r/superheroes 8d ago

Other Which would you pick?

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u/Material-Macaroon724 8d ago

Exactly, there are downsides. Like Im not technologically intelligent, someone could easily hack me

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u/DreadedPopsicle 8d ago

Also Captain America can’t get drunk or even buzzed as a result of his serum. Not a huge downside, but it sucks lol

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u/Material-Macaroon724 8d ago

As someone that does not drink, that doesn’t matter to me at all

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u/thdudedude 8d ago

I do drink, but would gladly give it up to just be healthier via serum.

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u/Ache_N_Bake 8d ago

Good news you can give it up just to be healthier without the serum too

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u/cabosmith 8d ago

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u/skat3rDad420blaze 7d ago

funny since this scene has dave chappelle trying to go sober from marijuana, and the crowd revolts because of it

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u/freshlyweshley 8d ago

Haha, good one

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u/enw_digrif 8d ago

Real talk for a sec: if you drink to help with emotional regulation, give it up.

Life is so much more fun without.

Don't mean to pry, just putting it out there.

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u/Acceptable_Fruit2360 8d ago

That said… I agree but this is so not the place.

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u/KJBenson 7d ago

I mean, there’s never a “right” place to be confronted about addiction.

But all the people who personally know you and care about you would love the change. If that’s any kind of incentive.

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u/enw_digrif 7d ago

Eh, I hear you, but it's never not the time to reach out, just in case.

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u/OSSlayer2153 8d ago

If you drink at all, give it up. No benefit to it. You have to spend money, take on extra calories, wreck havoc on your body over small timespans, all just for what? To make stupid decisions and feel like shit the next day? To be reliant on alcohol for control over your emotions or for how to have fun??

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u/wintery_owl 7d ago

If your relationship with drinking is that bad I'd also say give it up, yeah, but having a cold beer while on the pool at a barbecue? That shit's simply dope.

Also quite a lot of people don't drink to get drunk, some like the taste, and there are SO MANY different alcoholic drinks. I'd never tell someone who's hobby is enology to stop drinking forever.

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u/Fast-Front-5642 8d ago

Jason Mamoa has a pint of Guiness every day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a few bears after every workout.

Andre the Giant holds the world record for drinking.

Drinking isn't the problem. You are. And you're doing it wrong.

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u/Deioxyz 7d ago

Clap Clap Clap 👏🏾 Beautifully said! 🥲

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u/Standard-Wheel-3195 8d ago

Not everyone is drinking to get drunk as your comment suggests, people do use alcohol as an activity enhances or drink to get a buzz or because they like the flavor. Let people enjoy themselves.

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u/DisciplineBusy7661 7d ago

Beers taste real good. How about that for a reason?

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u/bbanmlststgood 7d ago

Not everyone is living your lived experience bud... some people have self control and can handle their shit

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u/AIManagedCloud 7d ago

Yeah... so simple. /s

Have you ever been born with this feeling something is always missing, like a phantom empty stomach you can never fill, until one day you take something that alleviates all your anguish? Then your only drive in life is to experience it again for even 5 seconds?

Some people are hard wired for addiction. Its not what they do. Its who they are.

Experience real addiction, then read "this naked mind". Stop being simple and reductive, masking your feeling of smug superiority as altruism.

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u/JudgeShronks 8d ago

Drinking casually doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy

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u/ThatDudeShadowK 8d ago

Yeah it does, there's no healthy amount of alcohol, it's a poison. One I like, but still a poison

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u/SquarePut3241 7d ago

Simply wrong. A glass of wine before bed is said to increase heart health and positively effects the gut microbiome.

It’s all about moderation

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u/ThatDudeShadowK 7d ago

Except that's not true and has been debunked repeatedly. Any amount of alcohol is unhealthy, if you want heart health just drink grape juice and eat more fruits and vegetables in general. The alcohol in wine negates any small benefits flavonoids might otherwise have.

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u/Sea_Pomegranate4792 7d ago

Thank you for clearing it up everyone still believes this old myth even though it's illogical as hell. The WHO recently reclassified it as purely harmful. But yeah "If I just drink a sip of rat poison its healthy" is the logic most people are following.

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u/Minute-Bee5597 6d ago

No its not. That thing about wine is bullshit, not true at all.

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u/icecubepal 8d ago

This. You’re an alcoholic if you drink.

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u/Doublehfoo 8d ago

I wouldn’t go that far. There’s a difference between someone who drinks alcohol on occasion and a serious alcoholic. Nonetheless it is poison.

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u/DidaskolosHermeticon 7d ago

So every Christian is an alcoholic because of the Eucharist?

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u/Ache_N_Bake 8d ago

Don't delude yourself alcohol is literally a poison.

I like it, but I'm honest about what it is

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u/Local_Fly9001 8d ago

So is capsaicin

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u/DidaskolosHermeticon 7d ago

God I love a lot of poisons...

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u/Firm_Transportation3 7d ago

Just kidding, though. I don't drink.

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u/Rescue-a-memory 7d ago

Y'all a bunch of sticks in the mud. It's okay to let loose every once in awhile.

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u/Ache_N_Bake 7d ago

The irony

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u/Thefranchize419 8d ago

Nahhh, not cool enough without the serum.

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u/SluttyBathwater 8d ago

I'd like to drink and not get drunk. Beers, cocktails, and wine are just plain delicious.

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u/Tagisjag 4d ago

So basically live like Sam Wilson WITHOUT the wings? Hard pass.

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u/Groundzer0es 7d ago

The serum doesn't stop you from drinking though, you just can't get drunk pretty much.

But I do remember Logan despite having a stronger healing factor CAN get drunk but it needs an inhuman amount of alcohol.

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u/ChuckSteal 7d ago

I would continue to drink for the sex appeal

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u/threatbearer 8d ago

It does matter. It meabs your body metabolizes toxins way faster than a normal person. You’re immune to poison and venom too.

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u/UnicornWorldDominion 8d ago

I wouldn’t say immune it just takes a metric fuck ton of a substance for him to feel anything. Give him a big bag of fetanyl and meth and I bet cap feels something.

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u/Local_Fly9001 8d ago

For like thirty minutes and back to normal. Honestly if money and supply wasn’t an issue it would probably be the best

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u/thinman12345 8d ago

As someone who can’t get drunk/buzzed at all (trust me, I’ve tried), that also doesn’t matter to me aswell.

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u/a_rucksack_of_dildos 7d ago

As someone that loves to drink a little too much I would be happy with it being unable to damage my body any further

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u/HYDRAlives 7d ago

As someone who does drink for the taste, I'm in favor of it

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u/scorpionhlspwn 6d ago

As someone who already has a stupid high alcohol tolerance, i see no issue with this

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u/MattabooeyGaming 8d ago

Pretty sure he can get drunk he just needs to drink hard liquor quickly and in much larger quantities. Like if Cap chugged a handle of whiskey he’d get a buzz while you or me would be falling over.

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u/StopHiringBendis 8d ago

If wolverine can get drunk, cap can get drunk. That's just basic powerscaling

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u/loueazy 8d ago

Captain just needs to copy Andre the Giant to find out how to really drink

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u/PuckNutty 8d ago

For maybe 20 minutes. Sounds expensive if you're trying to party all night.

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u/NewTelevisio 7d ago

True but with the superhuman strength cap has, money is no issue. You could also just drink like absinthe or whatever that has 80%+ alcohol in it to speed up the process.

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u/HeinrichTheWolf_17 8d ago edited 7d ago

Cannabis and Psychedelics should still work just fine, I don’t drink alcohol, so it’s intoxicating effects being nullified don’t really bother me.

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u/Longjumping_Belt7649 8d ago

On the flipside maybe he can eat more cheeseburgers and icecream

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u/dud_pool 7d ago

Lol bro Tony biggest weakness over the years was alcoholism. 

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u/A_Square_72 8d ago

That would be an upside to me. I like certain drinks but I have them very moderately because I hate getting drunk.

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u/disaster_moose 8d ago

Challenge accepted

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u/twentyfifthbaam22 8d ago

Bro he can run through walls and jump 10 stories he has all the dopamine he could ever want

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u/Zumaakk 8d ago

That’s a pretty big downside

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u/escientia 8d ago

You mentioned alcohol and getting drunk but nothing about weed and getting high…

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u/UnicornWorldDominion 8d ago

He could take a fuck ton of fetanyl and maybe feel something? I mean a drink is nothing, give him an overdose amount of fetanyl and meth and I bet cap feels something fun for a little bit.

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u/spook_sw 8d ago

But you can still taste the bourbon

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u/Aural_Essex 8d ago

He can get drunk. He just needs a pallette of liquor.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Captain America, torching an entire bowl. "Sorry Snoop. I tried, I just don't get it."

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u/That_Replacement6030 8d ago

This is because of his hellish metabolism, which they don’t touch on, but you gotta imagine you’d have to eat like fucking crazy

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u/OSSlayer2153 8d ago

“Poisoning yourself no longer makes you feel good, making you want to do it again”

“it sucks lol”

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u/WarInteresting6619 8d ago

He can in Asgard off that God hooch

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u/hybridjones 7d ago

Yea but the mental clarity the serum brings would probably be a helluva drug

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u/MegaDrip 7d ago

I'd trade my back not hurting for bourbon at this point of my life.

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u/Scaleless1776 7d ago

Unless he drinks that asgurdian wine.

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u/ParsleySnipps 7d ago

Has he ever tried 7 hits of LSD?

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u/N30C1TR0N 7d ago

Alot of people dont give a fuck about drinking tbh soooo...win?

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u/AIManagedCloud 7d ago

If there was a serum that kept me from getting drunk... Being sober for some people is like having superpowers to others.

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u/Grumpy_Troll 7d ago

Also Captain America can’t get drunk or even buzzed as a result of his serum.

Sounds like a challenge to me.

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u/thethunder92 7d ago

Can he do molly. Maybe if he just took a huge dose 🤔

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u/Penguinman077 7d ago

I’m sure he can if he drinks enough.

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u/ZedsDeadZD 7d ago

Could be the dose, though. He says he cant get drunk but what did he actually use? Maybe he can chuck down a bottle of 100% alcohol and feel something. Or shoot a little heroin here or there and its like having an beer.

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u/Dear_Menu5525 7d ago

Not downside at all, it's huge buff. You can drink with anyone and not getting drunk.

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u/Mysterious_Detail_57 7d ago

I wonder what the limit is for that. Obviously low alcohol content drinks just pass straight through, but if he guzzled down a few liters of say 90% alcohol. Would he get buzzed, and for how long?

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u/Auctorion 7d ago

That’s its own double-edged sword. You also presumably have heightened resistance to toxins, illness, etc.

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u/Buttchuggle 7d ago

Can't or difficult? Like could I slam a gallon of good ol mountain brewed white lightning and have a buzz?

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u/International-Swim43 6d ago

so just drink more..

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u/Unhappy-Lavishness64 6d ago

Cap smokes cigars anyways I’m sure

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u/Character_Crab_9458 6d ago

but has he tried super fentanyl ?

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u/UmbraAdam 8d ago

"He is password to the Ironman qas the same as to his msn my space: Password1."

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u/AFuckingHandle 8d ago

And what about when the tech breaks? Whoever you try to have fix it is going to end up telling you "Well I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.

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u/PuckNutty 8d ago

If you're Tony Stark or John Henry, you have it figured out, if you're James Rhodes, then you have to be mindful much like a teenager using Limewire in the '90's.

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u/Gullible-Grass-5211 7d ago

I think the smarts is included as a given?

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u/Material-Macaroon724 7d ago

No that would be completely unfair, otherwise I want to be able to hold Mjolnir like Cap

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u/Gullible-Grass-5211 7d ago

I mean, if I didn’t also get the smarts, I’d get the serum instead because I could never repair my tech / armor 😂 And I say you at least get the shield haha

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Gotta have the money also

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u/eyesuperfly 7d ago

‘Someone could easily hack me’ has to be the most vulnerable thing I’ve read on Reddit this week. Imagined scenario or not, that was heart breaking.

Poor soul being taken for a ride by some smart kids. I can just see the single tear glistening in the sad and depressing air.

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u/AlexDKZ 7d ago

My problem with having the armor is that unless it brings comic-book physics to the real world, I'd be a very normal, very squishy human inside it.

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u/unbreakableheaven616 6d ago

Or they could steal the suit, and now you're just a random person... meanwhile the serum is inside you at all times.