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?
Are your save states unlimited or do you have only 3 slots?
It’s infinite, though it’d also be intriguing to imagine them being limited to a number of slots (3, 15, etc).
Ooh, you should read Replay by Ken Grimwood.
A one of it’s kind books too.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I wanna teleport things. I’ll use this to make money, among other things.
Jumper was fun.
Yeah, anytime anybody asks this question that’s my first thought. Either that or like Shadowcat and the ability to phase through things. 
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.
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.
Phil from the Future!! First thing that came to mind for me, lol. They had a piece of tech that could age you up or age you down, and the main character, Phil, was hit by it. Turned into a total kid. One of the funniest episodes for me back in the day… I miss the Disney Channel. :(
Had no idea that show existed. Definitely gonna have to check it out, if not specifically for that scene… and maybe the rest of the show if it’s good.
It isn’t a cartoon like you specified, but it’s one of the best Disney Channel shows of all time for me. Along with That’s So Raven, Lizzie McGuire, Suite Life of Zack and Cody, etc. Just classics. If you’re into cartoons, then Recess, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Kim Possible, The Power Puff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Ed, Edd & Eddy, all incredible shows and I used to watch them religiously!
Hell, Star Trek had that episode!
Despite not seeing that episode, I think I know which one you are talking about because of TV Tropes. I think they listed an episode plot under the fountain of youth trope page about the crew of whichever iteration of Star Trek being sent to an alternate dimension where time moves backwards. They may have had others as well listed, but I can’t remember since it’s been a while since I’ve checked that page.
I’m not sure which episode that one is! I was thinking of a Next Generation episode named “Rascals”, episode seven of season six. Captain Picard and three others from the Enterprise suffer a transporter accident that de-ages them back to children.
I think I’ve seen the clip of that specific scene. Can’t remember the episode name or series I was thinking of. I’ll probably look it up and see which it is.
I found it. I’m more of a second hand exposure kind of Star Trek person, so I figured that it would be part of one the many live action series. I was wrong and wondering why I couldn’t find it under the live-action TV example subpage of TV Tropes fountain of youth page.
It’s in the 70s animated cartoon in an episode called The Counter-Clock Incident. Considering I’ve been in the room while my dad watched an episode of the cartoon, I’m absolutely not watching this episode because the quality of the show screams 70s low budget cheap and lifeless animation, but I cannot stop anyone reading this from viewing it if they so please.
To make people know stuff and experience stuff.
Then I’m just gonna travel the world to get people educated, see the other side of the story, think independently, etc. Like I think those are if you have the experience of it once then you know how to do it on your own.
There will be all those mind control moral dilemma of free will and bias and stuff I think rising up o along the way, so that could be the complicated part, the self-justification of power. I don’t really care for being just though so I think it’s just going to be all jolly.
I think with that we should be able to get some people to stop fighting and be happy at least. Probably make some part of the society more functional as usually the system always break at some point but good men along makes stuff work. Though it’s another jump from educated men to good men :)
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 would like to having healing powers of some kind.
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Time manipulation.
one thing i noticed is certain entities are immune to it like “gods in shows, angels demons, supernatural entities” im guessing they are exist “beyond time, outside the spacetime”
The ability to know everything.
If not, then the metabolism where I can eat anything and not get fat.
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.
Healing. Can you imagine how happy the world would be? Parents with a sick child can take them to the park for the first time. Bed ridden people can see the world with their own eyes as opposed to a screen. Despair and grief would change to happiness and serenity. I’d be crazy busy but if it means that everyone everywhere is guaranteed to live a long, happy life, I’d gladly pay the price.
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.
I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.
If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you’d be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you’d be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that’s what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.
You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don’t want to play.
Definitely the ability to speak/communicate deeply with animals.
Healing powers 100%
But if I’m being selfish/lazy, I’d copy Ezra from Fairy Tail, she can swap out her armor and weapons instantly. I’d use it to always have a rain coat, umbrella. Fall over in bed and be instantly be PJs, wake up stay and in comfy cloths right until I get to work. Climb up a ladder and never have to go back down for a tool. Spill food all over, and instantly have a new shirt. Get mugged and swap over to appropriate armor and a heavy assault weapon.
