Earth bender
Control the very earth!
Downsides? Potential for catastrophic destruction!
Earth bender
Control the very earth!
Downsides? Potential for catastrophic destruction!
That's an interesting point.
It begs an important question about invisibility: would such a person only be invisible on the visible spectrum, or on the sub-visible spectrum as well? If it's only the visible spectrum, then we'd still be able to give off infrared radiation. If we're invisible on the sub-visible spectrum as well, then at what point would be simply stop being corporeal?
Hmm, that actually brings up another super power:
The ability to pass through matter - Wouldn't you have to be invisible then? If matter passes through you, why wouldn't photons as well? There's the other obvious downside of falling straight to the center of the Earth, but lets pretend that won't happen *wink*.
I'm not even going trying to understand this invisibility crap. Because I am far too dumb to try and understand, and too lazy to google. Would it be the same, if the ability was to not reflect light, hence you wouldn't be seen?
ITT: OP just finished Physics-101 in undergrad and decides to apply it in an incredibly arbitrary and inconsistent way to fictional universes.
You're the kind of person nobody wants to go to the movies with, aren't you?
See my following comment. What about "knowing everything" would give you the ability to control how your mind functions? I mean, would you be able to control how your liver functions? If you don't have complete autonomous control over your body, why would you have complete autonomous control over your mind?
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ITT: No. And no.
Why are you guys so fucking jaded you have to be condescending? I just do not get it.
I mean there doesnt have to be a downside even if you make it realistic. I mean sure, you can invent a downside to everything and find examples from comic books.
But if you go with OPs post, its not about it. Just being a normal human with super fast healing isnt bad and doesnt come with any downsides.
There are a few reasons why this might not be true.
Let's say the super fast healing makes you immune to basically all lethal forms of damage (perhaps being dropped into the sun or a black hole will kill you, but anything Earth-based, like drowning, falling into lava, decapitation, etc, won't), then you run the very serious risk of not only living a very long time (perhaps "forever") but of actually eventually finding yourself trapped indefinitely. Imagine you get buried alive (lots of ways this can happen, from humans being dicks, to a landslide, to being encased in lava), you will live and be conscious forever in complete stasis. Your own personal hell for all time.
Also, a healing factor does not mean you're immune to diseases, only that you heal from them. So you might end up creating a super virus that constantly eats away at your body, but your body repairs itself, only to be eaten away at again. Not only would this suck for you, but it would potentially wipe out the rest of humanity. You are, after all, the perfect incubator for super viruses and plagues.
Last edited by Dendrek; 2016-05-04 at 04:39 PM.