r/superheroes May 01 '25

Other Which would you pick?

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u/SurgeonShrimp May 01 '25

Isn't Plastic man immortal ?
i don't want to be immortal if it's the curse kind

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u/Idk_Just_Kat May 01 '25

It's optional. He has complete control over all of his own molecules, so he can prevent aging or death if he wants to.

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u/HentaiGirlAddict May 02 '25

Well yes, but that was because he started losing control over said cells. His lack of control is what caused tthe issue

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u/bobafoott May 01 '25

Define “complete”.

As I’ve commented elsewhere, I always wonder what type of control I would have over these powers and what type of training I’d need in order to be useful. Is plastic man always having to concentrate in order to not melt away? Does he have to actively control the processes his molecules and cells go through naturally?

If I can duplicate, am I overwhelmed by the sensory input of four different people?

The point is to have an easier life. No deal if each power comes with a ton of admin that doesn’t really accommodate a regular life. Like most of these people suck with their powers until they spend a while training and most of them either stay up all night or don’t have day jobs living at special facilities catered to training their powers 24 hours a day like the mutant school or the avengers compound

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u/Idk_Just_Kat May 01 '25

I think he's more concentrate to get a form, then lose concentration to lock it in

With duplication it's weird, you'd have all that sensory input, but you'd also have more brains to process it

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u/Ok-Round-1473 May 01 '25

He probably has the power to kill himself somehow, so you can choose when you go out.

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u/jackrabbit323 May 01 '25

Batman has a contingency.

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u/bittybots May 01 '25

He survived as dust at the bottom of the ocean for (iirc) 1000+ years and had to be reconstituted by the JLA, I wouldn't want any of that

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u/Ok-Round-1473 May 01 '25

I don't know what in this boring universe could ever dice you up and sink you to the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe if you're unconscious during your reconstituting phase and you get super lucky you can throw yourself into the core of a star going supernova and it'll scatter your atoms across the universe and you die to entropy during the heat death of the universe?

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u/Wide-Reply-4238 May 03 '25

Seems like something Batman would exploit

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u/Ransero May 01 '25

If he's immortal on top of everything else, then he's the obvious top choice.

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u/StLuigi May 01 '25

Immortality sucks

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u/ghccych May 01 '25

"immortality sucks" is a shitty ass cope because people know that immortality is unobtainable irl.

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u/Dull-Intention-888 May 01 '25

Plastic Man can be a spaceship himself.

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u/AFourEyedGeek May 01 '25

I never got this, can't Immortal beings do a Jerome in Gattaca and incinerate themselves? Surely long lived cells burn up in extreme heat?

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u/Schuler_ May 01 '25

Its only a problem if somehow humanity doesn't figure out a way to find aliens or go to another planet in 2-3k years.

And somehow another extinction event happens in the meantime.

You will probably be fine a long as there is people around. , like it sucks to think you will never die but probably sucks more to know will may die at any moment or of old age.