I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?

      • @[email protected]
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        2210 months ago

        Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.

        Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect

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          1110 months ago

          I like it especially if it works like a switch. Imagine how perfect your naps would be. You’d never oversleep.

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            810 months ago

            Do you age while time is stopped? If so, might want to rethink those perfect naps. I’d 100% abuse it though.

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          610 months ago

          Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.

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      2110 months ago

      What’s funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back “on”… to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers…

      tl;dr: The Flash would’ve incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.

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        1010 months ago

        This is far more insidious than it seems.

        That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.

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        510 months ago

        Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.