Any book?
I choose to be God from the Holy Bible.
That’s a great answer
Magneto. Bulletproof, can fly, can generate an EMP. In theory could manipulate the iron in your blood.
Why not just take it a step further, and go full Jean Grey? She can do everything Magneto can do, and then some. She affects things on the atomic level with her psychokinesis, so she can literally split or combine atoms to be whatever she wants them to be. She could make a nuke out of thin air, or stop a nuke from exploding by turning the isotope into lead. No need to manipulate the iron in your blood when she can just manipulate your blood cells directly.
But this also sort of misses the point of the question, I think. The question was about which powers would be most useful. In reality, I don’t have a lot of use for being able to manipulate metals. It may come in handy occasionally… But unless they go full superhero/villain mode, there’s very little practical use for the average person. Unless you’re a welder or work in construction, because being able to warp metal doesn’t have a lot of practical applications for an office drone.
You could do cable runs effortlessly though!
All I want is the DnD cantrip Prestidigitation. I don’t aim high.
In terms of real world applications, prestidigitation is pretty fucking solid. It’s sort of a wizard’s “do anything” spell. Flavor food, clean something, warm up or cool something, make a small trinket, etc… And since it’s a cantrip, you can use it as often as your imagination will allow.
Your lunch got cold? You don’t need a microwave, because in just 6 seconds of finger waggling, your food is now hot. You wish you had some salt to add to it? No need, just waggle your fingers and flavor it however you want. Forgot to do the dishes, and realize you don’t have any clean spoons to eat it with? No need, just waggle your fingers and now your dishes are all clean. Ice cream is starting to melt? Just cool it back down again.
Alternatively, just like it can be used to clean, it can also be used to soil objects. If someone pissed you off, you could literally soil their pants.
You’re just trying to be able to spam this all day aren’t you?
Skitter from Worm. I would love to be able to keep ants out of my kitchen non-violently.
Who ever can control time. I’d argue that’s objectively the most powerful superpower perhaps only rivaled by invincibility.
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I realise it’s somewhat of a curse, but Vandal Savage’s immortality.
Ideally, some form of time manipulation though. More than simple time travel. Being able to speed up, slow down, have irl scum saving, age/youth-en people/things… And simple time travel too though.
I’d be happy with Wolverine’s regeneration.
The Refugee’s power as offered to Sally Faye Vierra at the end of Warbound (Grimnoir Chronicles, Book 3, by Larry Correia).
EDIT: If that’s too OP, then Sally Faye Vierra’s own true power is pretty solid.
i would take the powers of a Q (Star Trek)
only need to learn how to flick with my fingersAnyone from the Q Continuum is probably the most powerful being in any fictional universe. They literally can do anything with a thought.
Oh boy do I have some news for you on how stupid some fictional characters get.
Fictional characters are only as smart as their authors and any constraints placed on said authors by their publisher and the like. Hence why despite the abundance of intellect in comic book universes, universal basic income and healthcare don’t exist, while crime and cancer still do.
edit: Fun story- One arc in Marvel a bunch of heroes and villains get magic moral reversals. One is Tony Stark. He sets up nanobots in San Fran to give people the bodies they’ve always wanted, then charges them a hundred bucks a day to keep it. The implication there is he could have done this for free or super cheap at any given time and just… didn’t.
Beyond that… Imagine being a trans person and just being completely changed over or no longer being paralysed or growing back a lost eye or whatever. Bruh I’d be fist fighting Spidey to keep paying.
Anyhow they resolved it by like, blowing the planet up or something stupid like that. Comic books lol
there could be some exceptions like worlds that actually have gods but there the gods would need to be like “the universe themselves”
Most generally useful single ability? Probably the Flash’s speedforce. Being able to get whatever you want done in a fraction of the time has broad utility. Plus you’re well equipped for any supervillain attacks.
I thought Flash was a superhero
there are a ton of villains with access to the Speedforce
Any character that can teleport (with their clothes intact) and take along the person they’re holding, without the risk of ending up inside something or someone. Traffic, borders, travel time, and sometimes access to restricted places are basically not a problem anymore.
So Jumper?
Marvel’s Legion, aka David Haller, son of Professor Charles Xavier. Omega-level mutant. Psychic powers that go beyond time and space, astral projection, teleportation, reality warping, mind controlling, pyrokinesis, et cetera. If you could keep your head in check (did I mention it also comes with disassociative identity disorder?), taking down Thanos with a completed Infinity Gauntlet would be a mere trifle.
Does The Bible count? Total omnipotence seems cool. If not, then Voldemort from HPMOR. A great intelligence and magical power.
Voldemort from HPMOR. A great intelligence and magical power.
Is he though?
Dude can’t even kill a teenager/young adult, he could have resolved the prophecy by getting anyone else to kill HP in the many situations Harry stumbled outside of Dumbledores protection.I mean the Voldemort of HPMOR, Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality, a fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Time travel is the most useful by far.
Telekinesis is probably the most versatile, over-powered power one can have (though it’s usually depicted poorly, just like super speed).
There are, however, some villains that have a decent show of telekinetic ability, like Darth Vader. But I’d prefer the telekinetic strength and precision of the Phoenix entity from The X-Men.
