Why would anyone with Superpowers ever become a superhero?

Based and superhero-pilled

edgelord cringe

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Brian Cash had screamed louder than he'd ever dared to hope. First, trying to calm his masked assailant down, begging him to stop. Then, screaming for help after his right hand's fingers were snapped like cheap pencils via Jeffery's telekinetic focus. Finally, after he'd had both femurs broken, he begged for death.

Jeffery had remembered some of his victims telling him that they begged Cash to stop, and that gave him the drive to continue. All that remained of the walking cancer that had been his old principal was a sobbing, self-soiled heap of broken bones and traumatized flesh, begging for death to come before the police arrived.

His costume was cheap. Black sweats and jeans, a ski mask. Maybe he'd use something more colorful. Maybe not. Simple colors worked for the Punisher, after all.

As the police hauled off the mangled heap that was Brian Cash, they didn't see the dark figure ascend above them into the night clouds.

A broken pedophile. A girl yanked out of the way of a drunk driver at the last moment by an unseen force. A carjacker somehow breaking his trigger finger trying to fire a gun.
All of these were deemed freak coincidences.

It was only when a meteor, large enough to warrant the evacuation of several cities, suddenly changed course into the ocean that anyone began to take the reports of a flying man seriously.

Because one of the first people to get superpowers got perfect precog and engineered society to let superheroes to be a thing cuz they thought itd be cool

I'd probably be the John Hancock of superheroes if I ever got powers.

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A Founding Father?

The thread could have just ended here.

What kind of hero power set would you want? Without going full school ground idiocy.

Green Lantern personally as it has a power drain to keep me grounded.

Same with GL, mainly because I love the Corps.

If you had the opportunity, why would you ever choose to be anything else?

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Because supervillains always lose in the end.

I mean, who does not want to be someone's Superman? I would be more afraid of having that kind of power and going full Red Son in today's political climate.

That's why you need to be regular criminal. Or better yet, a bussinesman. You can legally rob people then.

This specific picture of Gwenpool's head always looks like someone's bad take of a 'modern' Prince Adam to me.

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So I could become the superhero who only saves white people

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Watch out people, we got some big ideas coming from this direction.

Meh I want Purple Man's powers to live the good life and do what he does.

based

Money

looks to me like you just want a morally acceptable outlet for your violent impulses.
>violent drug distributors and human traffickers
this is fine and all but you're aiming for the last link of the chain. If you wanted to effect real change you'd know to use your superpowers to take out the higher ups and dismantle the whole mechanism from the root.

I'd be a superhero, if they paid me good enough

how old were you when you wrote this?

Depending on my powers, I'd probably at least deal with shit nearby. A good Samaritan who deals with as they come, so-to-speak. Patrolling the city every day and looking for trouble would be too much, but I'd at least keep an ear out.

Again, depending on my powers of course.

Fame and adoration.

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I don't see myself as an exactly good person but depending on the powers in question and how effectively I could use them without causing collateral I think I would try Ive always liked heroes like Superman Captain America and pic related

Based on my sense of morals I think I'd be a weird Kamen Rider esq type likely to be willing to kill should the need arise but not exactly gunning to end the lives of people I can stop outright

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You don't need to be a superhero for that. Focusing on being an 'influencer', maximising your online presence and showing off your powers in cool(and highly edited) videos will net you that easy peasy.

If I had a really powerful power I'd try to wreck society. If it wasn't op I would just use it to get money and be a neet forever.

What the fuck

Red Son? I'd just throw all the douche ingrates into the sun if they pushed my patience to the absolute extreme and I have no doubt they can

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to make this shitty world a better place to live in

Childhood wish fulfillment

Because you can beat up lowlifes as everyone cheer on you. It's an easy choice.

If I were granted superpowers, I'd want to keep on good terms with those who know I have them. Power on its own can illicit fear and hate from those who don't have it.
That, and I tend to feel good about myself when I do anything approaching altruism.

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This
Why would you help out ungrateful faggots
Only low IQ morons who become cops think that way

Okay.
powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random

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If I could choose what powers to get, it would be the following:

> Superman-style of flying

No mechanical stuff to strap into, no wings to worry about hiding, and it can allow for very discrete entrances and exits

> Spider-Man strength, reflexes, and Spidey-Sense

Spidey's overall power set is pretty well balanced, with the possible except being just how abusable the Spidey-Sense can be

> Minor regeneration abilities

Nothing like Wolverine, but sometimes you're gonna get injured trying to save someone and you don't want to be sidelined for a few months. At worst if you get shot to hell but can get to a medic in time to remove the bullets and you aren't braindead, you'll be up and about by the next day

I think that's all I'd want. This allows you to be pretty useful for most local issues and the freedom to remain helpful and hide your secret identity.

I really can't wait for the pendulum to swing again, conservative Yea Forums is fucking stupid

>powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Mechanical_Regeneration
not realy a superpower but i like the sound of that tbqh

Out of curiosity, why did you opt to cap your power level? Me personally, I enjoy the idea of being powered but not god like, something street level ish, as that seems the most fun to me, but I'm curious about your take.

Id manipulate the stock market and pool the money into charities and medical R&D

Fuck off and go back to eating donuts cracker

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Somebody, somewhere is definitely wanking/has wanked to this

Part of it is being able to keep things at a street level scale, but it's also about trying to not risk an Injustice Superman-like thing from happening. Because we're all human, with character strengths and flaws. And I've always been a believer in the phrase, "power corrupts." This much power in a person's hands can be corrupting, but my hope is that in my hands I could resist most of those temptations and use my powers for good.

Getting even more power leads to greater temptations and growing both more arrogant and more distant from non-powered folks, the people you should be protecting.

Ah, that's very aware and forward thinking of you. I can't say if given the choice to take full power I wouldn't take it, but I have an idealized version of my perfect powerset, which is pretty weak (street level-ish like I said before). I feel like having it in the real world would be the best mix of fun and being able to do something in bad situations (getting mugged, emergency like people on an unstable cliff, burning building, trapped cars, etc).

If you meant to quote me, I didn't have that in mind. A bunch of the stuff I imagine doing with superpowers would upset a lot of people at first from what I understand, and I can accept that I wouldn't satisfy everyone's needs all the time.
I'm more concerned about how much more prone my family and I would be to blackmail and/or threats. Not only would I want them to be as disengaged as possible from my superheroic lifestyle, I'd also want them to not throw me under the bus.

Some days we all just need to punch a motherfucker. When you can lift a car with a finger that's the only way to do it legally

destruction of property is still destruction of property
the entire government would fucking come down on you in a second if you went around making them look irrelevant and like they just collect a paycheck (which they mostly do) and they would use everyone reason you could give them against them, throwing peoples cars at random criminals would be reported in the (((news))) as "crazed loony vigilante freak attempting murder on poor lowly people of color for minor crimes"

I... I actually like that one.

>powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Fertility_Manipulation
Heh. Now, if you'll 'scuse me there's a whole bevy of super-gals to inconvenience.

Please for the love of god somebody link me Gwenpool's futa edits.

Isn't she non-virgin?

What color are her nipples? No the ones that sit upon her soft yet perky tits

I'd try being a villain first, then a hero (maybe Monday-Friday), before settling on being either a anithero, vigilante, or average person with powers that won't use them to help anybody.

I don't get it myself. Nobody here is a cop. Nobody wants to be a cop either.

Because with great power, there must also come great responsibility.

>It was only when a meteor, large enough to warrant the evacuation of several cities, suddenly changed course into the ocean that anyone began to take the reports of a flying man seriously.
Even discounting the rest of that cringy shit, if a meteor large enough to warrant the evacuation of SEVERAL cities hit the ocean, it would still fuck things up immeasurably. What happens when you drop a pebble into a puddle? It makes ripples.

Because when you have the ability to fight or prevent bad things from happening, and you don't, that's on you. Assuming you're not sociopathic and/or a Randian, this should spur you to action.

If you pay enough attention, you can hear this guy furiously patting his own back while writing this.

Lol who cares if bad things happen to other people? They're not me. Fuck everyone else, I gotta get mine. This is MY world!

> no lol, only delusional conclusiveness spun from cowards
As in, excuse me I don't know wtf you're asking me for real, ever. Please confirm.

I am literally the only person who matters and everyone else exists to do what I want. The world revolves around me... meeeee... MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Because you've seen enough horrible people. Enough scum of the earth assholes who only care about someone to the extent that they can squeeze money, food, shelter, and whatever else they can from them. Because you've heard too many terrible stories of horrible people doing horrible things. Too many people withdrawing from everything or growing unstable in the wake of it all. There's too much suffering.
Because dammit all, someone needs to shine a light in to the darkness to brighten things up. Might not be able to end the suffering, but you can at least lighten the load.

i feel like i've read that but don't recall where from

I made that shit up on the spot, but I'm sure I'm subconsciously channeling something else, especially that last bit.

With great power comes great responsibility

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Because the Law of Narrative Causality demands it

Who cares about "responsibility" Why should you feel obligated just because you have the power.

I believe in doing the right thing simply for the sake of doing the right thing because you want to do the right thing and you want to help everyone and you hate evil and injustice. Your power makes you free to whatever you want and nobody can control you, and you choose to save people and fight evil and do whatever you believe is right.

Not everyone is like this. Not even Peter Parker. If it wasn't for the Responsibility, feeling like it's his obligation and duty, he wouldn't be a hero. He was the type of person who cared only about himself and making money, and hated the world save for his Aunt and Uncle.

The best kind of hero is one who has complete and total freedom, and chooses to do the right thing because that's what he genuinely wants to do. No one can control or contain him, he is unbound.

That's the kind of hero I want to be if I had superpowers.

user you can be that hero now. They can only hang you once.

Because people need help, it’s called not being a douche, when someone needs help and you can give it, help.

user are you okay?

Then become a paramedic?

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I would go full Booster Gold or Tiger & Bunny or what have you. Generally try to do the right thing but enjoy the money and celebdom that comes with it. Imagine going up the ladder from basic bitch youtube sponsors to doing Coke commercials in your free time.
>"This foiled mugging brought to you by Dollar Shave Club!"
>"Don't thank me, thank the good men and women at Farmer's Insurance!"

>hurrdurr because I want to help people
How the fuck do you come to the conclusion that dressing up in a weird costume and beating up robbers is the best way to help people?
That's the question here.

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powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Poltergeization
Damn, i had an Idea for hero who could do that with a Top hat device before i clicked, similiar to Warframe's Limbo

>powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Illusion_Interaction.

This one would take some thought, but I'm sure I could get rich with it.

>Because dammit all, someone needs to shine a light in to the darkness to brighten things up. Might not be able to end the suffering, but you can at least lighten the load.
This was said by Beta Ray Bill in Thor, and it was paraphrased in the last scene of True Detective Season 1.

I've never even read or watched either of these, but shit, that's nice to know. I knew it was too cheesy to've not been said somewhere else before.

powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Enhanced_Sawmanship

HELL YEAH I COULD USE THIS! Aside from being useful to be a money making tool I could use this power to slice my way into places to save lives in collapsed building and other things like that, yeah I feel I could and would be a hero with this!

I couldn't be a superhero. I'm an anti-humanist. Not in the post-modernist or the ecological sense though, an existential anti-humanist. I'm not saying this to be a contrarian or an edgelord - it's just what I've come to believe. Of course, the underlying principle is that you can't study anti-humanism without the counterbalance of humanism. It's just that the more and more history I read, the more I came to understand that the bad outweighs the good. For every 5th symphony, a genocide. For every architectural marvel, a deliberately manufactured famine. For every technological advance, a dozen wars. Chemical warfare, concentration camps, nuclear weapons. And that's just in the 20th century. Sure, we put a man on the moon - the backdrop was a societal conflict enveloping 2/3 of the world that lasted over four decades. I could go on but you get the idea. Simply put, I don't believe we're worth saving.

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If I got superpowers I could, dare I say it, RRRRRRRRRULE THE WORLD

Get the rich pricks too who were in on the pedo-island shit.

Nerd

>powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Superiority
>The power to become superior to an opponent.

There's a lot of weird ass superpowers in that site. Is this even a real superpower? Still, pretty cool though.

>DImensional Beam Emission
Now this is a superhero power

Because you have a moral obligation to help people

>Ash Manipulation
>The ability to manipulate burnt or charred matter.
This is some GLA-tier power, and I'm not even a smoker so casually finding ash is off the table too.

the police dont

Not even firefighters have that. If there was an empty building on fire in the middle of nowhere or a loose mass shooter in a shopping mall the firefighter would have to go and put out the building fire.

Cop
>the good you do is glossed over as "that's what we pay you for"
>the bad any cop does gets attributed to you personally
>taken off the job for weeks if you shoot a life-threatening criminal
>taken off the job for weeks if anyone with a phone decides you're being too mean to a suspect and posts video online
>have to watch blatantly unrepentant criminals get put back on the streets
>can fucking die

Superhero
>everyone appreciates that you're choosing to help instead of blackmailing Congress into building you a moon base to store a mega-harem of kidnapped models
>no one blames you if Billy Gun-Eyes from the next town over decides to take bribes
>only have to justify your kills to yourself
>can ignore crackpots that say you shouldn't be hanging bank robbers up by their coats on lampposts
>can throw repeat offenders into your prison dimension if you want
>come back in a couple years if you die
>get to keep any society-changing technology, ancient treasures, or alien artifacts you find

One is a power fantasy, and one is a shitty job.

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN.

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where's the "no prison time for shooting unarmed noncompliant people" and "clubbing and tear gassing those who speak up at protest rallies" under Cop?

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