User blog comment:CNBA3/Power Users and Real Life./@comment-5060540-20130715232632/@comment-5265497-20130717084624

Speedsters could have a courier business or enhance anything requiring speed. With indirect wind manipulation abilities, turning turbines without external factors increasing power efficiency, or become the greatest police force. "A recent issue of Flash had him do just this. He was hired by an antique film and memorabilia collector. He hired the Flash to watch all of his movies and examine all of his antiques and catalog them." The Watchman's Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan had advanced civillization tremendously, even a power like disintegration (very useful for mining and construction), matter manipulation (too easy), telekinesis. "The only reason there's so much villains in comics is because there's rarely any legal way to make a living and a social rank via one's abilities" Really? Name one superhero that would not be a victim of misapplyingthere abilities even if they used it even to just fight crime or name just 5 powers that can be controlled that would not be useful for our economic ventures and supply and demand. You would be renown or a heroe MERELY for using your powers to make a contribution and that would be the desire of almost anybody? Of course, superhumans would be met with criticism at first (just like everything), but that is something we could easily adapt to unlike the slow progression of the comics. Of course there would be some supervillain, but again they would be dispatched and outmatch by many others. If anything, at the end of all of this, people would be wishing they could be superheroes, government agencies collecting the more potent ones, jobs hiring and even making an objective towards the acquisition of even the mundane powers, and it's all just an improvement for the rigorous job market. The long-term bad would be that, unfortunately, fiscal security could be compromised when adjusted for inflation or even a depression with the world of supers if they came out of the blue. Also issues with the applications of powers on a scale that could lead to civil war (with your excellence ressurection example), time travel being possible (people don't want to sit through the end of the world so they come back and inundate the past), or the destruction of the universe. Or bad guys finding ways to disrupt the core of the Earth or something.