Frivolous Fandom Thread

  I think you may have just made the security of both property and individuals a lot weaker.  Unless some counter could be developed to provide protection a lot of people are going to be much more vulnerable.

  Plus what exactly counts as a door?  Would it include say the door of a bank vault, prison doors etc?  The latter would make it rather difficult to actually restrain criminals, at least unless you kept them tied up or possibly dropped them into seal compartments by the roof say.

  Let me see.  I predict massive destruction and loss of life.  Imagine what happens when someone from an extremist terrorist group has his birthday?  True there will be people who can counter him/her but think about say a couple of dozen Supermen/Women fighting in New York, London, etc and then that happening most days.  Or Russia say moblising such birthday soldiers for offensive action.  Again they can be countered but the world is likely to face continued conflict by super beings who can devastate entire countries with minimal effort.  Think what things might be link on the India/Pakistan border or in any country split by civil strife.  What happens if a Uyghur angry at Chinese persecution decides to level as much of Beijing or Shanghai as he/she can?  Or any other group suffering persecution.

  Ditto in terms of well meaning but ignorant people who don't think through their actions.  Someone digging a new channel which drastically changes ocean currents?  An ardent environmentalist setting out to disable all coal, oil and gas power plants - let alone nuclear ones - and the social collapse that could result?  Or a child who decides that the best way to get a break from school is to level it? 

  Plus with ~7 billion people on Earth and ~360 days a year by a rough calculation that's about 19 million supermen every day - although that does count the under 12s.  Even if the vast majority of them are sensible and highly responsible that's so many that there's bound to be a lot of destruction and almost certainly deaths.  Not to mention that people who lose family and friends one day could well look for revenge or at least some justice against the previous supermen they see as responsible for their loss and suffering.

  I fear this is a mass death scenario for the reasons you mention and especially if you have the virtually unlimited powers of a golden age superman then with large numbers of them each day it only needs one or two going really rogue and the safety of the Earth itself let alone life on it could well be at stake.  You might end up with a few survivors on isolated locations such as Mars and Luna protected by daily supermen but I fear a drastic drop in the human population if not total extinction.

 

  Definitely would seek to do that.  You would need a force to simply protect against criminals and rogue elements as well as to try and deter other nations.  Plus they could be very useful in civil emergencies and natural disasters as well as possibly massive civil engineering projects.  In theory a powerful Superman might be able to 'kill' a large hurricane say before it could do damage, although what the knock-on impacts of that might be I don't know.

  Thinking about it how do you keep any criminal in prison when one day a year they can escape?  Other than possible threats of longer sentences when their recaptured the day after possibly.  Unless there is some krypton equivalent that negates the power of those supermen?

  Probably in most/all countries due to the desperate need to minimise death and destruction.  Although there is the danger of rogue states offering protection in return for assistance on their future birthdays say?