Suddenly, Supers!

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by christ0pher

I'm looking for realistic reactions to a world changing event.

Realistic reactions are probably short lived panic, followed by nothing much after everybody calms down. Followed 2 to 10 years later by the release of equipment developed from the study of supers that can do anything any of them were suddenly able to, at which point there is a chance this will do something other than generate a few celebrities.

A handful of supers really aren't going to matter very much, especially if they follow the usual pattern of none of them having the same power set. A technology based on a super power though, that *can* be in enough places at once to have real social effects. If some of these super powers violate the rules of physics - which classic comic book powers typically do - then the new science, and shortly engineering, is even more exciting.