I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
Stop any confrontation by yelling “enough!”
Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laught at you.
Finally a plausible power.
It gets the job done
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
It only works when your eyes are closed.
Oh man that’s a good one. So much for driving all those vacant Ferraris
Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.
What’s funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back “on”… to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers…
tl;dr: The Flash would’ve incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.
Air particles also frozen
This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
And can’t breathe
Depending on how long you can hold your breath it might give you some extra time to think.
Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.
The ability to speak and translate between any languages
Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.
First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor
The power to be happy.
Only while asleep
But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.
Well that’s a nice side effect actually
It was never stated that the side effect must be bad.
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Seems like a win win
Happier than yourself*
But only when you are naked. Otherwise you’ll be miserable. Sorry this got kinky real quick
Already to too close to irl
Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.
They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.
Hahaha. You got me!
I’ll be like Lassie (the classical trope of the main character charging setting every episode).
All of the violence and hatred that would have been present around you gets redirected somewhere else in the world. The more discord there was in a place before you arrived, the harder the redirection hits its new location. You occupy a bubble of peace but outside of it things get even worse. You always hear about this and see the consequences of it but you are never able to directly observe it because whenever you try, the discord gets redirected somewhere else.
You cursed me!
I especially (dis)like the fact that I may occupy a bubble of peace, but at the same time knowing things are getting worse.
You reduced me to either an obnoxious self-entitled prick, or a pathetic loser.
Thanks a lot. The world now hates me…
The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
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Ability to controls technology with my mind.
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Feel like it would still be worth it
You now also know absolutely nothing about tech
You get zaped back in time to the 18th hundreds
Immunity to internet reply based side effects
The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity
It’s all rotten.
Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.
Having this ability will cause you to lose self-control and become morbidly obese.
How bout the power… to move you.
You keep accidentally making random people’s heads explode.
I did not mean to blow your mind.
I’d rather be able to kill a yak from 200 yards away
With mind bullets? That’s telekinesis, Kyle…
Tell me … What is the secret of your power?
The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time
Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.
oof
Ability to eliminate others side effects.
They transfer to you
I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.
You can see a person’s next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.
Side effect: you’re never prepared for the move they will be making next.
Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you’d better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium
You get type 1 diabetes
You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.
“Bullshit, dude.”
“I’ll show you…” Downs an entire bottle of Viagra, maintains an erection for exactly 3 hours 59 minutes
You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry
Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger
When using your power you get uncontrollable diarrhea