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Super man's powers

A lot of people are saying immortality, but keep in mind that doesn't necessarily include being unaging or invincible. You could age into a decrepit mummy or break your spine and live your life as a paraplegic.

I would want Susan Storm/Violet Parr's invisibility/force feild thing. You can kind of fly with it

Photosynthesis

Gaining energy going social activities not losing it

I may be really weird for thinking about this despite a lot of people throughout humanity thinking about it, but the ability to manipulate someone's age, mentally and/or physically. I mean things like turning someone who is robbing me into a child who isn't strong enough to hold the gun or making an absolute drama queen who peaked in high school have their body match their mental maturity.

Before anyone calls it weird, you name a major animated cartoon that aired on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Disney and there's a good chance they have what I consider the stock "age regression/progression" episode. For whatever reason those episodes really stuck with me considering I'm thinking about them to this day.

I would like the ability to remove other people's superpowers, please, and thank you

Have the ability to make people poop on command. Can be great for helping and for being bad.

To always have the right amount of change in my pocket

Don't really want to be rich, just always have enough

How to exit neovim.

Flying, i always had a fantasy about just beibg able to fly superman style, fast, slow or just floating

Honestly? Dr. Manhattan level atomic mastery. Because, if we're essentially talking wishes here, what's better than being your own unfettered genie, essentially? 🤷🏼‍♂️

To know how my actions will affect the future and the brainpower to process the shear endless possibilities. The longer the time frame is the more powerful it gets.

Could go a bit like a butterfly effect: I know if I get a croissant this morning the store will run out and the assistant of some hedge fond guy won't be able to get him one. So, he's grumpy all day and crashes the marked.

More direct: I know how I have to throw the dice to win at the casino, which numbers I have to pick for roulette or the lottery.

Wandering into Fort Nox because I know when and where the guards are.

Brute forcing every password with the first try.

Knowing basically everything because, let's say the time frame is a week, there's a future in which I choose to read any one book, article or paper in that time and I know what's is in it. Everything not written I can get out of people. Get it through asking them, drug, seduce, or torture them without actually doing any of it because it's enough that there's a future where I could do that. Of cause I could just guess and see in which future I was correct.

With a timeframe of a year I could tell scientist what they would have achieved in that year with unlimited funding and leapfrog any discovery that way. Which could get continued ad nauseam, day one I tell them what they would have achieved after a year, day two I tell them what they would have achieved after a year with the knowledge of day one, etc.

Would make for a very boring super hero movie though. Solving all the problems before anyone even knew that there's one. Dispose all the problematic world leaders without getting caught and pulling all the money out of the stock market to solve world hunger.

You know how some people have photographic memory and memorize everything they hear once for their entire lives?

I want the other side of that coin where I can look at something or think about anything for a while and immediately understand entirety of it.

Not formal understanding with all the equations and chemistry at atomic level, but more like someone explaining the equations and chemistry of it to me should "click" intuitively.

It would be really fun to go around learning random subjects.

Ability to give people taste buds wherever I think is funniest at the time

I want to know how and what to say to other people to convince them to do what I ask. So like not full manipulation or mind reading but like social engineering turned up to 100!

Kira-esque powers, easily.

Teleportation from Jumper or portal powers from He who fights with monsters.

It's not flashy (i.e. for a comicbook) but my superpower would be eternal health. The constant death/birth cycle is like resetting the population's knowledge every 75 years.

Either Geass from Lelouch or Makima’s control power.