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Everyone's had a fantasy at one point or another about having a superpower or magical ability. It's part of the reason why Marvel movies and fucking Harry Potter have done so well - and I've very much enjoyed them too - despite being in full agreement with Carl Sagan's position on fantasy and magic, and a lifelong lover of hard sci-fi.
In the meantime, I can't help but want a superpower of my own and it's after long consideration (many years) that, aside from a lifelong desire for an ability to hold my hand in a fist, thumb up, look at any point on the horizon, depress my thumb and observe a very satisfying (potentially nuclear) explosion - I want this:
The ability to conjure up any weapon of choice and fire/apply them to people who do this - whilst having a unique and unassailable legal pass to do so. A "licence (and ability) to kill", if you like, in many, varied and often painful ways.
Humans who do that don't deserve continued life - and considering we are massively overpopulated I could spend many days gleefully solving two problems with one sickening shotgun shot, or railgun round, or floating magical mine.
At the seaside it would also give the seagulls something better for them to eat than ice-cream cones - so therefore I'd be performing multiple ecological services at the same time.
What joy-inducing superpower currently lies in your land of fantasy?
In the meantime, I can't help but want a superpower of my own and it's after long consideration (many years) that, aside from a lifelong desire for an ability to hold my hand in a fist, thumb up, look at any point on the horizon, depress my thumb and observe a very satisfying (potentially nuclear) explosion - I want this:
The ability to conjure up any weapon of choice and fire/apply them to people who do this - whilst having a unique and unassailable legal pass to do so. A "licence (and ability) to kill", if you like, in many, varied and often painful ways.
Humans who do that don't deserve continued life - and considering we are massively overpopulated I could spend many days gleefully solving two problems with one sickening shotgun shot, or railgun round, or floating magical mine.
At the seaside it would also give the seagulls something better for them to eat than ice-cream cones - so therefore I'd be performing multiple ecological services at the same time.
What joy-inducing superpower currently lies in your land of fantasy?