I can fly!

[Mercen-X]

And then there are those without psychotic proclivities...

[Miss Mae]

I've always said I want the ability of flawless persuasion. I might not be able to get to work immediately, but I can persuade them I was on time. Or even to just give me the day off (and pay me anyway). I might not be able to fly, but I can persuade pilots to do that for me. I might not be able to shapeshift, but I can convince people all is not what it seems. I might not be able to read minds, but I could persuade people to tell me what they're thinking and be honest about it. And so on.

[Crop]

Teleportation is the superior power. I would give anything for that ability.

[Mercen-X]

There have been times I wished I had a power similar to those aliens in Earth Girls Are Easy. Basically, I wish I could sexually stimulate and grant orgasms to people without touching them (or hardly touching them *giggity*). At first, I wanted this ability for the ladies. But then I began to imagine how I could use as a weapon. You've heard of the "sick stick" that induces vomiting (and diarrhea although I don't know if that's true or an exaggeration). Imagine how quickly you could catch people off-guard by causing them to instantly "wet" themselves. Unlike vomiting or diarrhea, this wouldn't have the same effect of causing them pain or physical harm, but would leave them exhausted from the blissing-out. Naturally, this kind of thing would likely only grant a narrow window of distraction for which one could take advantage similar to how Paul Blart managed to get a drop of hot sauce into the bad guy's eye (for which he began to celebrate the unlikely achievement rather than taking advantage and dozering him to the ground).

Bear in mind, this is just my head and I realize this has no real worthwhile applications in life other than for sex. Still a neat idea though. Mercen-X, the mythical babe magnet who O'd a thousand women in under six minutes. lol (I don't even know how long it would take to GREET a thousand women)

[Dat Matt]

My go to ability is, and always has been time manipulation. Nothing like going back in time, but the ability to slow down, speed up or stop the world around me.

Consider this. Stopping the world would have infinite uses, mostly devious. Someone with bad ass powers trying to stop you from your life of crime? Too bad, they can't you've just frozen time and messed them up before they could do anything. Same sort of deal with slowing down time. Have 5 minutes to get out of bed, get ready etc? How about you slow down time 600% and turn that into a 30 minute wakeup session?

Speeding up time would also allow you get through events that you are supposed endure. No really good examples other than perhaps traffic lights which take forever to change, or a lecture.

[Mercen-X]

Speeding up time would also allow you get through events that you are supposed endure. No really good examples other than perhaps traffic lights which take forever to change, or a lecture.

Those excruciatingly long trains that pop up at the rail cross. The ones that take a full minute to even reach the cross in the first place. Then you sit and watch and count in your head how long it takes before you can no longer even see the engine and you get to like 150. Then you sit and wait some more while the rest of the train cars go by. And you read some of the train cars and you start to thing they're doing this on purpose as some kind of subliminal message trick that isn't so subliminal.

I've long considered the possibilities of time control (which is more technically a form of universal telekinesis allowing you to stop even the earth, sun, and whole solar system in place... otherwise the freezing of time would make seeing difficult as all light would be incredibly distorted because light is not a constant thus would be caught up in the freezing of time) and I even began a story entailing a group of anti-heroes with powers such as compulsion, teleportation, shapeshifting, and time manipulation all of whom have done horrible things to people to sate their own twisted proclivities. They then simply travel back to before they did the crimes so that "no one was hurt". Time manipulation could be the ultimate ability if it's contextual range extended to incorporeal things such as water, air, and gravity. Stop things from falling in mid-air, walk on water, hell, perhaps even granting a semblance of flight, granted this all only comes to one who is entirely proficient in their ability.

[Ayen]

If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?

Earth Manipulation. It's just broad enough to allow for a lot of freedom and creativity without being cheap. I've been experimenting with the power in my writing and there are a lot of neat stuff you can do with it. Lift off on a piece of the ground and go sky surfing, dig, turn the ground into quicksand, liquify it and wash people away Naruto style, lift up the ground and turn it into a wall to provide cover fire when there is none, literally pull the ground out from under someone. Sky's the limit.

[Carl the Llama]

The ability to invest others with a magical ability of my choosing. I would go to the hospital and make everyone there a healer, I would grant people special abilities they desire for a just cause (like say Fire Fighters the ability to instantly put out fires and the like) and I would grant a select few people the ability to revive me (and only me) so if some terrorist killed me, they could bring me back to continue my noble work ^^

[Quindiana Jones]

I would like to be Dr Manhattan.

[Mercen-X]

"My red planet means more to me now than your blue one."

The ability to invest others with a magical ability of my choosing. I would go to the hospital and make everyone there a healer, I would grant people special abilities they desire for a just cause (like say Fire Fighters the ability to instantly put out fires and the like) and I would grant a select few people the ability to revive me (and only me) so if some terrorist killed me, they could bring me back to continue my noble work ^^

Yes. This is another ability I've fantasized about. I figure it would be boring or annoying to be the only one (if movies are anything to go by I would be hunted to find out what made me tick). I figure giving other people powers would be entertaining and get the Man off of my back especially if I could do it inconspicuously.

[Jiro]

Telekinesis a la Chronicle is my jam.

[Alive-Cat]

You've made teleportation sound so good! Other than that I want to be able to create currency from thin air. And never sweat no matter how hot it is. And never have to sleep, unless I want to, and then I can just sleep for as long as I want and when I want, just for kicks. And I can drink as much beer as I want but never hurt my liver.
And I can will frogs into being who are utterly devoted to me.

[Drift]

flying or teleportation would be amazing, especially if it was like the film Jumper (with hayden christyblahhh)

[Mercen-X]

The reason superpowers like flight, telekinesis, teleportation, duplication, shapeshifting, mind-control, "phasing", time control, invisibility, and immortality are pretty much the most popular is because all of these provide a way to sustain yourself and even acquire prosperity without having to accrue wealth in the form of cash, coin, or precious stones and you don't have to hurt anyone to do it. It's all deception and stealthy thievery. Flight, teleportation, time control, phasing, invisibility, and even telekinesis (depending on how it's used) can be used to steal anything without being noticed if done right. Duplication and shapeshifting can be used to steal things too, but in order to avoid detection, a number of precautions and other things have to be taken into consideration. Time control and mind control are clearly the best options for getting away with valuable objects without anyone trying to stop you. Immortality is probably the worst option. You steal something and you'll hunted for decades but at least you'll know that no one can kill you so it doesn't even matter if you ever get caught. But this depends on the Immortality. Can you feel pain? What happens should the technologically advancing populace discover your secret and wise up enough to launch you into the sun? Do you have the strength to defy the gravity of 100 Earths? Regardless, the best possible option is to avoid drawing attention to your immortality as best you can.

[Loony BoB]

Aye, I've always wanted teleportation. It would solve so many of life's problems.