one thing i do appreciate is that luther (and diego) has got the absolutely lamest power of the bunch, no discernible leadership skills, but is nevertheless considered The Leader merely in virtue of being the eldest son seems very real tbh
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like the power variance in that family is just so incredibly large instantaneous time and space travel make things true by saying them crack planets in half raise the dead ... ... good knife throwing strong arms
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Lol that's the thing, he's not actually "eldest", they're all the same age -- that's the premise Hargreeve gave them a numerical ranking that they were meant to think was *descending* order of power but it was actually *ascending*
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Or, to put it another way, the numerical hierarchy is based on one thing and one thing only -- how much of a threat they are to his authority
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(Although, unless they changed it in S2, they did obviously nerf Alison's power greatly from the comic -- it's not reality warping, just mind control)
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eh, it's a weird one though, because she can tell people to do stuff that they cannot possibly do, as in the s2 premiere when she melts some dudes' skulls
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Ah, okay, they changed it in S2 then That's still not full-on reality warping but mind+body control
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In the comic, they played up the superpower lottery even more -- Diego's only superpower is that he can hold his breath indefinitely, which is a setup for him being the Batman of the team (he uses this ability to train harder than is normally humanly possible)
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I like the idea that he has very limited telekinesis as a better "weak-but-surprisingly-effective" superpower though
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i feel like that would be a neat conceit but also would sort of defeat the character concept, like the point is that diego is the one who most explicitly tries to be a Superhero despite being the absolute least suited to it
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Well yeah, hence in the original he becomes Batman as a result of having a superpower that barely even qualifies as a superpower But Netflix thought that would be too hard to convey so they gave him the knives thing
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