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Which of these two superpowers would you pick?

Asked by mazingerz88 (29220points) May 5th, 2011

Superpower A – You have an indestructible body. No element in this universe can harm you. However you only have the strength of an ordinary human being.

Superpower B – You have ten times the strength of Superman but your body can be killed just like the body of any ordinary human being could be killed.

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KateTheGreat's avatar

Superpower A. Strength doesn’t really matter to me. And if I was indestructible, I could do risky things that could have gotten me killed when I was not so indestructible!

Blackberry's avatar

A, because I’ve always wanted to see what it’d be like to crash a car at 150MPH lol.

MilkyWay's avatar

Superpower A with no hesitation. Being indestuctable is the best superpower you can have, in my honest opinion :)

mazingerz88's avatar

@queenie @Blackberry @KatetheGreat Yet maybe Tony Stark would choose B since it seems he is doing a good job protecting his body with armor and having Superman’s strength 10 times over would be totally rad!

King_Pariah's avatar

Superpower B, when it comes to protecting the ones I care for, I’m offensive, not defensive so being like a shield is a bit besides the point, and it would help me get work done quickly. Also, the knowledge of me still being as easily killed as the fellow next to me would help me remain careful and cautious, instead of, “oh, well I’m indestructible so I’m going to crash a car at 150 mph,” and then accidentally kill someone in the collision.

roundsquare's avatar

A. Strength rarely if every comes up in my life.

ragingloli's avatar

A. I could walk around in the crossfire LIKE A BOSS

atomicmonkey's avatar

If Superpower A also meant that my body would not age and die, then I would totally pick…
Superpower B.

marinelife's avatar

Indestructible body.

Supacase's avatar

I’m with @atomicmonkey. No eternal or extra long life for me, please.

roundsquare's avatar

@atomicmonkey @Supacase you really wouldn’t want an extra long life? I can understand not wanting immorality, but i’d love to live for a few hundred years.

Trojans40's avatar

Super-Power AB, I would have a parent with superpower A, and another parent with super power B, and that would fuse the power to me, creating the ulimate superhero. Making SuperMan look like a friend.

atomicmonkey's avatar

@roundsquare knock yourself out! Yes, I was referring to indefinite invulnerability/immortality. Call me crazy, but being the last man standing, waiting for the sun to go out? Depressing.

I’d rather be able to juggle motorbikes.

everephebe's avatar

Superpower A. It would get me into less trouble, and my own strength is enough to kick ass.
I would never choose B.

MilkyWay's avatar

@everephebe you already have superpowers…

KateTheGreat's avatar

@queenie His power to woo women with his unbelievably sexy voice. :)

Berserker's avatar

Superpower A. It seems a lot more practical a power to have than superpower B, given the type of society we live in. I have no need of super strength, but never getting sick, cold, too hot or hurt in any way would be pretty cool.

dxs's avatar

@Trojans40 but don’t you run the risk of having a regular offspring with the normal alleles?
I would pick neither, but if I must, then definitely the one with a lot of power but can be killed. I’m definitely gonna get sick of this harsh world, especially if I believe in an afterlife.

everephebe's avatar

Superpower C – Sexy voice, regular strength, no invulnerability?
I don’t think that counts as a superpower. :D

KateTheGreat's avatar

@everephebe You can save this damsel in distress any day! ;) Hahaha.

SavoirFaire's avatar

Superpower A. As is constantly demonstrated to me by my karate instructors, lack of super strength can be made up for with skill. I have yet to learn a technique that allows me to block a bullet with my face, however.

ucme's avatar

A please, that would allow me to blow an enormous, spit spraying raspberry in the wife’s face while she lay in a deep sleep. I mean yeah, she’d punch me so hard on the chin i’d be wearing my face as a shower cap, but hey…....I felt nothing bitch! XD

MilkyWay's avatar

@KatetheGreat Wanna come with me to the dragon’s lair? We can hang around until our saviour arrives…
lol!

ddude1116's avatar

Door number one, please. I’m reasonably clumsy, and want to do some really stupid and daring things, and being totally indestructible would totally support that. Not to mention, I could work to bring myself into prime physical condition, and abuse a lot of things that would be lethal from the start (like ingesting radium to see if my insides would glow, which they wouldn’t, but still, if I could try it withn’t any side effects, I would).

Berserker's avatar

@ddude1116 Lol. What else would you try?

ddude1116's avatar

Bathing in mercury, molten..anything, and/or acid. Also, some ridiculously cruel pranks that involve faux-harming myself.. Not to mention the money I could get by remaining inconspicuous and hustling as a fighter in underground boxing rings, or cheating at cards with shady people, essentially robbing them of a lot of money. Without worry of them killing me, I could treat them without fear of being stabbed, so that’s a win. Basically, just being completely and totally carelessly-reckless. Playing dead, too, after pissing off all those people.

Berserker's avatar

I always wanted to fist fight a train for some reason.

everephebe's avatar

@Symbeline I have two boxers fractures for similar inclinations. ^

Berserker's avatar

Damn trains. Think they’re so good.

mazingerz88's avatar

@Symbeline LOL. Enough with the trains! How about an incoming planet destroying asteroid?

Berserker's avatar

Yeah, going all Van Damme on that shit is probably a lot more productive than trashing trains.

…fucking trains.

mazingerz88's avatar

@Symbeline Better not watch that Denzel movie about that real life runaway train then. ;-)

Berserker's avatar

That new one you mean? About how this train can’t be stopped or it blows up? Or something?

Trojans40's avatar

unstoppable

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