And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Well I’m sorry, you’re not iron man
I wouldn’t say a fighter pilot has superpowers. The iron man suit has power not the user.
Is wielding mjolnir a superpower? How about magic users? Green lantern’s ring?
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.
Iron Man is a better example of a superhero who created powers for himself, but he isn’t one of the three most popular
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.
The best Batman stories tend to display that the only difference between Batman and his rogues is that Batman’s insanity doesn’t make him dangerous to the general public.
So, steroids?
due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
That’s the power: gadgets. And also being a genius detective, but largely the gadgets.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
True, true. I guess I was thinking of the spider bite, not the trauma.
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.)
I strongly suspect Peter would have eventually become a superhero even without the death of his uncle.
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.”
Look at the people of Earth, doesn’t seem so far fetched.
Fair point. The planet being destroyed might increase the average intelligence level in this region of space.
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.
Batman was born rich. It’s the billionaire class that want you to think they are creating wealth and not stealing it.
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.
And wolverine is all three
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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
Technically Batman didn’t create how powers. He inherited them when his parents were murdered.
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One of the rarest powers, costing the lives of so many to amass.
No his crazy self improvemen, training and smarts did
Thst was his trigger/ motivation but not the source
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!
Bur if everyone is super, no one will be.
So hopefully you find the planet on your own.
I mean… yes? If you went to another planet and now could fly and are invulnerable wouldn’t you be super abled?
Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three?
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.
Yeah, that’d play. I was thinking maybe Dr. Strange, but Banner is better.
Dr. Strange is a really good one too! Drawing energy from other realms and all.
Wolverine was born with healing factor, trained in his fighting skills and then had his admantium skeleton thrust upon him
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.
Batman, what’s your super power? I’m rich
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.
And a psychopath with a fixation on criminal justice
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.”
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batman didn’t create shit, labor did.
the classic “ive only vaguely heard of batman” take
neat.
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