After overhearing his father’s disappoinment at having the only kid without superpowers, a wicked-smart teenager fights to prove his worth by trying to stop a supervillain?s plot to eliminate everyone?s special abilities.
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After overhearing his father’s disappoinment at having the only kid without superpowers, a wicked-smart teenager fights to prove his worth by trying to stop a supervillain?s plot to eliminate everyone?s special abilities.
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I like this idea but give the protagonist WAY more flaws. Contrast him with everyone around him happy and using super powers to make life easier but he still struggles with basic human competency.? In spite of the odds he still has a WILL to prove himself. He doesn?t have to accomplish much to be heroic but he can still be contextually amazing.? ?Being super smart is a super power in its own right so subverts the intentions of the plot quite a bit.? How else can he prove himself? I?m sure there must be something more primal.? Have him Thwart the enemy but it can?t be easy.? He has to struggle.? He succeeds because he wants to.? Or he could have some plot armor where the enemy?s power is to take the power of who ever he faces so when he faces the protagonist it is a basic fist fight? Having no power in this case would be a HUGE advantage.
When a villain with the ability to use the power of his foes against them emerges, an ordinary teenager must rise to the challenge and prove you don?t need powers to be a hero.?
>>> It wouldn?t be a parody but…
Okay.? Then my suggestion is to??fold, bend and mutilate the superhero template and feed it into the plot machine backwards and upside down.? ?Do it differently.? ?Like having a protagonist with a less than zero chance of becoming a superhero.? He’s not? even super smart.? As I said, a story about defeating the extraordinary with the ordinary.
That’s a story line and a protagonist an audience can emotionally invest in, a protagonist they will root for.? Because the story and character validate the worthiness of their prosaic selves.? It’s okay for them to be merely ordinary after all.
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Is this a concept to be played with a straight face ?? Or is it intended to be a parody of the superhero genre?? If the latter, than I suggest it be categorized as a comedy.
And I am more inclined to Richiev’s idea that the inciting incident is a hyper-villain transforming all the superheros? into superduds.? And that the protagonist is an ordinary human being.? I wouldn’t even give him a hyper-IQ.? He’s a prosaic protagonist who must grow to become an all too human hero — that’s a stronger character arc.? The notion of the ordinary defeating the extraordinary.
IOW: fold, bend and mutilate the superhero template and feed it into the plot machine backwards.
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“When a supervillain eliminates all special abilities, a teen bullied for not having superpowers becomes the only person left who can stop the evil genius’s and save the world.”
Being bullied is something that happens over many years (sadly…) and therefore makes for the MC’s backstory. What single event motivated him the most to take action against the supervillain?