12-12-2018, 07:47 PM | #51 |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
One of the very few times in my life when the pun was accidental. lol
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
12-20-2018, 09:32 AM | #52 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
Quote:
Of course, there also exist parents who reject their children for things like coming out as LGBT, so I can see the same happening with mutancy in a fictional world - but it would be nice to see more of the other side of the coin. This is one thing that the television show The Gifted is doing a decent job of, even if the father is later revealed not to actually be a mundane supporting his mutant children he certainly thought he was. The other factor is, depending on the perceived (not actual, necessarily) prevalence of super-mutagen stuff in the world, wouldn't the same fears apply to Fantastic Four-like origins, or really more earthbound ones like those of the Hulk and Spider-Man? You'd probably have both anti-vaxxer equivalents paranoid about what additive or pollutant or medical treatment could give them or their neighbors unwanted freakish powers, and an opposing bunch of nuts who go out seeking 'origin' bait and probably mostly getting cancer instead, even in the MU. |
|
12-20-2018, 03:14 PM | #53 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
I think it's reasonable for a sizeable minority of denizens of the MU to be constantly setting up dangerous laboratory conditions in order to trigger a superpower granting 'accident'.
|
12-21-2018, 02:12 PM | #54 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
|
12-21-2018, 03:31 PM | #55 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: On the road again...
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
Or as the T-shirt says, "Screw lab safety - I WANT SUPERPOWERS!" XD
__________________
"Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting |
12-21-2018, 04:32 PM | #56 |
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Zealand.
|
Re: Marvel/DC World-Character Supers Building
From "the return of dr mysterio" Dr Who xmas special
Grant: He was bitten by a radioactive spider, and guess what happened? The Doctor: Radiation poisoning, I should think. Grant: No. He got special powers. The Doctor: What? Vomiting, Hair loss and death? Fat lot of use.
__________________
Waiting for inspiration to strike...... And spending too much time thinking about farming for RPGs Contributor to Citadel at Nordvörn |
Tags |
3rd edition, supers, world building |
|
|