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Telekinesis is the best super power

LitmusDragon

LitmusDragon

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I somewhat facetiously submit that Telekinesis is the most interesting and therefore best superpower.

Obviously Magneto is the coolest X-Men villain. Why? Telekinesis. Furthermore, the appeal of Sylar can in large part be explained by his telekinesis.

Telekinesis appeals to a primordial desire inherent in humankind to be able to pick things up without having to get up off the couch. It's probably the only superpower that we have all tried to use, at least once.

Even Superman could be improved by giving him telekinesis. Able to leap tall buildings? How about about the MOVE tall buildings. With his mind.

Jedi are badass because they have telekinesis.

How much cooler would Aquaman have been if he could throw fish at you without even touching them.

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^Magneto doesn't have telekinetic powers. He has the ability to manipulate Earth's electromagnetic field and ferrous metals.
 
Hermiod said:
^Magneto doesn't have telekinetic powers. He has the ability to manipulate Earth's electromagnetic field and ferrous metals.
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A minor but important difference. He's still moving things around with his mind, so I think it still counts as telekinesis.
 
I think Hiro has the best ability to be anywhere in the blink of any eye is the best power (not so bothered about the time travel part, however freezing time would be cool to)
 
Nah, time manipulation with teleportation is what I think is the best, followed closely by manifestation. If you can think it, it will appear.
 
I always thought that mind control would be the best power to have...well, that and teleportation. I'd take teleportation over flying any day. But if you could control minds, then you could have anything and everything you wanted, right? Just make others get it or give it to you...
 
Beyond Antares said:
With telekinesis, you can mimic almost any superpower imaginable, so yes I agree.
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In one of the Wild Cards books it was theorized by a character that the powers of all the jokers and Aces were telekinetic. The Dr. Strange like spell one would cast was just his way of accessing the telekinetic power for example.
 
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I tend to agree with the OP. There are lots of different types of -kinesis, but telekinesis, the general manipulation of anything with your mind, has to win.

Jean Grey could really rule the whole world if she could stop dying.
 
LitmusDragon said:
Even Superman could be improved by giving him telekinesis. Able to leap tall buildings? How about about the MOVE tall buildings. With his mind.
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He basically does have a form of touch-based telekinesis, which explains the vast majority of his powers (despite fanboy crying to the contrary). Flight, super "strength" that works despite absolutely no structural support for the lifting (case in point: stopping and lowering a jumbo jet by its nosecone, which is probably one of the weakest parts of the entire aircraft), skin-tight "force field" invulnerability, super speed, super breath, etc. Even his heat vision could be a form of it. About the only power that doesn't quite fit is his x-ray vision.

Makes sense from his background, too. He's from a hyper-advanced race that's evolved to a state of perfection. Pretty much right in line for the origins of races with mental powers. The fact that he fuels those powers by solar energy is just a side note, really.

But, yeah, most fans hate that idea. They gave "tactile telekinesis" to one of his alternate superboys or some crap, but they fudged it up along the way in order to make it every bit as lame as the fanboys demand it actually would be. So... <shrugs>

Point is, for all intents and purposes, that's pretty much what Superman has. I have to disagree about it making him cooler if he lost the tactile aspect of it though. He's "overpowered" enough as it is. He doesn't need to be able to do that crap from afar (even though he could probably sucker you into thinking he is via his superspeed).

Jedi are badass because they have telekinesis.
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<goes off on another mini-rant>

I don't get Jedi. They can lift ridiculously heavy objects with just a bit of concentration, yet using that same power to make themselves fly is apparently incomprehensible. At best, they boost a jump by a bit. But come on. There's so many examples where a little flight would have completely trivialized a scene, and it's something that would/should be just as trivial for them to do... yet they don't.

I hate it when writers/creators give characters certain abilities but then completely ignore the brunt of the implications and possibilities those abilities allow. A big pet peeve for me.

How much cooler would Aquaman have been if he could throw fish at you without even touching them.
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He can. "Hey fish, attack!" <kamikaze splash attack>
 
I'm going with flight. All the others just get you into trouble.

I'll take the ability to control time or to control minds any day of the week over telekinesis.
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The way they've been depicted, they seem like the biggest imaginable pains in the ass.

Time control = exercise in futility.

Mind control = you become the target of everyone. Your power only works through your own eternal vigilance. Sorry, I'm far too lazy. :rommie:
 
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