wcw43921 Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Advanced land, sea, air and space vehicles that operate without any government regulation or oversight whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe People in Superhero Identities testifying in court. Government Agencies that recruit super villains rather then attempt to find Patriotic Superheroes. Wait for Mind over Matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Active deities and pantheons that proclaim their divinity and perform incredible feats but don't attract any meaningful numbers of new followers. Corporations that don't throw huge sums of money at the inventors of world changing technology. Or demonstrations against them. I think DC touched on this very lightly with the Church of Superman and in Wonder Woman. If I did a reboot of Thor I think I would bring it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe People (super or otherwise) who study the phenomenon of super-powers, sometimes finding ways to turn those on or off (either temporarily or permanently). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe I think DC touched on this very lightly with the Church of Superman and in Wonder Woman. If I did a reboot of Thor I think I would bring it up. It has been touched on briefly in Thor's own comic, with a small number of modern worshippers of him (which made him visibly uncomfortable). He was also uncomfortable during one issue of Avengers when the team pursued Ultron's trail into a Catholic church. Thor remarked on some religious people considering his very existence an offense to their faith. Interestingly enough, in the real world modern-day pagans in Germany and Scandinavia have revived the worship of the Germanic/ Norse gods, under such names as "Asatru" and "Wodenism." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Infectious diseases that affect only supers. Infectious diseases that where the supers are the carriers: they are unaffected by the disease, but they carry it and infect non-supers around them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Discrimination against people with natural born powers but idolization of those who received them accidentally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randian Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Hidden bases and research labs that somehow remain a secret despite the enormous resources required to construct them. Nobody notices the materiel being moved and the laborers going to and fro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperion Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Hidden bases and research labs that somehow remain a secret despite the enormous resources required to construct them. Nobody notices the materiel being moved and the laborers going to and fro? Not to mention the extreme (or unusual) energy to maintain all that powerful equipment, all the unusual supplies that will constantly be resupplied, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe How do you know there are not any secret bases in the real world? If you knew about them they wouldn't be secret would they now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randian Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe How do you know there are not any secret bases in the real world? If you knew about them they wouldn't be secret would they now. True, but I'm not in the business of looking for them. Have you any ideas on how to hide the purchase and movement of a thousand tons of concrete and steel, then hide the construction activity, and then get everybody who worked on it (which is likely in the low thousands) to shut up? That's the kind of challenge you have in building a secret base. That's why DoD never really tried to keep Cheyenne Mountain and the midwestern nuclear launch sites a secret. What goes on inside is secret, but the fact of them isn't. Just think how much harder it would be to hide things in a superhero universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esampson Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe . . . Have you any ideas on how to hide the purchase and movement of a thousand tons of concrete and steel' date=' then hide the construction activity, and then get everybody who worked on it (which is likely in the low thousands) to shut up? . . .[/quote'] Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Regarding Cheyenne Mountain Did you know they actualy have a room that is marked StarGate Command (or at least use to)? It's a broom closset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randian Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Yes Any you'd like to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laundry Knight Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Costumes that ignore the laws of physics and physiology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randian Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Costumes that ignore the laws of physics and physiology. I see how costumes disobey physics (they don't seem to suffer damage except in "safe for kids to view" places), but I don't see how they have anything to do with the physiology of their wearer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laundry Knight Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe For the physiology angle, I was referring to skimpy clothing that never slips out of place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esampson Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Any you'd like to share? Of course not. Then you would know how to find my secret base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egyptoid Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe question for OP Cassandra: your thread title is terse. does it mean more of "the way stuff happens in supers comics" (superhero tropes) or is it more like "items and buildings and people I would put on the gazetteer of my supers city" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe How do you know there are not any secret bases in the real world? If you knew about them they wouldn't be secret would they now. From a long-ago conversation: "A domain named 'haystack.edu' really needs a machine named 'needle'." "Maybe it has one, and you can't find it." EDIT: "Legendary" local phenomena that have existed for a while could easily be co-opted to cover for secret base sort of stuff. The Marfa Lights are one such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Carman Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe I see how costumes disobey physics (they don't seem to suffer damage except in "safe for kids to view" places)' date=' but I don't see how they have anything to do with the physiology of their wearer.[/quote'] I loved it the time She-Hulk was asked about her indestructible undies, and she displayed the clothing tag "Protected by the Comics Code". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Speaking of She Hulk . . . Comic Book Characters who know that they are in a comic book without being considered insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe Superheroes and supervillains being elected President of the United States (Nighthawk, Captain America, Lex Luthor). Presidents of the United States being elected and then quietly forgotten (Martin Suarez, Jonathan Vincent Horne, Henry Knight) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe teams with one mmber planning ways to defeat them if they go renegede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Re: Things That Exist in a Superhero Universe teams with one mmber planning ways to defeat them if they go renegede I've done that for my gaming group so doesn't qualify:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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