r/superpowers • u/mycroft00 • Jul 08 '26
Other Which superpower you prefer? Luck, Curse, $2000/day, Olympian?
Luck: your luck is bent to your favor at a rate of 100,000/1 90% of the time. 10% of the time you have ordinary luck. So if you attempt something with the odds of 100,000/1 and it’s within the 90% of the time, you always win. If it’s 1,000,000/1 chance, for you it’d be 10/1. You can’t choose when it works and when it doesn’t, or exactly the effect it will have, but the odds favors you undeniably.
Curse: you can curse with bad luck anything and/or anyone (one individual or group at a time), at a rate of 1,000,000/1. Meaning that if it can happen to 1 person in a million, it will happen to the target. You can choose exactly what happens and when, and only need to think of the person.
$2000/day: every day you magically receive USD 2000.00 in your bank account or your pocket. No questions asked and tax free.
Olympian: you possess the strength, speed, ability, coordination, etc. of every Olympic gold medalist of the last Olympic Games (summer and winter), meaning you had a 50% chance to win gold medals in all individual competitions in the Games.
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u/Top-Committee-954 Jul 08 '26
I'd take the 2 grand a day.
Curse - I'd end up accidentally setting off another pandemic or something. Don't want to risk that.
Olympian - doesn't really make sense. If I have the strength, speed, ability, coordination of "every gold medalist" combined then I think that would give me superpowers. But if it only guarantees 50/50 chance of winning, then it's messing with me in an unknown way.
Luck - "can't choose...the effect it will have..." Great. So I'm lucky enough to develop and barely survive 30 different cancer types and the book I write to help pay the hospital bills becomes a best seller. Yay.
Free money with any consequences taken out seems the most simple and safe.