If I was Elastigirl

Background

Elastigirl or Hellen Parr maiden name Truax is the wife of Mister Incredible and a formidable super heroine. After a long hiatus due to a ban on Super activity due to an event where Mister Incredible accidentally hurts someone she returned to full time Super Heroing with her family. However during that time she became accustom to the "quiet" life of a home maker raising her three children but she didn't seem to have to hard of time getting back into the role of hero.

Description

Helen is a auburn haired woman with brown eyes. She wears a tight fitting red costume with a black mask, trunks, gloves and thigh high boots. The symbol on her chest is a yellow lower case "i" on a black circular field with yellow trim.

Powers and Paraphernalia

Helen has the ability to stretch her body up to a full distance of three hundred feet or compress it to a minimum thickness of one millimetre. She can also shape her body into simple shapes like when she shaped herself into a boat to keep her and her kids from drowning. Apparently she can keep the shape for an extended period of time at least under duress.

The "rubbery" nature of her body permits her to use her stretching abilities to leap eighty feet or throw objects with super human force. The rubbery nature of her body also makes her super flexible and provides a great degree of resistance to impact. When the airplane she was piloting was shot down the exploding missiles only knocked her out for a brief moment. It also permits her to support several tons of weight for long distances with considerable strain but with no permanent damage.

Her super suit is designed to work with her super powers as well as being nearly indestructible.

If I was Elasticgirl

This is a power set where I would have a lot of fun with. Hide and seek would be awesome. I would stretch and compress myself into rain gutters, hide behind posts, in chimneys or hide under a rug.

This is a great power set for exploration and discovery. Firstly parcour becomes my new hobby, brachiation becomes another one. Parcour is that sport where you see people running around in cities jumping over barriers and jumping off of ledges. Brachiation is the primate art of swinging from tree limb to tree limb with their arms. I wouldn't worry about falling since I could either mold myself into a bouncing ball or flatten myself into manta like glider. That would probably be another new hobby of mine. Slingshotting myself into the air then shaping myself into a "glider" and see how far I can fly. Oh my God!! Fishing would be awesome if I shaped myself into a boat. Just lay my fishing gear and cooler on me and float along maybe have someone with me.

This of course raises romantic implications. I think you can imagine the most obvious R-rated modifications I could make to myself to please a partner but I was also thinking about shaping into a hammock and having my girl lay on me while I envelope her in my arms. We can have romantic boat rides. Okay mind is wandering back to sex again but again I'll let you guys imagine what a stretchy shape changer can do during sex.

Okay now back to exploring. There are all kinds of places to get into in Northern Ontario: mountains, old mine shafts, natural caves, huge trees, ravines, rivers, old logging camps and forts, etc... Like with the Spiderman 2099 posting I wouldn't have to worry about wild animals. Being stretchy offers protection from a lot of harm and I could just runaway if I wanted to but if I had to I could stretch myself out to seem bigger. A common ploy in the animal kingdom.

You know as goofy as stretching powers seem to be after having given this some thought, I've come to the conclusion that it's a very practical power. I could have gone the same route with Elastigirl as I went with Mister Incredible. I wouldn't have to worry about falling off of roofs when I was working up high and I wouldn't need a ladder at all to get up and down from roofs or to haul up equipment. I'd have to use tools though. I could also pull cars out ditches or snow banks and a lot of the other stuff I would as Mister Incredible.

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If I was Mister Incredible

Background

Mister Incredible or Robert "Bob" Parr was foremost among supers of his generation. After a long hiatus due to a ban on Super activity due to an event where he accidentally hurts someone he returned to full time Super Heroing with his family.

Description

Bob is a tall, thickly muscled, blond man with receding hair and blue eyes. He wears a tight fitting red costume with a black mask, trunks gloves and boots. The symbol on his chest is a yellow lower case "i" on a black circular field with yellow trim.

Powers and Paraphernalia

Bob has super strength making him so strong that even being out of shape he had to make use of locomotives (125 to 240 tons on average) and rail cars (roughly 30 tons a piece) to provide enough weight to get himself back into shape. His strength also parlays into super leaping, super running and super swimming abilities.

Along with super strength he has super human resistance to harm permitting him to survive things like multi-story falls, collisions with trains, breaking through brick walls. Despite his great resistance to harm he can be cut by super hard metals propelled by a suitable force. Also although he is hard to hurt he does feel pain.

He also has super keen senses but the only one really displayed in the movie is his enhanced hearing permitting him to hear the faint beeping of a bomb through a thick wall.

His agility also borders on the super human.

His super suit is designed to survive the wear and tear of his super powers.

If I Was Mister Incredible

In this last week I've been doing a lot of intense manual labor and I've come to think of good uses for Mister Incredibles powers. Having fallen off of a roof on a previous occasion mixed with my fear of heights I know I'd feel a lot better off knowing I could fall from the roof that I'm on and not likely to be hurt no matter how high I fell from. Keep in mind I do residential work so I wouldn't be falling from higher than 50 feet. I wouldn't need a ladder half of the time. I could easily jump up on and down from the roof I'd be working on. That alone would save a lot of time.

There's a lot of tools I wouldn't need either. I could just use my thumb to drive nails in faster than a nail gun. I wouldn't need a wrench my super strong fingers could grip things normal fingers couldn't. I'd probably break a wrench anyway applying too much force to it. Also I salivate at thinking of lifting several packets of shingles in one shot and leaping up to a roof top with it instead of grabbing a bundle and forcing myself to drag it up to the roof I'm shingling. Keep in mind a bundle of shingles weighs 70lb. Sure I would be able to lift more but then I would fall through the roof if I carried more than 4 or 5 bundles at a time when I jumped on the roof. Plywood is only so strong.

I wouldn't limit myself to construction though. I'd start a company and offer a full range of services. Landscaping comes to mind. I could pull trees out the ground with my bare hands although I would be more careful than that and carry it over to it's new location. Pulling boulders out of the ground and crushing them into gravel is an easy way to make a driveway. I'd have to get specially made tools to survive the use of my strength but I'd love to landscape without using heavy machinery and still get done within a reasonable amount of time. My uncle would have to love to have me around when he dug out his basement a few years ago. I'm sure I'd know more people with in-ground swimming pools if I was as strong as Mister Incredible.

When the main thrust of your powers is super strength and durability you become a very useful person. When you're as strong as Mister Incredible you're very, very, very useful. Your neighbor's car is stuck in the snow or in a ditch, well you pull it out. A transport over turns you go and right it. A transport's brakes fail, you stop it. A friend needs help moving...well if you have super strength get used to that scenario. It's as bad as owning a pick up truck. If there's a bear going through the old widow down the road's trash you go over and pick up "Yogi" and carry him away.

I think if I was Mister Incredible I'd just be the local "Mr. Fixit". Every day somebody would come knocking at my door asking me for a favor. I wouldn't mind though. I like being useful to people.

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If I was Jack Jack

All of you who have seen the Incredibles know who I'm talking about. The previously believed powerless bundle of joy belonging to Robert and Helen Parr otherwise known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl.

Background

Jack Jack is a super powered baby who on the same day he manifested his powers managed to almost drive his babysitter to a nervous breakdown and to escape the clutches of the villain Syndrome.

Description

Jack Jack is a chubby little baby who is otherwise bald except for a lock of red hair growing from the top of his head.

Powers

The main thrust of baby Jack Jack's powers seem to be "shape changing". So far he has demonstrated the ability to transform into a fiery form, a metal form and a monstrous looking form with at least "super baby" strength (he was able to tear Syndrome's rocket boot in two with little effort in this form which would be impressive even for an adult) and most likely enhancing all his other physical attributes as well. He was definitely quicker and more coordinated in monster form not to mention the big scary mouth full of sharp teeth.

A part from being able to alter his body he has demonstrated at least a form of self-levitation which permits him to float through the air as though it were water that will most likely evolve into the power of flight. He can also fire "lasers" from his eyes, pass through solid objects and teleport.

If I was Jack Jack

Just contemplating what I would do if I was Jack Jack was fun. I was out for a walk seeing what mischief I could get into with the little guys powers. The first thing I was thinking of was, "Poof now I'm on that guys roof and poof now I'm on top of that church and once again poof I'm on the street corner." Walking further down the street there was a dog barking at me and I thought, "Roooaarrrr!" I would run up to it in monster form and give it a big roar displaying all my sharp monstrous teeth and sharp claws. After the dog was cowed I'd fly off laughing.

Then of course I thought about other things I could do. Halloween is coming and that ability to float and pass through solid objects sure would be fun to use. Disguise myself as ghost and scare the snot out of people who are trick or treating and to really climax my fun if I caught people stealing candy I'd sneak up on them floating and yell, "BOO!!" and explode into flame. That would probably really scare some people straight. That would scare me for sure. It would be pretty awesome to reach your hand out through the closed door and hand little kids candy. In case you're wondering what I would do with the "laser vision" ask yourself this, "how else would he carve the pumpkins?"

All the fun aside, if I had Jack Jack's powers I'd join the military. This is a case of once again where the powers really require that you do something special with yourself. You'd need to learn how to deal with difficult situations and get some life or death combat under your belt so you would have a better understanding of what it takes to kill someone so you don't do it accidentally not to mention how good of a feel for the extent of your powers you would get by using them in a war zone. I always wanted to know just how protected I would be if I could transform into living, mobile metal. Plus like I said with the Super Suit from the Greatest American Hero show you really do need to know who the players are in the world and what's going on it.

I would only join the military for the mandatory minimum time. After having that experience under my belt I'd become a private detective so I could continue to use my power to protect and help people and make some money while I'm doing it. Not to seem to greedy I'd also go out on patrol vigilante style. Helping people out on the spur of the moment like someone getting mugged or raped or caught in a fire or about to get run over by a car. These are the kind of powers that would really inspire me to go out there and help people out superhero style.

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