not so super powers
I was thinking the other day about Super Heros. Ones that have powers I utterly covet with all of my being. Like Proffessor X...and then there are others that I think are simply useless. Like Elastigirl.(at least when being a super hero eventually fails her, she could always be a hooker). Innuendos asside, I realized in my prejudice of these rather unfortunate holders of such powers that it could be worse. It's certainly better than being Narcolepsy man. Or the Gleek monster.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a super hero Turrets? I certainly have. Or what it a super hero with turrets could only unleash his power when he was having a tick...the tick IS the POWER!
[...tangent...] If I had turrets I would totally cheese it up. Especially if my real tick was incredibly emberassing/ socially awkward. I would pretend to have mutiple ticks, ones that were super cool and envious to outsiders. Like Moonwalking. Or SNL one liners ( I'm pretty sure ANY person with that tick would be the coolest person on the face of this earth), or writing music, or wooing the opposite sex [...end tangent]
Talk about inconvenient. You're flying through the skyscrapers, saving your best friends Grandmother against the clutches of the dreaded Corpertate Tool, when you suddenly turn normal again, and your tick (whick happens to be your super power) comes to a halt. The innocent women you are carrying comes crashing to the asphalt, dying a horrible death.
For once, let's thank society and pop culture for their high expectation of perfection that has influneced the creation of Super Heros. I'm thinking that if they were made with a more realistic mindset, they would most likely be stricken with a few flaws that are not so super.
