Everyone Is a Super: Difference between revisions

So, you [[How to Give A Character Super Powers|somehow managed to get]] [[Stock Super Powers|superpowers]]? Great news, that means you're on the short list to be [[The Hero]], on the hero's team, or at least on the [[Big Bad]]'s side. Check [[Bad Powers, Bad People|what power you have to figure out which side you get put on]]. After all, having superpowers makes you [[Law of Conservation of Detail|special and noteworthy]], right? Clearly sits you up above those silly [[Muggles]] who are stuck in [[The Masquerade]], right?

 

 

Thanks in part to the fact that [[Most Writers Are Human]], typically, [[Puny Earthlings|stock, unpowered human civilians are considered the "normal", most populous, average bystander of a setting]]. Where Everyone's A Super, however, the average bystander is a [[Badass Bystander]]. Whether it is because you are in a sci-fi setting where everyone is either a cyborg or [[Super Powered Robot Meter Maid]] or [[Mind Over Matter|psychic]], or a fantasy world with [[Hybrid Monster|dragon-taurs]] walking the sidewalk next to the [[Child Mage]], there is the assumption that not only are [[Weirdness Censor|superpowers not worth hiding]], but that they can be expected of anyone and everything in the setting. As such, anyone with superpowers are just plain not as "special" as they would be in a world with [[Muggles]]. Average bystanders will openly [[Mundane Utility|use their ice powers as air conditioning]].