Suddenly, Supers!

[Agemegos]

Well, you'll get some kinds of supers and not others, and others will take time to develop, since "cosmic energy" won't [quickly] make a person into a billionaire who put twenty years into training because his parents were killed, a second-generation billionaire-gadgeteer, a surviving 1940s supersoldier, an alien refugee, a Greek god, or the deputy of a galactic law-enforcement body.

Other places that are also genetic melting pots, such as Brazil, the UK, Australia will also get lots of supers. The places that are even more mixed than the USA will presumably get even more supers. Individuals of mixed ethic background will presumably be over-represented among supers.

Most of the supers will lack traditional backstories, including motivating factors.

Most of the supers will lack any particular inclination to be either heroic or villainous. They will deploy their powers for making income, doing good works pro bono publico, doing favours for friends and family, and commiting crimes in about the same proportions as people in the real world today do with their normal capacities. That includes many supers doing some of each. Those that do seek to do good will have the same wide range of opinions as to what is good and what is important as ordinary people have now. A lot will fight etc. for what they perceive as the interests of their nations, ethnicities, religions, clans and families; in this they will be as ill-guided, short-sighted, and ill-disciplined as freedom fighters and vigilantes usually are. They are likely to commit a huge number of very serious mistakes.

The new supers who do volunteer for the regular armed forces and law enforcement agencies of their favourite countries will probably be quite problematic for the existing ways of training and indoctrinating police and service personnel, and perhaps for disciplinary institutions as well.

There will be very little strutting about in fanciful costumes. Those costumes that there are will be tacky.