PIck a Super-Power

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Time travel/chronoshifting (with or without the TARDIS).

The danger is, what happens if I prevent myself from
being born in the first place? Hmm?

Super-speed - the laws of mechanics say you wouldn't be able to touch anything without inadvertently crushing it. Try to push a heavy object, and you're likely to leave a big dent in it instead (and probably break your arm in the process). All food would feel like mush in your mouth, and if you bit down to hard, your teeth would crumble. You probably wouldn't even be able to slap your own forehead without killing yourself.

Ever heard of this guy?

I was thinking of the H.G. Wells story "The New Accelerator". At least he acknowledged that you would catch on fire through air-friction if you ran too fast.

What if you had reduced mass?

That would work, I guess, but it would amount to two super-powers at once. Also, I thought you wanted us to examine how super-powers might backfire in the real world.

Of course, that was the orignal mandate. Let's see ... with the power of super-speed and partial exemption from laws of physics ... you crash into things a lot while moving at Mach 1. You can move faster than the fastest Olympic sprinter, but you really can't change direction that well while going at speed. And your partial exemption from the laws of physics stops when you return to normal human speed.

the power to have sex with anyone it would be a problem 4 me as a guy is that gay guys would be attracted to me!

Do you mean the power to seduce anyone? What exactly is the sex-power here?

i just want to be like glenn quagmire and yes the power of ultimate seduction!

DONE! But you'll look and sound like Glenn Quagmire as well as having his mojo.

gigitty gigitty goo

Teleportation - Nausea? Chronic pains?

Flying (Not sure if this would be what I picked, but I have some backfire ideas for it)
* Airplanes running into you
* Strong Winds getting you off track
* Getting pecked, followed, or pooped on by birds
* Really cold temperatures
The list could go on if I wasn't so tired...

The Geass... only problem is that I would either go crazy when I begin to lose control of it, or be corrupted by having the power to force people to my will, thus making me evil. Still, you gotta admit it's a handy power for getting out of trouble.

Oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's some wiki articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass#Geass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelouch_Lamperouge#Geass

I'd love to have Technopathy. The downside of course: me going completely insane when being away from anything digital. Also, Windows! I mean, imagine trying to influence a voting machine into giving your favorite candidate a landslide victory* and discovering that the stupid thing runs Vista (ME might be worse though)!

*not that I would ever do this! *looks VERY innocent*