel super easy and would be the only thing that could get me back to an office for work - got to keep my day job so people don’t get suspicious of my powers right? Stopping time is also cool (for extra sleep I swear!) but with the obvious caveat that it’s not “all molecules freeze and you can’t breathe and you die” style time stoppage but the more sci-fi “you can still move around and do stuff, time just doesn’t pass” kind.

  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Stopping time for sure. If not for the very simple reason of being able to sleep as long as I want/need. Imagine essentially not having to go to bed at night (you do but you’ve stopped time during your nap)

  • goldgate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bullshit man sounds good. You would get power of flying, superspeed, and super hearing by default.