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Originally Posted by phaishazamkhan
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
I used to have a cool superhero anthology that had a story called, I think, One of the Guys where a superhero with the origins of Superman goes into how alien he really is despite the outward human appearance. He has a strange diet, his apartment is spartan and the temperature and humidity are always really high and his choice of being a good guy comes from wanting to be social rather than a moral choice.
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That's from a book called "Superheroes", the story was One of the Boys by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It had a less powerful Superman stand-in called Captain Cosmos. It ends with him contemplating killing a woman who discovers his identity, and whether that would change him from Hero to "alien monster".
EDIT: Oops, Spoiler Alert, I mean.
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Last edited by Noclevername; 28-October-2007 at 04:05 AM.
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