I've always wondered what a real-life X-men type situation would look like. Super strength is a cool party trick, but like... when is it useful in real life outside of helping your friends move? Would there be societal pressure not to like, get an office job or be a lawyer?
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It would save a lot of money to just hire someone to do a forklift driver's job without buying the forklift but I'm not sure how useful it is if you only have the one person
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KenzieLutece and
Most people who are extraordinarily physically gifted in our world directly make money from it as athletes Which brings up Dash's whole complaint in The Incredibles that for him to do this is somehow "unfair"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KenzieLutece and
I mean yeah sure in real life if there were an "X-gene" they'd pretty quickly make rules barring you from competition if you had it It's just that the existence of purely natural "superhumans" demonstrates how arbitrary sports are in the first place
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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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Replying to @KenzieLutece @arthur_affect and
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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Well that's why you ideally don't let people know that there's such a thing as invisible mutants
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KenzieLutece and
That's why the conflict in X-Men The Brotherhood types actively don't want to "educate" normal humans about themselves and "integrate into society", it would remove most of their power
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Which ultimately kind of circles back to the original issue: are supervillains an inevitable result of superpowers, therefore creating a need for superheroes?
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Replying to @KenzieLutece @arthur_affect and
I think there's also an interesting class analysis that could be done here. "Supervillains" would most likely be people who feel they *have* to use their powers for profit. "Heroes" would most likely be people who choose or want to.
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Yes and no Some people will always just be dicks
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What made Killgrave scary is that he’s a super villain but uses his powers mostly to be personally abusive. The scale is narrow
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