The City of Misfit Heroes
By Marcus_Korah 18 Comments
My friends and I have been joking around with all sorts of super powers and super characters lately. However this also lead to us wondering, what about all of the heroes you never hear about? Everybody's heard of somebody who can fly, has super speed, laser vision, weather control, ect. ect. But have you ever thought about all of those out there that didn't exactly luck out with the cosmic game of superpower roulette? Perhaps the person who's only power is to be able to age themselves rapidly at will, but is unable to make themselves younger again afterwards? Well, my friends and I certainly had a good laugh about it, and I'll be sharing many of my favorite misfits with you! After a while we had enough that I decided to make an entire city where these misfits all live now, after having been mocked and ridiculed for their sub-par abilities in a world full of supers. If you have any other personal misfits that I don't end up listing feel free to comment with your own. May the City of Misfit Heroes bring you some small part of the entertainment that it brought me.
First up, the example above:
Name: Peter Aldings
Powers: Can rapidly age his body at will, at the rate of approximately one year a minute. He is unable to return to his natural age however.
Current Whereabouts: After having accidentally aged himself while having a nightmare Peter has currently gone senile and completely forgotten that he had to power to age himself. He now lives his days happily in a retirement center in the City of Misfit Heroes, California. He appears to be 87, while only really being 19 years old.
Name:
Kyle TrevanPowers:
Kyle has the astonishing ability to change the color of glass with a thought. The colors he can come up with are only limited by his imagination.Current Whereabouts:
Kyle now makes a fine living making specialty wine glasses, and does the occassional bout of work making stained-glass windows for the local church.Name:
Albert NorthPowers:
Albert can kill himself just by thinking it. His power causes all of his vital organs to liquify, instantly killing him.Current Whereabouts:
Misfit Memories, the city's local cemetary. May he rest in peace. He had previously worked as a training excersize for organ transplant surgery at the local hospital.Name:
Jessica GemlotPowers:
Jessica's powers consist of the abilty to predict the past. She is able to see things that people have done, without being told about it first.Current Whereabouts:
Jessica is currently working as a fotune teller. Reading a person's past to "prove" her abilities, before charging them insane amounts of money to make up something about their future.Name:
Tyler HastingsPowers:
Tyler has the ability to control a person's ego.Current Whereabouts:
Tyler currently runs an incredibly successful self help clinic, where he convinces people that they are better than they think.Name:
Richard WallacePowers:
Richard has the astonishing ability of being incapable of being bitten. By anything. Whether it's a mosquito or an alligator, nothing is capable of biting him. The jaws just find nothing to grab onto and slide off.Current Whereabouts:
Richard is currently working as an exterminator/animal control specialist part time, while holding a permanent position feeding the big cats at the city zoo.Name:
Heather VancePowers:
Heather's body has become a completely frictionless surface. She is impossible to grab or be picked up, and cannot be pushed or moved as she will be completely unable to stop on her own.Current Whereabouts:
Heather had a full body suit developed and put on her so she now has friction and is able to stand and live a relatively normal life. In her spare time she works for a science company studying the laws of physics. She also has a hobby breaking landspeed records.There are others but I'm going to be adding those in at a later date as I'm forgetting what most of them are at this point =/