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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 12, 2020 13:30:35 GMT -5
If you want to work in the Silver Age, find an extra-dimensional imp to harass you. Extra points if said imp wears a variation of your costume.
Oh, and a pet with preternatural powers also helps.
PS: A female version of you is a plus if you want to have a "Family."
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 12, 2020 15:43:30 GMT -5
Don't reveal your identity to your loved ones, even if they clearly have a crush on your alter-ego, because reasons.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 12, 2020 16:00:52 GMT -5
If you are a wealthy playboy:
Go on dates with the knowledge that you will inevitably get pulled away by a rampaging super-villain, robot, alien, or giant dragon that you see either on a TV or out the window of the restaurant you are at, so learn to make up creative excuses for your absence.
Follow-up point: Understand that your date, while pissed off at you, will buy your excuses and eventually forgive you for disappearing in the middle of the date.
Get yourself a physical infirmity that keeps you from returning the true love of your devoted office assistant/nurse/etc., but that does not prohibit you from going out to fight crime or being a serial dater of random women you don't actually care about.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 12, 2020 16:09:09 GMT -5
Buy very baggy clothes for work or play, because you're going to have to wear your superhero togs underneath them -- even your boots, utility belt and cape and cowl.
Unless you can squish them into your ring or a pocket in your cape.
NB: If your cool super-hero name is The Angel, buy even baggier clothes than the rest of the guys.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 12, 2020 16:23:59 GMT -5
Don't get too attached to your supporting cast.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 12, 2020 16:46:32 GMT -5
Don't get too attached to your supporting cast. This is particularly true if they're in a secondary rather than the main title. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 12, 2020 16:50:49 GMT -5
Don't have a love interest unless you want them to end up in a refrigerator.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 12, 2020 17:00:24 GMT -5
Be genial and forthcoming when offering guests a tour of your citadel of seclusion; they'll be impressed by your humility as they admire your Kandor.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 17:21:18 GMT -5
Know that people can only identify you by your clothes. If you take off your mask and are blonde, you will look like every other blonde super-hero type out their without their mask, and people won't be able to tell the difference visually; if brunette, you'll look like every other brunette type out there, which aids immensely in keeping secret identities. If you change clothes with someone else (particularly another hero), no one will be able to recognize you as you and will confuse you for the person whose clothes you wear, also a great aid in keeping secret identities.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 13, 2020 15:53:26 GMT -5
Never worry about what might happen. Even if you are maimed, depowered or if you or your beloved aunt croak, everything will go back to the way it was eventually.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 13, 2020 16:08:11 GMT -5
Forget anything you ever studied in science class, too.
Time travel isn't just possible, it's commonplace.
So are inter-planetary, inter-galactic, extra-dimensional travel.
And if you are a scientist, you are a chemist, a physicist, a molecular biologist, an astrobiologist, a bio-engineer, an aeronautical engineer, a civil engineer, and a cosmologist, too.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2020 18:47:56 GMT -5
Always keep in mind that magnetism effects every metal equally.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 13, 2020 23:02:29 GMT -5
If you need a new power, find some radiation.. nothing bad ever happens if you're exposed to some new rays
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Feb 14, 2020 6:15:07 GMT -5
Always keep in mind that magnetism effects every metal equally. And in some occasions, not affect the only metals that work. |
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Post by The Captain on Feb 14, 2020 11:11:09 GMT -5
You can never kill an enemy, even if they are a homicidal maniac, child killer, or megalomaniac bent on world domination. Better to just knock them unconscious and deliver them to the police, then house them with a bunch of other nutjobs in the local asylum for the criminally insane that would be best served by installing a turnstile at the front gate for all the good actual security does them in light of the near-daily break-outs.
Also, when they do inevitably break out and resume their murdering ways, you need to brood endlessly about how you were unable to stop them from killing again, when you could have easily accomplished that by snapping their neck like a pretzel rod and being done with them. Killing the homicidal maniac that has bonded with an evil alien symbiote doesn't make you less of a hero, it makes you smart for not allowing them to get loose and go on another murder spree. And, yes, all of the blood spilled IS on your head if you keep doing the same dumb thing over and over, especially when the police or the asylum have proven time and time again to be incapable of keeping them incarcerated. Sometimes, you just got to put the rabid dog down.
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