Top 10 Best Superpowers

The Top Ten
1 Time Manipulation

Time control scares me. There are too many variables to destroying the existence of everything.

However, to me, this power has to be seriously limited for me to possess it. For example, I want to consciously exist, in real-time, up to 60 minutes in the future, which means I can see what's going to happen every second up to 1 hour before it happens. I would also need the ability to turn this off and on at will since people are consistently plagued with decisions. I would be making hundreds of decisions based on what I see, and then seeing all these scenarios for this 1-hour future change based on those decisions.

To stop time means to exceed the constant of time, which is theoretically impossible, even for a superpower. I like to think of time as a million-mile-wide, infinitely long cord made of an indestructible material that no creature in the universe can stop from moving in one direction.

I would never travel back in time for fear of erasing my existence or the existence of someone or something that was necessary for the human race. It is not worth it.

2 Telekinesis

Telekinesis can provide you with any other superpower there is, so it can be considered as omnipotence. You can heal wounds just by moving the cells around, levitate yourself, and fly wherever you want. This may be a stretch, but you could move things fast enough to travel through time via time dilation. Short on cash? Summon money from thin air by manipulating particles. If you wanted, you could live forever by repairing your own damaged tissue and killing dangerous microorganisms. No more hard labor. Couch potatoes can do everything they need with their mind. Telekinesis gives you everything you could ever ask for.

Taking into account that it's the movement of anything with your mind, flying is the first other power you could employ because all you would need to do is move yourself. The second is invisibility, due to current theories that say light is part particle, so you could control the direction of light and bend it around you, resulting in people only seeing light that has come from behind you. Super strength is possible, but that depends on how strong the telekinesis (TK) ability is. You could "stop" time by simply "freezing" everything around you. The ability to control the atoms within your own body would mean that, with the right training, you could rejuvenate your cells indefinitely, resulting in as long a life as desired. Mind control wouldn't be necessary because you could just control the person's body, voice box, and all. It simply isn't just one power. It is practically all abilities mixed together and simplified into one name. I mean, what's cooler?

3 Invisibility

How many superpowers do you know? Superpowers could change the world, possibly into one of magic and abilities. But I think the best superpower is Invisibility. Some argue that if you're invisible, you can't see, but since it is a superpower, I believe we can. The reason why I think Invisibility is the best superpower is that it is the most underrated, useful, and can be independent.

Most underrated power ever. Invisibility is a stunning power that is often countered in movies or books by abilities like telekinesis and telepathy, and made to appear weaker than it should be, as seen in Lorien Legacies, Fantastic Four, etc. However, in truth, if you are invisible, you CANNOT BE SEEN. You could pickpocket someone, lean over someone's shoulder at an ATM and then steal their card, make yourself and a gun invisible then shoot an enemy, or turn (if the power extends to it) a car invisible. You could make people think there are ghosts in the house by moving things around, and so on. In addition, invisibility has many applications as mentioned above, whereas many powers have only one purpose and are not practical in everyday life, with the powers most likely being hard to hide.

4 Super Speed

Speed is incredible as it not only increases your speed but also allows you to see, think, act, and respond faster. You're able to vibrate yourself so that you can phase through objects but also punch people's insides to stop them in their tracks, crippling them with pain. Not to mention you can rip out someone's heart without any external damage. You can access lightning, and in the Flash comics, it was stated that if he were to run his fastest, he could pick a planet and destroy it. He can create after-images. You can fight someone, learn all the punches and actions that they will do, run back in time, and fight the same fight to win. From running so fast, your punches become extremely powerful. There's so much more to it as well. This is a short breakdown.

Super speed is arguably one of the most overpowered superpowers ever. You could run around the world in less than a second, cause sonic booms with ease, and punch your opponent with a fist containing more mass than our entire solar system. Everything in your body is faster: your brain, your immune system, etc. You can vibrate your molecules to phase through a bullet just as it touches you. You would also perceive everything around you as if time were frozen. Super speed is nearly impossible to beat unless you have omnipotence.

5 Flight

This would be so useful. No more use for planes, cars, trains. You could just fly everywhere, and you could even wear goggles to protect your eyes. You would swallow quite a few bugs though...

Flight is one of my favorite superpowers because imagine how many places you could go if you could fly. The human race is very limited from many places because we cannot fly.

GET THIS TO #1. Now, while it may be slower than teleporting, you can see everything! In a war, you would be the perfect scout. And, you could just shoot enemy soldiers from the sky without them even knowing. FLYING FOR THE WIN. Plus, if you teleported quickly enough, you could break the fabric of reality and rip all the universes in half. But if you could fly, the only problem would be skyscrapers (which, to be honest, are pretty rare). So flying is better than teleporting!

6 Teleportation

Teleportation is the best. Let's say, for example, if you wanted to travel across the world and didn't want it to take forever, you could just teleport there. If you were in the military, you could teleport an entire opposing army in front of a moving vehicle. You could also teleport their guns to you or teleport them somewhere for a guaranteed death. There are so many things you could do. And if you were a parent and your child was on the road in front of a moving vehicle, you could teleport your child to safety. Another useful application is if you were in the bathroom, you could teleport all of the waste directly into the toilet. The possibilities are endless.

Teleportation is the best of them all. Think about it: those wars you watch on TV, you could stop them if you could defeat an entire army of the bad guys alone. You could go to the battlefields and eliminate all the bad guys. All you have to do is drop them and their weapons one by one from a high altitude or take them to a deep point in the sea, or leave them in a forgotten desert. You could finish an entire army by yourself without a scratch and without causing any destruction.

Besides the ability to defeat any army alone, you would have the power to spend time anywhere you want on the planet.

7 Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting is everything.

You can make yourself invulnerable or simply give yourself super-healing, and you could be functionally immortal because, aside from healing and/or invulnerability, you could control your own aging process. You can shapeshift into something with the ability to have any other power, like flying or super-strength, and you don't even have to become a bird or anything. Just imagine "me but with the power of flight," and you can alter yourself to a form that can fly, even if it's externally indistinguishable in other ways. You could become a master of disguise. You could transform into any animal or give yourself any elemental powers, or the fun powers like stretching and changing size. And, of course, the social and vanity applications go without saying.

So, really, a shapeshifter can transform themselves to be able to do anything, including everything else on the list.

8 Invincibility

Man, I need to get some stuff straight here. First off, invincibility isn't walking through objects. That's phasing - those are two different powers. Invincibility is being a solid that cannot be harmed or damaged in any way. You can drop UY Scuti on them, and it does nothing. That's definitely powerful. This power is easily the best, except there is one problem. Invincibility gives no offensive power. You have the strength of a normal man, meaning if someone chains you up, you don't have the strength to break free as a normal man doesn't. That's the problem here. Unless you have some super good martial arts skills, you won't be hurt in a fight, but it's not like you're faring any better. (Guns don't count because that's measuring the power of a weapon, not a power.) No, I don't think it's the best power. That's a joke. It's a good power defensively, but offensively, you lack power and can still be trapped or captured - not hurt, but trapped or captured.

9 Gravity Manipulation

This is like the coolest power on this list. Omnipotence allows you to manipulate everything and anything. It's kind of boring because in a story you can't really make them stronger or weaker. They already have the power of infinity. So, this is better than telekinesis because you are able to do everything and more. Now, telekinesis actually means matter manipulation, but we don't talk about that.

Absolute control over gravity is easily the greatest power. Time control has too large a margin for error, which could lead to unforeseen consequences at a catastrophic level. Telekinesis is probably the closest on this list in terms of raw potential and usability to gravitational control, but it does have some drawbacks.

At its core, gravity manipulation would give the user all abilities associated with telekinesis. Simply by changing an object's, organism's, or particle's center of gravitational pull (i.e., the direction it reacts to as "down") and the amount of gravitational pull on the target, the user can cause the target to move through space at incredible speeds, slow it down, make it weightless, implode, or any number of other possibilities, similar to telekinesis. However, unlike telekinesis, gravitational manipulation would not require constant concentration. Once a direction and level of force was applied, the user can step back and let physics do the rest. This frees up the user to continue whatever else they need to do.

Gravitational manipulation can also allow the user to mimic many other types of powers, as well as increase their base fitness level. Imagine living life with 10 extra pounds of force constantly pulling on you. You would get pretty strong, pretty fast. Then, you can just up the weight. However, even this application doesn't have much bearing beyond the aesthetic. Gravitational manipulation can make anything weightless! (Super strength?) This ability gets even more fun when you consider applying two separate pulls on one object, say... an atom? You could turn anything into a nuclear bomb.

Gravity is a force we are not even close to understanding fully. As such, its potential is practically limitless. For all we know, the relationships between gravity and other universal forces could allow for a gravity manipulator to control time and space itself. Gravity manipulation is, bar none, the greatest and most versatile... more

10 Healing Ability

Why would anyone want to stop time, anyway? The molecules around you would stop moving completely, so unless you have the power to break the absolute inertia of all molecules around you, you'll just suffocate because the molecules in your lungs can't move in or out. But hey, it's senseless to apply science to superheroes, right? I'm just going with this because it makes you practically immortal, and it could be very useful for, say, bodybuilding, because you don't have to wait (that was a pun, not poor grammar) a day in between for your muscles to recover - you could just go nonstop.

This is the only power listed here that is worth a damn for practical purposes. Time control is stupid once you consider inertial frames and whatnot. Flying you can do already in a hang glider or a jet pack. You're just too broke or too chicken to try it. Invisibility is great for thieves and perverts but otherwise useless and pretty dangerous in traffic. Super speed is useless without super strength and super invulnerability to friction and super navigational intelligence and super lack of empathy for all the bystanders you would kill as you ran by. Matter/gravity/magnetism control and omnipotence are... power corrupts. Teleportation is silly. Buy an airline ticket, cheapskate. By medieval standards, it's practically the same thing. Super intelligence would get lonely after a while. Super strength would be great for construction work but not much else.

Shapeshifting is tempting because it gets you super healing and wings and whatnot, but it sucks because you have to control it. You have to know the precise arrangement of atoms to become something else. And what happens when, as you are figuring it out, you shapeshift into brain damage or into some animal that is too stupid to shapeshift back? Super healing is automatic. Your body just heals, only faster. You'd also heal your own aging damage, so you're immortal. There is only one drawback. You're immortal. If all of humanity is wiped out in some apocalyptic plague or war or something, you will be stuck healing on Earth until the sun goes nova... and beyond even that... floating in space, super healing forever. You should still be able to starve to death or die of thirst. Otherwise, super healing would be the worst power ever.

The best power by far remains... super wisdom.

The Contenders
11 Matter Manipulation

This power is somewhat overpowered. You can manipulate objects or your body to make them harmless, thus allowing you to become invincible. Additionally, you can change the space around your opponents into lava, burning them in the process. You can even make yourself invisible. You can alter the chemical makeup of anything. If you were being attacked by a force such as telekinesis, morph your body into water, and it won't be harmed. If someone tried to poison you, you could change the makeup of your body to be immune. The possibilities are endless.

So, this is actually the same thing as telekinesis because telekinesis isn't the same as psychokinesis. ANYWAY, it's a cooler way to say telekinesis.

Honestly, if you had complete knowledge of matter and control over it, you would be inconceivably powerful. You could alter your own cells, making yourself immune to anything. You could also stop your own aging by making your cells healthier. You could cure cancer by just getting rid of bad cells. There are more cell possibilities, but moving on.

If you could also change the properties of matter, you could alter how things function. For example, one complicated application would be mind control or changing memories. It would be insanely complex, but if you understood neurons, you could alter the way they function, thus manipulate someone's mind or memories. If you could make your body into something made of light while keeping it functional (however that would work), maybe you could move at the speed of light? I'm not sure about that one, but you could probably alter the speed of your cells in other ways.

Teleport by moving your body one cell at a time (which would be difficult to do properly or quickly).
Create anything, including real money for your own spending.
Stuck in a fight? Does the enemy have a gun? Not anymore! In fact, they're dust now!

Control gravity or the wind by creating many small particles in the air and forcing them in whatever direction you want. You could use them to fly, too. You could also make a black hole by shrinking something enough.

You could also control temperature (adjust the heat of many small particles in the air or an object), and perhaps control time in a sense by slowing down the speed of all matter in the world (which may kill people due to a decrease in temperature).

The list goes on forever.

12 Omnipotence

Personally, if I were to have omnipotence, I wouldn't know what to do with it. You could create new dimensions, bring people back from the dead, know the future. The options are limitless. For those who think time control is number 1, people with omnipotence would already know what you were going to do. They would only allow you to do it because they wanted to humiliate or confuse you. People with omnipotence wouldn't have a reality, time, or certain power because they control it all. They are basically like Lucy at 100% brain control, except they can create whatever they want without anything. Whereas she could only manipulate matter, you can create more from nothing.

It beats everything, but I would become very bored as soon as I became omnipotent. Because what is one second to normal people could be infinite time and experiences for me. I would know everything, have done everything, could have been every atom in existence, etc. In essence, I would not be human anymore. And honestly, I don't know what to think of it. Of course, I would have the option to not use this power to its full potential, but as I said earlier, I could live for billions of years doing everything I could to remain human. But eventually, I would have to become something more, and all of this could happen in a split second, the very moment I get this power. Unless there were other beings with this power, then it would be more interesting, I suppose. But is it even possible? Our wills would clash, and technically we wouldn't be omnipotent anymore. It would be something like nigh omnipotence, which is more interesting.

13 Super Strength

Why is this not at number one? This is the most common by far. Let's make a list of people with super strength: Superman, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Drax, Deadpool, Ant-Man, Vision, The Thing, Beast, Groot, Gamora, and more. How could this ever be in 14th place? It's the best thing ever!

You can do better than that. You can move mountains, rocks, boulders, create earthquakes or ravines, and, if you're crazy, move entire planets and moons (only the solid parts).

Can't take a step without creating a giant hole in the ground, never be able to grab any food or drinks, and experience incredible muscle pain - sounds great!

14 Power Absorption

So this could theoretically be the strongest power. But what if there are only a couple of people with powers? What if you have powers like Rogue, but no one else has powers? And is it ranged or touch-based like Rogue again? This power can be useless (death touch, like Rogue to people without powers) or the best, letting you do it swiftly, from a distance, and in a world where everyone has a power (except your victims, hehe).

If you were to gain the ability to absorb other abilities, it is obvious those abilities would have drastic side effects. It could cause a massive amount of strain on your body, resulting in multiple side effects which will eventually leave you physically or even psychologically damaged beyond repair. (Not taking into consideration the healing factor.) But even with the healing factor, it would only heal your physical body but not your mental state, leaving you insane or with mental damage.

15 Elemental Manipulation

This power is so OP. You can do so much with this. By the way, there should be more than five major elements like light, metal, and stuff like that. You're not quite a god, but you can do almost anything and explore space as darkness and build your garden with the earth. You can't get bored with this because you can always find new ways to use it. It's not like time control where all you do is speed up, slow down, stop, reverse, loop, age, and de-age. Or gravity where you can only switch poles, flatten, lift, repel, and attract. There are literally millions of ways to utilize this. You can beat every other power, not reality-warping and omnipotence because those are god powers. You can do everything with it and always find something new about it. All the comments talking about how great this power is have just scratched the surface! Not only is this power super strong, but it's cool and exciting too.

Elements. That is what makes up the world. Without elements or matter, nothing would exist. Animals, people, you, me, everything, would disappear in an instant. Wouldn't it be great to control it? To manipulate it? And what could you do with it? Anything and everything you wanted to do. There are millions of possibilities. Billions of ways you could utilize your power. It is more than any old time or fire manipulation. You could do anything with the universe. You could unravel the threads of life. You could do whatever you like with your omnipotence. Nothing can stop you. What will you do with your power? Rule the world through dictation? World domination? Peace? It is all your choice. You have the power. You have the chance to prove yourself. You make the choice. It is all yours.

16 Thought Manifestation

OK, is no one going to talk about imagining yourself having omnipotence? You can make ANYTHING by thinking of it. But I am a daydreamer, and you have to be able to toggle when this works. Because what happens when our dirty minds come in?

With this power, you can think about anything (or anyone) you want, and it would become REAL! For example, you can even think about using a superpower, and it would be real, and you can really use it. This is more amazing than anything, and even if you think about it, all humans have made everything with their imagination. So why not use that to an extent...

With this, you could literally do anything you want: invisibility, time control, quantum tunneling, even omnipotence or omniscience. This is clearly the best and most OP superpower. But it is kind of exactly the same thing as omnipotence, so I can see why it's down here.

17 Mind Control

Absolute, complete power. Somebody attacks you? They've put the gun in their mouth and blown their face off completely willingly. Want someone to fall in love with you? They already have. Who needs invisibility when you can make people forget you instantly after seeing you? Want to be President? Control the entire country to support you. Or better, subconsciously manipulate minds across the planet to control stock prices and the entire free market. Make billions in seconds. Raise an army with a single thought - your power can make people believe in your cause to the extent that they'll die for you. The best part? Nobody knows it's happening unless you want them to. Mind control isn't about possessing a single body at a time. It's about subtly or completely controlling anyone's thoughts in anyone's heads at any distance. No power could beat it, because why would anyone want to harm you when they love you so much, or better, don't even know you exist?

18 Super Intelligence

Super Intelligence may seem too crude a name, but it implies that the brain's capacity used is near or at 100%. In reality, we use 100% of our brain but only 12% to 15% of all areas at any one time, which is what is referred to as brain capacity. It is believed, however, that dolphins use around 18% to 19% of their brain's capacity.

The extent of human achievement when using more than 20% of their brain capacity is highly speculative and remains a mystery. For those of us who fantasize about superpowers, let's imagine that using 100% of our brain's capacity could approach the realm of omnipotence, which would be incredible. However, I believe in God, so I'll leave that omnipotence to Him. Let's consider what it would be like to use 75% instead. At this level, everything the brain controls would be vastly more potent, and since we have control over our brains, we could manipulate everything that our brains can influence. Visualize our eyes seeing more clearly, our touch feeling more acutely, and our ears hearing every wavelength with the intensity of all energies. In essence, we would possess a profound ability to manipulate the energy around us, which is the foundation of everything.

Intelligence is simply a term we use to describe our ability to understand the information we store in our brains. So, let us absorb all the information in the world and deepen our understanding of the universe.

I am totally on board with this idea.

19 Bulletproof

Now, I know that I said every power is useful in its own way, and this power is no exception. However, the manner in which this power is beneficial isn't that impressive. Certainly, if you're bulletproof, you should be immune to anything weaker than a bullet. But what about missiles, bombs, landmines, shells, rockets, nukes, cannons, artillery, buildings falling on you, lasers, lava, lightning, falling from great heights, drowning, or any superpower with attacks with more force than a bullet? Many do, including nature power, telekinesis, gravity power, matter control, super speed, shapeshifting, and many others.

And yes, no street robber or simple thug is going to overpower you, but what about other superpowers? We are comparing superpowers, not you to normal people. Also, you can't have a weapon because then you have the power of the power combined with the power of a weapon, and we're only measuring the power of the power, no add-ons. This means your attacks are simply normal attacks. So, unless you're a master at martial arts and know how to incapacitate someone in 500 different ways, it's going to be hard to fight others. They may not be able to harm you, but you can't do much in a short amount of time either. Essentially, this is a very limited version of invincibility and, frankly, rather underwhelming for a superpower compared to other planetary-level powers.

20 Cloning

Just imagine you see your mom through the window, and you forgot your chores... Clone 10 of you, and get those chores done in minutes, and then delete them all before she can even take a step through the door!

You can clone yourself, and your clone can clone themselves. All of your clones will have all the abilities you have. You will have a giant army in no time.

Just have your clone go to school, and when it returns, de-clone he/she and merge so you don't have a clone, and the info they learned is planted in your mind, and it was as if you were actually at school.

21 Time Travel

Obviously, one of the very best superpowers. It would have been so easy to go back in time and kill Thanos's parents.

I can go to the past and future without effort. I can go to the 70s, then to the 90s, then to the 80s, up to 3001.

You just change one little factor by accident, and you may have just ruined the world.

22 Reality Warping

Being a reality warper is basically being omnipotent. When you warp reality, you can do whatever you please. You can have any power and literally anything, and if you don't know of something you can do, then trust me, with reality warping you can do it. Look at the Beyonder and the One Above All. Some people say they are omnipotent. Others say reality warper. It really doesn't matter. It's the same thing. I don't even know why this power is still in the contenders list and not in the top ten list. Hell, why isn't this power number 1?

This power can warp time, so you can control it. It can warp matter, so you can control it.

You're basically not bound by any law of the universe, so you can do whatever you want.

Which also means you can warp reality so you can have any other superpower too, neat right? Teleportation, walking through walls - the whole thing.

Reality warping is really cool because anything you want can come true, even if it is impossible or against the laws of physics. You can just change reality by just saying, emotion, and you can have absolute power by just your thought. It's really cool!

23 Immortality

Immortality is not what most of you think it is. It is not deathlessness, meaning that you will never die. By its definition, immortality is life. The "Im" you can look at as the word infinity or constant, meaning simply that you will always have life.

This can be taken two ways: First, you reach an age past pubescence when your body reaches its maximum potential, and you simply stop aging. By this account, you can still be harmed or killed without living forever. Second, you experience what is commonly known as rebirth. During each death, whether by force or through natural occurrences, you would be reborn with all the knowledge and experience from before your demise. Consider it a type of reincarnation, only it is still your existence.

Personally, I would choose the latter.

Deathlessness, or never dying, has always been one small part of omnipotence. Some people argue that if a person (as in human) is incapable of dying, they would also suffer the inescapable reality that they can't feel true emotions. To justify the argument, they would say that death is a universal fear and to understand fear is to understand all other emotions. If you have no fear of death, how can you know love or hate, or be mournful or joyous?

24 Telepathy

Telepathy is the power to communicate with others without speaking, just by thinking. In some cases, those with telepathy can also read the mind of the one they are "speaking" to. However, those with telepathy do not have mind control, which is a whole different ability. Just because it is all happening in the mind does not mean it is all the same. If you didn't study for a test, you can read your teacher's mind, but chances are she is just thinking about a dumb YouTube video she saw. You can communicate with her, but all that will do is allow you to not raise your hand. In conclusion, telepathy is a good power but really can't compare to the others since it is just a substitute for good, old-fashioned conversations.

Kind of like Thomas and Teresa... I like the idea of being able to send a message via the brain. Is it possible to share memories with telepathy too?

So this allows you to counteract virtually any power, especially those that are concentration-based. I mean, I could see myself using this more than invisibility. You get invisibility, by the way, by interacting with everyone near you. It's hard but would work. And you can sense invisible people.

25 Super Agility

The reason why I like this superpower is because you can actually have this superpower in real life! Also, I just want it because Nightwing is my favorite superhero!

If you are fast enough, then you can't be touched, and the idea of doing parkour like a boss just sounds awesome.

With super agility, you can get into a fight and never be touched. You also can jump super high, like you're always doing parkour.

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