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Not precisely on-topic for this forum, but...

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BY MOST OBSERVERS' RECKONING, between 150 and 200 real-life superheroes, or "Reals" as some call themselves, operate in the United States, with another 50 or so donning the cowl internationally.

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Article here.
To be fair, some look pretty pathetic, but some... to quote Young Frankenstein, "It! Just! Might! Work!"
Other links:
The Heroes Network.
Hero-gear.net

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

It reminds me a bit of the heroes project (asking every day people to define what a hero is). Sadly my brain has fried and I can't connect the neurons to remember a web address.
-Terry
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

Oh... we have SO got to incorporate - maybe not any of these people exactly - but the IDEA of them already existing in the VIIOR universe.
Some of them might actually have been playing COH and become actual powered versions of their alter-egos!
Others wouldn't have been, but now have MUCH more legitimacy and inspiration because of the "Powered Heroes" among them.
Maybe some enterprising Gadgeteering Hero from VIIOR whose super science concept now WORKS will gear some of these non-powered people up if they ask?
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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