Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZSutherland" data-source="post: 399901" data-attributes="member: 7638">While all of the above mentioned reasons are right on the money, I feel one, above all the others should stand out even if it doesn't get the press time in comics that it should.  Fear.It's a commonly stated truism, "People fear what they don't understand."  The laws that society lives by are, at least on a very fundamental level, governed by the expected norm, but what if you are, even if only in a one-dimensional way, totally removed from the expected norm.  Take Jean Gray as she's presented in the X-Men movie, telekinetic with some very under-developed telepathy.  Given that she's not super-good as well as super-powered, what might she do with that?  The creative mind can find so many lucrative scams.  Now, she would never do any of those things, but if people knew she was capable of it, the fear that she "might" would be enough for them.  Most comic character face this early in their careers.  They're seen as deviants, potential criminals, or vigilantes at best.  Sure, they can earn that reputation for being the beloved do-gooder, but the mask and the lie keeps them out of jail and out of the lynch mob's hands long enough to do so.Coincidentally, I think this is also why supers are prone to spandex, flashy colors, and silly names.  It's just hard to be scared of a guy named Master Disaster when he shows up in dayglo yellow & red spandex so you can see his love-handles and the fact that he has an outie.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

Verification