Firestarter Research Paper

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“With great power comes great responsibility”. This was said by someone who had a profound way with words, but I'm not sure exactly who it was, mainly because it has been said in every known origin story of a superhero I can think of, so I guess it's safe to say it is motivational. Imagine that you could have one super power. What would it be and how would you use it? What would be your kryptonite? In all honesty I can say I have thought about this particular question too much in my 17 years of being alive, but maybe that's just because I am a huge Marvel fan. Being the comic book nerd that I am I can honestly say Stan Lee is a genius and sometimes I love him for his writing and sometimes I hate him for it. If I were to have one superpower …show more content…

An example of pyrokinesis was in the X-Men comics. John Allerdyce, a teenage mutant at Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters had a type of pyrokinesis. John could manipulate fire with his mind, but he could not create it. Even though Stan Lee used a type of fire manipulation in his comics, Stephen King was the first to give this particular power a name in his 1980 novel “Firestarter”, which was pyrokinesis. Now that we have a kind of backstory of this particular power, the type of fire manipulation I would want would be the ability to create and manipulate fire with my …show more content…

No control would be my kryptonite. With a power that would be as dangerous as mine, a power that has the potential to be monumentally dangerous there would need to be an expert level of self control. The way I would teach myself control is how Bruce Banner taught himself to control the Hulk, by controlling my heart rate. This would be my best method for myself because I have anger issues that I have gotten better at keeping tame, instead of exploding and regretting my actions later, but sometimes you just can't hold everything in and hit a wall and are right back to square one. For example in factories when they go X amount of days with injuries, but when there is just one, they have to start completely over from 0 and lose all of the progress that was made, but you can always become better. That would be my motivation, getting better at what I cannot

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