Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Quick Observation

You ever notice that there are some powers that good guys don't usually have? Think about it for a second...here is a list of a few I can think of off the top of my head:
  • Life Drain
  • Various Forms of Possession
  • Raising the Dead
  • Fearful Presence
  • Cause Pain
These aren't all either. In the Wild Cards series there are two characters who both get their powers in a similar fashion. The bad guy gains his power though death while the good guy gets his through life. On the show Heroes there are two very similar characters (or there were until recently), Sylar and Peter Petrelli. Both can assume the abilities of other people. Peter has to merely be close to the person to mimic their power, but Sylar has to open their skulls and mess with their brain to take the power, resulting in death in all but one occasion. Peter's father, Arthur Petrelli, also can gain other's abilities, but he has to remove them from the person in order to do it. One of the former level five prisioners, Knox, becomes super strong when those around him are afraid.

I would like to see a new breed where this line becomes blurred. Good guys struggling to use stereotypical "bad guy powers" in the cause for good. Imagine a good guy choosing to save an innocents life by draining the life of a bad guy, and the moral dilemma that would follow.

Just something I thought....

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