I was just rereading the story of Tess Black, Demi Goddess. Family reunions might be tough, having The Midgard Serpent and Fenrir, The Fenris Wolf as half brothers, and Hel as a half sister. However, she doesn’t go to family reunions, due to her absentee father, Loki, never having met her face to face, or told her that she ain’t quite human. Thus, she simply lives her life as a stock trader. I would love to see her brought up again, but I am not holding my breath.
Also, I remember a badly drawn, but interesting Jim Lee storyline where Captain America forgot who he was, and lived a normal life. Any other examples, from any works of fiction?
There are various Superman “imaginary” stories where he loses his memory and tries to live normall; it was also the plot of one of the old George Reeve TV shows.
This may not be what you’re looking for, but there was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Data lost his memory on an alien planet. Everyone thought he was an Ice Man.
Would Princess Leia qualify? She was living her normal life as a Princess ahem all the while not knowing that the Force was actually very strong within her.
In The Mind’s Eye, the protagonist thinks he’s normal - then he meets a woman, becomes obsessed with her, and tries to find her despite ever-growing opposition from the government - then the police, then the military. All the time, discovering new abilities, like surviving gunfire, jumping hundreds of feet, crushing powered armor in combat, running right through concrete walls ( and leaving large holes behind )…
In the Flinx of the Commonwealth series, Flinx doesn’t realize for years than he’s the product of illegal genetic experiments, and possesses vast latent psionic powers.
Polgara the Sorceress went for months thinking she lost her powers; she was told she would have to become his equal if she were to marry her mortal love, and didn’t realize that this meant he would become a sorcerer, instead of her losing her powers.
The girl Q from ST : NG who didn’t realize she was a Q.
In the Time Master trilogy, Tarod didn’t realize he was actually a God of Chaos in mortal form.
In the Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy, Morgon didn’t realize he was Heir to the High One, and Raederle didn’t realize she was part Earth Master.
The golden-age Superman fell under the power of a lesser villain named The Wizard, who was trying to cast a spell to eradicate Superman’s existence but instead caused Clark Kent to forget that he was Superman. During the year Superman was missing, Clark became more assertive, eventually marrying Lois Lane. Lois eventually discovered the Clark had super-powers (though he’d forgotten how to use them) and realized that he’d been Superman all along. She eventually tracked down the Wizard and convinced him to lift the spell, restoring Clark’s double life.
The story is documented in the classic Superman#484.
In the ‘Going Sane’ storyline, The Joker forgets he’s the joker, changes his appearance, and goes off to live a normal life. Very touching and poinant story, IIRC.
That’s becauses I completely screwed up the title :smack: ; it’s by the same author ( Alan Dean Foster ) as the book I think you’re talking about. The actual title is *The I Inside * by Alan Dean Foster. He wrote the Flinx books too.
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, lived for an indeterminate time as an amnesiac Bowery bum until he was discovered and restored by the Human Torch in FF issue 4.
There was another Fantastic Four story, somewhere around issue 210 or so, about the most powerful man in the world who had no idea he had any power at all. He’d just be, for example, idly annoyed that he was late for work and suddenly he’d be there. IIRC there was some sort of planet-wide catastrophe and in unconsciously fixing it he burned out his power.
Mortal Donald Blake unknowingly harbored the power of Thor.
Marvel did a mini-series called Fallen Angels which featured an alien from a race without mutants who unknown to anyone was herself a mutant.
Since Madelyn Pryor was a clone of Jean Grey, she presumably had Jean’s mutant powers and didn’t know it (and they were so well hidden they even fooled Loki’s fire fountain in the X-Men/Alpha Flight two-issue mini-series).
IIRC Longshot didn’t realize, at least initially, that he had probability warping powers (which Claremont completely fucked up when he plopped Longshot into the X-Men).
