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meowskywalker t1_jef80ak wrote

It’s in impossible for me to believe that no one would be superheroes. Maybe a lot of people would be selfish shits. Maybe most. But we’ve got 80 plus years of media telling us that the correct thing to do when you get powers is put on a costume and fight crime. Some of us would do that. I wouldn’t even have time to put on a costume before I’d be trying to help people.

And if you think about it, for every Spider-Man or Luke Cage or Flash there’s like a dozen people who get superpowers and decide to use them for evil. Every superhero has their own rogues gallery, and most of them are superpowered. The idea that superpowers make most people shits is hardly a new or original idea, we just historically wrote the stories about the exceptions, because the exceptions are the people to idolize.

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TJ_Fox OP t1_jef9afr wrote

In the novel and what we've seen so far of the series, some of the newly-empowered characters do basically become criminals, others think of the powers as a curse, some use them for political gain, at least one major character effectively starts her own religion ... there's a wide variety of responses.

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