If real people got powers, do you think they would all become corrupt, evil psychopaths?

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    No. If it’s just the getting powers and it’s not like a toxin thing that actually corrupts/poisons.

    Absolutley there will be those that need to be put down hard, but I don’t think it would be as set up in The Boys

    Part of why that world works the way it does is Vought. The other is that Homelander is tiers above the other characters and he is a psychopath raised by an evil organization. Given that no one was able to compare to Homelander he couldn’t be challenged. His treatment of other supes is a large reason why he is as bad as he is, and why others end up doing so many bad things. They do things because of shareholders profits not for doing of good and they have a monopoly on supers

    There would still be chaos, but it wouldn’t be like that show, I don’t think because there are many people that would actually just want to be helpful

    Fame and fortune already makes people nutty, or rewards bad behavior maybe, but I don’t think the powers themselves would corrupt people and make them evil.

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      6 hours ago

      Part of why that world works the way it does is Vought

      You act like we don’t have Vought in the real world already. Vought is literally just a parody of Amazon, and not just because it’s made by Amazon Prime

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        5 hours ago

        I didn’t say we didn’t. Not sure why you think I’m ignoring companies like Amazon. If they operated as freely as Vought does then yes it would look the same, but Vought created supers in The Boys and controlled access to them. Thats where I was pretty clear about establishing my opinion and how the real world is different from the world of The Boys.