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...what would you really want to be able to do?

Since I'm a scatterbrained and disorganized person, I'd love to be the Locator, with the ability to think for a sec abt a person or thing and then know where he/she/it was. hmmm keys hmmm THERE THEY ARE.

(yesterday at work I freaked out because my lunch had disappeared and I knew I had just put it somewhere. I checked the office fridge and even the bathroom; I gave up and went back to what I was doing, and there it was in the drawer I had just pulled files out of.)

so anyway New Chilling-Logan's-Dr.-Pepper Answers.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the ability to tame woodland animals

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

so you could rip off their tails and throw them at your boyfriend?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i want Nightcrawler's 'teleport' ability more than anything - great for getting out of tight jams and i'm sick of being held up in traffic etc. when travelling around so to be able to re-appear over long distances would be great - i would have to be able to see where i was going though so i would combine this ability with a 'sight beyond sight' that would allow me to visualise a location in my mind based on its GPS co-ordinates (i'd have the GPS system in my mutant brain as well)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd totally want to be able to slow down/speed up my own time in relation to world-time. Call somebody, say "I'm coming over", speed up my own time dramatically, get to their house before they finish hanging up the phone, fr'instance.

Of course, with my luck I'd have horrible lame useless mutant powers, such as the ability to breathe through my ears or the power to cough up golf balls at will.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Shapeshifting. Of course then I would change into top supermodel form, make myself a pantsload of money, and stay in that shape for the rest of my life.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Either a major moneymaker, as J.Lu says, or X-Ray Vision.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Teleportation sounds good, as does not having to sleep

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I'd just go for the old shooting laser/plasma beams outta my hands thing. I'd also have the mutant power of being extremely attractive.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, attractive people are mutants.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

All superheroes are attractive, jel.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, the no-sleep thing would be nice.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

come on martin, no ones ever called Puck good looking!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a mutant! I'm telling my dad on you!

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally racking my brain trying to think of unattractive super people.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*erases Mark C's mind with special mutant mind erasing power* *immediately feels bad about erasing people's minds* *professor X teaches me how to control my powers* *restores Mark C's mind, except for the bit where he knows we are mutants*

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

In my early comic fandom days, I knew this guy called G30ff L4mpr3y (not his real name) who ran the X-Men fan club. Then I happened to meet some guys who knew him at school. Apparently he had a bit of kinda webbing between the toes on one foot. He used to go up to people and say "Hi Rod! I'm a mutant!" As far as I could make out, he imagined that one day he'd be invited into the X-Men and be Kitty Pryde's boyfriend or something.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I would really like the ability to make a perfect pork pie appear in front of me whenever I wanted it.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The ability to destroy matter sounds violent...

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

We're all freaking mutants!

We're all just survival machines for giant self-replicating molecules! Be afraid! Be very very afraid!!!

― kate, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one 'problem' with X-Men is that even the 'ugly' characters (Beast, Toad, Nightcrawler) are played by relatively attractive people (Ray Park, Alan Cumming etc.) and they're never allowed to look truly grotesque.

anyone seen The Hulk trailer yet? it kinda blew me away, i was expecting a bit of a dud but it might actually be quite good.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The ability to eat what I want without gaining a shred of weight. There's a chap in the office with exactly this superpower. He fears being outed as a mutant so he calls it 'metabolism'.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to have that superpower as well. Should I rename myself as "Tuomas, the Mighty Metabolism Man"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was watching an MTV report on the X2 premiere the other day, and the reporter goon was asking the celebs "if you could have one mutant's powers, whose would you have?" and most people said "I would be NIGHTCRAWLER! Because then I could just teleport rather than have to jet to glamorous locations all round the world!!!". Patrick Stewart turned up, and the question was put to him and he said "Hmmm... whose powers.... [long pause]... I suppose it would have to be Thierry Henry". And he went up in my estimation.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

he just went down in mine!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Osmosis - be able to touch a book or record for a second and know everything about it's content and meaning and my reaction to it and stuff.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Patrick Stewart turned up, and the question was put to him and he said "Hmmm... whose powers.... [long pause]... I suppose it would have to be Thierry Henry".

The man's a consummate genius, he is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to be able to split into several different me's whenever i like. that would be very handy. but (this has vexed me since childhood) which me would be the real me?

― rener (rener), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I would be Captain Ass.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Your fearsome powers distress me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

BEHOLD my might powers!

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I want some power that will enable me to see Magic Eye posters. Or a really good optician to correct my astigmatism.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

as much as i hate to admit it, i'd probably want some sort of mutant power that i could use to fulfill my sexual fantasies. much like the character in nicholson baker's the fermata.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Osmosis - be able to touch a book or record for a second and know everything about it's content and meaning and my reaction to it and stuff."

Bookworm in batman could do this with books. I always thought if I had this power, I would get really bored, really fast. or maybe get better at aports.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

The ability to convert your tissue into an organic, steel-like substance, granting you extraordinary strength and a high degree of resistance to bodily harm. In armored form, you are nearly invulnerable and don't need to breathe or eat.

― todd kramer, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the power of the telephone cumshot. I can call anybody on the phone, anywhere in the world, and give them a sloppy facial through the reciever with my mind. Afterwards I yell 'Taste it, bitch!' into the microphone and hang up.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the power to change my sex. (And be attractive, of course.)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the power of the telephone cumshot.

As if long distance relationships aren't unpleasant enough...

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

you people are fuckin sick

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sick like in the way that you go "Damn dude that car is sick."

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm working on the ability to shit in other people's pants from afar while they're wearing them.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It'a an ability he was born with, now Professor X is helping him to learn to control it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenan, I think you're his first target

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

He is almost single-handedly responsible for the "Have you ever shit your pants?" thread, though he doesn't know it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

Reviving because the mutants are here

"Mighty mouse" gene found in humans

By studying the genes of an unusually muscular child, scientists have identified a gene in humans which has also been used to create "mighty mice" in the lab.

The discovery means that successful therapies for degenerative muscle diseases in mice that target this gene might be also be effective in humans.

The strapping German boy, whose mother is a professional sprinter, is so strong that at the age of just four and a half he can hold a three kilogram weight in each hand with his arms outstretched horizontally.

The international team of scientists has shown that the boy has a single mutation in the gene for a protein called myostatin. This gene has previously been examined in mice, and blocking it can make mice twice as brawny as normal. However, until now no one knew its effects in humans.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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