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The results of the Smokin’ Poll are in:
If you could have a super power:
- Space / Time Control: 53%
- Mind Control: 19%
- Ability to fly: 15%
- Invisibility: 15%
- Self Healing: 10%
- Super strength: 3%
By a huge majority, the most popular super power is the abilty to reverse the flow of time. Mind control was the second choice, which is understandable, but I have a hard time believing that you all would be beaming “put down the gun” more often than “take off them pants”.
The ability to fly and invisibility tied for third place, meaning that never getting your junk jostled by the TSA again is on equal footing with an all-access pass to any locker room or bank vault in the world. Maybe I can understand that.
Where I think the results get a little odd is near the bottom. The combined total number of people who wanted self-healing and super strength didn’t match the next level up. Is no one interested in throwing cars or lifting trains with one hand any more? Has brute force fallen from grace as an admirable trait?
More importantly, is the ability to live a corrected, but perfect life through time control more attractive than accumulating and endless list of mistakes that would accompany the immortality of Self-healing?
How did you vote and why?
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March 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Mind control my man. There are just to many good things that come along with this power. You can control the mind of anyone. So, anyone can be broken to your will. Space/Time control people will do whatever you tell them. Same with all the other powers. Now, I don’t have any lofty goals. I would just use it to get rich and have *insert your favorite pin up girl* get naked for me whenever I chose.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
This poll was so long ago I actually forget which one I chose… but I *THINK* it was either mind control or invisibility. But I’d honestly rather have Peter’s empathic ability to be able to do a lot of different ones, but that’s cheating.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
@Pablo: So control the space time folks to bring pinup girls from the past and then mind control them all to get naked?
@Noia: It was a long time ago. I need to change these out more regularly. I didn’t include the empath, because it is a bit of a cheat.