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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5886548" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, I don't know.  I just said it hasn't been well-explored.  I would expect the presence of a significant number of such people to have notable impact on values - what is a person worth? what is "justice", really?, what use of force do we allow, and what don't we?  Note here: it is possible to slip into politics.  Let us not do that.  I'm just using historical examples without trying to attach values to them.Consider the Old West.  Then consider the period of WWII.  Now consider today. We've had major cultural shifts between those times.  Your typical person believed different things about right and wrong, what was proper and what wasn't, and so on.  Heroes from each time would be different types of people.What if your supers are all Buddhists with meditation techniques that release the power inherent in the human form?  They'd be different from supers born of inner-city chemical pollution, right?  The people under the powers will have completely different outlooks on the world, and will behave differently.Well, that depends on what kind of powers we are talking about.  If your heroes are Batman, that means one thing.  If they are Superman, they are another.  Godlike, for example, is a RPG set in WWII, with superhero characters - but a good sniper bullet is still a major danger to the characters.  That's radically different from a Superman who can around the world and travel back in time....In an era with nuclear weapons available, you need to be Superman before fighting back is not an option.  Do we still have the infrastructure to produce, broadcast, and receive TV shows?  Do people still need news and entertainment?  Then there will still be TV.What will the shows be like?  Read the recent books in the "Wild Cards" series - there's a reality TV show for supers.  It may be that some types of show may come to be seen less as science fiction, and more like soap operas or crime procedurals - that which is reality is less fantastic, but you can still make a show around it.Insufficient information. Whether there's risk of apocalypse depends upon the power and number of supers.</blockquote>

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