Gah! I’m late! Got superheroes on the mind so here’s a short superhero snippet.
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Crunch: Write about a reluctant superhero
They said I could find him up here, in these mountains. It took a while but eventually I did. He was in a cave. He was wearing tattered skins, he had a long grey beard, he walked with a cane. Time had not been kind to him. But I compared the man before me to the picture I had cut out from the newspaper from all those years ago. Clean shaven, smiling. It was the eyes, he had distinctive eyes, even now. That was how I knew it was him.
“What do you want,” he said. It wasn’t really a question. His voice was still strong.
“I, uh, I am here to ask for your help.” I didn’t know how formal to be.
“Why do you need my help?”
“We are in trouble, the city.”
“There has always been trouble. There will always be trouble. What will you do after I am dead?”
I knew he would take this approach. There were rumors of people finding him before, he used the same argument. I tried something different.
“What will you do after we are dead?”
He looked at me, sharply. His eyes piercing. “If the world dies what can I do to stop it?”
“That line works for me, but not for you. Not when you have powers.”
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I regret it now. Luring him down from the mountain. He agreed to solve the problem, in his own way.
Now we live in caves—because we can’t stop him.
(249 words)
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1: The Dark Knight because, by making batman a part in a larger crime story, it makes the story more than just a superhero movie.
2: no I don't read comics. For many reasons.
3: I'll just eat all the fruit in my fridge before it goes bad.
“There has always been trouble. There will always be trouble. What will you do after I am dead?”
...something many superheroes could easily put philosophically to the citizens of the towns and cities where they operate.