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[–] 68 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps!

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

    I wouldn't say a fighter pilot has superpowers. The iron man suit has power not the user.

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

    Batman created his powers

    If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Iron Man is a better example of a superhero who created powers for himself, but he isn't one of the three most popular

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

    His superpower is being rich enough to be called eccentric instead of just crazy. You know, crazy, like the label used on all the villains he fights.

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

    Spider-Man is half'n'half. He got super strength and agility as well as his "spider senses" from the spider bite.

    His webshooters, suits, and other tools he made himself. The Raimi films always bugged me that they made his web shooting stuff a mutation from the bite and not showing off his intelligence and engineering skills. Cuz he also didn't have money like Batman or Ironman.

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

    The biological webbing coming from his wrists was stupid. If it was a spider mutation, he should have had spinnerettes growing from his rear end. The handmade web shooters were way more logical.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Until a writer noticed that the web shooters mean Peter is a once-in-a-century chemist and should be swimming in cash from selling a few things he cobbled together in his apartment. Now, Peter Parker runs a mega-corp. Part of the reason that Miles Morales was introduced is specifically because Peter was no longer an everyman protagonist.

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

    My problem with the handheld ones is that they're way way too effective. He was good at science but that tech was way way beyond realism. It's nigh-unbreakable, ultra-accurate and insanely grippy, almost inexhaustible in a single tiny canister. And somehow he can afford to regularly create batches on his limited income. Etc etc.

    I mean, having the biological webbing come out of his hands isn't a whole lot less realistic than the wall crawling or spidey sense. And he's got weird powers from radioactive spider bite, who says they have to manifest in any specific way.

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  • [+] 11 points 2 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (7 children)

    Technically he was... its just the wrong sun around his home planet to let his powers be usable.

    But his genetics allow for the powers

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

    Technically Batman didn't create how powers. He inherited them when his parents were murdered.

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

    Hmmm with this logic I could have super strength or something if there is a livable planet with 0.1x gravity. Hooray I could be a super hero!

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

    Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I am a lay person when it comes to comics, so feel free to tear me apart here. Could Bruce Banner potentially be all 3? His DNA was able to absorb the gamma radiation (born with it), he then had the radiation thrust upon him, and then he did whatever he did to make himself the smart hulk?

    A bit of a reach, I know.

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

    Yeah, that'd play. I was thinking maybe Dr. Strange, but Banner is better.

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

    Dr. Strange is a really good one too! Drawing energy from other realms and all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    i believe only ancient one did, that she also drew from the dark dimension(dormammus realm) which gave her immortality and other abilities. strange all comes from spellwork, like books and incantations, and recently darkhold magic/chaos, which gave him a permanent boost. like most previous holders.

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

    Upvote, for seeming to be a nice person who sticks to that basic premise upon American comics. And for sure, folks like you are needed!

    Over here, I happen to prefer European comics, and actually I'd be curious to hear what you might think about such. Like, are they too weird for the USA, or..?

    https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

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

    Wolverine was born with healing factor, trained in his fighting skills and then had his admantium skeleton thrust upon him

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, I was thinking that but wasn't convinced. Similarly Batman was born rich, trained hard and had bereavement thrust upon, which likely created the persona. Perhaps we're all a bit nature, nurture, and luck.

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

    Naruto i guess? He's a child of a very powerful ninja(born), had a powerful creature sealed inside him at birth(thrust upon), and have to learn how to actually unlease and control that power(create).

    Otherwise i can't seems to remember anyone that does have the 3.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    batman has no powers whatsoever. he just a very rich person, much like stark, who bought/develop tech. not really thrust as more of an accident, much like brunce banner.

    closest thing would be apocalypse the super-mutant, he was forced upon to gain celestial enhanced powers. i think juggernaut is another one, as is lady deathstrike? another one is phoenix.

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

    He has also trained himself to pretty much the peak of human limits, so there's that. Which is usually listed in other superheroes' lists of powers.

    In different incarnations he's also heavily involved in the design of the various tech, it's more than just "being rich". That's really understating both characters.

    But I would call super suits and super tech as "powers" in the way they're frequently talked about. Uber-genius intellects maybe.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    In the original comics Batman used to be mostly a detective. Looking for clues, evidence, then tying up criminals for the cops to find (afaik). I'd love a show like "True Detective" but with Batman. Anyway so his powers would be peak of human limits and super intelligent and gadgets.

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

    Batman and Stark both have significant physics bending powers. It's more obvious with Stark, but both of them have made plenty of things that have bend the laws of physics pretty drastically.

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

    Batman was born rich. It's the billionaire class that want you to think they are creating wealth and not stealing it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    The irony is Wayne had stupid amounts of money and chose to use personal violence to stop some of the criminals in Gotham rather than funding programs that would have lifted people out of poverty and prevented far more crime, or running for office himself and setting up oversight to stop corruption and programs to offer a hand up to people.

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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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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    And wolverine is all three

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

    I get the inborn super-healing, and I get the addition of the adamantine (sp?) skeleton, but what powers did he create on his own?

    Martial arts ability?

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

    Popularity is Wolverine's greatest super power, at least according to Deadpool. It's why he can never be killed. Well I think he was killed, but death isn't permanent in comics.

    Fun fact: Wolverine was cut from the X-Men by the executives at Marvel because they thought no would like him. After about a year of mediocre sales, the execs didn't care what they did with X-Men so the writers only then introduced Wolverine. Then suddenly the X-Men was one of the best selling comics at Marvel.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Hah, I'm old enough to remember how that actually went down in the struggling Marvel offices at the time. Early-to-mid 70's was his actual creation-moment IIRC.

    You should read Mark Evanier's blog if you're actually curious about this stuff...

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

    Batman, what's your super power? I'm rich

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    In the original story Batman has "bat senses" that allow him to hear the conversations of criminals, a bit like The Shadow. It used to be believed by some that bats could sense in the "ether", sn invisible river in which electromagnetic energy flowed, this was before echo location was proven.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Batman saw a bat fly through his window and then made himself everyone else’s problem. Classic rich guy behavior.

    Superman was an “immigrant” from a wealthy family back home and made himself everyone else’s problem by way of his massive built-in upward mobility

    Spider-Man probably did a drug and died falling out a window and every single person he knew was like “we shall also be Spider-Man.”

    Edit: I don’t cite so don’t ask.

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

    batman didn’t create shit, labor did.

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