This is the supers universe I have been working on for over a year.
Powered individuals have existed throughout history, and it is considered a fairly integrated part of history in general, but of course due to lack of modern science, historical supers are not a field of history that are well recorded and known of today. Though superpowers are often explained from other sources, regardless of the triggering factor most extranormals are the byproduct of either being "metaformed" by emmisions from deeper than deep space (the transdimensional plane, to be exact) or from being exposed to the "backbone of the multiverse", a structure of energies that not only is the means to travel from one reality to another, but also contains the "genetic material of all universes", the DNA of reality. These interdimensional energies are the unifying factor in superpowers and superscience in most realities and intergalactic cultures. Gods, superhumans, and others from all places often are touched by this interdimensional "DNA".
Extranormals and exceptional human beings of exceptional character have made their mark throughout history throughout the world, from uprisings in ancient India by extranormal untouchables, to the extranormal mercenary who would be immortalized in the legend of King Arthur, to even coustumed patriots in America's revolutionary war. In fact, the idea of extranormals and other "special soldiers" wearing masks originated as a identifying mark amongst British Special Royal Soldiers, and was soon after adapted by colonial heroes to hide their indentities and protect their families. The first supergroups of American history started with a mass metaformation wave that created extranormals during the Civil War. The Monitor lead "Cannonball" Turner, Billy Yank, and other Union heroes against Southern Sabre's cadre, which included Mercury and other super-Confederates.
The first coustumed adventurer as such was in fact not extranormal, but a man called SteepleJack Jones, who was first seen by the world in a photograph that caught him on top of the Spartican Cathedral in the New England town that would later become Sparks City. After the incredible buzz over the mysterious roof-hopping hero, other mysterious individuals put on masks and cloaks instead of the "superpatriots" of the past. Vigilantes like Lucifer Saint in Chicago, Twilight Rider in El Paso, and the Midnight Patriot in Boston began taking to the streets.
The world's archetypical modern superhero began with the Dynamerican, a science marvel made out of the Yale law school wimp, Andrew Philips, who later became the country's greatest hero during WWII. Philips had gained his incredible and ever-changing powers from being directly exposed to interdimensional energies when a invention by his good friend, Doc."Amazing", the Spectrum Array, when haywire and bombarded him with a 3 second flash of prismatic energies
HUAC resulted not in the registration of extranormals, but the setup of laws, comitees, and the mental health system against "masks", "capes", and crimefighters, siting them as mentally disturbed and dangerous influences on the American way.
The sixties restored much of the vigor in the supercommunity thanks to the media popularity of Britain's government supergroup, the Magistrate. Some of that spilled over to the United States were groups like the Legends and Team Victory were established (or in Team Victory's case, re-established) in Sparks City.
In the seventies the Paranormals and the Black Knights became parts of the counterculture, supporting mutants, aliens, godlings, and superhumans, and fighting crime on the streets.
The 80's were the time of the goverment's covert war against doppleganging Eronean aliens of the Rid Vore cult, fanatical and violent members of a normally peacefull culture.
The most tragic event in near modern history occured when the worldbeater supervillain group, the Sinisters, destroyed New York city, the most super-dense populated center on earth. Since then, many refugees and superhumans from NYC have come to Sparks city.
