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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} often expressed this desire during the Bronze Age. Unlike her cousin, Kara remembers having a normal life back on Argo City, when she was a normal teenager. After growing into adulthood, she was torn between her desire to have the life of a normal woman and the responsibilities that come with her powers. In ''Superman Vol. 1 #282'' [[https://maidofmight.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/superman-282_01.jpg she explains to her cousin]] that she is thinking of giving up her Supergirl identity because she wants a normal life:

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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} often expressed this desire during the Bronze Age. Unlike her cousin, Kara remembers having a normal life back on Argo City, when she was a normal teenager. After growing into adulthood, she was torn between her desire to have the life of a normal woman and the responsibilities that come with her powers. In ''Superman Vol. 1 ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #282'' [[https://maidofmight.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/superman-282_01.jpg she explains to her cousin]] that she is thinking of giving up her Supergirl identity because she wants a normal life:

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** It seems there is truly no way out for Peter. In the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' series, [[spoiler:ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]], and for a while, Peter's personality was believed obliterated, DeaderThanDead. No such luck, Pete. After Doc Ock realized he was a poor replacement, Peter re-emerges when Ock deletes himself.]]

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** It seems there is truly no way out for Peter. In the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013'' series, [[spoiler:ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]], and for a while, Peter's personality was believed obliterated, DeaderThanDead. No such luck, Pete. After Doc Ock realized he was a poor replacement, Peter re-emerges when Ock deletes himself.]]



** At the end of ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', Mary Jane decides she's had enough of New York and moves away so she can have a normal life away from super heroics. When we next see her in the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' reboot of ''The Invincible ComicBook/IronMan'', she's started up a new life as a club owner in an entirely different city... and she ''still'' can't get away from the hustle and bustle.

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** At the end of ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013'', Mary Jane decides she's had enough of New York and moves away so she can have a normal life away from super heroics. When we next see her in the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' reboot of ''The Invincible ComicBook/IronMan'', she's started up a new life as a club owner in an entirely different city... and she ''still'' can't get away from the hustle and bustle.



** "The Strange Death of Superboy" from 1969's ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' #161 is about teenaged Clark becoming sick of his double life and longing to be normal. He uses carefully controlled doses of kryptonite to bring himself down to a human level, and enjoys it briefly, only for disaster to strike and make him realize that Superboy is desperately needed, so he risks his life to get his powers back. By the end, he seems happily enough reconciled to how complicated his life will always have to be.

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** "The Strange Death of Superboy" from 1969's ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' #161 is about teenaged Clark becoming sick of his double life and longing to be normal. He uses carefully controlled doses of kryptonite to bring himself down to a human level, and enjoys it briefly, only for disaster to strike and make him realize that Superboy is desperately needed, so he risks his life to get his powers back. By the end, he seems happily enough reconciled to how complicated his life will always have to be.be.
--->'''Superboy:''' ''"I've had it, Pa! What good are testimonials...statues in my honor...world-wide acclaim...when I've never had the simple joys...even pains...other kids have! I just want to be a normal...ordinary teen-ager...like everybody else!"''\\
'''Pa Kent:''' ''"You can't be like "everybody else", Clark! You're something "special"..."''\\
'''Ma Kent:''' ''"B-but I can understand, Jonathan! He is being deprived of a normal youth!"''
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* The ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' comic inverted this, with Beast Boy losing his powers in a particular StoryArc. Everyone assumes that he'll be happy about being normal again, until he states that he ''never'' wanted to be normal.

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* The ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' comic inverted this, with Beast Boy ComicBook/BeastBoy losing his powers in a particular StoryArc. Everyone assumes that he'll be happy about being normal again, until he states that he ''never'' wanted to be normal.
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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} often expressed this desire during the Bronze Age. Unlike her cousin, Kara remembers having a normal life back on Argo City, when she was a normal teenager. After growing into adulthood, she was torn between her desire to have the life of a normal woman and the responsibilities that come with her powers. In ''Superman Vol. 1 #282'' [[https://maidofmight.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/superman-282_01.jpg she explains her cousin]] that she is thinking of giving up her Supergirl identity because she wants a normal life:

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** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} often expressed this desire during the Bronze Age. Unlike her cousin, Kara remembers having a normal life back on Argo City, when she was a normal teenager. After growing into adulthood, she was torn between her desire to have the life of a normal woman and the responsibilities that come with her powers. In ''Superman Vol. 1 #282'' [[https://maidofmight.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/superman-282_01.jpg she explains to her cousin]] that she is thinking of giving up her Supergirl identity because she wants a normal life:
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* [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] was this Pre-Crisis, but due to CosmicRetcon because one of the DC universe's greatest examples of JumpedAtTheCall after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

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* [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] was this Pre-Crisis, but due to CosmicRetcon because became one of the DC universe's greatest examples of JumpedAtTheCall after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
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** Some of his Rouges would also qualify, most notably Killer Croc, who, [[DependingOnTheWriter regardless of what interpretation of him it is]], typically has wanting to find a cure for his mutation as a core character trait.

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** Some of his Rouges Rogues would also qualify, most notably Killer Croc, who, [[DependingOnTheWriter regardless of what interpretation of him it is]], typically has wanting to find a cure for his mutation as a core character trait.

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