#there's other heroic/villainous origins i cut/reworked too like self-aware androids and Literal Demons and shit

[anonymouspuzzler]

Sorry if this has been already asked before, but how do superpowers work in the context of the setting of villain coded? Are they all one consistent thing or is it more a scattered box of origins?

it's very much a scattered box slash kitchen sink type situation! for example, just in Minnie's family line: grandpa AKA the original Captain Armstrong was an exceptional human/chance mutation type superpower, grandma AKA Lady Armstrong was a Thor or Wonder Woman-type Actual Goddess, Buck and Leo (Minnie's dad) inherited powers from their parents, Betty (Minnie's mom) had a Spider-Man style Industrial Accident power awakening, and then Minnie herself hasn't exhibited any powers at all thus far. and of course that's just the Armstrong family - Golden Boy's a Superman-style alien, Nemo's got magic/psychic power type superpowers (inherited in turn from her dad), Practis developed their own power-up serums (and in general has done a ton of experimenting on essentially inducing specific superpowers, either permanently or temporarily), and of course you got folks like Davey who are purely average joes but utilizing various combinations of athleticism, quick thinking and technological supplements