How people with superpowers earn money?

[kenobi 65]

Originally Posted by A Monkey With a Gun

Iron Man is a bit of an exception to that, though. He has no secret identity and certainly doesn't want to live as normal a life as possible.

Though, that hasn't always been the case...at least in the 1980s, when I was reading Iron Man, Stark still maintained the fiction that the guy in the Iron Man suit was his bodyguard (and, for a while, it was James Rhodes in the suit, while Stark was battling alcoholism).

[Arabella Flynn]

Originally Posted by kenobi 65

Though, that hasn't always been the case...at least in the 1980s, when I was reading Iron Man, Stark still maintained the fiction that the guy in the Iron Man suit was his bodyguard (and, for a while, it was James Rhodes in the suit, while Stark was battling alcoholism).

Wasn't he still pretty well out as a major supplier of tech for the government (read: the Avengers), though? Given that his only real "superpower" is having enough IQ points for two or three normal people, that might kind of count.

[Der Trihs]

Originally Posted by kenobi 65

Though, that hasn't always been the case...at least in the 1980s, when I was reading Iron Man, Stark still maintained the fiction that the guy in the Iron Man suit was his bodyguard (and, for a while, it was James Rhodes in the suit, while Stark was battling alcoholism).

And at one point during the "Armor Wars" arc Stark publicly fired Iron Man.

[Nava]

Originally Posted by Max Torque

Better yet: organ donor. They take a kidney, he grows a new one, see ya again tomorrow.

Then the person who got the kidney gets killed by the few Wolvie white cells left in it. Doesn't sound healthy.

[MacLir]

Originally Posted by Ashley Pomeroy

And he doesn't even need to buy things to impress the ladies. He's devastatingly handsome, charismatic, and he can probably drill holes in sheet metal with his cock. He would have women queuing up to see inside his super-pants. And in addition to all of that he's a great guy. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, and some men probably want to be with him as well.

Better go read Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"

[smokey78]

I can't recall Wolverine having a real job in comicverse.

However, the X-men really fought/worked/defended universe/taught for free. Not only Prof.X funded his school, but his former student, Warren Worthington/Arcangel was of old money. So was the White Queen, Emma.

Other members had side gigs: Gambit-thief, Rogue-owned property inherited from Mystique, Banshee-NYC cop, etc.

(20-year-fan of X-Comics)