Me? Super Hero? Knock it off!!!

If I were a superhero... now thats an interesting idea. I've always wished I'd be a super hero. The one with superpowers like incredible speed, ability to open any lock, incredible strength(i know, why would I need an ability to open locks when I have an incredible strength to break them? silly, yet,thats what I want), flying if you permit,or at least wall crawling. No webbing though. In my part of the world there aren't many sky scrapers. Enough of my powers.1

I've always wondered how superheroes fight crime. I mean, only if you know when and where a crime happens, can you fight it. So what am I supposed to do? Prowl the streets all day and night looking for crime? And I haven't been in a crime scene. Not even once. If telepathy or some kind of 'spider sense' helps in finding crime scenes, what will be the area of coverage? Not to large I suppose, or my head will explode with an overflow of distress calls. What am I talking? I don't even know how a crime scene will look like and yet suppose that my quiet neighborhood is full of crime scenes?! Gotta get real.2

So anyways, even if I do find a crime scene by someway or other, how am I supposed to know what's going on there? I mean, just because a man gets beaten doesn't mean he's the good guy. For all I know he might even have killed the attacker's child. What am I supposed to do? Stop the fight and let the criminal go unpunished? This bothers me always when I see a superhero movie. Why does a superhero always fight robberies? Does he do only that or has he had any bitter or rather embarrassing experiences? I may never know. Unless, I myself become a super hero. Or rather, if you know me as well as I do, I may,very likely, turn to a super villain. I don't know what my passions are as a super villain. I'm yet to decide what crime I might involve myself in. More training required.3

Now about the partner part. Mmmmm, nice to imagine. One gorgeous looking brainy babe(not as clever as I'm, I mean), coming up! Now if she's really gorgeous and as brainy I expect her to be, then chances are, she might not want to become my partner. In that case, I'm sure I may see what one of my criminal passions is..4

Well! Back to reality. Me! Super Hero? Knock it off!

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Well, this actually came up in freewrite practice.That's a nice and useful tool, freewrite. Didn't want to lose it, after all i can't be creative always, right?

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  • neutraltint
    March 4
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    haha funny! I like this one. Good luck in my contest!


  • lavanya
    October 22, 2008

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    hehehheheh.................

    your enteries always say something new in strange way and this entry is most hilarious for me...oppss...kidding...really very nicely done Mani, good luck fo r contest.


    • Kirin
      October 23, 2008
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      Thanks lav... this was meant to be hilarious so, feel free to be kidding


  • Vanilla King
    October 17, 2008
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    Haha that was a fun read. I'm currently reading the Ultimate Spider-Man comics and P2 is actually somehing he struggles with too xD He sometimes 'captures' the wrong guy because he doesn't know what's going on.

    Something that bothers me is that *all* female superheroes (and villains) look friggin hot! Why aren't all women like that! xD


  • Kagamine Rin
    September 7, 2008

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    Entertaining indeed. I would only want the power of telepathy - telekenesis, etc. But I agree with you in some poitns of the rant. Being a superhero has its advantages, and the most common disadvantage, "having a secret identity". Yeah... In all movies with superheroes.

    Good luck in my contest!

    • Kirin
      September 7, 2008
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      Hi AM! Thank you for reading and commenting the story.. Glad you like it. At last, someone with the same opinion... May you get great entries to your contest!!


  • Andy Stephenson gold member
    August 20, 2008

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    Hi again.

    I found this very entertaining. I enjoyed his frustrations, especially about that regarding his female sidekick. What a sad state of affairs if she didn't want him. Would he turn villain and kidnap or kill her? This is a fun story.

    Some of your phrasing is a little different, but it works.


    p1 open locks (when)

    p3 gets (beaten) doesn't mean - Does he (do) only that - if (you) know me



    Andy

    • Kirin
      August 20, 2008

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      Thanks again.

      Thank you for reading and commenting my ramblings. I hope you know how useful you are to this website. I actually had no idea to write this piece. I just typed whatever came to my mind, hence the strange phrasing. I've corrected the mistakes you have pointed out. Thanks again. You make me feel like writing more and more. This is my most active session in storywrite. And thank you for your advise on comment length.

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