Oct. 2nd, 2007

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When you look at Superheroes, they tend to come in two varieties - the ones who are powerful enough to save the world on their own, and the ones who need to be in a team to do it. Whether Superheroes need to team up or not tends to depend on how many superpowers they have; most Superheroes have between one and three power. This means that they have gaps in their power repertoire and they need partners to plug those gaps. The best example here are the X-Men, most of whom have only one or two powers and so need each other to cover their backs. At the other extreme, the really big hitter - Superman - has an astonishing list of seven superpowers: flight, speed, super-senses, X-Ray eyes (including laserbeams), strength, cold breath, invulnerability. I can't think of anyone who has more, although some are bigger or stronger - the Hulk and Captain Marvel are stronger, The Flash is faster, and so on but these tend to be characters with only one or two powers boosted beyond the norm (for superheroes) and lacking the breadth of Supermans repertoire.
The exception to all of this is Batman, but I'd count unlimited wealth without having to do a stroke of work for it as a superpower.

In the main, superheroes in teams won't have more than 3 powers as more than this makes it hard for their team-mates to keep up, and reduces the justification for them being in a team in the first place (the Justice League are a different matter, so we'll ignore them).
So with this in mind, that's my question for the day: If you were a superhero, which superpowers would you want to have (to a maximum of 3) - and, when you've answered, come back later, look through other people's answers and decide which of them you'd want on your team.
For the record, I'd probably go for:
1) Healing (others)
2) Invulnerability
3) Either flight or teleportation - teleportation would be more useful, but flight would be a LOT more fun.

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