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    Hero. It's all I've wanted to be.

    And as much as I'd like a Green Lantern ring, my next bet I'd want? The Planeteer rings and the Pollutionteer rings. Yes. BOTH. Why, might you ask?

    The Pollution rings allow you to CONTROL THE POLLUTION. I could gas someone with a small puff of smog or clear the skies. I could cause a riot with the Hate ring as a distraction or make a mook turn on a villain, then use Heart to have the guard be my buddy.


    After that? Speed Force or Kryptonian powers. Gotta go with the classics.
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    I'd be a Supa-hero, but my secret identity would be that of a supa-villain.

    I'd constantly be catching myself....
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    I'd want to be Mr. Black.

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    I'd definitely want to be a hero. I'd certainly try very hard. However, I'm not sure how well Socialist Man, wielding the Hammer of the Proletariat and the Sickle of the Eternal Revolution, would go down with the general public. I'd probably be mistaken for a villain on a regular basis.

    Powers? Probably mind control and invisibility. Yeah, that and the title are pretty ominous in combination, aren't they?

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    I think I would constanly walk the line in between hero and villain.
    Too much of a bitch to be a hero, but still care enough about others to be evil.

    Since I'm known for my mood swings, I think weather control would fit me pretty nicely.
    Not just storms and snow and all, but also able to clear the clouds and give the world a nice, sunny day.
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    A hero all the way, but I'd only like to have a small scale power so that I can focus on saving kittens from tall trees and foiling the occasional bank robbery.

    That way I can become famous and liked without having to become increasingly stressed about not being fast enough to catch every falling aeroplane in the world.

    In short, I'd be a hero for entirely selfish reasons. But does that really matter as long as I'm doing the people around me a favour in the end? No it does not.
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    I'd be a Supa-hero, but my secret identity would be that of a supa-villain.

    I'd constantly be catching myself....
    I'd buy the newspaper every day if this happened. It would make reading it a lot of fun.

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    Hero, I am way waaaaaaaay too empathic an Aspie to do villainy.

    Even in video games I have a hard time doing so. O.O

    I'd go for Mystique powers too, I am a huge fan of El Goonish Shive and very much like the prospect of being able to be a walking self-TF gun. ^.^

    I'd be a badass normal hybrid of the Question and Kitty Pryde! Fighting crime with plans more ridiculous than any villain yet suceeding through pure luck and style!

    Man, I want superpowers.

    Oh well, I'll make a comic about them instead! XD
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    Hurm.
    I’d be a hero, but I’d be a pulp super hero, trench coat, suit, fedora, dual 1911 .45 colts with ivory grips. I’d run around in the darkness and masquerade as a villain. I’d probably wear a bullet proof vest or something under the suit. ohh better an armored trench coat!

    For super powers, probably some sort of gun related powers, bullet time works great, I’d want some sort of freeruning power so I can make daring leaps and tumbles while I’m battling it out with gangsters.
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    Yeah, I could never pull off the whole 'villain' thing.

    As for powers? I'd want the big three: Super strength, invulnerability, and flight. The flight wouldn't have to be super-fast, either, maybe just as fast as a car. Yeah, that would be nice... I'd probably have to get deputized by the police or something, since I wouldn't have any way of finding crimes without access to a police radio, and patrolling is so inefficient. Maybe they could give me a proper job, too, so I could do my heroics full-time.

    Though, speedster characters have kinda snagged my attention lately I found this song and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Kinda sad...
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    Hmm...I'd probably be around neutral, probably leaning towards good. See, I don't really see myself as being all superhero-y, but still, I' don't see myself as being a supervillian, and I'd still want to help people out. As for how, I'd say the whole technology/intelligence angle.

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    Hero. With healing powers. Preferably limitless ones, but I'd take what I could get. Get a position in a major hospital - doctor or a nurse - and heal the crap out of people, as inconspicuously as possible.

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    Hero. The world has enough villains as it is, but it is steadily getting better through the effort of similarily-inspired individuals. If you look at each century you can, with a fair amount of certainty, say that life is better than in the previous one. Trying to improve this world is the only rational long-term choice.

    For my power set, humanoid shapeshifting and mindreading would fit me best. The flying brick set really clashes with my personality and approach, and anything overly overt or powerful would smash suspension of disbelief .
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    I'd be a villain for sure, since I'd want to use my powers for self benefit. That doesn't mean I wouldn't help others, though, but I might only do it for friends or in exchange for money. For powers, I'd want something to help me live longer, like immortality, indestructibility or an ability to see the future.
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    I'm just mostly at a loss for what sort of thematic power would be available based upon who I am. ...I mostly just confuse people. I'm not really sure I could weaponize that.
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    Absolutely a hero, though the kind of hero who makes huge mistakes with regard to his personal life. I'd be a Professor X style hero, more operating in the background and working for the general good, though my decisions tend to get a bit more... grey... as the scope narrows down. Sure, I would tip off the police to where that murderer stashed the bodies, but I'd probably read the mind of the girl I liked despite her not asking me to.

    @Coidzor, that would be an amazing superpower. Mass Confusion at will?
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    Well, if we're basing our powers on our personalities, I'd be Sarcasm Man!
    I have the power to make anything untrue by sarcastically agreeing with it.
    "Oh, suuuure, you're going to murder me in cold blood rather than placing me into an absurdly overdesigned deathtrap. Riiight."

    Noone would ever be able to discover my secret identity and confront me with it! "Yes. That's right. I am Sarcasm Man. Well done."


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    Hero, though I'd be more qualified to be the bureaucrat that tells the hero "Those 'aliens' you saw were just swamp gas!" or "You need a permit for that flamethrower!" until halfway through the story.

    Powers-wise, healing and/or life-draining would be good.
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    I'd be a hero. No question about it.


    Though I'd want standard flying brick powers, if it's based on my personality then I'd either have something like either elasticity or super-charisma.

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    I'd be a villain for sure, since I'd want to use my powers for self benefit. That doesn't mean I wouldn't help others, though, but I might only do it for friends or in exchange for money.
    What makes a villain a villain isn't using their powers for their own benefit- but violating the rights of others when using their powers.
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    Immortality and invulnerability as a hero.

    I would defeat villains by waiting for them to die.

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    I'd want power over gravity, but not the lame "Crush you with super-gravity" or "Pull a meteor at the Earth" control over gravity that's usually portrayed in fiction. I'd have the power to affect the amount of force exerted by an object's gravitation onto other specific objects. So while I could technically do that, I could do several much more devious things, like "The Earth's and Sun's gravities no longer affects you" *cue the person suddenly flying off into space as he keeps travelling in a straight line while the Earth is moving*. Depending on how loose an interpretation is allowed, one could become the god-king of space by using the gravitation of random particles floating through the air to affect any object's motion however one wanted to. Of course, for this power to be of any use I would also need super-intelligence to be able to comprehend the complicated systems I would be manipulating.

    As for heroics vs. villainy, well, they say "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I think I would start out with noble intentions (though I would use my powers to solve social problems rather than stop crime) but I would quickly fall to using my power simply for personal benefit. I don't think I'd go into full villainy mode of oppressing others' rights, I would definitely develop a "me first" attitude and probably wouldn't mind hurting a few to get ahead.

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    Hero, because villains are just so uncreative. "Yes, I will use my billion dollar Lobster of Doom . . .TO ROB BANKS!" Plus, there is enough pain in the world without me adding to it.
    My methods? Super scientific gadgetry, derivatives of which I sell to fund my operation. I mean, if I can make a device capable of near limitless power with zero pollution, your damn right I am going to make a pretty penny off it as well. If I can make a portal to other planets or even stars, I am going to sell it to space agencies word wide. If I make a power armour that can protect against artillery shells, enhance speed, reflexes and strength, allow me to survive indefinitely in the vacuum of space, underwater or in smoke, yet be light enough it doesn't make me break through the floor, I am going to sell it to fire departments and space agencies and police. In short, I will avert Reed Richards is Useless.
    And shape shifting powers and immortality for ****s and giggles. I've always wanted to try out a different body now and then as well as see the future, now I can. Also, shape shifting makes immortality much more convenient. "Yes, this is my new heir, she/he will take over from now on."
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    Correction: Reliably weaponize that so it didn't result directly in someone punching me in the face as a direct result of successfully using the power. It just seems about as likely to result in getting charged by berserking people as it does to get them to comically fail or attack one another or be rendered catatonic.
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    I will be a hero. And I will find a way without superpowers.

    Though it would be really nice to be a master waterbender...
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    I think the best superpower I ever came up with was the ability to telekinetically manipulate sub-atomic particles. Thus being able to transmute any element into any other element, create and manipulate magnetic and electric fields, and play with chemical bonds. Along with a certain amount of handwavium as regards things like conservation of mass, the possibilities of this are absolutely endless. The character's signature trick was to coalesce a palmful of ball bearings out of the nitrogen in the air, then set up the appropriate magnetic and electric fields to essentially imitate a rail gun.
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    If we're going with my (poorly self-)defined powers, matter manipulation on an atomic scale allows:

    Alchemy(Making Gold Worth Less by faking a Midas Touch)
    Self-transformation(includes Rapid Healing by fusion)
    Transformation of others(as above)
    "Teleportation"(actually, the movement of myself via fission/fusion of component molecules)
    Big Appetite(being essentially a miniature sun)
    Ending World Hunger(by converting the below into food)
    Ending Pollution(see above)

    There might be more, but as you can see, potential for both. I guess I'd be bi-polar, sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain, depending on my mood.
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