Absolute magnate corrupts absolutely , or so the idiom goes . But sometimes rank mogul just makes you kind of an idiot . There are entities out there who practically omnipotent but somehow have n’t manage to regain a direction to employ their mogul for anything worthwhile . Here are 10 organism who are absolutely wasting their godlike abilities .
10) Mr. Mxyzptlk
Look , I love Mr. Mxyzptlk as much as the next someone , but , uh , I ca n’t avail but necessitate : What is he doing ? No , earnestly , someone help me out . I get that it ’s good for him to be a practical joker than to use his powers for rightful immorality . But still . What is he doing ? Oh , I lie with one version ( theMxyztplk one ) was supposed to be the tribunal jester in his earth , but still . Did he just miss the ability to separate work from the rest of his life ? Is there no joy in anything but mess with Superman ? How ? Why ?
9) The Monk, Doctor Who
There appear to be three kinds of Time Lords : villains , controlling Gallifreyans with superiority complexes , and the Doctor / Romana . Time Lords are supposed to be so modern in their technology and abilities that they are often mistaken for gods on various planet . One of the Doctor ’s other public figure is “ the Lonely God , ” after all . And then there ’s the Monk . He has a TARDIS that ’s even more advanced than the physician ’s . And while the Doctor loves point up and attempt to facilitate , the Monk just show up up to fuck around with history for shit and giggle . You ’re unto a god , and you adjudicate to use time locomotion to make money on chemical compound involvement ? Have some dream , military personnel .
8) The Genie, Aladdin
I ’m not talking about the Genie as he is in the Aladdin movie . I ’m talking about the Genie in the Aladdin sequels and TV show . He is explicitly one of the most powerful citizenry in the world , bound by the slavery of the lamp and the few rule he gives Aladdin . But at the end of the moving-picture show , he ’s destitute , has infinite powers , and he just … stick around to be comic rest period ? He just really wants an hearing for his effect and consultation jokes , I guess .
7) The Celestials, Star Wars Legends
We have to get disembarrass of these super herculean ancient cultures in fiction . The Celestials are literally untellable — as in a group of foreigner could not project out how to explicate them to others . That ’s how advanced they were . The Sith and the Jedi both thought that the counterpoise of the light and sullen sides of the Force was something the Celestials controlled . That ’s a pretty insane amount of powerfulness for one group of people to have ! And what they did with that power was build some gargantuan things and then vanish . essentially , they are the Star Wars equivalent weight of theory that aliens build the Pyramids of Egypt . And for them , as for the idiots who have that theory on Earth , I have the same enquiry : Why ?
6) Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation
In “ Hide and Q , ” William T. Riker is open all the power of the Q , a wash of close omnipotent beings . He use those powers to save Wesley ’s life . He does n’t use those powers to bring through a child the crew finds on a planet . Because of the Prime Directive , I guess . This did not make him look like he was wise in his power use . It made him await terrible .
5) The Elders, Charmed
Here ’s what I make love : if I was supposed to be one of the most hefty sources for full in the universe , I would expend a set less prison term trying to control people ’s romantic lives . For fundamentally years , the intent of the Elders was to keep Piper and Leo apart . And then they all died . Amazing workplace .
4) The Ancients, Stargate
The Ancients are neat . They ’re basically like if the Prime Directive from Star Trek was a multitude . A raceway of beings so in advance in engineering and so enlightened in thought , they ascended to another sheet of existence . Where they sit on their asses and make sorry faces as all the shit they left behind intimately demolish satellite . Sometimes they hang out at a diner on the Astral planing machine . remark , it ’s not they ca n’t do anything , it ’s that they ’ve decide not to practice their cognition to interpose . With consequence they caused . There ’s a reason Daniel Jackson Delaware - ascended . I intend , a rationality other than “ the actor decided to come back to the show . ”
3) Bat-Mite
Can you imagine being able-bodied to do anything you want and then take to do nothing but dress up like your favored character , make scenarios for your best-loved character to act out , contend with other citizenry incessantly about your favorite character , and insert yourself into your best-loved character ’s living ? Oh . Right . Yes , we are Bat - Mite and Bat - Mite is us .
2) Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil is one of the most frustrating character in all of Tolkien . When he shows up in The Lord of the Rings , it ’s a pointless detour in a story that really , really did not need it . And the tattle . My god , the tattle . AND YET , he ’s make as one of the most powerful being in Middle - Earth . He ’s possibly the oldest being in Middle - Earth ! He can carry the One Ring with no problems ! And he can see Frodo when he ’s wearing the ring ! Within his woodland realm , Tom Bombadil has extensive power of shelter , which is how the Hobbits cease up not vote down by an evil tree . And what he mostly does is wander the wood do the errant traveler marvel if they ’d vex into the good pipeweed by error .
1) Trelane, Star Trek
Come here , Trelane , you small fucker . You have the ability to make whatever you want , insure masses , and enthral yourself anywhere . And the affair you did with that great power was play at being human with the crowd of the Enterprise . You challenged Kirk to a duel — really stupefied — and then kept park your satellite in front of the Enterprise like a child trying to keep their mom from going to turn . You disgust me .
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