What exactly is the point of the name? I guess it kinda makes sense for an initial, catchall, term but in iterations of DC where super heroes have been around forever (at least since the 30s) what’s the point of the term? Seems like they wanted to ape the X-Men’s mutant moniker but did it worse.
More or less. Metahumans/metagene came about post-Crisis as a sort of "meta origin" for heroes to have a unified power source, both past and present. But since they lumped practically every super in as a Meta it became meaningless.
>>152598625I thought metas were just people born with powers or something like the x-gene
>>152598693That’s what they seemed to have been, initially, but they went on to apply it to folks who got it via radiation (like Superman) or those whose powers come from Magic (like Wonder Woman & Zatanna)
>>152598756So what are only people with the meta-gene called?
>>152598828Well, Meta-Human. That’s kinda the problem, over application. It probably should just apply to folks with the Meta-gene but it’s not that way anymore
>>152598850I'm sure one more reboot could fix this
>>152598756I think the problem is that it came so soon after Crisis that the new continuity was still settling, so people were being identified as metas even if they didn't have a metagene. I know both Superman and Flash were considered metas early on (though at the time Superman wasn't publicly known as an alien so it made some sense)
>>152598756Metahumans fall into two types: those who were born with the potential to have power and those who got powers later in life.Superman is classified as an alien not metahuman (unless DC broadened the term to include aliens).Superman is normal by Kryptonian standards, all of them get the same abilities under a yellow sun.Kon is a metahuman because he has tactile telekinesis in addition to the usual Kryptonian traits.
>>152598625It classifies all superhumans regardless of origin or alignment
>>152598625It's too meta
