It's difficult to find a candidate, since in a world full of super-powered champions the ability to rally, inspire and be the spiritual focus of a
group/faction/nation tends to become ITSELF a super-power, out of sheer holyness/illumination/budahood/whatever.
In "normal" worlds it is easier to find a candidate (Justin Ueky Taylor comes to mind (and yes, he IS the heart of his crew)). Conversely, if
everyone in the world has powers it is also easier, because it could be someone who refuses that power and that is what makes them such a leader (for instance,
Subaru in .Hack//Sign (everyone has the same powers in an MMORPG, but she made a peacekeeping organization and refused to level up)).
The best candidate I can think of is actually Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi. It is more evident when you have read the novels, but by now his three super-powered
companions have indicated that they are loyal to him above their respective organizations, no matter what. Not only that, they have willingly left the fate of
the world to his choice more than once, trusting him to make the right one. More than once he could have been rid of the responsibility of handling a mad god,
but chose to shoulder it, for the sake of the world and his friends. Icing on the cake is that after Haruhi's antics he is used to deal with both weirdness
and danger. The only problem would be justifying his presence without Haruhi destroying the universe and/or coming to bring him back.
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group/faction/nation tends to become ITSELF a super-power, out of sheer holyness/illumination/budahood/whatever.
In "normal" worlds it is easier to find a candidate (Justin Ueky Taylor comes to mind (and yes, he IS the heart of his crew)). Conversely, if
everyone in the world has powers it is also easier, because it could be someone who refuses that power and that is what makes them such a leader (for instance,
Subaru in .Hack//Sign (everyone has the same powers in an MMORPG, but she made a peacekeeping organization and refused to level up)).
The best candidate I can think of is actually Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi. It is more evident when you have read the novels, but by now his three super-powered
companions have indicated that they are loyal to him above their respective organizations, no matter what. Not only that, they have willingly left the fate of
the world to his choice more than once, trusting him to make the right one. More than once he could have been rid of the responsibility of handling a mad god,
but chose to shoulder it, for the sake of the world and his friends. Icing on the cake is that after Haruhi's antics he is used to deal with both weirdness
and danger. The only problem would be justifying his presence without Haruhi destroying the universe and/or coming to bring him back.
NN