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[–] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Could also be amazing if the hero couldn't control his power. Instead, something else decided for him when he has to activate it.

The hero walks past a train that is about to crash. The hero has no idea, and suddenly time stops. The hero is completely surprised. Only he is still moving and thinking. Everyone else is frozen in time. Now he has to choose who of the people around him to sacrifice. A sacrifice has to be made, otherwise it will be himself. It's not just decision of the train should be rescued, he in only the one who has to decide who has to die for it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago

    I think both could work. I would love the social commentary of other people trying to game the system.

    Trying to get the hero to take out a targeted person by putting a bus in danger. He always on the news, so an ad agency tries to get targets wearing company logos to be the ones killed. And every time the final moment of decision closes around the hero and it's just him.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I kind of like the idea of them saving someone and then causing unintentional death after but needing to figure out the pattern. That could be used both for a tortured hero and as the fall of a hero to villany because no matter what they do people die.

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