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FreshParsnip
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InfiniteGlitch
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ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2023-06-30 |
If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use. |
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AbouBenAdhem
lemmy.world
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-13 |
And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps! |
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FreshParsnip
lemmy.ca
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca Joined: 2025-07-02 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
Iron Man is a better example of a superhero who created powers for himself, but he isn't one of the three most popular |
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MalReynolds
slrpnk.net
MalReynolds@slrpnk.netJoined: 2023-06-25 |
Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three? |
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Magiilaro
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DarkMetatron@feddit.org Joined: 2024-06-24 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
One could argue that his genius level intellect and his master detective skills (best detective in the world) are borderline superhuman. |
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Jessica
lemmy.blahaj.zone
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2023-07-05 |
Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three?
I am a lay person when it comes to comics, so feel free to tear me apart here. Could Bruce Banner potentially be all 3? His DNA was able to absorb the gamma radiation (born with it), he then had the radiation thrust upon him, and then he did whatever he did to make himself the smart hulk? A bit of a reach, I know. |
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MalReynolds
slrpnk.net
MalReynolds@slrpnk.netJoined: 2023-06-25 |
I am a lay person when it comes to comics, so feel free to tear me apart here. Could Bruce Banner potentially be all 3? His DNA was able to absorb the gamma radiation (born with it), he then had the radiation thrust upon him, and then he did whatever he did to make himself the smart hulk? A bit of a reach, I know.
Yeah, that'd play. I was thinking maybe Dr. Strange, but Banner is better. |
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nieceandtows
programming.dev
nieceandtows@programming.dev Joined: 2023-06-20 |
One could argue that his genius level intellect and his master detective skills (best detective in the world) are borderline superhuman.
Then it could be argued that he was born with his powers |
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Jessica
lemmy.blahaj.zone
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneJoined: 2023-07-05 |
Yeah, that'd play. I was thinking maybe Dr. Strange, but Banner is better.
Dr. Strange is a really good one too! Drawing energy from other realms and all. |
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psx_crab
lemmy.zip
psx_crab@lemmy.zip Joined: 2025-01-11 |
Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three?
Naruto i guess? He's a child of a very powerful ninja(born), had a powerful creature sealed inside him at birth(thrust upon), and have to learn how to actually unlease and control that power(create). Otherwise i can't seems to remember anyone that does have the 3. |
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rockerface🇺🇦
lemmy.cafe
rockerface@lemmy.cafeJoined: 2025-06-29 |
Then it could be argued that he was born with his powers
Same if you consider his power being money |
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gon [he]
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gon@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2025-06-04 |
Naruto i guess? He's a child of a very powerful ninja(born), had a powerful creature sealed inside him at birth(thrust upon), and have to learn how to actually unlease and control that power(create). Otherwise i can't seems to remember anyone that does have the 3.
I like this one, but I'm not sure I'd call Naruto a superhero. |
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toynbee
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toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12 |
One could argue that his genius level intellect and his master detective skills (best detective in the world) are borderline superhuman.
A long time ago, I read that his superpower was, or was theorized to be, luck. No idea if that's canon anywhere. |
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valkyre09
lemmy.world
valkyre09@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-09 |
A long time ago, I read that his superpower was, or was theorized to be, luck. No idea if that's canon anywhere.
At first I thought, not very lucky to have your parents gunned down in front of you. Now I’m thinking how lucky he was to also not be shot. Damn… |
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Lodespawn
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Lodespawn@aussie.zone Joined: 2023-10-18 |
And wolverine is all three |
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Lodespawn
aussie.zone
Lodespawn@aussie.zone Joined: 2023-10-18 |
Wolverine is at least born and thrust upon. Any examples of all three?
Wolverine was born with healing factor, trained in his fighting skills and then had his admantium skeleton thrust upon him |
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FluidBeef
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FluidBeef@quokk.au Joined: 2025-08-12 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
His superpower is plot armour. |
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MalReynolds
slrpnk.net
MalReynolds@slrpnk.netJoined: 2023-06-25 |
Wolverine was born with healing factor, trained in his fighting skills and then had his admantium skeleton thrust upon him
Yeah, I was thinking that but wasn't convinced. Similarly Batman was born rich, trained hard and had bereavement thrust upon, which likely created the persona. Perhaps we're all a bit nature, nurture, and luck. |
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toynbee
piefed.social
toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12 |
At first I thought, not very lucky to have your parents gunned down in front of you. Now I’m thinking how lucky he was to also not be shot. Damn…
Possibly the hypothetical power hadn't manifested, or maybe had done so only in part, at that point. |
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Ivan Overdrive
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EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2024-06-02 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
His superpower is being rich enough to be called eccentric instead of just crazy. You know, crazy, like the label used on all the villains he fights. |
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anakin78z
lemmy.world
anakin78z@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-07-01 |
I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton. |
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OhStopYellingAtMe
lemmy.world
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-15 |
I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton.
I thought he had powers because he was born on Krypton under a red sun, and all Kryptonians gain superhuman powers when exposed to a yellow sun. |
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OhStopYellingAtMe
lemmy.world
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-15 |
A long time ago, I read that his superpower was, or was theorized to be, luck. No idea if that's canon anywhere.
I’ve always theorized that his power is “superhuman willpower.” |
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anakin78z
lemmy.world
anakin78z@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-07-01 |
I thought he had powers because he was born on Krypton under a red sun, and all Kryptonians gain superhuman powers when exposed to a yellow sun.
But if he had stayed on Krypton, he wouldn't have any powers, so it took an event to activate it, which isn't any different than the other scenarios. |
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OhStopYellingAtMe
lemmy.world
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-15 |
But if he had stayed on Krypton, he wouldn't have any powers, so it took an event to activate it, which isn't any different than the other scenarios. Batman was born rich, so he already had the potential to be batman, but it took the murder of his parents to set him on his path. Really Spiderman is the odd one out.
Spidey’s parents and his uncle who helped raise him are all dead/murdered. All three are orphans, so that all cancels out. :-). Peter Parker only became spider-man once his uncle was killed, that set him on the path to use his “great power” with “great responsibility.” |
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anakin78z
lemmy.world
anakin78z@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-07-01 |
Spidey’s parents and his uncle who helped raise him are all dead/murdered. All three are orphans, so that all cancels out. :-). Peter Parker only became spider-man once his uncle was killed, that set him on the path to use his “great power” with “great responsibility.”
True, true. I guess I was thinking of the spider bite, not the trauma. |
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Infrapink
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Infrapink@thebrainbin.orgJoined: 2025-02-15 |
I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton.
Also, Batman was born with his power. (His power is money). |
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toynbee
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toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12 |
I’ve always theorized that his power is “superhuman willpower.” He has the massive will to obsessively train, study, and do all the things he does. Becoming one of the strongest, smartest, and most effectual people alive. I doubt any human has a higher willpower than Bruce Wayne. He has even out-willpowered Wonder Woman’s lasso-of-truth.
True, but wasn't he also the only human (or otherwise, I think) to dodge Darkseid's eyebeams? Admittedly it would take willpower to get to the point of being physically able to do so, but from what I understand of the eyebeams, also quite a bit of luck. |
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OhStopYellingAtMe
lemmy.world
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-15 |
True, but wasn't he also the only human (or otherwise, I think) to dodge Darkseid's eyebeams? Admittedly it would take willpower to get to the point of being physically able to do so, but from what I understand of the eyebeams, also quite a bit of luck.
Wait, I thought he did get hit by the beams and they sent him back in time, and through what could only be described as an exceptional demonstration of determination and willpower, he worked his way back up through time- through ages & ages, to confront Darkseid again. Maybe we’re thinking of different storylines? |
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cornshark
lemmy.world
cornshark@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-01-13 |
Also, Batman was born with his power. (His power is money).
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it. |
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cenzorrll
piefed.ca
cenzorrll@piefed.ca Joined: 2025-07-10 |
I’ve always theorized that his power is “superhuman willpower.” He has the massive will to obsessively train, study, and do all the things he does. Becoming one of the strongest, smartest, and most effectual people alive. I doubt any human has a higher willpower than Bruce Wayne. He has even out-willpowered Wonder Woman’s lasso-of-truth.
He's an orc. He's batshit crazy and believes whatever wild scenario that keeps him alive or out of a situation will happen so strongly that the world bends to his will. |
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cenzorrll
piefed.ca
cenzorrll@piefed.ca Joined: 2025-07-10 |
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.
Investing in children reduces crime. So yes, you can fight crime with money. |
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AwesomeLowlander
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2024-07-12 |
And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Well I'm sorry, you're not iron man |
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aaaa
piefed.world
aaaa@piefed.world Joined: 2025-07-09 |
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.
You can. They just don't. |
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someguy3
lemmy.world
someguy3@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-04 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
So, steroids? |
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Vandals_handle
lemmy.world
Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-07-14 |
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.
Study after study shows money spent on food, housing and education does more to prevent crime than policing and incarceration. |
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Frettchen
lemmy.world
Frettchen@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-07-30 |
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.
Superheroes does not exist |
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JohnnyEnzyme
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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialJoined: 2025-06-11 |
And wolverine is all three
I get the inborn super-healing, and I get the addition of the adamantine (sp?) skeleton, but what powers did he create on his own? Martial arts ability? |
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DomeGuy
lemmy.world
DomeGuy@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-09-15 |
Spidey’s parents and his uncle who helped raise him are all dead/murdered. All three are orphans, so that all cancels out. :-). Peter Parker only became spider-man once his uncle was killed, that set him on the path to use his “great power” with “great responsibility.”
Spider-man literally started as a pro wrestler who used his powers and a costume to make money He was costumed and super-powered first, but heroic only after his uncle was killed. (By a thief whom Spidey let get away, since the victim was the wrestling promoter who cheated him out of his first earnings.) |
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Why is Lemmy so Racist?
lemmy.world
Abyssian@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-02-13 |
I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton.
Seems a bit daft of the Kryptonian folk to stay there even if they didn't believe their planet was doomed. "Move to another planet to be a nearly indestructible God who can fly and shoot lasers and stuff? No thank you. I just got my cabinets arranged how I like them and I am not going through that again." |
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Wolf314159
startrek.website
Wolf314159@startrek.website Joined: 2024-07-03 |
I get the inborn super-healing, and I get the addition of the adamantine (sp?) skeleton, but what powers did he create on his own? Martial arts ability?
Yes |
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toynbee
piefed.social
toynbee@piefed.social Joined: 2025-09-12 |
Wait, I thought he did get hit by the beams and they sent him back in time, and through what could only be described as an exceptional demonstration of determination and willpower, he worked his way back up through time- through ages & ages, to confront Darkseid again. Maybe we’re thinking of different storylines?
It's very possible. I've never read more than a handful of Batman comics. A while ago I was big into TVTropes and Wikipedia regarding some superheroes; I'm pretty sure I read there that he was the only one to have dodged them. That's why I keep providing caveats and prefacing my statements with things like "I read ... " My claims are by no means authoritative and I don't mean to represent them as such. Actually, the further I type this comment, the more I think my source was the Death Battle research team. I did not follow up with primary sources. That said, a quick search suggests that maybe whatever I read or watched was referencing the cartoons, rather than the comics. DB, as entertaining as they can be, generally sources whatever favors their desired outcome. If it was TVTropes or Wikipedia, they might not have referenced the source or I might have forgotten. |
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agamemnonymous
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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksJoined: 2023-06-15 |
Batman created his powers If I remember well, Batman does not have superpowers. He’s a guy who’s rich, trains a lot, is smart and due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.
That's the power: gadgets. And also being a genius detective, but largely the gadgets. |
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JohnnyEnzyme
piefed.social
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialJoined: 2025-06-11 |
Yes
Practically a prerequisite for the superhero club. That and body-building, I guess. |
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ApollosArrow
lemmy.world
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-19 |
I’ve always theorized that his power is “superhuman willpower.” He has the massive will to obsessively train, study, and do all the things he does. Becoming one of the strongest, smartest, and most effectual people alive. I doubt any human has a higher willpower than Bruce Wayne. He has even out-willpowered Wonder Woman’s lasso-of-truth.
I don’t really think that would carry over canonically, or else it would but heads with Green Lantern lore. There are multiple people that seem to have more willpower than Bruce Wayne. I think the only argument to Bruce not being a Green Lantern could be that be likes to instill fear, which us a big no no for the GLs. |
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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Kolanaki@pawb.socialJoined: 2024-10-06 |
Spider-Man is half'n'half. He got super strength and agility as well as his "spider senses" from the spider bite. His webshooters, suits, and other tools he made himself. The Raimi films always bugged me that they made his web shooting stuff a mutation from the bite and not showing off his intelligence and engineering skills. Cuz he also didn't have money like Batman or Ironman. |
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Lodespawn
aussie.zone
Lodespawn@aussie.zone Joined: 2023-10-18 |
I get the inborn super-healing, and I get the addition of the adamantine (sp?) skeleton, but what powers did he create on his own? Martial arts ability?
Learned to fight through surviving multiple wars? |
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JohnnyEnzyme
piefed.social
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialJoined: 2025-06-11 |
Learned to fight through surviving multiple wars?
I mean... |
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stretch2m
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stretch2m@infosec.pub Joined: 2025-06-04 |
Spider-Man is half'n'half. He got super strength and agility as well as his "spider senses" from the spider bite. His webshooters, suits, and other tools he made himself. The Raimi films always bugged me that they made his web shooting stuff a mutation from the bite and not showing off his intelligence and engineering skills. Cuz he also didn't have money like Batman or Ironman.
The biological webbing coming from his wrists was stupid. If it was a spider mutation, he should have had spinnerettes growing from his rear end. The handmade web shooters were way more logical. |
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Leviathan
lemmy.world
Leviathan@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-10 |
Study after study shows money spent on food, housing and education does more to prevent crime than policing and incarceration.
All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased, and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences. |
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