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Title: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Ruby Spears Superman on October 06, 2007, 11:20:13 AM I was just thinking about this this morning. If I could have only one of Superman's powers, it would either be heat vision or flight (for obvious transportation reasons).
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Super Monkey on October 06, 2007, 11:46:16 AM invulnerability
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: carmine on October 06, 2007, 09:59:41 PM a super sense of smell.
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Uncle Mxy on October 07, 2007, 12:35:32 AM I'd go for the super-brain and synthesize the rest of the powers.
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Permanus on October 07, 2007, 05:24:35 AM I'd go for the super-brain and synthesize the rest of the powers. Took the words right out of my mouth, except that if I had super-intelligence I probably wouldn't even bother with the rest of the powers; I'd just groove on the smarts. Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: carmine on October 07, 2007, 08:59:56 AM Which power could do the most "good" and also make me the most money???
Gotta go with Super Smarts. Invent a totally clean/ cheap power source and then sell it for a kajillion dollars. (I would go with a cure for some horrible disease but Supes never really finds a cure for anything it seems) Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Johnny Nevada on October 07, 2007, 12:16:50 PM Probably either his super-intelligence (for reasons noted above) or his super-speed... though given Superman's superspeed doesn't seem to work like Flash's (vibrating through walls, possibly no aura to protect against air friction from super-speed, among other things), not sure how useful it'd be...
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Just a fan on October 08, 2007, 01:40:31 AM ok let's take it one step further, if you could have one of the powers of any one in the DCU who would it be and which power
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: carmine on October 08, 2007, 10:40:27 AM the ability to time travel would be pretty good but I dont know if it was accurate enough to go a day into the future and get the lotto numbers. (supes never seeemed to do that) but travelling a 1000 years into the future could be fun.
the thing with time travel it always has random rules about what you can and cannot do. Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: DBN on October 08, 2007, 08:44:39 PM ok let's take it one step further, if you could have one of the powers of any one in the DCU who would it be and which power High-level energy manipulation as demonstrated by Hal Jordan when he was Parallax (before the yellow grasshopper of fear possession retcon). Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: jimmy-neutron on October 17, 2007, 12:17:40 PM I was just thinking about this this morning. If I could have only one of Superman's powers, it would either be heat vision or flight (for obvious transportation reasons). What about his humility and respect for life? Seems more developed than many people. In fact, I think this aspect was effectively used in one story. Something along the lines of someone observing Superman (or Superboy?) using each of his powers with the objective of being able to copy them for his own greed. When he was using his heat vision he used his superbreath to push away a bird that would have flown into its path. This trait was also "copied" with the result that the villian turned out OK.OK, not much money in that! Perhaps I'd go for super-intelligence? Then I'd learn how to spell "resign" and hand my notice in! If enlarging the discussion to the rest of the DCU, I think I'd go for Flash. As an aside, Superman can make use of his superspeed to travel in time. Has Flash ever been able to travel in time? Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Permanus on October 17, 2007, 03:42:14 PM The Barry Allen Flash could travel in time using the Cosmic Treadmill, but an issue of Secret Origins showed him travelling backwards in time after he ran faster than light to stop the tachyon that powered the Big Machine Thingy in Crisis on Infinite Earths. (That was quite a good plot idea actually: since he was travelling faster than light, he turned into energy and, moving back in time, became the selfsame lightning bolt that gave him his powers in the first place.)
To get back to the thread, if I could have any superpower in the DCU aside from Superman's, I suppose I'd go for Firestorm's transmuting spiel, which should, if I understand it correctly, allow me to turn anything into gold. Hey, look, if there were any superheroes who had the power to bring peace on earth, I'd choose that one, honest. (Zatanna's powers are pretty good, too: she seems to be omnipotent, provided she's talking sdrawkcab. I might go for that.) Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Ruby Spears Superman on October 17, 2007, 09:36:34 PM What about Martian Manhunter's shape shifting ability? Hey, he could fly and shoot lasers out of his eyes too! How about I just ask for all of HIS powers!
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: jimmy-neutron on October 23, 2007, 06:51:04 AM The Barry Allen Flash could travel in time using the Cosmic Treadmill, but an issue of Secret Origins showed him travelling backwards in time after he ran faster than light to stop the tachyon that powered the Big Machine Thingy in Crisis on Infinite Earths. (That was quite a good plot idea actually: since he was travelling faster than light, he turned into energy and, moving back in time, became the selfsame lightning bolt that gave him his powers in the first place.) Does it seem strange that there weren't many Flash stories involving time travel? Some things mentioned above seem that when Flash does travel in time, he travel's in time differently to Superman. Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: JRJ123 on November 10, 2007, 04:33:33 PM Martian vision incorporates heat and x-ray vision, but does he have telescopic or microscopic vision like Superman? That aside, I'd go for intangibility. Or flight. Or super strength. Depends how I feel...
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: living not existing on February 02, 2009, 04:07:38 PM Superhearing, because I'm nosy.
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: Uncle Mxy on April 26, 2011, 09:06:13 PM ok let's take it one step further, if you could have one of the powers of any one in the DCU who would it be and which power Superman wrote an article on this...http://www.theonion.com/articles/if-i-could-have-any-superpower-itd-definitely-be-i,20193/ Seriously, has Superman ever displayed "true" invisibility as a power (as distinct from "goes so fast no one can see him")? Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: superboy on July 10, 2011, 09:33:12 AM invulnerability.With super speed you'd burn out from air friction.Besides, the only reason supes can't become intangible like the flash is because of his dense molocular structure....and perhaps because he's too realistic.
Title: Re: If you could have any one of Superman's powers, which would it be? Post by: 1Superman4Me on September 16, 2011, 03:00:42 PM no-brainer... flight. :)
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