10 Superpowers you wish you had.

Admit it. At some point in your life you've run around the house in a cape, or at least thought about doing it. Don't worry. No judgment here. I know I have.
It's fun to imagine how different life would be if we developed superpowers of our own.
These are in no particular order.

10. Invisibility

With the power of invisibility you could vanish in the blink of an eye. You could sneak out of the house whenever you felt like it, sneak into movies, play pranks on your friends without them ever knowing it was you, and spy on them to find out exactly what they think of you. Of course, if you're the type to spy, you should probably brace for the worst.

9. Superhuman Strength

Impossible tasks would become simple. Stuck in traffic? Just get out of the car and carry it home. Bending pipes, throwing cars, and smashing through brick walls would be a great way to relieve stress. The movie "127 Hours" also wouldn't have been that interesting if the guy had superhuman strength.
"Oh my arms stuck under a boulder. I'll just move this out of the way."

8. Regenerative Healing

Whenever you would become injured your body would just heal itself within minutes. No broken bones. You would never get sick. Shotgun blows to the chest would become a thing of the past. You could even use your favorite bacon recipe at every meal.

7. Superhuman Speed

You'd be able to run from Cairo to Cape Town in less time than it took Kim Kardashian to divorce Kris Humphries. You could run circles around supervillains; making them too tired or frustrated to even bother with you. On the downside, there could be a slight increase in RUIs (Running Under the Influence).

6. Wall Crawling

Who didn't want to climb walls like Spiderman when they were small? No-one. Or no-one that I know. The proof? Climbing between doorposts and walls. With the ability to wall crawl you'd be able to cling to solid surfaces such as walls and ceilings.
 
5. X-Ray Vision

Not just being able to see peoples bones, but being able to see through different surfaces. As long as you'd be able to switch it on and off. There's nothing worse than seeing certain people you see on a regular basis, without their clothes on. You don't want to scratch your retinas out.

4. Flight

There's no need to introduce this superpower. It's the power every little kid dreams of having from the moment they first watch Wendy and her siblings take off into the night sky with Peter Pan. Imagine a world without traffic jams. Where you could travel anywhere on a whim, and see the world from a birds eye view. It's a bird. It's a plane. No; it's me, flying to the shop for bread and milk.

3. Mind Control

With the power of mind control, you could persuade your boss to give you a raise, demand an A from your professor (cough, Wendy, cough), and brainwash your parents into letting you quit school and go backpacking through Europe. You could pretty much do anything you wanted.

2. Time Manipulation

Ever wanted to turn back the clock? With the power of time manipulation, you could. The good times wouldn't race by like they'd never happened, and the bad times wouldn't crawl along at a snails pace.

1. Immortality

The only reason this is here, is so this list can cover all bases.
Immortality is a tricky superpower to have. Yes, you would live forever. But can you imagine being ten thousand years old? You would be bed ridden for the most of your life. So you'd probably need the power of youth as well. But then your knowledge and wisdom would be immense.

THOKK! Right in the Superheroes.

I hate superheroes. I never used too. I thought they were great. Superhumans fighting crime, and saving the world. But after 9 posts (I know it doesn't sound like much, but that's 9 weeks, and about 500 words per post. That's 4500 words about superheroes) I'm just so sick of it.

There's only so many synonyms for the word supervillian. And I'm sure I've used most of them, if not all. And the villian is always some guy that was either good and turned evil because of some girl that wouldn't fall in love with him, or he was thrown into a vat of acid - or something to that affect.

All superheroes have similar attributes. They're all experts in their professional fields, and have mastered some sort of martial arts. And their powers always include super strength, and a willing urge to save the world from any danger.

People seem to have this mind set, that if they can make the world a better place, they should. Fair enough, if they didn't it would seem a bit selfish, but does this justify putting ones self in harms way. Why not try recycling? Or something that doesn't try to kill you.

The other problem is that the Marvel and DC universes are so vast and so complicated, that if your target audience doesn't have an already working knowledge of superheroes and the worlds they live in, it becomes extremely difficult to try and explain every aspect of it without boring them into an early grave. There's also only a set amount of superheroes that the normal person knows about. After you've exhausted them, you then have to try and explain heroes that they've never seen or even heard about.
By the end of it all they hate your blog. You hate your blog. And the world is probably a better place without it.

I now have a huge respect for Stan Lee, and other comic book writers. They really have to be dedicated to continue to do what they do, like any profession, and still enjoy it.

A tip to anyone thinking about starting a blog - don't do a specific topic you like. Because by the end you're going to hate it, and are going to want to stab that topic over and over again. It's like over-listening to a song you like. It gets burned into your brain.
Then you start hating that part of your brain, and you try to figure out ways to kill it.