One conversation you have often when you’re a comic book nerd is the question of what superhuman powers you would most want to have. For me, it’s always been a toss-up, as my standard response has been to choose either super-speed or wings. On the one hand, you could soar above all the traffic and mock the poor foot-bound losers, but on the other, you could just a’whooooosh by them at the speed of sound. Either way sounds great, especially if your speed is the Barry Allen-time-dilation style and not the Quicksilver sounds-like-exercise type, leading to today’s winged-boots-or-winged-back query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is leaning towards super-speed, but might enjoy super-speed WITH wings, except for all the aerodynamic issues, asking: Super-Speed or Wings?
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Wings. The idea of what it must feel like to soar in the air is very appealing to me.
Depends on how fast speed we are talking about. If its like Flash or at least Quicksilver level, then speed because it allows same sort of advantages as wings but without inconvenient body parts, like crossing water by just running on it.