Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi: I've previously said that the real world-ender omega level power in the x-men universe would be a kid with ADHD who constantly & unpredictably generates new powers where the trick is the powers only last as long as the novelty does, but I'd also add 1 constant/recurrent power: The Worst Time Travel.

I've previously said that the real world-ender omega level power in the x-men universe would be a kid with ADHD who constantly & unpredictably generates new powers where the trick is the powers only last as long as the novelty does, but I'd also add 1 constant/recurrent power: The Worst Time Travel.

Legion is CLOSE to this, both in comics and the show, but David's whole deal is that he eventually learns to instinctually control it

(Also this is a joke about the often-horrific phenomenology of ADHD.)

A really beneficial power for an ADHD-er would be time travel back 5 minutes to see where you set that thing down that you now can't find anywhere, or to recoup the time wasted looking for it.

So the house can just be filled with copies all going "so what did I time travel back to find??"

Me: [appears] Previous me: “Scissors” Me: ”Thanks” [vanishes]

😂

Ha!

... they forget where they put the time machine, and then Future Them has to come back in time to tell Present Them where they found it again

Oh no 😆 Let's just clarify that this time travel power doesn't require any equipment.

I would like to subscribe to this newsletter, and look forward to the cycle through special interests. Watch people try to dangle new shiny things in front of them, in hopes they switch. Trains! 12th century drum rythems! Sushi... anything really

Conversely, I want a Thelemite Green Lantern (and it ammazes me Grant's never done this). What does that kind of ceremonial mage do with a ring that focuses the True Will to that level?

Don't give Jamie Braddock any ideas.

This isn’t toooooo far off Legion

Oh i know, but David's whole deal is that he eventually learns to instinctually control it

That’s definitely the part where it turns into a power fantasy for a not insignificant subset of the readers

Yup.😕

Imagining what my parents would have done to that kid’s brain.

Isn't that recurrent power just "being Tempus"?

Magneto sending them the latest Lego set before hatching his nefarious plot

"The Worst Time Travel" -- LOVE IT Spouse & I both have ADHD, intensified by aging and life circumstance, and we "joke" that now there are no adults in the house

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