@@jmoneyjoshkinion4576 Yeah. He had to put work and dedication into getting it. He wasn't just born with it. There are plenty of Jamaican in the world, and he's probably got lots of family members. But he's the one we all know who gets those gold medals, so there must have been something which distinguishes him from all the other Jamaicans and all the other members of the Bolt family, and I would put it down to hard work and dedication behind the scenes: blood, sweat and tears.
You could also save a lot of people probably. People who had a bike accident and are lying on the street with a bus or truck about to drive over them. Or people who are physically attacked and aren’t strong enough to fight back.
@@kevinlewis3029 that’s when Amazon scientists will create “compound a” as a way to not only enhance their powers, but also force feed it to expecting employees to create even more supersonic Heros
@Atman Gotango at first I thought of that sort of application too but that's just not how physics works. First law of thermodynamics, Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. So if you try to "generate" energy, all you're doing is excreting energy you got from eating and resting, which is also lost throughout your daily activities just like any regular person would.
I'm just going to point out, he's only thinking of how a "good" person would use these powers. I can seriously find a way to turn any superpower into a source of financial gain as a villain.
nah, the world right now is too far gone to not know how to deal with villains. You don't think the governments around the world wouldn't take your family hostage? The Geneva convention only applies to war between UN countries.
Oh no, someone is trapped in their car by the bent up door and has a bad gash bleeding pretty bad! If only I could cut through the metal to free them and cauterize the wound but I’m not on duty and don’t have my equipment! Oh no, someone is having a bad stroke and I’m half way across the city. Now all I can do is listen to them die on the phone and hope someone else can get there I. The next few minutes to save them
@beep boop You could be a pro athlete. Or work for the government as an elite spy or "fixer" type of agent. You could be a one-person construction/carpentry crew if you knew how to build. Not to mention the infinite number of menial tasks you could complete with ease just for yourself. And if you chose to be a criminal with powers, fuckin fuggetaboutit, you would easily be able to just steal whatever you needed to survive without working. If Alan Moore was offered powers by some advanced aliens or something, you think he'd take them, or say "No thanks, I need no superpowers, they're mostly useless"? I'd think the former.
Wow you really missed the point didn’t you. He’s saying that if you really sit down and think about it, superpowers are only useful in the most mundane and superficial ways. This clip is from a much longer masterclass he gave on writing. He’s teaching aspiring writers how to be better by thinking about their subject in more depth.
What makes you think super-speed is free? Like you don't get tired and you don't have to eat to make it work? Or you don't sweat and your clothes don't get ruined? Good luck going to work. Let alone weather and bugs.
I don't think it would make you the best welder, just let you weld without one tool. You can already assassinate someone from a distance, like JFK, it anything it would just make it super obvious who did it.
We don't even have to go that far. Reducing the response time or law enforcement even in small shit like a domestic dispute would already be an improvement by virtue of reducing the time spent on these matters. Alan simply is not thinking this through
@@rafaelcastor2089 the main point here is that a superpower *alone* means nothing without great writing and story, an ambitious and/or good-hearted/evil character who longs to do something more for or to the world, and a situation they are put in that tests their abilities and places treasured things or people in danger.
he is funny but his delivery is always kind of tempered by a seriousness. Watchmen can be looked at as kind of a satire. He tells jokes but doesn't deliver them as comedy but his own thing that I don't know what to call it.
@@pygmalion0451 sure... but also think there's a failed delivery... that works for his own stories. There are humorous ideas that could be fashioned into jokes but his mind doesn't work that way. I don't mean that as a knock. You can take a good stand up comic and have some good material for a serious drama from their material, but it doesn't mean the comic has the talent necessary to do it to their own material.. It has something to do with his style. Watchmen for instance, is sort of a humorous deconstruction of superheroes. Humour follows the joke, whereas he's aiming for a sort of depressing irony instead with the idea.
There was an episode with the flash when he delivers a human organ to a different hospital, that's definitely a super power everyone would be proud of.
To be fair, this is a snippet of one of those masterclass videos. I imagine he has a larger point to make. Either way, I enjoy the humour in poking fun at how useless superpowers would be to someone with no imagination or supervillains to challenge them.
Has he never heard of families living far apart? My brother lives a 2 hour car drive away. If I could just run there in 5 minutes I’d see him like every other day instead of once every few months. (That’s also because we both don’t have limitless freetime but u get my point)
Dude lacks creativity with heat vision you could become an invaluable engineer,or harness it as energy in some way, with superspeed you could moderate it and become the best athlete in history in almost any sport
The most underrated part of super speed is actually the ability to think and perceive at that speed too. You could learn at a ludicrous speed which would be useful in every possible skill you can imagine.
"Think about it, what benefit do you get from eating cool dairy that forces you to do it quickly or else it all melts and loses its appeal?" And fans would praise him as the wise one
I always thought ice cream is pretty stupid lol. Esp when people eat it at cold night or god forbid on winter. Xd My poor sister always got questioned with her food choices.
Granted, he's gotten pretty distant from superheroes due to how they're being used by major corporations these days. Alan Moore's on the anarchist side, and combine that with his separation from Marvel and DC for several different reasons, you get Alan Moore not being into superheroes. He still has a great respect for them, but he's not into how they're being treated nowadays.
"What is so important that you have to get there so early" The point is to be there on time everytime. With superspeed you can wake up 1 min before you have to be anywhere and still be there on time. Or you could go to your favourite resturant everyday which is on the other side of the country and eat everything and come back within the 5 min break you may get. You can find many things to do with any shitty superpower if you put your brain to it
He wasn't talking about how a superpower benefitted your individualistic needs, he was talking about how you'd benefit humanity. There are zero benefits to humanity any superhero could offer. They could save a handful of people with their arcane abilities, but real life humans who've invented life-saving treatment and technology have saved millions. That's undebatable. But the problem with this debate is we're arguing about how beneficial a figment of your imagination coming alive would be. It's so absurd and infantile, almost saddening. I'm sure your parents told you to find better role models, but you still haven't grown out of it.
@@maaz322 I'm sure you enjoy feeling superior, but at this point your smugness is assumed, and therefore not valid. First the question wasn't the value of your imagination come to life. The question was would superpowers actually be all that useful. It's an intellectual thought process question. Second, you, like so many other supposed smart people, assume we see role models in fictional characters. A.) That's rarely the case, and B.) If people did choose their role models from a comic book, it is never because of their powers. It is the type of person that the character is. Concepts like empathy, and duty, and honor, and courage. You wouldn't know anything about those because you only care about what a person can bring to the table. Honor and courage doesn't cure people like a new fangled medical invention, but I would rather have fewer people if that meant more of them were decent human beings.
@@simonw.1223 when people think of super speed their mind is going to instantly jump to the flash 9 times out of 10 and I’m positive that would be a sufficient speed.
Stopping time is pretty useful. Think about it: - You can pause time during exams to cheat - You can pause time to get out of or prevent accidents - You can pause time to plan things out in stressful or time-sensitive situations - You can pause time to break into places(less legal but still doable) This list can be endless.
@@biswasbudhathoki8144 The air is not moving but the O2 is still there. It does not dissapear. With that logic, then you would not need to breath if time stopped.
Easy application for heat vision: spend all day in front of a bunch of very large steam engines and become a valuable power source for the electricity grid
Love your vids man so random to see you on here. Good take but I hope it pays well because it sounds monotonous. Hook the superspeed guy up to a generator too. Honestly, super speed is crazy useful time is one of if the not the most valuabe commodity in all the universe.
They’ll call foul play. Why would anyone watch your marathons over and over again when they already know the end result? It’ll get boring for them, and no one would want to sponsor you.
As much of legend as Alan Moore is, he clearly hasn't thought this out. A person with power enough heat vision could power entire city just by staring at a steam engine all day. And super speed? Come on. Even if you didn't want to easily live off of a life of easy robbery, you could power a turbine or do high end delivery service for small parcels. People would pay loads of money to be able to have a package hand delivered cross country same day. Not many, but there'd certainly be enough to make a living when you consider anyone in the entire country could be a potential client. Maybe even entire world depending on the limits of the super speed. Saying you could only deliver pizzas is reductive and close minded.
Yeah but it's his point that it's such a dull application of superpowers? Like the heat vision thing, staring at a boiler inside a brick room does seem a little boring even compare to a chief's job. Delivery parcels is much the same as pizza, ok you make money but you still a pizza delivery boy/mail man, occasionally you can beat down a crime or 2 but that is, there isn't much to do in a mundane world like our(provided you follow the laws).
No, it's not. He specifically says useless and his entire argument is about it being without a use. He did not say dull nor was that what he meant. Also, no one is talking about vigilantism here. Even though that normally goes with super powers, we're talking more realistically here. Super powers of any sort would change the world. Point blank. Doesn't matter what it is, people will find a way to exploit it. That's how people have always done things and that's how we're communicating right now. The main exploit being the predictably adjustable conductivity of silicon. Of course, there's a million of other little exploits that led from that to here, but the point is super powers would be utilized the same way.
Without a healing factor your knees, lower back, hips, ankles, and feet are toast. Well actually dust. You trip you die. You trip, but don't die immediately but you're in the middle of nowhere so you still die. Trying to see where you're going with wind in your eyes. GPS couldn't keep up with you so you'd have to stop frequently to get your bearings. What if you stop in a place with no cell service? You gotta run in a direction until you find civilization also eating up time. What if you break the sound barrier and cause yourself to go permanently deaf? Also your clothes disintegrate from the friction as well as your skin, because again you have super speed and not a healing factor. You pass out from exhaustion and die. You pass out from exhaustion at high speed and die. You dehydrate and die. You overheat and die. Your metabolism is off the charts and your body begins eating itself and you die. Your tendons and muscles are torn to shreds and you die. I could easily go on. Almost all super powers alone are useless. They require other not mentioned super powers to work. Like cool you have super strength enough to lift like 20 tons, but your bones can't support that much because you don't have super endurance so they are crushed, or just crushed by your muscles themselves. Oh also having flash level speed means you'd have his metabolism which also does increase the rate at which your cells are replaced, but you would quickly run out of telomeres. So you mutate and die, or you rapidly age and die, or you get super cancer and die. Like I said I could go on.
My first thought for super speed was search and rescue, somone goes missing in a mountain range give a day and i can search the whole thing. Or if there trained in medical they could show up before any ambulance could, even if it's not safe to carry somone in there super speed they can show up and stabilize somone who wouldn't survive long enough for the ambulance to arrive.
Well I think heat vision isn’t the same as laser beam eyes, but does really Alan Moore thinks it’s useless? Black ops, mercenaries, police and many other are using heat vision for work, like how isn’t it useful if you can see hiding beasts or people with naked eye. You could just accidentally save someone thrown off of highway because of heat vision etc.
@@tvarida1497 he explicitly talks about cooking with it and setting fire to things, so it's pretty clear he means heat vision in the sense of laser eyes.
Exactly! Many super powers may not have a legitimate use in day to day activities but if you're willing to use them for crime/villainy the uses go up exponentially!
Lol agreed and we wouldn't need cops if there was no crime. There's a positive and negative to everything. Oh and what job would you get with super speed? Any job you want!! But they would have to pay you more
@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese of course. But my point is, if there's super speed people in this universe, it stands to reason that some of those supers powered people would also be cops.
Super speed is incredibly useful, especially if you decide to be a professional athlete. Hell, any situation in which physical activity is necessary would be made extremely easy with super speed. Heat vision has more niche uses but there's ways to effectively have heat vision in real life already though.
I think you'd probably get banned from most sporting events if you had super speed. Aside from that though, yeah there's nearly nothing that you WOULDN'T want to be able to do faster, especially beyond travel. Thinking at super speed would help with making comebacks, learning new things, decision making etc. The only thing that wouldn't help with is anxiety.
This "guy" invented most super powers we see today. That's Alan Moore, probably one of the greatest comic book writers of all time. He's talking about the thought process an amateur goes through while writing a character. They can't be bothered to think about how each hero will use their powers in a unique way. Not just in battle but on a day to day basis. The hero also has to use their powers in a way that fits their personality. It's smaller details like this that most people don't think about.
@@Jacobe2of4 but he never says that in this clip. He just says super powers are useless, and tries to give examples by saying you could use things besides powers to duplicate some effects.
His point is superpowers are useless for humans as a whole. What does one guy who has heat vision can do with his powers other than harm others? Superspeed is just a terrible superpower if you get into the actual nitty gritty
In one of the later seasons of heroes, the main character specifically seeks to acquire super speed to help him save more lives as an EMT by getting on the scene earlier to administer care
Alan Moore is being hyperbolic but kinda right. Like you said, the character from heroes already has a job as an emt and wants a power to make himself more effective. It works as a deconstruction of superhero tropes.
@@Randomkloud im just pointing out that, out of all the examples Alan Moore could have used, super speed is among the worst. Heat vision is a pretty good example actually of a power that you have to really think through to get a use out of. but super speed helps in virtually every situation possible. I only specifically use the "heroes" example because it is a TV series that specifically bothered to explore the use of a super power in a "normal" job. Alan Moore isn't being hyperbolic, he's engaging in a laughably bad overreach. to sit there and scoff at the idea of simply eliminating the need for commuting time is to be completely out of touch with what most people consider "useful".
@@bonzwah1 plus when you have multiple people with different superpowers you can group them up to do very cool things that it would take a tremendous amount of Manpower and Machinery to do what like three supers could in like an hour. A massive save on time and resources. If you can't find a utilitarian purpose for most superpowers you have a shity imagination >.
Having super speed does not mean super strength. A paramedic's job is to stabilize a patient in order to transport him to receive more advanced care. 1. You wouldn't be able to pick the patient up. 2. Even if you did, nobody wants to be carried at 70mph held in someone's arms, their wound would open back up, or they'd pass out. Do you even think before commenting such crass things?
@@maaz322 weight is affected by gravity which is affected by time. If you're able to move things faster than they can be affected by gravity then their way becomes functionally irrelevant. If you were moving that fast it would just be a moment and you would appear at the hospital already done with surgery. It would seem to me you're the one not thinking
Geez, for a man whose written some incredible and iconic stories, he has no imagination or life experience. "What good is super speed? Whats so important you have to be there so early?" Well for one, if I had super speed, I could've gotten my dad to the hospital much earlier when he had a artery blockage (he's okay). When my grandma suffered a stroke, I could've ran all the way to Mexico within seconds and taken her to the hospital, instead of having to wait 4 hours for the ambulance to take her which caused permanent damage which she never recovered from. Even in her old age, she was still lively and always on her feet. After the stroke she was bed ridden and could barely care for herself. Once when I was at work, my sister in law who lives across town called me because she was alone with the kids and she thought there were strangers checking our her house in the middle of the night. My brother (her husband) was away at a conference, and I'm the only one who had a gun, so naturally she called me. With super speed, I could've gotten there in seconds and gotten back before it became an issue (turned out to be nothing). He really can't think of any good use for super powers?
"What is so important that you need to get somewhere that early" I dunno, super secret communication that is entirely impossible to intercept due to it being analogue
@@PiiskaJesusFreak exactly, do you know how much money a Master Welder makes? My uncle has a huge house, with five acres of land, a manmade pond with swans and two giant snapping turtles.
@@EiferBrennan not exactly, but I know that a high quality craftsman can charge a pretty penny, and with heat vision you would be one of the best, and could do in minutes what would take others hours to do. So yeah, even with this kind of "basic" labor you could do well for yourself if you had superpowers. Probably the real money would still one through the publicity.
Damn this guy is unimaginative. Super speed would allow you to disarm your enemies, allow you to get people to safety, tie up the bad guy and grab the donut that you dropped as your "stop watch" before it even hits the ground.
You really just called the writer of Watchman, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentleman, and the writer who made DC's Swamp Thing comics good, unimaginative. You called him unimaginative. WOW!!! How about, instead of being an ass and moaning about the creativity of others, when you yourself are contributing NOTHING creative and sharing it with the world. You try and do better, or say nothing. And you're missing the point he's trying to make. If you couldn't pick up on the point he's making, then you need to go back to school.
@@thedeadd.c.207 listening to the man, again, I agree with what I originally stated. This man is completely unimaginative if he can't think of good uses for superpowers. He's pretty lame, in my eyes, for putting down such a writing style, while giving such poor examples as to why he even thinks it's dumb. He's not just unimaginative in his ability to created a proper super power, his argument was just as unimaginative. This guy is as arrogant as you are.
@@thedeadd.c.207 had he said something like, "if you rely on superpowers to carry your story, then you don't know how to write a good super hero." I would absolutely agree with that sentiment. I'm writing a book series, based on the future and not a single one of them of super powers. Mostly because I want it to be tied to reality as much as possible, but also because you can get pretty impressive with tech fantasy without going out of the bounds of reality, too much. I get that you're a fan boy and I insulted your idol, but the man is human. And, based on this short, I'd call him unimaginative.
Dumbest take of my life 🤣 Super speed can save lives in countless ways or you could rob banks before they noticed Heat vision is basically an invisible gun that also has many non-lethal uses
The more I hear from Moore's funny side, the more I start to believe that rumor that the two adaptations of his work that he actually likes are the JLU's episode of "For the Man Who Has Everything" and Saturday Morning Watchmen. _I'm nutty!_
@championchap "talent" is such a bad corporate term to refer to people that put their heart and soul into their craftsmanship on a daily basis. But I agree, Saturday Morning Watchmen is amazing, and Harry is amazing at what he does - both in terms of animation as well as voice acting.
@@davidguyette2586 "If you say talent the skilled worker will feel less in control about their ability to gain employment" Never thought of it like that. That makes it even worse, haha.
@@davidguyette2586 "The artist will assume it was all luck and mercy of Corporate." Also I'd add, the artist will probably have to endure yet another false compliment of "being talented", quietly tolerating yet another person reducing his skill to a mere birth privilege.
I know he has a point somewhere, but it does really just sound like a lack of imagination. Like, most of the fun of superhero comics is finding out *how* the characters are going to use their limited powers to solve the current problem. (The difference with Superman is finding out how he'll solve the problem without comprising his morals)
I agree. For his first example, I imagine with heat vision you could also preform welding if done correctly, or perhaps work in disaster relief or law enforcement by using heat vision to cut away rubble or barricades.
Or how about something artistic like sculpting or blacksmithing? Sure it might not be "useful" in directly saving people's lives but we hold up a painting of some lady as a great accomplishment (the Mona Lisa). Imagine if someone Could sculp steel or stone like clay.
The point is, even most of the powers that seemingly look useless could be use to do powerful things with the right mind/ideas and given the user has talent for them.
I mean, if it's comic accurate irl, having all the different abilities The Flash has would be beneficial as heck. But If it is in a literal way, physics would make it useless. So he is right.
They did mention in a flash comic that he does somehow break laws of physics . Just always thought that was a funny way writers excused the Flash's speed and powers
@@BestCupid Well, they eventually introduced the "Speed Force" which for all intents and purposes is... well, magic. Well, it's some cosmic power bullshit, but you know what I mean.
The problem with the way they depict it in the Flash is say you’re assembling a piece of furniture. To the outside observer, it was assembled in an instant, but from the Flash’s perspective it still took forever.
@@nakenmil Well which super power in the comics isn't pretty much magic anyway? Be it from Superman to even Batman who has done things no human could ever do. And the explanation? Cuz hes Batman! I mean I love those characters but seriously Flash and his speed? That's the least of the issues in a world where you have basically god-like beings runing around.
Feel like that opens up a can of worms. The concept of superpowers being used in competitive sports. For example when there be a laws preventing people with super strength from participating in games like shot putt? Would there have to be another Olympics dedicated to superhumans? Wouldn't there be laws and regulations so that the playing field is balanced between superhumans?
Sounds like a lack of imagination to me .Heat vision, as an artist I’d use it to etch in designs, shape and cut metal, welding stuff together. Not sure how that stuff works but not having to Cary around or use a bunch of now arbitrary tools. Super speed would reduce the need for cars or vehicles period eliminating a lot of fossil fuels. A bunch of other stuff
I think it would depend on how your heat vision works, but then again proper welding takes more than just heat. Even forge welding requires flux and hammering, regular welding requires some kind of flux or anti oxidating agent like an inert gas blowing on it while welding.
You could potentially use it to shape metal but you'd still need all the other tools. It's really not giving you that much, its best for criminal activities.
Don’t mean to be that guy, but the word arbitrary isn’t used properly here. I think you mean obsolete. Arbitrary means randomly selected or selected without logic/reason.
I’ve thought about this a few times and a lot of superpowers would be useless, but the very basic ones like flight, super strength, and super speed would be insanely useful for everyday activities.
@@doubledio3061 super strength would be highly useful in most labor intensive jobs. Super speed doesn't have a too much work related but useful outside of it such as living in a low cost of living area but work in a high paying area hours or states away. Got nothing for flying through
@@halflife2fun believe it or not, not everything has to be for profit. Maybe flying is just fun?? But if you had to go the profit route, you could easily become the greatest rescue resource of all time. It isn’t uncommon that someone gets stuck or stranded somewhere that there isn’t enough room or safety for helicopters or other means to help rescue people.
@@darthfastball1150 thank you for bringing up the rescue route because ive been trying to think of what just flight could accomplish that couldnt be done by speed
Thinking about superpowers is kinda frustrating because no one ever makes it clear what laws of physics we can break. Like, obviously super speed would break all kinds of laws, but what about basic conservation of energy. Do we need to eat like 200 000 calories to super-sprint 2000 miles? Do we get tired? etc. This is a problem with my own mind. I know it's just silly fun at the end of the day.
DC has something named the Speed Force, which all speedsters use. PS: I remember an episode of Justice League where they stop so Flash can eat a bunch of hotdogs.
There’s plenty of interesting things you can do with superpowers. I’m guessing Moore’s pointing out that those are only impressive when not being compared to the death defying heroics you typically find in comics.
Saddest yes but is actually not least imaginative. Having superpowers means exploitation of it or it being so incredibly useless to daily lives that it's better to not have it.
it's not about exploiting them, you're suddenly in possession of an incredible gift, you can either spend your life using it or completely leave it alone. His ideas though, of what he'd do with them are so bland and devoid of imagination that I feel like he could be bestowed the power of God and somehow still complain that his life is unfair because of all the things he still can't do...or worse, he'd somehow make life even more boring and tedious than it already is.. media.tenor.com/images/5c735243bd7bf04b6bbe5c5b55b28b72/tenor.gif
Heat vision: depending on strength, anywhere from military and welding Super speed: Doesn't matter what job, you're saving money on gas, but police officer/emergency personnel or just any work that doesn't need a set amount of time, like filing or paperwork.
Moore does it again. New series in which super-powered people are not heroes, but working in soul-crushing jobs supervised by bitter, incompetent, non-superpowered bosses doing nearly meaningless work. Wait, I'm stealing that idea.
He already did the concept in 1999 actually, it was one of his ABC imprint series called Top 10. It was about the police in a city where everyone is a superhero, alien, mad scientist, robot, god, or so and so. The heat vision example he's using is actually a background character there, he makes burgers and hot dogs at the department's canteen.
@@Anchor-Supreme Similar, but the boss is knowingly exploiting the powers for the super. In the Incredibles, Daddy Super was trying to hide who he was. There is something depressing about each scenario. To be special and to have to hide it is horrible. To have to take orders from lessers is also horrible.
I would have thought being a first response or emergency service would be a more practical and genuinely useful task for super speed. The heat vision depends on its power, it could help in medicine, science and the energy crisis. If you only have the power to cook an omelette, maybe not
While super speed might be useful for reaching someone quickly, you still have to carry some first aid equipment (which is presumably limited) and, in serious cases at least, you still have to wait for an ambulance to turn up to move someone. The other thing is, how super is this super speed? Are you running at the speed of sound? Or just the same speed as a car? And are you allowed to run on the footpath and present a danger to anyone minding their own business on a walk? Or do you have to run along the road and potentially get hit by a car that doesn't see a human running over a hundred miles an hour suddenly turning up in their blindspot? Don't get me wrong, it would be cool as hell to run fast. But I think he's making the point that, logically, there would be very few instances where having that power would be greater than anything modern technology and infrastructure already provides.
@@mikedangerdoes the most life saving factor is the speed in which someone gets there. And no there is no on foot speed limit, you're looking for a problem where there isn't one
@@loodlebop I think he's presenting challenges you didn't consider. It's very relevant how fast "super speed" is defined as. Where you can run,while going at hyper speed is also problematic; running faster doesn't make you intangible as far as I know. If we can assume no speed limit, we can also assume less time to react. Assuming things goes both ways.
@@Lightningrevival I would imagine reaction time would need to be fast too as is the case for the flash. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run by responding to each foot impact on the floor etc and you'd just be super speed flailing around on the floor
@@mikedangerdoes What is better though: No care at all until the ambulance gets there or at least having someone already there that will have assessed the situation and do the parts that don't call for the ambulance equipment? Here is a common example: Car crash. They probably need the ambulance to handle it if it's something more than a minor crash, but you'd usually have to remove the people from the crashed cars, check their vitals and do first-aid if needed, none of which actually immediately call for an ambulance in the vast majority of cases and could save a substantial amount of time the ambulance spends standing still, which would benefit not only this would-be call but also would improve response time for the next one they'd get.
Someone should write a story about a god-like superhero who in the space of one day singlehandedly solves every single problem on earth, from street level crime to international terrorism, ecological disasters and nuclear war... all gone in an instant and he is so fast and powerful he can see ever so slightly into the future which is why he can prevent every conceivable bad thing from happening. What comes after is an epidemic of insanity which lead to mass suicides because human beings don't know how to continue living in a state of peace.
>7:00 Wake up >7:05 Put the kettle on >7:06 Two slices bread in the toaster >7:07 Do the gardening >7:08 Run through the entire city punching ne'er-do-wells in the mouth >7:09 Get home, butter the toast, have tea on the porch. >7:16 Jog over to eastern Ukraine, snip all the wires in Russian airplanes and SAMs >7:17 Fix gazebo Super speed would be pretty awesome
@@drake9634 He also had to consume enough food to give him the calories he was burning, literally eating tens of thousands of calories at a time and nearly dying when he didn't. He's constantly hungry, can't maintain body mass, broke his own arm and legs in some of his first fights, and is a supergenius physicist time traveler.
"what is so important that you need to be there that early?" Well nothing perhaps. But view it from this perspective. If you could get there with super speed and not have to worry about being late even if you leave like 5 minutes to, that still leaves alot of extra time for any prep you have to do, it gives more free time in the day. Ultimately super speed is not useless. It has many uses that could improve daily life And the whole heat vision only sets fire to things.....we're just gonna ignore that many heroes with that power can control the intensity or how hot their heat vision is? Think about how much you'd save if you didn't have to buy matches, or gas usage(for gas stoves) or electricity(for electric stoves, microwaves, etc.) Heat vision is also not useless. The proper term for why we shouldn't have or need super powers would be "dangerous" Cause for every good/ease of life use a super power has.....there's is also a dangerous use for it if those powers are in the wrong hand.
@championchap Oh yeah, because those are always available the same way your eyes are and there isn't a single situation where lighting aa fire right then and there wouldn't be just as great at heating things up with your vision. Do you also think martial arts are worthless for modern combat because you could just have a gun instead?
Heat vision: destroy weaponry from a distance, cut wires of dangerous devices, super heat metal into any shape. Bake an egg. Super speed: save someone from a fired bullet, or any dangerous situation. Time would slow down to almost nothing at “super speed” adding to your reaction time to any crisis. Able to learn in what seems like seconds. Fast construction.
Yes. Similarly with other super powers. Strength, flying and so forth. Like in the Incredibles, just be the best by a little bit more than other people and change the game. Make your ability to fly look like just being really good at jumping. Over power players in the NFL and/be "impossible" to tackle and/or be the best defender of all time.
You could get a job in any military to recon enemy territory, you could get a job loading and unloading lightweight cargo, you could deliver packages instantaneously, and you could decrease your fuel costs as well!
Not only would have these powers generate incredible sources of fuel for the world, such as running at super speeds on turbines. But all it takes is watching the flash to see all the stuff you could do
@@brad5204 Flash is bad example (like many other super heroes) in his usage of super powers, if Flash rly wanted to earn money with powers he can work as artist, renovator, park ranger, ER and any other job not exclusivly done by machine. Same as heat vision working in food industry is just one option. Depending strenght of HV you could work in smelting buisnes, again as artist etc. point is ther are option if person is wiling to look for them yust like regular person in IRL look for work with skill they have. Moores argumets are mark of lazines cuz folowing this line of though>>> why sleep U goba get tired anyway, why eat U gona shit it out and be hungry again any way, why wash U gona become dirty anyway etc.
"Super speed" - world's greatest player in any team game. Football, Rugby, American football, Cricket, Baseball, Track & Field, you name it. Also, world's greatest card sharp. Also, fastest data entry, programming, note-taker. Medical courier, EMT.
I get his point already, he’s so totally right a lot of powers have no practical application outside of being a super hero, but there’s definitely a lot of utility and being able to run fast and be anywhere instantly man 💀
@@Clogmonger I'm not overselling anything. Literally all American superhero comic books made after Watchmen were inspired by it. Read any book about the subject.
@@xavierlegaz7464 he literally argued that superspeed would be useless like how privileged is this mf that he doesn’t understand that commute to your work either by car or public transport fucking sucks and expensive.
@@jmgonzales7701 it’s not really though, super speed, get everywhere on time without a car or transport and many more things depending on how fast you can go and how you can controller it. Heat vision? Depends again on how you can control it.
Heat vision: wielding, cooking, defensive use. Super speed: information carrier for government documents that shouldn't be online. Carrier for small packages. Traveling without the need of a car depending on the level of super speed you can even run to different continents in seconds.
"super powers are completely useless and have no use in the real world... Okay so to prove my point I'm going to name a few useful things super powers have in the real world"
I may disagree with Alan Moore on many things, but as a writer I will always respect him and his craft. And I've come to sympathize and agree with his views on Hollywood.
Alan Moore being Alan Moore, yes. But in the context of comics, this is a fair point. American comics are being destroyed by their inability to let go of super heros. We need more comics like V for Vendetta, From Hell, Monsters by Windsor-Smith, Maus, etc. Super powers are not very interesting in the context of a story, because it's all been done before.