Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio.
You don't need superpowers to be someones hero
A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.
Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they may not only immortalize you, but also grant you superpowers.
Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.
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There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities a...