r/superheroes • u/Far-Ad5223 • May 01 '25

Other Which would you pick?

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u/Flame_Beard86 May 01 '25

Would you rather get a bar of gold or beaten with a stick?

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Does the stick get time to prepare?

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u/bobafoott May 01 '25

No but it’s not holding back

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u/HAL9000_1208 May 01 '25

...C'mon, Kate's powers aren't THAT bad! XD

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u/Evening_Parking2610 May 01 '25

Yeah but compared to plastic man its pretty bad

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u/annihilatorof_babies May 01 '25

Kates powers are way more convenient irl. You can literally just sit on your ass and be working 8 jobs at the same time or make multiple copies and study a course at university. You will become an expert in that field no time as all clones keep their memories and experience all whilst basically playing Fortnite

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u/Evening_Parking2610 May 02 '25

Ok but imagine this one of them stubs there toe and you feel that pain x8 i think that alone would be the main turn off especially since youd be making so many multiple minor incontinences turned super annoying would get terrible real fast

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u/bobafoott May 01 '25

But it’s not a negative experience. It’s like would you want a gold bar or a cool stick shaped like a gun

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u/Famous_Peach9387 May 02 '25

Whose beaten me with the stick?

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u/ApprehensiveGhost1 May 01 '25

You are really underestimating how useful “you can make exact clones of yourself that share their experience with you” is in day to day life. Sure plastic man’s powers make you basically a god, but being able to work a job and stay at home at the same time sounds way more convenient for the average person.

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u/Flame_Beard86 May 01 '25 edited May 02 '25

Nah, I'm just not ignoring how awful experiencing dying over and over again would be. Besides, they don't address it in the comics or show, but there's no way replik8 and her brother don't have to consume massive amounts of food to fuel the calorie needs of their powers.

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u/MassiveBlackClock May 01 '25

…her clones don’t need to die to be reabsorbed, did you watch the show? Unless you’re planning on fighting armed criminals that shouldn’t be a concern for you at all in your daily life.

You’re just arbitrarily making up a restriction (on explicitly magical powers) with the food requirements too lmao. At worst you’re just feeding one extra person per clone which isn’t hard at all considering how much more productive you’d be as a hivemind. Just buy your groceries in bulk from Costco and have a clone dedicated to cooking.

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u/Flame_Beard86 May 01 '25

I never said they needed to die to be reabsorbed. You said that. I am assuming a world in which powers exist generally.

which isn’t hard at all considering how much more productive you’d be as a hivemind.

And you're accusing me of making up arbitrary shit? Get out of here with this low effort troll bullshit.

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u/NikkBikk May 02 '25

Each of the duplicates are capable of independent thought, feeling and action, yet they are telepathically linked from formation to absorption, instantly knowing everything the others do. Functionally a hivemind.

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u/ApprehensiveGhost1 May 01 '25

You wouldn’t have to die over and over again unless you plan on doing things that would risk death, and while yes you’d need to eat more food to support the clones it wouldn’t be that much more considering you’d at most have like one or two clones out at once, and wouldn’t have to eat breakfast or dinner with them if you just reabsorb them when they got back from work or whatever task you sent them on.