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I like money as much as the next guy, but I’m not sure how much of me there’d be left to spend it on anything after a month with any of these psychos

@Neosaiyan7 nah man that movie was the first faithful representation of the OG superhero the general public has gotten in ages. Superman is the giant whose shoulders all the other characters here are standing on; none of them compare to the Big Blue Boy Scout

None of the above

Happy birthday! And regarding Mentifery? I would simply open the door to everywhere

I guess because it just kind of defies imagination. Coldness isn’t really a thing in itself as much as it is a relative absence of heat— or more specifically thermal energy. Thermal energy is the excitement and speed with which the particulate constituents of matter move. Absolute cold is just that: absolute, because it is the absolute lack of thermal energy— the state of total motionlessness of those particles I mentioned. Thermal energy is the kind of thing defined solely by magnitude, not direction or polarity; you can’t have less than none of it, and there’s no such thing as anti-thermal energy, at least that I know of. Of course, this wiki is all about fictional powers, which tends to imply fictional physics. You could always just make some shit up about how heat works in your fictional verse. It’d just be hard to do so in a way that makes any sense, I think.

Glad we’re all on the same page lmao

I feel like such a user absolutely should have a cloak, but should use daggers as weaponry

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Absolute embodiment is the clear winner here, at least for me

I really like Almighty Science because it’s all about the patterns, forces, and principles that constitute and govern reality. There’s something about the experience of understanding the how and why of some phenomenon at a scientific level, and being able to apply or leverage that understanding in practical ways. Plus, chaos powers have never appealed to me as much as they seem to appeal to others. The types of things I want to use my powers for can rarely be characterized as an increase in chaos— quite the contrary, most often

It’s basically the self-definition aspect of omnipotence— the ability of an all powerful being to shape their own identity and selfhood to an absolute degree, to control exactly who and how they are. It’s not intrinsically omnipotence itself, but it effectively is because if a user of this power isn’t already omnipotent in every sense they can just change that about themselves and viola

I see, so as I understand it I can’t bring forth something that is nothing, nor can I impose nothingness on anything, because doing so is contradictory and self defeating, but aside from that all valid identities/essences are available, waiting to be assigned to some as-of-yet immaterial, potential “something”

Thanks for the cool power! 👍

I like that. How abstract can I get with this power? Am I limited to objects/creatures and constructs thereof, or can I bring forth events, experiences, and/or states?

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I mean I think characters like that definitely exist. Take Saitama and Superman, for instance. I’d mention Goku as well, but he tends to get at least some help from friends. These characters can absolutely make for compelling protagonists, but you can’t tell all the same stories or implement all the same themes as you can with weaker characters who have to rely on others more. I think there’s a place for both; I wouldn’t want to only see stories with one or the other

If I understand you correctly, I agree completely. So often when there’s a prompt or question leading people to pick out powers, either as favorites or as ones they would choose to have, people default to some omnipotence aspect/expression/derivative, most often metapotence. And don’t get me wrong, I understand the appeal of the most powerful abilities conceivable. It’s something I’ve done myself plenty times, but it gets a bit repetitive. Jumping to those select few ultimate powers at every opportunity means we end up ignoring all the other powers, many of which have a lot of individual character that can make them quite a bit more interesting than just being to do literally anything whatsoever without qualification

Happy birthday!