![]() None of that ever needs to bother you if someone else's mind is in your hands. Maybe someone put you in a position where you couldn’t trust them. How many times in your life has another person frustrated you so much that you just wished you could make them do or think what you wanted? It'd be a surefire way to win every argument, at very least. After all, few powers lend themselves to a violation of heroic principles quite as well as telepathy and mind control. Pardon the pun, but this one's a no-brainer. You are constantly your own alibi because, well, it's only wrong if you get caught. Just imagine how simple it would be to distract someone by talking face to face with the cashier at a store while your right hand is sneaking off and grabbing a six pack from the cooler, or emptying a cash register. The other thing that would be super easy if you had the ability to stretch yourself over a great distance would be never being a suspect. Being able to reach across a building to grab something or to give someone a scare, it would all be just so. Both work thanks to you never having to technically leave the room. Writers have had a ton of fun with these characters over the years, thinking of crafty and unpredictable ways for them to save the day. However, there are likely just as many ways you could turn those powers into something a little underhanded.Įlasticity lends itself incredibly well to two remarkably unheroic things – pranking and laziness. Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four and Plastic Man are essentially fully functional Stretch Armstrongs. One of the goofiest powers, at least on the surface of things, is the ability to become totally malleable and stretch yourself like a rubber band. You could just pop in and look around - no one would ever need to know, right? Looking for hidden Christmas presents, checking out Area 51, maybe taking a visit to a bank vault. boundaries would certainly start to get blurred when they no longer exist for you. Have you ever been to one of those buildings where the room you want is down a maze of hallways with twists and turns? Or heck, even in a maze? Wouldn't it be easier to skip all that? And then there's the temptation to see what's behind any locked door given your lack of limitations, that desire would weigh heavily upon you. It'd just be so much easier to walk into a building through a wall or teleport to the spot you need to be. And sure, you want to be a good person and follow the rules, respecting privacy and boundaries and such, but just like the Vision in Age of Ultron, the idea of using a door might get a little old after a while when there's no real borders in your world. ![]() Walls mean nothing when you can pass right through them, after all. The whole world is literally laid out before you because there's basically no place you can't go. Imagine being an X-Man like Kitty Pryde or Nightcrawler. In a real world setting, with no other superheroes around, or supervillains, just you and these powers, it would be awfully hard to never, ever let the power go to your head, and maybe every once in a while use it for something nefarious. We're not even talking full on evil. We're not saying you'd necessarily become a supervillain if you had any of these powers, but we're also not saying you'd become a bastion of righteous order and justice, either. Sure, they'd be awesome and fun, but do you think you'd have the character and strength of will to only do good with them? Let's be real here, most of us would probably perish within the first 10 minutes of having superpowers! Or even worse, we might turn to the dark side! But we don’t often like to let reality get in the way of that fantasy, because if you really start thinking about it, a lot of super powers have some very dark sides to them. There are a ton of upsides to all kinds of great powers – just imagine the freedom of flying, or the thrill of being able to read minds. It might help encourage others to add to the effort.Everyone likes to debate which one super power they would love to have most in real life. If you have a page that still needs work, add a "work in progress" next to it.If you do create a new section, other than a character page, make sure to link it on the main page here.If you want to create a new character page for some of the characters for whom we've not yet made such a page, feel free to copy the format of other existing character pages.For the new "spoiler free" section, make sure to avoid spoilers!. ![]() By all means, add to it, but try and keep the structure. Many, if not all, characters already have a page created. ![]() First, feel free to correct typos/grammar.That said, please take note of a few suggested guidelines. Thanks for contributing to this site! Super Powereds is highly entertaining, and this site is an effort of many fans to create a repository of information about the books for those who want to fill in the blanks or recall some details.
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