I'd choose telekinesis and probably some sort healing ability.

The reason for the telekinesis is I can move things with my mind right? Well, that means I can move myself and be able to fly! Two birds with one stone

The healing is just a no brainer when you can fly and move things with your mind. One brain twitch and something bad could happen.
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Matter manipulation and time manipulation: I choose ultimate power all the way.

I figure if I can control matter and time, I can control the Universe and get anything I want. (And I guess help people...)

I want to be like Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen (except not blue or naked) mixed with Hiro from Heroes.

http://www.meetatthegate.com/assets_canongate/images/1236079070_DrManhattan.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/magazine/1505/FF_raves_heroes1_f.jpg
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I'd choose:
1) Bouncing (teleportation) like Misfit, but with the ability to bring others along with me safely

and

2) Time Travel like Marvel Girl
Source(s):
http://www.superherodb.com/profile.php?hero=Misfit
http://www.superherodb.com/profile.php?hero=Marvel.Girl

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I would like the ability to shape shift into a Chihuahua.
Think about it. With the power of cuteness, I could fly (in my owners arms).
I could slip into any crook or cranny. I could use my hypnotic eyes to get almost any worldly possession. But most of all, I would be in the "now" without having to consciously work at it all the time!
Yessiree. That's what I wanna be.
http://www.caninipet.com/mc_images/category/16/pic_o_the_month_0908.jpg
My other super power is already in use, since I am bunnyphuphu.
Master of the internet, annoyer to all fuddy duddies, and comic genius!
http://pintalo.sipuedes.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/superbunnypants.jpg
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Telekenisis and that power Hayden Christiansen had in the movie push. I would want telekenisis for the ability to never have to fight a person hand to hand just throw them with my mind and also I want to be able to get a beer from the fridge. The ability from push so I could save on airfare and travel the world in style.
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I would want healing ability, but not anti-aging necessarily--perhaps the part of the healing ability would be the ability to choose whether and when to age or not. That way I could stay young as long as I wanted, but not outlive my kids--unless they inherited the ability, in which case I'd want to be immortal.

And then I'd like the ability to be able to time travel, but to be able to be in my own body if it was observing. That way I could be three again, and both experience it but watch from a distance at once. Or watch my kids when they were tiny and really interact with them, but not make the same mistakes. But outside my own time I'd just be me.

I thought about having the ability to absorb anyone else's powers, like Peter Petrelli originally could. But I'm not sure I'd want some of those abilities.
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The power to make people do what I want, for instance I walk into a bank and say "you want to give me one million dollars", and everyone is just instantly cool with it. That opens up an endless number of possibilities.

The power to speak any language instantly. Otherwise the first power would be useless in too many countries.
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Super memory;

http://www.1stchoiceremovals.net/ist2_2334825_puzzled_kids_cartoon.jpg

and infrared eyes (for changing channels when super memory fails to find the remote!)

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k140/rosewheel/laser-eye-beams.jpg
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I would like the power of "Space-time manipulation" I've never actually watched the show "Heroes" but apparently one of the characters has this particular power.
http://heroeswiki.com/Space-time_manipulation

The other would be flight, plain and simple flight.

My jetpack is getting too heavy to carry around everywhere, would love to just be able to jump up and take off.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3509723446/
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I have spent 28 years pondering this question. I too would start with the time TiVo ability (pause, rewind, skip commercials) but it would have to be accompanied by a mental stability/dexterity power.
Time TiVo is the power that could help the most people. Stop bullets in mid air, outrun fleeing villains, dodge everything. That is not as simple as it sounds though. If I am by definition a hero, I am compelled to save and help everyone I can. How would I possibly decide who to help? Nine guys have been shot and one more raped since I started writing this. How could I possibly get to them all and all the kids falling out of trees and spiders who are going to be crushed just because they are creepy? Everyone needs saving sometime and that means I'm going to be like Santa hauling ass around the world trying to get to them all. Only a god could save the whole world, so the knowledge that I could have saved someone but didn't because of my mortal limitations would drive me mad with depression. Which brings me to...
Mental resilience. The ability to not go crazy. To keep it together, accept my limitations and not let it get me down. This is an ability I hope to achieve in my real life.
Source(s):
A gigantic pile of comic books and some DVDs

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Is it cheating to say that I would want to have holistic control of my body?

For instance, control of every single cell, and how it operates. So, If I want to turn into a bird, I could. If I wanted to emit a certain pheromone, I could. If I wanted to shut down most of my metabolic processes, and go days without food, I could.

Oh, and power number 2 would be Hero-ic power over space and time.

Too over-powered?
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I would have to go with photographic memory and photographic reflexes. That way I could instantly master any musical piece on any instrument.

What good are super powers if you cannt be a Rock Star?
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I would want to be able to stop time - where everyone else is frozen, but I can still move around. This may sound stupid - but I would want this power so that I could get more sleep! This is actually my first thought every morning when my alarm goes off at 5:00 a.m.

For my second power, I'd want to be able to fly. Just because he seems like it would be so incredibly fun, and I wouldn't have to be afraid of heights anymore!
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Power to heal, and wisdom to use it!

I was always attracted to the idea of healing power, since I was a kid - shamans, bush doctors, palm healers... I never doubted the reality of their powers. I'm talking about authentic practitioners here, no New Age stuff.

I'm also of exceptionally good health, and have been so throughout my life, so far (47) - never suffered a serious injury of any kind, nor fell seriously ill, and have never been hospitalized. Never got a vaccine, no pox marks on my shoulder, neither - a telltale sign of alien/ human hybrid, according to X-Files ;)

So, I guess, the healing power is kind of mine to claim, which brings us to part two: wisdom. How do you go about it? What do you do with it on this troubled planet?

In conclusion: I think I'll have to find some convincing answers to these and similar questions, before any such (healing) power can be expressed through me.
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I would have to choose Teleportation and Stopping Time. Teleportation so I go anywhere I wanted to and be back home before bed. Time Stopping because then I could freeze time, sleep for hours on end, then unfreeze time. So no time passed and Im fully awake.
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