[ WP ] In a world of superpowered beings , you 're the only powerless human . One day you wake up and fine every single person is terrified of you .

( The typo was too good to ignore. So here we go. ) 
 
 I doubled checked my backpack to make sure all my equipment was there, did n't want to leave anything behind my first day on the new job. It was tough, getting through cop school without super strength to kick down doors or skin invulnerable to bullets, but I studied hard and knew the letter of the law better than 99 % of my graduating class. The remaining one percent was Steve Farkas, and his super power was the ability to completely absorb the knowledge in a book by eating one if its pages. Weird, but useful. Fortunately, Steve was terrible at writing essays that did n't involve just rattling off facts until the other side of the argument went away, so I managed to sneak into that cushy valedictorian spot by knowing the spirit of the law better than Steve ever could. 
 
 I got to work, got my locker assigned, dropped my backpack in it, and got changed. The new uniform was crisp, and the badge looked good on my chest. Since I was such a bookworm, I was n't surprised by my first assignment; serving citations for minor civil rights violations, and investigating claims before writing new ones. Under the Civil Use of Powers Act, discrimination against someone for having a particular subset of powers or lacking thereof came with a hefty fine. I planned to use that to my full advantage. Nowhere did the law say I could n't be the one who was discriminated against by the people I wrote up. 
 
 I started with writing up the parents who abandoned me after my infant powers test came back negative, the first person in history to do so. They seemed saddened by it, but understood my motives. We actually started getting coffee together on the weekends after that, it's strange the things that can help people reconnect. Then I drove the squad car over to orphanage and wrote up that bitch who had me assigned to the house with the developmentally disabled kids without even talking to me. Sweet kids, but even the caretaker admitted I did n't belong and that I was n't getting the help I needed. Turns out being the only guy in the world without super powers might mess with your head a bit, who knew? Next up was that asshole Craig Blanche for using his mind reading powers to cheat off my chem tests in high school, and Mr. Lipzig for letting him get away with it by calling it `` practice for the powered quiz bowl tournament.'' Craig was so far up Lipzig's ass the whole year and vice versa. I laughed my ass off when the team from Mega City Prep Acadmey beat them. It only took one guy with counter mind control powers and their whole strategy fell apart. 
 
 Then I started on the long list of heroes and villains who interrupted my commute by wrecking a highway, or plowed through my apartment when fighting among the sky scrapers. I got a good deal of pushback in the first few weeks. Then the courts starting ruling in my favor, so the public moved on. A few of the villains tried to ambush me on the job or in secret. I put a stop to that real quick. Causing bodily harm allows the fines levied to be increased exponentially. Dr. Monstro broke my arm and got fined for half his net worth. No one came near me after that, too scared. Yeah, one of them could probably finish the job, but on the odd chance they did n't pull through, say goodbye to that hard earned bank robbery money. 
 
 Maybe I should n't have been so harsh in my early rampage. It'd be nice to walk in public without the constant looks of fear. Everyone tripping over themselves to get out of my way or be nice to me, for fear of using their powers in a way I'll deem discriminatory. End of the day, I'm just enforcing the law. They treated me like garbage for years, maybe it made me bitter, maybe I'm just karma punishing them for their arrogance. Who knows?
