This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Underwear Perverts: From YKTTW
Uknown Troper: And this is different from Not Wearing Tights how? Just mentioning naming conventions?
Ununnilium: It's... not at all like Not Wearing Tights?
Fast Eddie: This tile and article are vastly better than Not Wearing Tights.
Dangermike: Not to mention being about a totally different subject.
I thought this was because Marvel sued anyone who used the word "superhero". —Document N
"In City of Heroes [...] the high-tech secret anti-hero conspiracy refers to them as "metahumans."
Sagaril: I just spent a good five minutes staring at this line trying to think of a weak justification to change "anti-hero" to "anti-villain," possibly based on a joke about Sappers. Damn you, TV Tropes! You've ruined my life!
- There was a reason behind this, believe it or not: having escaped the Silver Age, writers realized that there was no real reason that lightning + chemicals = Flash, or that being bitten by a green monkey and then cured by your father should give you shapeshifting powers. So they sort of retconned the entire planet, such that all humans were supposed to have superpowers, but were genetically tampered with at some point Near The Beginning, and as such are "normal", i.e. powerless, save for those few whose genes weren't quite modified enough.
- That's just one of the several explanations that varying writers have given for the nature of the DCU metahumans. Others include the addition of White Martian DNA, interbreeding with aliens, interbreeding with demons, interbreeding with faeries, at least two storylines described other alien experimentation (this time to give powers, not suppress them), common ancestry with Kryptonians, common ancestry with Oans, and the Godwave. Probably a few I missed, too. Pick one or several, as you like.
- There was a reason behind this, believe it or not: having escaped the Silver Age, writers realized that there was no real reason that lightning + chemicals = Flash, or that being bitten by a green monkey and then cured by your father should give you shapeshifting powers. So they sort of retconned the entire planet, such that all humans were supposed to have superpowers, but were genetically tampered with at some point Near The Beginning, and as such are "normal", i.e. powerless, save for those few whose genes weren't quite modified enough.
Useful information... that goes on the Meta Origin page.
