iam writing a comic book: i need realistic ideas?

Question

i got one idea, my first hero, has the abliites and power of a mountain lion, trouble how did he get his powers; please give me some realistic ideas on how he got his powers.

Answer 1

Please don’t take this wrong, but you don’t need REALISTIC ideas to write comic books…!

There are any number of ways in which he could get his super powers.

1) he’s from another planet
2) was bitten by a radioactive mountain lion
3) worked long and hard to emulate the mountain lion
4) was raised by mountain lions from infancy
5) magically transforms into a mountain lion
6) dying alien gave him an amulet with the powers of the mountain lion
7) other (your choice)

you could even use a combination of two or more of these methods, or a total spoof of one or more of them. Good luck!

14 APR 07, 0546 hrs, GMT.

Answer 2

A realistic idea on how someone has the powers of a mountain lion, hmm? What if he's a scientist and he is in the middle of an experiment when a radioactive mountain lion bites him!

The next day he has the power of a spider, I mean mountain lion!

Call him Mountain Man Lion!

Answer 3

No. It's morally mistaken. You should not be writing approximately the dominate white race! You're a shame in your hertiage! How dare you protray a white character as whatever rather than a nazi-slave-grasp! Just kidding. As lengthy as you write it competently. If you write a white character as though he's from the hood, and he is not, neither is he purposely appearing like that. People are gonna be like, Eh? Now if he's from the hood or is purposely appearing that method then its best, considering that its facet of the tale. Just becareful should you play into the mistaken sterotypes you'll get a few dangerous suggestions. At least this point in time. We must all suppose comfertable sufficient with eachother to understand that sterotypes do not subject. But unfortantly every body wishes to place up roadblocks considering of the beyond. And what has that introduced us? Seperation. American would be first-class if every body driven the whole lot right into a drawer and stated. Look We're Americans. We are right here in combination. Let's get this task performed.

Answer 4

He was walking in the woods and was attached by a mountain lion and while they were wrestling on the ground, a lighting bolt struck them and the hero got all of the mountain lions abilities zapped into him. Good luck.

Answer 5

Meh....you need to get out more and read some more independently published comics, really, you *can* write a realistic comic book about realistic people without having it fall into the hero/villain format. Geez....not to be obvious about it, but hasn't *Archie Comics* been doing something like this for a while now (even though they are more in a comedy vein)?

But....having said all of that. o_o

How literally feline do you need your "hero" to be? If he literally has the exact abilities of the mountain lion, down to the senses, strength, claws, then you really can't do too much in the way of "realism" unless you either take a really hard science-fiction approach (he was engineered to be that way, in an Area 51 style laboratory), or a really hard spiritual-shamanic approach (a man in the woods sees his family killed by a *big*, ravenous thing that looks vaguely like a mountain lion....so he hunts it down, and in the quest to hunt it down he gains insight into the *spirit* of his prey....and realizes that deep down, *he* killed and ate his own family).

But that doesn't sound like something you'd want to do. That sort of thing takes at least a whole issue (some 15-20 full pages) to explain. I think you might be looking for something simpler or humbler that can fit on a page or two so you can get *right to story* in the present day, right?

So, what you do is....you flip the _Tarzan_ myth. You have your "hero", and he seems to be this perfectly ordinary inner-city dude, almost too ordinary, as in borderline metrosexual, so to speak....too far removed from his wild side. The guy never knew his father, had never been in touch with him....

Until one day, he gets a name (just a single, first name) and a phone number, scrawled in block letters on a card...at first your guy throws the card out....until the same name and number are scratched with *keys* into the side of his car....and then burnt into his shirts at the dry cleaners....and then written in blood on the inside of his shower.

So the guy calls. And it turns out that his dad was a feral person, a Tarzan figure raised out in the back woods by a half-tame mountain lion (and he has the scar tissue on the back of his neck from his momma's teeth to prove it). And that the father is dying of cancer now--courtesy of mankind's pollution--and needs to pass on the feral gifts to his only son.

They talk. The son refuses, saying his "father" is out of his mind....and that he's going to call the police, first thing the next morning because it is late.

The son wakes at the crack of dawn, from very strange dreams, to a very *sharp* pain in his neck....and discovers that there are shallow cuts, like teeth-marks, now in the back of his neck....the father's died now, and the gifts are passed on. The phone call was more of a "fair warning" than any request for permission.

So....would something like that work?

Hope this helps.....have fun with it, and remember, your main guy needs not be a "superhero" in any classical sense....

Answer 6

Realistic hmmm... howabout a man who realizes that he has the power to concenrate energy using his body... so he can create strong beams of energy and combine them with martial arts attacks to become a Z fighter..

Answer 7

You're writing a comic book with a super hero and you want realism?

I think you should switch medium.

Answer 8

the lion was experimented on in a lab and it escaped , it was being mistreated and it made a break for it . when it found your character , it attached and killed him ! hours later he awoke up and didn't have a scratch on him and the lion was gone .