What would you want your superpowers to be if they had to somehow involve your greatest fears?

[Anonymous]

With great power comes great badassery

For example, because I'm afraid of spiders, I'd like to be able to control them whenever I want. I'd use the power to assist me in defending myself and others. And, because I suffer from social anxiety, I'd want the ability to gain anyone's trust. So, how about you?

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[shoujogal]

I would like to run really or super fast like Dash! The little boy second child of Mr. Incredible and Elastic girl. So that I could easily be fit and continue to be fit for life.
I would also love to be like spider man to swing high and long.
Since I'm a child to Elementary, I have fear of heights swinging and standing on a big rope and sitting on a balcony and even in my dream or dreams when I'm at the edge and or im not sure anymore I duck.
And! Like also like Elastic girls power I would love to do Gymnastics! :) I would to tumbling like in my dream and hang my body... :)

[shoujogal]

Wow! Wowie! Thank you so much 4the MHO!

[InventorofWarp]

Well I'll take from the fiction I've written: My favourite character, Det. Jensyn is a psychic which gives him an incredible amount of intuition and natural empathy towards other people... which is why he's constantly trying to put up a stoic front, rarely emotes let alone cries and constantly wears gloves to try and hide all the raw emotions and shield himself off from the emotional intimacy of the world he so fears.
I'm terrified of heights despite ironically being very tall so flying would probably scare the fuck out of me.
And I'm horrified of bees and wasps despite loving spiders and snakes so if I were Candyman it would literally be the thing of my nightmares to be surrounded by those fuckers.

[dragoblack]

Mind control. I have a subconscious fear of people, due to constant years of abuse from students & teachers, along with being beaten up on a daily basis from kids around the apartment complex i used to live in, so I always have my guard up and not getting close to anyone.

[Apulu_3]

I would like to have power of mind reading because I'm afraid of being betrayed and I would like to know the intention of the person. It will also help to clear any future misunderstandings. Other could be knowing what my loved ones are doing at the moment to know that they are safe also when my friends are thinking of pranking me lol. Other could be becoming deaf when I want to because I hate extra sounds and easily get freak out of loud sounds.

[serious]

@apulu_3

I think the power to read the mind makes sense.

[snowgirl123]

I would want to be more beautiful and young forever I guess

super strength

super Wisdom and know when people are lying

being able to resist anything and never die

be able to change my appearance, just mostly some days be white, some days be tanned, and change hair and eye color

be able to fly

be able to fight any enemy and any army

[Cubus]

I'm not sure being young forever would be that good. You would not be able to have a boyfriend/husband, to have a family. It's because they would eventually die, and you would not. I think it would be extremely sad, especially with your children.

[snowgirl123]

@Cubus that's true. I would just have to find myself a husband that doesn't age as well

[Starwitch23]

Since I am afraid to lose control of my life my super power will be to know the unpredictable event and be in control of that.

[Asker]

What about the luck power?

[Starwitch23]

I don't believe in luck 🤔

[Asker]

I mean like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHGFX9E2P0

Domino is a mutant with the ability to subconsciously and psionically initiate random telekinetic acts that affect probability in her favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things occur within her line of sight, thus causing her to have "good luck" and her opponents to have "bad luck".

[Starwitch23]

Lol.. Luck power is cool. I didn't think that

[Asker]

I wonder if she accidently hurts friends & family around her though 🤔

[InferiorElegy]

I guess my power would be that same as Rogue's, absorb the abilities and memories of others, I'd use it to become super smart and successful, I'd also find someone with a shape shifting ability and permanently steal it from them so I could make myself good looking.

[Rachelspiks]

This is off-topic, but I really like those photos of people holding up the sun. Maybe that's one power I wouldn't mind having; the power to create illusions. I don't know what I'd do with it though.

[NicoletteXO]

I have some idea 😏

[Rachelspiks]

@NicoletteXO Yes? Do tell! :)

[NicoletteXO]

But ze secrets should remain secret, Dmitri...

[Rachelspiks]

@NicoletteXO Da comrade Nico. So sorry. Please don't have me shot. Send me to Siberia instead.

[NicoletteXO]

I vill send you to Siberia, and Hanma to ze gulags… where he vill be forced to read feminist literature at gunpoint.

[Rachelspiks]

@NicoletteXO Oh God, don't lock me up with Hanma! I think the firing squad is starting to look rather nice :)

[NicoletteXO]

Bahahaha no, you will be safely in Siberia, drinking warm vodka with your comrades. Hanma will be in a dungeon in Romania with militant feminists as his only friends 😂😂

[Anonymous]

Watching the people I care about get hurt and not being able to help them. I’d like to be able to heal them and take on their pain. And to heal from the wounds so I could keep on doing it.

My biggest fear was being raped again. But when it happened to a friend’s sister I knew right away that I would go through it a hundred times if it meant she didn’t have to.

[TikiTook]

Well my greatest fear is growing old physically so then in this instance it would be to look forever young but still die from old age since I don’t want to live forever

[jennifer_bloom]

The ability to work 22 hours a day without getting tired or sick or worn out or the ability to find anybody I wanted but risk getting caught by people I did not want to find me.

[Ailito]

My greatest fear is being in extreme pain for eternity. Sooo my power would be the ability to no feel anything? Or the ability to take or give away pain? I don't know.

[JosyJosy]

Flying I suppose. As scary as spiders can be, what's worse for me is looking straight down from a high place, gets me dizzy. I'd be flying but only one floor high or something XD

[MCheetah]

I'd be Ant Man; shrinking to be small, tiny, and relatively weak.

Or I'd be The Ghost; and you'd never know I was there and couldn't see me.

[Savage_Wisdom]

Considering I have apeirophobia, the fear of Eternity, I'd likely result in having a Deadpool level healing factor.

[t-8900]

Just givee the dark side and watch me do what must be done, to not hesitate, and to show mercy. *Cackles*:

[FinalFantasyBro]

I am scared of heights so probably the ability of flight.

[Ryfyle]

Not worth the cost of all my friends and family dying.

[Asker]

what is your fear?

[Ryfyle]

Is context outside your understanding? Clearly its the death of all my friends and family.

[Asker]

The obstacle isn't my comprehension of context; it's your inability to provide enough of it.

I came up with a number of different reasons for your conclusion based on what you said. One of them was even the possibility that my question had been misinterpreted. This is a very common occurrence. But I asked because I was curious, and I prefer not to rely on assumptions unless absolutely necessary.

[lilaccc]

i want to be God :) nah kidding.
for superpowers there's so much i want. but for reality, i always want to be myself.

[GoldenCage]

I will become a spider so I can chase you around before you gain your powers 🕸️👻

[DaveToo]

I would love to be able to turn darkness into light.

[CallmeTheKnight]

I'm claustrophobic, but I rather have the power of Umbrakinesis

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Turn all spiders into a new version of ants because ants are cute and aren’t scary (the black ones, and unless they have those huge fang things)

[Dinosaursandanime65]

I like playing with them. Except for that time a whole colony of them crawled on me

[SmokinAces2000]

Well since my greatest fear is dying/ there not being anything after death, my power would be immortality

[Jamie05rhs]

You could believe in Jesus and follow him. That way you will go to Heaven when you die.

[SmokinAces2000]

I’m not going to devote my life to something that I don’t know is even real