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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArghMark" data-source="post: 4785531" data-attributes="member: 83266">I had an interesting idea. What about a super who, with the stress of war, went insane? This is vaguely related to a sample talent I saw on the Godlike talent dossiers.In Godlike, insane talents believe in their own delusions, and hence have a lot more power than what they did before.My idea is this - A young soldier who in later years might be diagnosed with a minor mental disability. Someone like Forrest Gump in terms of intelligence who also happens to be extremely powerful. Anyway, our talent loves comic books. He really thinks the ideals promoted in comic books are the way the real world should be. He smiles and nods when people try to explain differently, but he just can't understand - and won't. In fact, his belief in how real these worlds are prompted his talent.His power is he can actually summon those superheroes. Superman himself pops in and saves the young talent. He's an NPC, but the problems of comic-book heroes don't quite match up with war, even one like Africa where no-one really had a personal stake in the matter except for the poor people who happened to live there.How does our talent react when Superman is busy ripping apart a tank and punching soldiers into unconsciousness and he sees his friends shot to death? Or he sees surrendering Italians shot by nervous troops?Maybe he gets revenge on people. A couple of soldiers are bullying him, so The Spectre pays them a visit and they die. I'm not sure how I want this to end; maybe he dies to PCs after attacking his own side, or maybe he goes ballistic on the enemy troops. Regardless, he's a wild card.Any ideas about how this could be resolved? I'm thinking this as a running sub-plot.</blockquote>

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