How would the worlds media real handle Superheroes
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Posted on: 2010-03-22 06:44 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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Originally Posted by ObiWan
You can't win, GG. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine...and nice rack.
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I garuntee there would be many superheroes and supervillians that would do somthing that dumb, and worse. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
There are a few superheores who might do something that dumb - but she isn't one of them
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Of course there would be Superhero WAGs (Wives And Girlfriends) who would milk the fame, and when they get dumped, straight to the tabloids with stuff like 'Superhero Tremor (someone who can create Earthquakes) Shook me all night long!'. Peoples champion in kiss and tell shocker. It would be worse than the Tiger Woods thing. Of course Villians would probably enjoy the infamy, I know Nite Wraith would.
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Only the vain ones with very weak powers, who felt they had to do something else to get attention.
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Originally Posted by Nite Wraith
I garuntee there would be many superheroes and supervillians that would do somthing that dumb, and worse.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The government in real life protects the privacy/identity of some CIA agents - so it'd do the same for superpowered agents too.
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I'd think that Valarie Plame would have a few choice words about that statement.
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And the reason that was a big story was because of the leak - it was an unusual situation to have an agent's cover blown.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
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I'd think that Valarie Plame would like to have a few choice words about that statement. |
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Very true, but as I said, Tiger Woods, top of his game, has like 13 affairs and next thing you know he's famous for the wrong reason.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Only the vain ones with very weak powers, who felt they had to do something else to get attention.
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Sometimes I thonks these things are PR stunts to bring attention to people who were famous and have now been sort of forgotten. A jog to the memory. The same could be said for Superheroes.
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Mandatory registration...|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I think that it'd be likely superpowered people would have to register with the government, so there might be some kind of privacy law to protect the identities of any of them who were going to be fighting crime.
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So plenty of Aquaman sex tapes then? |
Originally Posted by Nite Wraith
Sometimes I thonks these things are PR stunts to bring attention to people who were famous and have now been sort of forgotten. A jog to the memory. The same could be said for Superheroes.
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Why all the hate on Aquaman? did he comment on your rack too?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
So plenty of Aquaman sex tapes then?
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I only have a rack on my desk for CDs, and a couple of racks in my closet for clothes.|
Originally Posted by ObiWan
Why all the hate on Aquaman? did he comment on your rack too?
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Aquaman is harmless - that's why he's so open to jokes
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LOL! Who?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
So plenty of Aquaman sex tapes then?
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I cant think on Aquaman without his quote from Smallville coming to my mind....|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I only have a rack on my desk for CDs, and a couple of racks in my closet for clothes.
Aquaman is harmless - that's why he's so open to jokes |
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My answer for the Thread's title question is...
Just like they handle any celebrity; Poorly.
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Originally Posted by Steampunkette
If you asked someone the first thing they'd do if given the power of teleportation -many- would immediately discuss teleporting into banks or places of wealth, stealing something, and leave.
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My second thought was Jumper. It was a good movie. Although, I didn't agree with the theft part.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
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My wife and I had that conversation once. She would use teleportation to not have to leave for work so early and sleep in a little later, then decided it would be good to go on vacations at will. (No airfare charges, no hotel charges as you can sleep in your own bed every night.)|
Originally Posted by Steampunkette
This is a very possible reality... Though it's not a matter of what a person with powers goes through so much as what a person goes through. People are more prone to the shortest route as opposed to the "Best" or most moral. If you asked someone the first thing they'd do if given the power of teleportation -many- would immediately discuss teleporting into banks or places of wealth, stealing something, and leave.
However, I like to imagine that people would take a higher or more noble road and, instead, live out their childhood power fantasies by becoming the hero. Perhaps I'm too much of an idealist! |
I thought about that and the TP'ing into banks as well, then decided that TP Foe would be a better villianous power. (Or heroic if you count TP'ing hostages out of a standoff or TPing robbers directly into an armored paddy wagon.)
I'll just refer back to the GURPS Supers worldbook.
They had different levels of Super presence:
1)Low Supers presence: There may be 1-5 superheroes per million. Generally treated with distrust, Supers hide and don't get much of a break from the media or police. Avoided at best and sometimes even hunted.
2)Medium Supers presence: Thousands of Supers exist in the community. At this point, people have habituated themselves to Super presence and your neighborhood hero often had crazy ideas (see Freddie Femurs renting a disintegrator ray and tying it to a bike rack in Terry Morre's Strangers in Paradise - WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE!!) and it blew up in his face. Supers here can help the police, be seen as criminals, etc.
3)High Supers presence: Bobbi Bubbler helps out as a bodyguard, ZeroTemp the Ice Tanker keeps beer and food cold. Supers are so omnipresent that people don't even blink an eye when they see someone superspeeding to work. In this scenario, heroes are likely licensed, their powers registered and maybe even marked with a scannable device.
As with anything, if fewer of something exists it creates fear and as numbers increase and are integrated in society you adapt and laws are changes to account for them.
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to respond to the thread's title in an honest and realistic manner, i am going to have to get intensely cynical here:
people fear that which they don't understand or which is different in general. it's no coincidence that stories which tear down celebrities are more popular than stories which praise some good being done in the world.
in real life there would be no such thing as super man's shining example of the selfless hero. the closest thing you could get would be a batman style anti-hero. to be totally realistic, i think it's unlikely you would see much of a polarization between super heroes and super villains at all. in reality, a person with a "lawful good" alignment is so rare, in much the same way as people with "chaotic evil" are not very common. most people are in the middle, and would most likely try and find a productive way to use their powers for some practical purpose to feed themselves and make a good life for their loved ones or possibly try and hide their powers and either not use them at all, or use them very discretely to avoid drawing attention to themselves. those who can not hide their powers due to physical abnormalities would probably have to live in hiding.
the truth is that regular humans, the media, governments, etc. all have something to lose by accepting the major paradigm shift that would come from integrating super powered beings into society. countless groups would have interest in reverse-engineering super powers and that could become an all consuming industry in and of itself...
Smells like rotting eggs in here, there must be a necromancer at work...
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I am pretty sure that Glen Beck would not so casually mention a hero and then just so happen to casually mention Nazis. If the hero happened to be an alien then he would go on for years about the immigration problem.
The rest of the media would be split between calling them sinners and saints. Plus would be quick to splash the screen, pages, etc with blood on the first mistake that leads to anyone dying. Or anyone dying and said heroes nowhere around. Just queue up the song, `Dirty Laundry` and put it on repeat.
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Heh. And some politicians would get some heroes (or lookalikes) to use as backdrops for speeches.|
Originally Posted by FallenValkyrja
I am pretty sure that Glen Beck would not so casually mention a hero and then just so happen to casually mention Nazis. If the hero happened to be an alien then he would go on for years about the immigration problem.
The rest of the media would be split between calling them sinners and saints. Plus would be quick to splash the screen, pages, etc with blood on the first mistake that leads to anyone dying. Or anyone dying and said heroes nowhere around. Just queue up the song, `Dirty Laundry` and put it on repeat. |
Everyone's going to want to use them to thier benefit.
The flip side? Heroes are goingto ally themselves to different causes, and they will use the media in thier own ways. For every Batman who skulks in the shadows (or tries to avoid the limelight) there will be the attention-hound who actively seeks the publicity and the fame, calling the paparazzi ahead of time when he's going to be somewhere "in character".
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