Quote:Rev, the Senshi have disguise fields and Usagi has an alternate personallity... also in episode one Usagi transforms and hears a friend of her cry out for help from an impossible distance. Then this effect goes bye-bye and the Senshi do manage to constantlyly end up wandering into areas with active youma. The speach is probablely the verbal component to a 'Look at me!! Look at me I'm important and here!!!' spell effect. Doug does the same thing to the Knightsabers. Considering that the youma stop what they are doing and stare most of the time and that youma aren't exactly mental giants, I'm going with it requiring a will save to resist the effect.
I wont comment on the Sailor Moon stuff as it is another completely different kettle of fish. Can you see any goit standing stock still during the pre-combat dialog?
Quote:Easy way... like them trickling in at first and people have adapt to the idea and deal with it? Sure, if hundreds or thousands of super humans pop up all at once it with cause cause major issues. However, if your born into a world with these kinds of people you learn to live with it. Unless Dr. Doom takes over or something most people go into the 'not my problem' mind set. Then complain that Colossus is another immigrant stealling their jobs.
The problem with introducing superheroic elements into reality is that there is no easy or satisfying way to reflect the changes in the society, without removing the connection between the society of the audience which is part of the appeal of the superhero genre.
People adapted to instantanious global communication and the fact government had now discovered a method of obliterating cities in less than a minute. It would be rough, but MAD (Multually Ashered Destruction) policies of the Cold War prove people are nervious but will adapt to the situation do to lack of an alternatice. Super heroes are spawned from these change of times issues that came with the World Wars.
Dealing super villians is little different from someone holding you at gun point, its not so much the villian/gun that scares them so much as feeling so helplessness. This is also why people fear magic, its a thret they are basically helpless against... so the burn them. Mutants scare you? Kill them... send them to concentration centers/camps. Americans of Japanese descent got that treatment. Ban all gun laws are also this kind of fear. Many politians run on this kind of fear.
So I have to disagree with you there Rev.
I agree with your first part as it mirrors what I said a few posts up.