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Author: KingZeal

Mar 3rd 2012 at 9:50:17 AM

Yes, but the thing that makes it interesting is that it's a ''specific'' something for nothing.  The problem with stuff like RealityWarper and {{Shapeshifter}} is that the "something" you can get varies from medium to medium and is literally dependent upon the writer's imagination.  They could pop anything into existence or change themselves into any shape no matter how impossible or bizarre, so there's no point listing what jobs they could have because the answer would technically be "every job ever".

But in this case, you're talking specifically about one thing.  A super-strong person can generate tons of mechanical force.  A fire-person can generate lots of heat.  A GravityMaster can move things.  These are all specific forms of energy that, because they're superheroes, we assume to come from "nowhere".

Also, let me state that in most form of energy generation, the biggest problems come in the form of figuring out how to collect energy safely and in a form that can be stored and manipulated.  Technically speaking, there's more 
"energy" on Earth or near it than we could probably ever find use for, but we have way of collecting or using most of it.  Most superheroes with physical abilities are thus our solution to that problem.