Should PCs Be Exceptional?

[Thomas Shey]

The Shadow had superpowers. That is why I brought it up.

But Batman doesn't, and people lump him together with those that do. (I also must note it depends on what specific incarnation of the Shadow you're looking at, though I believe the pulp-novel version did).

 

[Lord Shark]

But Batman doesn't, and people lump him together with those that do. (I also must note it depends on what specific incarnation of the Shadow you're looking at, though I believe the pulp-novel version did).

The whole "power to cloud men's minds" business was a creation of the radio program. The original pulp Shadow had no superpowers unless you count being able to hypnotize people with his fire-opal ring, but he was easily on Batman's level of strength and stealthiness, and deadly accurate with his guns.

 

[Deset Gled]

The whole "power to cloud men's minds" business was a creation of the radio program. The original pulp Shadow had no superpowers unless you count being able to hypnotize people with his fire-opal ring, but he was easily on Batman's level of strength and stealthiness, and deadly accurate with his guns.

Does this game of Um Actually have a point related to the discussion or are we just doing 1930s adaptation changes that became canon?

Because if it's the latter, I got more. Superman couldn't fly in his original Action Comics (he could only leap whole buildings in a single bound). Flight was seen first in his animated cartoons. And Dorothy's slippers were only made ruby so they'd be more colorful in the movie musical adaptation. In the books and previous adaptations they were silver.

Um, actually, the Fleisher animated Superman short "The Mad Scientist" where he first flies is from 1941, not the 1930s.