In a world where people with strange powers do whatever they want...

I would be a super villain.

I'm serious, in a world where that sort of thing happened and I was one of those people who wound up picking sides then I would have to be a super villain. Let's face it, I'm not main character interesting. I'm plain as white bread, and don't do one liners. Where does that really leave me?

That being said, I'm not a take over the world sort of fellow. That's altogether too much work. As it is, something has to be seriously wrong with you in order to put forth the effort to enter the uppermost levels of politics. You have to be willing to surrender, well, everything not for power but the mere chance at power being elected. I understand going more for a local office, at least then you can still have a job and a home life while have a much greater effect on the area in which you live. After all, good local governance has a massive impact on people's lives even they don't notice normally.

No, I'm not driven by a need for dominance, but I would likely see influence. There's a huge difference between seeking dominance and seeking the power required to achieve a goal. My goal? Probably to drive all other super heroes and villains not otherwise working for me out of town, after all then people can do their own thing without down town being set on fire every Thursday, or having their office building, factory, or house destroyed each month. My premise is that an absence of super heroes and villains would be a vacuum that would be filled quickly, and a hero with such a goal would naturally create a series of personal villains to fight him. The best bet any last peace in town would be to be a villain, those who rise to oppose me would be heroes, or at least anti-heroes. They'd be easier for the city to deal with as collateral damage wouldn't be an easy tool for them.

That being said, I don't think that I really have wonton disregard of life in me, and blowing stuff up just to be evil would self-defeating. So, I guess I'd just have to be nice about being evil. Really, I think that it's a good stratagem to begin with. After all, people who steal a little bit in a very nice way often get away with it for years, if they are caught at all. After all, there's no reason to be balls to the wall evil to begin with, the only thing I have to do in order to a card-carrying villain is simply being an ass to the self-righteous pricks who take it upon themselves to be heroes, and to decline to assist them against common foes. I do believe that would be easy enough.

In a world of super powers, I do believe that I would be a very rare thing. An anti-villain, in that I'm generally a nice, respectful fellow who wants what he believes is best for his community, but clearly defined in opposition to any super heroes who happen to be around. This isn't who I aspire to be, but rather this is what I would have to be in such a world.