This is an incredibly appealing idea to me. There's that stupid quiz of peoples personalities with their desired superhero characteristic - flight/strength means you are gallant, invisibility means you are cowardly and scheming - superficially I like the stopping time one. There are technical problems, though. Consider that at any moment, somebody is fixing something that is about to break. If you stop time, does the person stop or does everything stop? Before you answer, think about this. Can you open a door when time is stopped? Yes, probably. Or suppose you steal stuff from a store while time is stopped (like everyone does when they stop time) - would you appear up on a video camera? Or what if you turn on a TV? Seems like it would work. But what is actually on TV, right? Somebody has to be working on that stuff. So there's a finite amount of time you have before everything goes to hell - electricity stops working because fuel isn't being delivered, pipes are bursting. It isn't as simple as the cereal box would like us to believe.
Some stuff that consider this idea in some way:
I think my favorite is The Secret Miracle, by Jorge Luis Borges
"A Kind of Stopwatch", Twilight Zone, adapted into
A later Twilight Zone episode, "A Little Peace and Quiet"
Clockstoppers, just terrible
Click, which I saw on an airplane some time ago and hated so much
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One of the better movies I've seen lately: Small Town Gay Bar.
