Would you fight crime if you had superpowers?

[HUTHAIFA]

Where do you find crime. I dont really want to be Captain Misdemeanor

[Ghost Rider TheHellfireDemon]

Where do you find crime. I dont really want to be Captain Misdemeanor

Well of your in a city home to street gangs the areas of gangs.
Mafia wouldn't be as easy as they wear suits so do a lot of folks in a metropolis city.

[Groo Odyssey]

First thing I would do with my super power is to put all man-hating feminists in a pen and throw away the key.

After that it would be to help solve world hunger.

[Fenris]

As lots of people have said, it depends on the powers. If we're going with the powers we chose in the last thread- my answer is no. Telepathy could be useful in a trial situation, but actual crime-fighting would be impractical.

What kind of powers would be suitable? If I were designing an effective superpoliceman, I'd want powers that did several things:

1) Detect crime immediately, and
2) Get there quickly. Because outside of fiction, it's really hard for police to catch criminals in the act.
3) Some kind of harmless stun-gun effect, for obvious reasons;
4) Invulnerability to bullets.

If I had all these things, it would probably be tempting to become a police officer; you'd be really, really good at it.


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Or you could become a master criminal, I guess!

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

Nope. I could fight crime right now without having superpowers by joining a neighborhood watch, volunteering in a community outreach program, or attempting to join the police. But I don't do any of that crap because I'm an apathetic slug. Having powers wouldn't change that about me. If receiving special abilities were to suddenly spark a desire in me to beat strangers into bloody submission just because I disagree with their lifestyles, that would make me a sadistic fascist, not a 'good guy.'

Besides, heroes beating up criminals are basically exercising dominance over socially acceptable targets. That's skeevy. The bankrobber you blast with psychic abilities today might very well be the black freedom rider whose bus you blow up with your pyrokinetic abilities fifty years ago.

[Professor Moriarty]

I'd rob banks.

and I want a cold ray gun.

[The MunchKING]

The MunchKING did both. So yeah, it was fun while it lasted. Then The MunchKING got an Empire and a career and had to settle down a lot...

But he still goes on adventures whenever the bug strikes!

[Paradox]

I would most definitely NOT fight crime. I would totally hide the fact that I had powers at all. In real life, I think anyone being aware that you have super-powers ends with you on a dissection table in some Black Ops laboratory.

[The MunchKING]

I would most definitely NOT fight crime. I would totally hide the fact that I had powers at all. In real life, I think anyone being aware that you have super-powers ends with you on a dissection table in some Black Ops laboratory.

Only if they can catch you and hold you down. Dimensional Teleporting works wonders for preventing that.

[King Of All Nerds]

Nope, I'd probably only use my superpower to amass wealth & fine women.

[Professor Moriarty]

Nope, I'd probably only use my superpower to amass wealth & fine women.

how exactly would you do that and with what superpower?

[The MunchKING]

how exactly would you do that and with what superpower?

Well logically the how would depend on the which. Specifically Which Superpower.

Pretty much all of them could do it, they only question is how easy it would be and how creative you have to be to cash in.

[coveredinbees]

Hell, yes. I would do everything it took to be Superman, if I had powers.

[King Of All Nerds]

how exactly would you do that and with what superpower?

Well logically the how would depend on the which. Specifically Which Superpower.

Pretty much all of them could do it, they only question is how easy it would be and how creative you have to be to cash in.

If I had my choice I'd go with time travel because it's probably the easiest. A little Powerball, a little stock market, boom, the earth is my playground. True, I could probably figure out a way to turn any power into a moneymaker but some would require actual work.

[Cotton]

One question that comes to my mind for those who want to be full time crime fighters, how would you make a living? If you powers don't include creating your own food and house and everything else?

Interesting question. And lots of interesting feedback, I suppose the question I should've asked is: what kind of superpowers would it take to get you to fight crime?

As for me, yes I would fight crime, but only if it's right in front of me, and as to what I would do for money to pay bills and sh*t like that, I would just keep some of the money from the mafia crime lords and heroine cartels that I knock over every so often. I won't take all of it, just enough for bills, food, and a diamond plated Ferrari for me and my friends. The rest of the money will be left for the authorities to seize.

Edit: It wouldn't matter what powers I have, I will find a way to fight crime lords and keep their money.