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Added bit about Jon Blue and issues with being an actual space alien
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  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
Added bit about fighting America's conflicts
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  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
Added slight expanson to stalkers
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  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  • 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.
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