What is it with superheroes and their sidekicks anyway? It seems like their usually either reporters or billionaire playboy types. Why not a stay-at-home mom or dad whose “working” on their college degree at night? With the way so many seem to have some super speed they could spend most of the day while the kids and their significant other are gone being a superhero and then two hours before folks get home return and do the dishes, the clothes, the floors, the dusting and make supper. Their a stay at home mom or dad with super speed after all, it’d take them a few minutes to load the dishwasher, the washer, and the dryer and let them do their thing then another few minutes folding, doing the floors, dusting, and cleaning up. That’d give them an hour fourty minutes to take care of supper. Then after supper their off to “class” but in reality doing some more hero work.
cliquegge and swr, actually the Incredibles was more the government agency that oversaw all superheroes shut them down after the stink cused by the then future syndrome, when trying to be Mr. Incredible’s sidekick, became a massive publicity backlash. Elastigirl became a house wife first last, and only. Mr. Incredible an Insurance salesman who dreamed of getting his old life back. They never went into their secret identities before the backlash. And had the absolutely terrible bit about capes which is very clearly the fault of Edna Mode there. How come other superheroes with capes can actually remove their capes and the capes can be torn all over the place but the ones she designs can’t do either?
Miserichord, I did say usually. Matt Murdock (Daredevil) is a lawyer. Ray Palmer (Atom) is a scientist. But it just seems being a reporter or being extremely rich end up being the standard lines. Peter Parker works as a free-lance photographer for the Daily Bugle (though apparently recent storylines have had him quit the Bugle and work for Front Line), he could be lumped in as a reporter. Clark Kent, obviously a reporter. Richard Jones works or worked as reporter Dick Jones (another alias, Van Engen, is a millionaire) for the Bugle and is the hero Phantom Reporter. Ethan Edwards, who’s gone by Virtue, The Tiller, and Moral Man, worked as a reporter for the Bugle. Mary Morgan (Miss Patriot) worked as a reporter for the Bugle. Bruce Wayne’s a billionaire playboy, so is Tony Stark. Richard Jones has already been mentioned as being rich. Dick Grayson has both the finances given to him by Wayne and his own trust fund set up by his dead parents (it’s been said the trust fund was enough to purchase the circus he worked for as a boy and the apartment building he lived in in Bludhaven). Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) is another Wayne and Stark, another billionaire. I mean you start looking at it those seem the two most common IDs for super heroes, the news or rich.
knight1192a about 12 years ago
What is it with superheroes and their sidekicks anyway? It seems like their usually either reporters or billionaire playboy types. Why not a stay-at-home mom or dad whose “working” on their college degree at night? With the way so many seem to have some super speed they could spend most of the day while the kids and their significant other are gone being a superhero and then two hours before folks get home return and do the dishes, the clothes, the floors, the dusting and make supper. Their a stay at home mom or dad with super speed after all, it’d take them a few minutes to load the dishwasher, the washer, and the dryer and let them do their thing then another few minutes folding, doing the floors, dusting, and cleaning up. That’d give them an hour fourty minutes to take care of supper. Then after supper their off to “class” but in reality doing some more hero work.
1Username about 12 years ago
Stay at home moms and dads are already superheros. No time for any alternate identities.
ccmills about 12 years ago
@Hellcat – didnt you see the Incredibles?
knight1192a about 12 years ago
cliquegge and swr, actually the Incredibles was more the government agency that oversaw all superheroes shut them down after the stink cused by the then future syndrome, when trying to be Mr. Incredible’s sidekick, became a massive publicity backlash. Elastigirl became a house wife first last, and only. Mr. Incredible an Insurance salesman who dreamed of getting his old life back. They never went into their secret identities before the backlash. And had the absolutely terrible bit about capes which is very clearly the fault of Edna Mode there. How come other superheroes with capes can actually remove their capes and the capes can be torn all over the place but the ones she designs can’t do either?
Miserichord, I did say usually. Matt Murdock (Daredevil) is a lawyer. Ray Palmer (Atom) is a scientist. But it just seems being a reporter or being extremely rich end up being the standard lines. Peter Parker works as a free-lance photographer for the Daily Bugle (though apparently recent storylines have had him quit the Bugle and work for Front Line), he could be lumped in as a reporter. Clark Kent, obviously a reporter. Richard Jones works or worked as reporter Dick Jones (another alias, Van Engen, is a millionaire) for the Bugle and is the hero Phantom Reporter. Ethan Edwards, who’s gone by Virtue, The Tiller, and Moral Man, worked as a reporter for the Bugle. Mary Morgan (Miss Patriot) worked as a reporter for the Bugle. Bruce Wayne’s a billionaire playboy, so is Tony Stark. Richard Jones has already been mentioned as being rich. Dick Grayson has both the finances given to him by Wayne and his own trust fund set up by his dead parents (it’s been said the trust fund was enough to purchase the circus he worked for as a boy and the apartment building he lived in in Bludhaven). Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) is another Wayne and Stark, another billionaire. I mean you start looking at it those seem the two most common IDs for super heroes, the news or rich.