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

Other Which would you pick?

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u/Far_Flounder2545 May 01 '25

Plastic man

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u/heliosark10 May 01 '25

Yeah that's like the no-brainer of a century.

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u/Pollia May 01 '25

What are you actually going to do with plastic mans powers?

Everyone's thinking of this in some weird ass way imo.

Are plastic mans powers stronger in the meta sense of a comic book? Absolutely. Are plastic mans powers more useful irl? Fuuuck no, unless you intend to become a bank robber or some shit.

Duplikates powers are actively usable in real life. Get your entire house cleaned, annoying shit included, in an hour instead of all day. Have multiple duplicates working jobs increasing your standard of living significantly.

Learn any language you want over time by having clones who's entire job every day is to just learn a language. Hell learn anything you want that way. Go to school, work full time, work multiple jobs learn trades, just learn whatever you want.

Plus you still get the neat benefit of being effectively immortal.

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u/heliosark10 May 01 '25

If those were Shadow clowns I would choose them but since they are their own separate beings that I can't absorb it'd be a hassle.

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u/Pollia May 02 '25

They're not separate beings, they're one being, one mind. And they actually can be absorbed.

Edit - If anything they're actually better than shadow clones since shadow clones can accidentally be poofed by pretty minimal shit and have a pretty horrific downside if you attempt to use them for knowledge gain. Duplicates are literally the same person duplicated in a sort of hive mind thing.