You know, I think having super-elasticity as a power would suck.

Really--it would just make me lazy.

"Well, no reason to get up and go all the way into the kitchen. I can just reach that box of truffles from over here in the living room." Stre-e-e-e-tch. "Here we go. Truffles, come to Mama. Wait, I need some soda, too. Lots of soda. Fuck, the remote's broken, too. Oh well. I can do it all from right here on the couch."

All of the other powers I can think of, even useless ones like Flowerchild's or Glow Girl's, would make me feel like running off on an adventure to try and figure out the full extent of such a spiffy power.

But elasticity would just make me one lazy bitch. Or aspire for a career in softcore porno.

Also--imagine if your enemy was armed with an eggbeater or some gears or something. What if you got stuck in their Super Death Trap Machine of DOOM and got all caught in there, but wouldn't DIE because you would endlessly stretch and squish? I imagine that even if you had elasticity, you'd feel some kind of pain. Vast, mindblowing pain from being squished by spiky gears or an evil eggbeater or something.

Or if your enemy was another stretchy person and you were tied in a hopelessly complex Gordian knot with no way of escaping or untying yourselves? That would be a bitch, wouldn't it?

There would be a couple of bright sides. No need to get the ladder out of the shed to save that kitten in a tree. No need to fetch the plumber, since you could squeeze your hand down the pipe and get that clog out yourself.

But still.

I'd rather have a pointless power like Glow Girl's, or, hell, even Matter-Eater Lad's, instead of elasticity.