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Answering more from a reader's perspective than a writer's, I'd prefer the version without the "cool for cool" powers --whenever I read something like that, it just seems like the writer being self-indulgent.

You also run the risk of introducing plotholes. For instance, in the Harry Potter series, there are a number of over-powered magical devices (the "time turners" which allow a limited form of time travel being the best example) which seem as though they could have been used to easily solve many of the series' main problems. Obviously it wasn't a fatal problem for HP, and might not be for you either, but it is an avoidable risk.

One final argument for dropping the SUPER-super powers --you don't want them to lower the cool factor of the normal superpowers.

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