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The Ultimate Superpower?

Sha'irullah

رسول الآلهة
Time travel. If you can travel in time to kill the person before they can see ahead of the future or kill the person the minute they are born you can beat em. :D
 

Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
Time travel. If you can travel in time to kill the person before they can see ahead of the future or kill the person the minute they are born you can beat em. :D

Yeah but time traveling requires a time machine that uses an extremely rare single use twin micro protonium battery. Where can you find that?

Note: I have no idea what I'm talking about :rolleyes:
 

Badran

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I'm quite amazed by the intelligent conversation sparking about this considering that the only answer i had to the OP was "Nope."
 

Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
I'm quite amazed by the intelligent conversation sparking about this considering that the only answer i had to the OP was "Nope."

Well, it's called vivid imagination. You know how childr... I mean, ah, fully grown mature adults like me think :D
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Staff member
Premium Member
Time travel. If you can travel in time to kill the person before they can see ahead of the future or kill the person the minute they are born you can beat em. :D

If you are able to time travel, you are practically unbeatable, or at least near impossible to be beaten. Heck, even old age can't get you, you could just revert back to the past, and once you lose consciousness you will still be conscious in the living body (if it is the same consciousness), sort of like a constant loop.
 

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Is it even possible to defeat an enemy who can see the future?
I think the ultimate superpower is omnipotence, because the first thing you could use it for is to grant yourself omniscience, and then everything else.

But anyway, I think this idea of seeing the future makes a lot of assumptions about the future. Can time be changed? Is it even logically coherent to be able to see the future?

I'm reading a book right now where the protagonist can see the future, but the problem is that no matter what she does, she can't change it. If she tries to change it, then it turns out that she was part of the reason it happened in the first place. So she has become very emotionally unhealthy, suicidal, nihilistic, fatalistic, because she feels that fate already has everything planned out and that knowing about it doesn't help if she can't change anything.

So if your enemy can see the future but also can't change it, then she or he might see her or his own defeat, and be able to do nothing about it. Or, time could work differently, meaning that they only saw one possible future rather than the only fixed future.
 

DreadFish

Cosmic Vagabond
If you are able to time travel, you are practically unbeatable, or at least near impossible to be beaten. Heck, even old age can't get you, you could just revert back to the past, and once you lose consciousness you will still be conscious in the living body (if it is the same consciousness), sort of like a constant loop.

It depends on the method of time travel. If you are using a machine, just watch Doctor Who and see why it's not an all-powerful unbeatable thing.
 

Wirey

Fartist
Is it even possible to defeat an enemy who can see the future?

The ultimate super power is the ability to make anyone squirt a quart of diarrehea into their pants at will. Think of all the day-to-day situations that could fix:

45 in the passing lane? Time for a pit stop! Splash!

Reading the menu at McDonalds? It's a %^%$# McDonalds menu! Kasploosh!

Enjoying your phone conversation instead of waiting on my table? Time for a break! Floosh!
 
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