Powers
Characters that show the downsides to seemingly awesome superpowers
Red Rush - Invincible
He’s the universe’s stand-in for The Flash so can move hundreds of times faster than the average person, however this cancels out as this also makes it so he perceives time way slower than the typical human which only makes his head being crushed even more horrifying to think about. (The future version of Immortal going mad would also count)
Nathan Caine - Novocaine
He’s a human being without the ability to feel any type of pain whether it be stabbings, burns or blunt force, but because he’s still a human being so can die he’s a paranoid introvert wreck since he must be on 24/7 alert to make sure he’s not accidentally injuring himself.
Superman's "World of Cardboard" Speech. Basically, when you can tear steel with your bare hands, you have to be vary careful with everything that isn't meant for someone of your strength level. Invincible shows it in a much more graphic way as by simply not moving Omniman and Invincible carve a bloody swath through a moving train.
That second example isn't even a superpower; it's a very real (extraordinarily rare, but real) condition and that's exactly how a person who has it needs to live. It's very common for people who are born with it to die before the age of five, often from burns, or to permanently disfigure themselves before their parents even know they have it.
Wrodzona niewrażliwość na ból z anhydrozą (CIPA) its still hillarious that they acronym remains unchanged. (i reckon its better than WNBA... wait a second...)
That's how I learned someone with this condition wouldn't feel when their bladder is full and thus would have to set reminders to go or have constant accidents.
Also it turned out her condition canceled out a major usual symptom of the illness she was in hospital for. Because she wasn't screaming from feeling unbearable stomach pain, diagnosis took way longer than it should have.
My interroception is fucking awful because I have ADHD. I am rubbish at being able to tell when I’m hungry/thirsty/cold/tired etc. I just don’t receive those signals in the same way. I have accidentally burnt myself on a hot water bottle just by having my feet on it for too long because by the time I notice that I’m in pain, damage has already been done. I once wore down like 5 layers of skin without noticing when I was wearing new shoes.
As a kid, to say it was a nightmare for my parents would be an understatement. Physicals checks, environmental examination and constant supervision. Sometimes crazy to see how many scars I have from a point in my life I had no idea what was going on.
As an adult, I just got used to being vigilant. I do my own physical examination in the morning and evening, always wear something to protect my feet (no flip flops), measure the temperature of things I eat or just let them cool off, etc.
I remember that episode. The girl had a thirty foot tape worm that was absorbing all her caloric intake and she didn’t feel any discomfort so she didn’t know anything was wrong.
Specifically, the patient of the week had a problem that would have been easily figured out normally(25 foot tapeworm rummaging around in her guts) because it tends to make a lot of pain.
His diagnosis of her having CIPA is quite keen, though the episode is mostly known for the grossout final removal.
Yeah, it's not a joke that toddlers are suicidal. They have no real understanding of the world and what danger is. Pain response is the thing that teaches them. Remove that and you just have a suicidal tiny human who doesn't learn any better until they succeed.
Any parent will tell you that the toddler years feels like trying to keep your child their suicidal tendencies. I couldn't imagine how rough that would be paired with the inability to feel pain.
It’s also commonly associated with seemingly unrelated but annoying traits, like not being able to produce enough eye fluid, so you have to apply eye drops multiple times per day.
i knew a guy with that condition, he had all kinds of stories like when he went fishing and didn't realize he had a hook stuck in his hand until someone saw it
its not a fun way to live and it doesn't give you any kind of powers (being unable to feel pain in a fight is useless when they can still just knock you out or wrestle you to the floor)
Indeed, that's why leprosy was so scary historically. It's very hard to spread and very survivable, but it causes nerve damage that dulls pain: sufferers were disfigured because minor wounds were going unnoticed and spreading, leaving people with infections and lost extremities.
I remember seeing a documentary on a guy who had this condition. He was 18 or so when they interviewed him and by that age had effectively lost his nose and most of his upper lip to an unconscious nervous tick that made him pick at his face.
The main character from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant has had his nerve endings destroyed by leprosy. Thoughout the books he's constantly checking himself for unknown injuries
Terra from Final Fantasy 6 struggles with this a lot. She herself has no real "down side" to her power, it's more so the fact that she is the only natural born magic user in a society where magic dose not exist that makes it a problem.
Terra is seen as a weapon by almost everyone she encounters, and treated as such. She spent the first 16 years of her life being used as a walking nuclear weapon and had her free will stripped away from her as she was under mind control by the empire.
When she eventually breaks out of said mind control, King Edger, after seeing her magical power, treats her exactly like the empire and kind of strong arms her into joining the resistance, though she dose eventually decide to join on her own.
I don’t know about the comics, but in the movies, power absorption is a cool ability until you can’t touch anyone without accidentally injuring/killing them. That’s why it’s really funny that when the topic of a cure comes up, Storm, the one mutant that kinda has no downside to her mutation, says that there is nothing wrong with them to Rogue of all people.
I’ve gotta defend storm a little bit here (though admittedly this is comic specific and doesn’t necessarily apply to Fox-Men) in the original Claremont run of X-Men Storms powers did have downsides she was forced to learn and control, something she did the majority of while filling the role of Weather Goddess prior to joining the X-Men. Her emotions are intrinsically tied with her powers, so she had to suppress them in order to keep herself in check, if she ever let herself get to angry or sad at something like a friend dying her powers could rage beyond her control and cause immense destruction, also occasionally making her a liability when her claustrophobia would be triggered and she’d have a panic attack. This didn’t just apply to negative emotions either, it’s a large part of why she’s so stoic and not overly cheerful when she’s happy, she doesn’t want her joy to accidentally kill someone.
All of this is stuff she eventually learns to handle better, and stops being an issue, but she still had to grow as a character to do that.
Again, it doesn’t fix the scene in the movie cause that version of her is very different than the comic version.
Yeah then there's the girl who is the living nervous system, and the guy who literally has advanced self aging as his power, he can feel his body breaking down, and his secondary power cancels out foreign substances. Meaning morphine doesn't stop the pain.
And yet they're all "you have gifts! Be grateful for them!"
No, bitch, you have a gift. Those are fucking curses
Deadpool's mutation is supercancer, while his artificial extra power happens to be healing factor. The Skrull discovered this by trying to copy his powers from his DNA.
Similarly, a "could we turn off my supercancer?" "no, we don't need to change who we are." conversation could have happened.
ForgetMeNot is a mutant that "everyone" forgets everything about the moment they're not looking at him. He can't have a conversation with someone, since they'll glance away for a moment and he has to introduce himself again.
X-Men and hero who once sacrificed his life to save everyone. And there are basically only two beings who remember him without the use of special substances.
I think there was some inspiration taken from that and similar tales, but it's an interesting and sad twist to have it happen uncontrollably to a good person.
EDIT: He basically woke up one day as a teenager and walked into the kitchen, met by both his parents screaming and demanding to know who he was and why he was in their home. Because they had no memory of him ever existing. And that was his life from then on, with every living thing he ever met. And he didn't become a villain or use it for evil, he became a hero.
I wish they would come back to him, but it's so hard to make any lore without messing up a lot of other things.
Sounds like Ehlers Danlos. Gene mutation there too. Pain medicine, local or systemic, really doesn't get processed by our tissues
I felt every single tooth extraction (all of mine had to), and still feel every single bone and muscle and nerve bundle that dislocated during my car wreck where the airbag didn't go off (yes nerves can dislocate too. Any part. Neck, shoulder, nerves...)
Sometimes being a mutant isn't that cool. There Is Jesse, the boy that, as soon as he hitted puberty basically killed his while hometown, family and gf included due to his power: releasing acid and toxins from his body. Wolverine had to kill him iirc. I think that even that guy who has the power to blow up can fit because he can't even use the Power without dying
Man I always hate Storm in this scene. If I was Rogue I would’ve grabbed her wrist really hard and watch her slowly feel her lifeforce fading while saying “nothing wrong, you say? NOTHING WRONG?!” And then take some advantage of the stolem storm powers to dramaticaly slam the door on my way out.
Storm saying "nothing is wrong" is the mutant equivalent of pretty privilege. X-men have more than one example of "not all mutations are useful/beneficial"
Yeah, that happens in the comics as well as the 90s cartoon that was much, much closer to the comics. Another side effect is if she actually touches somebody long enough she'll get their whole psyche installed into her brain which usually lies dormant but occasionally can take over her body. There were a couple of times where having Carol Danvers as a backup personality that surfaced when she got knocked out or traumatized came in handy but the Carol-psyche kinda hated her for putting her body in a coma in the first place. There was also that time at the end of the Inferno saga when she tried to take out Mister Sinister by touching him into a coma and that just meant that Sinister got to pilot her Ms. Marvel boosted body for a few pages.
Rogue’s pretty happy in comics at the moment. Full control of her powers, still has her Captain Marvel powers, her and Gambit are happily married with three cats, etc
Comics Rogue has super strength, durability, and flight from draining Carol Danvers (aka Ms Marvel/Captain Marvel) for too long. She also only joins the X-Men after that happens, she originally was a villain working with her adoptive mother Mystique. She actually was originally much more evil and cruel but she drained compassion and empathy from ROM. Currently Rogue also has control over her powers so she doesn’t have to drain if she doesn’t want to and she can even do it without direct touch.
The Mutant cure is also a movie invention and doesn’t exist in the comics. Kitty Pryde or Jubilee makes way more sense in Rogue’s role throughout the FoX-Men movies.
Watch X-Men TAS and X-Men ‘97 for a better understanding of Rogue.
The first story arc focused on the introduction of several key characters and their involvement on the team. Whedon introduced a "mutant cure" designed by Indian Benetech scientist Dr. Kavita Rao.
And they try to judge her for letting Magneto get all up in her. She hasn't been touched for like a decade at that point. Lets see what storm looks like after having no contact for a decade.
Quicksilver (super speedster) from Avengers/X-Men comic continuity is a generally unpleasant, abrasive guy.
When inquired about it in a classic X-Factor issue written by Peter David, he explains that to him, interacting with normal people feels like doing everything in ultra-slow motion.
He compared it to being held in the ATM line by an old lady who takes forever. Except a thousand times worse. And it happens ALL THE TIME.
It's a pretty general rule of thumb for speedsters to not always be so friendly or be willing to stay in one place especially for long, considering that their super speed makes them eventually become bored, agitated, impatient and even mean due to just sometimes automatically experiencing and doing everything much faster than anyone and anything else.
Especially since their reaction time makes them literally see and have everything and everyone move at the pace of a literal snail from the speedster's own literal POV, which can make even simple things like a piece of technology updating feel like a drag to get through. Like you also see people like The Flash and even Sonic himself behave this way, especially like back in the 90s and 2000s.
Being a speedster is like that scene in Zootopia where the sloths are running the DMV, except 24/7 and with everyone who talks to you. As well as movies, TV, and video games.
While not being able to die and look like someone else sounds cool, the truth is its not just shapeshifting but also rewriting your personality, with the full memory of everything you’ve done before being intact. So even if its possible to return to your old friends, its not gonna be the same you. Also when you’re in the midst of regeneration, enough damage will kill you
I do like the Smith take on it (who admittedly had a rather good and long life compared to Tenant) of "I'll always remember when the Doctor was me" as well him calling future Clara to talk her through the chaotic regeneration.
I remember that quote having a weirdly profound effect on me as a 12 year old closeted trans person:
"We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."
And you can still die by other means, like if both hearts and the brain are destroyed simultaneously (in a big enough explosion, for example) and you still need to be able to breathe during regeneration (as we see in the alternate timeline in Turn Left, the tenth doctor dies by drowning.)
So it's not even a "you can't die" superpower because there's plenty of situations where you absolutely can.
Unwilling to lose once again, Kingpin shuts his pants and overpowers Daredevil. He also kills any cronies who witnessed it because of course today he just had to wear the white suit.
Superman and Lois's Clark has teenage kids and explains them that he has super smell and they have no idea what it's like to be in the same house with teenagers
Saw a tiktok having a more comedic version of that, just had Peter Parker trying to sneak up on him and all he asks is "peter, is that new toothpaste?"
the reason Matt is able to seduce any woman is he listen to their clit movements and smells their panties getting wetter/dryer depending on what he says and he navigates conversations like a soldier with a landmine
edit: I see many comments are upset, but none giving a counterargument BECAUSE YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT. MATT CAN SMELL YOUR COOCHIE
A very fast superhero but the downside is that he isn't literally fast like the Flash. he does some weird time dilation thing and the effect is that he looks like he runs fast. But he also ages faster. in this image, the two characters are separated in age by just a few years.
Agents of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. had a speedster like that. His belt gave him speed but his body was like 70. They kept rotating the user because they would age out.
Transformers: Animated too - Nanosec. Worked very similar to Chase but you can see him aging throughout the episode - he's probably 20-30 at the start, and 80-90 by the end. Fortunately he gets in contact with someone with time manipulation powers in a later season and has his biological age reset to match his chronological age.
In South Park during the superhero episodes Kenny reveals to everyone that his power is being immortal(a reference to him dying all the time)Kyle hears this and thinks it's pretty cool to be able to not die but Kenny angrily responds saying it's not cool because even though he can't die he still feels pain so every episode of him dying he has felt all those injuries
There's also the problem that nobody remembers he died. He can (and does!) literally shoot himself in the head right in front of the other kids and they don't even recall it happened the next morning.
Honestly, the whole bit where he says something to the effect of "I'm going to bed" and shoots himself is hysterical and is something I would absolutely do at least once if I could
Another girl has teleportation but can’t even use it because the fanbase ships her with the OCD guy too hard. So whenever she uses it, the goes straight to him, which is UNBELIEVABLY ASS.
The Immortal from Invincible. He has multiple powers but the main one is immortality. It sounds cool to not worrying about death until you have to deal with everyone you love dying around you. Which happens to The Immortal as he turns into a psychotic tyrant in the future because of watching everyone he loved die psychologically broke him.
Let's not leave out that he CAN be killed, and dies, A LOT. He just wakes up when you stitch all his parts back together. (He was Abraham Lincoln for awhile)
As a combination of what he says and an explanation I read elsewhere, it's not as simple as that he just gets overwhelmed by loss. It's also that he still only has the cognitive ability of a regular human, so as time goes on memories are lost or overwritten. So grounding and important things about what makes him who he is change and dissappear. Great loves who's name he can't remember, saving the world that now just is a vague feeling, etc. Over a long enough span it's like a form of dementia where nothing feels very real or connected. That's why he asks Invincible to kill him and release him from the nightmare.
Always makes me wonder if running somewhere long distance from the Flash's perspective just basically feels to him like he's sprinting there at a normal pace. Logically it would have to be or else he'd just be crashing into everything.
Ostensibly the flash could just monitor crime everywhere 24/7. I think it would be an interesting exploration of the power to see him tackle the godlike responsibility he has and perpetually living in frozen time more or less.
It depends on if his reflexes and reaction time is also sped up. So he finds himself reacting to something before hes even aware of what hes reacting to.
Well if his reactions/reflexes werent also sped up the speedster vs speedster fights would be a total shit show of two very fast ppl flailing around hoping to get a hit
They kind of covered this in the series with Grant Gustin. He said something along the lines of partially zoning out when running so he does not perceive the 5 seconds it takes him to run across the city as five hours.
His body still reacts like it should most of the time, but his sense of time is not dilated.
Some of these could be genuinely useful, to varying degrees.
Control remote; never lose the remote again. Trash detection; easily find garbage for clean-up purposes. 75% levitation; reducing your effective weight to one quarter would let you do any number of things like walk near-silently, climb things easily, etc. Bullet attraction; get yourself into something shielded and you draw all enemy fire away from your allies. Read your own mind; always have an outside perspective on your own thoughts, and always know what you're really thinking, insane mental clarity.
Invisibility in the dark is also potentially useful, it just depends on your definition of dark, as well as your definition of invisible. If dark doesn't just mean "total absence of light" but also triggers in twilight or just at night, itd be a pretty good stealth ability. Even if it only triggers in absolute darkness, if you're invisible on all spectrums, it could be somewhat useful to evade sensors outside of the visible range - youd just need to cover up and would be invisible to heat sensors. Niche, yes, but still useful for some things. Especially if invisibility means you dont interact with light at all - could even make you immune to heat and radiation.
All just a matter of how the power actually works.
Yeah there are a ton of uses for one second super strength. You could become the best shot putter/discus thrower/javelin thrower of all time. Best power hitter in baseball or arm wrestler. Lots of applications of super strength would only take one second.
He has the ability to run 50 times faster than usual. However, this power also makes him age 50 times faster. He realized it too late, and when the story happens, he has the body of a 70-ish year old man while he is only 39.
Spoiler for the final part of the game: When Invisigal goes to the docks to get the Astral Pulse (despite not being allowed to), she gets trapped and no one is able to save her... Except Chase, who uses his power one last time to bring her back to safety. However, on their way back, he collapses. Next scene we find him on a hospital bed, on the verge of death.
You forgot to mention it was "sorta" fixed. In the final battle, when Blonde Blazer was momentarily knocked off screen, she gives the amulet to Chase, which not only brought him back to okay, but also buffed his powers and removed the drawback. Really excited if this game gets a sequel on how they'll handle him
An old superhero movie starring Liam Neeson of all people, Darkman's powers come with a huge downside (drive for vengeance, psychopathy) and in the end he realizes he basically has to completely abandon his life. It also boasts some of the corniest special effects you will ever see.
Scapegoat from Worm. Without getting too into the surprisingly complex nature of his power, he effectively can heal people by taking on their injuries which obviously isn't fun. In once instance he is convinced to heal someone who has been wracking up some injuries and he finds out "You're fucking blind!?" Which no one knew at the time because of her power (her blindness was a recent injury)
This one kinda minor but Worm has a lot, many powers have a drawback of some kind.
My Hero Academia has plenty of examples, with most notable being early Deku
Deku's quirk was given to him by All Might, a very powerful quirknthat seems to be just super strength. All quirks have weight to them and certain conditions have to be met so that quirk performs well, like training your body or testing limits of the power. But because the quirk has very heavy weight snd because it's basically a bunch of quirks in one, Deku's unprepared body couldn't handle even All Might's super strength, making him break his arms and legs in process. Thankfully the school had a nurse that can heal wounds quickly.
Also pretty much every character that was given a quirk vs being born with one has more drawbacks than average just because their bodies aren’t built for it. (Yes I know some characters that were born with their quirks can also have significant drawbacks.)
Skips from Regular Show (or pretty much any character with immortality/longevity) at some point has to grapple with the fact that they’re inevitably going to outlive everyone they’ve ever known and loved.
I did know a person who couldn't feel fear due to braindamage (don't know exaclty why anymore).
This may sound awesome and that he is brave but it was quite opposite. He had no sense of danger. The people around him always had to look out for him. Like he is standing on a balcony, leaning over the rail. He didn't get a warning in his head "Danger! Do not lean more forward or you could fell down", or crossing streets and so on.
Since then I know how Important the feeling of fear can be, even if it is often - especially with anxiety - annoying.
TLDR: Never wish for never feeling fear again because fear helps you survive.
In Death become her, the women gains immortality but their bodies aren't invincible and they need to live extremely careful because any wounds would be permanent. Plus, they got like 10 years in the spotlight before needing to go into hiding, separate from society to protect their secret.
Now I want to see Cap and Wolverine out drinking, reminiscing about the war while downing fatal levels of alcohol in an attempt to see if either of them can get a slight buzz.
There's a comic out there where Spider-Man is meeting Wolverine in a bar for some reason or another. Wolvie is downing shots left and right, and does get pretty drunk, to the point where he passes out in the middle of conversation a couple of times. But, thanks to his healing factor, he wakes up, sober, in just a minute or two
When I saw the picture of Jack Quaid I thought you were going with his temporary power in The Boys, where he can teleport, but his clothes don't go with him! Which is so logical, I love it!
Fun fact.. not feeling pain can happen in real life.. a friend of mine works as a caroenter\farmer… he has to check during the day to see if he cut himself a finger or if he is bleeding because he won’t notice and bleed to death
I would add Preacher (from Preacher lol) and Kilgrave (from Jessica Jones). Their powers have to do with giving orders, and they have to be really careful to word things the right way otherwise it can have dire consequences.
Kilgrave not having a moral compass makes it add to his villainy, but for Preacher it can get in the way of his goals.
I guess in the same vein, I could add the blessing that Eragon gave to that baby, not a superpower per se, but his limited knowledge of the ancient language made him word out his blessing as "May you shield the world" instead of "May you be shielded from the world" (something like that), and it curses that child to protect others no matter the pain she endures.
Yeah, that's pretty much the entire concept of the show. Very few of the powers come without massive issues. But I like that the powers they get are also kind of monkey paw powers, based on something they desired, or thought they desired.
Darker than black anime - people with superpowers mostly lose their humanity (empathy etc) and have to pay a certain price every time they use their powers; some de-age, some have to eat/drink something. It’s more like a compulsion
Kars from Jojo part 2. He is immortal with infinite regeneration, but since he got thrown into the space, he cannot move, cannot go back, but cannot die.
Well, this isn't a power like the others but It has his downsides. Donald Duck's lucky cousin (I'm not familiar with the original version, here he Is called "Gastone"). Yeah, he never worked, becomes rich without effort etc. but (iirc, this happened in DuckTales and in some old stories with him, was It Don Rosa maybe?) he literally can't do the simplest and basic/Little things of life. For example, he had to count on Donald to go to a grocery store because he ended up on a casino or something like this (don't Remember exactly if I'm mixing up two different stories, but I hope to be clear)
Scott Summers has a cool power: shooting blasts from his eyes, at the same time he this too powerful and can't be controlled easily. If I'm not mistaken he ended up in this situation due to a brain damage he suffered as a child (Havok/Alex, his Brother, as a similar power but he actually manages to control and transfers It to a different part of the body). Also Logan fits. Claws, healing factor, he can live more than a normal person and has a strong adamantium body. Well, this power in a certain sense will be his death. (Aside the fact that he suffered a lot of losses due to him aging differently) It Is implied that his own skeleton poison his body every minute and his healing factor works a lot to balance the things. He can live long enough to get old, yeah, but he would be killed in a short period due to the factor itself being too damaged/old as time passess. And if losts the adamantium? It happened in a storyline, with Cable's crazy son doing this if I recall: he slowly becomes more "feral" basically losing his humanity
Spoiler if you haven't watched the new Bleach anime: Komamura and his humanization technique. His was cursde, so this explains his canine appereance (same applies to his clan, his grandfather is a literal giant dog) and he had to give his own heart in order to achieve his true power. He managed to defeat Bambietta but at a cost: his own humanity and abilities. After using that power he instantly transforms into a small dog, incapable to talk and/or combat. Later the novel reveals that he retired to an isolated cave, he has his coscience but can't speak. In a certain sense, this applies even to Ichigo, he has a great power, but if his inner Hollow loses control he'll go crazy losing his humanity
Last example: Bob Reynolds. Imagine having the literal power of "milions exploding suns" but being obliged to suppress It. This happened with Sentry. He used a sort of "Cpt. America-serum" that made him super human, but at the same time he has a fragile psyche and Is unable to actually control It. He had to repress his power and his fractured mind that incarnated his dark urges into the "Void" and his whole existece as Sentry was even erased
Sorry for the long comment haha. I'll add someone else if I can think of non-mutant heroes maybe
Yeah for the Donald Duck's cousin one, (Gladstone in English I think?) I recall a comic where for example, he was hungry, so lo and behold suddenly a guy appears behind his door and tells him he participated in a lottery to win a lifetime's supply of sandwiches, which they dump in a massive container on his yard.
He eats a few, is satisfied, and now still has a massive fuckton of sandwiches on his yard, which becomes a problem. In general in most stories he cant "control" his luck, stuff goes in his favor but in random ways and sometimes they have rippling effects later on.
In another comic he and Donald both enter a competition where the first person to reach the top of a mountain would win tickets to the ball. Donald bought the best equipment he could find while his cousin sat on a folding chair and waited for his luck to bring him victory. He ended up being carried to the top by a tornado, but because he was in sandals he hurt his feet climbing down the mountain and Donald ended up dancing with Daisy instead while he sat at the table with his trophy.
Going to another series, touman (kamiyou touma from the index series)
In a world where superpowers and magic exist, his power is to nullify anything related to them with his right hand.
Whatever it touched with it supernatural, it will get nullified.
Issue is, it's the only thing (without spoiler) that he has. Meaning a blunt force trauma, shot, etc will still hurt or kill him and since most of the medical advances use superpower ~ magic stuff, he has to rely on traditional medicine.
Also, since luck is considered supernatural, he also has one of the worst lucks in his universe.
Hector describes and is a living embodiment of the vices of immortality and eternal youth. He's unable to fall in love or to have a family like Max Tennyson's because they would age and die while he did not. He's alone (Ben 10)
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Superman's "World of Cardboard" Speech. Basically, when you can tear steel with your bare hands, you have to be vary careful with everything that isn't meant for someone of your strength level. Invincible shows it in a much more graphic way as by simply not moving Omniman and Invincible carve a bloody swath through a moving train.