>>96441201
I’m thinking that the heroes and villains in my supers setting will draw their power at least partially from the collective unconsciousness of humanity, almost always with realizing it. In doing so, they align with one or more archetypes/patterns that powers can fall into. There’s super-tech heroes like Iron Man, mad scientist villains, flying bricks like Superman, chessmaster villains, size-changers like the Atom, psychics, speedsters like the Flash, elemental manipulators, plant controllers, ones with animal-themed aesthetics/powers like Wolverine, magic users and others who get their abilities from the supernatural side of things, etc. Obviously there’s some overlap in a number of cases, like Reed Richards being both a super genius and stretchy, but what other archetypes can you think of?