SS: Thusrday: Super powers!!!

So we here at the Taaffe Complex are 2 deep in revisiting the Xmen trilogy, which is causing some of us to revert back to the comic-worshiping dork-o-ramas of the 90's we once were. Having spent hours pouring over the mutant drama as kids we alternately squeeling from our precognition of new characters and motives, and scoffing at blatantly ignorant omissions of others. (Hello?!? Why is Jubilee reduced to 10 seconds in X2 as a chubby Cherokee-looking girl while Colossus gets triple the screen time? He even has lines!)

All this fan-boy chitter chat got us reminscing... about what Xman (or other superhero) did we fantasize the most about being? What Saturday-morning character left us daydreaming all week long? When running around in the back yard (or in traffic) who were we? I got sideways looks from some of my roomies, like I was a total nerd with 3 heads. Sorry, Charlie, but I was the normal one! If you were a kid and weren't obsessing over Marvel characters you were either living under a rock or busy playing with your new version of Quicken for your Brother® Electronic Word Processor. Either way, you weren't playing with my group. We had sticks, dish towels, and bikes that transformed into sabers, capes, and rockets. And that was not only normal, but cool.

As I got older and poorer (read: As I got older and realized how poor I'd always been) I started thinking that the superpower of consistent exact change would be pretty cool, and it would, but its also kind of sad and lame to wish your superpower to be wealth. Nowadays, to look at things objectively, capitalist desires notwithstanding, I would say that the most useful of superpowers would be flying and breathing underwater. Not super imaginative or original, but useful.

When I was saving Tuckerton from evil mutant or misguided human forces I was either Storm or Rogue (or on the rarer Thundercats occasions, Cheetara.) I was never Jean Gray. I don't think I really understood the depth of her powers or character. She seemed so understated and didn't have as much flash as say, electrical storms, hale, and instantaneous life-sucking. But now, hyper telekinesis kinda seems like the shit. It is like, the mother of all superpowers. Jean Gray couldn't walk through walls or deafen you with a scream, but she could dematerialize the drywall and your ear drums. Just by thinking it.

So I guess if I were to play Xmen today, which is not totally out of the realm of possibility, I'd be Dr. Gray. Cause she rocks... and Famke Janssen made her totally HOT! (In fact, I'd settle for my superpower to just be looking like Famke Janssen.) So, just call me the Pheonix...and don't piss me off ;)

Feel free to comment your super powers, too!