For me, probably to always have the right thing to say for every situation. Doesn’t have to be the truth, just so long as I can convince the other side or win an argument. It’s as close as I’d get to mind control maybe without the glowy eyes and actual powers.

To know how my actions will affect the future and the brainpower to process the shear endless possibilities. The longer the time frame is the more powerful it gets.

Could go a bit like a butterfly effect: I know if I get a croissant this morning the store will run out and the assistant of some hedge fond guy won’t be able to get him one. So, he’s grumpy all day and crashes the marked.

More direct: I know how I have to throw the dice to win at the casino, which numbers I have to pick for roulette or the lottery.

Wandering into Fort Nox because I know when and where the guards are.

Brute forcing every password with the first try.

Knowing basically everything because, let’s say the time frame is a week, there’s a future in which I choose to read any one book, article or paper in that time and I know what’s is in it. Everything not written I can get out of people. Get it through asking them, drug, seduce, or torture them without actually doing any of it because it’s enough that there’s a future where I could do that. Of cause I could just guess and see in which future I was correct.

With a timeframe of a year I could tell scientist what they would have achieved in that year with unlimited funding and leapfrog any discovery that way. Which could get continued ad nauseam, day one I tell them what they would have achieved after a year, day two I tell them what they would have achieved after a year with the knowledge of day one, etc.

Would make for a very boring super hero movie though. Solving all the problems before anyone even knew that there’s one. Dispose all the problematic world leaders without getting caught and pulling all the money out of the stock market to solve world hunger.

A healing touch.

Definitely the ability to speak/communicate deeply with animals.

Honestly? Dr. Manhattan level atomic mastery. Because, if we’re essentially talking wishes here, what’s better than being your own unfettered genie, essentially? 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’ve always loved the gadgeteer/super-genius trope. Iron Man, the Tinker types from Worm, Girl Genius’s Sparks, etc. I always found something appealing to the idea that they can do anything eventually, but they have to work their way to it - they have to think, put in effort, adapt to pitfalls, then get an awesome payoff.

They all seem to have something they specialize in too; so for a specialty, I’ll go for movement enhancements. Flight packs, powered exoskeletons, custom vehicles, etc.

The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.

Criminally under rated movie.

The ability to reset my life from and resume from any “save point”.

For the purposes of this power there are two kinds of “save points”:

• autosave points (yearly, on one’s birthday)
• regular save points (done at-will as part of the power)

Why? Who hasn’t indulged in the what-ifs of life? What if I can revisit certain points in my life and relive those what-ifs myself?

Full control over almost any common element works. Congrats you now have infinite energy and also likely flight because of it (stand on thing you control, make thing you control fly with you on it)

I think a lot of folks who say they wish they could be invisible don’t realize how horrible it’d actually be without secondary superpowers. The reason you don’t currently fall over and you’re able to grab what you’re looking at is because you can see your own body and gain a sense of direction. But if you’re invisible… how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you’re trying to pick up?

It’d be pretty hellish to constantly trip over yourself and not be able to balance yourself at all! This kind of caveat applies to a lot of superpowers, like super strength. Sure, you’re strong enough to lift that car, but your bones and flesh aren’t. They’ll be crushed under the weight and you’ll have a big problem, lol.

That said… superpower? I’ll go with omnipotence. It’s always my answer to any “if you could have X, what would it be?”, omnipotence!! It’s basically EVERYTHING that I could ever possibly want packed into one. Imagine the sort of life you could have. The sort of freedom. What could you do, create, see, experience, feel. I do daydream about it more than I should.

shield projection, especially adding “layers” to reinforce it, plus the ability to use that shield to cloak and absorb energy and redirct(like naraku), and use it to change form into “energy weapons”, other than that another one is reality warping, dimensional manipulation, or pocket dimension creation(which absorption power also complements), and shielding thoughts from telepaths.

Have the ability to make people poop on command. Can be great for helping and for being bad.

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.

I may be really weird for thinking about this despite a lot of people throughout humanity thinking about it, but the ability to manipulate someone’s age, mentally and/or physically. I mean things like turning someone who is robbing me into a child who isn’t strong enough to hold the gun or making an absolute drama queen who peaked in high school have their body match their mental maturity.

Before anyone calls it weird, you name a major animated cartoon that aired on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Disney and there’s a good chance they have what I consider the stock “age regression/progression” episode. For whatever reason those episodes really stuck with me considering I’m thinking about them to this day.