Will Oremus Supervillain Essay

When given the choice between being a superhero or supervillain, most people would want to be the hero. Who wouldn’t want to be the star of the show, the one to gain all the fame and glory? It’s when it comes to deciding your superpower where people normally get tripped up. Do you choose the one that any obvious hero has, or do you accidentally elect the power a villain would choose? I know what you’re thinking. ‘How do you know which one is the villain power?’ ‘What even is the master label for good and evil?’ Well, lucky for you, Will Oremus’s essay “Superhero or Supervillain” answers those questions for you. He explains how you can choose your power, and why you chose the one you did.
Obviously, if you want to be a superhero, you can’t have the superpower of invisibility, right? Not exactly. Granted, there are stereotypes for super powers, but the superhero him/herself isn’t stereotyped (unless you go to Sky High, the fictional high school where each student was sectioned off-based on their power- to be a superhero, or simply a sidekick). The kind of power you choose (or are born with) will not define you, no matter how much society likes to think it will. Oremus’s essay provides for the perfect stereotypes, which is what any American seems to be looking for anymore- any way to make
We wouldn’t want a sidekick thinking his/her powers made him cool enough to be a hero, even if the “sidekicks” really did save all the “heros”. Today’s society is going through the same thing. We throw around these labels because we’re afraid of messing up “the system” we’ve elaborately created. We don’t want bad guys thinking they could be good because they have powers. We don’t want to give them hope, or a chance to believe in something. That’s why “...drones and 3-D printing scares so many people - they