Favorite Name For People With Super Powers?

Dog Moon · Oct 1, 2015

Ryujin said:
"Powers", the expression used occasionally in "Heroes" and "Heroes Reborn", works for me.

Except apparently the people in Heroes Reborn with powers are called Evos. Which for some reason I don't really like. Can't remember if they had names in the first series or not.

Ryujin · Oct 1, 2015

Dog Moon said:
Except apparently the people in Heroes Reborn with powers are called Evos. Which for some reason I don't really like. Can't remember if they had names in the first series or not.

As I said, the name "powers" is occasionally used in those two shows

For example it was used by the character Quentin just after he was attacked at the site of the holocaust.

CaptainGemini · Oct 2, 2015

"Test subjects." It makes my players squirm.

megamania · Oct 8, 2015

Don't forget "Meta-humans" and harbingers (course that is more a mutant than superpowered)

Rabulias · Oct 9, 2015

Janx said:
which was the title of a really good JMS comic book series

I believe you are thinking of Supreme Power; Powers is a comic written by Brian Michael Bendis.

Janx · Oct 9, 2015

Rabulias said:
I believe you are thinking of Supreme Power; Powers is a comic written by Brian Michael Bendis.

Neither apparently. A quick trip to my closet of books tells me the title was "Rising Stars" Doh!

Skylarks · Oct 9, 2015

Some examples I've read (which no one else has mentioned yet) in urban and YA fantasy include:

- Talents
- Sparks (used in the Girl Genius comics)
- Graced (Graceling novel series by Kristen Cashore)
- Mages (generic, but it still works even in modern and futuristic settings. There are also many variants on mages, like 'magids', 'mancers', and so on.)
- Mutants (X-Men)
- Workers (as in magic workers, from the Black Cat series by Holly Black)

I know I've seen many other original names, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. Some stories use more generic but nuanced terms like witches, wizards, magicians, espers, and so on, even for characters with wildly varying powers.