That's a good point. Criminal masterminds and hero's who have some sort of skills (not dependant on super powers) are pretty well known. I mean there is Batman and The Shadow not to mention MacGyver for the hero's for example. None of them have super powers (though the shadow uses some sort of hypnosis on his adversaries). Not to mention Sherlock Holmes who is very observant of things that others don't pay attention to and who uses the knowledge he has in conjuction with that insight to solve his cases. For that matter the modern 'action hero' of the movies is that sort most often. They get bloodied up while fighting the bad guy and don't have super powers. I mean characters like Rambo and John McClaine (die hard movies) not to mention the Zorro movies. I think that's part of what makes such stories exciting. You know the hero won't get away without a scratch unlike hero's with super powers.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Couldn't you just change them a bit? They're mostly archetypal characters that readers would recognise. I'm assuming you didn't have to pay Guy Smith to use giant crabs?
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