Why don't superman level beings just grab a chunk of gold or diamond from in the earth? They always seem financially middle to lower class. Even a couple stacks of full hardwood trees would make you rich.
Mining laws? Taxes? The game is rigged.
Why would they?Do they need to spend 10k a month in heating and cooling? No theyre comfortable within the extreme hot and cold the earth provides naturally. Do they need a luxury mattresses and furniture to relax? No, a steel chair is as soft on thraggs ass as silk.Do they need expensive imported food? No they can just go to where the food comes from and eat it cheap, and much less often than humans do too.Do they need to spend tons of.money on travel and accommodations? No they can fly and think most human entertainment is gay and lame anyways. Wtf is prosports? Pay 1k for tickets to watch some physically inferior humans fumble around with a ball?
>I want to be a bad boy. Let me have a bad boy persona. I'll get.a motorcycle and smoke. It'll be awesome. Please grand regent. Let me be like a biker bad boy guy.
>AND IM GONNA BE A BUSINESS MAN!
>no anissa. You're going to be a single career woman trying to make it in the big city and that's final!
>>153403750because they don't own the mineral rights
>>153403750the point is to blend in
fuck off AIslopper
If I had the power of omni-man, I'd probably fly over a few states away, try to grab as much money as I can in a bank, with an emphasis on not destroying the entire building, and just hope I don't get caught.Hopefully then I can finally financially launch my rap career.
>>153403750Because those stones are hidden under near infinite layers of topsoil and usually found in extremely small pieces. Modern excavations tend to dig up entire mountain sides for a few kilos worth of small diamond/gold rocks. At the *very* least they'd need super sensitive x-ray and telescopic vision and the ability to differentiate between different materials.>>153404388It would make more sense to just break in to a vault from beneath the ground, from sewers, etc. Preferably at night. In practice however the bills are usually marked and such, so good luck trying to fence anything you've stolen from there.You'd probably have more luck mugging people for petty cash on the side of the street where nobody looks.
>go to governments/rich powers>ask if they need something done (assassination, flattening land, whatever the fuck)>say you'll do it for them if they pay you millions>they deposit millions into your bank account>do said dirty deedWhy don't they do that? I'd do that
>>153404451>In practice however the bills are usually marked and such, so good luck trying to fence anything you've stolen from there.Yeah, you're probably right. The best thing to do is just go to some asteroid belt, take a decent amount of valuable materials, and sell it back on Earth with an emphasis of not disrupting the local economies.
>>153403750Why would they want to?
>>153404534funk pops, and anime figures aren't going to pay for themselves.
>>153404388>>153404451>can't quite wrap my head around this commissioner, there's a retard-shaped hole going through several meters of rock, stone and the vault floor>maybe we should ask super-retard, the only super-being on the planet, maybe he knows who did it>while you're at it, remember to congratulate him on coming across several million dollars out of the blue. must have been a really big couch to find so many pennies
>>153403750It's like mythological gods disguising as farmers, vagabonds, old men, etc
>>153404474You really want free money? >hey company, you know how satelite launch costs are $2500 per kg? I can do it for half that, any form factor any any weight under 100 tonnes, in any weather condition.Musk's tesla would make you a millionaire overnightAlso you could steal musk's tesla, free car
>>153404617b-but muh funko pops
>>153403750The same reason people with super-speed don't make millions of dollars charging and delivering high-capacity super-cells: comic writers aren't that smart
>>153405687>>153404388i think practical, real-use of superpowers is very underexplored.the few times i've seen it touched on is either-in the background-it's a good guy that swore off superhero-ing, and the characters are trying to get him back into the game instead of whatever menial shit he's doing now with his powers (invariably portrayed as dull and sad)
>>153405687>>153406260The incentives of reality applied to a world with superpowers inevitably results in superheroes turning a crank on an electric generator all day long.
>>153406508not every superhero is superman or the flash
>>153403813If they want to uphold a facade and not get get hounded by supervillains or government they might need some of that
>>153406866Just be homeless
>>153403750Same reason you have prison roleplaying servers. It's likely novel to be LARPing as a shitter with self-imposed rules after a life of being on top of the galactic food chain.
>>153406508Realistically, you can't even get from panel 2 to panel 3 without a few generations of Super-schmuck hunting down and killing the warlords and corrupt politicians that come in and confiscate the grain shipments after drop-off. Same applies to the transition from 3 to 4. By the time he lays the groundwork for a lifetime of magnet-cranking, he'll have had to kill off the energy magnates and their state benefactors in the first world. From there, super-dictator is the more natural transition.
>>153407249Smbc author is libtarded and just pretends african warlords aren't real
>>153406508This guy hates capeshit more than Garth Ennis
>>1534037501. Because super heroes are often designed to be relatable to the Average Joe when they're not out and about fighting tyranny2. Because that would be incredibly boring. The main reason people work a normal 9 to 5 is to have something productive to do as well as to meet people, instead of being total shut ins who argue with random people online all the time.
>>153408168>The main reason people work a normal 9 to 5 is to have something productive to do as well as to meet peopleI can tell your parents lay your bills
>>153408036You can like something while also understanding what makes it silly.
>>153403750The resale value of diamonds aren't expensive as you think they are. Diamonds are only expensive because 1 company have an entire monopoly on the diamond market and severely limit the supply of diamonds into the market to artificial increase the price of diamonds. They also started a campaign against lab grown diamonds because it would decrease the price and demand of their blood diamonds.
>>153408200I wish
>>153405342Why would you want a fire hazard and death trap that's a Tesla?
>>153408168>Because super heroes are often designed to be relatable to the Average Joe when they're not out and about fighting tyrannyliterally not a single one besides spiderman
>>153408540Clark kent?
>>153408864the reporter?what does he have to do with this?
>>153406508https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPSbsXQIGNg
>>153404617Commissioner: Any lead on that bank heist, Super-Retard?Super Retard: DUUUUH! Haa-yeeeen. Buh! Buh! Buh! Buh!Commissioner: ...you're RIGHT. It COULD have been Handi Man. He IS black...
>>153408036Many such cases
>>153406866wouldn't it be harder to maintain a facade as an exuberantly rich person than as a poor person? More eyes on you.
>>153406508I dont think I have ever seen a better arguement for an evil Superman besides maybe the Incredibles. This is Harrison Bergeron shit. Not even Harlan Ellison could come up with something this depressing.
>>153407249Realistically, any super would immediately go destroy Isreal.This isn't a joke or me meming or being edgy. It's the source of so many goddamn practical problems let alone criminal problems, it simply can't survive.It would be like seeing the backside of your head for the first time and theres a huge ass oozing tumor. Theres not really any reason to keep the tumor. Removing it safely is priority #1. You would go to the hospital immediately.
>>153409062Israel has its own supers
>>153409062
>>153408282If he cut them with heat vision he’d make money>>153409062The most compelling evidence that supers don’t exist irl
>>153409116They don’t even have good spoonbenders
>>153406260Spider-Man was already getting fucked over in 1963 when you could still get away with some stuff, these days if you punched pencils to make diamonds you'd have a death squad at your door within the week.
>>153403750Okay, but Homelander was upper middle class by spending a few hours every couple of months writing a bunch of books, he was using his powers to work as little as possible while living very comfortably, while still plausibly under cover.
>>153409116Just like they have thier own military!
>>153409160>>153409167>>153409176>>153409188>doesn't post SampsonStop larping
>>153409188Posing seems familiar
>>153409116Just one speedster going rouge and other supers aren't enough. The flash is the ultimate jobber. You don't actually have to move that much faster than others to win. You don't even need to fight the other supers, thats not the objective retard.Super"villians" only lose because the author wants it.
>>153403750They do NEED some sort of organization or communication, otherwise they would easily lose contact with each other. Earth is a pretty fucking big place. You could put all the viltrumites into New York and they could live a human lifetime out never meeting each other. The problem grows exponentially, when a guy lives in Sydney, one in Geneva, one in Osaka and one in Boise(why). They would have no way of coordinating their plans, Thragg warning them about a possible plot from the galactic faggots or even rallying them for battle if needed. All the viltrumites could have been feasibly picked off one by one by a dedicated kill-team without the others ever knowing about them>>153404388Which would get you in the scope of glowies within days. EVERYTHING is being recorded now. There are hundreds of millions of cameras out there, security cameras, municipal CCTV systems, industrial cameras, wildlife cameras, every house is surrounded by cameras, everyone has an HD camera in his pocket now, not to mention satellites, the ultimate cameras spying on everything 0-24. You are always in sight. A suspicious crime, especially capefag-related would lend on Cecil's desk right away.Also, banks track every single number of every single banknote in their system and shops do keep checking on the, This is not very publicized for obvious reasons but you cannot even spend the money without somehow laundering it. Even criminals refuse to touch money from bank robberies these days, as its waaaay to hot and stays hot for decades for relatively piddly amounts of money. Unless you decide to rob a central bank a few hundred thousand dollars is what you can reasonably expect to steal.
>>153405342Also>I can carry hundreds of pounds of cargo or passengers to any location on the globe in minutes plus I'm my own security forcewould be an extremely valuable proposition for a lot of companies.Shit, a first class round trip ticket from LA to London starts at around $9000. Even if you match those prices, you can carry one guy and be set for a month at least.
>>153410323Just be a model
>>153410592Superheros are not nessesarily hot.
>>153411142They can be target models
>>153410592It is surprising how many alien heroines did modeling
The powers of Superman make you a money printing machine in nearly a hundred different ways.Super Strength and Flight make you a cargo carrying machine that can fly across continents in a fraction of the time it'd take a shipping barge or cargo plane would.Heat Vision and Super Breath give you temperature controlSuper Hearing, X-Ray Vision and Telescopic vision basically give you a level of perception greater than most scanning equipment All of this shit is free and just takes a bit of time to hone said powers for job related stuff. Once you master about 1 or 2 of them you can basically saunter up to any corporation or government and just give them some kind of pamphlet with your offered services at a fraction of the cost it'd take for manpower and tech. And that's if you want to do services and not just make goods. You can make Clean Water, Glass, Ice and Diamonds and Gravel by just fucking off to some random secluded area with Coal, Sand, Water or Rocks and you can just sell that stuff wholesale or obfuscate it by being a local supplier to different companies in your area.
>>153411837>So, you're a Superhero? >And more to the point I'm not "defrauding" anyone! Now about this lien..
