abbadon420If any animal bite could give you super powers, what animal do you want to be bitten by and which super power do you hope to get?
Lvxferre [he/him]I want to get bitten by a capybara and get the superpower of being chill 100% of the time.
Have you considered switching to indicas?
👍Maximum Derek👍Based on the internet it also seems like every creature on earth is totally down to give a capybara a piggyback ride. I assume that influence is part of the capybara’s powers.
I think peter from dead pool got that one
Do the superpowers have to correlate to the abilities of the animal that bites me, like Spider-Man?
Probably a grasshopper, if so. Being able to bound to basically anywhere I need to get would be nice, get some wings to course correct in the air. Or a mantis shrimp because then I really would never have to worry about losing a fight.
But if it’s any animal/any superpower: mosquito/super speed
VanthThe Immortal Jellyfish, taking their transdifferentiation ability in which they can reverse aging and damage at macro and cellular levels.
Hmmm… I choose the immoral jellyfish
IheartcheeseI’ve seen that hentai.
DrunemetonNo it was Zelda
I was going to say a frog since they can change sex.
But jellyfish can apparently change sex and be immortal, so, I change my answer to the immortal jellyfish too.
FubarberryI’d be worried that picking jellyfish might cause you to lose your brain as well. Which would be pretty inconvenient outside of preparing you for a career in politics.
Mm, I assumed that wasn’t part of the deal. Spider-Man didn’t get the brain of a spider. It’s only select characteristics.
potoooooooo ✅️That was super interesting, thanks for linking that!
breadsmasherA housefly so my lifespan is 2 days
Good news,
Plenty of animal bites can give you the same or even a better experience!
TJA!Better in what way 🤨
7 minute abs.
Lady bug bite.
I would like to attain their hard candy shell and ability to fly.
Dharma Curious (he/him)Fwiw, a lady bug once bit my ear drum several times over the course of the longest half hour of my life up until that point. It hurts. A lot.
Man, that sounds horrible. I’ve only been bit on my arms and neck by them. I would pass on ladybug eardrum bites if offered, thank you.
Don’t let one negative review scare you off of ladybug eardrum bites. There’s a tendency for only those with the most-negative (and rare!) experiences to post reviews, but there are a lot of us out there who’ve had only great experiences with ladybug eardrum bites.
Hey, if it’s your thing I’m not gonna judge. But I definitely find myself on the outside of that particular community.
For some reason, bugs like my ears. I’ve had several bug-in-ear experiences, and lemme tell you, none have been fun. Lady bug was the most painful, but only the second worst.
But, as the other commenter pointed out, perhaps there are people who enjoy the experience. It takes all types, and I don’t kink shame. But definitely do your research first and make sure you want to try it before you find yourself in the situation. Don’t wanna end up like the poop eater on reddit.
A small spider bite, which gives me the ability to punch someone in the mouth through their TV or computer screen…It has always been one of my ideas for an online business
TazerfaceThis is excellent. I have a very long list.
Nicht BurningTurtleTurritopsis dohrnii, for their phoenixlike lifecycle.
gh0stcassetteWhat if you don’t keep your memories and just come out as a genetically identical baby of yourself? Turritopsis dohrnii sounds like a cnidarian or some sort (I know loads of jellyfish have life cycles like that), and they don’t have brains, so there’s no part of their metamorphosis back to the larval phase (whatever it’s called for cnidarians) that would preserve your brain.
I don’t see much of a problem with it. Havig an iteration of my body remain, that could possibly be reeducated to be me, is a better alternative than stopping to exist, that the current model of existence guarantees.
I agree with that on some level, a bit like the whole thought experiment on uploading your brain after death. It’s not really you, but it retains enough of a semblance that it’s comforting to some people because it feels like some aspect of themselves will love on. Fair :)
Dog. I could train myself to find stuff (drugs and money, for starters) with my excellent sense of smell.
cloverI’d go with a fox bite. The cleverness and adaptability of a fox would be perfect for handling tricky challenges.
Idk, humans are cleverer than the average fox, it might just make you cuter (foxes are adorable) and more prone to pissing in random locations (domestic foxes love to pee all over your shit, they can be litterbox trained, but it’s hard). Possibly claws and fangs also, which could be useful
EdgarallenpwnA cat so I don’t have to explain why I need alone/chill time at home. It would be cool to be able to jump higher and dunk when around basketball hoops too.
Elaine CortezAn axolotl. I love swimming, less so the idea of SCUBA diving. I’d spend so many hours just chilling in the coral reefs on a sunny day. They’re amphibious too so it means I could breathe just fine on land and in the water!
Alpaca or Capybara. Because they’re supernaturally awesome. I want that as a superpower.
I want the deep dive abilities of a Sperm Whale. Able to hold my breath for 90 minutes and survive 100+ atmospheres of pressure.
You’ll have to survive the bite first.
Juuuuust the tip.
Alternately, get bitten by a sperm and spend your life drowning in pussy.
Sperm is not an animal.
Sperm will drown in lotion, tissue paper, toilets, mouths, assholes, various fruit, couches apparently, condoms, and probably an order of magnitude or few more places than just this small list I’ve constructed.
Sperm don’t have a mouth and thus cannot bite.
JarlsburgAll I know that if this works intraspecies, dentists would collect all the powers of various people through incidental biting like Megaman.
Unfortunately, the bites also transfer all mental/emotional baggage.
astrskA predatory bird, which would give me extra cones and rods to see more colors / spectrum as well as possibly telescopic vision.
A shark, so I can swim better and breathe underwater. Then maybe I won’t be so afraid of large bodies of water.
If you want cool eyes, go with the Mantis Shrimp tbh, they’ve got like 7 or 8 different cone cells for everything from ultraviolet to infrared. IIRC scientists don’t think their brains are powerful enough to fully use all that info at once, but I feel like connecting that to a brain that’s like 1000x as powerful would fix that. I’d hope you’d just get the extra cone cells and not compund eyes tho, compound eyes would be Difficult for a human to adopt to, since our visual cortices evolved to process two high resolution visual streams and not like, 100 shitty visual streams. I think you could just plug an eye with extra cone types directly into a human brain tho, there are people born with tetrachromia (4th cone cell that extends a bit into the ultraviolet iirc), and they can utilize information from the extra cone cells perfectly fine.
A lizard, then a pig.
Chop off a limb. Eat bacon.
Repeat.
Free bacon forever!
Comments like this is why I love Lemmy.
An Asian palm civet, giving me the power to crap out exclusive high-priced coffee beans.
Nobody has mentioned radioactive spiders? It was the first thing I thought of.
Meh. That’s been done.
Get with the times, it’s now a GMO spider. :-)
Tardigrade, I’d have extreme resistance to basically all climates and can be dried up and rehydrated back to life effectively allowing me to “travel” through time by waiting in death…show my shows are all finished lol.
I’d also make a great astronaut
Bahnd RollardThere is a pickle rick joke to be made in there somewhere…
Or Discovery joke…
MelodiousFunkI choose to get bitten by a catgirl and gain the power of not actually existing.
This is actually very attainable, although don't do the second part :(
I was also going to say cat girl, especially if it means I can open up an onlyfans with my powers and make bank.
Ellia Plisskena cat. I would like my superpower to be that everybody treats me like a cat
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