marycatelli | Entries tagged with genre: superheroes

Further reflections on how the law would change for superpowers --

The biggest question, of course, is how powerful they are, compared to normal humans. Though that would have some caveats based on whether normal humans can get their hands on technology produced by some Gadgeteers, super-technology-makers -- and technology that can be maintained by normal humans.

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Metaorigins are useful in a superhero universe. Provides a degree of unity in a genre not generally noted for it.

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Hmmm. . . that's the things about series. The events of one story set the timeline of another.

When the oldest children born to superheroes are about twelve, it therefore follows that even if the superheroes refrained in the first years, when they did not know how it would affect their children, it's about twelve years plus a little wiggle room since the heroes started to appear.

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Hmm -- are some powers simply not compatible with some metaorigins?

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Once you are exposed to certain situations, you may get sick. If you do, you will never get that sickness again. You may also develop superpowers.

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Is it possible to write an original superhero universe novel without a metaorigin?

DC and Marvel don't have 'em, of course. Then, both have grown up over decades accumulating aliens from other planets, magicians hanging out in NYC, supertrained women from all-female utopia with gifts from gods, victims of radioactive spiders or explosions, etc. And even they have a concentration of origins between mutants and the "metagene". The lack's a bit much to handwave in a single novel.

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Worldbuilding why people might be afraid of picking up superpowers. . .

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A superhero secret identity has its affinities to the masquerade. To be sure, the superhero is known to the public world in both identities, where the magical creatures may be hiding not only that they are vampires or werewolves, but that they exist at all -- and if not, it's the mundane identity only.

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How long ago did superpowers start appearing in the world?

I tabled that question and plugged along on the outline. And then --

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Was plugging along on a superhero story.

In which many people can be affected by the meta-origin, with the result of being a bit sick and then never being affected by it again. (No chance at powers! There are origin chasers, yes, but also a lot of superstitions, all wrong, about how you can do it to get powers, and avoid the dreadful fate of being cut off forever and ever.)

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In a world where there is a known way to get superpowers, how big a disaster, and how many, are needed to discourage it?

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There have to be more consequences for acquiring superpowers in this world.
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A bunch of supervillains with no need for a gun came crashing through the metaphorical door.

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One of the first things in building a superhero world is not only what kind of superpowers there are, and how many superheroes there are, but how many of them have what powers.
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So, how do you fight a supervillain whose superpower is the ability to transmute elements?

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I know where the story begins.

At the point at which she gets her powers.
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There's a heroine who has to have a power, and it has to be the ability to drain life. . . .

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Was thinking about various lawyerly discussions about the problems with superheroes testifying in secret identity. . .those would go double if the superhero was a vigilante, unauthorized by the authorities.
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Zoning, of course, would be interesting in trying to deal with any super in a city not designed for supers.

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Was contemplating a city built for superheroes. A Super City
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Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

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Entries tagged with genre: superheroes

law and the super power

the meta in the origin

sometime

powers and metaorigins

patterns and powers

the metaorigin

ramifications

masks and the masquerade

world unfolding

not so super

how big a disaster

consequences

through the door

how to concentrate power

so how do you fight her?

begin at the beginning

restrictions

supersurvellaince

supers and the city

super-zoning