• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s kind of a tacit rule that it’s about comic book super powers so we don’t go biblical with it, but I get it. Hell, marvel has reality benders. I use “pick a mutant power” so at least we’re working in x-men lore.

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      2 months ago

      And still, something like Prof X is almost always the correct answer. IIRC he has the power to just make the entire world drop dead if he wants to

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        2 months ago

        I mean, technically his power is telepathy, just dialed up to 11. You could probably specify limits on magnitude.

        Any power can be OP if you up the magnitude of it all… E.g. I shapeshift into the sun, ending all life on earth.

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          I think shapeshifting is different from matter transmutation. So you’re just be a big Sun made of flesh. Which would probably still bake the planet, but not for fusion reasons.

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      I think something as simple as: You can’t break the law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of energy or exceed the speed of light would cut out most bullshit.

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      If we are going X-men level mutant powers, I always thought an underappreciated one was Forge. You can basically fix any problem you have with technology. He could have built something that made Iron Man look like a tinker toy if he wanted to.