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[–] 19 points 2 months ago (24 children)

I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Also, Batman was born with his power. (His power is money).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Study after study shows money spent on food, housing and education does more to prevent crime than policing and incarceration.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    what about punching and batarangs and batcomputers

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Money spent on punching, batarangs, and bat computers do not reduce crimes as much as money spent on food, housing and education.

    Also not superpowers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    i would like to see a link to the study on batarangs please

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I thought he had powers because he was born on Krypton under a red sun, and all Kryptonians gain superhuman powers when exposed to a yellow sun.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    But if he had stayed on Krypton, he wouldn't have any powers, so it took an event to activate it, which isn't any different than the other scenarios. Batman was born rich, so he already had the potential to be batman, but it took the murder of his parents to set him on his path. Really Spiderman is the odd one out.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Spidey’s parents and his uncle who helped raise him are all dead/murdered. All three are orphans, so that all cancels out. :-).

    Peter Parker only became spider-man once his uncle was killed, that set him on the path to use his “great power” with “great responsibility.”

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Spider-man literally started as a pro wrestler who used his powers and a costume to make money

    He was costumed and super-powered first, but heroic only after his uncle was killed. (By a thief whom Spidey let get away, since the victim was the wrestling promoter who cheated him out of his first earnings.)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Seems a bit daft of the Kryptonian folk to stay there even if they didn't believe their planet was doomed.

    "Move to another planet to be a nearly indestructible God who can fly and shoot lasers and stuff? No thank you. I just got my cabinets arranged how I like them and I am not going through that again."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think it was from Kill Bill, but thrtrs a cool speech about how Superman has to put on the costume to become Clark Kent. While other hero's have to put on the costume to become the hero.

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