Bitten by a radioactive housecat, I gain the ability to sleep deeply and comfortably in a position that by all rights looks like it should be destroying my spine
Like I’ll take whatever else you wanna throw on top, night vision or claws or something, but I only really need that first thing
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Red sea urchin. Long life and limb regeneration.
I don’t want to turn back into a baby like those who chose the immortal jellyfish.
Wait, it would be cool if you could relive your childhood once in a while.
yes I would like to sign up to be bitten by a human woman, ty
wait, I get a free superpower too!?
(I’ll take super intelligence cuz maybe it’ll cancel out my stupidity then)
Octopus. I would hope to get the ability to shape shift.
I’m answering in the spirit of the question, but it wasn’t specified that the animal has to match the power. In that case, I’d choose basically the smallest thing that could feasibly bite me. A tardigrade for example.
Octopus is obviously the correct answer. They’re smart, they can fit through a hole the size of a quarter, they can camouflage, and they can shoot ink. They’re the superheroes of the animal world already.
Don’t they only live for like 4 years or something?
DON’T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!
That’s longer than a spider lives, and Spider-Man isn’t dying of old age at 30.
My pet tarantula is 11 years old and likely got at least 5 more years in her.
Water bear. I want to live forever and be a cutie.
I’d love to be bitten by some mad scientist named Francis and become immortal. A reign of absolute terror would befall this world.
:3
Bats, I want their crazy advanced immune system and interferon production. Bats are tiny mammals with a metabolism even faster than a rat/mouse due to the high energy needs of powered flight. Typically, small mammals with this fast of a metabolism will live like 2-5 years, because cell division is so rapid that after only a few years, the cells’ DNA becomes too damaged to continue. However, bats have insane immune systems. They’re immune (asymptomatic carriers) to nearly every virus capable of infecting them because their immune systems produce so much interferon that any damage to the DNA (eg from a virus inserting code for its own reproduction into a cell) is corrected almost immediately. This process also partially repairs damage from cell-division, meaning that bats can live up to ~40 YEARS depending on the species. If a human had that ability, it would be like living to 400 or 500 years old, and being immune to nearly every disease (between native viral immunity, and antibiotics for bacterial infections)
Wow. I was going to say bat for flying and echolocation but will take what you are having, that is an awesome bat fact.
Also Monitor Lizards. They’re the most intelligent squamate reptile (group that includes all living reptiles except turtles, crocodilians, and birds, who are archosauromorphs), except for possibly the cobra. But, they’re still cold-blooded, so I can just nap on a hot rock without eating for 2 days and be Fine. They do get Stupid when the temperature drops too much (lowers their metabolic rate, and intelligence uses lots of energy), but I live in Florida, so that’s fine💀. They’re also one of the only lizards that can both breathe and walk at the same time (apparently most squamate reptiles use the same muscles for breathing as moving their forelimbs?? Wack.). This is how they became so intelligent, there was more O2 coming into the body, so the overall metabolic budget to evolve stuff like Large Brain became much larger.
Also they’re adorable, monitor lizards can be so friendly, curious, and playful, they’re like the Lizard version of cat imo. I really want one, they even like to cuddle (humans are Warm, and they’re smart enough to recognize and trust you enough to want cuddles). I’m gonna get a cute little Ackie monitor once I graduate college I think.
Turritopsis dohrnii, for their phoenixlike lifecycle.
What if you don’t keep your memories and just come out as a genetically identical baby of yourself? Turritopsis dohrnii sounds like a cnidarian or some sort (I know loads of jellyfish have life cycles like that), and they don’t have brains, so there’s no part of their metamorphosis back to the larval phase (whatever it’s called for cnidarians) that would preserve your brain.
I don’t see much of a problem with it. Havig an iteration of my body remain, that could possibly be reeducated to be me, is a better alternative than stopping to exist, that the current model of existence guarantees.
fish and breathing underwater
Human, so that I can be even humaner. If I can get humaner enough I might bypass superhuman and become hyperhuman. I didn’t know if that will give me 5th-dimensional awareness or make me explode, but if superpowers are involved, there’s only one way to find out.
Alternatively a mountain goat so I can wall-run through downtown like it’s fucking Skyrim.
“Man-Man! He’s bestowed with all the powers of a man… but he’s a man.”
“Oh, I bet Man-Man gets his powers from Robert Bly!”
Ill throw wombat into the mix because I want to flip trucks dig tunnels and shit cubes.
Dog, so that I could lick my own… belly…
Even though I’m scared of heights, being able to fly sounds fun. So maybe a bat or something?
Or maybe just a wolf so I can live out elaborate werewolf fantasies.
Bitten by bear. Super power gained: DEATH
See, I’d want hibernation…
I mean, death is kind of like hibernation. It just lasts forever instead of just 1 winter.
toss that alarm clock
