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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 4054498" data-attributes="member: 13637">A novel by Neil Gaiman. The gods of mythology are real beings, created and fed mainly by people's belief. When immigrants came to the new world, their belief brought their gods with them. But now they are left to wander, immortal but largely depowered. Unworshipped and unrecognized. Some have found places in the world and some are trying to regain the power and influence they have lost. The main character finds out that he is a god, of sorts.A series of games by White Wolf -- Hero, Demigod and God. Modern world setting. The players carry a spark of an immortal god. The game involves the characters discovering their godhood, getting involved in their parent's wars and rising in power to their legacy.A six-issue series by Mark Millar (who is one of my favorite comic authors.) Sometime back in the 1980s of a typical superhero world, the villains decided to unite. They combined their power against the heroes that normally thwarted them and they actually won. A total decisive victory. So the villains rule the world. They use the supertechnology and supermagic to remake the world into a form they can control and then wipe out people's memories of what happened. They sit in the dark, raking in infinite profits and performing horrific crimes out of the public eye. The main character is an office schlub who finds out that he is actually the son of one of the bad guys, The Killer, and when Killer dies, he receives his powers and is let in on the conspiracy.A comic series by Warren Ellis that takes the typical superhero world and twists it inside out. There are people with powers. Some have pretty extreme powers. But the entire world is based on some scary, out of control secret history. Alien invasions and people gaining cosmic power, that sort of thing. The main characters work for an agency and it is their job to either a) hide the secret history of the world or b) discover the secret history, depending on where in the series you come in.Written by J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) it is the story of a group of kids in a small town who happened to be in utero when a meteor crashed nearby. Early in their lives it is apparent that they have developed some strange powers that no one else in the world has. It is basically a story about how they as individuals react to having these powers and how the world reacts to them.FF 236 was the 20th anniversary issue of the FF, drawn and written by John Byrne. Reed Richards is a befuddled small town college professor. Ben Grimm is a has-been jock. Johnny Storm is a young n'er-do-well. I don't recall what the deal was with Sue Storm. But they are basically living lives of quiet misery, sure that something is wrong, that they are destined for greater things, but here they are living nothing lives in a nothing town. There is no FF. There never has been an FF. Turns out Doctor Doom ambushed the FF and he won! Completely. He has had their bodies captured and their minds projected into a fake world where he is forcing them to live these pathetic little lives. Of course, Doom pushes it too far (in his megalomania he insists on bullying Reed Richards until Reed is finally able to mentally push through the mental fuzz Doom has engineered. Reed makes the connections, figures things out and is able to use his intellect to get them out.)Thanks for pointing this out Vince, in many ways this is a really good example of the sort of setting I would like. A normal guy finds out that he has powers beyond the rest of the world. In fact, he may have had these powers his whole life. And as he pushes himself he realizes he may not have limits. But he is still basically a normal guy with powers trying to figure out what is happening with him.</blockquote>

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