Imagine some alien appears in our world and had the powers and abilities of superman and pretty much helped the world the same way comic book superman does, how would the world react, do you think? I'd like to think he'd make the world a better place and many people love and accept him, but there would be those who say he'd be a threat to national security or people on the internet call him gay. What do you guys think?
How would our world react to a real life superman?
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...I guess something like TDK would take place? Who knows; for all we know, he could be behind Anonymus if he came. :-D
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Countries would try their hardest to try and get them on "their" side
Then, that country is now the capital of the New Empire
Then, that country is now the capital of the New Empire
I wish. I don't think mankind can reach that level of co-op.Soviet Heavy said:This would happen, obviously.
Paranoia, fear, build up of munitions by countries prone to perceiving any threat as an excuse to spend more on their military.
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"How would our world react to a real life su..." ohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrap... *clicks* Oh, thank goodness! I thought it was going to say "How would our world react to a real life succubus", for some reason! Well, have any of you seen Young Justice? Well, you know that news reporter who's quite weary of the Justice League? (I can't recall his name.) Well, he's got to be one of the most realistic DC characters I've seen on TV. I'd imagine we'd have plenty of people like him.
his name is g. godfree and he is likely going to end up being one of the gods of apokolips.Lugbzurg said:
I think in the 70's and 80's people would have dug him. But after the 90's people would hate him, especially atheists, secular humanists, world governments, and super nerdy folks.
Everyone would be incredibly suspicious at first, but eventually some would entrust their safety to him/her. This would lead to many people to become incredibly idle and unable to defend themselves as they believe more and more that a higher power will protect them from anything. Regardless of whether the alien then attempts world domination, someone will plot to remove that alien from the world somehow (whether that means violence or a much larger Xanatos plot depends on the plotter).
BabySinclair said:Paranoia, fear, build up of munitions by countries prone to perceiving any threat as an excuse to spend more on their military.
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It'd only work if he signed on with the UN. He can't work for any one nation's government without eventually being co-opted into their military the same way Dr. Manhattan was, and he can't do anything without government support - someone has to trial and imprison the criminals he captures, and they'll never be convicted if he stays a vigilante. So he'd have to go to the UN.
Then they'd have a United Nations Superman Council, or whatever, and only the most powerful militaries get to sit on it, and they'll just veto each other all day long about where they're going to deploy Superman. Eventually he's going to be forced to hover above Bosnia or Uganda or Syria and watch people slaughter each other without the authorisation to go in, and he'll go insane - knowing that he has the power to stop it all, if only these stupid humans would let him.
Then he'd just go ahead and do it, and the UNSC would go berserk over their uncontrolled superweapon, and start fighting with each other over who benefits most from Superman's independent actions. If he's stopping warlords in Africa fighting each other, he's equally justified in stopping Russia from invading the Ukraine. If he doesn't stop the US from invading Afghanistan, Russia's gonna call foul and accuse Superman of America-favouritism. Eventually someone's going to throw a nuke. Even if Superman stops it, the UN would fall apart and the fragile illusion of international law will dissolve, because none of them can agree on what to do with Superman. Eventually, they'd only reunite if they all signed a Superman Non-Proliferation Treaty, barring Superman from doing anything in any country.
Then Superman would be illegal. He'd fly to the Moon and declare it his home, and from his Moon Base he will stare down at us, judging us with the power of a god but never intervening, even when he could stop great atrocities with minimal effort, because we ourselves exiled him. Over the centuries, he will fade into myth, and people will write books and tell stories about Superman, and the weak and the downtrodden will pray to Superman, and tell each other that Superman will return one day to deliver humanity from evil, and the faithful who lived their lives the way Superman wanted them to will be raised up to live with him on his Moon Base.
Eventually someone will ask why, if Superman truly has superpowers and is watching us all, does evil still exist? Surely he could stop evil with his heat vision or his super strength or his ability to fly backwards in time? And the masses will ignore the question, or spin rhetoric around it, and never stoop to answering it, because they know deep down that evil is something humans do to each other, and Superman cannot defeat evil without first defeating us.
Then they'd have a United Nations Superman Council, or whatever, and only the most powerful militaries get to sit on it, and they'll just veto each other all day long about where they're going to deploy Superman. Eventually he's going to be forced to hover above Bosnia or Uganda or Syria and watch people slaughter each other without the authorisation to go in, and he'll go insane - knowing that he has the power to stop it all, if only these stupid humans would let him.
Then he'd just go ahead and do it, and the UNSC would go berserk over their uncontrolled superweapon, and start fighting with each other over who benefits most from Superman's independent actions. If he's stopping warlords in Africa fighting each other, he's equally justified in stopping Russia from invading the Ukraine. If he doesn't stop the US from invading Afghanistan, Russia's gonna call foul and accuse Superman of America-favouritism. Eventually someone's going to throw a nuke. Even if Superman stops it, the UN would fall apart and the fragile illusion of international law will dissolve, because none of them can agree on what to do with Superman. Eventually, they'd only reunite if they all signed a Superman Non-Proliferation Treaty, barring Superman from doing anything in any country.
Then Superman would be illegal. He'd fly to the Moon and declare it his home, and from his Moon Base he will stare down at us, judging us with the power of a god but never intervening, even when he could stop great atrocities with minimal effort, because we ourselves exiled him. Over the centuries, he will fade into myth, and people will write books and tell stories about Superman, and the weak and the downtrodden will pray to Superman, and tell each other that Superman will return one day to deliver humanity from evil, and the faithful who lived their lives the way Superman wanted them to will be raised up to live with him on his Moon Base.
Eventually someone will ask why, if Superman truly has superpowers and is watching us all, does evil still exist? Surely he could stop evil with his heat vision or his super strength or his ability to fly backwards in time? And the masses will ignore the question, or spin rhetoric around it, and never stoop to answering it, because they know deep down that evil is something humans do to each other, and Superman cannot defeat evil without first defeating us.
*Best Kirk impersonation* CHROME! Nice to know it's just on my end. And yes, you gotta.Risingblade said:BabySinclair said:Paranoia, fear, build up of munitions by countries prone to perceiving any threat as an excuse to spend more on their military.
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looks fine...gotta love you?
We would treat him like crap and abuse him tell he snappend and took over the world And can you blame him
