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    Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.

    I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.

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    Teleport. See the world, visit everywhere, without enduring planes,trains,cars , nipping home for a quick 15minute alone time and being able to sleep in my own bed every night.

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      This is the best super power hands down. If you get a space suit, you could even jump to the moon. And in a single night every despot and dictator could be dealt with.

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      This is the one. I hate driving, so taking the middle man out of traveling would make my life so much better. Being able to visit my family and then come back home to sleep? That would be the dream

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      Would be so cool to have personal sanctuary in the middle of the wilderness to relax at without the worry of how to I get back.

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    I’ve always liked the idea of time manipulation- stopping, starting, speeding up, slowing down, rewinding time. It has a lot of uses like giving me as much time as I need to get ready in the morning and doing good in the world in ways I won’t mention.

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    Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.

    I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.

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    To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she’s barking at me for help getting up and walking.
    So I can explain to my boy dog why we don’t go on walks as often or as far, why he can’t rough house with her anymore.

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    My answer to this question is always teleportation, including my clothes and anyone I’m touching (and their clothes). And the ability to not appear inside solid objects. No more traffic. No more passports or visas. No more long multi-hour drives or long haul flights.

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      Have fun figuring out the point of reference of your new powers. It would be hillarious if it was not the nearest grvitational well. Earth moves, the sun moves, our galaxy moves. Watch it be not the most obvious thing, and you teleport into empty space.

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        This flaw in teleportation logic hinges on the assumption that there is an absolute reference frame- which as far as I’m aware there isn’t. There is real science behind teleportation, and from what I’ve seen the frame of reference of the origin is what determines the endpoint. If you COULD manipulate the frame of reference as well, you could teleport a small rock an inch forward, but with the frame of reference of a near lightspeed object to create a crazy projectile.

        Basically, you’d still need to follow the rules of conservation of momentum and energy, or it could be broken.

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        …and that always comes up as a response. Ok fine, I’ll add another line to the fine print: The ability to teleport at the exact place I want to be. If you want to counter that still, then make it places I’ve been to before. It will limit my destinations, but it still saves me time and effort. I’ve never been to France, but I’ve been to Germany, so that still reduces my travel from almost a day of flying and layovers to a train ride.

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      at least in x-men they have limitations to that, where they also have added ability to sense where they are teleporting is filled space or not. not in the comics but blink the portal creator can sense dimensional distorstions too.

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    Is third person empath a thing? Like being able to have what one person is experiencing be felt emotionally by another person? I would do that, then really fuck up the day of an ICE agent.

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    The power to instantly, constantly, automatically, and effortlessly transmute the bone marrow of every single individual on Earth who is being harmful to humanity’s progress and wellbeing (fascists, billionaires, global warming denialists, mimes, and so on) into molten lead.

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    Bend probability to my will.

    Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.

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      Is there a monkey’s paw clause in this? Does probability snap back like an elastic on the things you aren’t focusing on?

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        Well, a high probability doesn’t mean it will happen, and a low probability doesn’t mean it won’t.

        (A tossed coin that shows head the first 5 times and after that it always shows up tails still has a probability of 0% head and 100% tails, assuming you don’t know which coin toss this is.)

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          Your rational and completely correct refutation to my monkey’s paw has foiled me this time, but I’ll be back. Muwahahaha!!

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        There’s definitely an inherent paw clause to this power…unintended consequences galore!

        Probability has more than one side, bend it one way and its also being bent away from another.

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      I would choose this too. Probability that I’ll win lottery next week would be nice to adjust. Also probability of getting sick/staying alive. And as I’m (allegedly) slowly getting older: Probability that I’ll wake up tomorrow well rested in a good shape and nothing hurts.

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    The ability to manipulate probability.

    Get the green light, getting you some where on time. Somehow manage to tickets to a sold out concert. Boss just extended a deadline to allow you to get the work done. Score the prefect seats on an airplane. No delays when taking a train.

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    The older I get, the more I’m sure it’s healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn’t have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.

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      That is still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It’s so good! It got so much flak but I really enjoyed it. The concept was very interesting and I really wanted to see where it could’ve gone. I felt like they could’ve done better in the movie but still, I’ll take what I can get.

      I always wondered why the jumpers were even struggling against the paladins, though. I mean… they could jump literally anywhere in the world instantly. How are the paladins even able to catch up at all even with the tech they had? It was ridiculous. They also didn’t use guns? I didn’t get it, lol.

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        Well when they’d jump they’d leave a “wake” and the paladins could just follow that wake every time so it does kind of make sense. I haven’t seen it actually in over 5 years, I need to rewatch again actually.

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          Yeah, they had the technology to go through the “wakes”, but the Jumpers could also jump repeatedly at will. They never really seem to get tired and there’s no real limitation outside of not seeing the place. So, they could jump nonstop to multiple places around the world. Are they going to hop through 300 different jump spots? What if one of them leads them to 10,000 meters mid-air. We see Jumpers capable of jumping suspended mid-air, lol.

          I’d just bait them into following my wakes and lead them to a final wake mid-air where they’d plummet to their deaths. Could’ve jumped into a military base, grabbed explosives and weapons, wreak havoc on paladins. It just didn’t make a lot of sense, the Jumpers would be extremely powerful in reality and there’d be little to nothing we could do about them. Maybe covert ops with silent snipers to take them out when they’re unaware. But that’s only if you can actually find them in the first place, which is pretty difficult. I remember one of the characters living in Egypt in some ruins in the middle of nowhere. It took the US ten years of dedicated resources to finding Bin Laden, now imagine if he could just teleport anywhere on the planet at will.

          You’d just never find a Jumper if he really didn’t want to be found.

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    Teleportation. Most superpowers would be either useless on a day-to-day basis or - as another commenter suggested - would make you too inhuman to continue to have meaningful interpersonal relations with other normal humans.

    And it would allow you to have a croissant in Paris for breakfast, spend the morning strolling along a beach in the Caribbean, pop across to a great barbecue place in Texas for lunch, pass the afternoon exploring the ruins of Pompei before an evening meal of scallops in Hobart. Even just not worrying about the daily commute, always being able to 'port home to use your own toilet during the day, just mundane stuff like that would be grand.

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      depends on which kind of teleportation, interdimensional or matter transporting in the same reality. Nightcrawlers and azazel teleportaiton is all interdimensional, so more advanced(at least azazels teleportaiton is more advanced than nightcrawlers, because he can teleport anywhere even if he never been there. Or like dofp apocalypse, teleportation bubble forms and it teleports you to another location, cons is it takes a long time to form it, but benefits from teleport multiple people without any straining.