Quote Originally Posted by Mechalich View Post

This is getting towards what happens. Essentially the order of the world breaks down if you allow supers with sufficient personal power that it exceeds the institutional power that can be brought to bear against them.
I think that this is mostly correct, but how much institutional power can be used against a super depends a lot on what exact powers they have. Simple physical strength or super speed would have to be at very high levels for an individual to have much of an affect on society, whereas even relative weak mind control or reality warping powers could be fairly hard to counter, depending on exactly how they work.