So, FISSs are about a quarter of the super hero population, there are 84+ FISSs, meaning there are only (order of) 350-400 super heroes on the planet. That seems low. Unless they are deliberately not counting villains.
Unless the information is wrong, like some of the ridiculous early anti-drug public service announcements.
Heroes, not metas or others with powers.
People who hide their powers or only use them for pay or others are not counted. The teachers probably are not counted as they are not active and work defence only.
A quarter of recognised heroes are FISS, probably more than average for their percentage of the population.
So if you’re right, that means there are substantially less than 336 “recognized superheroes” in the world: most of the F.I.S.S. we’ve seen so far are in low-prestige wage-earning positions that aren’t “heroic” (airport/casino security and mall openings come to mind), and at least two are just students.
Yet of the remainder, the ones who do full-time heroics make up a quarter of “recognized superheroes”.
Or, as a Doylist… Aaron doesn’t keep an accurate record of all of his purely background heroes and isn’t a mathematician, so his numbers are a we bit off (and he forgot that Mr Extraordinary being a FISS shouldn’t be public info)
Or, Watsonianism would say, this is tremendously USA-centric like most comics, and is ignoring the majority of non-USA/doesn’t work in the USA heroes. Or it was deliberately made with false (and new/unreleased) information by Praetorian to increase it’s distraction factor.
Don’t forget, there will be some supers who really don’t seek publicity. With the number of supers who do, it shouldn’t be that hard to fade into the background.
The exact words were “nearly a quarter of the recognized superhero population.” So not just villains but also un-recognized superheroes wouldn’t be included. They might even be counting only from registered super-teams and the like.
One thing about this classification that has been bothering me is it does not seem to take into account power levels. Say the difference between someone who can pick up a car, and someone who can loft a locomotive for instance. Seems to me that the ones who end up working mall security would be on the low end of the bell curve while the ones who become big players in super teams would be on the other end of the scale.
84. That means she is the 84th one they met. So it does not count the ones who had powers. Just the current ones who have the power.
Even then the number is more of a derogatory nickname. You do not see captain clarinet or his “evil academy” design having to sport or be given a number. He was deemed “important enough” to not be marked with a number.
Or that is my take it on. Besides insulting a potential population that could rise up and slaughter you all is done to keep their self esteem low. I mean you saw the government’s reaction to knowing that an entire planet was full of FISS was war crazed power hunger maniacs. In fact the FISS number placement/insults didn’t happen until after the “space alien” arrived… Now excuse me while I find my tin foil hat and hind under a table.
You misunderstood the question. He’s wondering how many have been found since Julie. There’s no reason there can’t be others that are younger than her, or possibly some that didn’t register.
Wasn’t she the 84th to *register*? They can’t track based on her birth since they only track those who register.
As such, it’s possible that F.I.S.S. isn’t actually all that common, it’s just that people with that power set tend to be more likely to register and try working as a superhero, rather than either ignoring it, being a vigilante, taking it commercial silently, or being a villain. I’d guess that taking it commercial silently would be one of the more popular meta-human options, especially for those who don’t have any kind of enhanced durability.
As such, their numbers are more or less meaningless, especially if they’re not registering the villains whose powersets they determine.
If I’m not mistaken, the rogues gallery of most superheroes includes multiple supervillains that only that hero fought, so the superheroes are greatly outnumbered, even just looking at the subset of the population that does this hero/villain thing.
I can see why people would get bored of FISS. If basically ever team has one, then even if you don’t have many heroes, FISS would get boring, particularly as it’s a very bland power set anyway. I mean, you can sum it up in four words!
Who realistically would care a lick about boredom though? This isn’t comic books or tv shows in this setting, its people who actually go out and save the day and stop supervillains. It logically shouldn’t be any more boring than fire fighters or policemen when it comes to getting a job done.
I mean sure you have people whose skin is made of rock or people who can vomit radiation clouds, but when it comes to actually heroing, FISS is a pretty versatile set of powers that can be used more diversely than alot of what we have seen so far.
Look, if it’s not about showing off and being interesting to the public, why do superheroes dress that way?
With superheroes, crime fighting is showbusiness.
Btw, I just got my hyperachieving fifth-grade summer student into PS238, and she will finish the last of my trades really soon. She asks me to tell you, very politely, to please draw faster so she can find out what happens to Tyler and 84.
She gets this really intense look on her face when she says it, too. You’re warned.
Rebekah, when you said that you got your hyper achieving student into PS238, I had a very weird moment where I read that you had got your student into PS238 and had no idea if you were kidding or if your student actually has superpowers…
So, FISSs are about a quarter of the super hero population, there are 84+ FISSs, meaning there are only (order of) 350-400 super heroes on the planet. That seems low. Unless they are deliberately not counting villains.
Unless the information is wrong, like some of the ridiculous early anti-drug public service announcements.
More like they’re not counting the villains, I don’t see them identifying themselves to the census takers, do you?
Heroes, not metas or others with powers.
People who hide their powers or only use them for pay or others are not counted. The teachers probably are not counted as they are not active and work defence only.
A quarter of recognised heroes are FISS, probably more than average for their percentage of the population.
So if you’re right, that means there are substantially less than 336 “recognized superheroes” in the world: most of the F.I.S.S. we’ve seen so far are in low-prestige wage-earning positions that aren’t “heroic” (airport/casino security and mall openings come to mind), and at least two are just students.
Yet of the remainder, the ones who do full-time heroics make up a quarter of “recognized superheroes”.
Or, as a Doylist… Aaron doesn’t keep an accurate record of all of his purely background heroes and isn’t a mathematician, so his numbers are a we bit off (and he forgot that Mr Extraordinary being a FISS shouldn’t be public info)
Or, Watsonianism would say, this is tremendously USA-centric like most comics, and is ignoring the majority of non-USA/doesn’t work in the USA heroes. Or it was deliberately made with false (and new/unreleased) information by Praetorian to increase it’s distraction factor.
FISShies for precioussss.
Don’t forget, there will be some supers who really don’t seek publicity. With the number of supers who do, it shouldn’t be that hard to fade into the background.
The exact words were “nearly a quarter of the recognized superhero population.” So not just villains but also un-recognized superheroes wouldn’t be included. They might even be counting only from registered super-teams and the like.
One thing about this classification that has been bothering me is it does not seem to take into account power levels. Say the difference between someone who can pick up a car, and someone who can loft a locomotive for instance. Seems to me that the ones who end up working mall security would be on the low end of the bell curve while the ones who become big players in super teams would be on the other end of the scale.
If your FISS number is based on your birthdate.
“84” was the 84th when she was born, how many have their been since?
84. That means she is the 84th one they met. So it does not count the ones who had powers. Just the current ones who have the power.
Even then the number is more of a derogatory nickname. You do not see captain clarinet or his “evil academy” design having to sport or be given a number. He was deemed “important enough” to not be marked with a number.
Or that is my take it on. Besides insulting a potential population that could rise up and slaughter you all is done to keep their self esteem low. I mean you saw the government’s reaction to knowing that an entire planet was full of FISS was war crazed power hunger maniacs. In fact the FISS number placement/insults didn’t happen until after the “space alien” arrived… Now excuse me while I find my tin foil hat and hind under a table.
You misunderstood the question. He’s wondering how many have been found since Julie. There’s no reason there can’t be others that are younger than her, or possibly some that didn’t register.
Wasn’t she the 84th to *register*? They can’t track based on her birth since they only track those who register.
As such, it’s possible that F.I.S.S. isn’t actually all that common, it’s just that people with that power set tend to be more likely to register and try working as a superhero, rather than either ignoring it, being a vigilante, taking it commercial silently, or being a villain. I’d guess that taking it commercial silently would be one of the more popular meta-human options, especially for those who don’t have any kind of enhanced durability.
As such, their numbers are more or less meaningless, especially if they’re not registering the villains whose powersets they determine.
If I’m not mistaken, the rogues gallery of most superheroes includes multiple supervillains that only that hero fought, so the superheroes are greatly outnumbered, even just looking at the subset of the population that does this hero/villain thing.
I can see why people would get bored of FISS. If basically ever team has one, then even if you don’t have many heroes, FISS would get boring, particularly as it’s a very bland power set anyway. I mean, you can sum it up in four words!
Who realistically would care a lick about boredom though? This isn’t comic books or tv shows in this setting, its people who actually go out and save the day and stop supervillains. It logically shouldn’t be any more boring than fire fighters or policemen when it comes to getting a job done.
I mean sure you have people whose skin is made of rock or people who can vomit radiation clouds, but when it comes to actually heroing, FISS is a pretty versatile set of powers that can be used more diversely than alot of what we have seen so far.
Look, if it’s not about showing off and being interesting to the public, why do superheroes dress that way?
With superheroes, crime fighting is showbusiness.
I was offline for a while and have just read the new color pages. And all I can say is:
KickstarterKickstarterKickstarterSHUTUPANDTAKEMYMONEY.
Btw, I just got my hyperachieving fifth-grade summer student into PS238, and she will finish the last of my trades really soon. She asks me to tell you, very politely, to please draw faster so she can find out what happens to Tyler and 84.
She gets this really intense look on her face when she says it, too. You’re warned.
Rebekah, when you said that you got your hyper achieving student into PS238, I had a very weird moment where I read that you had got your student into PS238 and had no idea if you were kidding or if your student actually has superpowers…
…then I realised you meant the series…
… She’s REALLY smart. I could see her giving Alexandra Von Fogg a run for her money. So maybe I wasn’t kidding that much …