As Marvel’s Deadpool hits screens we ask: with three out of five fictional superheroes owing their powers to science,will we ever have real superpowers? There are, according to the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game (a source I am choosing to accept as 100% canonical), and five general origins for all superheroic powers: Altered Humans (Spiderman,brilliant Four), tall-Tech Wonders (Iron Man, or Batman),Mutants (X-Men,) Robots (The Vision) and Aliens (Superman and gods like Thor). Until fairly recently all five of the general origins of super powers seemed entirely beyond reach. But is the tall speed advance of science in the 21st century bringing those superpowers based upon it - Altered Humans, or tall Tech Wonders and Robots - any closer?
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Source: theguardian.com