What would be your biggest reason to NOT be a superhero?

having family and loved ones period...you're either gonna end up with the ones who purposely put themselves in danger cuz they know you can save them--Lois Lane. or ones who have a knack for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. i have lost count how many burning/exploding buildings both MJ and may parker have been in over the yrs or how many times they were at the bank, coffee shop, or museum when a super villain/random bad guy decides to rob the place.

* secret identity revealed, or if not, my loved get involved... or the guilt if i failed to save a person's life... or maybe, just finding a cool superhero costume... 😛

Would depend entirely on the powerset, imo.

With a herald's powerset, i'd feel more comfortable having loved ones. with a street level/meta powerset, i'd rely more heavily on a secret identity.

getting my ass kicked/killed by some vastly more powerful villian

I dont give a shit about other people.

Not the best trait for a superhero

my warped morality would have me turned into a super villain/ vigilante

deathstroke/punisher/black adam/deadpool style..

so i guess it be me being me..

Boredom.

You can only beat the crap out of so many people before it becomes tedious.

Originally posted by Martian_mind
Boredom.

You can only beat the crap out of so many people before it becomes tedious.

you could always take over the world.

In the opposite vein, my real biggest reason would probably be people griping about me not doing enough, which would probably be true, but at that point it would become a job and then I'd not want to help anyone anymore.

Originally posted by -Pr-
you could always take over the world.

The biggest mistake you can ever make is taking over the world.

You stand, battered and bruised, on a mountain made from the bodies of your fallen foes.Then, as you gaze down at all that is, with the knowledge that every inch of it is yours, all you think is.. "So what now?"

Then you have the problem of actually running the damn thing. If you let things turn to shit everywhere else while only satisfying your needs, then you've got 100 rebellions to deal with. If you run it proper, you have no down time.

You'd have to spend your time being a magnificent bastard I think. Hero one day, villian the next, doing whatever you felt like at the time. Even then, you'd need worthy opponents to make it interesting.

I'm sure for me atleast it would be all the PR crap. Like how all celebrities are micro analyzed in every single thing the paparazzi can get their greasy little fingers on them doing, saying, or accused of thinking. And even worse when they just completely make things up to sell stories and tear you down.

Its just to true that the one thing the public and paparazzi love more than anything is tearing people down.

I would hate having every little aspect of my life and actions completely derailed by people just wanting to make money off of it or simply hating me for being different and special.

Even if the secret identity thing were completely working and under absolute lock and key, just having to deal with all the anti-me publicity would irritate me to no end. Hearing people dictated thier personal logic and reasoning, while also telling me a billion ways they'd have done it better while knowing they'd be lucky to even begin to handle the smallest fraction of what I'd done would put me over the ****it edge! To where I just either told the whole planet to go **** themselves for all I cared and see if I help again or just cut completely lose and let the world know I'm doing whatever I want and if they don't like it then STOP ME or STFU!

Originally posted by Martian_mind
The biggest mistake you can ever make is taking over the world.

You stand, battered and bruised, on a mountain made from the bodies of your fallen foes.Then, as you gaze down at all that is, with the knowledge that every inch of it is yours, all you think is.. "So what now?"

Then you have the problem of actually running the damn thing. If you let things turn to shit everywhere else while only satisfying your needs, then you've got 100 rebellions to deal with. If you run it proper, you have no down time.

You'd have to spend your time being a magnificent bastard I think. Hero one day, villian the next, doing whatever you felt like at the time. Even then, you'd need worthy opponents to make it interesting.

again, that depends on the powerset, imo. 😛

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
my warped morality would have me turned into a super villain/ vigilante

deathstroke/punisher/black adam/deadpool style..

so i guess it be me being me..

another reason is, i am not gay and will not wear tight spandex and underwear outside my pants or a cape.. although i will stuff a sock down there

The possibility that I might have to come up against Superboy Prime in a fight...

or be forced to team up with Deadpool because my sales are low...

or get retconned from classic to current version of me, and my enemies come after me when they hear I've been depowered...

or get infected by a zombie virus...

or killed off in one panel of a mega crossover event just for shock value...

...too many reasons, really.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
another reason is, i am not gay and will not wear tight spandex and underwear outside my pants or a cape.. although i will stuff a sock down there

That too.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
another reason is, i am not gay and will not wear tight spandex and underwear outside my pants or a cape.. although i will stuff a sock down there

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'd say the straightest thing a man can do is dress like a flaming homo and not give a shit. No one is more secure about their sexuality than a man who dresses like a male prostitute to fight crime.

like the cop in south park?

Originally posted by -Pr-
like the cop in south park?

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'd say the straightest thing a man can do is dress like a flaming homo and not give a shit. No one is more secure about their sexuality than a man who dresses like a male prostitute to fight crime.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'd say the straightest thing a man can do is dress like a flaming homo and not give a shit. No one is more secure about their sexuality than a man who dresses like a male prostitute to fight crime.

But that logic could be applied to a gay man as well 😕

I mean how far do you go with that? He's so straight, he's camp. He's so straight he dresses like a male prossie. He's so straight, he has sex with men.