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POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation? 

Flight or Teleportation?
Flight. 17%  17%  [ 1 ]
Teleportation. 83%  83%  [ 5 ]
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POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation? 
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 POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
You can fly, or you can teleport. Pick one. You cannot pick both. :dick:

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
not a big fan of flying, this one was easy for me. You also cannot fly into a bank vault. ;)

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
In my mind, falling + teleportation, might as well be flying.

I take the teleport, assuming it is a more or less unlimited sort of thing. Not like, i teleport once and then spend half an hour slumped half against a wall wheezing and beat to shit from the effort.

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
Teleport, for sure. It is a much more powerful power.

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
Chris has a valid point- this one could be a bastard depending on how it's implemented.

The last thing I want is to have it fail and all of a sudden I've teleported myself onto the top of a building, or now I'm stuck in a wall, or on the ocean floor. :lol:

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
I have ALWAYS wanted to have wings so i coujld fly, but given the choice between this and teleportation... well i'd have to teleport.

Teleport 1, go to nasa, steal space suit

teleport 2, ALL OF THE PLANETS WHERE I WONT DIE :D

i will be the first man to teabag mars.

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
Yes teleporting seems to be the better choice barring any sort of restriction. Like what was Nightcrawler's rules about teleportation, he had to be able to see it or had to have been there before or something like that?

"Kurt Wagner is a mutant whose primary mutant power is the ability to teleport himself, his clothing, and a certain amount of additional mass from one point to another virtually instantaneously in a puff of crimson red smoke. He does this by means of displacing himself through an alternate dimension briefly and reappearing in a desired, pre-selected location. He has been shown to be able to teleport distances of up to two miles (3 km) under optimal conditions, although this is usually his extreme limit, and he can become severely fatigued if he tries to teleport that distance (in one case, however, he teleports somewhere over 50 miles (80 km)).[55] It can also be noted that via coordinates received telepathically from Professor Xavier, Nightcrawler has teleported an unknown (but presumably large) distance.[56] In a final, dying effort to rescue the mutant messiah Hope, he manages to teleport them both from Las Vegas, Nevada to the mutant safehold Utopia, just off the coast of San Francisco, a distance of approximately 413 miles (665 km). Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is also affected by direction — north-south along Earth's "magnetic lines of force" is easier than east-west against them.[57]

He possesses a limited unconscious extrasensory "spatial awareness" ability which prevents him from teleporting into solid objects within his immediate vicinity, but this ability diminishes the greater the distance he teleports. Because teleporting into other solid matter would cause severe injury or death, he will only teleport to an area he is familiar with or that he can clearly see at the time or has seen in the past. His power automatically displaces liquids and gases when he arrives.

The process of teleportation places a strain on his endurance and that of any passengers; carrying mass other than his body and clothing when teleporting adds additional strain through his body. Through practice he has been able to teleport with a passenger over a lengthy distance without exhausting himself. Extensive training has raised his tolerance for teleportation, but most of his passengers lack this tolerance. Therefore, one of his tactics is to grab opponents and make several quick teleportations with them. They usually become weakened or even pass out from the strain.

After Nightcrawler teleports, he leaves behind smoke and a faint scent of burning brimstone; this is a small portion of the atmosphere of the dimension he travels through when he teleports. His teleportation power is due to a biophysical/biochemical reaction he consciously triggers within himself. A loud "bamf" noise is always present whenever he teleports (being the sound of air rushing to fill the space he was just occupying). His teleporting also causes a slight change in the atmosphere before he arrives, although only superhumans with heightened senses such as Daredevil can register it.[58]"

With those sort of restrictions the choice is a bit tougher. Still would probably go with teleportation.

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Post Re: POLL: Superpowers, round one- Flight or Teleportation?
Yes teleporting seems to be the better choice barring any sort of restriction. Like what was Nightcrawler's rules about teleportation, he had to be able to see it or had to have been there before or something like that?

"Kurt Wagner is a mutant whose primary mutant power is the ability to teleport himself, his clothing, and a certain amount of additional mass from one point to another virtually instantaneously in a puff of crimson red smoke. He does this by means of displacing himself through an alternate dimension briefly and reappearing in a desired, pre-selected location. He has been shown to be able to teleport distances of up to two miles (3 km) under optimal conditions, although this is usually his extreme limit, and he can become severely fatigued if he tries to teleport that distance (in one case, however, he teleports somewhere over 50 miles (80 km)).[55] It can also be noted that via coordinates received telepathically from Professor Xavier, Nightcrawler has teleported an unknown (but presumably large) distance.[56] In a final, dying effort to rescue the mutant messiah Hope, he manages to teleport them both from Las Vegas, Nevada to the mutant safehold Utopia, just off the coast of San Francisco, a distance of approximately 413 miles (665 km). Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is also affected by direction — north-south along Earth's "magnetic lines of force" is easier than east-west against them.[57]

He possesses a limited unconscious extrasensory "spatial awareness" ability which prevents him from teleporting into solid objects within his immediate vicinity, but this ability diminishes the greater the distance he teleports. Because teleporting into other solid matter would cause severe injury or death, he will only teleport to an area he is familiar with or that he can clearly see at the time or has seen in the past. His power automatically displaces liquids and gases when he arrives.

The process of teleportation places a strain on his endurance and that of any passengers; carrying mass other than his body and clothing when teleporting adds additional strain through his body. Through practice he has been able to teleport with a passenger over a lengthy distance without exhausting himself. Extensive training has raised his tolerance for teleportation, but most of his passengers lack this tolerance. Therefore, one of his tactics is to grab opponents and make several quick teleportations with them. They usually become weakened or even pass out from the strain.

After Nightcrawler teleports, he leaves behind smoke and a faint scent of burning brimstone; this is a small portion of the atmosphere of the dimension he travels through when he teleports. His teleportation power is due to a biophysical/biochemical reaction he consciously triggers within himself. A loud "bamf" noise is always present whenever he teleports (being the sound of air rushing to fill the space he was just occupying). His teleporting also causes a slight change in the atmosphere before he arrives, although only superhumans with heightened senses such as Daredevil can register it.[58]"

With those sort of restrictions the choice is a bit tougher. Still would probably go with teleportation.

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