"Trust me, for most superheroes it's the last thing they ever expected to be doing. I started out when I was seventeen and it came out of damn near nowhere. I was just a normal kid -- and not even a bright one."

That was what happened when aliens just randomly zapped you and gave you powers. It had literally been a bolt out of the blue.

"I don't know that many that grew up wanting it." Maybe Thrash but he'd been more about finding who killed his parents and vigilantism instead of actual superheroing. It'd taken being part of the team for him to relax out of that more violent mindset and into more genuine superheroics. "Most people I know just fell into it."

A pause.

"Sometimes literally. I bet there's at least one person back home that got dunked in radioactive waste or something and got powers from it."

Generally, there were a lot of people that had been doused with dangerous substances and got powers, that much Rich knew.