If everyone had superpowers, wouldn’t they become “ordinary powers”?
And what are superpowers anyway?
Opening a door must seem like a superpower to a dog.
Birds can fly. That would be a superpower for a human. For most birds, it’s no big deal.
Spiders can spin and shoot webs: superpower.
Fish breathe underwater: superpower.
Cheetahs run really fast: superpower.
I guess for humans, many superpowers are just being more like animals. Although I am not sure walking in circles while sniffing the ground or pooping in the backyard would qualify.
And then there are those other “superpowers.” Humans have created and live in their own “superpowers” by figuring out how to manufacture explosives powerful enough to destroy most of the world.
Although I think nuclear explosions are more of a “stupidpower” for humans to have. If you explode on a planet and contaminate it with radiation, you have to move. Even if you also have the superpower of immunity to explosions and radiation, there would be nothing left to eat or any reason to stay on a radiated planet full of marauding mutants and flesh-eating undead.
So, unless you also have faster-than-speed-of-light-space-travel superpowers, and can find another habitable planet that isn’t already full of superheroes who don’t really want an exploding stupidhero living near them, your powers are worthless.
I think a better superpower would be to have gold earwax. Then anytime you needed cash, you could just grab a Q-Tip and head for the local pawn shop to cash in.
Just watch out for a guy with a radiation symbol on his chest. Don’t make him mad.
Happy Monday. Thanks for reading and responding. You make it fun.
Mark
Getting up every morning becomes a superpower after a certain number of decades. Grab your cape and meet the dawn!
I would love to see inside your head sometime. But to do that I would need to have a superpower. I don't think walking really fast while using a walker qualifies.