*Some
of the images used don’t necessarily illustrate what I’m getting at but
hopefully you’ll get the point*
The
Medical Professional One
This is probably the most important friend to a
superhero seeing how many injuries a superhero usually gets. Bruises, gashes
and in a worst-case scenario, breaking of the spine.
They couldn’t just show up at a hospital with
serious wounds, questions would be asked. Sure you could do the first time
round, coming up with an excuse like you fell….on a series of knives. After the
third or forth time the police would get involved. And in America, prior to Obama
care, the amount of money you’d go through would be ridiculous. So you’d have a
friend who is trained. They could be a doctor, nurse or paramedic. It doesn’t
really matter, as long as they stop you bleeding to death. You would show up at
their place and they would patch you up without raising too much attention.
Now obviously they wouldn’t be able to fix
everything. Small gashes and cuts are all fine and dandy but if you showed up
with a bone sticking out of your leg or a bullet lodged in your shoulder it
would be much different. They wouldn’t be able to have the resources in their
home so they would have to bring you to a hospital. Once there they’d patch you
up themselves with perhaps a few extra hands. With them there you’d both be
able to play down the injuries to anyone asking questions.
The
One in the Police
Now this is basically Superhero 101. Almost
every superhero has a pal in law enforcement. Batman has Gordon. Spiderman’s
got Captain Stacy. A connection that will you to strive towards justice together.
Now this friend wouldn’t necessarily have to know your secret identity as you
wouldn’t exactly be having dinner dates.
You have a friend in the police who’d be able
inform you of any major issues like gang wars breaking out or major drug
shipments coming in. They’d also be able to share some evidence, which you
could analyse and contribute to the investigation.
They’d be able to try convince the police
department that you’re a good guy and not some menace that they should hunt
down ‘cause after serving justice can be tough when you’re the focus of a
police chase any time some spots you. Also having links with the police can
help your self-esteem, helping you to feel like you are one of the good guys,
and that can go a long way.
Personally I think you’ve got three types of
cops you should associate yourself with. (1) A police commissioner; with the
commissioner on your side you know for a fact that they won’t think you’re a
bad guy. (2) A police in the serious crimes unit; working with the SCU means
you’ll be able to tackle mob bosses and stop disaster. Working with them means
you can save the city on a greater scale. (3) A beat cop; a beat cops sees the
city’s darkest secrets and working with him you can learn the crimes happening
to people everyday, whether it be murder, burglary or rape. You can help save
the citizens of the city.
The
Successful One
The successful friend is more beneficial to
your civilian. All in all, this friend should be generally better than you.
Better looking, cooler, better style, charming and most important, wealthier.
Much like how Harry Osborn was with Peter Parker.
With being the successful one they’d have a
job, a very good job. Possibly an executive or head of a department, just
generally a role of responsibility and leadership. And with this role they
could get you a job. As a superhero it would be able tough to get a job (and
even harder to hold one) so this friend would be able to find an opening for
you. Either in his department, which allows you to disappear to save the day
without him getting angry, or finding you an easy job where you work mainly by
yourself so you could slip away from without anybody noticing.
This friend could also lend you money when you
desperately need it e.g. rent and bills. He’d also be able to help you when
starting up your superhero gig. There would be the cost of the material to make
the suit, the cost of having to put together the suit yourself to avoid having
someone make it for you. Then there’s the cost of gadgets, there’s the cost of
designing, developing, prototypes, testing and then finally the creation of the
final product.
This friend would also help you to conceal your
identity. If your friend is great and successful it makes you look much more
inferior and this means people are less likely to suspect you.
The
One You Work With
To whether or not you get a job with the aid of
your successful friend having this friend can be extremely helpful. While you
are away fighting crime during work hours this friend covers you while you’re
away.
For this partnership to work out you two should
be in a similar boat, working the same hours at the same job. Its works better
if use sit close together, either your cubicles are next to each other or you
sit opposite each other. It doesn’t really work as well if he’s sat at the
opposite side of the room.
Along with assisting in tasks he also can fill
you in on anything that has happened that you’ve missed, so that you’re not
confused if something comes up and you can pretend like you were there the
entire time.
The Smart One
Now as a superhero you can’t just fight common
day bad guys, you will have to battle a super villain at some point and one of
the things that makes a villain super is power. As evidence shows many super
villains are very elaborate, with power such as controlling fire or
electricity, to super-strength and even being forever encased in an impenetrable
suit of armour. However every Villain will have a weakness.
Now not every superhero is a genius so figuring
out a weakness can be tough and this is where the smart friend comes in. This
friend would be an intellectual and have knowledge in a whole range of areas,
possibly the most important, science. Now I’m no science expert but when it
comes down to it science is the key to defeating a super villain.
The smart friend can also be useful if you’re
still in school or university/college when being a crime fighter. He can lend
you notes to help you catch up on all the work you’ve missed and maybe the
occasional allowance of copying work.
The
One With A Car/ The One With A Lot Free Time
This friend’s main duty is to save you when
you’re unconscious and probably left for dead. And seeing how you fight crime
all day, he has to be ready to get a panic call from you at all times, so best
to get a friend with insomnia if you’re a night-time crime kind of guy.
One of the main key parts to this friend is
that they have a car. So in the event you are beat to a pulp by an enemy and
tossed in an alley you can call them and they can rush over and pick you up.
Now realistically all this friend has to do now is to drive you to the medical
friend.
The
Super-One
As a superhero you can get bogged down with
problems and dilemmas that other friends just won’t understand but it isn’t
easy going it alone. That’s why you should always have at least one other
superhero that is a friend.
With this super friend you can just hangout on
the rooftops, talking about different things like how to balance a love life
with the your lifestyle or swap humorous stories about past foes and battles.
You could always do this with other friends but they wouldn’t quite get it.
With a super friend you can feel a sense of normality with them, knowing you’re
not the only one with these problems. Having a super friend also allows for
superhero team ups, which we all know when done right are awesome. You learn
new team-working skills, far more than you would at an office-training day.
Now you don’t have to reveal your identity to
each other to be friends. Though if you do you will have to work on how to
interact if you meet in average life. Now the chance of you actually meeting in
normal circumstance could be quite slim. In a city like New York, with a
population of 8,244,910, the odds of two people randomly bumping into each
other are very fine. Especially on what jobs you have, if you are a IT
consultant for some big corporation and your super pal is piano player in a VIP
lounge at a fancy club, it is unlikely you will run into each through
coincidence.
So those are the friends you should make sure
you have if you plan on becoming a superhero, just encase you needed to know.
There could be other people you might need to know if you’re specializing as a
superhero but I’m just talking generally.
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