You win genie lottery and instead of an obscene amount of money, the genie offers you one fictional item of your choosing from any fictional universe. What do you pick and why?
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1. What you pick must be an item, not an animal, being, concept, power, etc.
2. You only receive 1 distinct unit.
3. It must come from a fictional universe that existed before you won this lottery, and it must be a published/otherwise known work. (You can’t just make something up on the spot)
4. If the item needs the user to have some sort of special power to use it, you’re not given the power too. For example, if you pick Thor’s hammer, it doesn’t mean you automatically become worthy.
5. The item functions exactly as described in the fictional universe, but everything else on earth still works the same (i.e. if you request an item that needs a new concept in physics to function, the item will function, but that concept only exists with your item and not elsewhere on earth).
6. You can do anything you want with the item, but no help or protection would be given if government agents, crime lords, or the intergalactic police show up at your door, or if you lose/misplace it.
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Might be bending the rules a bit but would a green lantern’s ring count? It’s not technically a power, as the power it instills comes from the ring itself, and for that reason doesn’t break rule four either.
Sonic screwdriver
The Death Note
Off the top of my head, the magic ring from Quest for Glory 2. It contains a genie that grants you three wishes.
Before making my first wish, I buy a notebook and fill it with statements like “I have a billion dollars in my bank account, nobody finds this unusual and the IRS doesn’t care about it” and “I am in perfect health, all will always be in perfect health until I die peacefully in my sleep at 100 years old” so on and so on….then I’ll use my first wish.
“I wish everything in this notebook was a true statement.”
And then I’ll still have two more wishes to play with. Plus, he’s a friendly genie who won’t be trying to twist my words. After I get my wishes, I can pass it on to a friend.
Bending the rules here but a babble fish (animal) from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I can now understand any language as it isn’t a power and the fish can feed off my brain waves.
Definitely a replicator from Star Trek. I’d be set for life with it.. anything I need or want, just made right there.
A Mother Box.
My Pick: The Bag of Holding
It looks like a simple satchel, but inside? It can store up to 500 pounds and 64 cubic feet of stuff—without weighing more than 15 pounds. No magic required to use it, so it’s insanely practical for travel, emergency prepping, or just never carrying a backpack again.
Bonus: Flip it inside out to instantly dump everything out (chaotic, but useful), and since it’s not flashy like the One Ring or a lightsaber, you’re less likely to attract unwanted attention. Basically, it’s the most low-key, high-value item you could own.
I think the genie’s lamp from Disney’s Aladdin always winds up being the top answer to this, that or the Star Trek replicator.
In the spirit of discussion, I’m going with the less powerful ring of regeneration from DnD. While it could be stolen, it’s also something I could let a loved one wear to help them recover from any serious injuries.
Iron Man Suit
Reality Stone.
The USS Enterprise D
My own starship and all the advanced technology it holds inside it
SCP-662
A little obscure, so here is a link about it. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-662
Dr Who’s Psychic Paper
Hermione’s bag with undetectable extension charm; so useful for travel
Omnitrix. (The completed one. Not the prototype from the original show.)
1 TARDIS please
General Systems Vehicle from the Culture.
I live for the chaos. I want the One Ring
Scribblenauts Maxwell notebook summon anything object, person or animals via adjectives.
rick’s portal gun.
The One Ring.
The fully loaded Infinity Gauntlet would be my first, gut reaction.
Give me Knight Industries Two Thousand
Full realized and complete Omnitrix from the Ben 10 series.
In wings of fire there is a parchment that is imbued with the magic to create anything wanted. Because the creator thought that using their magic was corrupting their soul. I choose that.
Harold’s Purple Crayon
Earth Central, from Neal Asher’s Polity books.
How quickly will I be Epsteined with the lasso of* truth?
“A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age.
Gay Deciever from Number of the Beast. A car that travels time and space, and resupplies through a magic portal in Oz? Why not.
This lovely baby girl:
Battleship Hyperion from Honkai Impact 3rd
Invisibility Cloak from Harry Potter
Death Star
I want a TARDIS.
Golden Sentry Serum. I would become the Sentry.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Golden_Sentry_Serum
Death Note.
The upgraded Delorean from Back to the Future. The one that can fly and it’s powered by Mr. Fusion. Even if I can’t have the time travel ability, I still have a flying Delorean.
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I think I’d take the DeLorean from the end of Back to the Future/Back to the Future 2, the one with a Mr. Fusion.
So long as I keep some spare parts handy for the occasional American Indian raid, I’ve got myself a flying time machine!
The Starship Voyager, first destination is the holodeck and have a holographic crew show me how to keep the ship running on the day to day, buying me time to have the holographic crew teach me how to do the rest of it, bonus is having the doctor to help me out and access to him and the medical tech as he is part of the ship.
TARDIS from Dr. Who
I’ll take one bead of Lerasium please! Being a full Mistborn with access to refined metals will make me a superhero!
Okarun’s golden balls from Dandadan.
I might go with the adjustable personal “stat” wrist device from Rick and Morty. Presumably that would give me the best edge in intellectual pursuits and it is freely changeable on the fly.
I will possess “The ThunderCats Sword of Omen”
A stepper from The Long Earth series of books.
Edit: For those who haven’t read the books, in the Long Earth series of books, our universe is just one in a well-ordered set of universes. A stepper allows you to transport yourself to the next “adjacent” universe in either direction. Almost all of the parallel earths are completely uninhabited. Assuming I was the only person who had one, I could sneak in and out of any location on this earth by stepping up one level, going to that spot on the alternate earth and then stepping back.
Invisibility cloak from Harry Potter.
I don’t even know what I would do with it, but I anticipate a lot of crimes.
Super soldier serum
Give me a gundam specifically give me the unicorn gundam.
Improbability drive.
TARDIS
Replicator from Star Trek. Never go hungry, never have to buy clothes, never have to take trash out.
go big or go home….Enterprise NCC1701D figure me and a couple thousand of my new best friends could get off this rock for a while. although something smaller like the Defiant or Voyager might be better suited. Its either gonna be one helluva ride or boring as hell at least until the dilithium runs out…
There are any number of fictional universes with items that functionally grant immortality-for-as-long-as-you-want-it-but-not-longer.
I’d pick one.
My first thought was a bead of Lerasium from Mistborn which gives someone powers (that can be powered using regular materials found on earth).
But after giving it literally a moment’s additional thought, I realised that are definitely better options. There must be a story out there with an object that grants wishes and which doesn’t have many rules/isn’t evil (that doesn’t contain a separate wish granting entity like the lantern in Aladdin).
I can’t be bothered trying to find out what it is, but it must exist.
I think I could be practically a god by doing a little research, but I’m gonna go with my gut and say: Little blue cube from Animorphs please.
Omnitrix
The Omnitrix. Would be fun to have.
The Genie’s Magical Lamp from Aladdin
(Robin Williams, not Will Smith)
Maybe a lightsabre? I wouldn’t have a use for it, it’s just cool
Would the Meseeks box from Rick and Morty come with the Meseeks?
My pick- “Ben 10,000’s omnitrix”
From the cartoon “Ben 10”
No special powers are needed for it to work, it bonds to the first user it comes in contact with and will not unbond after that.
I use it to start my vigilante crime fighting career.
I’ll have a pokéball. I’ll catch myself a “shiny” pigeon!
Fully functional STC from Warhammer 40k.
“7th generation Nano Machine of the Sky Corporation” from Nanomachine webnovel by Midsummer Night
Bottle of vampire blood. (From TVD, seems like the easiest vampire to become) a little bit would be enough for a person to transform, so i’ll share it with my closest friends & bf
Blue kryptonite or X-kryptonite or whichever version gives superman’s powers.
The same virus that causes superpowers in the show Heroes. Sufficient to also make me a carrier along with giving me superpowers.
Or the same drug that gave Lucy all the smarts in a sufficient quantity to be able to become as intelligently superpowered as she became.
The Dokodemo Door from Doraemon. I like to be other places, but dislike travel. Pop up my door and walk thru to desired location.
The Magic movie ticket from Last Action Hero.
Use it to go get anything or have access to a anything you would ever need.
Green Lantern Ring/Fountian of Youth/Aladdins lamp etc.
Whatever that machine that stark used and subsequently Peter used to make a spider suit and items to help doc oc.
Stark industries fabricator
Give me the Captain America serum.
I’ll live a long healthy happy wealthy life and enter the hall of fame as the best football player ever.
Cosmic cube from the comics. It was as powerful as the infinite gauntlet of the movies. Has the power of infinite wishes.
Give me a Culture GSV. Plz and thnx. Not Invented Here will do just fine.
Uhhhmm…… can I get the dinosaur egg from Jurassic Park or is it counted as a being?
The Portal Gun from Portal
Fuck you answer is obviously a light saber.
A set of capsules from Dragon Ball. Alternatively, just the house capsule.
Does The Good Place Janet count as a being? Cuz if not I’ll take one Janet please.
Set of dragon balls to summon Shenron
What the synthesizer is in, The Orville. I know Stark Trek has it too, but Orville showed they can have cannabis, alcohol, food, and lots of other things. That would be amazing.
Platinum Kryptonite.
The genie’s ring or lamp from the original Arabian Nights. You know, the ones that didn’t have a limit to the number or nature of the wishes.
The lamp’s genie is more powerful, but the ring may be more discreet.
Then again, I could always wish the lamp to look different while retaining the genie…
Portal gun from Rick and Morty/dimensional travel watch from marvel simply because either lets you go to alternate realities. Which I’ll then use to steal a replicator from happy’s apartment during one of the many instances where it’s left alone and active. Then use it to make me an Ai similar to Friday, to help with my other adventures like getting a pip boy and integrating the design along with half a dozen other things into the replicator.
I’ll take the TARDIS from Doctor Who
I would pick one item: a ship. I’d choose the GSV “Size Isn’t Everything” from from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novel Use of Weapons. This single ship, and it’s operating system, is powerful enough on it’s own to independently engineer or uplift entire civilizations, relocating massive global populations instantly, and easily reshaping planets or star systems. With it, I could effectively transplant the Culture civilization into our universe starting with just one ship. Since “Size Isn’t Everything” would function exactly as described in Use of Weapons, it would bring all its incredible technological capability and intelligence without me needing special powers to operate it, and it would be more than capable of protecting me, and it, as needed.
The gauntlet with all infinity stones so I could do what Thanos failed at and I’d make it 99.5%. He wanted 1/2 which would only set us back to about 1974 so in 50 years we’d be right back where he started. I’m taking us back about 20,000 years.
A deck of many things containing the following cards:
The Fates – erase something from history or avoid an event
Gem – get 50,000 GP worth of jewelry
Jester – 10k XP (What does that do IRL, who knows but it’s probably awesome)
Key – Get a rare or better magical item
Knight – A knight appears who is sworn to serve you
Moon – Can cast wish 1d3 times
Star – increase ability score by 2 up to 24
Sun – Gain 50k xp and a wonderous item
Throne – Gain proficiency in persuasion and double proficiency bonus on persuasion. Gain a small keep somewhere in the world filled with monsters that have to be cleared out.
Vizier – within a year you can ask a question and have the answer truthful and helpfully revealed.
Then because they typically have 13 cards in them to conform to the fiction it could also have:
Talons – magic items you carry disintegrate (fine, I won’t have any magic items on me as I draw)
Fool – lose 10k xp but you can’t lose a level.
Comet – If you single-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you gain experience points enough to gain one level. Otherwise, this card has no effect.
An unlocked nanoforge from the First Contact universe.
USS Defiant
scp-500 I hope it heals brain injuries as well.
Megatron
A replicator from Star Trek universe
I’ll take The T.A.R.D.I.S., please.
Ster trek replicator.
Bruce Wayne’s bank account
Need
Need is a blade that only works for women. She will turn you into the best sword fighter if you have no sword fighting skills, protect you from magic if you’re not a mage, and heal anything short of a death wound.
Probably the anywhere key from Locke & key (books). It’s either that one or the head key. Maybe the shadow key and crown? Pretty much any one of the keys from those books
Captain Jack Sparrow’s jar of dirt!