Awesome question, my favorite topic. My own answer surprised me. I want the power to freeze time, at will. There was a rather obscure sitcom I liked in the late 80s/early 90s, I believe it was called Out of This World. The main character had this one power: she could stop time, and re-start it at will. If she chose, she could bring others into her timeline, while everyone else remained in suspended animation.
In the past, I wanted to fly, or go invisible. (Guess I'm a long lost twin of @simplymike). But today, I'd much rather stop time.
Benefits: obviously, I might prevent horrible things from happening by changing things before restarting the timeline. I might take time out to rest, enjoy my loved ones, or just think.
Risks: somehow that sitcom made it a season or two; I can't remember a single episode but they must have found some room to explore that particular power. I see a risk in taking more and more time out, and using it as an escape. Plus, there's always the risk that I'd manage to stop time right before a catastrophic event but past the point of no return. Imagine you have stopped time right before a nuclear bomb fell: do you leave everything suspended indefinitely?How can you ever restart the clock?
And oh yeah, what if something happens to me while time is frozen - then what?
Damn... With great power comes great responsibility.
Wow, this is a nice and interesting superpower... most people seem to have gone for flying or invisible! Sounds like an interesting sitcom, I never heard of it... I guess in some ways this is what Santa Claus does every Christmas Eve to be able to get around to every kid in one night!
I can't even begin to think about what I would do if I was able to just "zone out" and freeze time with no interruptions! I think the first thing I would do would be to freeze time and finish my backlog of Steam games....
One thing that I might thing of that might be a downside, depending on how the superpower worked would be aging... I assume that because you behave as you were in a normal time, that you would age normally... in that case, if you froze time for an hour to do what you needed to do, then dropped back into the normal flow of time, then you would be an hour older relative to everyone else... do this enough times, and you will start pulling really a long way ahead in aging sense....
Yeah that crossed my mind too. They never addressed that in the show 😅
LOL
Wouldn't you be worried about changing the future, for worse? I'm thinking in terms of the butterfly effect and stuff... ;0P
Absolutely, but since it's only stopping time and not going back in time, you can only change the present. It's like the power you already have to change the future, only without being limited by the number of hours or seconds you have to take action.
Good answer, I'll take it, lol
(We could start an ongoing discussion here, because I have so many more possible questions about this superpower, but since it's completely hypothetical and I don't have a lot of energy to spare at the moment, I'll just drop it, lol)
By the way, it's a superpower I wouldn't mind having too :0)
I was thinking about aging... each time you would age faster relative to everyone else!
Good point, @bengy. I didn't even think of that :0)
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