Originally posted by StiltmanFTWTrue. But the worst thing about pain is it's lasting effect. If it only lasts few minutes, no matter how bad it is, its bareable imo.
Pain would drive you mad...Like myself, you're a drinker. Tell me then, did you happen to spend a day in a hospital because of the kidney stones problem exacerbated by excessive drinking? Pain is excruciating and yet I can imagine it's a walk in the park compared to having to regrow that organ.
Originally posted by SamZED
True. But the worst thing about pain is it's lasting effect. If it only lasts few minutes, no matter how bad it is, its bareable imo.
And here's the problem - not only regenerating an entire kidney would hurt much worse than sustaining injury/getting it cut out from your body, but also there are phantom pains.
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Kidney ache has some nasty side-effects, too - one of which is pain continuously radiating to your testicles.
I think that Starfox's powers are the ones with the least drawback in terms of detection.
Think about it. If you want to earn money in pro sports using healing factor, everywhere (minus some staged wrestling things) where the decent money are involved, the medicine is involved. The word of you having superpowers will come out very quickly... with some nasty side effects. You will be treated like doping offender, for starters. Being turned into guinea pig is unrealistic one, but being banned from competitions where your powers give you advantage is another. That's why, say hermaphrodites with mostly female genitals are banned from competition in women's sports - due to them being "men inside" their hormones give them unfair advantages.
Starfox's powers is basically what allows you to stay low-key but enjoy the best of the world.
Just my female five cents.