Author Topic: If I could have any one of Superman's Powers... (Read 5207 times)

UncleBob · « **on:** May 14, 2010, 01:57:10 AM »

...I totally want that cellophane S.

Nothing puts the fear in the bad guys like a giant, red and yellow piece of plastic, flying at you at relatively slow speeds, encasing you like a mummy, then disappearing into nothingness. It may leave you physically unharmed, but, mentally, as you lie there in the floor, covered in your own urine (because, damnit, you piss yourself when there's a giant, paper-thin S flying at you), mentally, you're as helpless as a baby. Then, I'll come up and kick you in the nads.

**** you, evil doers everywhere. I have the cellophane S.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:01:01 AM »

Even when I was little kid watching Superman 2 on TV I thought, "Since when does Superman have this power?"

ThePerm · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:36:38 AM »

someone asked Dean Cain this on TMZ and he said flight. The TMZ people replied "why not x-ray vision". Dean Cain Said "I don't need X-ray vision"

ShyGuy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:42:50 AM »

Speed is the obvious answer. Accomplish tasks in a short amount of time, save time and money on travel, see the world, never have to worry about a stupid quicktime event in a video game ever again...

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:39:33 PM »

Quote from: ShyGuy² on May 14, 2010, 02:42:50 AM

Speed is the obvious answer. Accomplish tasks in a short amount of time, save time and money on travel, see the world, never have to worry about a stupid quicktime event in a video game ever again...

...burst into flames from the friction...

Halbred · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:00:28 PM »

Now, would X-ray vision let you see through to the skeleton, or just under the first two layers of clothing?

vudu · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:03:03 PM »

Quote from: ShyGuy² on May 14, 2010, 02:42:50 AM

Speed is the obvious answer. Accomplish tasks in a short amount of time, save time and money on travel, see the world, never have to worry about a stupid quicktime event in a video game ever again...

If you have nothing but super Speed that you're pretty much just the Flash. And no one wants to be the Flash.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:35:05 PM »

Any of you ever see the Elseworld's comic where in the future several men are given one of Superman's powers?

Super Strength can barely touch anything without destroying it.
Flight can't stick to the ground to walk and has to be tethered so he doesn't float away
X-ray vision is blind except for X-ray vision
Invulnerable can't feel anything
And Heat vision has to dispel his laser eyes every half an hour or his head will explode.

vudu · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:53:41 PM »

I'm sorry--I didn't know UncleBob specified that you had to take a shitty version of one of the powers. I thought the choice would be mine.

Besides, wouldn't the guy who got stuck with super speed have his joints ripped from his limbs because he wasn't strong enough to keep his body together?

TheBlackCat · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2010, 04:11:37 PM »

For me, I would have to say super-landscaping.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2010, 04:19:13 PM »

What about Winter Breath?

"Is it cold in here or is it just me... why are you looking at me like that... was it something I said"

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2010, 05:23:37 PM »

The TV Tropes wiki has an interesting page on Required Secondary Powers.

Please don't blame me if you lose a great many hours of your life on that wiki now that I've linked to it. I probably befell the same fate just for looking up the page.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2010, 05:39:09 PM »

Hey they have the story is talking about at the Tropes page!

Quote

n one of the Superman annuals (as part of the "Legends of the Dead Earth" motif), there was a team of heroes, each of which having one of Superman's powers, but the powers were either stuck "on" or coupled with potentially-hazardous side effects, even when those were powers granted by a "supersuit" rather than bio-modification. The speedsterâ€™s suit had to keep her blood sugar levels up and the super-breath guyâ€™s collar worked both ways, so he could have ruptured his lungs if he breathed in too suddenly. Of the bio-modified heroes the super-strong one couldn't even feed himself because he would crush the spoon and the food, the X-ray eyes hero saw everything in X-ray eyes and had to wear special lead glasses, the flier had to be tethered to something because if he wasnâ€™t deliberately moving towards something he could drift away, the heat-vision guy had to discharge the energy from his eyes every so often to prevent a fatal buildup, and the invulnerable one had no sense of touch.

UncleBob · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2010, 10:59:53 PM »

Which one of those guys have the Cellophane S power and how does it go bad?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2010, 04:35:52 AM »

Cellophane is noisy to wear.

Mop it up · « **Reply #15 on:** May 15, 2010, 08:52:50 PM »

Does Superman have the power of invisibility?

ThePerm · « **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2010, 09:05:45 PM »

he can move so fast you can't see him, he just has to be smart about it

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2010, 10:57:44 PM »

I'd want to be able to shoot lasers out of my eyes.

UncleBob · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2010, 12:35:01 AM »

I found the 40's Batman serials on DVD at Toys R Us today. Watched the first episode. Awesome.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:30:20 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icR7HbVEOHw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoqXoSDws8E&feature=related

EasyCure · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2010, 03:46:44 PM »

I want supermans awesome curl

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Author Topic: If I could have any one of Superman's Powers... (Read 5207 times)