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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Also, the Justice Leage analogue has tried before but the kid hero doesn't follow any of their advice. So they employ the villain to keep him in check because he's the only one the kid actually listens to because of his obsession with having a nemesis.

Midway through this I realized I was kind of describing the Harley Quinn episode where Damien Wayne gets obssessed with having Harley as his nemesis.

[โ€“] can 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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Okay, I want a superhero story in which the superhero is one of those 'normal kid gets superpowers through freak accident' and goes out and fights crime, and of course runs into the supervillain at some point and tries to take them down. And the villain, a couple minutes into the fight, realizes they're fighting a literal child and just has an internal freak-out about this new development. Because, fine, I've got plans to steal all of the worid's largest gems and I'm generally not a nice person, but holy [shit] here's a kid coming at me. This is a kid. I can't with this.

So the supervillain instead of trying to kill/hurt their nemesis goes through all these complicated plans to trap them or put them to sleep or stick them in a large tank or something so they can go ahead with it. Sometimes it works and the supervillain spends a harried half hour lecturing the superhero about maybe going to school and being safe instead of doing this, that would be nice. The supervilain staying up at night occasionally wondering if the tiny superhero is out there trying to get themselves killed right this moment. The supervillain sending supervillain henchmen ninjas out to tail the superhero and help out if it ever looks like the superhero is going to get killed. The supervillain takes to pacing around and muttering to themselves occasionally about PARENTING and RESPONSIBILITY and how they never signed up for this [shit] Actually petitioning their version of the Justice League to have someone step in and do something about this, that kid has to be like twelve and what is everyone thinking ???? Bonus points if the kid has no parents and the villain finds this out and spends a night internally screaming about it.

Basically I want a supervillain unwittingly becomes the super woried parent of the kid who is actively trying to foil their every plan and topple their evil regime.