[ WP ] Your superpowers are actually only mediocre at best , but you keep up with all the other superheroes because you have a BS degree and can exploit the hell out of what you do have .

Supe's got his degree in theatre. He learned how to with that charisma, and boy does he ever. Makes him look like a boy scout. Gives Cap'n a run fur his money in that regard. Bats and Starky drew the super-intelligence card along with that silver spoon they were born with. So did Spidey, but the whole radioactive spider thing helped a bit, too. Most of them never bothered with school - they did n't need to. Get a decent power, you can make a life of of it. Join up with a team, rake in the DoD funding and the donations from the community. Go rogue, you got friends there, too, and no morals, so you can steal whatever your need,'least until the heroes catch up to you. 
 
 Me? I'm a garden variety freezer. I can get things cold, but I'm not so lucky as some. No spontaneous water generation for me. So I've got what most would consider about half of a useful power. So I stayed in school. Got me a degree in mechanical engineering. Worked hard, kept my nose to the grindstone. Paid extra attention in the materials science courses. That's what I specialized in, in the end. Took a bunch of classes and learned all about metals and composites, ceramics and glass, concrete, dirt, and plastics. Even did a little with fabrics. Learned all there was to know about tolerances, stresses, and fatigue. 
 
 See, I realized at one point - think it was physics 1010 - that cold is just the amount of energy in a thing. If I can control cold, that means I can do hot, too. And if I do hot and cold really really fast... 
 
 Well, then, things fall apart. Flex'em too fast, they lose strength. They warp. Grains begin to work loose. Fabric disintegrates, composites split and fray, metal cracks, and rocks crumble. It gets fun when there's volatile materials to work with. Even just water, really. Turns out wood, as long as it's still got sap, or if it's wet, makes a decent bomb if you get it really hot really fast. Propane is Really Fun. 
 And if the day is humid enough, I get to play with optics... 
 
 See, that's the benefit of school. Just about anyone with powers could do this sort of stuff if they bothered to think about things. But they do n't... They just think about fighting. Or whatever they did study ( looking at you, Supe ). Hell, even Bats and Starky would be somewhere else if they had n't gotten bored and dropped out to spend their parents fortunes. Their ignorance combined with my schooling means I get to kick butt once in awhile... I can do things they can scarcely imagine, even though I've got half of a power, they said. But I proved them wrong, did n't I? Did n't I? 
 
 
 
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 Crap. That was one hell of a monologue... 
 
 Let's see... How do your boots handle 3 Kelvin? Or your cape 670C?
