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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5897602" data-attributes="member: 8835">Ah yes, Damage Control. As I recall, it was more of a comedy-oriented mini-series.  Kind of joking at the problem of all the super-hero damage.I think realistically, the amount of damage would depend on the strength and scope of the battles.  FEWER people in Metropolis means fewer deaths when the giant robot destroyes the sky scraper.  Not that you want large cities with sparse population, but the OP's concept of high population is the exact opposite of the efffect you want to achieve.Wrecking a few cars, bridges, store fronts (the usual fair for comic book fights) is within the scope of insurance companies and their policies.I would suspect that FEWER supers would reduce the likely hood of anti-super paranoia.  5 Supers are not going to replace humanity as the next step in evolution.  Just like none of us rural Minnesotans thought to hate the 1 black kid in our school (because there aren't any other black people in the county).  It's just not in our mindset of consideration.  Contrast that to more diversified schools, where people start banding together by obvious commonalities like skin color and nationality.1 in 10 people being a Super starts making the Mundanes feeling like it's a competition for resources, power, opportunities, success.It may also be a matter of secrecy or dare I say it, segregation.  Stereotypical Supers form an elite team, and hide their identity.  We don't tend to think or notice that Clark Kent is really super, because it's not in our face that he is just better than us in the workplace.  The SuperTeam is like Seal Team 6.  Special, awesome, and in the news as the guys who saved the day.  That's no different than other hero stories on the news.  It's good to hear the day was saved, but rescuing kittens from trees and thwarting terrorist plots is far seperated from everyday life for the majority of folk.Having to go to work everyday with OctoArm, who can type 8 times faster than you.  Or WeldEye who's laser vision can finish a welding job in half the time as you, and ChickMagnet, the guy who's pheromones means he's the only guy getting any action in the bar would make you start to resent Supers something fierce.But it you live in a world where Supers form covert anti-crime units (whether sanctioned or not), they're not in your face in the regular scheme of things.  No more than people get jealous of those Seal Team 6 guys with how they get all the chicks, save the day by breakfast while balancing a ball on their nose.</blockquote>

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