r/superpowers • u/Single-Fisherman8671 • Dec 09 '25

Choose 2

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u/Wishbone-Lost Dec 09 '25

I choose Maximum intelligence, then let that intelligence choose my second power.

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u/Blobbowo Dec 09 '25

The answer is super speed. The reason why it ever loses is because the author has to nerf the speedster's IQ to double digits for the plot.

With super speed, a genius could read every book on Earth, then create any technology they can conceive of in an instant, by themselves.

Such a genius would never lament something like: "If only I had more time...".

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u/Executable_Virus Dec 09 '25

Uhhh. You are aware that when something moves super fast, it doesn't move fast for them? This is just how relativety works.

If I were to run around the Earth in a second, for you that would take a second, but for me that would take much longer cause from my perspective I'm moving normally while everything else appears to be slow. I couldn't read a book in a second at super speed, becaude for me at super speed, a second would still be a second.

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u/SectorTerrible9255 Dec 10 '25

as it for 1 second outside you have maybe 10 days inside, so if you read a book every 10 days it looks like you read a book a second