I’d have to say the power of teleportation would be the best power of all. You can travel the same distance in less time than super speed. You don’t need to fly. You save on cab fare. You will never get hit. Most of all though, it’s probably the best comedic device you could ask for. Think how quickly you could ditch an awkward conversation? “So I’ve developed this rash....” POOF! Gone.
See it’s easy to say that you’d want the power to do anything but that totally doesn’t answer the question. The point is to really think about it and choose just one thing that you could do, but I digress.
If I could only choose one power it would be the power to stop time. Just think about it. It works sorta like Venom’s power in that you could get away from awkward conversations, but also does so much more. For example, let’s say you have a huge test and there’s a Robert Rodriguez (Planet of Terror, Sin City) marathon on TV. You could totally watch the marathon and go to sleep THEN wake up in the morning, stop time and take all the time you need to study for the test.
Obviously cheating would be easy to do, but then you’d be playing in villain territory.
But by stopping time to study, you’d be technically cheating as well… well, maybe not cheating, but using your power for personal gain… that sounds somewhat villain-esque to me.
You’re right. It’s not necessarily the best thing to do. I think it falls in a grey area.
If you are stopping crime all night and don’t have time to study for your test, and then stopped time in order to study, I wouldn’t consider that to be wrong at all. Although, during stopped time you’d be studying for yourself - perhaps without the power you couldn’t patrol and save the world at all.
Can anyone think of an example from comics where a super-hero uses his/her powers for self-gain (and not as a lesson of how it’s wrong to do so)
I think the one power that I would want would be to shapeshift into any form. I think it has limitless possibilities! Think of being able to fly! Plus I love Mystique and her powers.
I’m pretty sure that when Peter Parker first got his powers, he entered a wrestling match (yes, that was one part that the movie didn’t screw up). Due to his super-human abilities, he won the match. Even though he got cheated out of the money that should have been his, he still made some money off of it, so I guess you could say that was for personal gain. Then, of course, there’s Superman flying around with Lois Lane. I’m pretty sure he was just in that to impress his girlfriend. Then of course, there was that scene on Family Guy when Aquaman was abusing his power… but then again, no one likes Aquaman.
not to mention that with super sweat, you could also use your body odour to get confessions out of villains, whereas with super salivation, they wouldn’t understand the words coming out of your puddle of a mouth.
But I bet if you had super salivation, it would have some amazing properties. While you may not be the most talkative super or be big with the ladies, you’d still be pretty useful.
I imagine super spit comes with super-corosive agents. If you were locked in an iron box, for example, youj’d be pretty happy to have super-spit
