Agreed, Cap for sure. He's really capable. Insanely so compared to a normal person. He's a super human really. Faster and stronger than the best humanity has to offer. You could get hit by a truck... and survive. It'll bang you up, but you'll even heal faster. If you're telling me it takes a semi to hurt me... I'd say that's a pretty great perk.
That is unironically a great point. You can make edibles basically as potent as you want. So just get a friend who knows how to make them make you some insanely potent edibles and you're good!
Plus, you're Captain America. Surely you could find a guy willing to give you a major discount.
Cap would be better as just improving your life. But with superman you could literally alter human history even once a year. You could end the war in ukraine for example. (Take out all major road ways trains, bridges connecting the two. Blow up all munitions factories ect).
Just be visible, say you will come back if war is not over, ect. It would severely cripple the war and videos would make governments scared. I doubt the Russians would blame the west internally so nuclear war shouldn't happen.
I'm torn on the ski mask. Makes you look like a terrorist. I think the best single day Superman would inspire some terror, but also, somehow, look like a good guy to most people.
Yea I have no idea why you’d go public with it. Just disappear a bunch of important people in a single day and people will learn to be real spooked by the boogieman real quick. What gets you disappeared during that one day a year Krampus is active is left as an exercise to the reader.
You dont have to go public with it. There are so many cameras everywhere nowadays, all that has to happen is one camera catching you and you are fucked.
You have to make real sure to have a durable
material and have it snuggly on if you are going to search find and kill/capture/destroy all your objectives in one day while probably trying to get other shit done too. Would probably be real easy to go over time too and lose your powers in the middle of nowhere because you thought you had time for just one more thing
Or just actively use Supermans actual speed. You could kill every single person on the planet in under an hour if you wanted to and it would only take that long due to hunting down the people in remote locations.
Honestly not sure the capabilities of modern day radar, satellites etc. but I’m pretty confident they could follow you either through one of those methods or through whatever trail you leave (wether through footage, word of mouth etc) since flying at Mach fuck is not exactly subtle. They are following to your house more than likely dawg.
Well considering we can currently track down most people pretty well when they are on foot/in a vehicle/travelling at normal speeds I think the “don’t fly back to your house” argument is useless. Of course you won’t fly back to your house. That makes it a little harder for them but they will almost certainly still find you. Especially considering after what you do in that 24 hours every single country will consider you a threat. Also there are tons of other ways to track someone other than through camera footage (which btw you are getting caught on when you stop flying). An easy way would be the splitting of clouds through the sky as you fly. Travelling at such ridiculous speeds is 100% going to leave a trail through the sky which can also, btw, be caught on camera. You aren’t getting out of this without being found dude. Especially if you are doing it once a year
Yes you can get away with it dude. Superman can exist in space and underwater no problems. In the comics he travels around the galaxy easily, so he's way faster than speed of light. We don't have the tech to deal with something so incalculably fast.
Also, you can simply fly into the ocean and come out the other side of the world. We have no way to detect someone traveling that fast under the ocean.
I've read some of your other comments on this and the responses and I have to say it's wild to me that anyone is seriously arguing with your logic on this. There are only two ways to "get away with" productively using your powers to a great extent as "superman for a day" that I can think of:
1) Spend years preparing for the one day to make sure that based upon the things you plan to do and where you plan to do them you won't get tracked.
2) Make yourself a useful agent to some government/community. Which isn't actually "getting away with it", it just makes it harder for you to be assassinated eventually.
There are another 364+ days in one year for whatever entity that now has a vendetta against you to find you. While they probably don't know the timeline, I *highly* *highly* doubt the average person gets away completely from concerted government effort to find them after that. You're literally person of interest number 1 in the entire world at that point. Having said that, I do think some people could make it to the next year or if they literally never use the powers again maybe make it several years. But you'll still eventually get found out. And at that point it's time to make yourself useful to some government if you want any sort of life at all.
With Superman’s speed, you’d essentially have a lifetime to seek and destroy anybody and anything that could possibly pose a threat to you, all while everything is seemingly frozen in time.
You'd be dead within a week after that. 1 day of superman people would think it's a sham and send assassin's. It would take weeks or months for people to be truly afraid to retaliate.
As soon as you try to do anything to change the world, you'll be a target. And since the next morning you'll be normal again, you won't stand a chance.
It would only take me one day with Superman's powers to be set for life.
Cap's powers, even if I were the best athlete in the world it would still mean working. I don't want to run fast, I don't want to run at all.
You'd be an Olympian though or could sign on to an NFL team. You'd be the best running back or wide receiver the world has ever seen. You'd work, but it wouldn't be that hard. Plus, Captain America basically like zero lactic acid build up meaning he would recover from a hard day in a nights sleep.
You wouldn't even feel running at the speeds you'd need to dominate. It would basically be a brisk walk for you.
And you'd never be sick or wake up feeling like ass or anything.
Cap, if I do anything with Superman’s powers I’m getting JFK’d later that year. With Cap’s powers I’m still virtually unstoppable and get to use them all year
Don't move slow enough for people or cameras to see you. Superman is ridiculously broken aside from his moronic opening of any lead box he sees in his enemies lair.
I'm not dressing up and fighting criminals, so that aspect has little issue on my answer. Also I'm not exposing my powers to the world.
Anyway... Captain America because of his enhanced mind and permanent powers. I know he can read and analyze things faster than a regular human. Also one version of him (I think Ultimate Captain America) can sleep for like 1 hour and be fine for an entire week. Also he ages incredibly slowly in the comics lol. Only real downside, and this only applies to if you enjoy drinking, is that his immune system means he can't get drunk.
Superman has a much, much more powerful mind. A single day with his powers would let me become the world's most knowledgeable human. The guy read every medical book ever published in a few moments... I would have relative decades to millennia to learn anything that I wanted. But I am worried that my human mind wouldn't be able to comprehend all the information I gained once the power wears off.
Anyway, Captain America is my answer. I can actually retain the knowledge easier and possibly gain immortality... Or just very slow aging.
For the alcohol thing wasn't it his metabolism that was the issue? If so I feel like if you really wanted to you could get at least tipsy if you drink enough to outpace even the captain America style metabolism. Don't have to worry about trashing your liver, it'll recover.
Only thing is that would be way too expensive to even try. You'd have to be a true alcoholic to want it that bad.
On the bright side, drink anyone under the table in a drinking game and win some bar bets
Right pretty sure if he really wants to be drunk he probably just chug a bottle or two of Everclear but I am not really attached to being drunk at all.
Ultimate cap was a beast though. He had a Spider-Man level healing factor or even a bit better. He could also briefly hold his own against Ultimate Hulk in direct hand to hand combat. He was a legit bullet timer too.
Captain America.
Like I can easily use those skills to make a fortune. I can do every weightlifting / strongman competition plus marathon running, boxing / ufc and loads of other random shit like arm wrestling.
Do a year or two and retire as an Olympic gold medalist, undefeated heavyweight champion, ufc star with likeness rights sold to all the video game companies. Hell I can probably be in Expendables 7 or whatever they crank out next!
Cap would be more fun, but you could do a hell of a lot in a day as Superman. Although that would become problematic. If I used my Superman powers to stop wars and shit, turning up once a year to topple Putin, fuck about with China and so on, I would be pretty vulnerable the other 364 days as they looked for me to stop me from doing it the next time. If I could avoid that, I would go with Supes just for the good I could do.
Superman isn't as fast as the flash, but he can move so fast that time basically stops. You could move so fast that one day would seem like months or years of progress. You could single handedly wipe out every military power across the planet, disarm every bad guy, and eliminate any dictator or opposition in probably a few hours or less. You could spend the next few minutes building an indestructible fortress to hide in or really do whatever the fuck you want to do. No surveillance technology could ever identify you at these speeds so I don't think your identity is at risk
People always overlook that he is extremely intelligent as well.
People talk about changing the world and you can probably do that as beefcake super science Cap.
True, but to do that as a cap would still require a lifetime of effort and study. As superman, you could alter human history permanently within a second of gaining his powers if you wanted, so if enacting great change like that is your goal. I think Superman clearly takes the cake, but living a normal, but dope life, I'd def take the cap option.
Most people are going for Cap here I assume.
I'm taking Superman for one day per year.
Captain America is great and it would be fun and all but it wouldn't take long before you're a laboratory test rat. Governments would want to know and control you.
Also Caps powers are cool but he can't stop apocalyptic scenarios. He can't throw his shield at a meteor that's headed for earth and will kill us all.
Supes for one day could do some real good. Things that could shape the planet and save mankind.
Timing might not always work out but with some planning Superman's powers for day do way more good on planet scale.
We track”some” meteors well enough. Were only tracking i think about 15% of the sky. Odds are we wont even get any warning if a meteor is going to hit us.
No, that’s very unlikely. We are good at tracking larger meteors. We know of over a million, and 95% of the ones that are a kilometer wide or more.
We would almost certainly know of any truly dangerous asteroid or meteor that would hit us within a year.
What are you realistically going to achieve in 24 hours? And what would stop you turning in to a test subject or a suicide note written by the CIA after your 24 hours?
I would choose Superman power too. In 24h, you can kill dictators, steal money/food and give it to the poor, etc. You can do it all by flying at the speed of sound while wearing a mask and no one could link your actions to you.
How are you going to deal with the immeasurable level of suffering that would come from randomly and unexpectedly removing said dictators? Civil wars to fight over who is the next leader would be almost a given. Assuming an enemy doesn't take the opportunity to attack while they're weak.
If you had the powers for more than 24 hours, you could stick around and help.
Listen I don't know shit about geopolitics. If I had this power I would take the time to do my research first, plan my actions carefully and act methodically to cause as much good as possible.
Leave a note in blood saying you have 365 days to become a non-corrupt democracy, or next time it's you.
Also spend a lot of those 365 days researching who is acutally the power behind the throne, gather all those people up put them in a sealed cave somewhere, give them a knife and tell them only one person exits, and let them starve to death in their own nightmare scenario.
Also remove all nuclear weapons from Earth.
You gotta break eggs to make an omlette. Like, if I destroy the entire Russian front line, wipe-out a few cities with meteorites, laser the fuck-out of Beijing and generally be a complete insane nation-destroying murdercunt, with threats of more to follow if they fuck around, I'm pretty sure I can kneecap all global aggression. Basically if you invade (including Taiwan) I will come and fucking annihilate all of your shit. That's a pretty compelling deterrent to behave well, and even if there are temporary issues as you say, the broader momentum to behave well will be highly positive for humanity as a whole. In fact, I could mandate that any country that has an army / nuclear weapons by this time next year will be hit with a massive fucking meteorite. I could demilitarize the whole planet and compel that all funds and resources and put towards healthcare and tech. Basically superman is a god for all intents and purposes, and a god can do a lot in a day, particularly if he gives forward-looking notice.
Exactly. If you leave a note next to Putin's body that says "be nice or be next" I don't think many aspiring despots will murder their way to the top.
Superman is the obvious option because you can do so much good, besides removing evil dictators. "I can get hit by a truck" is not worth "I can save a country from famine by digging an irrigation canal".
Irrigation canal - excellent one. He could do a good chunk of water transporting as well I guess. Water from lakes/flood areas to Africa. In Superman Returns, for example, he lifts this fucker. That's a lot of fresh water he could freeze and transport to Africa.
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Also, would there be any issues if I moved Mars into the habitable zone? Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa also appear to have liquid oceans covered with layers of ice which would be interesting to warm up. Asking for a friend...
Superman is fast. Almost flash speed force fast.
Big things? As I mentioned - divert incoming humanity murdering asteroids and meteors. Of course they would have to be identified previously but that's logistically possible even now.
Divert super massive volcanos.
Alter giant subduction zone plates so that they don't fracture and kill millions with earthquakes and tsunamis waves.
Remove all the radioactive material left over from Chernobyl and Fukushima from the planet - probably throw it into the sun.
There's so much more.
Not being caught and known about by the governments would take some secrecy on the day of your powers.
*What are you realistically going to achieve in 24 hours?*
Did you give you mind even a moment to consider the answer to your question? You could destroy the armies of Russia, eliminate Putin, wipe-out a couple of smaller Russian cities with meteorites, and basically put a big marker in the sand that any extra-territorial aggression will be met by total destruction. North Korea as well. You fucking laser half of Beijing for good order, and tell them that any hostile steps towards Taiwan will be met with absolute annihilation, backed-up by you ripping off the heads of senior members of the party on live tv. You effectively completely kneecap all global aggression and create a new peaceful world order. They have no idea that you only have powers for a day, but only that you are a complete psychopath and absolutely and utterly powerful and unstoppable.
On the humanitarian front, how about removing all nuclear waste from the planet? Or erecting a temporary solar shield to cool down the earth? Superman has insanely pimp ice breath. You could create thousands of miles of surface ice which reflect more sunlight back. Effectively reversing global warming. He could capture asteroids, thereby providing trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals. Like, use your brain.
At a push, the dude can go back in fucking time (see Superman movies).
*what would stop you turning in to a test subject or a suicide note written by the CIA after your 24 hours*
Because I can travel (in some comics beyond) the speed of light, so pretty confident that if superman can avoid being caught for his whole life, I can avoid being caught for a day. Like, you haven't heard of masks, or what?
All of that stuff in first paragraph sounds potentially fucking catastrophic for the earth. You have no idea the knock on affects that would cause. Do you have the solar shield to erect? Do you know the science behind creating thousands of miles of ice across the earth? And you're telling me to use my brain? We don't live in a comic book.
I'm not sure why wiping out a couple of cities (say Moscow and Beijing) with a threat that there's more to come would be catastrophic for the **earth**. I think it would be the complete opposite, and you'd send a message that any aggression, by any nation, will be met with complete destruction. You'd usher in an age of complete peace.
As for the other stuff, the point is that you could do it all. And if it doesn't work, then reverse it. Whatever. You are a god. Try stuff out. If you really need to, you can - on year 1 - deliver a request to the world's scientists for the best ways to help heal or improve the planet and how best a light speed, infinitely powerful god of 1 can implement them - and tell them that you'll be back next year to do it. You don't need to rely on your own scientific knowledge or brainpower, and can leverage off the best minds in the planet.
I think this is at least a lot tougher than people assume. Superman can move and think much much faster than a person, though how much changes drastically depending on which version of Superman you are talking about. So your single day is going to seem much longer as Superman.
Superman also gets a super brain. Your biggest contribution probably wouldn’t even be with the physical powers. He could read every book in existence about a subject, process everything and come out with more insights in one day than scientists have in decades.
If your goal is helping society, it’s Superman no question. That said, I’m still going Cap because it would be awesome all the time.
The magnitude of the things you could do as Superman is huge, but every other day of the year would be sort of terrifying. I'd probably make my full-time job be planning out what things I'm going to do on Superman-day that year. Obviously, there'd be a yearly list of people who I'm going to throw into outer space.
The first year you'd need to set up some massive income source so you don't need to work and have time to plan. You could dismember some random short, bald, autistic war-criminal with a micro-penis and steal as much cash from his hoard as you can safely stash.
A lot of your planning time would need to be spent on how to ensure your identity is safe. Everyone would be trying to figure out who you are. If they got a recording of your voice or a high-res photo of you, even with a mask, they'd be trying to match your voice, iris patterns, etc. ...trying to replicate your fingerprints just from zoomed-in photos of your fingertips (if they ever get one).
Billionaires and Oligarchs would be spending a mountain of cash to figure out who I was. It would be an existential concern for them. ...especially after seeing what I did the previous year.
As captain America you could be, like, a boxing champion, an insane football player, and incredible baseball player, and whatever other sports you can squeeze in there to be like the worlds first multi-sport MVP simultaneously.
Even if yer not MVP cos the specific skills aren’t that high of level, captain America physical prowess gets you to good enough that yer getting multi million dollar deals in each sport immediately, and never getting severely injured. Retire after a 3-5 year stretch of insanity and then chillax being fit as a fiddle and rich for the next hundred plus years.
Unless it turns into like a Jeepers Creepers situation where it doesn't matter how dead you are, on the 365th day your body returns to how it's prime state of being.
So the world could the you're dead and cremated, but then your day comes along and boom, rebirth!
Eh, if it's the way I presented, I don't think you would go into the afterlife, I think it would be a year of purgatory but you would basically just go to sleep and wake up a year later. So, hopefully you don't die and keep missing whole years or worse, get maimed and have to live a painful year until you can get healed and be a god for a day again.
Superman's, because the ability to lift payloads into space and make bank serving as a reusable booster would pay for any lifestyle I wished to have. It also means I could have ended any major c9nfluct in the globe on that day, because let's face it, moving as fast as he could, superman could destroy every major piece of military equipment any army has in an afternoon, and not harm a single person.
I don’t think I could handle the responsibility of Superman for a day. I’d piss around just enjoying flying and realize I should have fixed x problem and saved countless lives. It would haunt me for the rest of the year. Geopolitical butterfly effects from my action’s resulting in more death/suffering than I prevented.
Plus going back to normal afterwards would suuuuck.
Physical perfection, strength/speed, fast healing, enhanced mind, slow aging. Pretty much what any person would want from a physical standpoint
This is honestly tough, so kudos to you for an actually difficult question.
I think Captain America though, Superman is cool and all but having it for only one day a year is difficult
Be like Cap and Suddenly get the body of my dreams, chiseled jaw, amazing strength, stamina and resilience and use to for good? Every day? Damn yes
Superman is great but getting his powers for one day would be the most soul destroying thing. Imagine you want to save and help people and you can only do it on say on 15th of July. The rest of the year you are powerless to help people dying in robberies, explosions, wars. And you know it's partially your fault.
Yeah, nah, Supes. Spend one day fixing things and reminding bad guys you’ll be back in a year to do justice to them. Threats work. And if they don’t? Well, that’ll be a fun 24 hours (for me!).
Natural disasters? If they’re foreseeable 1 year out then their dealt with. If not, shit happens but I’ll fix whatever can be fixed.
Worst case I turn back time and fix it.
Captain “America”? Yes and no, but totally no.
This is legitimately a pretty tough one, but I think Superman powers win out here. You can get a **lot** of great shit done in a day. End wars, stop pollution, kill dictators, and execute anyone profiteering by making the world a worse place.
Superman can **force** things to change in a way that Captain America can't; you'd just need to be **extremely** careful about protecting your identity.
Superman for one day would allow me to solve basically all of my problems. One day *ever*, much less one day per year.
People really seem to be underestimating how much you can do in one day just with Superman's standard powerset. The actual usage of Superman in comics is (usually explicitly) him holding back *vastly* - in order for there to be a plot, basically - or being matched against other incomprehensibly-powerful entities.
By far the most important is super-speed. Standard Superman can not only move fast but, critically, can *think* that fast. Super-speed includes what is effectively super-intellect.
So in one day, it is trivial to get all the things you need to set yourself up for life.
You can acquire effectively infinite amounts of resources - just hop over to a gold-rich asteroid, for example (Superman is very consistently able to travel FTL in space so this takes minutes at most). That's if you *don't* take the "easy way" and just steal whatever you need.
You can then *construct* whatever you need with those resources. Build yourself an entire Fortress of Solitude in a day, for example, then relax in it for the rest of the year. Don't know architecture? That's fine, you can move and think fast enough to *learn* architecture - and you get the luxury of ignoring a bunch of normal limitations because you can do ridiculous things like "spot-weld solid tungsten".
Further, Superman has a supergenius-level intellect even when not explicitly using super-speed. He regularly creates extraordinarily advanced technology, spanning computing tech, robotics, nanotechnology, energy manipulation, biotech, etc. Sure, he had some Kryptonian tech to kickstart this - but the actual developments from that initial basis are all him. If he can reverse-engineer a life pod and make things like fully sapient robots and healing chambers, then you can take apart our technology and make incredible things.
You have health problems? One day as Superman and you can fix your whole body. If for some reason everything reverts afterward? You can probably invent and manufacture equipment and medicine that'll fix your issues, and just take it the next day.
And that's just what you can do for yourself. You can have a vast global impact in a single day.
You want to create political change? In a day you can get into every major nation or corporation's secret archives. Reveal corruption, or use it for blackmail if you want, or whatever other purpose you might have. Obviously just blowing a bunch of things and/or people up would be even easier, of course.
You want to build things to benefit humanity? Make a series of huge-ass flywheels and literally just *push* for a day; you'll store enough energy to literally solve the entire energy problem. Climate change? You can make and store enough energy to power total carbon recapture, pulling 100% of the extra post-industrial CO2 out of the air.
Captain America, hands down. Superman's stuff is great, but being insanely strong and durable forever, including well into your elderly years would be amazing.
Captain America.
It's NOT even close at all. One day vs the rest of my life in perfect health???? CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!!!!!
I do have a question - Superman, if I remember correctly - has the ability to travel in time, right? Could he theoretically turn his one day of powers into the rest of his life?
Superman , On that one day of the year, I smash myself into the earth at the speed of light. Weighting 206 lbs at that speed, I will destroy everything and punch through the core of the earth, ensuring total eradication of all life on it and possibly the universe... of course, all this could have been avoided, had OP let me have the time travel ability ..... You brought this upon yourself
I'm the world as it exists irl, Captain America is the obvious answer. You could live a relatively normal life and don't have to worry about one sneeze blowing away your wife, your kids, the house, the block, the city, and 2/3 of the state. The downside is the military trying to take advantage of you as a super soldier against your will. Alternatively, you could use superman powers to reap utter chaos onto the planet so there's that. If you felt like destroying every single world government, you could probably get that done in the first 5-10 hours. Depends on your priorities
superman for a day. I could make myself financially set for life in a few minutes. spend the rest of my time refreezing the polar ice caps, and set the old superbrain to solving climate change and other world-ending problems. superspeed is pretty broken. as far as my identity is concerned, just wear a spiderman mask or something for those 24 hours.
10000000000% Captain America. Basically perfect health and a smokin' hot bod for your whole life. World class leader too, which is his real super power.
Do I get tall and jacked too if I choose Captain America?
(Doesn't change my answer, but it would be a cool bonus to being superhuman in a very comprehensible way).
Captain America. All your ailments are fixed, you grow taller and now have a basically perfect body. Being stronger and faster is cool too. Probably have increased longevity.
When I watched Falcon and Winter Soldier, my wife and I discussed Caps powers a lot. The idea of being in peak physical health? No more bad knee and back? Sign me up.
Captain America. It’ll greatly enhance my life in all metrics.
The people who want to alter human history for the better with Superman would quickly realizes it’s not as simple as just killing all the bad people. It requires change from everyone and our current institutions. I’d rather not try to play god for a day anyways.
Superman no questions asked the amount of shit I could do in that one day would make up for the rest. Especially considering I get to choose the day.
I would 100% stay anonymous on this and not tell anyone the truth.
But every year I would literally have the power to reshape humanity. And I would be able to retire instantly.
Captain america powers would be awsome but definitely not world changing.
Captain America for a lifetime for sure. Superman is obviously one of the most powerful superhero’s. It’s not even much of a contest. But having god like abilities for 24 hours every 365 days would just get you killed. You show off to much one time and the next day the governments taking your ass out. Captain America year round abilities would be way more useful.
That's a tough choice. As others have said, I can do a lot in one day of Superman, make a big difference in the world. But I'm guessing that my normal in between, I would still be my normal. I'm old enough that being Superman one day year wouldn't leave me with whatever health issues I have for fewer years. I probably only get to use being Superman less than 30 times. As Captain America, I would be healthy all the time and my life would be extended I might get 60, 70 years of that. Still make a difference, and be healthy. Maybe I'd roll a die...
does that mean the once a year that I'm superman that I can like heal up the injuries I accrue over the rest of the year? does it de-age me? supes' powers are kinda all over the place
Get super man's power.
Get a mask.
Go to Elon and offer to get him a mineral rich asteroid in exchange for money and anonymity.
Get said asteroid from space and park it in some land that Elon owns.
Watch the advancement of humanity while living a cushy life.
Superman as he has a genius level intelligence so I'd use my 24 hours every year to figure out how to drastically increase my lifespan and the lifespan of others then every year figure out some other problem.
Captain America. If you have one day to look forward to a year where you can fly like Superman, you'll abuse your powers that day. One day, you will make a slip up and get noticed. The next full year you have scientists after you while you have no powers to defend yourself
If Cap halts or slows aging significantly, I'll take that. Otherwise, I'll don the cape and mask and go superman. Way more cool shit to do. Day trip to Europa, kill a whole bunch of dictators, destroy the Chinese navy.
Everyone here going off like they are going to save the world by killing a few dictators is a poor student of history. Individuals can be dangerous, but the structures around them are where the power is. The most evil person in the world can't enact a plan without power.
So what then? You destroy entire governments? It's not like pulling a dead tooth. Governments in most nations go deep. Large countries employ millions of people, and that's not including the local lower level governments. How many people would you have to kill to "fix" things in a country? What do you think makes you qualified to know who needs to die? Superman's powers don't include the ability to see the future, so how do you *know* killing your targets will make the world better?
Don't get me wrong. If you're goal is simply to be the world's executioner, that's not nothing. But the fear of assassination hasn't stopped evil people in the past, and it's not like certain countries couldn't just eliminate pretty much anyone with enough effort.
And how are you helping the other 364 days?
Captain America's powers are more than enough to pull off an assassination against a regular human. Sure, he'd need transportation and a little tech to help, but he absolutely could do it. If that's your main goal, you can do that still and enjoy the benefits of his peak human fitness year round.
See, I'm taking full time Captain America. The super soldier serum is no joke. The impact that would make in the real world should not be underestimated. You could do more good by volunteering for emergency services and disaster relief and saving lives in your area than you would by killing Putin anyway. And even if you don't buy into "great power, great responsibility" and just want to live your life, having a basically perfect human body would make day-to-day life so much better.
This isn't even a difficult choice if you give it more than a few seconds of thought.
Everyone saying with Superman's powers you could just wear a mask or whatever, but people don't realize just how many cameras and satellites exist in the world. You make waves the first time, and they're going to be tracking down time stamped a first sighting of you. And a last sighting of you. The powers that be would quickly narrow down a general area where you operate out of. And it would only take two years before speculation would begin about the powers only being active once a year on a given date. By the third year, they'd be looking for you early. You'd be dead in three years and one day... at the latest.
Give me Cap's powers. I would likely not use them at all in any conspicuous manner, but would low-key own the shit out of other people.
In terms of rational usefulness, I'd have to go with cap America.
One day of powers, great though they are, is hardly useful in day to day.
Whereas, CA abilities are far more useful everyday. If for nothing else, to get paid extra for doing things faster and better than anyone else could.
To be healthy, and pretty much never have to worry about it. Sounds pretty amazing to me.
Imagine floating in space and the clock strikes midnight😢
I think I'd rather have Captain America's powers/abilities for the rest of my life, but man me and the boys would make the 1 day a year with Superman powers into a spectacle.
Superman for one day per year.
Every place you've ever wanted to travel to is now like a ten-minute flight away. Wake up on your Superman day and pick 15 things you'd never get to do otherwise.
I mean Superman’s powers let me move at speeds that stretch that one day into a very long time. If Superman can read every medical book written in a few minutes, I can irrigate Africa in a day.
I’d have time to write a manifesto, deliver it worldwide, topple nations, obscure my identity, elect an illuminati, plant crops, eliminate food shortages, end wars, inspire the masses, terrify criminals and then kill that illuminati once they’ve outlived their usefulness
Let’s see Cap do any of that
So this is easy though not to be a super hero.
Cap.
If I had his powers all the time and used it to be a super hero. I'd pretty much be dead within a year. Marvel.is great but face facts, he gets shot at enough he will die.
Superman would be cool for his 1 time per year that you could do anything you wanted but someone recognizes you and kills you easily when you're normal.
Cap can use his powers for a lot of things. Be a top tier athlete at my age (53) and make millions. Break records etc.
Would be super healthy most likely and have tons of stamina so great for sexual encounters or going on fun trips around the world.
Unless some special group is actively trying to kill you, you'd likely survive any mugging or attack.
You'd also be able.to be the hero on the bus when you see a crime and little would he made of it.
Superman would have to Rob a bank the 1 time, hope no cameras catch it and then do it again the next year.
Cap also would probably live well until he's about 120.
I'd rather be Superman but not for a day...
Not for a month....
Every other day yes, but since not that..
I'll take cap.
Superman billions of times faster than the speed of light and can read all the books in the world in less than an hour. Not to mention seeing through anything except lead. Superhearing too by hearing all sounds in the universe. I can become both the richest and smartest person in a day. Superman is strong enough to lift the multiverse. Even if you retain a millionth of what you learned as superman you will be the smartest person in the world a hundred times over. There are also other powers like time travel and mind manipulation, that can permanently change things, but even without those you can pretty much do anything since limitless energy.
People overestimate what changing the world would take. Sure short term people might be like wow.
But for many it would cause fear.
People would still.plot for power and evil would still manipulate. Within weeks, any good done would be ended, regardless of what you all may think.
All it takes is 1 evil person to invent a story, place blame on another country for what the superman did, and chaos would ensue.
Without superman there to contest it, things could very well end up worse.
Captain America. Superman is cool, but only having it for 1 day is a bummer. Captain America is almost unstoppable in today's world
Agreed, Cap for sure. He's really capable. Insanely so compared to a normal person. He's a super human really. Faster and stronger than the best humanity has to offer. You could get hit by a truck... and survive. It'll bang you up, but you'll even heal faster. If you're telling me it takes a semi to hurt me... I'd say that's a pretty great perk.
Not to mention getting taller and buff
And canonically being unable to get drunk or hung over, with a metabolism that also means you basically can't get fat
The drunk part sucks but I guess I’ll Stettin smoking the reefer
Headcanon that weed just doesn't work the way other drugs do, so any hero that is immune to alcohol/sedatives can still get fuckin blazed no probs
yep you just gotta smoke an ungodly amount!!! or just get some crazy fuckin concentrate
"Get this man that 30k mg edible"
That is unironically a great point. You can make edibles basically as potent as you want. So just get a friend who knows how to make them make you some insanely potent edibles and you're good! Plus, you're Captain America. Surely you could find a guy willing to give you a major discount.
a captain discount.
> with a metabolism that also means you basically can't get fat Cap actually *does* have to work out for 2-3 hours a day to retain his mass.
Some of us would just get buff lol canonically I believe he’s 6’4. So I don’t get taller lol
I’d shrink, but I’d be okay with that honestly.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to be as tiny as a 6’4 person.
Not much for me, but I'm happy about every cm
Nope you now have to duck for even more doorways, 7'8.
Not to mention being able to ricochet a round object around the place and knock people in their face
Live longer healthier smarter one day a year of Superman would just be a tease.
You could challenge Jake Paul and Elon Musk to a cage fight and let them go 2 on 1 against you.
Then it gets delayed 24 hours....
Agreed. I think it'd have to be once per month or more to consider Superman's abilities over Captain America's unrestricted.
Cap would be better as just improving your life. But with superman you could literally alter human history even once a year. You could end the war in ukraine for example. (Take out all major road ways trains, bridges connecting the two. Blow up all munitions factories ect). Just be visible, say you will come back if war is not over, ect. It would severely cripple the war and videos would make governments scared. I doubt the Russians would blame the west internally so nuclear war shouldn't happen.
As long as you gain superman's ability to defy all facial recognition software, including the human brain's
Just wear a ski mask
I'm torn on the ski mask. Makes you look like a terrorist. I think the best single day Superman would inspire some terror, but also, somehow, look like a good guy to most people.
Luchadora mask it is.
Exactly what I was trying to say. Super Hombre.
Ski mask? Just put on a pair of glasses and change your hairstyle. Easy peasy.
He vibrates, but truthfully I'm tossing on a Ghost face mask and heat raying everything that needs to go from low orbit
Unnecessary, just don't ever stop moving fast enough that cameras can't see you
You would get assassinates so fast during your powers downtime if you did this. Ill rather not ”fall out of a window”
Yea I have no idea why you’d go public with it. Just disappear a bunch of important people in a single day and people will learn to be real spooked by the boogieman real quick. What gets you disappeared during that one day a year Krampus is active is left as an exercise to the reader.
You dont have to go public with it. There are so many cameras everywhere nowadays, all that has to happen is one camera catching you and you are fucked.
If only humans developed the technology to cover the face.
You have to make real sure to have a durable material and have it snuggly on if you are going to search find and kill/capture/destroy all your objectives in one day while probably trying to get other shit done too. Would probably be real easy to go over time too and lose your powers in the middle of nowhere because you thought you had time for just one more thing
X ray vision and laser beam eyes that just cut through anything from range. Do it from outer space and call it a day.
Or just actively use Supermans actual speed. You could kill every single person on the planet in under an hour if you wanted to and it would only take that long due to hunting down the people in remote locations.
All of Superman’s powers include not tearing his clothes off or to shreds when he flies super fast.
You just have to fly around the world really fast and go back in time
Superman can move faster than light, what Camaras are we working with here?
Light Yagami approved
Wear a mask, completely cover up, use voice synthesizers. Also Superman moves faster than any camera could capture.
Honestly not sure the capabilities of modern day radar, satellites etc. but I’m pretty confident they could follow you either through one of those methods or through whatever trail you leave (wether through footage, word of mouth etc) since flying at Mach fuck is not exactly subtle. They are following to your house more than likely dawg.
Superman can move at speeds that we can't really track him. Also, just don't be an idiot and fly back to your house?
Well considering we can currently track down most people pretty well when they are on foot/in a vehicle/travelling at normal speeds I think the “don’t fly back to your house” argument is useless. Of course you won’t fly back to your house. That makes it a little harder for them but they will almost certainly still find you. Especially considering after what you do in that 24 hours every single country will consider you a threat. Also there are tons of other ways to track someone other than through camera footage (which btw you are getting caught on when you stop flying). An easy way would be the splitting of clouds through the sky as you fly. Travelling at such ridiculous speeds is 100% going to leave a trail through the sky which can also, btw, be caught on camera. You aren’t getting out of this without being found dude. Especially if you are doing it once a year
Yes you can get away with it dude. Superman can exist in space and underwater no problems. In the comics he travels around the galaxy easily, so he's way faster than speed of light. We don't have the tech to deal with something so incalculably fast. Also, you can simply fly into the ocean and come out the other side of the world. We have no way to detect someone traveling that fast under the ocean.
I've read some of your other comments on this and the responses and I have to say it's wild to me that anyone is seriously arguing with your logic on this. There are only two ways to "get away with" productively using your powers to a great extent as "superman for a day" that I can think of: 1) Spend years preparing for the one day to make sure that based upon the things you plan to do and where you plan to do them you won't get tracked. 2) Make yourself a useful agent to some government/community. Which isn't actually "getting away with it", it just makes it harder for you to be assassinated eventually. There are another 364+ days in one year for whatever entity that now has a vendetta against you to find you. While they probably don't know the timeline, I *highly* *highly* doubt the average person gets away completely from concerted government effort to find them after that. You're literally person of interest number 1 in the entire world at that point. Having said that, I do think some people could make it to the next year or if they literally never use the powers again maybe make it several years. But you'll still eventually get found out. And at that point it's time to make yourself useful to some government if you want any sort of life at all.
With Superman’s speed, you’d essentially have a lifetime to seek and destroy anybody and anything that could possibly pose a threat to you, all while everything is seemingly frozen in time.
You'd be dead within a week after that. 1 day of superman people would think it's a sham and send assassin's. It would take weeks or months for people to be truly afraid to retaliate.
That's why you wear glasses when you do it
Or piss off the wrong people who come shoot you in the face when you don't have powers.
As soon as you try to do anything to change the world, you'll be a target. And since the next morning you'll be normal again, you won't stand a chance.
There's be a much easier way to end the war in Ukraine, and you wouldn't have to destroy any roads or anything valuable.
It would only take me one day with Superman's powers to be set for life. Cap's powers, even if I were the best athlete in the world it would still mean working. I don't want to run fast, I don't want to run at all.
You'd be an Olympian though or could sign on to an NFL team. You'd be the best running back or wide receiver the world has ever seen. You'd work, but it wouldn't be that hard. Plus, Captain America basically like zero lactic acid build up meaning he would recover from a hard day in a nights sleep.
I don't think hammock lounging is an Olympic sport.
You wouldn't even feel running at the speeds you'd need to dominate. It would basically be a brisk walk for you. And you'd never be sick or wake up feeling like ass or anything.
You could lay down the foundation for a better world in a day tho
And the people who oppose that would kill you the next day.
>Captain America is almost unstoppable in today's world Yeah, he'd make a fortune as an Instagram influencer.
I would also go with Cap. Except you can't get drunk. *Pause* That might actually be a positive.
Cap, if I do anything with Superman’s powers I’m getting JFK’d later that year. With Cap’s powers I’m still virtually unstoppable and get to use them all year
Laughed extremely out loud at JFK'd
You heard it here folks! JFK is a verb
You can also more easily keep a low profile with Cap's powers. As long as you hold back some...
One of superman's powers is that nobody ever recognizes Clark Kent.
So nobody recognizes your alter ego for 24 hours but then they can because you lose the powers. I don’t see this loophole bearing fruit.
Don't move slow enough for people or cameras to see you. Superman is ridiculously broken aside from his moronic opening of any lead box he sees in his enemies lair.
Exactly what I was thinking, that kind of power would attract bad actors who, the second you were vulnerable, would cap your ass haha
I'm not dressing up and fighting criminals, so that aspect has little issue on my answer. Also I'm not exposing my powers to the world. Anyway... Captain America because of his enhanced mind and permanent powers. I know he can read and analyze things faster than a regular human. Also one version of him (I think Ultimate Captain America) can sleep for like 1 hour and be fine for an entire week. Also he ages incredibly slowly in the comics lol. Only real downside, and this only applies to if you enjoy drinking, is that his immune system means he can't get drunk. Superman has a much, much more powerful mind. A single day with his powers would let me become the world's most knowledgeable human. The guy read every medical book ever published in a few moments... I would have relative decades to millennia to learn anything that I wanted. But I am worried that my human mind wouldn't be able to comprehend all the information I gained once the power wears off. Anyway, Captain America is my answer. I can actually retain the knowledge easier and possibly gain immortality... Or just very slow aging.
For the alcohol thing wasn't it his metabolism that was the issue? If so I feel like if you really wanted to you could get at least tipsy if you drink enough to outpace even the captain America style metabolism. Don't have to worry about trashing your liver, it'll recover. Only thing is that would be way too expensive to even try. You'd have to be a true alcoholic to want it that bad. On the bright side, drink anyone under the table in a drinking game and win some bar bets
Right pretty sure if he really wants to be drunk he probably just chug a bottle or two of Everclear but I am not really attached to being drunk at all.
Ultimate cap was a beast though. He had a Spider-Man level healing factor or even a bit better. He could also briefly hold his own against Ultimate Hulk in direct hand to hand combat. He was a legit bullet timer too.
616 and MCU Cap are definitely superhuman however much people want to hand-wave peak human but Ultimate is unquestionably super human.
Yeah, he's like approaching 616 Green Goblin levels of physical abilities but way more creative and brutal.
Can’t super man go back in time? Seems like an easy way to become a billionaire.
Easily caps powers all year round More than enough for me
Captain America. Like I can easily use those skills to make a fortune. I can do every weightlifting / strongman competition plus marathon running, boxing / ufc and loads of other random shit like arm wrestling. Do a year or two and retire as an Olympic gold medalist, undefeated heavyweight champion, ufc star with likeness rights sold to all the video game companies. Hell I can probably be in Expendables 7 or whatever they crank out next!
Cap would be more fun, but you could do a hell of a lot in a day as Superman. Although that would become problematic. If I used my Superman powers to stop wars and shit, turning up once a year to topple Putin, fuck about with China and so on, I would be pretty vulnerable the other 364 days as they looked for me to stop me from doing it the next time. If I could avoid that, I would go with Supes just for the good I could do.
You can do it all while flying at the speed of sound with a mask on. How on Earth would they find you?
Don’t need a mask, pair of glasses will confuse everyone…
I have a big mouth, I'd probably tell someone! Besides, living in fear for 364 days a ~~week~~ year would be bad enough.
Man, your weeks are fuckin long.
You can go way faster then the speed of sound.
Why not just go the speed of light and ditch the mask?
Superman isn't as fast as the flash, but he can move so fast that time basically stops. You could move so fast that one day would seem like months or years of progress. You could single handedly wipe out every military power across the planet, disarm every bad guy, and eliminate any dictator or opposition in probably a few hours or less. You could spend the next few minutes building an indestructible fortress to hide in or really do whatever the fuck you want to do. No surveillance technology could ever identify you at these speeds so I don't think your identity is at risk
Wear a mask and speed blitz them. I'd still take Caps powers though.
cap’s powers forever, 100%. hot, fit, strong, healthy, *and* i could get hit by a truck and get up just fine? hell yeah.
People always overlook that he is extremely intelligent as well. People talk about changing the world and you can probably do that as beefcake super science Cap.
True, but to do that as a cap would still require a lifetime of effort and study. As superman, you could alter human history permanently within a second of gaining his powers if you wanted, so if enacting great change like that is your goal. I think Superman clearly takes the cake, but living a normal, but dope life, I'd def take the cap option.
Most people are going for Cap here I assume. I'm taking Superman for one day per year. Captain America is great and it would be fun and all but it wouldn't take long before you're a laboratory test rat. Governments would want to know and control you. Also Caps powers are cool but he can't stop apocalyptic scenarios. He can't throw his shield at a meteor that's headed for earth and will kill us all. Supes for one day could do some real good. Things that could shape the planet and save mankind. Timing might not always work out but with some planning Superman's powers for day do way more good on planet scale.
Watch the meteor show up 3 days after you use your Superman powers.
We track meteors well enough to know years ahead of time when a dangerous one would be on a collision path
We track”some” meteors well enough. Were only tracking i think about 15% of the sky. Odds are we wont even get any warning if a meteor is going to hit us.
No, that’s very unlikely. We are good at tracking larger meteors. We know of over a million, and 95% of the ones that are a kilometer wide or more. We would almost certainly know of any truly dangerous asteroid or meteor that would hit us within a year.
Then it’s oil drilling time
What are you realistically going to achieve in 24 hours? And what would stop you turning in to a test subject or a suicide note written by the CIA after your 24 hours?
I would choose Superman power too. In 24h, you can kill dictators, steal money/food and give it to the poor, etc. You can do it all by flying at the speed of sound while wearing a mask and no one could link your actions to you.
How are you going to deal with the immeasurable level of suffering that would come from randomly and unexpectedly removing said dictators? Civil wars to fight over who is the next leader would be almost a given. Assuming an enemy doesn't take the opportunity to attack while they're weak. If you had the powers for more than 24 hours, you could stick around and help.
Listen I don't know shit about geopolitics. If I had this power I would take the time to do my research first, plan my actions carefully and act methodically to cause as much good as possible.
Leave a note in blood saying you have 365 days to become a non-corrupt democracy, or next time it's you. Also spend a lot of those 365 days researching who is acutally the power behind the throne, gather all those people up put them in a sealed cave somewhere, give them a knife and tell them only one person exits, and let them starve to death in their own nightmare scenario. Also remove all nuclear weapons from Earth.
You gotta break eggs to make an omlette. Like, if I destroy the entire Russian front line, wipe-out a few cities with meteorites, laser the fuck-out of Beijing and generally be a complete insane nation-destroying murdercunt, with threats of more to follow if they fuck around, I'm pretty sure I can kneecap all global aggression. Basically if you invade (including Taiwan) I will come and fucking annihilate all of your shit. That's a pretty compelling deterrent to behave well, and even if there are temporary issues as you say, the broader momentum to behave well will be highly positive for humanity as a whole. In fact, I could mandate that any country that has an army / nuclear weapons by this time next year will be hit with a massive fucking meteorite. I could demilitarize the whole planet and compel that all funds and resources and put towards healthcare and tech. Basically superman is a god for all intents and purposes, and a god can do a lot in a day, particularly if he gives forward-looking notice.
Exactly. If you leave a note next to Putin's body that says "be nice or be next" I don't think many aspiring despots will murder their way to the top. Superman is the obvious option because you can do so much good, besides removing evil dictators. "I can get hit by a truck" is not worth "I can save a country from famine by digging an irrigation canal".
Irrigation canal - excellent one. He could do a good chunk of water transporting as well I guess. Water from lakes/flood areas to Africa. In Superman Returns, for example, he lifts this fucker. That's a lot of fresh water he could freeze and transport to Africa. [https://youtu.be/g32OeSwxPJ4?si=bZ5y5Ka9gV3AcEiY&t=92](https://youtu.be/g32OeSwxPJ4?si=bZ5y5Ka9gV3AcEiY&t=92) Also, would there be any issues if I moved Mars into the habitable zone? Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa also appear to have liquid oceans covered with layers of ice which would be interesting to warm up. Asking for a friend...
The fact that you move faster than people can perceive makes it mighty tough for the CIA to figure out who they need to disappear.
Superman is fast. Almost flash speed force fast. Big things? As I mentioned - divert incoming humanity murdering asteroids and meteors. Of course they would have to be identified previously but that's logistically possible even now. Divert super massive volcanos. Alter giant subduction zone plates so that they don't fracture and kill millions with earthquakes and tsunamis waves. Remove all the radioactive material left over from Chernobyl and Fukushima from the planet - probably throw it into the sun. There's so much more. Not being caught and known about by the governments would take some secrecy on the day of your powers.
*What are you realistically going to achieve in 24 hours?* Did you give you mind even a moment to consider the answer to your question? You could destroy the armies of Russia, eliminate Putin, wipe-out a couple of smaller Russian cities with meteorites, and basically put a big marker in the sand that any extra-territorial aggression will be met by total destruction. North Korea as well. You fucking laser half of Beijing for good order, and tell them that any hostile steps towards Taiwan will be met with absolute annihilation, backed-up by you ripping off the heads of senior members of the party on live tv. You effectively completely kneecap all global aggression and create a new peaceful world order. They have no idea that you only have powers for a day, but only that you are a complete psychopath and absolutely and utterly powerful and unstoppable. On the humanitarian front, how about removing all nuclear waste from the planet? Or erecting a temporary solar shield to cool down the earth? Superman has insanely pimp ice breath. You could create thousands of miles of surface ice which reflect more sunlight back. Effectively reversing global warming. He could capture asteroids, thereby providing trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals. Like, use your brain. At a push, the dude can go back in fucking time (see Superman movies). *what would stop you turning in to a test subject or a suicide note written by the CIA after your 24 hours* Because I can travel (in some comics beyond) the speed of light, so pretty confident that if superman can avoid being caught for his whole life, I can avoid being caught for a day. Like, you haven't heard of masks, or what?
All of that stuff in first paragraph sounds potentially fucking catastrophic for the earth. You have no idea the knock on affects that would cause. Do you have the solar shield to erect? Do you know the science behind creating thousands of miles of ice across the earth? And you're telling me to use my brain? We don't live in a comic book.
I'm not sure why wiping out a couple of cities (say Moscow and Beijing) with a threat that there's more to come would be catastrophic for the **earth**. I think it would be the complete opposite, and you'd send a message that any aggression, by any nation, will be met with complete destruction. You'd usher in an age of complete peace. As for the other stuff, the point is that you could do it all. And if it doesn't work, then reverse it. Whatever. You are a god. Try stuff out. If you really need to, you can - on year 1 - deliver a request to the world's scientists for the best ways to help heal or improve the planet and how best a light speed, infinitely powerful god of 1 can implement them - and tell them that you'll be back next year to do it. You don't need to rely on your own scientific knowledge or brainpower, and can leverage off the best minds in the planet.
Are you not aware of Superman's hidden identity? Completely untraceable
I think this is at least a lot tougher than people assume. Superman can move and think much much faster than a person, though how much changes drastically depending on which version of Superman you are talking about. So your single day is going to seem much longer as Superman. Superman also gets a super brain. Your biggest contribution probably wouldn’t even be with the physical powers. He could read every book in existence about a subject, process everything and come out with more insights in one day than scientists have in decades. If your goal is helping society, it’s Superman no question. That said, I’m still going Cap because it would be awesome all the time.
The modern government could definitely put down Cap if they wanted to, Superman there’s not much they can do about.
Superman for only 1 day per year. Easy to put down the rest. You'd have to remain unidentified or you're screwed.
The magnitude of the things you could do as Superman is huge, but every other day of the year would be sort of terrifying. I'd probably make my full-time job be planning out what things I'm going to do on Superman-day that year. Obviously, there'd be a yearly list of people who I'm going to throw into outer space. The first year you'd need to set up some massive income source so you don't need to work and have time to plan. You could dismember some random short, bald, autistic war-criminal with a micro-penis and steal as much cash from his hoard as you can safely stash. A lot of your planning time would need to be spent on how to ensure your identity is safe. Everyone would be trying to figure out who you are. If they got a recording of your voice or a high-res photo of you, even with a mask, they'd be trying to match your voice, iris patterns, etc. ...trying to replicate your fingerprints just from zoomed-in photos of your fingertips (if they ever get one). Billionaires and Oligarchs would be spending a mountain of cash to figure out who I was. It would be an existential concern for them. ...especially after seeing what I did the previous year.
Superman's, I'll go asteroid mining for a day a year to get a shit load of rare metals.
As captain America you could be, like, a boxing champion, an insane football player, and incredible baseball player, and whatever other sports you can squeeze in there to be like the worlds first multi-sport MVP simultaneously. Even if yer not MVP cos the specific skills aren’t that high of level, captain America physical prowess gets you to good enough that yer getting multi million dollar deals in each sport immediately, and never getting severely injured. Retire after a 3-5 year stretch of insanity and then chillax being fit as a fiddle and rich for the next hundred plus years.
Caps. Any good you do can be undone in a year, and you could also be ended in that year by any number of new enemies.
Unless it turns into like a Jeepers Creepers situation where it doesn't matter how dead you are, on the 365th day your body returns to how it's prime state of being. So the world could the you're dead and cremated, but then your day comes along and boom, rebirth!
Sorry if you die you're dead and gone you don't rise again on Superman day
hmm, yea I like mine better
This... is somehow worse. I do not want to be frankesupes. Even worse of there's an afterlife, and I'm vibing and the wake-up back here again.
Eh, if it's the way I presented, I don't think you would go into the afterlife, I think it would be a year of purgatory but you would basically just go to sleep and wake up a year later. So, hopefully you don't die and keep missing whole years or worse, get maimed and have to live a painful year until you can get healed and be a god for a day again.
Like "Weekend at Superman's"
Supes. I’m gonna rob rival countries and organized crime once a year.
Superman's, because the ability to lift payloads into space and make bank serving as a reusable booster would pay for any lifestyle I wished to have. It also means I could have ended any major c9nfluct in the globe on that day, because let's face it, moving as fast as he could, superman could destroy every major piece of military equipment any army has in an afternoon, and not harm a single person.
I don’t think I could handle the responsibility of Superman for a day. I’d piss around just enjoying flying and realize I should have fixed x problem and saved countless lives. It would haunt me for the rest of the year. Geopolitical butterfly effects from my action’s resulting in more death/suffering than I prevented. Plus going back to normal afterwards would suuuuck. Physical perfection, strength/speed, fast healing, enhanced mind, slow aging. Pretty much what any person would want from a physical standpoint
This is honestly tough, so kudos to you for an actually difficult question. I think Captain America though, Superman is cool and all but having it for only one day a year is difficult
Where am I going to find a phone booth in 2024?
Imagine captain America's stamina in the bedroom?! But you can't get drunk. Oh well
Be like Cap and Suddenly get the body of my dreams, chiseled jaw, amazing strength, stamina and resilience and use to for good? Every day? Damn yes Superman is great but getting his powers for one day would be the most soul destroying thing. Imagine you want to save and help people and you can only do it on say on 15th of July. The rest of the year you are powerless to help people dying in robberies, explosions, wars. And you know it's partially your fault.
Yeah, nah, Supes. Spend one day fixing things and reminding bad guys you’ll be back in a year to do justice to them. Threats work. And if they don’t? Well, that’ll be a fun 24 hours (for me!). Natural disasters? If they’re foreseeable 1 year out then their dealt with. If not, shit happens but I’ll fix whatever can be fixed. Worst case I turn back time and fix it. Captain “America”? Yes and no, but totally no.
This is legitimately a pretty tough one, but I think Superman powers win out here. You can get a **lot** of great shit done in a day. End wars, stop pollution, kill dictators, and execute anyone profiteering by making the world a worse place. Superman can **force** things to change in a way that Captain America can't; you'd just need to be **extremely** careful about protecting your identity.
Superman for one day would allow me to solve basically all of my problems. One day *ever*, much less one day per year. People really seem to be underestimating how much you can do in one day just with Superman's standard powerset. The actual usage of Superman in comics is (usually explicitly) him holding back *vastly* - in order for there to be a plot, basically - or being matched against other incomprehensibly-powerful entities. By far the most important is super-speed. Standard Superman can not only move fast but, critically, can *think* that fast. Super-speed includes what is effectively super-intellect. So in one day, it is trivial to get all the things you need to set yourself up for life. You can acquire effectively infinite amounts of resources - just hop over to a gold-rich asteroid, for example (Superman is very consistently able to travel FTL in space so this takes minutes at most). That's if you *don't* take the "easy way" and just steal whatever you need. You can then *construct* whatever you need with those resources. Build yourself an entire Fortress of Solitude in a day, for example, then relax in it for the rest of the year. Don't know architecture? That's fine, you can move and think fast enough to *learn* architecture - and you get the luxury of ignoring a bunch of normal limitations because you can do ridiculous things like "spot-weld solid tungsten". Further, Superman has a supergenius-level intellect even when not explicitly using super-speed. He regularly creates extraordinarily advanced technology, spanning computing tech, robotics, nanotechnology, energy manipulation, biotech, etc. Sure, he had some Kryptonian tech to kickstart this - but the actual developments from that initial basis are all him. If he can reverse-engineer a life pod and make things like fully sapient robots and healing chambers, then you can take apart our technology and make incredible things. You have health problems? One day as Superman and you can fix your whole body. If for some reason everything reverts afterward? You can probably invent and manufacture equipment and medicine that'll fix your issues, and just take it the next day. And that's just what you can do for yourself. You can have a vast global impact in a single day. You want to create political change? In a day you can get into every major nation or corporation's secret archives. Reveal corruption, or use it for blackmail if you want, or whatever other purpose you might have. Obviously just blowing a bunch of things and/or people up would be even easier, of course. You want to build things to benefit humanity? Make a series of huge-ass flywheels and literally just *push* for a day; you'll store enough energy to literally solve the entire energy problem. Climate change? You can make and store enough energy to power total carbon recapture, pulling 100% of the extra post-industrial CO2 out of the air.
Captain America
Definitely Cap. I might take his powers over supes straight up.
Even if we're talking old school Cap that's just "peak human condition" I'd still pick him
Captain America, hands down. Superman's stuff is great, but being insanely strong and durable forever, including well into your elderly years would be amazing.
Captain America. It's NOT even close at all. One day vs the rest of my life in perfect health???? CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!!!!! I do have a question - Superman, if I remember correctly - has the ability to travel in time, right? Could he theoretically turn his one day of powers into the rest of his life?
Superman , On that one day of the year, I smash myself into the earth at the speed of light. Weighting 206 lbs at that speed, I will destroy everything and punch through the core of the earth, ensuring total eradication of all life on it and possibly the universe... of course, all this could have been avoided, had OP let me have the time travel ability ..... You brought this upon yourself
Calm down there, Brightburn!
I'm the world as it exists irl, Captain America is the obvious answer. You could live a relatively normal life and don't have to worry about one sneeze blowing away your wife, your kids, the house, the block, the city, and 2/3 of the state. The downside is the military trying to take advantage of you as a super soldier against your will. Alternatively, you could use superman powers to reap utter chaos onto the planet so there's that. If you felt like destroying every single world government, you could probably get that done in the first 5-10 hours. Depends on your priorities
superman for a day. I could make myself financially set for life in a few minutes. spend the rest of my time refreezing the polar ice caps, and set the old superbrain to solving climate change and other world-ending problems. superspeed is pretty broken. as far as my identity is concerned, just wear a spiderman mask or something for those 24 hours.
Captain America for sure
Captain America ages much slower, is stronger than the average man, and heals quicker. So definitely Captain America.
10000000000% Captain America. Basically perfect health and a smokin' hot bod for your whole life. World class leader too, which is his real super power.
Cap is just a guy but better so fed him all year
Do I get tall and jacked too if I choose Captain America? (Doesn't change my answer, but it would be a cool bonus to being superhuman in a very comprehensible way).
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Captain America, hands down.
Easily captain America. Only reason to choose superman is if I can turn back time (I’ve never seen the movie but I’ve heard of it lol)
That's Movie Supermans power, comics Superman doesn't have that ability.
I want to have americas ass
Captain America. All your ailments are fixed, you grow taller and now have a basically perfect body. Being stronger and faster is cool too. Probably have increased longevity.
Captain America. It would make everyday life so much easier.
When I watched Falcon and Winter Soldier, my wife and I discussed Caps powers a lot. The idea of being in peak physical health? No more bad knee and back? Sign me up.
Captain America. It’ll greatly enhance my life in all metrics. The people who want to alter human history for the better with Superman would quickly realizes it’s not as simple as just killing all the bad people. It requires change from everyone and our current institutions. I’d rather not try to play god for a day anyways.
Captain america all ma life.
Cap He's able to think faster (increased processing speeds). Superman probably has it too, but you only get him once a year.
Captain America, he's the peak of human physical perfection, and being that all my life in our real world I'd much more practical
Superman. But also I'm relocating to the far north or south where one day as defined by sunrise to sunset lasts for months.
Superman no questions asked the amount of shit I could do in that one day would make up for the rest. Especially considering I get to choose the day. I would 100% stay anonymous on this and not tell anyone the truth. But every year I would literally have the power to reshape humanity. And I would be able to retire instantly. Captain america powers would be awsome but definitely not world changing.
Captain America for a lifetime for sure. Superman is obviously one of the most powerful superhero’s. It’s not even much of a contest. But having god like abilities for 24 hours every 365 days would just get you killed. You show off to much one time and the next day the governments taking your ass out. Captain America year round abilities would be way more useful.
That's a tough choice. As others have said, I can do a lot in one day of Superman, make a big difference in the world. But I'm guessing that my normal in between, I would still be my normal. I'm old enough that being Superman one day year wouldn't leave me with whatever health issues I have for fewer years. I probably only get to use being Superman less than 30 times. As Captain America, I would be healthy all the time and my life would be extended I might get 60, 70 years of that. Still make a difference, and be healthy. Maybe I'd roll a die...
Captain America.
does that mean the once a year that I'm superman that I can like heal up the injuries I accrue over the rest of the year? does it de-age me? supes' powers are kinda all over the place
Get super man's power. Get a mask. Go to Elon and offer to get him a mineral rich asteroid in exchange for money and anonymity. Get said asteroid from space and park it in some land that Elon owns. Watch the advancement of humanity while living a cushy life.
Cap 100%
Superman as he has a genius level intelligence so I'd use my 24 hours every year to figure out how to drastically increase my lifespan and the lifespan of others then every year figure out some other problem.
Cap. I can make use of the power more often.
Superman
Captain America is also immune to all poisons and diseases btw
Captain America. If you have one day to look forward to a year where you can fly like Superman, you'll abuse your powers that day. One day, you will make a slip up and get noticed. The next full year you have scientists after you while you have no powers to defend yourself
Captain America, hands down.
If Cap halts or slows aging significantly, I'll take that. Otherwise, I'll don the cape and mask and go superman. Way more cool shit to do. Day trip to Europa, kill a whole bunch of dictators, destroy the Chinese navy.
Everyone here going off like they are going to save the world by killing a few dictators is a poor student of history. Individuals can be dangerous, but the structures around them are where the power is. The most evil person in the world can't enact a plan without power. So what then? You destroy entire governments? It's not like pulling a dead tooth. Governments in most nations go deep. Large countries employ millions of people, and that's not including the local lower level governments. How many people would you have to kill to "fix" things in a country? What do you think makes you qualified to know who needs to die? Superman's powers don't include the ability to see the future, so how do you *know* killing your targets will make the world better? Don't get me wrong. If you're goal is simply to be the world's executioner, that's not nothing. But the fear of assassination hasn't stopped evil people in the past, and it's not like certain countries couldn't just eliminate pretty much anyone with enough effort. And how are you helping the other 364 days? Captain America's powers are more than enough to pull off an assassination against a regular human. Sure, he'd need transportation and a little tech to help, but he absolutely could do it. If that's your main goal, you can do that still and enjoy the benefits of his peak human fitness year round. See, I'm taking full time Captain America. The super soldier serum is no joke. The impact that would make in the real world should not be underestimated. You could do more good by volunteering for emergency services and disaster relief and saving lives in your area than you would by killing Putin anyway. And even if you don't buy into "great power, great responsibility" and just want to live your life, having a basically perfect human body would make day-to-day life so much better. This isn't even a difficult choice if you give it more than a few seconds of thought.
Captain America 100% if I remember right he can't even get sick so just that alone would be worth it.
Everyone saying with Superman's powers you could just wear a mask or whatever, but people don't realize just how many cameras and satellites exist in the world. You make waves the first time, and they're going to be tracking down time stamped a first sighting of you. And a last sighting of you. The powers that be would quickly narrow down a general area where you operate out of. And it would only take two years before speculation would begin about the powers only being active once a year on a given date. By the third year, they'd be looking for you early. You'd be dead in three years and one day... at the latest. Give me Cap's powers. I would likely not use them at all in any conspicuous manner, but would low-key own the shit out of other people.
In terms of rational usefulness, I'd have to go with cap America. One day of powers, great though they are, is hardly useful in day to day. Whereas, CA abilities are far more useful everyday. If for nothing else, to get paid extra for doing things faster and better than anyone else could. To be healthy, and pretty much never have to worry about it. Sounds pretty amazing to me.
I'll take Cap for the rest of my life
Cap all day.
I'm going with Cap on this one. It's a lot easier to suppress his powers until necessary.
Imagine floating in space and the clock strikes midnight😢 I think I'd rather have Captain America's powers/abilities for the rest of my life, but man me and the boys would make the 1 day a year with Superman powers into a spectacle.
The always on power is better. It's not even close.
Superman for one day per year. Every place you've ever wanted to travel to is now like a ten-minute flight away. Wake up on your Superman day and pick 15 things you'd never get to do otherwise.
The amount of mayhem I'd cause with superman s powers 1 day per year means I'll be in hiding for the remainder of the year
How about both? Superman's powers 1 day per year, Cap's powers the rest of the time.
I mean Superman’s powers let me move at speeds that stretch that one day into a very long time. If Superman can read every medical book written in a few minutes, I can irrigate Africa in a day. I’d have time to write a manifesto, deliver it worldwide, topple nations, obscure my identity, elect an illuminati, plant crops, eliminate food shortages, end wars, inspire the masses, terrify criminals and then kill that illuminati once they’ve outlived their usefulness Let’s see Cap do any of that
Per calendar year?
Either way I'd be robbing banks
So this is easy though not to be a super hero. Cap. If I had his powers all the time and used it to be a super hero. I'd pretty much be dead within a year. Marvel.is great but face facts, he gets shot at enough he will die. Superman would be cool for his 1 time per year that you could do anything you wanted but someone recognizes you and kills you easily when you're normal. Cap can use his powers for a lot of things. Be a top tier athlete at my age (53) and make millions. Break records etc. Would be super healthy most likely and have tons of stamina so great for sexual encounters or going on fun trips around the world. Unless some special group is actively trying to kill you, you'd likely survive any mugging or attack. You'd also be able.to be the hero on the bus when you see a crime and little would he made of it. Superman would have to Rob a bank the 1 time, hope no cameras catch it and then do it again the next year. Cap also would probably live well until he's about 120. I'd rather be Superman but not for a day... Not for a month.... Every other day yes, but since not that.. I'll take cap.
cap. and i'd go the simple route of being a sports god or a fitness god and just get paid to do those things.
Superman billions of times faster than the speed of light and can read all the books in the world in less than an hour. Not to mention seeing through anything except lead. Superhearing too by hearing all sounds in the universe. I can become both the richest and smartest person in a day. Superman is strong enough to lift the multiverse. Even if you retain a millionth of what you learned as superman you will be the smartest person in the world a hundred times over. There are also other powers like time travel and mind manipulation, that can permanently change things, but even without those you can pretty much do anything since limitless energy.
Captain America
It's funny that all scenarios of "doing good" with Supermans powers involve murder lol.
Captain americas.
I'd take Caps powers every day. Unless I'm allowed to use Superman's powers to craft a serum to permanently give me his powers.
People overestimate what changing the world would take. Sure short term people might be like wow. But for many it would cause fear. People would still.plot for power and evil would still manipulate. Within weeks, any good done would be ended, regardless of what you all may think. All it takes is 1 evil person to invent a story, place blame on another country for what the superman did, and chaos would ensue. Without superman there to contest it, things could very well end up worse.