A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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Batman saw a bat fly through his window and then made himself everyone else’s problem. Classic rich guy behavior.
Superman was an “immigrant” from a wealthy family back home and made himself everyone else’s problem by way of his massive built-in upward mobility
Spider-Man probably did a drug and died falling out a window and every single person he knew was like “we shall also be Spider-Man.”
Edit: I don’t cite so don’t ask.
Superman wasn't born with powers. He was a normal person on Krypton. He only gained powers when he arrived on Earth.
Like an American in the Philippines.
Technically he was... its just the wrong sun around his home planet to let his powers be usable.
But his genetics allow for the powers
Technically Batman didn't create how powers. He inherited them when his parents were murdered.
He inherited his super-money
One of the rarest powers, costing the lives of so many to amass.
No his crazy self improvemen, training and smarts did
Thst was his trigger/ motivation but not the source
Hmmm with this logic I could have super strength or something if there is a livable planet with 0.1x gravity. Hooray I could be a super hero!
I mean... yes? If you went to another planet and now could fly and are invulnerable wouldn't you be super abled?
You jump in excitement!
You didn't properly control the strength of your leg muscles and you just exited orbit.
GAME OVER
Bur if everyone is super, no one will be.
So hopefully you find the planet on your own.
Batman was born rich. It's the billionaire class that want you to think they are creating wealth and not stealing it.
The irony is Wayne had stupid amounts of money and chose to use personal violence to stop some of the criminals in Gotham rather than funding programs that would have lifted people out of poverty and prevented far more crime, or running for office himself and setting up oversight to stop corruption and programs to offer a hand up to people.
batman has no powers whatsoever. he just a very rich person, much like stark, who bought/develop tech. not really thrust as more of an accident, much like brunce banner.
closest thing would be apocalypse the super-mutant, he was forced upon to gain celestial enhanced powers. i think juggernaut is another one, as is lady deathstrike? another one is phoenix.
He has also trained himself to pretty much the peak of human limits, so there's that. Which is usually listed in other superheroes' lists of powers.
In different incarnations he's also heavily involved in the design of the various tech, it's more than just "being rich". That's really understating both characters.
But I would call super suits and super tech as "powers" in the way they're frequently talked about. Uber-genius intellects maybe.
In the original comics Batman used to be mostly a detective. Looking for clues, evidence, then tying up criminals for the cops to find (afaik). I'd love a show like "True Detective" but with Batman. Anyway so his powers would be peak of human limits and super intelligent and gadgets.
Spider-Man is half'n'half. He got super strength and agility as well as his "spider senses" from the spider bite.
His webshooters, suits, and other tools he made himself. The Raimi films always bugged me that they made his web shooting stuff a mutation from the bite and not showing off his intelligence and engineering skills. Cuz he also didn't have money like Batman or Ironman.
The biological webbing coming from his wrists was stupid. If it was a spider mutation, he should have had spinnerettes growing from his rear end. The handmade web shooters were way more logical.
My problem with the handheld ones is that they're way way too effective. He was good at science but that tech was way way beyond realism. It's nigh-unbreakable, ultra-accurate and insanely grippy, almost inexhaustible in a single tiny canister. And somehow he can afford to regularly create batches on his limited income. Etc etc.
I mean, having the biological webbing come out of his hands isn't a whole lot less realistic than the wall crawling or spidey sense. And he's got weird powers from radioactive spider bite, who says they have to manifest in any specific way.
He runs out regularly in combat, even traveling which lead to plot points and how he handles fights though.
Until a writer noticed that the web shooters mean Peter is a once-in-a-century chemist and should be swimming in cash from selling a few things he cobbled together in his apartment. Now, Peter Parker runs a mega-corp. Part of the reason that Miles Morales was introduced is specifically because Peter was no longer an everyman protagonist.