You might say we don't need more stories about grim male antiheroes, but I say we don't need more stories about perfect, good, female heroes. I want stories about women who are powerful and where "good" is irrelevant at most
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Such as Phelps and his lack-of-lactic-acid or whatever it is. I'm also interested in the other array of weird superpowers. Is Iceman doomed to either get a job powering refrigerators or just not bother with his powers at all?
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Invisibility is essentially useless once governments and big corporations tighten security to prevent them from being spies. How on Earth would mind readers fit in with the rest of society?
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Cf. the book version of The Princess Bride going into Fezzik's sad traumatic backstory and how as he just keeps growing bigger he "graduates" from "athlete" to the much worse job of "circus freak"
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Which leads to the comic book superhero/villain thing He's not a bad guy at heart but he takes a job with Vizzini because it's his first chance to use his powers for a real job that objectively requires them and not just to entertain a crowd of assholes (That job being crime)
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