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Thread: Superman Is Too Overpowered
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2020-07-22, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-22, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Superman Is Too Overpowered
For interest, the book series Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg is actually analogous to that. Starts out as what you might call a proto-isekai series, where a D&D-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off gaming group gets teleported into the setting, which is a lot more real, gritty, and deadly than they'd originally thought. The first book is about getting home ... and then getting back to the setting, for reasons I won't get into. And the conclusion of that first book basically then slams the door on them ever getting home again, they have to adapt to the world they're in.
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2020-07-22, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Do any Jane Austen stories count? Persuasion has the idiot sister who bashes her brains out, Pride and Prejudice has Jane almost die of a cold she gets walking in the rain, Sense and Sensibility has Maryanne decide to become a romance heroine and perish in sight of her one true love, Mansfield Park has the brother who gets sick. I don't think Emma is ever in any danger, but my wife doesn't like the movie and I have never read the book all the way through so I am sketchy on the details.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven has this as the premise, though it does spend most of the book going through flashbacks to the protagonists life.
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2020-07-22, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well in that case Superman is vastly underpowered. Why, there was even a time when he had to constantly eat hamburgers as fast as he could, or he would starve to death! How could you expect Superman, who provides all his services for free, to pay for such a vast amount of hamburgers? Clark Kent has a bank account, but he's a meek reporter and isn't making enough of a fortune to fund his enormous hamburger needs. What is he supposed to do, punch his stomach into submission? That will just make him vomit and need more hamburgers! Use heat vision on the hamburgers? They're already cooked! What is a poor Superman to do?!
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Re: Superman Is Too Overpowered
That is very much genre-dependent; for example romantic comedies almost never deal with peril, much less actual potential for character death. So for people who like that kind of story, the answer would be "many." Which is, as you pointed out yourself, the problem with this question. As soon as you ask for "good" stories of that kind, instead of just stories, you're asking for a subjective opinion.
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2020-07-22, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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One of the most loved, hated, reviled, cherished, criticized and defended but most of all talked about DC comic narratives was a seven volume series where the entire JLA is reduced to a complete and utter mess of self doubt, moral uncertainty, personal devastation, and death -- all through the mechinations of one mentally ill spouse of one of the B-list heroes, using said heroes technology once and then everything else through manipulating C- and D-list villains.
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2020-07-22, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-22, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-22, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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