Um. Sorry, didn't mean it like that. But it's one of those things that seems to happen a lot with superheroes, isn't it?
[He tries picking his words a little more carefully.]
You end up becoming one just because what's perfectly normal for where you're from is beyond anything people can do where you are now, and you've got the impulse to use it to help people. It's not even just people from other planets - I mean, you take someone from 21st century Earth and put them in the 11th century and they must look like a god.
That's probably the best way to handle it, honestly. Otherwise you'd end up politicking when you needed to be helping people.
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[He tries picking his words a little more carefully.]
You end up becoming one just because what's perfectly normal for where you're from is beyond anything people can do where you are now, and you've got the impulse to use it to help people. It's not even just people from other planets - I mean, you take someone from 21st century Earth and put them in the 11th century and they must look like a god.
That's probably the best way to handle it, honestly. Otherwise you'd end up politicking when you needed to be helping people.