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dedbus posted...

But I'd imagine a real life superhuman would be the target of pretty much every intelligence agency. The CIA, Russians, would pretty much do whatever shady shit they do to get at and use/dissect you. Pretty much all your family and loved ones would suffer cartel violence at the hands of legitimate governments.

Plus the thing that most people never really think of, and that comics and comic movies deliberately ignore (because they're working from stories that were originally created 60+ years ago), is that the ability to maintain a secret identity is almost nil in the modern era.

It's going to be difficult for Batman to drive into the secret tunnel that leads to the Batcave when a satellite in orbit tracks him the first time he does it, and every major authority (or someone like Lex Luthor) figures out exactly where he's going (and thus, who he is) in about 20 minutes. Heroes like Spider-Man being forced to change into costume in an alley are going to wind up on multiple security cameras they didn't notice. And the first time a hero gets hard enough to bleed at a crime scene, the government now has your DNA on file.

It might be possible for someone with superpowers to potentially stay hidden if they used them sparingly and subtly. But someone blatantly putting on a costume and heading out to fight crime (or a villain dressing up to use powers for evil) are going to lose their anonymity pretty damned quick.


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