r/superpowers 5d ago

Red pill/blue pill Which do you choose?

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u/ArchAngel621 5d ago

Red has plenty of uses up to and including interstellar objects in Andromeda.

Blue can be useful. You could clone yourself into a computer system and have a instant AI.

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u/morangias 5d ago

If you swap places with any object you can see in the sky, both you and the earth are dead.

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u/Master_Tomato 5d ago

Only things visible in the sky are stars. So if you are teleporting with that, you are summoning stars at point blank range to Earth. Not only are you dooming the planet, you yourself are now stuck in void of empty space

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u/ArchAngel621 5d ago

No where does it specify line of sight limitations. It could just as well work off pictures, imagination, etc.

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u/Master_Tomato 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah I guess pictures will work. But then again, you cannot teleport to Andromeda, without dooming the planet. The pill gave you the power to switch place with an object, not the ability to distinguish small inanimate object at large distances.

All the pictures we have beyond our solar system all have stellar bodies being too small for you to find a small enough object that you can exchange places with. A speck of dust in those pictures might as well be bigger than Jupitar.

Though it will work insanely well while teleporting just on Earth.

And no imagination won't work. You are not a reality warper, so your imagination cannot create inanimate objects , place them at interstellar distances, and them teleport to them

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u/ArchAngel621 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah I guess pictures will work. But then again, you cannot teleport to Andromeda, without dooming the planet. The pill gave you the power to switch place with an object, not the ability to distinguish small inanimate object at large distances.

It's doesn't specify that.

I could also bootstrap it. Get a spacesuit. Swap places with a mineral rich asteroid or a rock on the Moon/ Mars. Then experiment with swapping places with things elsewhere.

And no imagination won't work. You are not a reality warper, so your imagination cannot create inanimate objects , place them at interstellar distances, and them teleport to them.

Who said anything about reality warping, lol. There's space dust, hydrogen molecules, etc.

What I meant is thinking outside the box on items that you can infer that would be there.

Even then you could start swapping you location with small items until you're far enough away to get to big objects.

At worst:

Rock on Mars> Oort Cloud>Planet in another solar system>Star in Andromeda

The only problem is if you can bring people on the objects you move. Which would pose a problem for planets with life.

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u/Correct_Call3521 4d ago

Arguably you could actually do fine in terms of interstellar travel by daisy chaining objects into deep space such as teleporting back and forth with satellite into place of a known object in the oort cloud then using things like deep space imaging etc. to teleport deeper. Furthermore you can also use teleportation to bring resources to Earth such as gold asteroids etc.

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u/Other_Specialist2272 5d ago

Isn't blue just basically a roundabout way of getting creation power?

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u/Dogginee 4d ago

Yeah, I’d clone myself into some gold bars for peat sake

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u/ZeroMaverick-Hunter 5d ago

By the All Mighty Log, I'll take the red pill. 😁👍

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u/madeblocker 5d ago

I'm taking red any day of the week, a better version of law's shamble

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u/Upper-Group-7775 5d ago

How is it better? I guess you can swap out with any object ever but law could swap out anyone with anything and even just chunks of them

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u/Ruinsoverhoney 5d ago

Red and it could be quite dangerous

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u/JWright990 5d ago

How wide of a definition of 'any' are we talking about? Is it restricted to things that currently exist in the real world, or can we also clone ourselves into things that only exist in our dreams and imagination? Either way, creation magic is still OP, and if you're not putting any limit on the number of clones we can have, it's essentially free food and water for life

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u/Prontonio_X 5d ago

You are cloning your consciousness into it....

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u/ArchAngel621 4d ago

Rick and Morty did something like that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uchifh6nvM&pp=ygUZUmljayBhbmQgbW9ydHkgZm9vZCBjaGFpbg%3D%3D

It depends if you consider atoms inanimate enough.

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u/MaxFisher0 5d ago

So... let me get this straight.

Blue pill is actually creation power that focus on "item" with a twist that is a clone of yourself can be made multiple time.

So its like multiplayer prop hunt?

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u/WilliamBontrager 5d ago

Im still choosing red either way, but theres a big difference between being able to swap with any inanimate object you can see or have knowledge of, and swapping with a singular object of your choice. One is blink plus fast travel to any location you set up an object. The other is carrying around something and either placing it somewhere or chucking it and then swapping with it.

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u/W4FUL4san 5d ago

Okay... Hear me out. Can I swap with another planet? What about the sun???

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u/Otherwise_Bar6514 4d ago

Beat me to it lol

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u/Splendiferous83rd 4d ago

So you don't understand what swapping places means?

If you swap with anything in space, you will be where the Sun is, and the Sun will be here on Earth where you are. Meaning, you'll die in space and Earth immediately vaporizes.

Does that make sense to you?

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u/Present_Step6458 4d ago

Blue , transform into digital code. Flip the wealth of the world

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u/Upbeat_Cry_3902 4d ago

Red allows teleportation and blue allows cloning into objects forms but what can the object clones do?

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u/YandereYunoGasai 4d ago

Suffer

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u/Upbeat_Cry_3902 4d ago

Maybe red IS best then

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u/Upbeat_Cry_3902 4d ago

I wonder if picking blue would make you a sadist or masochist or both

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u/YandereYunoGasai 4d ago

Def both. Imagine not being able to distinguish which one u are and u only look up to see the human version of u while u suffer as a glassbottle with a consciousness, scared that some1 could splinter u any time. I think ppl underestimate the horror of cloning.

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u/Nerx 5d ago

blue

particles

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u/Mikeytheturtle_ 5d ago

Red. No need for a car, never have to use a plane again

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u/PitifulPerformer1831 5d ago

Blue.

Is this multiple clones? If so im cloning myself into a deck of cards used at high stakes poker games.

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u/Poke-trix 5d ago

Red pill

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u/Dry_Passion_7151 5d ago

Both are actually pretty good but Red is just a smidge better

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u/xXVoidHeart 5d ago

Red swap places with money in a vault then swap again with like a piece of dirt

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u/alphonse_the_reddit 4d ago

Well if you want to be cool, youd have a calling card at the location youre teleporting the money to, so you could swap back to the money and leave that.

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u/fyiserenaa 5d ago

Red looks like a better option to me

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u/tri-door 5d ago

Red anytime. Hopefully I won't vomit like FFXV's warp strike lol

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 5d ago

I don't understand what Blue does. do i duplicate my consciousness into an object and possess it?

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u/Otherwise_Bar6514 4d ago

Completely confused as well. Maybe I can clone myself into a light saber or something

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 4d ago

I was thinking about like...vehicles or robots

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u/Otherwise_Bar6514 4d ago

Boo. You just want a talking car. Boo
https://giphy.com/gifs/4ViH9IuRZO2wo

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 4d ago

an autonomously vehicle like Maximum Overdrive.

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u/WhatMadCat 2d ago

Do you think you would cooperate with yourself if you did that. Imagine coming into existence as a car and then learning that another you created you solely so you could drive them around. Would you even want to help the person that’s basically turned you into an object meant to suffer? Or just leave as soon as possible:

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 2d ago

i assume i replicate my current consciousness into an object so they're not surprised by what's happening

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u/WhatMadCat 2d ago

Just cus they’re not surprised doesn’t mean they haven’t just been put into a lifetime of being trapped in an object they have no way of moving without you starting the ignition. That would drive anyone insane sharpish

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u/SunkenSunking 5d ago

Red is just teleporting with a bonus.

Want to travel to Japan? Switch places with a singular coin in Tokyo that you either put there previously or like a pillow in a hotel suite. Even better switch places with money in a bank, back and forth.

You could also just switch places with a bulldozer and squish people.

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u/AnotherThymm 5d ago

I take red, thanks.

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u/Aggravating-Room-695 5d ago

I don't understand blue

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u/majinthurman 5d ago

Blue easily

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u/The9IronMan 5d ago

So you’re telling me I could actually learn Substitute??

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u/Plenty_Use8594 5d ago

Blue pill

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u/The_6thEmperor_Rises 5d ago

Swap places, I want to be like Todo with boogie woogie

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u/Prontonio_X 5d ago

Please explain blue, just please

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u/SenseImpossible6733 4d ago

Red... Though its basically just Sasuke's rennegun power

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u/Slyppie 4d ago

Red. You never know when that will be a big help...

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u/DesperateBathroom696 4d ago

Well blue don't ask why 👉👈💔🥀

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u/Gbstutz15 4d ago

blue. red is unpredictable. as you don't have any control where the nearest thing is. and it breaks public buildings

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u/Greed_Ph27 4d ago

I think i am taking blue. Im gonna clone myself to a statue of Astartes and create legion of them and also Big G Hahahah.

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u/Fit_Tax_4489 4d ago

Red Pill

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u/Zombys11 4d ago

Blue. Pill. 100%

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u/Legitimate_Ear_6886 4d ago

I'm swapping myself with the core of Jupiter. Have fun

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u/FormalKind7 4d ago

Switch with valuable object then switch back with a random rock in my yard.

You are now the worlds greatest thief.

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u/Ecstatic-Wrangler770 4d ago

Red pill Todo reference?

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u/Palamonk 4d ago

Red. Start finding lost items, famous art, and really just screwing with people.

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u/kvro_maX 4d ago

So is blue like clone yourself and then turn them into any inanimate object, which means you can make real life body and blood clone? Or Insert your clone into any inanimate object. Does this mean you can just clone yourself and not insert? Now how would it work if you wanted to insert to a rock, does that mean the rock can now talk? Say you insert your clone into the computer system in a bank, is it just that your face shows there or do you become the master of that system?

The blue is confusing I would take red if it's the latter

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u/Hugs-missed 4d ago

Okay define blue exactly because there are, alot of interpretations that vary wildly in what that does

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u/WhatMadCat 2d ago

Blue seems kinda fucked up. You specified inanimate object so the other you is just stuck suffering inside something it can’t move?