If you could have any kind of comic book-esque power/enhancement/ability what would it be?
How would it serve to increase your fighting ability?
What would your weakness be?
If you’re a real dork feel free to write a background to your character…
I would want a surgically enhance system of metallic springs inserted into my major joints like hips, shoulders, knees, elbows, wrists, ankles, and fingers.
They wouldn’t increase my reach like inspector gadget. But they would add a powerful snap to whatever strike (kick or punch) I deliver. In the finger tips the would increase my grabbing strength so I could crush windpipes and the like. They would also grant me a greater range of motion to unwind out of grappling and submission holds.
My weakness would be how taxing it is on my body to utilize and carry the metal in my body. Also if I miss a strike and punch a wall my flesh would be badly disfigured and possibility debilitated resulting in time to heal and a hasty retreat.
I guess tangentially magnets and rust would be a weakness. So for the rust I would have to allow small ports for oil to be filtered into the inerworkings of the springs.
The power I once came up with while discussing this type of thing was:
“summon ring”
Basically the character would be a masked mexican wrestler type. When it came time to use his super power he call out some unintelligable phrase, do some type of power rangers hand flurrying/position switching and then jump straight up, 50 feet in the air, anime style. At that point he’d come crashing down to earth fist first. The power of the hit would cause a major reverberation in the ground around him and his opponent, again anime style. And the reverb would cause the earth, on rebound, to become a WWF style rasslin’ ring. And the hero would then have 60 seconds (a la ultraman) to pull off ever pro wrestling move he could against his opponent, before the ring and his powers faded.
I’d like to be able to travel back to points in my life to relive it from then knowing what I knew when I went backwards… Did that make sense? You figure, in a fight you wait for your opponent to make a move (or counter a move) then go back to the instant it happened and anticipate it. repeat until you’ve won. also, there are several movies I wish I hadn’t wasted my time watching, and a huge book list I’d like to tear through without spending just reading 8 hours a day. being able to travel backwards in your own life would essentially allow you to lead a mistake free existence… and you could rob casinos at roulette tables.
I would have the power to kills yaks with mind bullets…
I mean… SERIOSULY; I would have precognitive powers, so I really CAN think 3 moves ahead of my opponent. Also the power to turn my body into a mass of organic molten rock, also adding a few hudred pounds of pure molten muscle!
I would get angry and turn into a small green guy who gets his ass kicked, and my name would be pocket hulk. So when I get into a situation where I could easily beat up some no good punks I would get angry and then get my ass kicked, that would be an awesome power.
I’d be Mr Fantastic. Then I could could triangle people from across the room, and pass guards like they weren’t even there. I could also suck my own… I’ll leave it there I think.
Originally posted by Matsufubu
[B]I’d like invisibility, please. Just think of the possibilities…I do. It’s obvious how it would enhance my fighting ability - I’d be semi-ninja!
My weakness would be young, nubile schoolgirls. I can think of worse. [/B]
