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How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 pm
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I was just wondering how would someone who has superpowers make money legally? Would it be of any additional help to find a job? It has to be legal and not in sports.
Like, if someone could fly like Superman, but perhaps not have super strength and speed, what job could find this useful? People already use helicopters and drones whenever they need to fly.
Or invisibility. I guess as a spy or a government assassin, but that still doesn't look like it would help him to get far. Maybe it would be best for paparazzi, but that borders on illegal.
Or great strength where someone could lift five tonnes with their hands. There are already plenty of machines that can do that.
Or super speed like Flash. Maybe as a delivery person but to some rich clients. Still, he would probably be slowed down by border customs.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 4:52 pm
In the comics, they just have normal day jobs.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Maybe weather control, a la Storm. It seems like you could make a bundle bringing rain to drought-stricken areas, diverting hurricanes, and so on.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 pm
The real money is in merch.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 pm
My favorite superpower, which I always wanted for myself is... healing anything and everything, and with it you can just be a super awesome doctor, and earn money as well if you want to.
Other's have direct money making potential as well. I mean in the world of Boys, supes do make money by being supes.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 6:36 pm
(October 26, 2025 at 5:22 pm)Angrboda Wrote: The real money is in merch.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Marketing skills is a prime asset. I can fly like really fast but lack Superman's strength? I can be a courier -- organ transport, messenger service, etc. The Thing? I will take down this building for you and you don't need to buy diesel fuel for the bulldozer or hire a crew to emplace explosives. Spiderman? Personal guard for some VIP who is worried about drone attack -- Secret Service would snap me up for that. Hulk? Bodyguard. Plastic Man? I can fetch the keys you dropped into the toilet, for a fee.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 7:03 pm
Magneto can easily be a construction worker.
A more chaotic version of Xavier (or the Phoenix herself) can affect political change by altering people's thought processes.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 pm
Sex stuff. The answer is always going to be sex stuff.
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RE: How to make money with superpowers
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 pm
Superman as a sperm donor. I hope he rubs one out by hand and captures the results tout-suite. Otherwise that super sperm is going to shoot right out the top of Lois Lane's head, with each sperm flying around and finding a woman to impregnate. Can't claim the idea, it's in a story I read. He'd just have to advertise and get recipients. Can't have every fertile woman in the world suddenly pregnant without consent...
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