- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- Superman is a literal space alien
- Xenophobia / racism
- Demands for alien technology or knowledge
- The alien is more powerful than any human (jealousy, inferiority)
- Religious / philosophical issues (DARPA had an interesting conference with the 100 Year Starship program, where several of these types of ideas were discussed. "Framework for the Off-Planet Church", "Did Jesus Die for Klingons", and "Making Aliens" all touched on these kinds of issues.
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- You live in America, we expect you to fight our wars for us. (see Jon Blue fighting Vietnam, Watchmen)
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- You live in America, we expect you to fight our wars for us.
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- Superman is a literal space alien
- Xenophobia / racism
- Demands for alien technology or knowledge
- The alien is more powerful than any human (jealousy, inferiority)
- Religious / philosophical issues (DARPA had an interesting conference with the 100 Year Starship program, where several of these types of ideas were discussed. "Framework for the Off-Planet Church", "Did Jesus Die for Klingons", and "Making Aliens" all touched on these kinds of issues.
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- You live in America, we expect you to fight our wars for us. (see Jon Blue fighting Vietnam, Watchmen)
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- You live in America, we expect you to fight our wars for us.
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- You live in America, we expect you to fight our wars for us.
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you
- You can't be normal
- Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
- Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
- Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
- Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
- Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
- Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
- Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
- Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
- You can't go to normal activities
- Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game. The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
- Remember Biden going for a bike ride? "Haha, the President fell down..."
- Money
- People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
- People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
- Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a Forbes Article on celebrity issues)
- Loss of privacy.
- Helen Hunt has An interesting Guardian article on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
- Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
- What's Superman look like in his underwear?
- Subjected to hyper-criticism
- "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
- "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
- Lies in the media
- Spiderman suffers this a lot
- People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
- Taken advantage of by "friends"
- "Can we join your entourage?"
- "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
- Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
- "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
- "Superman shops at our business."
- Targeted by criminals
- Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
- Automatic relics and mementos
- Stalkers
- Even your trash is valuable
- "I'm sure we had moment while I was hanging from that building."
- People trying to get blood/skin/hair samples to find a weakness or turn themselves into you.
- Loss of privacy.
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
- How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
- Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
- Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.
- Miyamoto Musashi's issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
- If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
- Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in The Killing Joke)
- Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
- People don't want to live near you
- Might get a car thrown through the wall
- "Superman can look through my clothes?"
- Literal s*** magnet. People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
- Your fights destroy entire cities.
- Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
- Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
- Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
- Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
- Govt's will write laws directly related to you Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers
- Govt's will demand you work for them
- Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.
- People don't want to live near you