8 Superpowers That Would Actually Suck

6. Teleportation

Okay, so super speed is a no go, but surely teleportation gets rid of any of those issues. Er, sort of. We have a couple of options here: Option #1: Presuming your brand of teleportation breaks you down into your constituent atoms flies them through space a high speed and reassembles them, causing you to materialise instantaneously from thin air.

Great, but, unfortunately, you constituent atoms have to obey the laws of physics whether they're in the shape of your body or not (unless you want to get into quantum mechanics, at which point you'll be lucky if they don't just end up scattered across the Milky Way), and so time dilation still applies, you still have to watch your loved ones prematurely whither and die. There is a way around this, however. Option #2: You could always get your body broken down at one end of your journey and have the information sent to your destination (this is a whole other ballache, but lets imagine that you're magic). This information would then draws material from your destination (most likely from the atoms in the air) in order to build an exact replica of you.

This would make you more of a fax than a mailed letter. This imposes the limitation that you would always need to materialise somewhere with enough matter to build you (so no deep space travel), and you would still be unable to travel instantaneously as nothing, not even information can travel faster than light. The main problem you'd probably have with Option #2, however, is the inevitable existential crisis every time you teleported to the shops as you realised that you were just a copy of a copy of a copy.