…well, Cracked After Hours makes a convincing case:
The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) — powered by Cracked.com
…but my pick isn’t even on the list. Which is surprising, because it’s an incredibly puerile one.
Moe Lane
PS: No, I have no intention of saying.
There’s an audiobook titled “Playing for Keeps” that is centered around a super power I wouldn’t mind having. I originalllly heard it as a podcast, and it was good enough to keep my interest despite my not being a big super hero fan.
How about super intelligence? Then you could build a fortune, create lots of awesome gadgets… basically become Batman. Except, you know, without the whole “witnessing your parents murder” and “thirst for nightly vengeance” thing.
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(P.S. More puerile than the ‘invisibility’ guy?)
JD: My major worry about super-intelligence is that I’ve met a few people who are a couple more standard deviations from the norm on the intelligence curve than I am (and, false modesty aside, I tested out at the threshold of ‘genius’ when I was a kid); they had more problems than you’d think from their inability to turn said intelligence off.
But it’s not a bad choice.
Moe Lane
PS: Much more puerile.
Oh, just admit it. Your “best” power is either X-ray vision or invisibility, just like it was for every teenage male.
countrydoc: the first one would give me nausea if I couldn’t learn to focus it properly (“Oh, yeah, look at the gallbladder on that one!”) and the second one would make it impossible for me to, you know, see anything while I was invisible. 🙂
I’d love Mr. Morden’s “what do you want?” power from B5. Why, yes, requirements analysis is part of my day job . . .
Karl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0n2vurSBIQ
I watched Bab5 for moments like that.