If you could be a superhero, what would your power be? It’s one of those great ‘pub chat’ questions that has kept me and mine debating on many occasions over the years, and to this day I’ve never quite nailed down my answer.

Flying would be fantastic, of course. To take to the skies like Superman would be both show stopping and practical (bye bye traffic jams), but it does feel like a bit of an obvious choice.

Maybe something a little more off-the-wall is in order. Olympic glory would be assured if you could run like The Flash or throw like Wonder Woman, but, again, super speed and super strength feel like pretty tame options.

An old pal of mine once posited that our superpowers, were we ever to garner them, should be based on traits we already possess, but given a sprinkle of Stan Lee stardust.

He was rather proud of his........

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