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Superheroes

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Imagine walking home late at night. You’ve just got off work after long day or you just finished partying like an animal. You’re walking, minding your own business, when out of nowhere a group of guys jump you. There’s no one around and there’s no time to call the police. The thugs pull out knives and you know they’re going to kill you. Your life flashes before your eyes and you think to yourself, “Wow, my life sucked”. Then, just before you think it’s all over, some crazy guy in a bat suit comes out of the sky, beats up all the thugs, ties them down, and leaves while you’re still wetting yourself. Wouldn’t that be great?! In the America I hope to grow up in, I want superheroes to exist.

First of all, I’d like to clear up what I mean. I understand that police officers and firemen are heroes, but what I want are superheroes. Sure some of you might be thinking batman has just about as many superpowers as your everyday police officer, but have you ever seen a police officer pull some guy over for speeding, then think to yourself, “Man, that guy could be batman”. I didn't think so. So kids grow up believing in superheroes. They see them as role models, and gain a sense of heroism, justice and you know, imagination. How many of you can say that the first time you saw superman fly, you didn’t pull up your diapers, find your biggest blanket, tie it around your neck, then jump off the bed shouting, “I’m supermaaa-“ only to be cut off because you hit your head on the ground and started crying? But as we get older, we start to realize that superheroes are nothing more than an illusion which doesn’t exist, and as a result we begin to lose those senses of justice, heroism, and even some of our imagination. We face reality thinking that superheroes are nothing more than a distraction we watch in movies, or read in comics, but is that really true? Are superheroes really just fictional beings we’ll never be able to see in real life? If you’re thinking to yourself, well of course, if superheroes could exist, they’d exist right now. And if that’s what you’re thinking, well you’re wrong.

Currently with our technology we have created a cloak which lets the wearer replicate the invisibility power of the invisible woman, or on a more exact point, the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter. How it works is it has a lot of cameras all around it along with tiny monitors. The cameras take in one small part and the monitor on the exact opposite side then shows what the camera picks up. This in turn gives the person wearing it the illusion of invisibility. Secondly, we have a shell of an Iron Man suit which allows the wearer to lift things 17 times their own weight. It’s a shell of a suit, which goes around the wearer’s body allowing them to move fairly smoothly and well break stuff. Unfortunately it doesn’t have an arc reactor to power it since they don’t exist, yet, but it does use an internal combustion engine which works very effectively to power the suit. We also might have the capability to give people the ability of superhuman regeneration like that of wolverine. Although unlike the others we have no actual working proof of this in people, it has been discovered in a fish, frog like, pokemon thing called an axolotl. They have the body of a fish, arms like a frog, and a face like a pokemon. These little monsters can only be found in a specific lake in mexico. They have the ability to regrow any part of their body, including their brain and heart. Also, if they lose a limb, and another axolotl lost the same limb, they can pick up the limb and attach it to their body as if it’s their own. Although scientist aren’t exactly sure whether or not they could put this power into a human, I like to think it could happen. Lastly, and most importantly we even have the ability to create arguably the most powerful and most dangerous superhero in existence. Kick Ass. He feels no pain and carries two large sticks. Scientists currently view him as an unstoppable force of nature, which even the greatest armies in the world couldn’t stop.

But on a more serious note, I’m sure you’ve all realized by now that I really like superheroes. I grew up with them and they shaped who I am. People can’t fly or throw cars or shoot lasers from their bodies. When I first realized superheroes didn’t exist and was told that they never could exist, I was pretty disappointed, but even with all these facts, I didn’t fully give up. Spiderman was my favorite superhero as a kid. I thought he was the greatest, and the famous phrase “With great power comes great responsibility” really affected me. It made me want to be a hero and also made me a better person, but as with all other heroes, I grew to realize he was nothing more than a fake. Although Spiderman wasn’t one of the heroes I mentioned previously, I do believe he could still exist. He’s a cool superhero, just like pretty much any other superhero besides aquaman, and if he or any other hero existed besides aquaman, they would be extremely helpful in stopping crime and they would keep kids believing in heroism, justice, and imagination.

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