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Any suggestions on how a faith-based superhero gains / uses his powers?

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jabanico

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This is for a Christian comic for kids. I would like to solicit suggestions on how a superhero can perhaps gain superpowers based on faith. In pop culture, there are physical powers gotten from birth (Superman, X-Men) or from accidents (Hulk and the Flash), and there are other superheroes whose powers are by intellect or will (Batman, Iron Man and magic-based superheroes).

What can a faith-based superhero be like? It has to be someone who is not physically powerful nor has the smarts, but relies on faith in God, like heroes of the Bible.
 
jabanico said:
This is for a Christian comic for kids. I would like to solicit suggestions on how a superhero can perhaps gain superpowers based on faith. In pop culture, there are physical powers gotten from birth (Superman, X-Men) or from accidents (Hulk and the Flash), and there are other superheroes whose powers are by intellect or will (Batman, Iron Man and magic-based superheroes).

What can a faith-based superhero be like? It has to be someone who is not physically powerful nor has the smarts, but relies on faith in God, like heroes of the Bible.
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That will be a tough one. I like the basic idea but at the same time I have to admit that it is contrary to scriptural gradualism, and probably reflects our pagan history more than our christian ethics.
But thats just my 2 cents, I hope you can work it out.
 
How do Christians gain spiritual power?
He could start reading the Bible, then pray for the power to combat evil.

Sorry, it's the best I've got.
 
jabanico said:
This is for a Christian comic for kids. I would like to solicit suggestions on how a superhero can perhaps gain superpowers based on faith.
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He must first be chosen for the task. He doesn't really 'get' anything. It is given to him. His faith is his superpower. Like all superheros, it is what he does with his super power that makes the story.


jabanico said:
What can a faith-based superhero be like? It has to be someone who is not physically powerful nor has the smarts, but relies on faith in God, like heroes of the Bible.
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You're on the right track and you probably don't realize it. Think Elijah, and Isaiah, and Paul, and what they did and why. They performed astounding feats for God...and because God had set them apart for that, not because they wanted to and had great faith to make it happen. And, unlike worldly superheros, they were not very glamorous. The life of a prophet, or a worker of miracles is very hard, being commensurate with the glory of God they have received to function in that ministry. More power...more pain. But the love of God compels them nevertheless.
 
why not take sampson? or the actual prophets and do there story?

isiah and ezekiel could be done but then again not all of ezekiel the eating the dung thing wouldnt be so heroic.
 
A man experiementing at CERN particle accelerator searching for the elusive "god particle" as the particle is extracted a huge explosion rips through the machine and the beam passes through the mans head in his mind a blinding flash tears through his head normally this would kill a man but not this beam!

I don't know enough about your nature to know what would appeal to you in terms of powers. Depends on what parts you want to highlight I'd have imagined you'd actually want to depict the man as a sinner dispite his powers and how only communion with god makes him better or somthing Blah. His powers could perhaps show pepole their own future life death and afterlife or whatever.


When you ask about this I can't help but think about puella magi madoka Not appropriate for children but that series They had a deeply religious christian character "Elisa Maria" Her story isn't shown direcly but you can guess generally what happened to her thrugh clues hinted about her and fill in the gaps pretty easily.

That series is actually a very dark brutal deconstruction of what it would be like to be a teenager with superpowers fighting forces of evil.

Basically a girl crying in a church is approached by a very strange cat like creature whitch then speaks to her an introduces himself a Kyubey and asks her whats wrong. a memeber of her family(brother) is engaging in self destructive behaviour she wishes she could sway him from that path.

The cat speaks and says he can grant the wish but in exchange she will be turned into a puella magi(young sorcress/Magical girl) be given a "soul gem" and magical powers to fight "evil witches" And protect others she agrees to the contract. And her brother is saved. She asks if kyubey is a messenger from god but he denies it.

She fights witches (whitch in this series are bizzare dreamlike highly symbolic monsters) but is shocked to find that god no longer speaks to her in her prayers.

She inquires to kyubey as to why... he can't give a clear answer, but he muses if it's linked to the state of her soul. When she demands to know more she learns that the actual process of becoming a "Puella magi" involves her soul begin ripped out of her body and crystalized into the soul gem the magical weapon she fights with and when she fights witches the magical powers she uses consumes parts of her soul causing it to decay and her soul gem to gradually darken. unless she consumes the reminants of the dead witches she slays her soul will decay away completely, turning her soul gem black killing her.

She can't endure this awful fact that she's now living a life of brutal violence with no chance of redemption. Further pushed over the edge when Her brother spurns her himself for using ungodly powers and stripping of him of his free will... You might want to change such endings but in the series this causes causes her to drown in greif and dispair and her soul gem to turn completely black with corruption When that happens her gem cracks open and she is transformed into a monstrous witch herself.

Her friends from the main series other puella magi then come along and put her out of her misery stopping her from hurting others but never really knowing it was her.
 
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That sounds like a very good story, pebbles.

I like the flawed character who is in search of something scenario. These John Wayne dogooder types don't sit well with me nor do they reflect the world. They do everything right and by the end of the day it was only action that was required of them because there was no sacrifice.

What I would love to see is a real man that is broken struggling to piece himself together a midst all the evil around him. Wait, that might be the tag line for Machine Gun Preacher. Great movie. Not for kids.
 
k how bout this one they start out as a junkie or petty criminal, then are involved in an accident, say hit by a car(seems most heros live in a city) while unconsous they receive a vision from god. when they awaken they have the stigmata(not sure if its offensive if so sorry) but the blood they bleed is the actual blood of christ and can heal(both spiritually and phisically as well) ....... and im out of ideas as to what they would do with it:chin
 
Well Mod you just about described my son in law! We have photos showing his change. His appearance changed dramatically.
 
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