am the world's greatest kindergarten teacher
am the world's greatest kindergarten teacher
Can revive the dead
You can give moving public speeches
become immensely popular as a male role model
You can captivate the attention of any child. You're a comedian or magician that would absolutely kill it at any children's birthday party. You would be a fantastic teacher as you can hold the wrapped attention of even the most tiktok-corrupted teen.
Except, there's just one small problem...
They could make a killing off making videos on YouTube or something like Khan Academy. Just never show him from below the waist.....
Pee.
Shapeshifting
It hurts extremely because your whole body is physically altered.
You shift by magically turning yourself inside out ass first
Disgusting and likely painful, would have to be done somewhere private
I mean, the point of shapeshifting is to be sneaky
Your clothes are not transformed with you
Still works. I just gotta shapeshift into someone about my height
You shapeshift, including your mind. When you change into a person, you take on all of their memories as well. You become a complete copy, and the old you simply ceases to exist. If you turn yourself into Donal Trump, there's just a random copy of the president sitting in your apartment, utterly confused about where he is or how he got there. And the ability to shapeshift was a power of your old body. The new one can't shapeshift.
Your brain shape shifts as well into an exact copy of the animal you mimic. You have the intelligence of the creature you turn into. Which means a one way trip as any coherent logical human thoughts is driven out by animal instincts.
If I shapeshift into another human, I’d just have their memories. Id have to shapeshift somewhere calm, and leave myself notes
This might make a good movie plot
Give me the power, I’ll do it for free
This would have infer that your shape shifting skill had the ability to mimic not just their DNA but their nueral patterns as well. Without that you are again just left with instinct and a blank slate brain with no memory or knowledge.
Oh my god, Memento meets Animorphs.
Holy shit this is actually a good idea, I would actually read this book or watch this movie...
It could also work in a video game, but it would be very difficult to pull this off as the player character... could make for some extremely interesting NPCs in various settings.
So I just need to keep my weight constant
Oh no... I'm a cat. Done and done.
That’s not really a side effect, more of a condition.
You can only shift into a species that you've seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)
And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.
Wait, but can I shapeshift within a given species?
You can't actually become anything unique, the body approximately closest to your imagination becomes yours. They also, become you in turn. You immediately become a world wide sensation if used frequently.
That’s not shapeshifting, that’s body swapping
fuck
Still a cool power
A matter of keeping some hair in a jar as well as a photograph of mine
Ability to make cheese at will.
It's Cheez-Whiz
Alas I must make my living in Philly in the cheesesteak mines.
It lags out reality because every time you make cheese, it spawns a dozen above you, and reality just never expected this to happen. Also it's always comically large Raclette
It's all kraft singles
You're lactose intolerant
You now lactate and secrete rennet. Making it possible for you to harvest the ingredients and make cheese at will.
As word of your power spreads across the world, you become a god to cows by providing means to an end to the rape and exslavement of their species.
The combined belief of billions of cows grants you accesss to the physical and mental powers of cows. If you work to free them, you will become more powerful. And if you don't, you will be cursed to live out the rest of your days in an abattoir, where the hopes and dreams of cows go to die.
Either way, the dairy lobbies aren't happy and assassins are after you.
Severe lactose intolerance.
Teleportation
Just gotta carry disinfectant wipes and stuff I guess. I'd take this deal
Nah, just put on those covers that workers use before they come into your house. Little slips that go over your shoes.
And not like a little dog scat either. We're talking the entire football team ate some bad vichysoise and it hit them during practice and that pile is where you land. Every godsdamn time. You're starting to wonder if it's the same pile.
You should watch The Boys, if you haven't already.
Are prostheses and implants considered part of your body for purposes of teleport?
Granted, but your momentum is teleported with you. The earth is hurtling through space at over 100,000 km and you are on its -spinning- surface subjected to multiple momentum influences constantly.
Keep it to short distances and you might be ok, but with distance comes chaos.
Lmao not how it works. Things are only moving in relation to other things, if you're affixed to the earth then almost any other point on earth relative to you is not moving.
If you teleport in refence to some other celestial body that sounds kind of dumb and also possibly a skill issue.
The surface of the earth at the equator is moving at ~1600 km/hr in order to rotate fully in a day. If you teleport to the opposite side of the planet, you'll still be moving at that speed but the surface there is moving in the opposite direction. You will now be having a very bad day.
(Along the equator) in relation to the core along the polar axis. See how I did that? I filled in your implied point of reference. Isn't that a pretty stupid reference compared to, idk, where your are standing now?
How much is a 3 square feet patch of grass moving in relation to the one nearest you? Two points on a grid. It doesn't matter if the grid is being translated around an axis, the two points are basically fixed and dont move in relation to each other.
If your already on your deathbed, it would be a painful way to die, but you'd at least get an amazing view for a few seconds.
You have to have been there first within 24hrs to teleport there
This can actually still be convenient if you need to be physically at work 5 days a week. No more commuting and waking up early in the morning except on Mondays. If you want to skip Monday traffic, take a quick drive on Sunday to your office so you meet the 24 hour criteria.
Couldnt you just teleport there for a second on weekend so the timer resets and you dont have to drive at all?
The event alone causes an explosion, killing anything 50 meters to you, damaging anything 100 meters from you, temporarily disabled any electrical thing two kilometres from you, but you won't be affected by any of this.
"The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. Considered one of the all time best science fiction novels. Everyone can teleport just by thinking about it.
Probably the most realistic of the side effects
There's an episode of Justice League where Superman goes at it with Darkseid. Supes says that he always has to be careful and that the whole world is like cardboard to him, so this is the first time he can really let go.
So, you can't pick up a coffee cup or touch anyone without worrying about destroying something.
Also, you aren't invulnerable so if you punch a wall you'll still break your hands.
Also, you aren't invulnerable so if you punch a wall you'll still break your hands.
This is an interesting side effect.
The list can go on and on. That power is a fucking nightmare.
https://temp.larryniven.net/...
tl, dr a scientist looks at Superman's love life. It's not a pretty picture.
Reading this makes me want to trigger Nivenyrral's disk...
A sort of corrollary to this is CIPA
https://www.verywellhealth.com/...
You just do not feel pain, cannot sense temperature and never sweat.
You also, as a child more often, frequently seriously injure yourself and do not even realize it.
Also the inability to sweat makes you much, much more susceptible to heat stroke.
The minimum force you can output is now around 500 Newtons
It's extremely difficult to control - even grazing an object the wrong way with your finger can end up breaking it into pieces. Giving someone a hug can easily end with you covered in blood from the person you just split in two.
Going to the toilet propells the shit straight through the toilet.
Mind reading
Crowded subway station = fun times!
You're extra sensitive to reading the minds of non-human animals and can't turn it off. All the time. Forever.

You can't turn it off or filter out any thoughts and are lost in a cacophony of thoughts bombarding you every second from evey living thing. Even isolation isnt a relief as the animals and insects asail you with their primitive instinctual thoughts.
Came looking for copper but found gold. Great write-up.
Antarctica here I come!
You arrive to desolate and wonderfully silent Antarctica.
For a time you are alone and happy in your isolation. Soon enough, thoughts start to slowly infiltrate your sleep and later your waking world. You can't understand them. They are weird and very distressing. Over time you are having difficulty thinking clearly. You want to run but you cannot. You want to scream but you cannot for the thoughts are so upsetting. Your days and nights are spent in abject terror as you feel your mind slipping. Your essential nature being pulled away from you. Even more frightening is that you are starting to understand and interpret images, thoughts, and ideas, but they are so... Alien.
From the aliens.
The aliens that long ago crashed here on earth. To keep themselves alive they merged themselves with their spacecraft in an unholy combination of life and technology. They have been trapped by time, buried under the ice, waiting. Slowly the machine intelligence has been corrupted, the living minds fractured and the remaining combined intelligence is insane, mavolent, and hungry for new thoughts and ideas. Your mind is but the first. Your arrival has awoken them from a deep slumber. The ice that has kept them from humanity is melting.
You, (are you a individual any longer?) hunger with them for thoughts that are not your own.
I did forget about The Mountains of Madness!
All thoughts are deposited on a random storage medium and format. So you might receive a 3.5" cassette formatted with ZFS or a flashdrive that must be read by laser refraction (like a DVD)
In exchange, all of your thoughts are broadcasted onto an account on every social media, no matter how small, with your name attached to it.
It works, but there is nothing to read. Enjoy your solipsism!
Always. You can never not be reading the minds of everyone around you.
You realize nobody thinks, that you are the only real human, and all of this is a simulation where you are alone in a virtual reality test room.
The ability to get my DnD group to have a sensible, routine schedule, with no cancelations.
Stealth low flight mode activated!
Hovering would still be nice
"Hey, whats that up in the air?"
"It's a bird."
"No, it's a plane!"
"Wait... Is that...?"
"AAAAAAAUUUGGGHAAAAAAHH"
"It's Banshee Man!"
You are now the sexiest thing alive to birds, so they will constantly hit on you.
you lose all leg strength
Only at the speed of walking.
Depending on how controlled the flight is, you could just flight 5mm off the ground and just look like you're walking normally.
Flying has its own built-in side effects.
Every time you take off, there's a pretty good chance that people nearby will notice. The government will want to study someone who has the ability to fly, so they'll start surveiling the area. Within a short time they'll figure out who you are, and you'll be captured and eventually dissected.
And, that's assuming your flight superpower comes with the ability to breathe at high altitudes, the ability to resist the cold you'd be exposed to by flying, the ability to see while flying without having your eyes dry out, etc.
You’re now a city pigeon.
You can't do it unless you're wearing revealing bondage gear and a ball gag. Your kinks become the story instead of your superpower.
You get struck by lightning
Me.
You need to amass one kilogram of your own feces in a ceremonial bag for the power to take effect.
The other half is poop.
Applies only to non terrestrial events
Chance of an advanced race of friendly aliens settling on Mars: 0.0000000000000N% => 100%
You go forward in time to a point where the changes no longer matter.
With the snap of my fingers I can instantly cause the death of authoritarian dictators.
You're full of gunpowder
Nutsack strays
Speed up or slow down time at will
infinite money
The power to negate side effects of any kind. :]
The power of the brown-touch: The about to make people shit themselves by touching them
Not having to sleep. You can just be awake 24/7 without the usual cognitive decline or feelings of being tired.
When I’m completely naked I’m invisible.
I'm not even doing the breathing! Nevermind how I don't even know how this sentence will end and I'm writing it electric lobsters!
See I couldn't even tell you where something I physically had to type out even came from. Wild indeed.
I am doing the breathing now... fuck you :(
It's really wild how research is continuing to find strong implications that we are not individual microorganisms but multiorganisms that act as one
You get burnt out by having to manage everything
On a whim you decide to max out your pleasure, but don't set a time limit. You lose all higher cognitive functions as you're flooded with bliss.
With no way back, you slowly starve to death, loving every moment of it.
You can't stop ejaculating
It causes an unbearable stench around you. No one will come closer than fifty meters without a total haz-mat suit with scuba.
impeccable social skills
Invisibility
I can now shoot fresh spaghetti from my fingertips. Each fingertip shoots a continuous spaghetti noodle at an alarming rate with a range of about 4 feet. My thumbs will shoot a delicious meat sauce at a comparable rate and range.
Ability to become any fictional character with all their skills and powers while retaining my identity.
Teleportation.
Superpower - Simon the likeable. I come across to everyone as so calming, disarming, friendly and persuasive that I can convince anyone to do anything just by talking to them.
I am now able to speak to all animals, and understand them all
Every animal has super-covid and no vaccine can be made, so the government kills every animal
Just gimme photographic memory.
Necromancy with revived person having all memories and intellect, but me having final say
Kar(o)lina Marx!?
Imagine how many suicides by trans people can be caused by this
I can't be flying all over the world just to revive y'all..!
Thats why you charge money for the revive
Whomever you revive has all the capabilities their physical body can manage, but they never stopped decomposing after death and they are still decomposing. You could revive a skeleton, but they wouldn't do anything given that they have no flesh or brain, so it would just lay there being calcium. The injuries that killed them would still be present and they'd be in pain from the injury and decomposition, so there's that. Better hope they weren't embalmed.
You know that you are going to hell.
ability to make people say/do what you want them to
I am ironman
Shoot butts out my laser
i can delete one square meter wnywhere in the world and it just deletes the matter that was there
Complete control over time. I can stop, start, speed up, slow down, skip forward, skip back, and rewind.
The outcome I most want, when random chance is involved, will always occur if I first say the words "hoodoo moogoo"
The COD Zombies perk "Death Perception", but instead, I can see the outline of living beings through objects.
At night it only sees dicks
You can see all the spiders in your walls. Bacteria and all kinds of living things coat every surface you look at and fill your intestines.
I'm not sure that a side effect would be worse than the super power.
You can see through earth itself, covering your entire vision with said outlines, unable to see any object in front of you unless it is a living being
I can pause time in order to write as much code as I want without interruption.
Shapeshifting (also, yes)
How much fun would it be though to be able to sneak into places as an ant to then transform into a giant pink dildo or random child, for just a few seconds at just the right time to cause maximum impact, and then transform back into an ant for a clean get away.
Politics would be forever changed if I had this power.
You shapeshift into the exact mental image you keep in your mind at any given moment
You gain the personality of whoever you shape shift into.
Real life Ctrl+Z
Dibs on the Mongol Empire circa 1279
The ability to enter and bring objects/people into a space where time flows while it stops in the outside world. For a surface level example, you have a table in front of you and you could just by touching the table for example teleport to this place and proceed to play minecraft for an hour and then teleport back to the real world and continue from the same point. You could also store stuff there.
My superpower is pain
The ability to control all matter at the subatomic level.
I cant decide between Trans Magic and the power to be able to infinitely summon a device at no cost any time that will answer correctly and precisely any question i ask it for no price, it knowing what i mean and wanting to help me. Summoning it will erase the previous device, keeping the memory of the information obtained from it
I can instantly convert roads into corresponding rail transit lines. Highways to heavy rail, city arterials to light rail, sub arterials to grams, and interstates to high speed rail, etc.
Only one party does that lol
Idk friends, I'm tired. Person who replies, please give me something cool.
I have wolverine level regeneration.
The power to become the animal I last ate.
I can play the kazoo really well, like Hendrix level kazoo playing.
Ability to teleport any words I want into the mind of someone who is broadcasting or streaming anything over internet or radio or tv, that I currently watch or listen, as long as the broadcast is going on. For them it would be like hearing me as if I was in the same room. They won't know anything about me other than realize I'm one of their listeners or viewers. It works only for one person at a time - the streamer/broadcaster or one of them. They can choose to tell other listeners what they heard, or not.
Telekinesis
The ability to focus on stuff i am supposed to do
This sucks because all of the responses are negative.
Unfortunately I am already perfection, and unfortunately the side effect is living amongst the humans and seeing them for what they are, unable to help them in meaningful ways.
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