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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4552365" data-attributes="member: 63763">Didn't someone get yelled at for taking something too literally. My point was that, in the case of superhero genre, there are ALSO different power sources. You have some that are alien (Superman). You have some that are magically arcane (Dr. Strange) or you have some that are divine (Thor). You have a lot of science based, either technological (Iron Man) or biological (Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men ... a lot of the Marvel heros are mutants or mutates). Then there are the exceptional humans who don't have superpowers ... but do some stuff that is STILL pretty incredible. Batman is probably the paragon of this, but there are a lot of "street level" types that are human, but much better than anything we'd see in our reality. That kind of idea, translated to a fantasy setting, is that a fighter, at the peak of human ability AND training can do things that would seem nearly impossible.  What heroes do, even martial heroes do, is NOT an everyday occurance, unless you assume that everyone waking around is "at least" a martial hero. The people who are the best at what they do in society are going to be much better at what they do then anyone else, and capable of accomplishing feats that some people don't believe to be possible. In a world with magics, and gods having direct power (or at least, being able to bestow upon people the magic to have direct influence) is just as likel have a higher "peak" of human ability that we do.</blockquote>

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