How to be a superhero

[ciphergoth]

Assume you have the wealth of Bruce Wayne, and in addition are supremely fit, deadly in the use of a variety of weapons and martial arts, and cunning in the extreme. What do you need in addition to be a superhero?

How about some combination of a personal jetpack, armour suit and powered exoskeleton?

(ISTR asking this before, but personal jetpacks have improved since then :-)

Comments

[skx.livejournal.com]

I've always thought it difficult to see what non-magic superheroes could actually do to fight crime

I've thought the same. So many crimes are non-obvious to people nearby (or they wouldn't be happening) or are over very quickly unless you're nearby. (ie. Banking fraud, and armed robbery/handbag snatching).

Batman only keeps going because he has very visible foes to fight like the joker.

Spiderman does fairly well, but he again has a visible foe to fight each time. Sure he might swing by randomly and stop an armed robbery, but for a millionaire in the real world by the time he heard there was a robbery in progress (via a police scanner?) it would be over.

The only settings where I can see an obvious superhero-type doing well is in randomly violent settings like Mad Max, or Sin City.

[meico.livejournal.com]

I always thought SpiderMan was one of the few plausible superheroes because he had a power that could explain why he could always find crime: his spidy sense.

The only thing you really need is a crime detector... Otherwise all your other devices are for naught.