Apr 10 2009
An interesting twist on a stale character concept?
Many (if not most) magical superheroes have day jobs as stage magicians. (Zatara, Mandrake the Magician, Mr. Mystic, etc). It’s a stale and completely obvious choice for a day job. So I decided to do a fresh concept for a magical superhero. By night, he’s a genuine sorcerer. By day, he works to disprove supernatural claims, like James Randi. I think it would be fairly amusing for a sorcerer to resort to nonmagical parlor tricks to convince the masses that what they saw was not, in fact, a magical fireball. (Umm… perhaps it was a steam pipe malfunction?)
It could also result in him having a relationship with his alter-ego similar to that of Peter Parker. Everyone knows Peter Parker is the unofficial photographer of Spider-Man, he could set himself up as *insert superhero name here*’s biggest skeptic. He could make himself famous for hating the superhero. No one would suspect him!
Great idea!
Umm…. what about teen heros? what makes them so great even when half the time they arn’t humen?