Would you become a superhero?
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-09-05 13:47 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Apprehension doesn't put a stop to their activities. Far too often they walk away scott free or they simply use intermediaries to run their operations from inside prison.|
Originally Posted by ebon3
Not that I dont think there are times when killing is nessecary but this exoskeleton you are wearing pretty much renders you immune to anything any one of those criminals you listed could do to harm you. Where then is the justification in passing a death sentence when you could just as easily apprehend them and put a stop to thier activities?
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Death is the only effective rehabilitation that has never failed to stop them from being repeat offenders.
First, I'd take it out for a test run or ten. See if it can really do what it says it can do.
Second, I'd have to get into better shape. I'd look awful wearing it, thank you.
Third, I'd dig around in the menu systems, to see what ELSE it can do. I'm sure there's some hidden information in there that might be important.
Finally, I'd cover it up with other clothing, and then go out and try to be a vigilante. I might smack people around, but I'd really just go after any drugs, guns, and money they may have. Drugs and guns I'd destroy. Money I'd likely keep, because I can't fight crime, have a normal job, AND have time to get into decent shape without using some money to cut corners.
"I do so love taking a nice, well thought out character and putting them through hell. It's like tossing a Faberge Egg onto the stage during a Gallagher concert." - me
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I may actually go for a public identity. The more public I go, the more public any nefarious plots against me and/or my suit may become. Plus, perhaps I could make some funds through that public persona and be less tempted to grab cash with these abilities.
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And the more public your persona the more likely your friends and family will become victims used against you.
And how are you going to defend yourself from the many lawsuits that will crop up over your supposed "negligence" that caused bystanders to be injured or suffer property damage? Cuz you aren't a cop and don't have the city, state, or feds protecting you from those things.
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This. I would probably try it on and test it out a bit, and then proceed to do absolutely nothing with it. If it has flight capabilities, then maybe I'd bust it out whenever I wanted to travel somewhere. Otherwise, it would end up hanging in my closet.
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Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
6: Something else?
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Goodbye, I guess.
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Being friend and/or family with me already has its hazards. I'm not worried about this aspect.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And the more public your persona the more likely your friends and family will become victims used against you.
And how are you going to defend yourself from the many lawsuits that will crop up over your supposed "negligence" that caused bystanders to be injured or suffer property damage? Cuz you aren't a cop and don't have the city, state, or feds protecting you from those things. |
Hiding myself as some young guy with a super secret special suit could actually put all of that at greater risk.
And let the legal issues and officials come at me if it comes to that.
I'd prefer to fight the real crime like that anyway!
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
I would do the right thing and kill every politician, crooked bastards the lot of em. Bureaucracy mumble jumble and time that blah blah blah you suck just die already jeeze
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Those 6, 7, 8 year olds should have known better right? Sure Electric-Knight is cool but little Susie's safety isn't as important as Uncle/Daddy's fame and fortune. Them's the breaks kid, Ya can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.|
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Being friend and/or family with me already has its hazards. I'm not worried about this aspect.
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And I'm sure the parents of the children whose lives you callously ignored will appreciate your attitude. Hell the kid was only 3 years old. Their car is probably older than that. How attached could they be? And it's not like they can't have more kids. They could even adopt, right? Besides a child's coffin is much cheaper than a full size adult coffin or college tuition for that matter so your death will be saving them a lot of money, mom and dad will be grateful.
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What? You'd let the lawyers live?!?|
Originally Posted by Lucky666
I would do the right thing and kill every politician, crooked bastards the lot of em. Bureaucracy mumble jumble and time that blah blah blah you suck just die already jeeze
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YOU MONSTER!!!
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Their remains are also great for compost material for your home garden! |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Those 6, 7, 8 year olds should have known better right? Sure Electric-Knight is cool but little Susie's safety isn't as important as Uncle/Daddy's fame and fortune. Them's the breaks kid, Ya can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
And I'm sure the parents of the children whose lives you callously ignored will appreciate your attitude. Hell the kid was only 3 years old. Their car is probably older than that. How attached could they be? And it's not like they can't have more kids. They could even adopt, right? Besides a child's coffin is much cheaper than a full size adult coffin or college tuition for that matter so your death will be saving them a lot of money, mom and dad will be grateful. |
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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That was my first thought. If it worked without the helmet, I'd wear it under normal clothing and use it in (hopefully) subtle ways.
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Originally Posted by Rabid_M
Finally, I'd cover it up with other clothing...
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'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
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Actually he lost the book while walking down the road at night after being given the suit and they could never find it. When the aliens tossed him a new copy, it was in alien language and he needed to wear the suit so it would flip to english. He than managed to shrink himself and the book down to insect size, set the book aside and he rturned to his normal size but the book didn't. "I left it on that boulder right.......there" as he realizes the perspective difference and points and some pebbles on the ground.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I would fight crime with it, especially when it tells you everything it can do. I grew up with Greatest American Hero, a guy that had a super suit fall into his lap, only he didn't know all of it's capabilities (darn instruction book wasn't written in a known language), and I always wanted to put on a suit and fly because of it. You can't fly in this scenario, but being able to do everything else would be pretty cool. Hopefully you can take it off when not in action, or else you'll end up being like The Tick. |
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A bullet to the spine is an effective means of stopping atrocious behavior and apprehending criminals. Living is suffering and living as a quadraplegic is one of worst ways to live. Kind of hard to bomb a building, rob a bank, or other deviant behavior when the criminal is stuck in a wheelchair. Actually have a lot of respect for handicapped people that have a very positive attitude.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Apprehension doesn't put a stop to their activities. Far too often they walk away scott free or they simply use intermediaries to run their operations from inside prison.
Death is the only effective rehabilitation that has never failed to stop them from being repeat offenders. |
The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.
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Your description sounds like a modernized Greatest American Hero costume.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
A package arrives at your house with no return address, delivered while you are not home.
It contains a bright and colorful skintight suit made of a spandex-like material, along with a high tech bracelet/watch/smartphone kind of thing and a helmet. The suit is designed to cover every inch of the wearer's body. Activating the bracelet causes it to announce that it has calibrated to your specifications and will now only work for you. A menu that you can access via it lists super powers the rig is supposed to allow you to use while it is worn. - The suit is supposedly armored: it should allow you to stand up to bullets, hot flames, and the like without harm but with possibly considerable discomfort. - The rig is an exoskeleton and should multiply your physical strength by up to a factor of 100, based on voice commands. - The bracelet can fire a laser/taser that via voice command can have an effect ranging from a mild shock or cigarette lighter up to that of a 50 caliber bullet. - Besides acting as a smartphone, the bracelet is a police/radar/military scanner and can easily spoof phone/internet accounts. - The helmet is fully integrated with the bracelet, with an HUD, and along with the suit functions as CBR gear (thus helping keep you from leaving forensic evidence at a scene). It can function as a rebreather for 12 hours or so. What would you do at this point? 1: Call the authorities and let them have the suit? 2: Repackage it and leave it on someone else's doorstep? 3: Start trying to test/reverse engineer the suit? 4: Ebay baby! 5: Start working out/taking kung fu classes so you'll look better while leaping from rooftop to rooftop wearing it? 6: Something else? If your answer is 5, please consider the following... Crime or anti-crime? Both? Who would you tell about the suit? Is there someone you know that really deserves a good punch in the jaw from an anonymous superbeing? |
But for me it would be definitely #3 at first, as there is no point in trying to use the suit without some serious studying and reviewing what the bracelet lists that the suit can do and also in case I need to perform repairs.
Once that is done, then I would seriously ponder the wisdom of suiting up and probably also check the internet and news for sightings of anyone else wearing a similar suit of "magic jammies" as Bill Maxwell would say.
After that I would suit up and try to keep a low profile at first, thwarting small stuff until I was more fluent with what the suit and I could do and then start making my presence a bit more known to the criminals as I start thwarting their schemes.
As much as I don't like terminating my foes, certain ones like say those that deal out drugs to kids, Child Pornographers, those that traffic in illegal aliens being brought here for rather scummy reasons.....well I can't find it in myself to show them much mercy.
As for any funds I find, like say if I knock over a drug house, about 30% to my operating expenses, including pain killer if the suit's protection is limited, and the rest to charities.
I'd also be tempted to track down certain controversial people that had their trial and got acquitted, but the trial's accuracy may be considered as "dubious"......and then I would have words with them.
I wouldn't tell anyone as a secret shared is no longer a secret and complications may arise.
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And where's the justice in making the innocent taxpayers pay to keep all those criminal quadraplegics alive? Food, housing, clothing, medical/dental care is expensive.|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
A bullet to the spine is an effective means of stopping atrocious behavior and apprehending criminals. Living is suffering and living as a quadraplegic is one of worst ways to live. Kind of hard to bomb a building, rob a bank, or other deviant behavior when the criminal is stuck in a wheelchair. Actually have a lot of respect for handicapped people that have a very positive attitude.
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Feeding them to something hungry at the zoo doesn't cost the taxpayers a cent, saves the zoo money on fresh meat, is educational by showing how wild animals hunt and kill their prey, as well as graphically demonstrating follies of being a criminal. Oh and there's no clean up or funeral expenses.
Forbin_Project, you are living up to your name...
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
Best lines in that movie:
Colossus: This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
That computer is a fun bad guy.
Too lazy to be a hero *or* a villain. So much effort to do either. Much better to sit at my computer and pretend to be a hero or villain.
Probably would think it was a joke and throw the whole thing in a box in my closet and forget about it until I move, then repeat each time I move until I die and it gets thrown out with other junk or sold in my estate sale.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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If I found a package with no return address at my doorstep I'd call the police before opening it. So I'll probably end up not even seeing that suit. I can't see any situation in which I'll accept such a suit without knowing who sent it, and I can't imagine anyone whom I'd trust who would send that suit to me.
The short of it is, if I could be a superhero I'd rather that it came naturally, and not via some suit.
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I would love this.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
- The rig is an exoskeleton and should multiply your physical strength by up to a factor of 100, based on voice commands. |
My Big three are
Squats 455
Bench 325x2 Reps (Bad Shoulder)
Deadlifts 485x2
As for what I'd do with it? There are a few people that deserve to stop breathing, but I believe that the punishment should fit the crime. I also keep anything that I find on the bodies of the people I dispose of.
Willpower has more passive regen than Regen does. Who thought that was a good idea?
Can we get a fix for Energy Melee instead of more new sets?
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5, anti-crime, in a heartbeat. My girlfriend is the only one who needs to know.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
5: Start working out/taking kung fu classes so you'll look better while leaping from rooftop to rooftop wearing it?
6: Something else? If your answer is 5, please consider the following... Crime or anti-crime? Both? Who would you tell about the suit? Is there someone you know that really deserves a good punch in the jaw from an anonymous superbeing? |
My first order of business would be to make friends with a police commissioner, ATF agent or president of the United States and get their recommendations on people that need punching out.
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Life is funny. Death is funnier. Mass slaughter can be hilarious.
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Yah I would more likely go this path with a mentality of the Punisher. Civilians die everyday, a couple extra wouldn't matter as long as the job gets done in the long run.
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Originally Posted by BeornAgain
More a Vigilante path I reckon.
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<- instant super villain, 'cause that is how I roll.
Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)
I would work on reverse-engineering the bracelet, or at least try to figure out how to reset it to a different user. Then I would put a great deal of effort into finding a more suitable person for it.
If it was a gene-engineer/healing thing that would 'fix' the various physical problems I have, then I would do the superhero gig. Otherwise, we're all a lot better off if I can get this into the hands of someone who can use it properly.
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I could totally see a series of stories with this premise.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Probably would think it was a joke and throw the whole thing in a box in my closet and forget about it until I move, then repeat each time I move until I die and it gets thrown out with other junk or sold in my estate sale.
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Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
Am I the only one considering making a character based around this (or a full super team of random strangers who all received such a package?)?
I believe that I would take a while to look into it, test it out, see if anyone was coming for it, check it out slowly and as carefully as I could and, if all goes well thus far, train myself and get accustomed to it.
Then, I would shoot not so much for crime fighting as just heading out to serve, protect and help people. Hazardous and dangerous situations where people need to be brought to safety and the like... which, absolutely could include fighting crime, of course... but, more often may be other types of situations. Certainly big fires and the like.
Contrary to my main CoH character... I may actually go for a public identity. The more public I go, the more public any nefarious plots against me and/or my suit may become. Plus, perhaps I could make some funds through that public persona and be less tempted to grab cash with these abilities.
I might head to Washington D.C. ...
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan