If you could pick your powers and set of physical attributes (not the looks or gender) from this list of mutant characters, which would they be and why would you pick them? 
 
Havok                                                                             Quicksilver                                         Shadowcat
 
Wolverine (with adamentium)                                   Nightcrawler                                      Psylocke
 
Sunspot (fully developed)                                          Storm                                                  Multiple Man
 
Gambit                                                                           Bishop                                                Colossus
 
Banshee (fully developed)                                        Namor                                                 Mystique
 
Sunfire                                                                          Cannonball                                        Beast
  
Iceman (fully developed)                                          Rictor                                                   Cyclops

I'll do my take. 
 
Havok- His set would be cool, very powerful. 
 
Wolverine- Adamentium infused body, fighting ability surpassed by none, senses, regenerative healing factor, whats not to like? 
 
Sunspot- Strength, flight, and energy blasts 
 
Gambit- Strong fighting skills, ability to always get the chick, and blow stuff up? Nice 
 
Banshee- Sonic scream, flight, concussive blast, hypnotise, and cancel sound. 
 
Sunfire- Flight, very powerful and can switch to infared vision 
 
Quicksilver- Run really fast. Thats pretty cool ability, Could come in handy for day to day applications when not kicking butt. 
 
Nightcrawler- Ability to climb up walls, unsurpassed agility, and teleportation. "Crap I forgot to turn in the movie and Blockbuster closes in five minutes. BAMPF". 
 
Storm-  Flight, and control weather. Guarantees you will be a formidable foe for the most powerful super humans, and you will never get rained out at the beach again. 
 
Bishop- Blast him with your best, and you will get it right back at ya. 
 
Namor- Breathe underwater, flight, strength, durability, excellent fighting skills. He is the navy seal of the superhero world with his ability to take the fight to both land, air and sea. 
 
Cannonball- Super fast flight, impervious to harm while flying. 
 
Rictor- Seimec energy dispersion.  
 
Shadowcat- For when you just feel like you need to get away. 
 
Psylocke- Strong fighter, telekinetic blade, strong mental powers. 
  
multiple man- gurantees you will never be alone or fight alone. Very handy in escape situations. 
 
Colossus- Super stronger and super durable and you don't have to look like a freak all the time. 
 
Mystique- Healing factor, and shape shift into who you want. Getting some action on Saturday night will never be a problem again. 
 
Beast- Strong, super intelligent, super agility has shown to have some heightened senses. 
 
Cyclops- Optic Blasts. 
 
For me it would be hard to choose between, Namor, Sunspot, Banshee, and Nightcrawler. I think it would be Banshee with Namor as a close second. 

Multiple Man is probably one of the most useful, real-life powers. I'd take that power.

Wolverine seems to have the powers that would cause the least amount of accidental collateral damage  

I meant to say Banshee with Namor as a close second, and Sunfire as a distant third. 
 
Sunfire doesn't really have much real world application but he is pretty bad @$$. I chose banshee mainly because the flight, sonic scream as an offensive weapon and the hypnotising. Namor would be cool for the strength, flight and being able to breathe underwater. 

...i really wouldn't want any of these...if i had a power it would be time manipulation 
 
 
however to answer the question, i guess out of these, Storm's is the most useful, just imagine how much good you can use it for, if i had Storm's powers, Hurricane Katrina would have stopped before it started...also i would never have to carry an umbrella

Multiple Man or Mystique.

iceman's powers fully developed. 

wolvies , but  personally i want hopes  powers

Namor, Mystique, or Multiple Man. 
I think I'd like having Multiple Man's powers the most, as I could get a lot of things done.

Archangel.

Psylocke, those mental powers in the real world would completely make my life awesome. 
Use telepathy to get money, no need to work 
Use awesome psychic blades if you get attacked
Telekinesis is also a plus (favorite power)
 
Wolverine's regenerative powers are depressing, watch all you family and friends die and live forever

Nightcrawler

Iceman. He's virtually immortal since he can exist in his ice form....and i think he can also exist as vapor and water (if memory serves) Travel would be a snap with the ice slides and my beer would never get warm ;)

I have always liked Shadowcats ability.....you could never stopped by anyone. I mean even Nightcrawlers has some limitations. 
 
No one could ever hold me down!!

Multiple Man is probably one of the most useful, real-life powers. I'd take that power.

@John Valentine said:

Multiple Man is probably one of the most useful, real-life powers. I'd take that power.

I would go with Ice Man's power because its awesome and I live in Chicago and it would be handy during the winter time!!!

The fanboy in me wants to say Cyclops, but I'd probably pick Quiksilver's or Wolverine's of that list.  

Shadowcat mixed with Cannonball. Being able to blast-off at top speed through the air without fear of crashing into anything or anyone would be amazing.

Definitely Wolverine, who wouldn't want to be the ultimate badass?

Shadowcat 

I don't know from that list, If I could choose any I'd choose morph's though

From that list, Kitty.

Out of this list 
 
Nightcrawler- Being able to teleport to wherever i please would be awesome! 
 
Psylocke- Telepathy would be kickass!

Awesome thread! I'd most likely pick Namor or Iceman!

Shadowcat- Love to walk through walls!

Mystique- Turn into whoever I want? What's not to like

Psylocke- Telepathy could come in REALLY handy and so could telekinesis

i go for wolverine!

Wolverine......He is indestructible,

Namor - highly intelligent, possessed of a host of useful superhuman abilities, a great businessman and just plain good looking. Of those in the list, I think he has the best powers to possess in a real world.

I generally favor telepaths because it is drop down the best power to have in the real world,, but Psylocke doesn't have a stable powerset, and I'd be more afraid of ending up with a crappy powerset one day because of some random fluke LOL. Imagine being a good telepath one day, than having crap like the Crimson Dawn (complete with tacky eye tattoo & weird emotional hangups) happen to you. Too stressful.

I chose Havok because he is power and very handsome. also Namor because he is the king of the sea and can make me a queen de maravilla.

Most of them are just "badass" "awesome" powers that aren't really useful in realife, I mean what can you do with abilities like Colossus, Banshee, Bishop, Havok, Sunspot, Storm, Gambit, Sunfire, Cannonball, Beast, Iceman, Rictor and oh god, Cyclops? Go wild? F@ck the world up? Make everybody jealous? Become a hero? lol

The powers I find to be actually useful from the list:

Quicksilver - completely stopping to be bothered with time and borders getting to any point of the world within seconds? Check. But then living in a world that almost doesn't move for you?

Shadowcat - yeah, did you also think about that robbery of the century?

Wolverine (with adamentium) - to become immortal, almost unkillable with a infinite potential of killing others? It will cost you something in our world.

Nightcrawler - teleporting, no explanation needed I think

Psylocke - perfect, especially that new powerset of her with TK and constructs. If you're smart, you'll never be detected.

Multiple Man - useful, so damn useful. But damn, this powerset is ridiculous lol

Namor - if you have an obsession for seas, totally understandable, otherwise... another "awesome"

Mystique - another pure usefulness, and if you're a bi, makes it perfect not only for usefulness

I would want Shadowcat's or Wolverine's. I would go into detail about the why but.... I feel like that's pretty obvious really. Healing and walking through stuff.

wow this is a majorly necro'd thread... lol

agreed with adamtrmm about the usefulness factor of many of the powers.

that said... i'd choose a telekinetic to have the powers of every time. Psylocke's or Jean's... sure throw in telepathy for the psionic 2 for 1 package.

Mystique + Multiple Man... the possibilities are endless ;)

Psylocke. Telepathy and Telekinesis are the most practical for real life. You can practically do anything you want, and without the risk of discovery since TK and TP can be used without having to show your power (unless you decide to whip up a TK construct in the middle of a restaurent or something lol)

My Mutant broseph isn't here.

It's ok Magneto. No tears. You promised you'd be strong.

psylocke would be perfect for me.

If I could only pick one it would have to WOlverine. Just practical for my everyday life.

God, o complain about this every week. Id pick Nightcrawler.

Bamf. No effing driving!!

@onemoreposter: are you a soldier or something? A hunter? why is wolverine's power practical to your everyday life as opposed to psylockes/multipleman/mystique? just curious lol

Havok due always wanting awesome blasty powers, Wolverine due to practicality, andNamor due to flying AND being able to live underwater along with long life and near indestructability in the real world and Psylocke due to always wanting to have TP and TK.

Quicksilver because time is money and being able to do anything I want as fast as I want is infinitely useful.