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And certainly, almost any super power depends on perfect control of it. What good would super strength be if you couldn't use your strength just as you do know? Picking up a can of soda could be troublesome.
Flight is a great fantasy power, but realistically, it has a LOT of drawbacks. Flight speed would be an issue. I got windburnt once in a convertible... I doubt flight would be much better. "I'd wear a protective suit and mask." All right. As noted, breathing at those high speeds would be tough. "If I had to fly that fast, I'd get scuba gear." Fine. How would you know where you are? From 50 feet up, you might recognize your own neighborhood. Once you get a couple miles away... then what? "I can just use my GPS." What if it's a cloudy day, or you fly into clouds... and you can't tell if you're right side up or not? If you defy gravity, then by definition, up and down become kinda arbitrary. Underwater, one can watch air bubbles to see which direction is up. In mid-air, maybe not so much.
That's just a consideration for one power. Some other considerations... With super strength, if you don't have a degree of invulnerability, it's useless after a couple hundred pounds. Weight lifters hurt themselves in competitions... unless you were REALLY careful, you'd tell yourself apart.
Bulletproof/invulnerability - even if you didn't take damage from bullets, they'd still knock you all over the place. Inertia is a harsh mistress.
Super intelligence - I've long thought about this, and pondered... it would be horribly lonely. How well would Reed Richards fare if he didn't have a Henry Pym or Tony Stark to relate to? To be the ONLY super mind in the world? It might be like living among chimps.
Telepathy - without perfect control (or maybe even with), if you don't have a way to shut it off... your life becomes hell. Voices in your head ALL THE TIME... insanity probably follows soon.
Shucks, even Aquaman powers... if you can't find your way underwater, you might be stuck in the middle of the ocean for the rest of your life. Without a radar-type sense, going down much past thirty or forty feet would be a dark atmosphere with no visibility.
Not to disdain any of these powers in the comics... but again, these are details that no one should contemplate in that genre. In the real world... there are a lot of aspects.
Mind you, I LOVE this discussion... I like to see what people would want and how they would treat it. Good topic.
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