Make Your Choice

An mystical entity has chosen you for being his herald! He has granted you a selection of superpowers....however, you must do his bidding before he grants them to you permanently. Each of the tasks may involve you hurting or killing innocent civilians. How will you decide?

Remember, you do not have experience with your powers, therefore you have little ability to control them to mitigate harm.

- Thor's powerset
test: you have to unleash your most powerful lightning storm blindly in 5 major metropolises across different continents...

- Superman's powerset
test: you have to fly to space and unleash a powerful wide area HV blast covering the entirety of the Amazon rainforest and the African grasslands

- Flash's powerset
test: you have to run at full velocity and circle the planet 7 times and cannot use the same route or 50 miles of the same route (think of the implications...speedforce will not negate the physics of consequences in this scenario)

- Silver Surfer's powerset
test: you have to leave Planet Earth immediately and travel in space in solitude for 100 years before you can return

- Refuse the offer
test: live out your humble ordinary life as just another mortal...

Which would you choose?

I'll take flash's if I get his reaction times

Flash's full velocity, without the Speed Force negating friction, would cause widespread nuclear fusion (i.e. nuclear explosions encircling the planet). That would easily be the worst.

For me, it's Surfer or nothing. I'm not that much of a dick. If refusal meant another person would be offered the same deal though, I'd choose Surfer to prevent someone from phucking the planet out of stupidity.

Originally posted by Cogito
Flash's full velocity, without the Speed Force negating friction, would cause widespread nuclear fusion (i.e. nuclear explosions encircling the planet). That would easily be the worst.

For me, it's Surfer or nothing. I'm not that much of a dick. If refusal meant another person would be offered the same deal though, I'd choose Surfer to prevent someone from phucking the planet out of stupidity.

I like your reasoning of taking the surfer power just to prevent some nut from getting the powers.

Surfer's or nothing, for me.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Surfer's or nothing, for me.

Originally posted by Starscream M
of course, ever the boyscout...

Huh?

Not wanting to murder millions of people makes me a boyscout?

Originally posted by -Pr-
Huh?

Not wanting to murder millions of people makes me a boyscout?

Originally posted by Starscream M
uh yeah...you're just like rick, missing the forest for the trees

First: Be careful before you make this personal.

Second, I don't see how not being a mass murderer makes me a boyscout.

I think supermans is the worst, the rain forest is way more meaningful than some stupid people.
I just choose the surfers powers and practice them during my social exile.

Silver Surfer, you don't harm anyone and you can explore the space for 100 years. Should be interesting.

100 years away from Humanity? You make it sound like a bad thing.

silversurfer

Thor's or Flash's test will likely produce the most death/destruction .

That said I pick both .

If you can't use the speedforce to minimize the damage you'd probably kill yourself too attempting the Flash test...

Ill just chill as a human.

The Surfers power set is my choice, but then again, everyone that I care about would be dead by the time I returned. All of the choices pretty much suck, with the choice of remaining human being the least sucky choice of all.

Do I get a bonus if I go above and beyond what's required?

For thor. When you say blindly like you have no ideas which 5 major metropolises that you will be causing the storm?

With's surfer's powerset i can potentially make life. Would that be okay to do in solitude?

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Do I get a bonus if I go above and beyond what's required?