Oh, before you decide, you should know that anyone who you set your sights on will know you're coming. So choose wisely.
Oh, before you decide, you should know that anyone who you set your sights on will know you're coming. So choose wisely.
I'd probably start with an example that I remember from my childhood. I'd most likely go after the main monster from Goosebumps #30: It Came from Beneath the Sink!, the Grool, a living, sponge-like creature about the size of an egg. This would be my first choice for two reasons. First, it can't necessarily run away or easily fight back. Second, its main ability is that it causes bad luck for those around it, and then feeds off that same bad luck. This would put just about anyone or anything else I would go after at a disadvantage in terms of luck (except, maybe, for those characters whose powers focus on good luck, or those beings that can circumvent luck entirely).
After that, I'd probably have my personal pick of the bunch at my leisure, but I'd most likely go after a number of other Goosebumps series monsters/villains first, as that would suit my whim at the moment.
Well, the monster that I would be absorbing this power from doesn't seem to have much in the "brains" department, usually leading to a passive spread of misfortune. However, I have a feeling that if it were more intelligent, it might be able to more actively control this ability. Seeing as I'd be starting out with roughly average human intelligence, I have a feeling that I'd be better able to control and focus this flow of bad luck to certain targets.
...Then again, I could just be jumping to conclusions here, but I have a feeling that (for the most part, anyway) the higher the brain function in a powered being, the better the control over the powers that they have. This isn't necessarily true in every continuity, but I like to think of that as a general rule.
You can't control your body heat, can you?
The thing is, it's also mentioned that, essentially, this monster uses the bad luck it causes as sustenance. I, at least, don't use my body heat as sustenance. Plus, when I'm hungry, I tend to eat at roughly set points of time during the day, instead of when I just "feel hungry", unlike what this creature seems to do. I can think of at least a couple of other, more advanced users of this type of ability that have better control over it, instead of the bad luck spread being passive and uncontrollable. That is the category that I feel I would more likely fall into.
No, it feeds on the results of what it emits, and who says it will be adjusted to suit you?
The situation here is that, well, I'd be an outsider from a different continuity (the real world in this universe) absorbing this power. Taking that into consideration, who says that it won't be adjusted to fit my physical and mental state? Hmm?