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 laugh at you.
The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.
Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect
I like it especially if it works like a switch. Imagine how perfect your naps would be. You’d never oversleep.
This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.
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.
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.
The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
You were born without fingertips and can’t do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.
Not to be that guy, but one can still get a passport without finger tips, or arms for that matter.
