What If? You are given superpowers

[The Whispering Monk]

Here's Lord Evil

- Immortal: I mean...LORD of EVIL...gotta have time to build up the Rep!
- Total Recall: This...right here...is probably why he's evil, and it makes sure he never forgets who slights him or causes him pain
- Puppetmaster: What's MORE evil than FORCING others to be EVIL for you!
- Lethe: Because you don't want the people you TOUCH/POSSESS to remember you doing it! It was THEIR choices that led to THEIR actions!
- Healer (but only if you can do this to the people you possess, WHILE you possess them): because you have to make sure they live long enough to do your dirty deeds! Otherwise I'm just gonna go with Jumper: GOTTA GET AWAY!

EDIT: ISOT this one into Mesopotamia or someplace like ancient Egypt.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

OK, so this is my last one...for tonight.

Meet the Sky Captain! Is for fun!

- Aviator: Because flying would be freekin' awesome!!!
- Bulletproof: I mean, I'm making a SUPER-Hero after all!
- Observer: Just plain useful for when you're flying around.
- Scrounger: "Man, today I wanna REALLY move! It feels like an SR-71 day!"
- Strongman: I did say SUPER-Hero, right?

Time wise, I'd be happy in present day!

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Side note: Scrounger is ridiculously powerful and world changing by itself.

You can put most industries out of business in a year. Hell, naval construction companies would hate you of you really pushed. I mean...how long would it take you to bring and Aegis destroyer into being? An Aircraft carrier? It could get stupid quickly.

What to be filthy rich? We've got a microchip shortage. EVERY car manufacturers would pay you LOADS for your output!

EDIT: of course you can just bring in the random stupid expensive what'nots and sell those to get rich.

 

[History Learner]

Healer only works on others.

Was thinking about this thread yesterday out of the blue, and decided to come back to change that to allow it to work on yourself. I think it would allow you and others to choose more powers, as well as opening up more interesting dilemmas. Very few chose Immortal for the obvious emotional toll of such, but Healer presents a happy medium in that you can still die but now it's more apt to depend on you avoiding it by your own actions.

Side note: Scrounger is ridiculously powerful and world changing by itself.

You can put most industries out of business in a year. Hell, naval construction companies would hate you of you really pushed. I mean...how long would it take you to bring and Aegis destroyer into being? An Aircraft carrier? It could get stupid quickly.

What to be filthy rich? We've got a microchip shortage. EVERY car manufacturers would pay you LOADS for your output!

EDIT: of course you can just bring in the random stupid expensive what'nots and sell those to get rich.

There's some caveats:

Scrounger - This awesome though geeky-sounding power lets you reach out into the multiverse and 'copy' any item within reach (basically, any object that existed in a timeline, up to 2020). Small objects like a pen or a handgun take only a couple of seconds. A car takes a minute. A jumbo jet might take ten minutes of searching and pulling it through. It does, however, have to come through in contact with your hand. Hmm, I think today I need a tank...​

So probably a day to find and copy, but with the requirement you essentially are bringing it through via hand contact making an aircraft carrier a very hard task overall. Doable, but sufficiently hard for the large objects like that to limit its effectiveness. It'd probably be easier to pull through schematics, pieces and materials rather than a whole carrier on a more than handful basis.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

Immortal
Jumper
Total Recall
Disguise

Not sure about the last. Foresight probably.

 

[History Learner]

Anytime is acceptable, up to July 1st, 2021 of OTL or any other timeline. I'm torn between between several points myself in OTL or the Drakaverse, sometime between 1940 and 1942.

I'd be sticking with my original loadout of powers, but I now leans towards to the early 20th Century or 1780s as my arrival point.

 

[WolfBear]

Pick any five powers, and select a date in history or timeline to be ISOTed to.

Which of these would be most effective for me in catching and killing Jack the Ripper, in your honest opinion? I always wanted to know who exactly that bastard was and why exactly that bastard stopped killing.

Also, you forgot one power:

Encyclopedia: This will allow you to gather any information that you will desire, along with the necessary proof of it. So, if you're curious as to, say, just how old someone without a birth/baptismal record actually is, just use this power!

 

[TheRejectionist]

Rob a financial conglomerate or corporation.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I'm actually rethinking my powerset in light of what's going on. will edit with changes. So I built this with the idea that I'd get 'inserted' into present day so that I can begin to shine a light in the shadows.

Charming - You can win friends and influence people, better than any actor or politician. Tends to be more effective with prolonged exposure and varies depending on the abilities of the individual(s) you use it upon; it takes more effort to impact those with stronger than normal will or convictions.
-Because you want to be able to build up a solid network of assistants and skilled followers that align with your goals! Still just one guy, so I need all the help I can get!
Command Voice - People do what you say, so long as you are within 100 feet of them. They may not like it, but they just can't help themselves.
-The plan is to get time alone with people in the know...and doing bad things with their power. They will testify to what they've done, and why they've done it. Then they're going to write it out and sign & date it...while I have a notary there to witness their statements.
Fluent - You speak, read and write all languages. Also, code breaking is easy for you.
-I mean, I've got to be able to speak with everyone directly, otherwise I won't be able to really testify to the facts!
Foresight - You can see the flow of events around you up to 24 hours into the future. Enough to avoid, or cause, trouble, or just to get the winning lottery numbers.
-Need this for two things. Money to build the organization that can fully enable me and open access to people. Secondly, it'll tell me when someone is going to try and kill me because I'm going to piss a lot of people off.
Sleepless - You don't need sleep. Time for more stuff. Anything good on the Telly?
-I'm going to need a LOT of time and effort to pull this off.

How well do you think this power set would work for the stated goal? Is there a better mix?

I thought about swapping Charm and/or Sleepless for some SUPER powers like Lightning (attack and travel), Immortal so I can keep going, or even Lethe so I could erase the testimony from the minds of the subjects I interrogated.

Funny Thought: This character conducts the Presidential Election Debates!

 

[Emperor Tippy]

Honestly, you should take Jumper and Disguise pretty much regardless of anything else.

At will global+ range perfect teleportation and shapeshifting virtually guarantees that you can never be captured, tracked, or forced into doing something against your will. Simply teleport somewhere else and change your appearance, it also allows you to get whatever resources you need to survive.

Toss on Foresight and you are basically safe while still having a power set that would allow you to achieve basically whatever the hell you wanted during basically any time period in human history.

Without Disguise, you are going to become the most hunted person in the world if you are in any modern time period. And without Jumper it simply becomes far too easy to capture, detain, or otherwise compel you to serve someone else's ends.

If you can use the regular application of Healing to effectively freeze your own age (and that of others) then it also becomes a pretty much must have. On the other hand, if it can only buy you an additional ten years of life total then it has a lot less utility.

 

[History Learner]

My five would be Charming, Healer, Scrounger, Foresight and Fluent.

I'm personally still standing by this, although when and where I go is more debatable. 1914 or 1985-ish could be interesting, or 1780s if I really wanted to go crazy.

 

[ParadiseLost]

28. Immortal - You never age, you never get sick, all your wounds heal in five seconds, and you will never die. You decide if that's good or bad.

Absolutely necessary to me. I don't want to die.

8. Charming - You can win friends and influence people, better than any actor or politician. Tends to be more effective with prolonged exposure and varies depending on the abilities of the individual(s) you use it upon; it takes more effort to impact those with stronger than normal will or convictions.

Critical if you want to change history.

29. Jumper - You can teleport without error, at will, to any place you are familiar with. You can study a photo for five minutes, and, if it is relatively recent and still accurate, jump to that location as well.

51. Total Recall - You remember everything. Every single detail of your life, back to the moment you were born. Whether this is good or bad, depends on your point of view, I suppose.

Not sure whether Total Recall or Rewind.

22. Foresight - You can see the flow of events around you up to 24 hours into the future. Enough to avoid, or cause, trouble, or just to get the winning lottery numbers.

These three compliment one another VERY well. I now know every single detail of my life from birth to 24 hours into the future.

I can now even teleport to a place I've never been through foresight. I would be an absolutely insane leader. I never teleport to a place wrong - because I would know that its wrong beforehand, and I would see the truth of what the place is like with my foresight.

I would probably want to get dropped in around 3000 BC in southern France.

I'd basically try to start a civilization there with myself as the local ruler.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Wait, would Scrounger let you copy people? Read as written, it should be okay...

 

[WolfBear]

Which of these would be most effective for me in catching and killing Jack the Ripper, in your honest opinion? I always wanted to know who exactly that bastard was and why exactly that bastard stopped killing.

Also, you forgot one power:

Encyclopedia: This will allow you to gather any information that you will desire, along with the necessary proof of it. So, if you're curious as to, say, just how old someone without a birth/baptismal record actually is, just use this power!

@History Learner You haven't answered my question at the top of my quoted post here because the most effective powers to catch Jack the Ripper.

 

[bintananth]

6. Bulletproof
8. Charming
12. Comfortable
21. Fluent
40. Rain God

I could be either very dangerous or very helpful with those five ... depending on the situation.

 

[History Learner]

@History Learner You haven't answered my question at the top of my quoted post here because the most effective powers to catch Jack the Ripper.

It's subjective, honestly.