Superhumans Without Capeshit

Add Darker than Black to the list.

One Punch Man?

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worm had supers that were not heroes or villains, like canary being a singer until wrongful imprisonment or parian before everything went to shit.

if you want a story actually ABOUT these people though instead of just including them… well honestly that sounds boring as hell and I dont know if anyone has written it.

if you just want super people with less of a spandex and non-lethal feel then shonen anime might be your cup of tea, usually most people in the setting have access to some sort of magical power that will be called different things depending on the show and they se it in different ways that end up resembling super powers

While a boring idea, I could get behind a slice of life comedy super show that uses some elements from anime like Nichijou, Non Non Biyori, and I can't understand what my husband is saying.

So maybe it'd take place in a town where both normals and supers live. It's a rural area in the Midwest with many kid and adult supers.

Like, what if Lex Luther is like a seven year old boy who is kinda hyperactive and Superboy is much older and behaves like a brother figure to him. Meanwhile Batman never lost his parents, but he became Batman because a bully called him "mean names" and stole his ice cream.

Or Wonder Woman is at the clothing store and she doesn't know what to wear for her date with Green Lantern. Or maybe a gag with Flash trying to actually do something slowly.

Like I said, boring idea, but it'd be comfy to just see everyday life with super powers without the constant fighting for the world. Fuck, Power Girl could have an embarrassing moment while working at the local store, she thinks everyone is staring at her cleavage window, but it turns out she was wrong, every guy is staring at her nipples popping up from working in a cold freezer.

What does 'Capeshit' even mean you missed abortion?

Worm is shit, fam.

fuck off

There he is

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So, you're looking for a setting where superpowers exist, but there's no system in place treating them as special?

If you're willing to go outside of your comfort zone, then I'd recommend Toriko. I know it's shonen, but based on what you've described to me, it seems like it would be in your ballpark. It builds a setting based around people with superpowers, but they're not treated with a "superhero" or a "supervillain" category. There's a lot of worldbuilding involved in regards to this.

Plus, it's one hell of a ride.

Worm is still a setting where people play cops and robbers in colorful spandex. It handles itself better than other "capeshit" settings, but not a whole lot better IMO.

Superhero settings you turbo autist.

I"ll check it out. And yeah, people with superpowers without it being "superheroes in colorful spandex fighting supervillains in slightly edgier colorful spandex". One with a more coherent setting too. If superpowers appear in say WW2, then the world shouldn't be almost exactly the same as ours.

Big one right now would be Chew. Full of people with food-related superpowers, but they're cops or cultists or just regular people making a living off of their particular skill. No capes.

Off the top of my head there's Chew,where everyone's super-powers are food-based or have something to do with eating and there are no super-heroes or super-villains,just good and bad super-powered individuals in a weird world.

All Super heroes, or specifically ones who wear silly costums? Is Swamp Thing a capeshit?

>that part with the Dying message through his sister's toe
I can't handle these fucking feels.

Gunnerkrigg Court?

AKA Gunnershit Fail.

I mean, it has TEENAGE LESBIAAAAAANS, but that was so much pressure it was fucking silly about that. YsengrinXAnnie also MIGHT happen (basically a substitute dad, Annie reeks of Father-Complex.), and would probably trigger the degeneracy sensor of people even more what with Ysengrin being old as fuck and a furry.

But basically the entirety of the cast is super human/non-human with the idea that it is a human "Normal" world outside only never getting that much attention.

It is mostly just "Nature/Magic/Chaos VS Society/Science/Order" crap though.

And it falls under the "Magic School" Genre, but it does seem to do some segregation themes between different "non-humans" though.

What does 'Superhero settings' even mean you missed abortion?

Spriggan was a well done anime film about superhumans and Christianity. Weak in writing, but it's still well-drawn and choreographed.

Where do you come from to use "missed abortion" as an insult? Reddit? Tumblr? How do you not know what a superhero setting is? Even an actual retard would know what I mean. Are you intentionally being difficult because you're #triggered I typed out "capeshit" or do you sincerely not know what I mean?

I'd say capeshit refers to silly costumes, but I'm broadening it to include the cops and robbers thing where supervillains aren't treated like terrorists or even (armed) criminals. It's especially dumb for the latter to fly down in America.

I think Worm went in the right direction, though they still had that same unreasonable stance on lethal force for the most part. Not as bad as DC (where Superman will only kill if say, it's literally a choice between that or all of mankind dying) or Marvel, but still pretty bad.

Thanks. I"ll check it out.

its on /storytime, really great comic

I don't think anybody can really write a story involving superhumans without invoking some cape cliches in some form. Even the edgy stuff has its fair share of them.

You might as well ask for general sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, OP

Even the 'edgy' stuff doesn't treat supervillains with the gravity they're warranted? Even the edgy ones have Earth be almost exactly the same as ours despite a point of divergence that was decades ago, and a shit ton of mad scientists?

I can kinda accept silly costumes, but those two things break my suspension of disbelief. I know DC comics & Marvel are the way they are for reasons, which is why I didn't bother asking about them.